Kabir Har ka Simran chhad ke, raat jagaavan jaaye||
Sarpan hoye kai autrai, jaaye apunay khaaye||107||

Women who can’t have children for whatever reason, get desperate and get stuck with evil tantriks who tell them to do weird spells and rituals to get children. One of the rituals taught to these gullible, uneducated women is that if they go to a well near Shamshaan Ghaat (cremation grounds) at midnight and get naked and take bath there; and cook roti and eat it in Shamshaan Ghaat they will get children. These women are further advised to do certain more rituals near a burning dead body and recite evil spells for two reasons; firstly to kill the children or relatives of the dead body brought for cremation, secondly to help bring the soul of the children who die this way to their wombs.

Bhagat Kabir jee has written about the eventual fate of these kind of evil works and has written the above stated salok for our guidance.

Bhagat jee in the above salok says that if a woman seeking children, does not do Hari Simran for fulfilment of such wish but instead goes to cremation grounds to wake the dead spirits, such woman in her next life becomes a Nagin (female serpent, snake) and eats her own offspring.

Even in this day and age, we can’t help notice that a lot of people are engaged in Black Magic. Ads of tantriks babas in Punjabi newspapers are numerous. In India every now and then you hear a news of extremities committed by tantriks which many times results in deaths or severe injuries.

It is understandable if manmukhs indulge in this kind of stuff because they don’t know any better but when you see or hear Sikhs getting involved with this kind of stuff, it really breaks your heart. What is it, that you can’t get from the house of Siri Guru Nanak Dev jee? And what is it, that you fail to get from Guru’s house, but will get from indulging in evil stuff.

Guru Sahib bhali karan.

Daas,
Kulbir Singh