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<blockquote data-quote="Gyani Jarnail Singh" data-source="post: 22880" data-attributes="member: 189"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">India's ghost fair draws thousands </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">By KS Shaini </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">BBC News, Malajpur, Madhya Pradesh </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">The witchdoctor (R) exorcises Rukmani. Pics: Prakash Hatbalne </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Rukmani, 21, is a coy and demure Indian village girl, but her parents are convinced that she is haunted by ghosts. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">"She speaks in a strange language. She speaks of people we don't know. She screams and faints," says her farm worker father. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">So they have made a journey from their village in western Maharashtra state to an ancient fair of ghost busters in Malajpur in central Madhya Pradesh to rid their daughter of the ghost. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Rukmani and her parents have joined thousands of "haunted" people from all over India at this month-long ghost busters fair where witchdoctors congregate and exorcise spirits. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Today, Rukmani is one of the first clients to be exorcised as hundreds of the curious look on. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Some ghosts are sadists. Others want to take revenge on their tormentors. Others haunt people simply for fun </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Chandrahas Singh, witchdoctor </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">One of the fair's 200-odd witchdoctors orders her to circle a local temple. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Then he sprinkles some water on the girl and chants what sound like prayers. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Suddenly, Rukmani is tossing her hair violently, rolling her eyes and swaying uncontrollably as her friends try to hold her back. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">'Why are you troubling her?'</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">"Who are you?" asks the witchdoctor. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">"I won't reply," answers Rukmani in a voice her parents say is not her own. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Witchdoctors make many of the clients crawl on the ground </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Now the witchdoctor picks up a broom and begins hitting Rukmani, which seems to be a sure way to rid clients of apparitions. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">"Why are you troubling her? Go away, go away," yells the witchdoctor beating Rukmani. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">A few minutes later, the witchdoctor announces Rukmani "cured". </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Her parents are relieved and walk away with their daughter, who looks quite the same, after paying the witchdoctor. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Rukmani is luckier than many of the more unfortunate clients. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Some are thrashed mercilessly till the witchdoctors declare them cured. Other clients turn violent, hitting people and rolling on the ground. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">In addition to broom beatings and prayer, witchdoctors treat their clients by making them crawl and licking prasad (divine food). </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">'Tackled firmly'</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">I asked one of the ghost busters why apparitions possessed humans in the first place. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">"Ah, some ghosts are sadists. Others want to take revenge on their tormentors. Others do it simply for fun," says Chandrahas Singh. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">The fair is said to be nearly 100 years old </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">"But all have to be tackled firmly." </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Besides possessed people, the fair is also frequented by cured patients who come to offer their thanks. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Farm owner Jagdish Bain Naik from Gujarat state is one of them. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">He says he has been coming to the fair for the past 10 years. The first time was after a "ghost entered me and tried to destroy me". </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">"I felt like throwing myself before a running train, selling off my farm, leaving my family and going away somewhere," says Naik. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">He says he went to several psychiatrists, but their treatment did not help. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Then someone told him about Madhya Pradesh's bhooton ka mela (fair of the ghosts). </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Pent-up frustration</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Naik says he was cured the first time he came here and since then has returned every year to watch the proceedings. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Rationalists and psychologists dismiss the fair as superstitious. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">The head of the department of psychology at the Bhopal-based Barkatullah University, KN Tripathi, has an explanation for the large turnout. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">"The majority of clients are rural women. They often feign being haunted by ghosts to abuse their husbands and in-laws. This is almost an outlet for their pent up frustrations. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">"Being possessed is also a form of attention-seeking. Once possessed, you are cared for. Your wayward behaviour becomes excusable." </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Local government officials are more pragmatic. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">"If people have faith in something, who are we to interfere?" asks one district official.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">What does GURU Gobind Singh ji have to say about such people..</span></span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">“Some fools go to worship idols, while others, behaving unenlightened as animals go to worship the dead.” </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">(Tav Prasad Swayyas, verse 9)</span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">“Those who obey God do not go with the angels of punishment.” </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">(Jap Ji Sahib, verse 13, first of morning prayers).</span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">“Those who have not recited the Naam – the gurmantra (Wahe-Guru), the praises of God, and sincerely sought through prayer the Presence of God, are unfortunate and will go with the angels of punishment.” </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">(Raag Gujri, Fourth Guru, verse 3 in evening prayers).