Part 11
In the meantime somebody
from the group of people preparing for the rite told Baba that
everything is ready and he may proceed.
A young boy of age about
12 was requested to sit on a seat kept across the Fire pot or to put
in Shakta terms homkunda. That was the youngest son of the deceased,
Ramusa. His son, Shambhu came from a room inside the mutt and sat on
the seat. There was a big cushion behind him to support him in case
he drops backward during the ceremony. Three disciples of Kailashbaba
sat around him in such a way that, one disciple sitting exactly
opposite him and on the other side of the fire, the other two
occupied seats on left and right sides of Shambhu. In this way four
of them actually were sitting on four directions of the fire, fire
being in the centre. Kailashbaba was sitting away in one corner of
the room with the guests, Krupashankar and Naroo.
To surprise of Naroo,
there were no mantras chanting done. There was eerie silence and that
was important for the ceremony. They told Naroo later on that, to
call Ghost there should be absolute silence. First fire was lit and
when it began burning properly one of the disciple sprinkled some
amber on the fire. At that, thick fumes started emanating from the
fire. Room was filled with the fumes. Then other disciple sprinkled
some rosin on that fire and more fumes of fragrance of rosin were
thrown out from the fire. At that time chief disciple sitting in
front of Shambhu, leaned foreword and with a small fan pushed those
fumes on his face. The other disciples had held Shambhu by the hands
and his head pushed a little foreword so that the fanned fumes will
blow on him. At that little Shambhu started coughing. Now they
stopped blowing fumes on the face of that little boy. For some time
there was no move and all of a sudden Shambhu began to shake all his
body as if something was troubling him. Three disciples looked to
Kailashbaba for instructions. Kailashbaba by hand gestures told them
to wait for a while. The ghost has come and trying to enter the body
of the boy but does not find the Brahmarandhra. Brahmarandhra is an
imaginary hole at the top of the skull. A ghost can enter into the
body of any human only through this hole provided it is not clogged.
Nanoo knew all these things and so he had started to understand what
was going on there. After some time chief disciple rose from his seat
and went inside the house. He brought a scissor and began to cut the
hair of that boy exactly where the Brahmarandhra is located. Too much
of thick skin or thick locks on that part can clog Brahmarandhra also
covering head with black thick silk or cotton can also clog that hole
and that can prevent a ghost from entering the body. Naroo knew all
these things and so he appreciated the way they were working.
Finally, enough hair was cut away and the Brahmarandhra was cleared
because Shambhu began to shake violently. After some moments shaking
stopped and Shambhu began to say something in a voice different from
his. It was the voice of his father Ramusa. Ramusa was crying
violently, body of little boy shaking at every moment words were
coming out of his mouth. What he was saying, Naroo could not
understand properly but he could guess. Ramusa was speaking in the
dialect spoken in that village. Everybody in the room was listening
intently. Ramusa told them that something pulls him in a deep water
and that water enters his nostrils, mouth, ears and even eyes. The
experience is terrible. Here, Naroo began to get a feel of that
terrible experience even though he was still not dead. That was a
peculiar feeling to Naroo. As if Naroo had started identifying
himself with that ghost of Ramusa. He could not understand what was
happening to him but it was as if Ramusa was inducing his experience
into Naroo. May be because, both Naroo and Ramusa were drunkards,
those ghastly experiences had by virtue of some strange law of the
universe began to pass on to Naroo. Naroo got frightened. His body
started shaking violently and he felt that he was being pushed in
dirty, murky waters. His mouth was full of that horribly tasteless
water. Eyes swollen up as if they will drop out and fall apart. Naroo
could not vomit since he was in the waters so deep that it was
impossible to do any such thing. While Naroo was experiencing all
these terrible feeling at the same time his intellect was also active
and so he was wondering about this peculiar experience. Naroo
understood what would happen to him if he dies with this habit of
drinking. He developed tremendous amount of nausea for alcohol. The
power with which this experience of drowning was overcoming him was
uncontrollable. For some time, his intellect telling him that this is
only a hallucination and not real; and next moment the hallucination
taking over or mind taking over the power of intelligence; and he
would go down the dirty water again and again. This was happening so
frequently that the whole involvement exhausted Naroo and Naroo fell
backward hitting his head on the wall behind with a very powerful
blow. Naroo lost his consciousness.
Members of the team of
Kailashbaba were busy attending Shambhu. Ghost of Ramusa had
explained to them about his condition and told them that this is why
he tries to contact the members of his family and because of that
wife of Ramusa was getting fits. Ramusa was trying to hold his wife
whenever he was caught up with this terrible experience. It was this
complain that was told to Kailashbaba and that is why this rite was
performed. Now the complete picture was clear to everybody in the
team. Baba knew how to remedy such hallucinations. The remedy was
very simple to appear but was not easy to implement. At that
juncture, Kailashbaba got out of his chair and asked the disciple
sitting opposite Shambhu to move and he sat in that place. Until this
time disciple were talking with the ghost through Shambhu but now
Kailashbaba took over the conversation. Baba asked Ramusa in a very
tender voice, “Ramusa, are you listening to me?”
Ramusa replied in a very
low voice as if his ghost was far away. “Yes, Baba I am listening.”
Story continues in
this next post
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