Sunday 2.30 P.M me and mom on our way to my cousin's home for a function.
Mom: (After noticing charminars (pandal) and groups of people standing out in a neighbouring house) Seems someone has kicked the bucket yesterday.
Me: Oh Y do u care is it a bad sign for an auspicious occassion??
Mom: Its indeed a good sign-"looking a ride of corpse is good".
Me: So why do you care??
Mom: But they also say this - "Sani ponam thaniya pogadhu" - Some death in saturday will lead to more deaths.
Me: Oh o.... K let it be.. we r here for?
Mom: Im here to attend the functon. You can go wherever you want but Karthi JU Sathish Seena are all here(My cousins)
Me: So I will have a nice time here itself. Why should I go somewhere? What time will the function start?
Mom: Before 4.30 cos 4.30 to 6.00 today is rahukalam.
Me: Rite vidu...
The function started at around 4.00 my dad had been there before us. He found some time to talk with me.
Dad: Did u look at those two fellas there? They are brothers.
Me: S. I did. One of em s deaf & dumb and the other one doesn have any children even 15 years after marriage.
Dad: Could u tell me Why?
Me: May be their parents would be relatives. Its scientifically proven that marrying close relatives will cause such troubles with children.
Dad: I know about their parents and their family they aint relatives.
Me: So what could be the reason?
Dad: their pithru Karma... Whatever their ancestors did in past is backfiring them. their mom in her village once used.to..................
Me: Appa peripa's calling u. With a great pleasure of evading that old story I cleared the spot to play balcony cricket with my cousins, which I did about 3 or 4 years ago.
Believe me or not Im the most agile one among them. So im the official ball picker, I had to jump from one balcony to other not involving too much of skill but a little bit of risk. Otherwise its not worth to take a plastic ball by getting 5 floor down and 5 floor up twice. I had done it many times in past (jumping balcony) and I din find any trouble or difficulty whatsoever. As the play progressed, the ball fell in the next balcony . My cousins started starring at me. I had a bit of hesitation to jump cos I thought I would have lost touch. But still I did that without any trouble. By the time I jumped 3 times, it would have been 20 or 25 minutes from the start of function(4.20 or 4.25 PM). I prepared for the fourth jump to pick the ball from next balcony where the death took place yesterday. I climbed up the wall. Between the walls is a space which is 5 floors deep(for ventilation). I stood there casually since I am doing it for the fourth time. This time I had a serious jerk. Believe me it was like someone is pushing me from back and pullining me from front as I was standing 60ft high from ground. Couldnt guess whats hapening around me for some seconds. I just managed to dive to the same balcony resisting to jump to the place where ball fell. I got so weird, gasped and my hands shivered. By then I noted the time in my cousin's watch who came to console me. It was 4.35 P.M. My moms saying came to mind "Sani ponam thaniya pogathu" and 4.30 to 6.00 is rahukalam. All these thoughts were running in my mind. the function got over and me, mom and dad together started home.
Now I just became a fan of superstition or now rightly I call it as beliefs. I was curious to hear the full story which my dad was about to tell. So I asked him the same and he said. Their mom refused to take proper care of a lady who was pregnant. That lady din have any place to go. Those fellas' mom together with her sister din even feed this pregnan woman properly and hurt her with words like "who asked her to come here?" and all, they even refused to take her to hospital when she got pain. With much difficulties she gave birth to her son. That child is none other than you. I got too emotional asked my dad, "Why din you bring mom back?". Dad said, "We din have facilities like mobile phones then. She had been ther for a month and used to write me once in a week. Thats it. I thought everything is normal untill I went there for delivery. That doesn matter coming to the point, Tats why their children are so. Thank god my parent's have never done such things. Their Karma will even save me from danger".
I went back home and thought and understood that it is nothing other than my Parents' karma which lead me to dive on the correct side and saved me from danger... Till now my parents do not know that I was about to fall esp. My dad.
