How many of us believe in spirit. When someone close die, people say the Atma (spirit) will be there around and some say till the final rituals are performed. People also say that the Atma will come to a close and dear person and some say that the spirit will come on a person weak (not physically). I myself observed this in few occasions and the atma will try to speak; and express with signals. People around will come together and put water on the face and also give water to drink and people also say since the atma is very powerful the person on whom the atma comes will not be able to manage hence becomes tired very soon hence people around try to throw water on the face and make her/him comes to their senses. Interestingly that person when comes out to their senses will not know what happened to that person. During this the family members try to speak to that person who died and cry around holding that person. So, people say that the spirit may come to one or a number of persons and that too said to be before the final rituals which takes place on the 12th day.
The other sort of Spirit is that that a person who concentrate and practice can call a spirit anytime anyday and any person you wanted to talk to. This is very interesting, however people say that when you call a spirit the right person’s spirit will not come immediately but in between some baa persond spiritis may join you. The right spriti after answering you questions if you request, will leave you, but the bad spirits, will hang on you and will not leave you so people say that this is dangerous unless the person calling the spirit is very strong.
People may not believe in calling the spirit – but a person tried to call the spirit. First he will write A to Z alphabetas on the floor and each letter is circled. The person will hold a steel cup in his hand keeping upside down. Whoever we suggest to call a person who died known to us or unknown to us, the person will concentrate for few minutes and put his finger on the cup and when the spirit comes to him immediately there will be some shaking in his hands and hte cup seems to be moving. On the basis of the question if that person wants to reply, the cup will move to each alphabeta and we need to read the alphabetas by making them words. For us sitting next to him it was really startling and frightening. However, some still do not believe as he may be moving the cup. Theh he asked one of us to put the finger on the cup and he was just touching the forearm with his finger and the cup was moving around. This was really interesting and we felt the pressure of cup moving and our hears used beat very fast. Then we had to agree that there seems to be spirits and am not quite sure whether these are real Atmas (Spirits) but it happened.