HOW DO WE RESCUE GHOSTS OR EARTHBOUND SPIRITS?
THE FOLLOWING IS EXPLANATION IN THE ANCIENT PURANAS
1. I shall tell you how the ghosts become free and also how the person knows that he is tormented by a ghost.
2. He (The ghost-afflicted man) shall explain the signs and symptoms to the astrologer. If he dreams of a holy plant like a Campaka or of a mango tree laden with fruits or if he dreams of a Brahmin or of a bull or himself in a place of pilgrimage or of the death of a kinsman and of in dream he takes this as truth, this is all due to pretadosa. Mysterious events do often occur if the ghost has bad intentions.
3) If a person desires to visit a holy place and his heart is set upon it, but somehow there is a break in carrying out his desire, which is due to the bad intention of a ghost.
4) The evil intentions of the ghost come in the way of holy man whose pious activities are disturbed at each step or take an evil course or if a person falls a victim of eradication and turns cruel, O lord of birds, that is due to the bad intentions of a ghost.
5) If a person performs holy rites for the redemption of a ghost, he will find his actions fruitful. The ghost shall be satiated permanently.
6) If one’s father or mother dies either due to accident or due to a foul play, one shall have to adjourn religious rites, pilgrimages, nuptial rites and the annual Sraddha.
7) How do these ghosts come into being? How are they redeemed from pretahood? What are their features? What is their diet, O lord? How are the ghosts propitiated? O lord of deities, where do they stay? Please favor me, O lord, with an answer to these queries.
8) It is the men of sinful actions actuated by their previous misdeeds who become ghosts after death. Please listen to me, I shall tell you in detail.
9) One who discards the family customs, takes to other customs, is without knowledge and good character, definitely becomes a ghost.
10) He who desecrates well, tanks, lakes, parks, temples, water sheds, groves of trees, almshouses etc., and misdirects any one in religious rites for monetary gain is a sinner. After death he becomes a ghost and remains as such till the final deluge.
11) Out greed of people upset the boundaries of villages and destroy pasture lands, tanks, parks, underground drainage, etc., they become ghosts.
12) Sinful persons meet with death at the hands of Candalas, infuriated brahmins, serpents, animals with curved teeth or in watery graves or struck by lightning.
13) Those who meet with foul death such as committing suicide by hanging from a tree, by poison or weapon, those who die of cholera, those who are burnt to death alive, those who die of foul and loath some diseases or at the hands of robbers, those who are not cremated duly after death, those who do not follow sacred rites and conduct, those who do not perform Vrsotsarga and monthly Pinda rites, those who allow sure as to bring sacrificial grass, twigs and other articles of home, those who fall from mountains and die, those who die when walls collapse, those who are defiled by women in their menses, those who die in the firmament and those who are forgetful of Visnu, those who continue to associate with persons defiled due to births or death, those who die of dog biting or meet with death in a foul manner, become ghosts and roam over the earth.
14) One who discards one’s mother, sister, wife, daughter or daughter in law without seeing any fault in them obtains ghosthood surely.
15) One who deceives his own brother, kills a brahmana or a cow, drinks liquor, defiles the preceptor’s bed, steals gold and silk garments, becomes a ghost, O bird.
16) One who usurps a deposit, deceives a friend, enjoys other man’s wife, kills other’s faith, is cruel, definitely becomes a ghost.
RITUALS TO APPEASE THE LOST SOULS & EARTH BOUND SPIRITS
MAKING THE LAND CALM DOWN SO THAT IT CAN BLESS ITS PEOPLE
Pitri Puja is known as the prayer to Rescue the lost souls to bring peace prosperity and wealth to the land and the Present and Future Children… If a grandfather becomes an outcast or vagabond or squanders away his ancestor’s wealth, this denies the future children of their inheritance, joy and wealth that they were supposed to enjoy, due to the sin committed by that ancestor or grandparent. Thus, the future children and grandchildren will suffer.
Think of it this way: If you were the son of Rockefeller, you would have owned a bank; if you were the son of Kennedy, you would have a plane; if you were a child of a movie star, you would be a star too To avoid the continued suffering which can go on for generation, we must be able to rescue the souls of the ancestors who committed these great sins, so that the family line can be successful on earth. In turn when the lost souls are rescued then the future children will be blessed by the rescued souls with wealth and prosperity.
The following are the steps to do this ritual
Step 1: Ritual to Mother Earth for permission to rescue lost souls.
Step 2: Ritual to go down to the lower regions of the Universe to rescue all lost and displaced souls.
Step 3: Ritual to the Lord of Obstacles to remove blockages to the rebirth of lost souls.
Step 4: Ritual to the Female Energy on earth asking for permission for lost souls to be reborn again.
Step 5: Ritual to take the lost souls through the atmosphere into the higher regions of the Universe.
Step 6: Ritual to pass the souls through the 7 moon so as to provide new light to the lost souls.
Step 7: Ritual to provide planetary characteristics and balance to the lost souls by passing them through the Solar System.
Step 8: Ritual to take the lost souls to heavenly abode so that they can receive love, knowledge, spirituality and (Moksha) freedom from all sins.
Step 9: Ritual to finalize the reformation of the Earth and Universe by burning the negative influences and forces affecting earth.