Concluding part 13
Krupashankar
asks, “Guruji, we Brahmans
are used to witness rituals with a lot of mantra chanting while here
I saw that the whole operation was done in almost pin drop silence,
how is it?”
A good question, remarked
Guruji. You said ‘the whole operation’ didn't you. Kailashbaba
counter questioned. Operations are performed in silence because you
need concentration to perform it successfully. Another thing about
our Shakta ceremonies concerning dead spirits is; they are unique
and they have no parallel in your Brahmanic rituals. Almost all the
operations in Shakta and Tantra are falling in the category of
‘Dynamic’ while those of the Brahmins are ‘Passive’.
“What do you mean by
that”, questioned Naroo? Naroo being well versed in all the
Brahmanic rites felt that he can counter that statement.
Guruji continued, “By
Dynamic I mean, in our ceremonies we do not request any authority
from the spirited world but demand action. In passive ceremonies of
Brahmans they only request some deity to help the cause and the help
is not guaranteed.
“How is that?”
Krupashankar.
"When dealing with
matters of the ghosts or dead people we need permission to work with
them and that permission is granted to us by some higher spirits.
This is acquired by doing penance to get the attention of these
higher spirits. After you get the permission you can do such
operations and help people. In case of Brahmanic rituals they do the
ritual even if they do not have permission to pray for the concerned
higher spirit. As a result Brahmanic rituals may or may not get
results; our rites are always getting results since they are
performed only after proper sanctions are acquired from the higher
spirits. There are many wizards who pretend to have the concerned
permission but in reality they do not have it and so even their
prayers are not getting results.” Kailashbaba answered.
“Who are those higher
spirits?” Naroo.
“Different types of
ghosts require higher spirits of diverse levels. Ghosts are
classified in three types and for each type we have to approach the
spirit that controls that type of ghost.” Kailashbaba replied.
“Please, Kailashji,
explain these matters in details since, we both are interested in
this subject”. Said Krupashankar.
“There are three higher
spirits and they are called Guru Dattatreya, Vetaal and Yama. Out of
these three Guru Dattatreya looks after ghosts of people having some
spiritual standard at the time of their death. Vetaal is the
controller of people who die with bad habits such as smoking,
drinking, womanizing, gambling, even bad habits of quarreling,
jealousness, boastfulness, and greed. That means this Vetaal has
control over almost all the ordinary people. Yama controls all the
dead people until for some time and then relieves hold to these other
spirits. Other higher spirits have to work with these controlling
powers to get access to these lower spirits of dead people. To do
what I did yesterday night I had to take grants from Vetaal. If I did
not have that grant the ghost of Ramusa would never have come in the
body of his son Shanbhu. This Vetaal is called Satan in other
religions often mistaken for a bad power actually it is just a
controlling power and brings about order in the movements of these
ghosts.” I hope you two can understand what I am hinting at.
Kalashbaba said with a smile to his guests.
“So how did you feel
witnessing yesterdays operation? Kailashbaba enquired to Naroo.
Naroo was silent
pondering over some thoughts. He was slow on eating the breakfast
also. “any thing wrong?” asked Kailashbaba to him.
“Not exactly, whispered
Naroo and then looking towards Krupashankar he said, “You know, I
feel differently about the whole experience. Yesterday while I was
watching the shaking and twisting of that little boy Shanbhu, all of
a sudden I began to feel what that spirit was experiencing. I felt as
if I am being drawn into a deep watery grave and the experience was
so horrible that I cannot tell you in any words. I got terribly
frightened and that has changed me completely. I have developed
nausea for liquor. I shall never ever take that drink in my life.
That experience only helped me get out of that bad habit. What I
could not do in all my life by any amount of efforts; was done in
just a few moments experience, what a miracle it is I have no words
to thank you for this.”
“This has become
possible only because our mind has capacity to relate things in a
strange way.” Kalashbaba.
He further added, “Your
experience was related to your habit of drinking. That experience was
also due to that habit of drinking and to avoid that horrible
experience your mind decide to reject that habit.” Kailashbaba.
“I had called
Krupashanker and told him to bring you along to witness this
operation so that you can get out of that habit automatically. Our
mind is so powerful it can do miracles. In your case that miracle has
happened. I admit that it was possible only because you have some
conscience within that is helping you.” Kailashbaba concluded with
a smile of satisfaction.
The
breakfast was also completed and other people gathered in that room,
left it leaving behind only these three men. Naroo looking to
Kailashbaba said that, we should take his leave and offered to
donate some money to the mutt.
Naroo
had completely recovered from that habit of drinking. Even the
mention of liquor would disturb him so much so that nobody in the house
ever recollected those days when Naroo used to drink.
Story ends here; in
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