The French-language newspaper “Le Populaire,” published in Saigon on August 20, 1936, reported that a committee of doctors and scholars had been appointed in Delhi, India, to investigate a remarkable case of reincarnation.
The case involved a 9-year-old girl named Shanti Devi, who had been telling her parents about her past life for the past six years. Born and raised in Delhi, she had never traveled anywhere else, yet she repeatedly expressed her desire to visit Muttra, claiming that her husband, a tailor, lived there.
Her insistence prompted her parents to inquire about the matter, and to their surprise, they found that her claims were accurate.
Relatives of the tailor whom she identified as her husband traveled to Delhi to meet her, and she recognized them instantly. The tailor himself also visited, and upon entering her house, she rushed to embrace him, exclaiming, “My husband has come to take me home!”
The tailor had brought along his 11-year-old son, whom Shanti Devi identified as her own child. She also revealed numerous details about her past life, all of which were verified, including her birth year (1902), her previous name (Ludgi), her death date (October 24, 1925, in Agra), and the birth year of her son (1925).
These revelations astonished the people of Delhi, leading them to conduct an experiment. Shanti Devi was taken to Muttra, where she immediately recognized her husband’s relatives waiting at the train station.
She was then blindfolded and placed in a horse-drawn carriage. Despite being unable to see, she accurately directed the driver, correctly identifying the houses they passed and finally instructing the carriage to stop, declaring, “This is my house!”
An elderly man emerged from the house, and Shanti Devi, removing her blindfold, exclaimed, “This is my father-in-law!”
While Shanti Devi’s physical appearance differed from Ludgi’s, her voice, personality, and mannerisms were strikingly similar. The tailor, convinced that Shanti Devi was indeed Ludgi reborn, wanted to take her home. However, this presented a dilemma: the mother was only 9 years old, while her son was 11. Although the committee’s investigation was still pending, the tailor firmly believed that his wife’s soul had been reborn into Shanti Devi.
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