15/11/2025
A four-year-old girl in 1930s Delhi said something that stopped her parents cold:
“I died giving birth. I left a husband and three children in Mathura.”
Her name was Shanti Devi, and what unfolded became one of the most documented reincarnation cases ever recorded.
It began with small moments. She rejected her mother’s cooking:
“That’s not how you make it — you need more cumin.”
She described a house in Mathura, local recipes, neighbourhoods, a clothing shop, and children she said were hers.
By seven, her memories grew even more specific:
• the layout of streets she’d never visited
• neighbours’ names
• the birth of her last child
• the pain of dying shortly after
Her teacher wrote to the man she claimed was her husband, Pandit Kedarnath Chaube.
The reply confirmed: his wife Lugdi had died in childbirth ten years before Shanti was born — and every detail matched.
Still sceptical, Kedarnath sent his cousin to test her, pretending to be him.
Shanti looked at him and said:
“You’re not my husband. You’re his cousin.”
Then revealed private family details he knew were true.
When Kedarnath arrived unannounced, Shanti recognised him instantly — yet paused, suddenly shy, as if remembering she was now a child.
She cooked dishes from Mathura no Delhi child would know.
She named their children, described past arguments, and revealed secret hiding places for money and jewellery — locations and amounts known only to Lugdi.
A committee of politicians, scholars, and journalists formed in 1935 to investigate. They took Shanti to Mathura.
Witnesses reported she:
• navigated the city without guidance
• recognised neighbours by name
• noticed the house had been repainted
• pointed out where “she died”
• and identified hidden jewellery correctly
The 1936 committee concluded they found no evidence of fraud.
Shanti Devi lived until 1987 and never once recanted.
“I know what I remember,” she said.
Whether you interpret this as reincarnation, unconscious memory, or something we don’t yet understand — it raises a deeper question:
What if consciousness is far more expansive than we assume?
If this story stirs something in you — curiosity, resonance, déjà vu — you’re welcome to explore these themes safely and therapeutically.
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Sources
1. Psi Encyclopedia – Society for Psychical Research: “Shanti Devi”
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/shanti-devi
2. Rivas & Rawat (2005) – Journal of Religion and Psychical Research
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279716859
3. University of Virginia – Division of Perceptual Studies
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/
