Hare Krishna!
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
Can anyone CURSE anybody in this Kaliyuga? (Like if someone wants to harm anyone, he does a Yagya)
Does anybody have such power?
Just your Servant
Hare Krishna!
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
Can anyone CURSE anybody in this Kaliyuga? (Like if someone wants to harm anyone, he does a Yagya)
Does anybody have such power?
Just your Servant
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Hare Krsna.
Well, they are doing it constantly, no? :)
In Kaliyuga there are cannonades of curses flying all over the place, whether mentally or verbally. But their power is mostly null. Mostly, all they can do is somewhat pollute the atmosphere subtly, which they are doing without fail.
YsY
Dear devotees Hare Krsna.
Shastra has many stories regarding blessings and curses and kali yuga is not any different.
I have personally witnessed the effects.
We should as devotees always be sending blessings of love to all
and if someone curses us we do not protest.
If you give a curse to a devotee it will destroy you and have no or little effect on the devotee.
But devotees can curse someone though it is very rare they do so.
The devotee has no enemies he wishes good for all living beings and loudly chants the Holy Names for their benefit.
If you are cursed by a qualified brahmana or a devotee that is very serious.
It is advisable that better to please them and seek their blessings.
my humble obeisances Prabhu,
this was true in my case. One senior Brahmana initiated Devotee who was like a father for me cursed me not to be able to stay any more in our ISKCON Temple in our country. And this happened because he was angry at me that i did not do what he told me to do. Because i promised other senior Brahmana Devotee to do other thing. So was in dilemma of to whom to listen to.
But anyways, even curses of such qualified Devotees are blessings.
But true we have to be careful!
It says that third generation after Srila Prabhupada will be very great souls. They will be qualified Brahmanas. So year by year such like serious souls are taking birth. So for 10 000 years progress will be there no matter how much Kali yuga is progressing.
Your servant,
Srila Prabhupada wrote in a purport:
So do people have this power - I'm certain a few people who have practiced penance and gained these material powers can do so (we see this in the example of Bhaktivinoda Thakur's life where he was harassed by a demonic yogi's mystical powers (it's a nice read here)... but the vast majority of us do not.