4-year-old claims to be father of 3 in previous life

Lucknow, Nov. 2: Four-year-old Anekesh claims he has from a “previous birth” a wife and three daughters in a neighbouring village in Bahedi, in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district. He insists on visiting “his wife” and wants to take on the responsibility of “his three children” too.

Anekesh is the only son of Babu Ram of Piparia village. About a year ago, Anekesh suddenly told his father that his name was Chhotelal and that he lived in the nearby village of Gursauli. He said he had a wife and three children. Babu Ram did not pay heed to his son’s claims and thought the child had been tutored to make such statements by someone in the village.
However, Anekesh continued to repeat his statements and began calling himself Chhotelal. He claimed he had been killed by a speeding truck about nine years ago and had been “reborn” because he wanted to go back to his family and ride his old Luna moped.

“In the beginning we did not take the boy seriously. But when he began giving out other details, we could not ignore it either. I sent some of my relatives to Gursauli village to check out whether Anekesh was telling the truth. My relatives had no difficulty in tracing Chhotelal’s house and his mother confirmed that her son had been killed in a road accident about nine years ago,” says Babu Ram.

Two months later, Babu Ram took Anekesh to Gursauli and the boy seemed to know the village like the back of his hand. “He guided us through the roads and as soon as entered the village, he directed us to Chhotelal’s house where he immediately recognised ‘his mother, his wife’ and ‘his children’. He even gave us their names,” says the boy’s father.

Chhotelal’s family was taken aback when Anekesh began relating past incidents and Chhotelal’s wife fainted with shock when Anekesh claimed he had been Chhotelal in his “previous birth”. Chhotelal’s family does not seem too keen to accept Anekesh as the son “who died nine years ago”, but the latter insists he wants to stay with them. Babu Ram is determined not to let his son go, but has to live with the fact that Anekesh is more attached to the family he claims was his in his “previous birth” than his current family.

“We have done several pujas at home and consulted several astrologers, but no one seems able to help us. The only solace is that a psychologist in Bareilly has told my uncle that as Anekesh grows older, his memory of his previous birth will probably fade. This is now our only hope,” says Babu Ram.

Source: Deccan Chronicle