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Is black magic a reality? Yes, and maybe no. Sadhguru

tells us about the black magic that others can do to us,
and also the black magic we do to ourselves. He looks
at a simple way through someone can remove such inuences.
Question: Can energy be used in a negative manner, for example
to do black magic?
Sadhguru: You need to understand that energy is just energy; it is
neither divine nor is it evil. You can make anything a god or a
devil out of it. It is like electricity. Is electricity the divine or the
devil? When it is lighting your house, it is the divine. If it becomes

an electric chair, it is the devil. It just depends on who is

operating it at that moment.
Actually, ve thousand years ago, Arjuna asked Krishna the same
question, If you are saying everything is the same energy and
everything is divine, if it is the same godhood which exists in
Duryodhana, why is he functioning like this? Krishna laughed,
because after all the teaching, Arjuna was still coming back to this
simple, basic, childlike question. Krishna replied, God is Nirguna,
the divine is Nirguna. He has no attributes of his own. That
means it is just pure energy. You can make anything out of it. The
tiger that comes to eat you also has the same energy, a god that
may come and save you also has the same energy. They are just
functioning in dierent ways. When you are driving your car, is it
good or bad? It can make your life or take your life any moment,
isnt it?
So can people do black magic? Denitely they can. If positive uses
are there, negative uses are also there. One Veda, the Atharvana
Veda is dedicated to the use of energies for both positive and
negative. But what I have seen is, most of the time these things
are psychological. A little bit of it may be there, but the rest of it
is your own mind driving you crazy. If I want to drive you crazy, I
do not have to do any actual black magic. Tomorrow morning
when you come out of your house, suppose there is a skull and
some blood all over the place, once you see this, thats it! You will
become ill, your business will go bad, everything negative will
happen to you because a certain fear grips you. No black magic

has been done. Just certain symbols which indicate that this
seems to be some kind of black magic will destroy your mind. So
most of the time, it is just psychological. Even if black magic is
done to you, only ten percent may be the real thing. The rest of it
is you destroying yourself. That is why it comes with symbolism.
They understood the impact of your own psychology on you. Once
that symbolism is created, you just destroy yourself.
But yes, there is a science where one can use their energies
negatively to cause harm to somebody else. What is the
protection? One thing is, if you are on spiritual sadhana, you need
not bother about all those things. You need not even think about
those things. Another way is, you can wear certain protections
like a rudraksh , which is like a protection against any kind of
negativity. But you need not worry about such things. Just keep
your focus in life and keep going. If you are in sadhana, you just
dont bother; it will be taken care of.

The Dhyanalinga

If you have been under such inuences, you can come and sit in
the sphere of the Dhyanalinga, because there are certain
dimensions to the Dhyanalinga which nullify all this. If you fear
that something like this has been done to you, sit there for just
one day and go. It gets taken care of. But it is better that you not
pay attention to those things because your mind does more black
magic to you than anybody else can.
There are the Vanashree and Patanjali shrines at the entrance of
theDhyanalinga. They are in the space of a fteen-degree angle
from the Dhyanalinga. Thats why they are located at that point.
Otherwise, architecturally, I would have liked to locate them
much closer. Generally, people who are possessed by some spirits
or who are impacted by the occult and such problems are asked to
sit either in a forward fteen degree angle or a rear side fteen
degree angle, depending upon the type of problem that they have.

That space has been especially created like that so that people can
make use of it. Whether youre aware of it or not, the negative use
of energy like black magic and others is there. The fteen-degree
angle is where the doorway is. Whether you know it or not,
everyone who enters just drops the negative inuences they are
carrying. There have been thousands who have dropped such
inuences. Thats why people who have been to the
Dhyanalingand that suddenly life has changed for them. This is
because the negative impacts on their life have dropped.
When we say negative impacts, its not necessarily in terms of
somebody doing something negative to you. In so many ways, you
could have just taken in some negativity. See, its not necessary
that somebody should poison a fruit and give it to you. The fruit
might have some natural poison in it, which enters my body when
I eat it. Similarly, the negative aspects of life can enter you in so
many ways. It is not necessary that somebody is sitting there and
plotting against you. So the entrance of the Dhyanalinga, the rst
fteen-degree angle, is created for this purpose, and before
people seek anything else, these things are just taken care of.
They just have to walk in that space, about sixty or seventy feet,
and that by itself takes care of these negativities.

Editors Note: Mystics Musings includes more of Sadhgurus insights

on the human energy system. Read the free sample [pdf] or purchase the
ebook.