Ein von Ian Stevenson untersuchter Fall, bei dem laut Bericht eine Frau, die die Gottheit Sanoshi Mata verehrte, zunächst kürzer die Persönlichkeit zweier Verstorbener annahm, dann den eigenen Tod für drei Tage später vorhersagte, dann von Angehörigen auch eine Weile für tot gehalten wurde, um dann wiederum als andere Persönlichkeit wieder ins Leben zu kommen. Im folgenden Jahr gab es dann eine Unterbrechung von einigen Stunden, in der wohl die alte Persönlichkeit wiederkehrte. Abgesehen davon habe sie bis zum Ende als die neue Persönlichkeit gelebt und erzählt, die Gottheit Sanoshi Mata habe sie wieder aus dem Totenreich geholt.
After three years of marriage, she gave birth to a boy in December 1984.
A month or two later, Sumitra began having episodes of loss of consciousness, or trance, in which her eyes would roll upward and she would clench her teeth. These events varied in duration from a few minutes to a full day. Sometimes she would say afterwards that she had been possessed by the goddess Santoshi Mata, of whom she was a devotee. On two occasions she was apparently possessed briefly by communicating personalities, one a Sharifpura woman who had drowned herself in a well, the other a man from another part of India. Her family sought the aid of local healers, to no avail.
On about 16 July 1985, Sumitra predicted that she would die three days later. On 19 July, after an unexplained fever, she lost consciousness and appeared to die. Eyewitnesses agreed that her respiration and pulse stopped and her face drained of blood for at least five minutes. But as her family members began mourning her, she came back to life. Her identity appeared to have completely changed. She now called herself Shiva Tripathi.
This case was first investigated by Stevenson and fellow reincarnation researcher Satwant Pasricha independently, having been brought to their attention in October 1985, when each was sent a newspaper article about it.
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According to Dayal, because she was deemed possessed, she was ‘cruelly tortured continuously for a long period by Ohjas (exorcists or spirit healers) for redemption and cure’. It was to no avail; she remained in the Shiva persona, apart from a brief re-emergence of Sumitra when she ‘became confused for a few hours and seemed to resume her ordinary personality’ in the autumn of 1986.
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Dayal noted that Shiva, once awakened in the body of Sumitra, claimed to have had memories from the intermission between Shiva’s death and her awakening. Sumitra’s father told Dayal that she had told him she had been brought before Lord Yama, the Hindu god of death. She saw people with their feet turned backward being punished according to their karma, some being whipped, some being thrown into boiling water. The goddess Santoshi Mata came to her aid, hiding her under the plank on which Yama sat, and feeding her. After some days Sumitra [gemeint wäre hier eigentlich "Shiva"?] begged for mercy from Yama, who agreed to send her back for seven more years of life.
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