An Indian man was recently rescued from a pit that
he had voluntarily been buried in for 8 hours in order to attain salvation and
be reborn as a God. Deeraj Kharol, a tantrik who had been living in a
temple in Karocho ka Kheda village, Rajasthan, for a few years, last week
announced that he planned to bury himself alive as part of a bizarre ritual to
attain ‘samadhi’ (salvation) and be resurrected as a God three days later.
Instead of talking some sense into him,
enthusiastic villagers celebrated his decision and offered to aid him in any
way, even digging a pit for him near the temple where he stayed.
Last Wednesday, on the first day of Navratra, they
buried him in the pit, as per his instructions.
Villagers from nearby villages and hamlets
gathered for the big event, and, after covering the pit with stone slabs and
mud, started worshiping at the spot.
Luckily for Kharol, news of his ritual quickly spread
among the local community and reached the ears of the station house officer of
a regional police station, who rushed to Karocho ka Kheda village with an
intervention team.
Officer Mansingh Dev and his colleagues reportedly
arrived at the pit that Deeraj Kharol was buried in at around 2 am on Thursday,
but were greeted by agitated villagers who prevented them from interfering with
the ritual According to the Times of India, police had to first convince the
village elders that the buried man would die of suffocation before the
villagers finally allowed them to intervene.
Kharol was barely conscious when police dug him
out of the pit. He was taken to a nearby health center and he is now in stable
condition. He later told officers that it was his own wish to perform ‘samadhi’
and that the villagers who helped him are not to blame. He claims that he
wanted to attain salvation and was instructed to undergo the burial ritual by
the “supreme power”.
A case has now been opened against both Kharol and
the villagers who aided him, although the charges are not clear.
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