Part 12
“Tell me what you liked
most in your life, I mean any activity in your life that you enjoyed
most?”
For a long pause there
was no reply. Kailashbaba repeated the question to Ramusa, “tell me
if you ever liked any game or sport?”
Ramusa replied in whisper
as if he was in half sleep. The voice of Shambhu was not audible but
still Kailashbaba could understand what he was hinting at. Ramusa was
referring to a dance those villagers always play during Diwali
festival. It was a folk dance, in that men and women circling a
bonfire, dancing around it, and singing their village songs. That is
called Gheromba. Ramusa was wanting to tell all this by just saying
Gheromba - gheromba - gheromba.
Baba had the answer. He
immediately requested Ramusa to play that Gheromba dance around the
fire that was lit right there. On hearing this request the ghost of
Ramusa gave a faint laugh and the body of Shambhu started shaking
again. With a big jerk Shambhu dropped behind on the cushion placed
behind him. Two disciples supported him immediately to avoid any
hurting.
Kailashbaba got out of
the seat and stood a distance away as if giving enough space for the
ghost to commence the dance of gheromba. Kailashbaba with a winning
smile to his disciples and looking back towards Krupashanker told
them the problem is almost resolved. Everybody in that room looked
relieved. Here, upper body of Shambhu began to revolve slowly as if
he was dancing. Initially the movement was not very discernible. Then
the movement became a little fast and then it stopped and Shambhu
again dropped on the cushion. This continued for some time may be say
ten minutes and then they saw Shambhu gave a pleasant smile. Again a
jerk and he fell on the cushion. Now Shambhu had gone in deep
slumber. Kailashbaba looked very pleased; looking to his team he
declared that the ghost of Ramusa is finally relieved of that
horrible hallucination and jocularly he admitted that now this ghost
of Ramusa is in another hallucination which shall keep him ever
happy.
It was already late
night, they packed up everything, and the team of the disciples left
the room leaving behind only those four men. Kailashbaba found that
Naroo was in deep sleep and requested Krupashankar, who was also in
half sleep to leave the room. Leaving behind in that room of
operation Naroo and Shambhu both in deep sleep or unconscious.
A splash of cold water
awakened Naroo. Somebody was splashing his face with cold water to
bring him out of the sleep. It was the next day. Naroo got up and
still in half sleep looked around. The room was cleaned and there
were no fire or any sign of the rite that was performed there. Naroo
sat in the place and tried to recollect everything that he
experienced. To his surprise and pleasure the only thing he
remembered was the hard knocking of his head on the wall. The
experience of drowning in dirty deep water had gone, stored in his
subconscious. Kailashbaba came and greeted him with a good morning as
we do in city life. Naroo felt a little embarrassed since he was
sleeping so long. “Never mind your sleeping for so long; first
refresh your self and join in the breakfast. We are all awaiting.”
Kailashbaba.
Hurriedly he prepared
himself and came in the room in that mutt where they were gathering
to have the breakfast and also to discuss problem of Naroo for which
he had gone there. Naroo and Krupashankar had many questions after
witnessing the ritual. None of the two was awake when the final
solution to the problem of Ramusa was found and so they did not know
what happened of Ramusa. Was he relieved of his trouble? How it was
resolved? And many other queries.
As all of them had
gathered Kailashbaba greeted them and asked them to sit on the mats
on the ground. In mutt they sat on mats and there were no chairs
accept for Kailashbaba and that was only in the room of operation.
They were served all vegetarian dishes made of poha (cooked and dried
rice flakes) and onion. Hot milk was served for those who liked it
and for others it was all time tea. The round of discussion began by
a question by Krupashankar.
Story continues in
this next post
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