Tumimbal lahir (Kelahiran kembali) GNANATILLAKA

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KASUS GNANATILLAKA​



Gnanatillaka adalah namanya, Ia (wanita) dilahirkan pada 14 Februari 1956 di Kotamale, Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Kasus ini berawal di tahun 1960, Ketika ia berumur 4,5 tahun. Waktu itu ia berkata kepada orang tuanya :?Saya ingin bertemu dengan ayah dan ibu saya.? ?Kami adalah orang tuamu,?jawab ibunya. ?Tidak,?Gnanatillaka bersikeras,?saya ingin bertemu dengan ibu dan ayah saya yang sesungguhnya. Saya akan memberitahukan kamu dimana mereka tinggal. Tolong antar saya ke sana.?

Gnanatillaka menjelaskan kepada orang tuanya bagaimana menuju rumah dimana orang tuanya yang sesungguhnya tinggal. Rumah itu terletak dekat penampungan teh di Talawakele, sekitar 30 mil dari tempat tinggalnya sekarang.

Kedua orang tua itu mengabaikan cerita gadis kecilnya yang aneh. Setelah berhari-hari berlalu, Gnanatillaka tetap meminta untuk diantar menemui ibu-ayahnya yang sesungguhnya.

Segera berita itu mulai tersebar. Beberapa professor dari Universitas Ceylon dan Bhikkhu Piyadassi Maha Thera juga mengetahui cerita itu. Mereka memutuskan untuk menelitinya. Mereka mendengarkan Gnanatillaka bercerita ketika ia menjadi seorang bocah laki-laki bernama Tilakaratna. Mereka (para peneliti itu) mencatat semua keterangan. Sesuai dengan informasi yang diberikan oleh Gnanatillaka, mereka bersama-sama dengan Gnanatillaka pergi menuju kerumah yang dijelaskan oleh Gnanatillaka.

Gnanatillaka belum pernah mengunjungi rumah itu di kehidupan yang sekarang, dia juga belum pernah mengunjungi daerah lokasi rumah itu. Juga kedua keluarga itu tidak saling kenal satu sama lain dan tidak saling mengetahui kehidupan masing-masing.

Ketika Gnanatillaka dan para peneliti itu memasuki rumah itu, Ganantillaka memperkenalkan para professor kepada kedua orang tua dirumah itu. ?ini adalah ayah dan ibu saya yang sebenarnya.?Lalu ia juga mengenalkan adik laki-lakinya dan kakak-kakak perempuannya. Gnanatillaka menyebut nama-nama kecil saudara-saudarinya dengan tepat.

Lalu kedua orang tua Gnanatillaka di kehidupan sebelumnya itu diwawancarai. Mereka menjelaskan sifat dan kebiasaan anak laki-laki mereka yang telah meninggal pada 9 November 1954. Ketika Gnanatillaka melihat bekas adik laki-lakinya dalam kehidupan lampau, ia menolak bertemu atau berbicara dengannya. Kemudian orang tua Gnanatillaka di kehidupan lampau menjelaskan bahwa kedua bersaudara itu selalu berkelahi dan bertengkar. Mungkin Gnanatillaka masih menyimpan dendam dari kehidupannya yang lampau ketika dia menjadi seorang anak laki-laki.

Ketika kepala sekolah setempat mendengar cerita tersebut, ia sendiri datang berkunjung. Ketika kepala sekolah memasuki rumah, Gnanatillaka memperkenalkannya sebagai gurunya.

Gnanatillaka juga dapat mengingat pelajaran-pelajaran dan pekerjaan rumah yang diberikan kepadanya ketika ia menjadi anak laki-laki dikehidupan sebelumnya.

Gnanatillaka juga dapat menunjukkan tempat pemakaman dimana ia dimakamkan di kehidupannya yang terdahulu sebagai seorang anak laki-laki.

Dengan cepat cerita Gnanatillaka tersebar luas. Seorang peneliti spesialis kasus kelahiran kembali, Dr.Ian Stevenson dari Universitas Virginia, terbang dari Amerika ke Ceylon untuk menyelidiki kasus itu. Setelah penyelidikannya, Dr.Ian mengatakan bahwa kasus Gnanatillaka adalah salah satu peristiwa kelahiran kembali yang terbaik, baik segi bukti maupun dari aspek psikologis.

Sebuah buku menarik tentang kasus Gnanatillaka diterbitkan dalam bahasa Sinhala di Ceylon. Buku ini menyajikan foto-foto berserta bukti-bukti dokumentasi yang berhasil dikumpulkan.


 
Beberapa tahun yang lalu, telah terdapat bukti yang dikumpulkan dan didokumentasikan dimana mengkonfirmasikan bahwa kelahiran kembali itu adalah benar adanya. Terdapat beberapa kasus bahwa seseorang mampu mengingat kembali pengalamannya yang diperoleh dari kehidupan sebelumnya. Perincian detail mengenai tempat tinggal, orang-orang yang disebutkan hidup pada masa sebelumnya dapat dikonfirmasikan setelah dilakukan suatu penyelidikan.

