Can evil spirits be controlled or banished or given mukti? Yes they can, and innumerable fascinating stories, experiences and facts are interlinked with them. Some years ago, with my spirit guide’s help I succeeded after a harrowing struggle in capturing an evil spirit which was ruining a family. We imprisoned the spirit in an earthen handi and secured it with a mantra empowered black cloth. The family was supposed to bury the handi at least three feet deep in the sand on a river bank within six hours. But they lost time in searching for something to dig with, then they got caught in a traffic jam at two different places, then they lost more time in searching for a suitable spot along the river bank.
The six hour limit expired and the evil spirit escaped and in extreme rage, threw all three family members into the Yamuna river. They knew how to swim, but each time they reached the bank, the spirit would throw them back in the river. Fortunately, an aghori who was meditating at the cremation ground close by got alerted and was able to save them with his vidya. But he warned them that if the enraged spirit was not captured within six hours, it would kill their entire family. What followed is a long story, but finally the spirit was captured after it killed one family member. This time, instead of imprisoning the re-captured spirit in a handi, we used an advanced form of the nimbu-mirchi or lemon-peppers- method to disempower the spirit. Nimbus and mirchis play a very powerful role in both black and white magic. By itself, a nimbu is very powerful and effective and by itself a mirchi or mirchis are very powerful. When combined, the combination is even more powerful. In black magic, nimbus or mirchis are used, with other things like needles or sindhoor or “bhasm”, etc. to “put” black magic on someone. A particular procedure which involves the use of nimbus and is known as “sippli” is much feared because if carried out successfully, not only does it harms and bind the victim but is extremely difficult to remove. In white magic too, and that includes “uttaras” ( exorcisms ), tackling spirits, possession cases and so on, nimbus, mirchis, etc have powerful uses. The difference is in the mantras used for black magic and white magic.
Though very powerful, all evil spirits have some weakness or the other through which they can be ‘captured’, or their power weakened or neutralised totally, which is essential for their ultimate “mukti”. It is only somebody who has knowledge of the supernatural who can identify the particular weakness of an evil spirit and what needs to be done about it. It’s just like a doctor’s medicine can work only if he/she has diagnosed the illness correctly.
Therefore, it is very important to find an experienced and knowledgeable person to tackle such evil spirits. There are many cases of “bhagats” or “tantrics” running away because the spirit is very powerful or the spirit “patkoing” or flinging them on the ground violently. Sometimes, as happened in the case of the family which couldn’t meet the deadline for burying the handi containing the spirit, the evil spirit is so powerful that it can kill a person. Many cases have also been recorded of instances where a powerful evil spirit killed the person trying to exorcise it. The process of encircling an evil spirit with a thread, usually black or a mouli, with accompanying mantras, or throwing a net over a person possessed by an evil spirit is a most effective way of incapacitating it temporarily so that it can be captured. Once a spirit has been captured and imprisoned, whether through the nimbu-mirchi method, in an earthen handi, in a dry coconut, in a stone or any other receptacle, it is vital to dispose it off in the exact manner specified by whoever has captured it, otherwise, if it escapes, the evil spirit can play even more havoc than before.
Actually, the use of nimbu-mirchis is very widespread to ward off evil influences. You may have seen a nimbu, usually with seven or nine mirchis threaded together hanging outside many shops and even some homes all over India and sometimes also on street carts — this is done to ward off the evil eye and black magic. The nimbu-mirchis are meant to be changed every seven days. Apart from this, most evil spirits are unable to withstand fire and when mirchis are thrown into a burning fire and certain mantras chanted, it weakens and disorients spirits and helps in their eventual capture and mukti.
After a place or a person has been ‘freed” from possession, a paranormal expert or a tantric or a sadhu or guru or priest then usually protects the place by “keeloing” or nailing it. The method varies, but usually, four mantra empowered nails are affixed in the four direction/corners and a small mouli encircled yantra is affixed somewhere on the premises. This provides very powerful protection. Often, for additional protection it is recommended that a nimbu-mirchi hanging should be affixed at the front entrance and changed weekly.
In fact, the nimbu-mirchi hanging acts in much the same way as a lightning rod atop a building. In case lightening strikes the building, it will preferentially strike the rod and be conducted to the ground through a wire and the building will be saved from harm. In the same way, a nimbu-mirchi hanging will absorb and neutralise evil influences targeting a particular house or place.
Because nimbus and mirchis have such powerful uses in both black magic and white magic, you should always avoid touching them if you see them on a road or elsewhere. It could be black magic or it could be a white magic “uttara” or exorcism — both are very dangerous. In fact, you should avoid any article like an egg or black daal, coconut, bangles and sindhoor or anything tied in a black or red cloth and left at a cross roads, under a tree, or outside a shop or home.
If you go over them accidentally or touch them accidentally, do check out with a paranormal expert or someone familiar with the supernatural. The wife of a very well known heart surgeon in Delhi didn’t believe in “tona-jadu”. One day when out for a walk with a friend she spotted some bangles, sindhoor and other black magic ingredients lying on the roadside. To show that it was all nonsense, she promptly jumped over them. Not only did she break her leg on the spot after the jump, she also faced other paranormal problems later. Now, though she is a still somewhat reluctant believer in the paranormal, she does take precautions such as steering clear of what seems like black magic and seeking guidance when in doubt.