Saturday, September 01, 2007

Love Story of two Elephants

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Here is the Love Story of two elephants where a wild tusker broke through the fence of a circus and eloped with a female circus elephant.

The incident occurred at Kumarbazar in Raniganj in West Bengal state of India, where the Olympic Circus had put up a tent 10 days ago.

Drawn by calls of the four female elephants in the circus, the 26-year-old tusker raided the circus, broke the tin barricade and barged into the stable where the female elephants were kept, reports said.

After scanning the four pachyderms, he finally settled for Savitri - four years older than him - and coaxed her into fleeing with him into the jungle. It didn't take long for Savitri to give in to his wild charms. Despite entreaties from her keeper, the female elephant broke free of her shackles and went with him into the jungle, where the residents spotted the two frolicking near a pond.

The tale of love and passion has shocked Savitri's manager Chandranath Banerjee, who has sought the Forest Department's help to trace the female elephant. "I have never seen anything like this. Savitri's loss could be huge as she was one of our prized elephants," he said.

The elephants were finally spotted moving from Badam Bagan to Nepali Para in Raniganj by a district Forest officer in Durgapur, Kumar Bimal.

When a team of Forest Department officials along with her keeper Kalimuddin Sheikh tried cajoling Savitri to come back, she entwined her trunk around her lover's leg in a show of defiance.

A crestfallen Kalimuddin said this was the first time she had disobeyed him.

"I have raised Savitri since childhood and she has always been obedient. But the tusker seems to have won her affection," he said.

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Friday, July 27, 2007

Why Indians believe in Rebirth / Reincarnation?

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In a population of more than one billion in India, almost every second person can be found in India who believes in rebirth, reincarnation etc. Have you ever wondered why such a big population on earth believes in rebirth/ reincarnation? Main reason for it is Hindu Spiritualism & also the actual instances of rebirth that press & TV news channels etc. are able to expose.

As per earlier posts "Is 'Kalpana Chawla' Reborn in India?", a 4 yr old from India claimed that she was the reincarnation of Kalpana Chawla. Then as per the post "Is American Scientist Reborn as 'Rajesh' in India?", there was the case of Rajesh from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh state of India who was believed to be the rebirth of an American Scientist.

Here is another case from Bhopal in India where Dr Swarnlata Tiwari, principal of a Government Arts & Commerce College from Bhopal, popularly known as Naveen College, is a unique case of rebirth. Her case is one of the seven cases in the world over, which scientists have been doing research on the theory of human rebirth. Dr. Swarnlata's case is a unique case in the sense that she not only remembers her immediate previous birth but also of the previous to previous birth.

In an interview Dr. Swarnlata Tiwari narrated interesting events and memories of her three births. The first at Katni in Madhya Pradesh when she was born in a Pathak family, the second in a Goswami family of Silhat (Assam) which is presently in Pakistan. And now presently she was born in village Shahpur of Tikamgarh district.

Wife of an IAS officer, Dr. Tiwari, 59 at present, has two sons. She has been leading a happily peaceful life with her present family at the same time keeping touch with her previous birth relatives of Katni.

She said past memories flashed back to her when she was passing through a river near Katni at the age of about 4 years. She narrated her past life's incidents to her parents who did not believe all that and ultimately saw a doctor of her mental check up. It was here that the doctor declared her fit saying "she is recalling her previous birth memories."

At the height of all that she was again re-born when she suddenly started singing Assamese songs at the age of 5. This was her previous to the immediate birth. In this life she had died in a road accident in Silhat at the age of 8.

When her case flashed in newspapers, her previous birth brother came to her house whom she immediately recognized as "Babu". He confirmed that she was his sister as she narrated such incidents, which only he and she knew. In that birth her husband was a Tehsildar from whom she had three children. She had then died of heart failure at the age of 39.

Her story may seem interesting and amazing to listeners but not to her as she is now used to it and feels quite "normal".

Strange Facts about Dr. Swarnlata

1. Born on March 2, 1948

2. She scared her parents by claiming that her name was Biya Pathak and lived in katni in past.

3. Biya Pathak died in 1939

4. was reborn as Kamlesh in 1940 at Sylhet in Assam and died in 1947, a very short life.

5. Then, in 1948, Kamlesh was reborn as Swarnlata Mishra at village Shahpur in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh.

6. Remembers all the three births and that every time she was born as a girl child and in all the births in a Brahmin family.