Contoh yang sangat terkenal adalah kasusnya Bridey Murphy, dimana Ny.Ruth Simmons dari Amerika Serikat teringat akan kehidupan masa sebelumnya di Ireland 100 tahun lalu. Ny. Ruth Simmons mengatakan bahwa dia pernah hidup sebagai Bridey Murphy pada tahun 1789 dan dapat memberikan perincian sepenuhnya mengenai kehidupan Bridey Murphy. Perincian yang diberikan tersebut sempat diperiksa dan ternyata memang benar adanya. Walaupun pada kehidupan saat ini Ny. Ruth Simmons tidak pernah keluar dari Amerika Serikat.

Suatu contoh lainnya di Inggris, seorang perempuan bernama Ny. Naomi Henry teringat kembali akan dua kehidupan sebelumnya. Pada kehidupan satunya, dia teringat hidup sebagai wanita Irlandia di suatu desa bernama Greehalg, pada abad ke-17. Penelitian kasus tersebut sempat dilakukan dan ditemukan bahwa desa dengan nama tersebut memang ada sebelumnya. Pada kehidupan berikutnya, dia lahir sebagai seorang wanita Inggris yang bertugas sebagai perawat beberapa anak di kota Inggris yang bernama Downham pada tahun 1902. Penelitian yang dilakukan terhadap catatan resmi yang ada di kota Downham membuktikan bahwa wanita tersebut memang pernah ada.

Profesor Ian Stevenson dari University of Virginia, U.S.A. telah melakukan riset dan mempublikasikan hasil penemuannya terhadap dua puluh kasus kelahiran kembali. Kasus-kasus tersebut yang telah diverifikasi dan didokumentasikan secara baik tersebut, ditemukan pada berbagai negara termasuk Perancis, Itali, India, Sri Lanka dan Birma.


 


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OSEL



The Birth of Lama Tenzin Osel ​



On 12 February 1985, in the state hospital of Granada, Spain, Osel Hita Torres was born. He came into the world without causing his mother any pain, his eyes wide open. He didn't cry. The atmosphere in the delivery room was charged–very quiet and yet momentous. The hospital staff were unusually touched. They sensed that this was a special child.

Outside, the heavens opened. Maria, the mother, lying with her newborn child, was scared. Lightning flashed, the rains poured down, filling the streets with so much water that they looked like a river in full flood. This was the first time she had been alone at a birth. Her four other children had been born at home, which was how she liked it, but for some strange reason she had been advised by a Tibetan lama to have her fifth child amid the gleaming technology of a modern hospital. In spite of all the apparatus and the cold formality of the hospital ward, the birth had been ridiculously easy. Just one contraction and the baby had been there. Now she was alone waiting for her husband, Paco, to come. When he arrived, he took one look at his son and said with some awe, "He's so serene, his face is full of light." Maria suggested he find a name for him. When he returned the next morning, he said he was to be called 'Osel,' which means 'clear light' in Tibetan.

This was the child who was destined to become one of the most unusual spiritual leaders of his time. For Osel Hita Torres was soon to be officially recognized by the Dalai Lama himself as the reincarnation of Lama Thubten Yeshe, who had passed away in California eleven months earlier. It was later said that it was typical of Lama to engineer both an archetypal Western death and an archetypal Western birth–just for the experience.

From the moment they took Osel home to their small house, which had been built by Paco himself in the simple, charming village of Bubi?n, high in the Alpujarra mountains, Maria noticed that he was not like her other children. He never cried. When she forgot to feed him because she was busy with her other children, she'd race upstairs to find him lying in his cot wide awake, looking and waiting. He let her sleep all through the night, every night, from the day he was born. It was as though his entry into the world was not intended to cause inconvenience or trouble to the family in any way.

In fact, from the time he was born, Osel seemed to bring them luck. For the previous six years, life had been tough for Paco and Maria–with so many mouths to feed and money extremely scarce. They were badly in debt, and the strain was beginning to tell. Theirs was a good marriage, but the relationship was beginning to crack under the strain. Now a new hotel was to be built in Bubi?n, and Paco found work as a builder. He worked all hours, and the money came in fast. Soon they were able to add more badly needed rooms to their cramped house. The strain lifted. Life suddenly began to improve. For a baby who hadn't been planned for, Osel wasn't doing too badly. But this unpretentious, hard-working Spanish couple had no idea of the galvanic changes their newborn son was about to bring to their lives.

