The
next day, I gazed at the fisher woman who came to our house. She walked with such agility, pushing her
breasts and swaying her hips to manifest her feminity, I heard her, in a low voice, telling Rajamma
that she was mortally afraid to pass by that route. She feared that the spirit
of the person who committed suicide due to unfulfilled love and ambitions might
enter her body or it might enter the body of the baby in her womb, and
would satisfy his ambitions. These superstitions, false beliefs and gossips
astounded and confused us. It was food for thought. Is death finality? Is there
an elixir to postpone or avert death? Is there rebirth? Rajamma told us that
she considered that it was only a false prejudice and the anti-social elements
in our society take advantage of it. Nevertheless, re-birth was something she
had a staunch belief in. One day while we were chatting with her she said, ‘Guru’, a reverend person, said that
there are ‘Slokas’ in the (Hindu) Holy
Book, Gita: -
2-26
“The human body has infancy, youth and old age vice versa it can enter another
human body. The ‘Atmavu’, spirit, can
have birth and rebirth and if so why are you afraid, you brave Arjuna.”
2-27
Death is certainty for those who take birth.
Those who die are certain to take rebirth. You need not worry about
this.
2-22
Just as you change the dirty clothes and wear a fresh one, your ‘Atmavu’ / spirit discard the
deteriorated and degenerated body and enters into a new body.”
However, “Nobody shall miss the opportunity of
death.”
Excerpts from
MEMOIRS
An autobiography
by
Joseph J. Thayamkeril
Lawyer, Kochi, Kerala, India.
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