Question: While we are talking about the Mahabharata, it said that Ashwatthama was cursed to walk the earth for thousands of years. So, would he still be around now? Or when they say thousands of years, is it just for a couple of hundred years and then it finishes?

Sri Chinmoy: That curse did not last for hundreds of years. He died and then his earthly role was over. It is only that when someone killed someone, someone else said that for thousands of years he would be cursed to walk this earth, and death would not take him to hell. Now God knows where hell is.

So these curses often have no value, no value.

18 February 2007 Chiang Mai, Thailand