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Thanks for sharing your experiences Jaiganesh!! You are most welcome to share more Pa!! We all have them no matter where we live in this world. I always believe that just because we cannot see certain entities, it doesn't mean that they don't exist!!
There was a good article on poltergeists in Readers Digest in one 1989 issue. The term is used mostly in England and it refers to a harmless ghost with no malicious intentions.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaiganes
The following events also had happened in my hubby's bungalow.
Just about the time before he resigned from the estate, my hubby had a lot of disturbances - not the spiritual type but snakes!
In a span of one month only, suddenly the bungalow was infested with snakes about 30 ++. Before that nobody apparently had experienced this.
And it all started the night after this guy came over to the bungalow & helped my hubby to arrange the bungalow according to vaastu shastra! (Perhaps the vaasthu was the cause of it !?)
The first snake that hubby saw was sleeping across the doorway to his bedroom as though guarding the bedroom. It was a black cobra thicker than a man's forearm and perhaps 3-4 feet long or less.
(One of our friend told us the shorter a snake the older it is - can anyone verify?)
The snakes were just all over the places, under the bed, coiled around the staircase railing, at front door, on top of the kitchen door - u name it , they are there including outside the bungalow hanging from trees.
One isolated incident was when one cobra was found coiled under hubby's table at the estate office. By God's grace hubby did not go to office that particular morning (his job starts at 6 am when it is still dark & couldn't have seen what was under his table ). The cleaner found the cobra later that morning (about 10-12 feet long & thick).
We do not know what had caused the snakes to suddenly appear - but at that particular time, hubby was not exactly having a pleasant working environment what with the new Senior Manager who was constantly monitoring him & the increasing workload.
I do not know what the snakes symbolize - does anyone have simiar experiences?
Another thing that happened during all these trying moments hubby went through, was what I would call spiritually enhancing moments. Each time before his boss calls him to query or before a problem arises, he always gets a strong smell of cigars or cheroots (normally ppl associate this with the guardian God - Ayya/Muneeswarar).
Eg: once when he was very down, emotionally (I think the boss was extra hard on him the previous week) he was making his rounds alone on the estate grounds at about 6.30-7.00 am, he suddenly caught a whiff of cigar smell. He didn't think much of it but the smell became stronger & stronger as though someone was smoking cigar just behind him.
Surprisingly, he was not scared & after that felt much better and was back to his oldself. He thinks that Ayya (his family ishta teivam) may have made an appearance just to console him & to let him know that Ayya is with him.
Then another time, there was this quarrel among some foreign and local workers at the estate - hubby had to intervene & solve the matter. After that apparently the locals were not very happy with how hubby handled the matter & were sore at him.
A few nights later, while driving back to the bungalow, hubby had the same sensation i.e. smell of cigar but this time coupled with a strong smell of vibuthi (holy ash). He could feel himself becoming very calm & peaceful as though all the burden in his heart has been lifted off.
A few minutes later, just about to reach the corner to his place, he saw some figures in the middle of the road. Upon going nearer, he realised that they were the same local workers who were involved in the fight earlier.
At that time, hubby felt as though something was controlling him -he could sense his surroundings all right but at the same felt like somebody is leading him - like he is not in full control of himself.
He stopped the car & came out. He could see that some of the workers had some thick sticks & one a parang (long knife). He asked what they are doing there & one worker who appeared to be the leader told him taht they were no happy with preferential treatment given to the foreigners. Hubby proceeded to calm the worker and asked him to rationalize the issue & told them that nothing is going to materialise by them assaulting him.
The angry worker then started to calm down and spoke in a softer manner. After some cajoling & promise to look into the matter the workers left.
Hubby then went into his car & started home again. At this time he felt as though he just came out of a dream & realised that if only things had turned the worng way, something worse could have happened to him if the workers' anger were not appeased. After recollecting, he again felt as though Ayya or some divine power is helping him.
I have more such experineces but to be shared later ................
A ghost as brand ambassador for Mallisseri Beedi? Holy Smokes!!Quote:
Originally Posted by jaiganes
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[just joking, dont let it stop you from writing more]
jaiganesh
I would love to see you write on contemporary issues like the indian media, indian sport, etc . Since most of the posters here reflect the indian diaspora, i have not been motivated to write on indian subjects here.
Shakti,Your experience reminds me of something.My father in law had similar experiences with snakes.He and his younger brother decided to divide the land between them after their father's death around 10 years back.My FIL was unfortunate enough to get the least developed part of the land and out of sheer necessity he was forced to cut off a huge bamboo clump which was said to be home for ''Sarpam''.This he did by inviting the local Hindu priest and asking him to remove the Sarpam in a way which is not offensive to the Gods[and not to mention,the locals who still criticise him for the decision :wink: ].The priest is said to have done this and the eye-witnesses including my wife describe the 'Sarpam' as a small,two feet long snake with the hood of a cobra and a shiny,golden or yellowish head :? .
