Since a few years I have been thinking about our soul, death, life after death, past life and reincarnation and my beliefs about all this. Even though in India people generally believe in reincarnation as a lot has been written about it in our scriptures. Being of a scientific bent of mind I was not sure. I started asking myself several questions and made efforts to find answers. I have always wanted to know the genesis of things and the philosophy or rationale and logic behind any concept. I asked myself questions like:-
- How is it that I see places and people that look so real in my dreams, even though in reality I had never seen those places or met those people.
- I came across people who took instant like or dislike to people whom they didn't know anything about. How is this possible?
- Why is it that we talk to some strangers on the train or the aircraft as if we had known them before whereas others we don't even exchange a word with.
- Since a very young age of 4-5 I picked up needle work and handicraft very easily. In fact I just observed my mother's friends doing crochet, knitting, tatting etc and I would learn on my own and even help others.
- I felt the presence of my father at my cousin's wedding and couldn't believe how it could be possible but I just knew he was there. It could only have been his soul that was present that day My aunt was pregnant with this cousin when my father passed away.
- After analyzing several events in my life, I came to a realization that in some way I wanted those experiences and that they had a purpose to serve in my life.
- People came into my life to make me realize that I had to learn something and do this or that and also to make me recognize some facets of myself that I didn't even know existed.
- Two persons who are very close to me but not close to each other, but who are unrealistically similar in their thoughts, likes and dislikes and reactions to things.
