Superstition(Atul Sharma) Superstition


In Hindu religion, offering water to Sun is considered sacred. It had high importance in ancient times too, but today, though it is losing its relevance, still I have full faith in it and devoutly perform this ritual. This has produced some startling results for me.

Though everyone says to me that my daily offering of water to Sun God is a superstition, this non spiritual thinking of others has not been able to stop me from carrying on with my daily ritual of offering water to Sun God. An incident, which I will narrate, has even made my faith deeper in Sun God and ancient Indian traditions.

One day, as I was offering water to Sun God, I heard a few gibes from my wife and neighbours who say that this ritual has lost its relevance long back and in today’s fast-paced life it has no place at all. I do not burden my soul with these negative thoughts and continue my daily offering to Sun God ignoring their gibes.

And as I stood majestically bathed by the rays of Sun God while offering water, a surprising serenity never experienced by me before descended upon me. Delighted by this sudden calm I closed my eyes. Sun God was bathing me with his divine rays. Rays that were today opening up my spiritual vents closed by the daily materialistic existence of ours.

I stood there for a few minutes and my eyes produced some tears. However, these tears did not trickle. They kept on accumulating in my eyes. Then suddenly I became euphoric. Why I experienced that could not be explained. Even today, I am unaware about its origin.

That euphoria forced my tears to trickle down on my cheeks, wetting them. There was an inexperienced joy in my tears, which every trickle produced. They were not tears of sadness but tears which seemed to cleanse my soul, trying to produce some epiphany.

My lips broadened to produce a smile. My throat started to hum a tune, a tune that was taking my soul close to some source of tranquillity. And the more I hummed the more I experienced inexplicable joy.

That joy was now permeating into my soul. My closed eyes were seeing myriad shades of light. Sometimes that light became intense and sometimes dim. However, that light kept on changing to bright colours.

A trance-like feeling embraced me and I started to sob loudly. My sobs reached my wife who was busy preparing breakfast for me in the kitchen. She rushed to the veranda and saw me standing in front of Sun God weeping. By now two to three neighbours had too gathered on seeing me in this sate which according to them was a clear indication of my madness.

I was smiling, sobbing, weeping, and shaking my body simultaneously. My wife panicked, shrieked, and that shriek opened my eyes.

I saw my wife standing in front of me. She just caught me by my hand and took me to the living room.

I sat on the sofa and she sat by my side crying. The crying of concern.

“What happened to you?” asked she in a worried and scared tone.

“Today I got the result of my regular devotion from Sun God,” replied I.

And then I stood up to go to the other room to change my clothes to go to the office, leaving my wife there stunned.

Six months have elapsed since this incident and I am waiting eagerly for it to reoccur. And still struggling to avoid and ignore the gibes of people.

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