Now comes the tragic story.Snakes were seen every where and they often ventured into the house.Every time my FIL responded by re-enforcing the stock of large canes,storing them at every conceivable place and killing the snakes whenever possible :( .This went on for years.It was 4 years back when he had a serious bite from a saw scaled viper[Called Rakthamandali,since its venom affects the circulatory system] which almost killed him :( .Doctors had given up hope and he started bleeding through even the minute pores in his body.My wife told me that blood was coming out instead of urine.Finally he came out of the Hospital after 144 days as a mental and financial wreck.The snake sightings continue even to this day.This Christmas we were there and we went to our Uncle's house just 100 mts away and I saw something distinctly in the torch light-A Russel's Viper,bigger than the largest I have seen in the Zoology lab.My father in law vows that it is not an accident and claims the snake was there on purpose :roll: .I laughed at the theory but he won't let us go anywhere after dark.
Now as someone who is much interested in snakes,I reject the theory of Snake's revenge 8) .And I will never believe there is something called 'Sarpam',as I have never come across such a species in any of the articles I have read or snake parks I have visited.I wonder if any one can explain the belief of this people on the existance of a such a snake.And for your query I have never heard that the shorter the snake the older it is.It would be like saying that Parthiv Patel is older than Zaheer Khan :lol: .
BB and Sahkti : Your posts just reminded me of something ....
I was only 11 then, my brother was 8. Dad was away from home and my mom asked an old friend of hers to send her son (abt16yrs old) to stay with us at night, as mom was pregnant.
One night, this boy (Segar), was very late. So we locked out the doors and all 3 of us got ready for bed. At abt 11pm, he came. So, I came out of the room and switched on the dining room light (usually, I'll go straight to the hall and switch on the hall lights).
As I turned and walked towards the door, I noticed something long and black at the corner of the hall, where the door was. I went nearer and suddenly, I saw the thing started to move and one end shot up....I realised then it was a snake!!! I shouted for my mom, dared not move at all!! Mom thought something happened to me, she came rushing and saw the snake.
She asked me to keep watching the snake while she went to get help. Mom asked Segar to come thru' the back door. Then, she went and called one of our neighbours for help.
Luckily, all these while, the snake stayed put..guess it must have been due to the slippery terrazoo floor. Our neighbor uncle came and with his brother's help, managed to catch the snake. Mom made it clear they should not kill the snake in the house.....though they were Chinese, they respected my pregnant mom's decision. They did not kill it in the house but took it outside and I later came to know that they killed it and threw it into the big drain across the road.
Well....mom was scared and worried that this might affect the baby and she told me that it was black cobra that came into our house...and, she also kept thanking God I switched on the dining lights that night, else..........
Fortunately, my little brother was born healthy and without any problem/complications. But, there is one unexpected thing here....
his forehead is broad, the right side is slightly raised and the hair line parts here - we used to joke saying it is "Vanenggaa mudi". The point where it raises remind one of a cobra which is ready to attack. When he was small, we noticed that his fine hair on the forehead shapes like a snake..... .. is this a silent reminder to us?? I don't know..... but I guess there is some truth in what they say about killing cobras especially when a lady in the house is pregnant...!
Blah-Blah - I sure am spooked by your tale abt the Sarbum, Pa!! Thanks for comin out of the closet at last!! :)
There's a similar Naagam pit at my in-laws compound too in Kerala!! Theirs is Tharavad land and I understand that that pit had been there for a long time! Could be even a century! (I'll confirm with hubby over this!!)
Every year my in-laws do special poojas at the Naagam pit, and they consider it as some sort of a clan guardian of course. Come to think of it, I had yet to see the snake on the number of times I had been home!! Boy, am I glad they didn't disturb it Pa!! Matter of fact, they even had it gated so as to prevent trespassers from going near!!
But I have to admit though, on my trips to the numerous Kerala temples around Malabar, I was perplexed on the obsession of Keralites for Naagam pooja! Everywhere there were temples which had pits as big as mini hillocks with people offering milk and eggs. There was one temple that raised my hackles; as I peered down the big "kolam" in the temple grounds, there were so many bags of plastic floating in it!! Initially, I thought that people were just being litter-bugs but on closer inspection????? They were actually molted snake skin!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:
Nirosha,Sarpakkavu's are common in Kerala.It is not strange to see snakes there too as snakes are supposed to live there and people usually leave the area undisturbed.There are many stories of 'Kavu's being destroyed for financial gains and later those who did it being subjected to a lot of misfortune.My question is specifc and is about the existence of a two feet long snake with a cobra's hood[not a cobra].My mother claims to have seen one many years ago and one person asked her not to disturb it as it was Sarpam.My mom says there was something shiny on its head too.Some people say there is a stone on its head.I would like to come across one of those as the poisonous snakes in our area are Russel's Viper,Saw scaled viper,Cobra and Crait and I am sure they are mistaking a Cobra for it.But as always people like to believe such stories.
NM, you are absolutely freaked out, relax and have a coke . Is your brother's name Nagaraj? :lol2: :lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by NM
What made you interpret that to be a snake and not as the hood of a peacock? Nagaraj shud have been Mayilvaganam
Nice video here :)
http://mfile.akamai.com/34/rm/covery...m?obj=dnrlv001
Walrus
[who has never seen a live snake all his life]