MEETING WITH MAHASHAKTI

Angels and Demons

After I had had the vision of Mother Kali

I decided to acquire some otherworldly potential and so I chanted a spell to get Lord Shiva's attention.With His help,I believed,I could reach the beautiful Mt.Kailash which is the abode of Shiva.Shiva never appeared to me.In His place, I would see Mother Kali.I chanted the spell for 10,00000 times at the end of the week.
One afternoon when Mother was in the kitchen, something very strange happened. All of a sudden I heard the very loud and powerful beats of Shiva's Damru(a tiny drum dear to Lord Shiva)coming from within the bottom of my heart. I ran to the kitchen announcing the arrival of Lord Shiva from deep within me.My mother ignored me with a smile.I was ecstatic and euphoric.I said to myself,"My bad times have vanished, and from now on everything is going to be good."
But....O!How sadly mistaken I was..!This was just the beginning of my endless suffering...Had I soberly prayed to the Divine Mother,it would have been rewarding and blissful. But what a monumental mistake I had made!Forgetting the Goddess and the promise to get my answers from Her,I was trying to acquire supernatural powers to achieve my selfish goals!

After eating my lunch, I was taking a short rest.I was full of an unknown dread and extreme panic making my whole body tremble and shiver.My mother and my brother Param were bewildered at my strange behaviour.Mother said to me with eyes laden with alarm and consternation,"My precious..!What is happening to you...?Tell me everything."
I was unable to open my mouth as if an invisible force had clamped itself upon my mouth.I felt I had lost my speech for ever.

I could see large black shadowy figures with long shining swords in their hands,and radiant gold earrings hanging from their ears.They were naked men and women with puffed frizzy hair.Someone's face looked like a jackal's, whereas another's resembled a buffalo's,or a pig's,a dog's,a wolf's or a hyena's.Their teeth were long and pearly white. They had large sparkling eyes that infused extreme fear into my heart.

I was lying on a mat rolled on the hot floor.It was the cruelest of the summers I had experienced in this city.One of those awful figures staring hard at me and stooping low to the level of my face said,"Come,we must go now.I say come..!You little devil come with us..I say."

Another with the wolf's face thundered at me,"How dare you defy us...?We are here to carry you to Mt.Kailash...!"

The buffalo-faced figure with large ugly breasts and unusually big buttocks and flashing white teeth in a sugary mischievous grin said,"My child...!Why are you wasting time..?We are going to Mount Kailash.We have come here to carry you there..."

Finally I said to them,"Yes I will go to my cherished place and live the rest of my life there in the company of Lord Shiva."

They seemed to be vastly pleased with me.
I said,"Let's start right now.."

"But you can't reach there with your huge body. Go to the top of that ten-storey building at the end of the road and from there saying,'Victory to Mahakal!',jump to the ground. After your body is destroyed,your spirit can reach Mt.Kailash..!Got it...?"

A friend of mine named Keshav lived there. On the ninth floor. So I visited him many times a week.So as if possessed by an evil spirit,I started running wildly.Men,women and children were watching me with great confusion....

As I reached the roof of the building and was praying to Mahakal before the intended dive,Keshav pulled me hard from behind. He gave me a powerful slap,"What the hell has happened to you..?You were going to kill yourself." Param, my younger brother,had reached there searching for me.Keshav advised Param to keep strict watch over me.

This news spread like wildfire.A Bengali student living in that building said,"Keshav is in his village. His uncle returned yesterday. The boy is not well.He will come here after he has recovered."

Then it was undoubtedly established that the day I was on the top of the building to make the dive,Keshav was not there.Who saved my life then..?It remained a mystery for a while.I came back home.My mother and brother were now resolutely guarding me.There was a huge dug well at the back of the house.They covered the well with huge stone slabs fearing I might jump into it and end my life.
My mother, a staunch devotee of Mother Kali and Mahakal that same night dreamt that my uncle and my aunt approached her and said,"Nothing will happen to your son. Rest assured..." My dark-skinned aunt was wearing a dazzling crown and my uncle was holding a trident and a damru.What surprised my mother was their commanding tones.They were usually very soft-spoken and respectful while speaking to her.

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