Spiritual cashback

 Spiritual cashback 

A bogus idea, i concede 🙏 (no such thing, logically at least 😜)

Certain rituals compel me to ‘conjure’ very vague, unrealistic, improbable and unearthly ideas 🤣

That stupid looking ritual : soon after a death in my family, the priest ( master of ceremonies) would ask the ‘doer’( fellow who invokes the departed soul, which is supposed to be hovering around the place of death, trying to re-enter own body, being clueless about inaccessibility of the body. ) to offer water to quench the thirst of that soul, for some ten days.  A piece of unstitched white cloth is wetted in potable water and squeezed anticlockwise , to drip the water onto a stone, into which the soul is invoked.

( I surmised: soul can sense the jalaTatwa, one of the 5 basic elements, from the substance called water 🙏)

Then, i deduced,  (my cooked_up theory 😜), “a person who is very much alive, also ought to thank me from the depth of his ‘soul’ 🤣🙏”(no matter if his mind &/or body is busy otherwise 😳)!  Beyond a point, the thirst of a parched_throat does reach the spirit/soul within, and therefore the traditional practices of offering water even to a total stranger at our doorstep!!!

I started offering water to any visitor at gate who ‘happens’ to waste/expend more than 120 precious seconds of his time with me😥. If & only if, there is a ‘cashback’ scheme in the nature's design, the silent + nonVerbal ‘thanks’ of any ‘x,y,or z’ gulping the water offered by me would automate the credit into my spiritual account, maintained somewhere upstairs by that figurative entity called karmaphaladata 😜.

I ain't any serious about the cashback. I feel amply rewarded with the thirst of that stranger getting quenched. It makes sense 🙏👍. A normal humane gesture. Costs me nothing!

Quixotically yours,
psn(14 Jul, 2026)

PostScript: this ‘cashback’ is just a fancy_name. It's the same thing popularly known as “karma” 😜