A Cruel King

July 27, 2009:
Ridam called me on July 27th after a month and half to tell me that he was quite busy with his work and wasn’t able to meditate. The last he meditated was on July 26th-Nag Panchami day (devotees offer prayers to snakes in the name of God). Ridam said, “Devi was in aggressive mood and asked me to go to your house to meditate saying she would give some message.”

August 2, 2009:
On August 2nd, Ridam came with Rina and his son who wanted to see his past life and confirm our findings. We sat for meditation, after initial yawning and head drooping, Ridam fell on one side; his son and wife were not in a trance and were watching him. He sat down after lying for almost half an hour. I was in a deep trance and was visualizing Ma Kali. Due to the tingling in my leg, I shifted back and sat in an easy pose. Within a few minutes, Ridam fell on my lap and his tongue was protruding and dry and he was asking for water. “Can you realize how you feel when you are thirsty; you have killed so many people without water in desert. Man whose feet you are lying told you not to do this, he was a Pundit, you did not listen. You wanted power and only power, you were like a Chandal, and there is no difference between a King and Chandal. You have to suffer for what you did in that life. The only way to rid of your sin is if this man (Dr Deb) forgives you for what you have done. If he refuses you have to suffer and start from the beginning.” Devi said in anger.
His throat and mouth were dry and he was panting for water, we brought water but realized that Devi wanted him to know what happens when you need water in a desert. SHE continued “That girl (Anya) will start new life after seven and a half months. Everything good will happen to her, but for you everything bad. If you don’t listen and follow what I say and do pooja with this man (Dr Deb), nothing will improve. You have to get a kick from this man then only you will improve. You know why I am helping you because you have done penance in one life” said Devi in resentment. Ridam did not remember anything after the session; Rina was skeptical about what he had told in the session. Ridam was relaxed and astonished to hear what Devi had told him. We discussed spirituality for some time. Rina wanted to learn more about “Past Life.”
When I narrated the incident to my uncle, a retired Professor of English, he asked whether Ridam takes drugs, he was astonished beyond belief.
August 8th 2009
Today morning Ridam called me and described how he felt during last meditation. He was in deep trance and felt strong presence of Ma Kali. He was guided and almost pushed to fall on my lap. He saw his past life where people were dying due to thirst. For last few days he was feeling disturbed as he was not able to sit for meditation. Today is Saturday, he would try to meditate in the evening. Now he is aware of how we are connected through several past lives.
August 13th 2009 (Phone call):

On August 13th, Ridam called to tell me how his life was being controlled by Devi. Recently, he completed furnishing his flat and wanted to rent it out. Devi had asked him not to worry and conduct a puja by placing Lord Nataraj, Lord Krishna and Devi Kali’s pictures as no one would come before September. Ridam did not believe that and continued making futile efforts to find a tenant for the last three months. However, yesterday to his astonishment a tenant came to occupy the flat from 1st of September, because his daughter was enrolled in an Engineering college nearby. To test Devi, Ridam insisted them to come before September, but they communicated their inability to do so.

August 26th 2009 (Phone call):

On August 26th, Ridam developed pain in his joints and found that his uric acid was raised. So, he meditated and saw that Devi Kali was very angry. Ridam could see a Trishul coming from my house and Her face and my face were merging. She was telling him that if he failed to listen to HER, SHE will take away everything from him. It was a warning and a suggestion. Now, Ridam understood how my Sadhana was protecting him. If he does not listen to me like the previous lives, the consequences would be grave.

August 28th 2009:

After Devi’s warning, Ridam started meditating for last 3 days. He saw that there was a temple of Ma Kali and Krishna at my place; I was priest of the temple. One day there was an earth quake or an eruption and I had died inside the rubble with Ma Kali. He says it was 200 years ago. There was a pond on the side of the temple and I used to take a bath there daily. Because of that old temple, the place is so powerful and blessed.

September 2nd 2009:
On September 2nd we went to pick up Esteem car from Banjara Hills near Apollo. The car stopped working the night before when Shantanu was coming back from office in heavy rain. It was towed down to GEM motors; when I went in the evening to pick up the car, there was news of lost helicopter of our CM.
At 4.45 pm I asked Mr Shyam Singh to Dowse and he replied that the dowser was not moving, not a very auspicious omen.
Next day morning, I saw light coming from Ma Kali and the CMs soul was not seen around earth. I asked Ridam to meditate in the evening to see what exactly had happened. Ridam saw Lord Shiva, throwing Trishul at the helicopter with light coming out from the trishul. Probably, the CM had promised to build a Shiva temple and look after a village but failed to do so.
Next, Ridam saw in the third eye of Devi Ann telling how, she will be born in a sea side village after 5 months and 19 days, she asked to do puja at my home one day before she takes rebirth.
When Ridam asked Devi if he can go to Shyam Singh, Devi told him to follow HER only.

On 4rth September, as predicted by Devi, a person came to occupy Ridam’s new flat. He had come before, but refused to come in August and came back in September. Now, Ridam is more and more convinced about Devi’s words always coming true and is scared of his father’s death after 3 years, his mother going mad after that and his leaving the world after 8-10 years.
On 5th September, we went with Ridam’s family to Gandi Maisamma temple near my house.

Witnessing Past Lives like an old film

Witnessing Past Lives like an old film
Executioner in Punjab
On July 6th, Ridam insisted on getting him regressed to see his past lives. Soon after the initial guidance, he started visualizing himself as a black strong man with moustache handling prisoners. He was speaking in Hindi and there were many English police men around him. He recognized the place as Punjab, in North India. During his childhood he was bribed by a English soldier to tell the whereabouts of Indian freedom fighters. Later, he was employed as an executioner in prison. It was around mid nineteenth century; he could see a black well repeatedly near his prison. Not long before, he got fed up with his job and while trying to shoot at an English soldier, he was killed. He did not recognize any one from his present life in that life.

