What are negative influences? Have the words like black magic, occult, sorcery, witchcraft intrigued you? How do they work? How do they affect us? Do they have the power to cause disturbances in our lives? Is there anything we can do to shield ourselves from them?
In this video, Sadhguru sheds light on this topic, saying, “There are people manipulating energies to cause harm to somebody, people can even cause death like this. In certain parts of India it’s very prevalent. One Veda among the 4 Vedas, the Atharvana Veda is dedicated to this, as to how to manipulate energy for your well-being and somebody’s detriment. These energies, or these kind of practices, need not necessarily be directed at you. It’s like somebody is shooting at each other on the street, you are just walking on the street, and you may get shot. So, certain practices – if you bring in certain practices, or certain utterances into your day to day life, one can easily tide over these things.”
“Rudraksh as a seed, this tree mainly grows at certain altitude, somewhere between 6500 to 12000 altitude is where rudraksh grows in the Himalayan region, and it has very unique vibrations. So, a person who is constantly travelling wears a rudraksh, so that he has a cocoon of his own energy, that the outside energies does not disturb him, he has a… we call this a kavach – you know what’s a kavach? It’s more like a cocoon. It’s cocoon of your own energy; wherever you go, you have your private bedroom going with you. For people who are in family and social situations, the best thing to wear is always the 5-faced rudraksh. Normally the rudraksh that you find here is always sourced through… there are families who’ve been dealing with rudraksh for thousands of years, the same family. They hold it as a sacred duty, it’s not just business for them. There’s another seed called ‘badraksh’ which grows extensively in the northern plains of India, which is a poisonous seed which looks exactly like this. So, it is best that it is always taken through a known source, otherwise all kinds of things will come.”
“I see today a lot of these… for lack of vocabulary I’m saying, this New Age type of people, they are all wearing metal rings on their thumb. See, if you put a metal ring on your thumb, you will inevitably draw certain negative forces towards you. It does not mean you will be necessarily possessed, but you will trip and fall for nothing, all kinds of things will happen, everything goes wrong – simple things. From small things to big things, simply because… they would have attracted certain dimensions of energy which could… which is not conducive for doing anything in the world, but it could be conducive to do something else. Only those who want to do occult practices would wear a ring on the thumb, but today, either out of ignorance, or fashion, once you put metal on the thumb you’re inviting this.”
“There are hundreds of people who think they are possessed, and all this, and we just tell them, you come and sit in the sphere of Dhyanalinga, because there are occult dimensions to Dhyanalinga which just nullifies all this. They go out completely free because the occult dimensions are taken care of in the Dhyanalingam area. One Pournami or Amavasya, when things are more receptive for you, just one day, just sit there and go.”
“If you’re in touch with Devi, either in the form of Yantra, or in whichever way, the Yantra is in your hands, or it’s in your heart – it’s up to you. Once you are wrapped in the energy that we are referring to as Devi or Bhairavi, after that, energies turning negative for you doesn’t happen. So, if you just make sure you are eating the right kind of food, you’re keeping your system well, the chances of you getting messed up because of some other energy, or something, should be completely out of your life – that, Devi will take care.”
“If you’re truly meditative, don’t even bother about occult; such things will have no influence on a person who is truly meditative. Someone said, “Man is ill only because he doesn’t know how to be still.” It’s perfectly correct, it’s perfectly right. All the illnesses have happened because they don’t know how to be still, especially those which affect your mind, especially those which happen because of other influences. These things are possible only because there is no stillness. So, right now with the process of meditation, you are bringing that stillness into your life.”
“Above all, the more mentally, emotionally distracted and unfocused you are, the more you are susceptible to these forces. If you are in a certain level of focus and determination, you will see, these things may just… they may be like a small bump in the road, they won’t be a crash. But if you are in a certain level of destabilization in your emotion and mind, it could lead to a crash.”
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