SANSMARAN

Sitaram lived at Dhanga-Haripur in Madhubani distt.He was very spiritual person. He daily worshipped Lord Shiva in his morning puja at his home. He usually visited Lord Shiva temple at Dokhar,Kapileshwar & Deoghar-Baidyanathdham.He was married with the daughter of Lakshamidutta thakur of village karmauli. Lakshamidutta thakur had two sons & three daughters. The eldest daughter was Sitaram's wife. The second was married at Madhiya & third at Loha-Kapsiya.We have seen Madhiyawali Dai. She was great devotee of Lord Hanuman. We have seen her talking with Bajrangbalee like Paramhans-Ramkrishna. Lakshamidutta's grandson at Loha was Ganesh.He was a very fine gentleman. He was working at Muzaffarpur court. I remember an incident. It is the event of 1966. I was reading in class 7. At that time, I had no cycle. I saw with greedy eyes the cyclist boys & always dreamed cycling. He had come by a cycle & gave me to take it to angan[courtyard]. The angan was about 300ft away from dalan[where guests, male members used to stay]. While taking away the cycle I started to learn cycling. There became a big wound in my left leg. Ladies saw the wound & became too much agrieved.They gave rural first aid-cotton wet with mustered oil. I went to dalan. Ganesh kaka saw my wound. He was very sorry thinking himself guilty that he had told me to take his cycle to the angan. He did not know the fact that the fault was mine. Had I not tried learning cycling I would not have injury. Lakshamidutta’s eldest son was married at village Bansara but he died after a few days of his marriage. We called his widow “Daijee”. She was a very pious lady. She had no child and loved me & my brothers like her own children. Lakshmidutta’s second son Gangadhar was married at village Padma. He had a daughter Jaya who was married at village Vishnupur. Jaya had two daughters Pankala & Ramni. Jaya became widow very soon. Pankala was married at village Nawkarhi & Ramni at Padma. Pankala had no issue & she became widow after a few years of her marriage. Ramni had so many sons & daughters.
Lakshamidutta was four brothers. Jirekhan, Kishori, Lakshamidutta & Manrakhan. Manrakhan died earlier when he was only fifteen year old. He was working in a field very near to his home “Gharari”. An old woman whom people knew as a great witch came to him. She gave him some tobacco to refresh himself with great affection. Manrakhan took it & put it in his lips. A few minutes latter, he became senseless & fell down. The woman disappeared. Someone saw him lying on the ground & shouted loudly. Crowd gathered & took him to his door (Dalan).Rural vaidyas & so many ojha-gunis were called but all in vain & he died. The next day after the funeral ceremony of Manrakhan so many persons were sitting on dalan (door). Suddenly Lakshamidutta shouted loudly & became senseless. Water was sprinkled on his face. When he recovered sense, he began to speak like Manrakhan. People thought that Manrakhan’s soul had come on Lakhi (Lakshamidutta).
Lakhi told all that had happened with him. He requested to take him to Ganga for a holy bath. People took him to Simariya. After Ganga-snan Lakhi came Karmauli. The shraddha-karma (after death ceremony) of Manrakhan was performed very sacredly. After shradha-karma Lakhi (having the atma of Manrakhan in his body) ran to chaupari (a place on the bank of khabas pokhari where nabah sankirtan is performed for about sixty years) and began to jump & speak loudly in the voice of Manrakhan. Now in every evening people gathered at chaupari. They questioned unlimited questions and Manrakhan (in the body of Lakhi) answered all those correctly. People began to tell Manrakhan `Brahma- a pious spirit`. No one dared to steal even a small thing because Brahma told the name. Brahma also started to give sacred ash and people got rid of the diseases. He disclosed the name of witch women, captured several ghosts, and nailed them in the nearby pippal tree. Snake-bited persons were getting relief in a few minutes. Men and women of nearby villages used to gather at chaupari for the remedy of their problems. There was always a crowd at chaupari. Now one thing happened that people of Karmauli and nearby villages becaame fearless and slept peacefully in the night because there was Brahma to take care of them and their families. However, side-by-side anty forces also developed in the protest. Witches and wizards became too much cautious and violent. They began to search the way to get rid of the Brahma.
Gaya is a famous pilgrimage of Hindus. This is a place where Gautam Buddha got light of knowledge. He got the knowledge of Samyakatwa. Samyakatwa means appropriate quantity of everything. Samyak shayan, samyak wani, samyak ahar, samyak vihar and everything samyak is the gist of his teachings. People have faith that the died person whose sradha-karma (after death ceremony) is performed at Gaya gets liberation from prêt (ghost) yoni. A learned person whose wife’s name was disclosed as a witch became too much aggressive. He immediately started to Gaya. There he performed the sradha-karma of Brahma. Brahma knew everything & told people about the liberation. The evening was very sad at Karmauli. Everyone was crying as if he had lost his dearest person. What a surprising scene it was that people wept departing a ghost, seeing whom we become afraid even in our dreams! After that, Brahma never came in the body of Lakhi.