भागो भूत आय !

 

It’s been very long time since I watched any horror movie. Last one I remember is Tumbbad (2018). I watched it alone at home, TV on mute, only reading subtitles because my courage has limits.

 

Movie was brilliant and totally worth watching. But this blog is not its review.

 

This blog is more about me thinking how I look at Bhoot & Tantrik in real life. Not on screen, but in my mind.

 

Ask a Tantrik, he will tell you ghost is 100% real.
“It is wandering spirit,” he says, very upset about unfinished business… maybe to solve property issue of the under construction building he has a possession or a pending love affair.

Ask a priest, he will say God & Bhoot both are real.
He says, “Offer one coconut, chilli or lemon ,”  

We accept it coz coconut, chilli and lemon are cheaper than our problems.

If you ask a psychiatrist, he will simply say both are “serious symptoms.”

Though they have evolved to name this symptoms from Split personality, Hysteria to Dissociative Fuge. They are pretty sure and rejected the claims of Bhoot.

 

No points for guessing, I was diagnosed with it. But today’s blog is not about that too, because if I start that story, it will travel all the way to Amritsar and beyond.

 

If you ask your own mind at 2am, when the lights are off and something creaks in the cupboard, suddenly everything become very real.

 

The real challenge lies, not in ghosts, not in gods, but in the human mind.

 

My psychiatrist would smile here and say, “Relax, that bhoot is just your childhood trauma wearing a face mask or makeup by an intern.”

 

I still remember falling sick after one episode of Aahat on Sony TV.

 

And being, stuck between Bhoot, God & Psychiatrist, I will probably offer the coconut because fear is always more convincing than logic.

 

Here is the dirty secret nobody likes to admit.
Ghosts don’t need to exist for people to be scared of them.

Our brain is a full-time horror movie director.

Give it darkness, silence, and a little stress, & it will produce, footsteps, shadows, strange sounds, and even a full ghost with background music.

 

Growing with a childhood friend who’s now working in USA, still believe he has some power to see ghosts/spirts, further claimed 8-10 year old girl’s pure soul still reside in my house where I am staying since 2018.

 

Yes, same flat in Airoli, C-Wing 701

 

Further same validate by an astrologer, without me sharing any premise of the plot.

 

Grew up with his stories which were spine chilling and goosebumps.

 

I think some uncertainty in my friend’s mind, paints it with imagination.

And fear fills in the details. Coz she even comes in his dreams and asks him to come over

 

God Works the Same Way (Sorry, but it does)

 

When things go well, God is loving.

When things go badly, God is testing you.

When things go very badly, God is angry.

When nothing happens, God is mysterious.

 

Convenient, no?

 

Just like ghosts explain fear, God explains hope. 

 

God work on the psychological engine & ghost works on empirical claims about the world

 

• You want protection, you believe in God.
• You feel fear & threat, you believe in ghosts.

 

The mind cannot tolerate chaos.
So it creates meaning.

 

No rain? God is upset.
Strange noise? A spirit passed by.
Exam failed? Destiny.
Promotion got delayed? Nazar lag gayi.

 

Our brain hates randomness, so it hires invisible agents to run the universe.

 

Psychiatrist says:

“Your dreams, fears, and visions come from your unconscious mind.”

 

The Tantrik says:

“Your dreams, fears, and visions come from the spirit world.”

 

Both are very confident.

 

But here’s the twist:

Even if spirits don’t exist, the experience feels real.

And the brain responds to imagined threats exactly like real ones.

 

That’s why a person possessed by a “bhoot” can shake, cry, scream, and collapse.

Not because a ghost entered them, but because belief did.

 

Belief is the strongest drug known to humans.

 

 

Who Is the Real Boss?

 

Not ghosts.

Not gods.

Its “mind” controls all.

 

It creates them.
It gives them power.
It makes you kneel, scream, pray, or run.

 

Take away belief, and the Bhoot disappears.

Take away belief, and God becomes a question.

 

But as long as humans are scared, lonely, confused, or hopeful, the mind will keep inventing invisible managers for reality.

 

Because facing uncertainty without stories is harder than living with spirits and gods.

 

 

Final Truth

 

We don’t believe in ghosts because they exist.
Ghosts exist because we believe in them.

 

We don’t believe in God because we have proof.
We believe because our minds cannot survive without meaning.

 

So the real supernatural force is not Bhoot or Bhagwan.

 

It is the human brain the only thing powerful enough to create both heaven and hell inside one skull.😌