>Another version of Dale Carnegies, “How to win friends and influence people”?
Tucked away in the older part of Koramangala in Bangalore, is a small house, with big ideas.
Here sit Raman Iyengar and his father V N. Alwar Iyengar, who run correspondence courses in occultism. The most intriguing is one called Vashikaran, which in Sanskrit, means `to control another’.
An interesting concept indeed, considering much of our waking energies are spent trying to exert some form or other control over the environment, people, our own skills and actions.
The course teaches you the art of developing better relationships of all kinds: man-woman, boss-employee, client-supplier, business partners and so on.
Raman Iyengar says, “The concept is not new. It’s there in our Vedas. We have just forgotten it over time. What we have done is to re-package it, with some added intuitive inputs and the collective wisdom of our ancestors.” The Iyengar family has been apparently practising various forms of occultism for the last 14 generations and the knowledge has been handed down the ages within the clan.
“In fact,” he says, “All of us are born with not only our basic five senses, but a sixth sense that lets us exercise this control over our environment. It’s just that while the other senses are developed by us, this most important energy is lying dormant within each one of us. You could say it is in a state of coma and has to be awakened.”
Iyengar senior who was plugging away at a computer terminal, jumps in and talks about specific mantras and yantras that can actually exert influences on other people and circumstances. “It’s not Vedic mumbo-jumbo,” he asserts, “It is very specific in the course of action it prescribes, with clear-cut, step-by-step instructions on what exactly to do, to achieve a particular result.”
By that same logic, can this knowledge be used to worsen relations, by plotting and scheming types, I ask.
“Technically, yes,” says Iyengar senior. “But the only time we pass on this dangerous knowledge is when it is for a noble cause.”
He cites the case of a well-known businessman in Bangalore, who’s entire fortunes were registered in the name of his wife. Everything went wrong when she and a business associate began a romantic relationship with each other. The lady abandoned her businessman husband and took off with her paramour along with all his millions.
The desperate businessman came to the Iyengars for help. They prescribed some mantras to sour the relations between the conspiring duo. Soon enough, the errant wife came back to her husband and now things are back on track.
“But,” insist father and son, “The intent has to be right. The process of Vashikaran involves invoking the positive powers of the mind, and cannot be used for a negative purpose when the design is evil.”
And what is the success rate experienced by their clients? “It’s a science like any other, with a success rate like in any other scientific field… about 80%. That’s roughly the rate of success even in other sciences,” say the Iyengars.
Apart from Vashikaran, the Iyengars are into astrology, cardology, palmistry and other forms of future manipulation. Their clientele include business-persons, politicians, housewives, executives, NRIs and foreigners.
The Iyengars maintain that there are some things not within the realm of common knowledge. But that alone is no reason to disparage these extra-ordinary powers. “What works for some may not for another. The choice has to be individual.”
Contact them at #201, K H B Colony, 4th A Cross, 5th Block, 17th E Main, Koramangala P O, Bangalore 560 095. Phone: 2553-8660.
