The Power Of The Evil Eye

The  power of an "Evil  Eye" is so bad that it could inflict injury or bad luck by the look/glance of certain persons. Hence the tamil proverb, "Getting hurt by a stone is far better that getting hurt by an Evil Eye". 

One  could  have  observed that the stretch of important streets are strewn with pieces of white pumpkin which  is  broken  open  on  the  streets  to wipe away the evil eye on occasions such as house warming function  day,  during  the  construction  of  a  new  house,  on the day of opening a new account on the "Saraswathi Puja" day. 

Many  of  those  who  are employed or engaged in a business or trade or practising a fine art and others who are engaged in various other vocations have been affected adversely due to the evil eye. 

The  first  and  the foremost reason for the impediments of obstacles caused with respect to the food we eat,  the  dress  we  wear, the place where we dwell is mainly due to the evil eye, and fate plays only a secondary role. Ofcourse the evil eye is also a sort of fate. They remain in hiding and act through cause and effect. Great Tamil Poet like Mahakavi Bharathiyar and Valluvar have sung about "FATE". If such is the  condition  of  great  personages  who  have  been very much devoted in their service to God having renounced the wordly life, we, the simpletons, are nothing before them. 

Our ancestors have prescribed many remedies for evil eye. Among those are 

    1. Visiting a nearby temple and worshiping the God with much devotion. 
    2. Performing charities to the poor according to one's capacity. 
    3. Breaking open a lemon fruit after waving it, either on Sundays or on Thursdays. 
    4. Burning Camphor on a two-eyed cocunut and breaking it open after waving it. 

        are  a  few  acts of remedies which will alleviate the pangs of sufferings due to evil eye. Mostly the white pumpkin gourd is widely used for this purpose.