A curse from a god is very effective. The cursing is particularly high in Hindu gods. Whenever they were insulted by their subordinates in a direct or an indirect way, they will throw a curse and that subordinate will be effected by it. Even if there is no direct effect from the words and there are no immediate results, depending on the gods rank, the fate would twist in order to make the curse a reality.
Many followers who received the curse tried to get rid of them by going above and beyond, in fact some curses run for generations and all of those generations will only have one ultimate goal, to get rid of the curse and revive themselves.
Same goes for the Merene family.
But it is not that easy.
Since it happened because of the twists of fate, there is no way they would be able to get rid of that easily. But now, the Merene family head has one way right in front of his eyes, there is no way he would be willing to let go of that.