I am very late in responding to SGBV's thread on evil spirits, bad omen etc. I think the original thread is closed. I just wanted to share my random thoughts on this aspect. * I think many of us at some time or the other have believed and feared things based on our superstitions. It is hard to question these thoughts for they are based on our individual circumstances. * When we cannot provide a logical or scientific based proof or evidence or theory, we tend to lean towards the unexplained. * Everyone says to keep away from negative people. Whether they are capable of black magic or casting an evil spell, a logical way of looking at it may be that they make us weak. If you have someone who does not like you, is jealous, is negative - you lose energy fighting off these elements. With all the energy spent in fighting and warding off these negative forces and trying to keep them away from your life, you have no positive energy to keep the important valuable things close to you. Hence, you go downhill. You are not able to give your best to your studies, your work, your marriage, your children, your friends, to society, etc. Then you attribute your failures in all these aspects of life on the "bad energy" of the jealous mean people in your life. * Couples who have parents or in-laws problems feel the stress in their married life every day and perhaps this affects their ability to study well, get promoted, have children, be healthy, or even as much as make good practical decisions. * In these times of social media, how does one maintain privacy. If one's parents or siblings or in-laws or friends are jealous of our successes or happiness, how much can one NOT share in this technological times. What do you post on social media? Do we not put up our happy moment pictures? Do we not display them at home? How much can one hide or conceal that they do not have a good life with money or success or promotion or healthy children or happy married life with happy family. The biggest threats to this in terms of "evil eye" are almost always the closest people - parents, siblings, in-laws, relatives, friends. It is not possible to run away from them. * How much minimal contact can you have? You cannot totally disown - they will always crawl back into your lives in some form or another or you will crawl into theirs. You simply cannot cut off blood relations - impossible. * How does it work for socially visible people. Take for e.g. celebrities - say like Surya-Jyothika - if you google them, they come across like this perfect couple, perfect family, happy smiling faces, have money, success, wonderful kids, somewhat blended culturally with in-laws and extended families. How many people must be jealous of them. How do they protect themselves from the so-called "evil-eye". This will be true for all celebrities - imagine how many jealous and evil eye negative enemies they must have in life. * Then there are 2 lines of thought - one line of thinking says to lie low, not discuss married life with in-laws, it will make them very jealous if they know we are happy. Another line of thinking is happy married life is strength and will keep in-laws in check if they know a couple has a strong bond. Which one should we follow? Do we hide or happiness out of fear or do we display our happiness to accumulate strength? * Sometimes unfortunately these things can have paralyzing draining effect on us. Any new endeavor - buying new car, new home, grihapravesh, even new baby will create the fear of evil eyes. What do we do? Not invite our own relatives to these significant milestones in our life? * Perhaps we dont give so much importance to those around us and go about lives in the most normal way we can despite the negative elements around us. If we are not doing anything wrong, then nothing wrong will happen to us?
I think after a certain point, one has enough strength to ward off evil eye, negative intentions, etc. If you are in the valley, and you say you are buying equipment to climb a mountain, or are training to climb a mountain, many people will try to drag you down. Someone may break your climbing equipment. But as you climb higher and higher onto the mountain, you gain more strength, and know how to deflect the negativity. Sure, the negative people hate you more, and people who were your "friends" also start to hate you (due to jealousy) After you climb top of mountain, these people who hate you tell others that you know them. That way, your limelight shines on them. But make no mistake, these people are still jealous of you --- you are too high for them to harm you now.
U have raised a very important question. The best way is to move on in life with concentrating the positive things and our well wishers.
Very true. We need to raise higher that's all. But yes we get anxious she people comment negetive but we need to keep up the enthusiasm.
