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Tamil reborn as a Sinhalese

Story of Aravinda Rupasinghe that appeared in the September 28, 2006 edition of the Divaina, a Sinhalese newspaper. Aravinda was a 14-year-old Sinhalese boy who woke up one day speaking fluent Tamil. He forgot his real identity and firmly believed that he was a Tamil girl who lived up north in Jaffna. That day he suddenly announced, `My father is a supporter of LTTE.`

After a few days of counselling and therapy Aravinda came to accept who he really was now, and to understand that the Tamil girl was someone whose life he had lived in a previous birth.

This story reveals how a Tamil girl who died in Jaffna was reborn as a Sinhalese boy in Katana, which is near Columbo. This story also demonstrates that we can be reborn into any religion, any race, or in any country we are not necessarily reborn as we are in our present life. The Buddha mentioned that samsara is without discoverable beginning. It is not easy to find a being who in this long course has not previously been your mother or your father, your brother or your sister, your son or your daughter, therefore we should be compassionate toward all.

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PREMADASA REBORN

(99 Jan 13)

The villagers in Kottala, Hanguranketa believe that Mr. R. Premadasa has been reborn in their village according to the `Divaina`. Sampath Nuwan Bandara, the second son of Mr. W. M. Ranasingha Banda and Mrs. G. W. Wimalawathie born on the 2nd of September 1997 has been making statements which corroborates with details of Mr. Premadasa`s life. Mr. Premadasa was killed on the 1st of May 1993.

Little Sampath Nuwan, for example has said his wife was Ema, (Hema is Mrs. Premadasa`s first nake) and his daughter was Dula (Dulanjali is the first name of Mr. Premadasa`s daughter). He had wanted his money (mage Thalli) , a reference to the coins on which Mr. Premadasa`s picture appears.

He has further said that his name is Premadasa and that he is from Kenwatta,(reference to Kehelwatta) and that while he was coming, Baba came and there was a loud explosion and he fell.

Many people are going to Hanguranketa to have a glimpse of Sampath Nuwan.

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HOLLAND

The case of Mrs De K.-V.
Mrs De K.-V. was a handicapped elderly lady when I first met her. She told me that from 1938 until 1988 she`d had recurrent dreams in which she wore traditional clothing and a small old-fashioned hat. She felt that she was between 18 and 20 years old. She was located in some kind of `kitchen` of a big house and stood near a very broad staircase that led up­stairs. Outside she could see a lot of trees. She appeared to be on an estate or large farm. Mrs De K.-V. got the impression that she belonged to a rich family who had acquired their wealth through hard labour. It was war time and it seemed that she had killed a soldier who had constituted a threat to her family. The soldier belonged to the enemy, but not necessarily to a foreign power. She killed him with an axe or similar metal utensil, after the man had raped a younger girl, possibly her sister. The family seemed to have buried the soldier`s body. She heard or saw that a `military escort` was arriving, and she was waiting for them to come with her heart beating in her throat. Her last thought in the dream was that everything would end, if they found out. After reaching this point in the dream, Mrs De K.-V. would always wake up. Her daughter confirmed that Mrs De K.-V. had repeatedly told her about the recurrent dream, long before the latter had reported it to us. As far as Mrs De K.-V. could remember, she hadn`t seen any films or read any books that might have been the cryptomnesic source of her recurrent dreams. The dreams struck her as unusually life-like and realistic.