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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
through religious wars and persecutions
Here is a challenge to the non-believers of the Hindu théory of transmigration Recently a little girl Santi Devi gave a vivid description of her past lives in Delhi. There was a great sensation in Delhi and Muttra, nay, throughout the United Provinces There was a great assembly of persons to hear her statements She recognised her husband and child of her previous birth who are living in Muttra. She pointed out the place where money was kept, and an old well in the house which is covered now. All her statements were duly verified and corroborated by respectable eye-witnesses. Several cases like this have occurred in Rangoon, Sitapur and various other places. They are quite common now In such cases the Jiva takes immediate rebirth with the old astral body or Linga Sarira. That is the reason why memory of previous birth comes in He did not stay in the mental world for a long time to rebuild a new mind and astral body according to his previous experiences of the world.
Transmigration made its appearance in the early Christian church Elijah was reborn as John the Baptist. "Did the blind man sin, or his parents, that he was born blind?" ask the believers in transmitted retribution There is a period of anxiety immediately after death, when angels contend with demons for the possession of the departing soul on its way to purgatory.
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