7. Her story of rebirth was investigated by a noted Virginia University Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson when he visited India in 1997 and he found her case as "authentically correct" after intensive confirmation of tales told by Swarnlata.

8. At present she lives at Bhopal. Her husband K.P.Tiwari is a senior IAS officer here and she herself is a botanist and presently posted at Bhopal as the Principal of a Government Arts and Commerce College.

9. She has two sons.

Then here is another case of Taranjit, aged 12 from Chandigarh city from northern India who remembered his past life at the age of 2 & claimed that in his earlier birth he was Satnam & died in a scooter accident. He not only identified & met his earlier life parents but recently went to the marriage of his earlier life sister too & blessed her on her marriage. As per the facts presented by him, his is also a true case of rebirth/ reincarnation.

Now the big question is why it happens & why millions of Hindus in India believe in reincarnation? The main reason is their belief in their scriptures which clearly say that after death, a person's soul travels from one body to another & soul in their body is immortal & it does not die EVER.

Now what is immortality? As per Indian scripture 'Bhagwat Gita',this soul of ours wears this body made of nature elements. After karmic cycle, depending on the Karmas of our previous life, soul drops this body at death & takes on another body based on the Karmas of our present life. Again we do Karmas in our next birth & that becomes the basis of our further next birth for this soul. So this cycle of wearing different bodies goes on for this soul.

So above is the reason why Indians believe in Rebirth / Reincarnation. What do you say? Readers comments are invited, what they say on it.

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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Is 'Kalpana Chawla' Reborn in India?

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In India stories of reincarnation are very common. Every now & then we find small Childs in India claiming to remember their past lives, in which they tell exact details of their previous life. But is this story of a 4 yr old from India claiming to be the reincarnation of Kalpana Chawla true? The great India born astronaut "Kalpana Chawla" worked with NASA in United States of America & died on February 1, 2003 as the Columbia space shuttle on which she was returning to earth after a space mission, disintegrated 16 minutes prior to landing on earth.

Here is "Upasana", a 4 yr old Girl from Bulandshahar in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. As per one IBN7 - TV report in India today, "Upasana", the little girl claims to be the reincarnation of "Kalpana Chawla".

"Upasana" was born on 23rd March 2003, while "Kalpana Chawla" died on Ist Feb. 2003. "Upasana" claims to be the reincarnation of "Kalpana Chawla". As per "Upasana", she is afraid of planes & claims that she died in the air, in an air crash. She has told Kalpana's father's name too & as per her claim she also knows about the Professors & Mentors of "Kalpana Chawla".

As per Upasana's father Raj Kumar,"Upasana has been telling us ever since she started speaking that her name was Kalpana Chawla and that her father's name was Banarsi Das Chawla but we could not figure out anything as we had never heard of Kalpana".

Now how true is the reincarnation claim of the "Upasana", the little girl as "Kalpana chawla", is debatable. Viewers comments are invited on this.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Ghosts & Spirits released from 'Banyan tree'

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"The Banyan Tree" is the National Tree of India. This huge tree has the widest reaching roots of all known trees. It sends off new shoots from its roots, so that one tree is really a tangle of branches, roots, and trunks. The banyan tree regenerates and lives for an incredible length of time-thus it is thought of as the immortal tree. India has a long history of honoring this tree & it figures prominently in many of the oldest stories of the nation.

But here is an interesting story of ghosts & spirits which were staying on a Banyan tree, which got released from it when it was cut down recently.

"Kothakurssi" is a place in Palakkad district in Kerala state of India which abounds in Banyan trees. Recently "Kothakurssi" had experienced seven accidental deaths and been cursed by the phenomenon of several people suddenly and inexplicably taking ill, all in a matter of 10 days.

To explain all sudden deaths an aged mullah vaguely recalled a similar phenomenon occurring in his childhood, when two kurikkals (Muslim physicians with magical powers) had been summoned from afar to investigate it and suggest remedies.

They had attributed the phenomenon to certain disgruntled spirits in the vicinity. They had propitiated the spirits and, with their magical powers & settled them in a banyan tree.

It was the very same tree, the mullah remembered, that had been mowed down just the week before the first of the recent accidental deaths.

The spirits, released from the tree, could well be at large again, he said. Everybody knew of the cutting down of the tree. The tree was cut as its roots were threatening the foundation of a shop.

Do you find any logic in such weird thinking of people over there or its just a case of superstition among the dwellers in the area that they are attributing all sudden deaths & illness to releasing of ghosts & spirits from the Banyan tree. Readers comments are welcome.

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