What is a curse? According to most dictionaries, the curse is a solemn utterance to invoke a supernatural power to inflict harm or punishment on someone or something.
Who uses curses? Curses are used by those without significant social power or who simply lack power over those they wish to curse. In general, the same people with the authority to bless also have the authority to curse.
Now, the reason I am broaching up this subject may sound bizarre. The whole thing started with someone telling me that I have a hidden power to curse. Remember : a) That person was no stranger to me. b) He himself is someone given to spiritual leanings all his life. c) He knew me well enough to cite examples taken right out my life and d) He had/has no vested interest/malintent in drawing up his conclusions.
I was chit-chatting with him (let us call him Mr. Guru) and the subject veered around to the misfortune befallen on a certain individual(Mr. X) and all of a sudden our discussion took a strange turn. The follwing conversation throws light on what happened next:
Mr. Guru : I am perfectly aware of the kind of trouble Mr. X created for you despite your well-meant moves.
Me : Why do you say that under the present context?
Mr. Guru : It is possible that Mr. X is under the spell of you curse.
Me : I wilfully curse no one, whatever might be the provocation. That is simply not my way.
Mr. Guru : Didn’t you feel anguished by the behaviour of Mr. X?
Me : Not at first. But the pesistent trouble caused by Mr. X might have made me think in exasperation, ‘Why, God, I get the wrong end of the stick for something which was my legitimate claim’.
Mr. Guru : Well, with a person like you, such exasperation can, in mysterious ways, act like a curse. You may not really intend harm on anyone deliberately. But, through what I call starnge powers within you, your innocuous thought may cause harm to your quarry.
I fell silent for some time. In the interim, Mr. Guru rattled out few more examples from the pages of my life’s archives in an effort to substantiate his hypothesis. And what he said was ominous.
” This is something that is beyond your control. But unfortunately, there is a flip side to the whole affair,” said Mr. Guru. “In one or other form your malediction , from time to time, can come to haunt you. So, this is no one-sided match.”
Ever since that tete-a-tete took place, I did not take Mr. Guru’s proclamations seriously. Being a rationalist that I am, I took it with a pinch of salt.
But the march of events later on, always created doubts in my mind about the validity of Mr. Guru’s claim. My only hope is that, considering for a moment that Mr. Guru was right, my moments of exasperation with anything or anyone wouldn’t cause unjustifieable harm.
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