Evil Eye

Many cultures around the world believe that through our thoughts or through an envious glare, one person is able to cause harm to another in the form of illness, injury, or even death. While there are many different terms for this phenomenon, we will be using the term “evil eye”.

The evil eye is a term used to describe the process of being afflicted by Raja-Tama vibrations from another person. The other person can afflict us with the evil eye intentionally or unintentionally.

In the current era of the Kaliyug, as the majority of people are not doing spiritual practice, the Tama component within them and in the environment is very high. Various impressions in the mind, like greed, jealousy etc. are predominant and many people have strong attachments to worldly things. All of these thoughts are associated with desire-oriented responses. As these impressions and desires are dominant in today’s society, the Tama component from them affect every person in one way or another. Due to these reasons and because the activity of negative energies is also high, the incidence of evil eye in today’s times is high.

The evil eye can be cast on anyone or anything. This includes an individual, an animal, plants, as well as inanimate objects.

The desire-oriented waves generated in a person about another individual are transmitted to that individual and an evil eye is cast on them. The flow of energy transmitted onto the other person is Raja-Tama-predominant and attacks the gross body (sthūladēha), vital body (prāṇa-dēha), mental body (manodēha), and causal body (kāraṇdēha). This creates a subtle distressing covering around the individual and consequently the individual experiences distress.

There are various methods of removing the evil eye using different substances which have the ability to absorb negative vibrations. Afterwards, the substances are burned or immersed in water.

These methods include:

• Method: Salt and mustard seeds

• Method: Salt, mustard seeds and chilli

• Method: Coconut

• Method: Alum

By doing regular spiritual practice as per the 6 basic principles, a subtle-shield which protects us from the evil eye is formed around us and we are able to imbibe Divine waves from the atmosphere to a greater extent