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Shanti Devi was born in Delhi, India. [1] As a young girl, she began to claim that she remembered details of a past life. According to these accounts, when she was about four years old, she told her parents that her real home was in Mathura where her husband lived, about 145km from her home in Delhi.
Illustration of reincarnation in Hindu art In Jainism, a soul travels to any one of the four states of existence after death depending on its karmas.. Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new lifespan in a different physical form or body after biological death.
Sage Yajnavalkya is the first recorded speaker of transmigration. [6] Describing the self that undergoes punarjanman, the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad delineates that the ātman is the consciousness that controls a person's vital functions. [7]
The historical origins of the concept of reincarnation, or Punarjanman, are obscure but, the idea appears in texts of both India and ancient Greece during the first millennium BC. [38] [39] The idea of saṃsāra is hinted in the late Vedic texts such as the Rigveda, but the theory is absent.
Burning ghats of Manikarnika, at Varanasi, India. The Antyesti ceremonial offerings vary across the spectrum of Hindu society. Some of the popular rituals followed in Vedic religions after the death of a human being, for his or her peace and ascent to heaven are as follows. The last rites are usually completed within a day of death.
Tribal religions in India; Traditional. ... There is often talk about coming back as a variety of different objects when it comes to reincarnation and pasts lives. ...
Satwant Pasricha, Claims of Reincarnation: An Empirical Study of Cases in India, New Delhi: Harman Publishing House, 1990. ISBN 81-85151-27-X. Satwant Pasricha, Near-Death Experiences in South India: A Systematic Survey. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 9(1), 1995.
The ancient Vedic religion lacked the belief in reincarnation and concepts such as Saṃsāra or Nirvana. It was a complex animistic religion with polytheistic and pantheistic aspects. Ancestor worship was an important, maybe the central component, of the ancient Vedic religion.