Who Am I?

The Central Nervous System of Charu’s brain was active in all 360 degrees. Her mind was wondering who the mysterious culprit could be, who dragged her in this menace, sabotaged her mental wellbeing, and held her hostage? Why is this unexplainable hindrance of the hell of voices repeatedly hammering in her medulla oblongata? How come her face is the exact replica of a face which lived many many decades before? What can be attributed to the hysteria patient’s behavior of Martha? Why all of a sudden Vincent Uncle vanished, like a quick trick shot in a movie? What are0 the mysterious map and the code scribbled on it!? And.. and.. the Sword?

Tackling this situation and tracking a solution was not that easy. Charu was left with chaotic options in her mind. At one point in time, her mind voice says that the discovery of the original sword and the decoding of the engravings on it can open out the ancient secrets and evil or spiritual involvements and thus will lead her towards the solution. At another point in time, her deep thinking comes out and says that, finding the current location of the mountain, which Sheryl wanted to be named after her, will open up all the secrets and she will get relieved.

Charu’s untiring effort to fix the whereabouts of her friend Yuvaan proved futile. She very well knew that unless he joins her, it will not be that easy for her to proceed further towards a solution.

Exactly at that time, an Ambulance was crossing her, as usual, at the highest speed. It would not have drawn her attention that much if she would not have seen Yuvaan’s father following the Ambulance with the same vigor and speed in his car.

Charu smelt something fishy!

When Charu reached the hospital, it was confirmed that it was Yuvaan in the ambulance and Yuvaan’s parents were bursting with tears.

Alas! Yuvaan is out of the world!

‘Uncle. What happened..’ trembling and crying, she approached Yuvaan’s father.

The incident was - that Yuvaan went to the Mall and when he was in the proposed sub-level parking UG4 of the Mall, a big iron rod fell on Yuvaan’s head from the roof under construction

Charu’s priceless oar, to tide over the ocean of the mysterious world she was held in, was lost!

She very well knew that, when Yuvaan had gone to examine the UG4 sublevel area, to exploit the possibility of finding the entrance to the Mountain, this wretched thing has happened. She thought that this must be the act of an harmful evil soul to prevent her from getting relief from her existing status of mind until she/he attains the intended target through Charu.

With various permutation and combination of available options to proceed with, Charu took a decision to explore the ‘Manthriga Margam’ - a procedure said to be followed - to think, identify and save a sufferer (from the evil clutches of harmful souls wandering around the universe) with the support of God’s Mercy.

Charu reached the ‘Center of Manthrigam’, which is said to be an efficient one. It was fully crowded. On seeing her face, a volunteer of the center bypassed the entire crowd and took her to the Guruji of the center, Sikamani Mangala.

‘Guruji, this poor soul’s face exhibits her sufferings and I felt a damn need of an action to relieve her from the clutches of the evil ghosts’ said the volunteer to the Guruji who also is the Chief of the center.

‘Dear Daughter..’ called the Guruji in the local language. And the voice was made out of nothing but the thunder!

‘Guruji’ Charu feebly expressed her voice.

In fact, after Yuvaan, Charu thought and thought a lot. She recollected reading many mysterious incidents, involving evil souls and universal harmful spirits, which were solved by the act of genuine ‘Manthrigam’. She googled and gained much more knowledge on the subject and decided to attempt this, to attain a permanent solution out of this.

‘Dear Daughter.. you look to be gravely affected. A treatment of hypnotism with exploration is needed to be implemented on you. It may take three-four hours or even a day! Tomorrow you come here by around 10 in the night. Try to bring your parents or guardians with you. An alone patient is not treated as per our ‘darma’ being practiced in our center.’

Charu was not dared enough to involve his dad in this. So, the next day Charu managed to convince Ruth (son of Martha) and came to the center with him, on time.

While Ruth was waiting outside in the visitors’ lounge, the treatment was started inside the treatment hall.

Inside:

Space was completely surrounded by images of Gods. Lot of Flowers were spread all over the floor and images.  There was a wooden flat-legged lengthy seat. A glittering soft nice cloth was put on the seat. Charu was made to sit on it. She was told to close her eyes. And she readily obeyed!

 

The Guruji with his ‘sishya’ (assistant) nearby to help, started speaking towards Charu.

 

‘Oh.. my daughter. What is your name…’

‘My name is Charu Guruji…’ a soft voice came out of Charu.

The Gurujee chanted some ‘mantras(mostly God praising words) and again asked, ‘Oh my daughter.. What is your name..’

‘Charu Guruji…’

Again different ‘manthras’ were chanted. The process was repeated a few times. And asked ‘Dear daughter.. what is your name…’

But now Charu did not say anything. She was sitting erect like a statue.

Then Charu started telling Guruji the full episode of Sheryl, She resembling Charu, The Mountain, The Map, The Sword, The secret code ‘MV02FK09’, The museum, The Hotel, Vincent Uncle, Martha, Ruth; The mysterious voice sounding in her head; the involvement of Yuvaan; The blueprints of the Mall; The sub level parking in the Mall and so on..

As time passed on for a few minutes, there was a deep ocean of silence!

The Guruji performed some more rituals and chanted some more ‘manthras’ and said

‘Oh Sheryl Come..’

‘No I am not here…’ came a voice from Charu but is not of hers.

‘No you are here.. come out.. Come through Charu.. speak to me..’

‘No, I won’t..’

‘No.. you must share your problems.. I can find a solution. You will be relieved. The poor Charu will also be relieved..’

The assistant poured some oil in a lemon lamp and lit it. (Lemon-lamp: The lemon will be cut into two half pieces. The inner content of the half-cut lemon will be totally removed. Only the outer cover will serve as a lamp).

The bright light of the lemon lamp spread over the face of Charu.

Again Guruji repeated the question.

‘Come on Sheryl.. How long you are in this state(of the soul)…’

There was a deep silence! Then slowly a voice came as ‘I am not as you think.. my existence extends for 500 years around Cochi, Newyork, Egypt and so on. You may get connected with Vincent, an exorcist, who is helping me to attain my target’

‘Who are you?’

‘I am not as you think.. ‘ the voice started repeating.

By that time, there was a disturbance at the entrance of the treatment hall. Suddenly, Ruth, who came with Charu, trespassed into the hall and started shouting, ‘What is going on. Where is… ‘

In a flash of a moment, Ruth bent down and saw the face of erect Charu! It was not Charu. It was.. yes it was. Sheryl…

‘Sherry..’ Ruth shouted like a psycho and ran out of that hall.

At the same time, Charu’s state still got collapsed and her body started shivering. Suddenly, Charu’s body was leaning over a heap of flowers kept in that hall and mildly got hit on the forehead. At the same time, a storm of air rushed out of the hall through the door, with a banging noise.

Guruji silently arranged to comfort Charu by sprinkling some water and applying some ‘suranam(an ayurvedic ointment)’ on her forehead.

‘Is it Ruth, who came with you here..?’ asked Guruji.

‘Yes’ replied Charu!

Guruji could very well realize that Sheryl’s spirit has rushed out to chase Ruth with an aim, which she only knows!

(kovai. N. Deenadayalan)