Paco and Maria had met on the island of Ibiza in 1976. Paco, a shy, self-effacing man with a gentle, kind face and piercing blue eyes, came from a poor family and had left school at the age of nine to work in a factory. Later, seeking something more from life, he had thrown in his job, gone to Ibiza, and met Fran?ois Camus, a Frenchman who had met Lama Yeshe and Tibetan Buddhism on his travels in the East. Paco listened to what Fran?ois had to tell him, intrigued at first, then deeply interested. Maria, dark-haired, dark-eyed, vivacious, and extremely attractive, had taken a week off from her job buying and selling stamps to come for a holiday in Ibiza. She met Paco and Fran?ois and never went home. Middle-class and convent-educated, she had no particular interest in Buddhism, but she certainly liked the people who practiced it. "They were so calm and peaceful, good to be around," she said. In particular, she liked Paco. Their relationship was soon established.

Their easygoing island existence lost much of its appeal when Lama Yeshe arrived in 1977 to teach a two-week course there. Maria had never met anyone like him. "We'd had some teachings from other more traditional lamas who had come with Lama Yeshe, and although I had an open mind, I thought all the adoration, the prostrations before them, a bit too much. Then Lama Yeshe came. More than twice the number of people turned up to see him–the excitement level was very high. He came in smiling at everyone, looking so kind. Then he started to laugh. He kept on laughing, laughing.

"I'd never seen anyone like him. His energy, the power coming out of him, was incredible. He was transmitting with his face, his hands, his whole body–every way he could to make us understand. I didn't understand a word that he said, but something happened inside me. I can't describe the feeling, but it was very strong. Spontaneously, I put my hands together. I knew this was a man I could dedicate my life to," she said.

And so Maria, Paco, and Fran?ois approached Lama Yeshe with the idea of starting a retreat center on mainland Spain. Lama listened to their plans and agreed. Ibiza was good for initiating interest in Buddhism, but somewhere more 'serious' was needed to consolidate the practice. Lama contributed his own suggestion–the retreat center should be open to people of all religions who wanted time, space, and peace to develop their interior life. After a long, arduous search they finally found the right spot, a plot of land on top of Spain's highest mountain, Mulhac?n, 11,407 feet above sea level in the Alpujarra mountains, south of Granada. The air was pure, the view sensational, there was no noise, no disturbance from human or machine. It was also totally remote and inaccessible. For six years, Paco and Fran?ois put all their energy and money into making it habitable, building not only the retreat cabins and meditation house but also the road leading to it–by hand. It was a Herculean task, a creation inspired by their devotion.

Their efforts were rewarded by the sudden unsolicited arrival of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who went first to Bubi?n, where he made a point of meeting the local priest and celebrating Mass with him, and then to the retreat center which he named Osel-Ling ('Place of Clear Light'), meaning the clear light of the purest, most subtle mind, the final goal of meditation. No one was quite sure what had prompted the Dalai Lama to make this curious detour from his busy European tour to visit a remote Buddhist outpost run by keen, but utterly unimportant Buddhist students. Later, when Paco, inspired by the light he had seen in his son's face, came up with the name Osel, Maria initially hesitated. It seemed pretentious, too much to live up to. Here Fran?ois stepped in. "You have put so much into the center, it's right that the center should now be part of you," he reasoned. Maria relented.

While Paco had physically made the center she had physically made the children, living across the mountain in Bubi?n where amenities were more suitable for bringing up babies. Her union with Paco had been remarkably fertile, much to her own alarm. She had never wanted children, her maternal instinct not being at all strong and her desire for independence enormous. She complained loudly to Lama Yeshe–bemoaning the fact that she wasn't free to engage in long spiritual retreats like her unattached friends. "Your children are your retreat," he answered. "You should relate to each one of them as though they are a buddha, because you never know who they are. Even if they are not buddha, it is good for your mind to think like that. Besides, it is true that everyone has the potential to become buddha, and so it is good for the children for you to treat them that way," he told her.

Nevertheless, when Osel was conceived, she was furious. She had four children under six: Yeshe, five years old; Harmonia, four; Lobsang, two; and Dolma, only five months. She was alone most of the time with the children (Paco being busy at the center) in an overcrowded small house, with no help and large financial worries. A new child was just what she didn't want. Ironically, a few weeks previously Paco had tried to persuade her to have an IUD fitted–the other methods of contraception having singularly failed–but the idea had been repugnant to her. She'd been to the doctor but had come away knowing she could not go through with it. Lama Yeshe had just died, and Maria, trying to think of some way to appease Paco, said to him, "Well, maybe Lama Yeshe is looking for a mother." Paco was not convinced. Three weeks later, she discovered that she was pregnant yet again (in spite of their usual contraceptive methods), and as she ranted at Paco, he acidly threw her joke back at her. "Maybe it's Lama," he sarcastically retorted.

The thought that maybe it could be Lama inside her was, however, the only thing that kept Maria from total despair. "It was a fantasy, the only thing that gave me energy to cope. I never believed it for a second," she said.


 
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