My Encounter with a Spirit

Before starting my real story, I would like to share a childhood incident. During childhood days, my mother would tell me and brother to eat our food properly else ghost named Eknore who has one eye, one leg, one hand would come us and scare us. This was just a story my mother had created so that we eat our food properly and don’t go out without informing. Our TV and movies are full of such horror stories. So, do ghost exist? How our preconceived notion of ghosts and spirits can be different that want I felt when I encountered one. I would like to share about the same.

2 years from now, during the lockdown time in my Mumbai flat, it was the during early morning of 7th day of Sharad Navratri, in the month of October. As soon as I woke up , I saw the battery based starry  string lights that I had put up on my room  walls which we were switched off ,  had light moving in it in form of a wave for one iteration ( from one end to another)It was strange because , first, the battery were switched off and second it has functionality of entire string of light would switch on and off simultaneously or all the lights were just switched on. I googled random flickering of lights, first few link would say it could be because of a spirit. Spirits are energy currents, so it is easy for them to manipulate electricity and cause cell phones, televisions, computers, and lights to flicker. So, I kept my phone in my bed and asked out loud “Is there a spirit here?” Only three starry lights that were in front of my eyes from the entire string starting flickering on and off, on and off. My first reaction was “Oh My God”, then I folded my hands in namaste and chanted few Goddess mantra I knew for a minute and for the entire minute 3 starry lights in front of my eyes were flickering.

You all must be wondering how did I not get scared? I did not get afraid because I knew we are all souls living in our bodies as I had read about teachings of Bhagavat Geeta from the book Meri Geeta written by Devdutt Patnaik and I knew that a spirit that is responding to a Devi mantra can never be a bad spirit. Then I got busy with my work during the day.

During evening time, I started listening to a Devi mantra and praying to Goddess as it was Saptami day (The Day of Goddess Kali). As I was listening to Devi mantras, the starry light strings started flickering lights moving in waves from one end to another. I felt as if listening to Devi mantras is healing the spirit and making the spirit happy as it moved from one corner of string from to another in waves (all this happening when lights battery were off and light waves movement was different that its functionality) . I folded my hands and chanted all the mantras, prayers I knew for 15 minutes for the spirits journey back from the earth realm to spiritual realm.  

As I was chanting and singing Devi mantras, the spirit was moving in form of light one by one in all the string of star lights and it felt magical and divine. Then I got busy with some work. And out of compassion I looked at the lights and folded my hands in namaste in front of lights as we do in our pooja room and one of starry light in front of my eyes flickered showing that the spirit accepted my pranam. Next two days it again came into my room and catched my attention through flickering of light, and I prayed for the soul to go back to the spiritual realm which is our true home and not get stuck in the earth realm and kept chanting and singing Devi mantras. In these three days, once I even saw from the corner of my eyes an orb of white light like a flash of light which I researched and found that it was of a spirit.  After 3 days, spirit never flickered light again and I am sure it is back to the spiritual realms and not stuck in the earth realms by divine grace.

I know many fear even hearing of spirit and death. But unless we face our fears, how will we overcome them. With my research, introspection and experience I can tell you that we are all spiritual beings living a human life. We are immortal souls, which is eternal and imperishable. Death only destroys the physical body, but the soul continues its journey.  Just as a person discards his old clothes and adorns new ones, the soul keeps changing bodies from one lifetime to another. Earth is our school. It is place which dual in nature. It has happiness and sadness, good and bad and so on.  Here we are tested, we come here to balance our karmas, learn lessons and grow spirituality. Our true home, which is the spiritual realms is non dual in nature that is it is filled with unconditional love, joy, peace and infinite bliss. Our memory of spirit world has been temporary removed as if we even remembered some part of it, it would be difficult for us to stay on earth even for a day.

Nikola Tesla once said, ‘If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. Fear, anger, jealously, hatred, despair as a virtue has very low vibration and frequency, it takes us far away from divine whereas virtues such as compassion, kindness, truth, love, courage, wisdom have high vibration, frequency and inculcating such virtues brings us closer to the divine. If each one of us tries to be a better human being, we can make earth more heavenly place to live in.

A beautiful and magical experience happened as I was about to end writing this blog  a few days ago, a flash of light appeared at the top of my head, I felt as if it was a blessing from the spiritual realms and time had come that I share my truth with the world so that other people can benefit from it.

I dedicate this blog to Mother Divine. Without her blessings and grace, I am nothing.

Yaa Devi Sarva-Bhutessu Shakti Rupenna Samsthitaa |
Namas-Tasyai Namas-Tasyai Namas-Tasyai Namo Namah ||