Note 28 — Chapter V · WORSHIP OF THE MALEVOLENT DEAD.
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There are eighteen kinds of siddhis or accomplishments, one of which is parakāyāpravesh or the power of entering the body of another and returning to one’s own body at will. The soul cannot exist separated from the body. When a person who revives after death is asked how he returned to life, he declares that he has been carried to the presence of the god of death by his messengers, being mistaken for another bearing the same name and living in the same locality. When such a mistake is detected, the god of death tells the soul of the man concerned that his life’s span has not yet ended, and sends it back to the body, which appears to be dead.28