This was an unprecedented event for me. During Navratri, I was on the banks of the Ganga. I saw a dream in which a dear person of mine was appearing before me and immediately his body was dissolving away. In his place, a small child was appearing. He was not able to recognize me at all. In amazement, I was calling out that person's name and saying — 'What is this, brother, such a form! Can you not recognize me?' Immediately, four people appeared beside him and took him away from there.
The next day, some people arrived at that ashram whom I had seen in my dream. I was astonished to see those very people from my dream. Suddenly, the words slipped from my mouth — "Where has your child gone?" They said he is in the bathroom. But I had no idea that this child had come along with them, nor did they ask me why I had asked this. In the afternoon, when they were returning after bathing in the Ganga, I saw that child with them. The child was exactly, identically the same as the one in my dream-vision. I now firmly concluded that this child is certainly the reincarnation of that person. But to further solidify the conviction of my mind, I set some symbolic conditions. All 5 of those conditions were fulfilled in an astonishing manner. The child was not a jatismar (one who remembers past lives). Yet I had become a witness to the reincarnation of a person.
That person was an extremely benevolent and social individual. He was an ideal person from my childhood. The news of his death had given me great pain at that time. Now I saw that death has granted him an elevated step in life. Comparatively, this birth has taken place in a more prosperous and refined family than the previous birth. This family lives in Delhi. The child is a brilliant student of the third grade. Therefore, I concluded with certainty that a person's good deeds grant him an ascent across lifetimes as well.
How can anyone react to this matter. Someone may say that this is merely a coincidence of dream and reality. But not everything is merely a coincidence. The solution to all problems does not lie in direct perception and inference alone. Many parts of existence are dark. To forcibly stuff and squeeze all experiences within the confines of known evidence is an intellectual injustice. The intellect should be granted the freedom to step beyond the two-fold chains of direct perception and inference, and to understand the expansion of consciousness.