Farmer in Bengal
It was a lush green field and he was going for farming, probably in Bengal or some fertile location in the eastern part of India. He recognized Anya as his daughter in that life who was around 3-4 years old. She was strongly attached to him and used to go with him to the field sitting on his back. He would tie her to a tree while working in the field. She was quite finicky, always crying and never leaving him alone. This was quite similar to Anya’s behavior in this life too. One day while he was cutting rice yield from his paddy field while sitting on the ground, Anya called out for help. When he got up to see, a Cobra bit him right on his face and instantly he dropped dead. Anya started crying and became hysteric on loosing her father. Interestingly, Ridam saw his mother- in- law as his wife in that life; It wasn't very happy relationship, which is true in this life also.

King of Arabia
Ridam's next life was that of a King in some Arab country. He started seeing deserts, sand dunes, camels and mountains. He was in a white robe with some sort of a head scarf. He was strong, tall, and with a large kingdom to manage. He started speaking in Arabic which I could not comprehend. It was a good life, according to him. A palace, crystals, glasses, beautiful women around, no wife, anyone he wished, he would live with. He had a son, who is also his son, in the present life, there was as a strong bond between them. His son was very clever and practical; once there was an invasion by another king which his son had warned him before. During the war with that powerful king, he got killed but son escaped realizing his father's mistake.

Son of a Landlord
In another life, Ridam saw his present wife as his strict mother and teacher in an English medium school. His father was a landlord, in Gujarat. He died in a car accident along with his father when he was child.

The next day more details of the same life were explored. Anya was his aunt and his mother's co-sister. Ridam recollected that Anya troubled his wife (then the widowed mother) making her work and doping her with opium. And, one day the mother fled away from home to a saint who was her father in this life. He helped her and cursed her co-sister for harassing her. Subsequently, there was a cholera epidemic and every one except Anya, died. Slowly she transformed after coming in contact with a doctor (Ridam's father in this life) and learnt herbal medicine. She cured many patients and one day while meditating saw her co-sister. Finally, she also arrived in the same ashram and gradually relationship with co-sister improved.

Despite the knowledge of their past life relationships, there was no change in the dispute at home.

Unanticipated Transformation

Background
Ridam: 43 year old working in a private company. Married to Rina for over 14 years.

Rina: A bright woman married to Ridam.

Anya: Ridam's sister-in-law.

Deep: Common friend of Ridam and me

Ridam had helped his sister-in-law, Anya, in finding a job and settling down. Anya reciprocated his support with lots of love, affection and gratitude. In due course of time with Anya’s career shaping up and with the proximity to Ridam, she was infatuated to the extent, that her only goal in life was to marry Ridam. She attempted in several ways to convince him including, taking her own life to pursue her goal. With all this going on, Ridam and Rina's marital relationship was strained along with his other social and professional responsibilities. My friend, Deep who was close to Ridam & Anya referred this challenging case to me in 2005 for counseling despite the fact that it was beyond the scope of my domain.

Ridam’s wife, Rina was patient and understanding all along and ready for any solution to attain happiness. Ridam and Anya came back to me in December 2007 and informed me about their decision to get married . I was supportive of their decision thinking that was the only solution. Deep was disillusioned with my decision and as a conservative person he wanted to normalize the relationship according to Indian social norms.

On Deep's insistence, Ridam came with Anya after 6 months on June 7th, 2008 for further counseling. There was nothing to advise them as they were already living together and wanted to seek my moral support. However, Ridam disclosed to me a warning by an astrologer, that as long as he stays with his wife, he would be successful in his life. He was also told that at the age of 53, he would leave the material world and its associated pleasures to follow a totally devoted spiritual path. For me, it was very hard to comprehend because he was materialistic, selfish and without any understanding of spiritual principles. He loved eating, smoking and drinking socially, enjoying his life, was a ruthless administrator at work and known popularly as a fearless go-getter who would pursue his personal desires strongly.

Unanticipated transformation

On June 21, 2008, Ridam, Rina and Anya came back together with some expectation to solve their problem. I was not sure how to tackle the situation other than seeking spiritual help. It was probably the first ever meditation for Ridam; soon, after closing his eyes there was a thud, he was rolling on the ground, breaking his expensive eye glasses. He was making weird expressions, whistling and making meowing sounds with strange animal like behavior. Both his wife and sister-in-law were smiling and accolading his acting skills. He was left alone and the sisters were taken out to explain the possibility of an evil entity affecting him probably the cause of their turmoil. After an hour he came out from the trance and explained: There were many black figures, deformed bodies, rape, sexual patterns, murder and other negative scenes. There was only a streak of light and he was exhausted. I had a ray of hope, which was communicated to the family.

On subsequent meditation sessions, there was a gradual transformation from black energy to more celestial light which was encouraging. Glimpses of Sarodama, Ramkrishna, Sai Baba, Jesus, Buddha and Ma Kali with intermittent distractions from black figures.

Anya was depressed with Ridam's transformation and loosing hope of getting him back. She attempted suicide on June 26th with large doses of sedatives, however recovered after stomach wash from emergency department.

The meditation sessions continued with the witnessing of God, Goddesses and Celestial light. In one of the sessions, Devi Kali instructed Ridam to perform Sandhya Pooja for Anya by standing on one leg wearing a red bordered sari, covering her head. She also explained the dedicating mudra (hand posture). She also gave a mantra to perform the pooja near the banks of Ganges in front of Tulsi tree. Appearance of Mahatama Gandhi, in an old dhoti, instructing him to follow the path of truth at all cost was also remarkable.