Is becoming ghost after natural death possible if rituals aren’t done?
A male devotee (Name hidden) asked like this:
“Prabhuji, My Nani (My mother’s mother) died around 7 years back and my family didn’t do the vidhis properly. Like I can say that the pandit wasn’t proper and they even didn’t do pind daan in Gaya. My mother now sees stuff. Like she saw Nani rushing towards her from the picture which she hanged beside her bed (now she removed it). She went to vacation where she felt Nani touched her arm with cold fingers. Prabhuji, they are planning for Gaya but who knows when their plan will really execute but I am really scared with all this ghost stuff. So I am writing this email. My mum listens to Narasimha kavach but still all this is happening. Any advice Prabhuji would be a great help for me.”
REPLY:
The point to be noted in your message is that your nani has died naturally. I assume so because she is the mother of your mother. So, must be atleast 70+ of age.
Please note that Becoming ghost after natural death is not possible or come from the picture or touch others.
Why?
They have completed this birth as fixed by the karma network.
(Why most people get Ghost body even without committing suicide? READ HERE!)
If the karma network fixes your Nani’s life as 70 years, 8 months, 10 days and 20 minutes, your Nani will die at that exact time.
Since she has lived her fixed lifetime, she would have left for Yama loka after the 11 days of death. She will reach the Yama loka at the end of one earth year (One day for higher planets like Yama loka, Pitru loga, heavens, hells, etc).
Once she leaves this earth, she can’t come back as ghost.
Only if a person dies thru suicide or thru any other means (Akaal death) in the age of 25 though he has been destined to live for 70 years, that means he has not completed his destined lifetime.
So, he can neither leave the earth planet nor enter into any other planet.
They have to miserably hang on the trees, walls, etc on earth itself till his destined age of 70 reached.
In your nani’s case, she would have faced the court of yama and heavenly and/or hellish planets and she may be living in the Pitru loka or would have taken rebirth.
(YAMA’s COUNTRY AND COURT PROCEEDINGS – FULL DESCRIPTION! READ HERE!)
So, your Nani coming to your house, touching her daughter, etc., are not true.
Your Nani’s face and life events would have been strongly stored in the sub conscious mind of your mother.
So, she might have felt as if your Nani pulls her hands.
You have written that the Pandits were not proper and the rituals were not done properly.
Since your Nani has reached other worlds, she would have faced some hellish term in case the rituals had not been performed properly.
If the rituals are not done properly, the souls who reached the other planets will not come back to earth as ghosts. However, they can be given ghost body as punishment for any sin after they take the rebirth.
What such sins give ghost body after rebirth?
(WHO BECOMES A GHOST AFTER DEATH? FULL LIST! READ HERE!)
Once left the earth, finished. They can come only after taking rebirths. Becoming ghost after natural death is not possible.
Even then, they will not come as Ghosts, but as good souls.
Or, they can come during Mahalaya Paksha period as they are given holidays in Pitru lokas and are allowed to go to earth to see their kiths and kins.
This is like a convict coming out of jail in Parole for a few days to attend his family functions. After Parole period, they have to go to the jail again.
Similarly, the ancestors too will be pulled back to the Pitru loka once the Mahalaya Paksha period ends.
What is Mahalaya paksha period?
Read this post:
(Mahalaya Paksha & Mahalaya Amavasya – Full details! READ HERE!)
So, keep in mind that your Nani is not on earth. She can’t stay here once she stops breathing.
She might have gone to heavens, hells or Pitru loka or she might have taken rebirth.
So, don’t be scary. Becoming ghost after natural death is not possible though the rituals aren’t done. They can get some hell terms. Thats all. It is not possible for a naturally died person come as ghost. Be relieved. Forget these things.
If you want, go again on a Mahalaya paksha period to Gaya and perform rituals for your Nani sincerely donating liberally to the brahmanas there.
It will give good relief to your Nani wherever she is.
(Rituals to ancestors & food to crows! What if an ancestor had got moksha? READ HERE!)