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"But Shrikantybhai, you will have to gather great courgage-A little of fright can put your life to risk.”
"Courage, I do not lack in. I know not what fear is. I am under the care and protection of dispassionate Shri Prabhu. Please show me the way."
For a while Uka Bhagat looked at his face and then said : "Well friend! this is black magic (Meli Vidya). We are men of an illusory world. We can bear with anything; you cannot."
"Let it be black magic, I am determined to acquire it!"
Uka Bhagat just smiled and added : “All right. Write as I dictate. Bring all these things from the market. Mantra is just brief. On the night of the last day of the month (Amas), exactly at 12 midnight, go to the cemetry ground here. Arrange things as I tell you and start chanting the Mantra. There will be lots of frightening and threatening. If you will try to run away through fright, you will die. If you do not try to escape, remain firm, some voice will tell you after an hour or so : "Demand, I give what you ask." But take care. Do not ask immediately. Ask him to appear in person and do not ask till the ghost appears in white clothes, in a human form. It must appear in person. The indication is—there will be enkindled fire over there. Its shadow will not be there in the light. The legs will be about a foot higher than the ground. Once that it appears, ask for what you will."
Once more, when he prepared to write down the list, Uka Bhagat again warned him. But he was firm. He made a list. Then, very slowly, almost in inaudible voice, he gave the Mantra to him.
