India is one of the oldest countries
where the belief in Spirituality started, and flourished towards the west.
There have been many great spiritualists from India, like Swami Vivekananda, who have taught the world a new way to live, with the knowledge in spirituality. The belief in spirituality is spread all across the globe. There are believers in every country, who believe that there exists a world other than physical. Different countries of the world have different beliefs and stories about spirits and ghosts. But it all boils down to a fact that ghosts are considered as evil entities in most of the societies of the world.
In Indian society too, ghosts are mostly considered as evil entities. Not because they are, but because the modern education system only teaches not to believe in ghosts, and religion teaches to believe in ghosts, and consider them as evil. They are the people stuck between the education, and the religion. They both are extremes, and most Indians don’t have a middle path to walk on. Indians are either blind by the education system that we think is enough, or by the religion which forces people to believe things just because it is written in religious books. Moreover, many people do not have time to think about the things that do not bother them.
In the course of research on Indian
belief system about spirits and ghosts, various schools of thoughts exist in Indian society, about the concept of ghosts among believers.
Some believe that, people experience paranormal phenomena because of the weak planetary positions in their astrological horoscope. Some believe that it is all the result of karma, while most of the people also believe that chanting mantras can keep evil spirits away.
People often wonder whom to believe, and whom not. But one thing that becomes clear after hearing all the stories and views of thousands of people during 3 years of research in India, that they all are right! How? It is because in most of the haunting cases, ‘belief’ is the
main ghost. And it is only belief that
can get you rid of any problems in life, such as evil ghosts. With this, It doesn’t mean to say that genuine paranormal cases do not exist. They do. But however, in every case, ultimately it is only your ‘belief’ and direct intention by which, you can keep any evil away from yourself; by whatever it takes you believe in yourself and feel stronger than any evil.
Indian Astrologers & Their Beliefs
Astrologers, Tantriks, Priests, Maulvis, and Pandits in India
considered ghosts as evil, and with
malevolent intentions.
Astrologers however defined that
people only experience ghosts when
their planetary alignment in horoscope is not right. They believe that only those people experience ghosts who have the following characteristics in their horoscope:
• In First Yoga – First Yoga- If
there is a Rahu (Dragon’s head)
and moon in 5 house. And the
5 and 9 house belongs to weak planets.
• In Second yoga – if any planetamong Saturn, Rahu, Ketu
(Dragon’s tail), or Mars is in 7 house.
• In the third yoga- if there is a conjunction of Saturn, Mars, and Rahu
• If a person belongs to ‘Manushya Yoni’, his or her chances to be troubled by ghosts are fair. Etc.
• People belonging to ‘Rakchhas- Yoni’, can see ghosts, but ghosts cannot trouble them.
Hindu astrologers also believe that the most powerful mantra to get rid of any evil spirit is dedicated to lord
Hanuman (The monkey God of India).
Many astrologers and common people believe that ‘Hanuman-Chalisa’ is the most powerful tool to be protected from evil spirits. While others believe that there exist another ‘rare’ mantra of lord Hanuman which they say that if someone chants the following mantra 108 times for 47 Thursdays, in a Hanuman temple, he or she will get rid of all the evil spirits or their effect for ever:
“Om em hreem
shreem hraam
hreem hroon
hraim om namo
bhagwate
mahabal
parakramaaye
bhoot prêt
pishach shaakini
daakini yakshini
pootna maari
mahaamari
yaksh rakshas
bhairav betaal
grah
rakhshasaadika
m kshanen han
han bhanjay
maaray maaray
shikshay
shikshay
mahamaareshwa
r rudraavtaar
hum fatt svaha.”
Many people have tried this mantra,
and have really got rid of their
problems, according to a pandit who
told me about this mantra. I asked him if this mantra can help people of other religion. He said that remembering the name of lord Hanuman with strong intention is enough to keep us away from most of the evil spirits.
Some Hindu astrologers believe that
Lord Shiva is the king of all spirits, so
‘Om namah shivay’ is the ultimate
mantra for protection from evil
spirits. While another set of belief
exist among Hindu Astrologers that
Lord Shiva being the King of the Ghost world, can make the spirit stronger if you chant this mantra of ‘Om Namah Shivay’.
A famous Peer Baba in Delhi who
is said to be exorcising people
possessed by Jinns for over twenty
years. When he was asked what does he do to make the Jinns possessing people go, he smiled and asked me to read 'Ayatul-Kursi’. He said it is the most famous verse of the holy Quran and is widely displayed in Islam due to its insistent description of God’s power over the entire universe. The same question was asked him that if reading Ayatul-Kursi can help the people of different religion. He shook his head in affirmation. After a long pause, he said, ‘Surat al-Baqrah is known to have the power of shooing away the evil spirits and also dispelling black magic.’
In India, among Hindu society of
spiritual believers, it is believed that
there are different kinds of ghosts and their class can be recognized by the way they affect a person’s behavior, as following:
Human Spirit (Bhoot) : When
human spirits or ghosts possess a
person, the later gains tremendous
physical strength, has red eyes, can
speak like a genius regardless of his or her education, and has a shivering body in fever.
Pishach (Malevolent Inhuman
Spirit): A person affected by pishach
becomes weak and always use filthy
language. He or she never hesitates to get naked. Lives untidily and stinks. Remains always hungry and wants to live in seclusion. He or she sometimes screams or cries without reason.
Yakshas (A benevolent inhuman
spirit) : People affected by yakshas
start taking deep interest in red color
and red clothes. They speak slowly and mostly talk with their eyes.
Pretas (Ghosts of Hindu men who
died by violence): People troubled/
possessed by a prêt shout in pain, cry, howl, and run without purpose. They stop eating, become rude, and breathe rapidly.
Shakini (ghosts of married women
who died in early stages of their
marriage) : Shakinis usually trouble
married women or girls with high sex
drive. A women possessed by Shakini has unexplainable pain in entire body including eyes every time. She faints very often; she shivers in pain and cry.
Churail/Kicchin/Jinnat/Apsara/
Yakshini/Mohini (Lilith/
Succubus): They usually affect young
men. The person affected by these
spirits is always smiling, looks lost in
his imagination, seeks seclusion,
always want to eat flesh, and is
attracted to red color objects. He
gradually loses all his health and
looks weak.
Jinns/Shaitaan/Brahm-
Pishach (Genie, Malevolant/
Benevolant Inhuman Spirits): This
again goes with the religious beliefs of the people. But there have been many cases where an Islamic Jinn has possessed a Hindu person. Or a Hindu spirit has possessed a Muslim person.
However, people affected by negative inhuman entities are roaring all the time, have heavy and manly voice, they keep twisting their limbs, have their eyes popped out, tongues stretched out, and they are sometimes violent. They always speak about killing or asking to fulfill their demands. They also shake their heads rapidly in to and fro direction for hours in Trans. On the other hand, if a person is possessed by a benevolent jinn or spirit; he smiles all the time, predicts accurate future of the people, read people’s mind, and sometimes rock their head in a circular motion for several hours, in Trans.
There are much more traits to detect what ghost is posessing whom but however, believe in ghosts does not rest with Indians but stretches out to all parts of the continent.
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