The girl Manju Sharma was born in 1969 in a small village called Pasaulie in the state of Uttar Pradesh. She was born to a poor Brahmin family. When she was about two years old she began to talk about being from Chaumula (a neighbouring village approximately 5-6 kilometres away). She mentioned the names of both her father and brother from her previous life and said that her father had a shop. She spoke in detail about the day she died. As a nine-yearold girl she had just come home from school and had gone to the well to wash a statue of God. She had lost her balance and had fallen into the well and drowned. She gave her parents clear descriptions of her previous home, but her parents did not pursue the matter, since they thought that their daughter was probably making it all up. Perhaps they vaguely suspected that she could be telling the truth, and that she might be homesick for her previous family and wanted to return to them.

 

A few months later a man rode into their village on a bicycle to do some business. Later on, as he was about to get back on his cycle, the little girl Manju came running up to him, held on to his bicycle and said, “You are my uncle!” He then answered, “I don’t know you. Whose daughter are you?” To which Manju replied, “You don’t know me, but I know you. You are my father’s brother. My father’s name is Ladali Saran.” The man was baffled since this name was correct. He assumed she was one of his brother’s children, but could not remember which one of them for the moment He asked her how she came to be in this village. To this the two-yearold explained that she had fallen into the well when she was washing her statue. Only now did Babu Ram (this was his name) realise that she must be talking about a past life, for he remembered that one of his brother’s daughters really had drowned in the well.

 

When Manju begged him to take her home with him, he promised her that he would do this some other day. When he returned to Chaumula he told his brother’s family all about this encounter in Pasauli.

 

The first person to go and investigate this case was the drowned girl’s mother (her daughter’s name had been Krishna). She was intent on finding out, whether this story really had something to do with her sadly missed child. When she returned to her family, she assured them that the girl really was her daughter reborn. Next Krishna’s brother went off to find out for himself whether the girl’s statements were true. He soon returned utterly convinced. By now even the father was keen to find out whether or not the girl really was his deceased daughter reborn. On meeting her he asked her many questions about the life of his deceased daughter, all of which the girl was able to answer correctly. Krishna’s parents now begged Manju’s parents to allow them to take their daughter on a visit to Chaumula. They agreed to this under one condition, that her brother could accompany them. When they arrived at her previous home Manju recognised many things, especially those that had belonged to her.

 

When the parapsychologist Dr. Pasricha visited the now eight year old Manju, she was told that Manju still visits her previous parents in their village from time to time. The research scientist was able to establish for certain that neither of the families had known of each other before these events occurred. This fact brought her to the conclusion that no information could have been transferred to Manju consciously or subconsciously. Dr. Pasricha was able to verify 19 out of 23 statements that Manju had made. The remaining four could not be proved. Manju married in 1988 but still remained in contact with her previous family. By that time she had forgotten most of the details from her past life apart from those relating to her tragic death.

 

Manju had always refused to go to the well. Reincarnation therapy has made it clear to me that certain things, situations or people which had something to do with the cause of our death in a previous life, seem to create inexplicable aversions in our present lives. Our subconscious wants to protect us from getting into a similar potentially harmful situation again.