Omprakash narrates, when he was at Dehradun, during summer holidays, he felt

sick with dysentery, which took a longtime to recover. Therefore, he comes back to
village before the school re-opened. His father tried to show a number of quacks
but the physical condition of Omprakash
did not improve. As a result he became awfully weak. Finally, his father
called out the Bhagat
from Kendki who examined and said to his pitaji : �Why do you bother about
doctors and medicines...He has become possessed by a spirit.� Being observation
all the Bhagat starts his puja and mantra to relieve Omprakash from the control
of spirit. He makes frightening sound and
to flashed the whip in the air and on his back. It was not tolerable
to him, therefore, he
shouted on the Bhagat and said to his father, �He will kill me if you don�t
stop him. I
don�t have any spirit sticking to me.� [Ibid: 43] In this way, Omprakash saved his
life
from superstitious people.

The tradition of Salam is popular after marriage in his community. It means the
newly wedded bride and bride-groom should go to the upper caste people�s street and
salute in order to get some gifts or money. Omprakash had a big argument with Hiram
Singh for going to do the Salam. But he went with Hiram Singh to do the Salam. He
notices that they didn't get any blessings rather were cursed by the upper caste.
Om prakash saw no logic in this tradition as it made everyone tired for nothing but
insults in return. He told his father that should stop this tradition as it does no
one any good.