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The only criteria will be worship of God and good deeds towards the Light of God in every heart, including your own. Either there is rejoicing or sadness, but the choice is ours, here, now.</span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">“They shall not get back lost time – the fruit of their actions shall they receive. With face blackened, into deep hell shall they be hailed, as a thief by the neck bound.” (Guru Granth Sahib Ji, p.303).</span></em></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">According to the Guru the real devil is the devil inside, our hau-mai or ego-centredness which is born of and leads to ignorance. The opposite, of course, is the Sikh or student of Life. If our choices were meaningless, we would not be alive, but mere puppets. God’s gift of life, God’s love for us, implies that our choices matter. Therein, is the risk of evil and disaster. We have five energies which are supposed to serve us, to be under our control – pride, anger, lust, greed, and attachment. When these control us, we behave like devils.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Then going to any vad-bhag dera or ghat-bhag dera wont do us any good.. our BHAGS have sunk…</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Jarnail Singh Gyani</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gyani Jarnail Singh, post: 22880, member: 189"] [COLOR=black][FONT='Courier New']India's ghost fair draws thousands By KS Shaini BBC News, Malajpur, Madhya Pradesh The witchdoctor (R) exorcises Rukmani. Pics: Prakash Hatbalne Rukmani, 21, is a coy and demure Indian village girl, but her parents are convinced that she is haunted by ghosts. "She speaks in a strange language. She speaks of people we don't know. She screams and faints," says her farm worker father. So they have made a journey from their village in western Maharashtra state to an ancient fair of ghost busters in Malajpur in central Madhya Pradesh to rid their daughter of the ghost. Rukmani and her parents have joined thousands of "haunted" people from all over India at this month-long ghost busters fair where witchdoctors congregate and exorcise spirits. Today, Rukmani is one of the first clients to be exorcised as hundreds of the curious look on. Some ghosts are sadists. Others want to take revenge on their tormentors. Others haunt people simply for fun Chandrahas Singh, witchdoctor One of the fair's 200-odd witchdoctors orders her to circle a local temple. Then he sprinkles some water on the girl and chants what sound like prayers. Suddenly, Rukmani is tossing her hair violently, rolling her eyes and swaying uncontrollably as her friends try to hold her back. 'Why are you troubling her?' "Who are you?" asks the witchdoctor. "I won't reply," answers Rukmani in a voice her parents say is not her own. Witchdoctors make many of the clients crawl on the ground Now the witchdoctor picks up a broom and begins hitting Rukmani, which seems to be a sure way to rid clients of apparitions. "Why are you troubling her? Go away, go away," yells the witchdoctor beating Rukmani. A few minutes later, the witchdoctor announces Rukmani "cured". Her parents are relieved and walk away with their daughter, who looks quite the same, after paying the witchdoctor. Rukmani is luckier than many of the more unfortunate clients. Some are thrashed mercilessly till the witchdoctors declare them cured. Other clients turn violent, hitting people and rolling on the ground. In addition to broom beatings and prayer, witchdoctors treat their clients by making them crawl and licking prasad (divine food). 'Tackled firmly' I asked one of the ghost busters why apparitions possessed humans in the first place. "Ah, some ghosts are sadists. Others want to take revenge on their tormentors. Others do it simply for fun," says Chandrahas Singh. The fair is said to be nearly 100 years old "But all have to be tackled firmly." Besides possessed people, the fair is also frequented by cured patients who come to offer their thanks. Farm owner Jagdish Bain Naik from Gujarat state is one of them. He says he has been coming to the fair for the past 10 years. The first time was after a "ghost entered me and tried to destroy me". "I felt like throwing myself before a running train, selling off my farm, leaving my family and going away somewhere," says Naik. He says he went to several psychiatrists, but their treatment did not help. Then someone told him about Madhya Pradesh's bhooton ka mela (fair of the ghosts). Pent-up frustration Naik says he was cured the first time he came here and since then has returned every year to watch the proceedings. Rationalists and psychologists dismiss the fair as superstitious. The head of the department of psychology at the Bhopal-based Barkatullah University, KN Tripathi, has an explanation for the large turnout. "The majority of clients are rural women. They often feign being haunted by ghosts to abuse their husbands and in-laws. This is almost an outlet for their pent up frustrations. "Being possessed is also a form of attention-seeking. Once possessed, you are cared for. Your wayward behaviour becomes excusable." Local government officials are more pragmatic. "If people have faith in something, who are we to interfere?" asks one district official.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT='Courier New'] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT='Courier New']What does GURU Gobind Singh ji have to say about such people..[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT='Courier New'] [/FONT][/COLOR] [I][FONT=Arial]“Some fools go to worship idols, while others, behaving unenlightened as animals go to worship the dead.” [/FONT][/I][FONT=Arial](Tav Prasad Swayyas, verse 9)[/FONT] [I][FONT=Arial]“Those who obey God do not go with the angels of punishment.” [/FONT][/I][FONT=Arial](Jap Ji Sahib, verse 13, first of morning prayers).[/FONT] [I][FONT=Arial]“Those who have not recited the Naam – the gurmantra (Wahe-Guru), the praises of God, and sincerely sought through prayer the Presence of God, are unfortunate and will go with the angels of punishment.” [/FONT][/I][FONT=Arial](Raag Gujri, Fourth Guru, verse 3 in evening prayers).[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]The only criteria will be worship of God and good deeds towards the Light of God in every heart, including your own. Either there is rejoicing or sadness, but the choice is ours, here, now.[/FONT] [I][FONT=Arial]“They shall not get back lost time – the fruit of their actions shall they receive. With face blackened, into deep hell shall they be hailed, as a thief by the neck bound.” (Guru Granth Sahib Ji, p.303).[/FONT][/I] [FONT=Arial]According to the Guru the real devil is the devil inside, our hau-mai or ego-centredness which is born of and leads to ignorance. The opposite, of course, is the Sikh or student of Life. If our choices were meaningless, we would not be alive, but mere puppets. God’s gift of life, God’s love for us, implies that our choices matter. Therein, is the risk of evil and disaster. We have five energies which are supposed to serve us, to be under our control – pride, anger, lust, greed, and attachment. When these control us, we behave like devils.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Then going to any vad-bhag dera or ghat-bhag dera wont do us any good.. our BHAGS have sunk…[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Jarnail Singh Gyani[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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