She marries her lovers dead body
(Happening – March 2007 - INDIA)
 
Woman marries lover's corpse in Gujarat

VADODARA: A young woman who failed to marry her love interest during his lifetime, tied the knot with his body in a remote town in Gujarat's Anand district.

The 20-year-old bride got married to the corpse of the 25-year-old groom who died in an accident on Thursday.

The marriage of Tulsi Devipujak with the body of her dead lover of seven years, Sanjay Dantania, was solemnised before their family members including their four-year-old girl, who was born during the live-in relationship they shared before he died, the woman told reporters at Umreth.

The two were in love and as they could not get married in their village due to restrictions from the panchayat, they fled to Surat and began living together. The couple had returned to Umreth recently as their parents promised them that they will get them married, she said. However, Sanjay accidentally fell in a well and died.

Following his demise, Tulsi insisted that she would marry Sanjay before he is cremated. The family members erected a mandap, dressed the deceased Sanjay as a groom and conducted the marriage rituals.   Tulsi allowed her lover's body to be cremated after the marriage.

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Reading the above article, I thought to myself what did the mans dead body had that the woman should marry it knowing that it will be burnt down within the next few minutes. Is there any feeling for the dead body? atleast a little stir to say I understand? Well, she could have just ignored it knowing that she is still young, just 20 years old, and there is much more to do in life then crying over the dead one or even marrying him, if not him there is someone else. The realization dawned on me, that was her love for him which made her to accept him "with passion" even at his death. All the past moments she spent with him made her realize at his death that nothing could ever replace him, she felt so lonely, she wanted his name embodied on her name that will stay with her till her death making her conscious each and every moment that he is with her.

Jesus said "wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together." Mathew 24:28 (The Bible)
[ Carcase = dead body] [Eagles = reference to God's children].
 

My thoughts rolled BACK a couple of thousands years towards the land of Israel where a young man sacrificed his youth. He had a lot to see of this world and drown in its pleasures, all the options were open to him saying life is too short make it sweet as some of my friends used to say me, but he had something else to do, he went on spreading the message of love to them who were like sheep without a shepherd, giving them healing, delivering them from oppression, strengthening them, giving them hope, and overall an assurance of eternal life. I adjusted the binocular of my imagination towards mount Calvary where he hung helpless in the cross. I aligned its lens again and again through God's word "The Bible" to get a clear picture of the situation taking place there.  Where were his friends, where were his disciples, where were his brothers and sister and other family members, where were his relatives and all those who received love, healing and deliverance from him ????? at that time even God the Father was fa------a-----a-----a-----r away from him.

Nobody could have recognized the tears rolling over his cheeks because his face was fully covered with blood and scars, not to mention his whole scared blood soaked body filled with immense pain making him immobile and unrecognizable.

The Bible says "he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." Isaiah 53:2 (The Bible).
The words of the Bible taking each and everyone of us towards the cross of Calvary making alive his suffering for us, there was no beauty that anyone should have desired him.

Even at this point of absolute helplessness hanging on the cross and knowing he would die shortly He asked God to forgive all who brought that plight upon him "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Such a unconditional love. A love given without asking anything in return. I will love you whether you love me or not, I will love you whether you accept me or not no matter who you are. I was wondering whether such love exits? should be, in a Gods child. Because God is the Author, Director, and Perfecter of love, and He guides His children.

I know a servant of God personally back home in India. He has a beautiful church now, and in each service hundreds and hundreds of people would attend, great miracles would happen, peoples would get healed, and them that are afflicted with evil spirits I saw them rolling over the floor and getting delivered while the servant of God is still far in the pulpit commanding the evil powers of the air to release the afflicted people in "Jesus Name." Many times after Sunday evening prayers which would end around 8:30pm in the night I would wait till the church would be empty of people (as hundreds would stand in the queue just so that he would touch them personally), and then I and my friend would spend the whole night in the church. Somewhere late at night the servant of God would join us sometimes for a small chat and singing of hymns and praises which would then end in prayer. His presence itself would charge the atmosphere around us. During one such chat he said of a earlier day even before his ministry started, that how he prayed and prayed fasting in the presence of God, and during one such prayer he heard a groaning voice, full of pain and sorrow. He wanted to see who was around doing that noise, so he opened his eyes and saw before him a man afflicted and without strength, filled with wounds and soaked with blood as if he was slain, and from his mouth came these words "I am Jesus………" I do not remember all what the servant of God told me of Jesus saying to him, but to sum up he said to us "all the diseases and problems in the world were upon Him, if you see during the prayer time people getting healed of their sickness and miseries and delivered of their sins and bondage's it is only because Jesus takes all of those things upon his body and gives them healing and deliverance instantly, as he has gone through all those situations and understands its pain."  The chorus of that beautiful song comes into my mind, well after a while after I finish writting this article I want to strum the guitar strings for its lines.

"You came from heaven to earth,
To show the way.
From the earth to the cross,
My debts to pay.
From the cross to the grave,
From the grave to the sky.
Lord I lift Your name on high."

Good bye friends. God bless you.   

In Christ ... LOVINGLY = Manoj

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