Mangalore: Family Reinstates Faith Above All - Displays Religious Harmony

Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (PS/SP)

Mangalore, May 3: The welfare of one’s children and family is of paramount importance. Here’s an incident that proves just that wherein a family went beyond religious beliefs proving God is one and faith above all.

In one of the rare cases, a non-Hindu family has approached a daivasthana at Nantoorpadua in the city on Tuesday May 3. The said family with the firm belief reinstated with reasons believed that their two children aged 15 and 17 had come under clutches of some spirits.

Speaking to Daijiworld, the family explains that it all started after their son aged 15, who was working at a hotel in Falnir, six months ago found a bag lying by the roadside and carried the same to his room, after which his life has never been the same. They narrate that their son began having violent convulsions and also danced as if he had no control over his body, only retiring after thoroughly being exhausted.

Soon, the boy returned to his native place with the bag and found a sari and anklets in it. The boy’s 17-year-old sister, who on seeing the sari out of curiosity wrapped herself in it and the same episode, recurred with her too. She also uttered the name of a Hindu demigoddess. After this the family went through hell with children’s sufferings only multiplying.

Troubled family soon approached the local daivasthana of demigoddess named by the girl, only to be directed to the daivasthana here in the city for reprieve as the family was informed that the people who had lost the bag had taken a vow in the name of the daivasthana in the city.

After the visit to the daivasthana on Tuesday May 3, the family is a relieved lot as they claim that the demigoddess through the patri (mediator) has asked the family to provide the daivasthana with three tiny pendants for the patri’s sword. The family was also asked to offer jasmine to the daivasthana on specific days. The patri further revealed that in addition to the sari and anklets, the bag also contained a nose ring and mangalsutra, which has been stolen. The daivasthana has also informed that if the genuine owners of the items now surrendered do not claim them in a month, they would be released into flowing water.

Priest of the daivasthana, Naveen said that the place is run, maintained, and developed with the help of funds in the donation box installed by the side of the national highway, and that motorists often stop their vehicles and drop their contributions, duly praying to the deities to make their journey safe.