One of my older sisters has always been a very eccentric individual. Her first “car” was an old meter maid (i.e., a small golf-cart like vehicle used by city workers to check parking meters on city streets and ticket those that had expired). She painted it a bright, cheerful, canary yellow. It could only be used for short trips, but it was fun and it was definitely the only “car” like it in the neighborhood. She always had a generous, giving nature (she used to “hide” money in our mother’s clothes dresser, anonymously, never taking credit for the gift, just happy knowing that our mom always had extra cash).

About two years ago something changed in her, drastically and dramatically. She became very paranoid and actually had to take a medical leave from work and go on anti-psychotic medication. I called her to see how she was doing, because I sensed something was wrong. She was full of mistrust and barely coherent (due to the medication) but still had a number of conspiracy theories to “share”. I consulted with Rajesh because there was no explanation for the sudden change in her. Without some kind of intervention I was sure she would end up institutionalized due to the progressive onslaught of this mental illness.

Rajesh said that she was in great danger of killing herself. An ancestor on our father’s side was extremely malefic, had always been jealous of our father, and in death, was trying to destroy some of his children. Rajesh said he would be able to communicate with the spirit and actually help it to leave the earth plane, where it was currently trapped. The process would take a week. During that time someone needed to spend time with my sister, otherwise she would succumb to the interjected, poisonous suicidal thoughts coming from the ancestor.

After a week, the spirit was removed and my sister began to improve. She was able to return to work and was slowly moved off of the anti-psychotic drugs (i.e., so as not to shock her physical body). She also came to recognize the dangerous and altered state of mind she had been in for a time. She said it was such an insidious kind of thing. Negative thoughts and feelings just started to creep into her mind and soon she was overtaken, without any idea of how far “off” she was from normal. She was truly amazed by the degree of danger she had been in and the incredible gift she had received to be removed from harm’s way.

On Rajesh’s side, during the spiritual process to remove the spirit, both he and his wife became very ill, actually requiring medical care because as the spirit was being driven to next plane it was projecting a tremendous amount of poison. It wanted to kill my sister as well as other siblings, and being deprived of this horrible “prize” made it extremely angry and volatile. Healing and recovery were needed after the onslaught of the poison, but the process was a success and everyone involved was okay. Through the intervention of the divine, Dattatreya Siva Baba’s grace and the purity of Rajesh to heal, my sister was saved from death and insanity and I thank God for this gift. She is back to being a generous, lovable, beautiful eccentric again!