Forum

Replies

  • yamuna jivana dasa September 11, 2013 at 9:08pm

    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

    • Volunteer
      Jagadatma das > yamuna jivana dasa September 12, 2013 at 3:25pm

      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.

      • Volunteer
        Mohini Madhavi dd Maral Alymova > Jagadatma das September 13, 2013 at 3:01pm

        my humble obeisances Prabhu,

        If you are cursed by a qualified brahmana or a devotee that is very serious.

        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, 

  • Volunteer
    Radhe September 11, 2013 at 8:32pm

    Srila Prabhupada wrote in a purport:

    “In Vedic literature there are names like mleccha and yavana. The mlecchas are understood to be those who do not follow the Vedic principles. In former days, the mlecchas were fewer, and Visvamitra Muni cursed his sons to become mlecchas. But in the present age, Kali-yuga, there is no need of cursing, for people are automatically mlecchas. This is only the beginning of Kali-yuga, but at the end of Kali-yuga the entire population will consist of mlecchas because no one will follow the Vedic principles. At that time the incarnation Kalki will appear. Mleccha-nivaha-nidhane kalayasi kara-balam. He will kill all the mlecchas indiscriminately with his sword.” ( Srimad-Bhagavatam 9:16:33 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. 

    Bhaktivinoda Thakura is Cursed by a Mystic Yogi
    While Bhaktivinode Thakur was living in Puri a mystic yogi claimed to be an incarnation of Vishnu. He exhibited mystic powers and people came to serv…
This reply was deleted.