Contrary to popular beliefs, Guman Thongs are not evil spirits as they have been blessed and accepted a vow given by the monks who made them. Their entire objective is to respect and give a helping hand to their benefactor or adopted parents.
In Buddhist concept, we have to seek right understanding in order for knowledge to arise. This concept is applied to meditation practice but certainly can be applied to other areas. It?s only through right understanding only then we can fully comprehend the knowledge. But in most cases, the lack of understanding will eventually lead oneself to believe that Guman Thong are ghostly beings that will cause backfire if they are not being taken care properly.
Over the years, many names have been given to Guman Thong e.g. Black Magic Baby, Resident Ghost, Ghost Baby, etc. This actually gave a scary image of Guman Thong and a wrong ideology to many people. It must be noted that there are other black magic occults that are on the real dark side such as Phra Ngan or ghostly spirits that are purely made for evil purpose.
We must differentiate two main entities of the underworld; child beings and ghostly beings. Both entities are residing in the ghost realm where we as humans are born in the human realm. Between these 2 entities, the real significance of a child being is that they are being converted to Buddhism by monks who made the talisman. Some child spirits are being selected because they have the Dharma seeds in them and they are deemed suitable to be Guman Thong in the form of Loop or Bucha. If a person really takes care of such Guman Thong well, it will help its benefactor in fulfilling his/her wholesome wishes in this life and the life after next. Even after the little Guman Thongs is reborn, it will still come back as deva or a being from a higher realm somehow to be of service to the benefactor.
A lot of people don?t realize that Guman Thongs can turn good or evil depending on the mind actions of their owners. Just like any human being they can be a good meritorious person or a bad person depending on his/her mental faculty. To explain this further, an owner can teach the Guman Thong to cultivate in the Dhamma and accumulate merits. Another owner with a weak deluded mind could teach his Guman Thong to do evil actions for his own personal gains knowing that Guman Thong has supernormal abilities. Guman Thongs are just little children and their fragile minds can be corrupted into evil actions or cultivated to be pure. Karma is a force to be reckoned with as it will haunt the evil doers. Teaching bad stuffs or motivating Guman Thong to do evil misdeeds will lead the owner to suffer in the cycle of rebirth. Therefore, it is right to say a person who owns Guman Thongs should have the correct motivation to earn merit for oneself as well as for these child beings.
There are various reasons why human and all sentient beings have to ceased life. But have you ever wonder why some children die before birth and why such karma takes this cause of effect? Why do monks choose these children spirits to be made into Guman Thong?
Guman Thong work hard to help his benefactor in the hope of liberating itself and gain merits to be reborn again.
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