Then through my cousin sister, I met an astrologer.
He was an old man. He read the future with the help of palm leaves and also
through the horoscope. He made a lot of correct predictions. So I used to
consult him on many issues.
When my Sister in law, became pregnant, I consulted
him. He said all would be well. But when she delivered a still born, I went to
him and questioned his prediction. He said that a man could not be right all
the time, and they were bound to be wrong sometimes. My faith in him was
shaken.
So I had to change my astrologer. I met one friend
who was having astrology as a hobby. He never used to charge for consulting. So
his clientele increased. Sometimes he was right, sometimes not. But no one
minded, because they did not have to pay. He then made astrology his full time
profession. His clients compensated by giving him a yearly contribution.
I too wanted to cross check some issues. So I tried
some other astrologer once in a way. Astrologers have standard references and
most predictions are based on a fixed format.
Predictions are made depending on” N” number of factors.
So there as many claims to success as there are loopholes for escape.
I also met some clairvoyants, who also told of
things to come. They too were equally on and off the mark. I also tried some
palm leaf readers, who were not even close to the bulls eye.
After trying 5
astrologers, 3 palm leaf readers, 4 clairvoyants, over a period of 40 years, one
fine day, all the collective exposure
and experience revealed to me, what a fool I have been.
How a simple referral, of yesterday today and
tomorrow had been manipulated by a set of astrologers into giving them a source
of income.
Suppose one is able to resist gravity, and suspend
himself above the earth’s surface, he can watch earth rotate. Since he will be
in a constant with the Sun, there will be yesterday today and tomorrow for him;
no sunrise and no sun set; so no change in tenses.
The yesterday today and tomorrow had been made by
man in a language context, so that he could communicate to his fellow beings.
But how a group of yesterdays came to be termed as
the PAST, and a group of tomorrows that were yet to come, became the FUTURE, is
astonishing.
The term TOMORROW is a point of reference only.
Nothing more. As it is with NOW and YESTERDAY.
In hind sight why did I consult so many people about
my future? Because I believed and bought the
first lie, “ That is it is possible to predict the future. It is my belief
that lead me from one person to another. To make the lie believable, the
astrologers based their predictions on complex time- consuming formulae and
data. I did not want to face realities, that life meant ups and downs, success
and failures, profit and loss, birth and death, love and hate, health and
sickness. I wanted it be a road of roses.
This optimistic belief is what keeps the astrologers
going. It is impossible to predict the future, for the simple reason, that it
is yet to happen.
Sometimes, we fall sick and all the battery of tests
and scans do not reveal anything at all. But the doctor still treats, while the
body is also fighting hard to recover. We might have recovered even without the
treatment. But we are too afraid to take the risk.
Similarly the astrologer has no clue about what is
happening. All his formulas and calculations serve no purpose. Things become OK
by themselves, or at one point of time we learn to accept life as it is. So all
the corrective activities suggested by the astrologer, simply keeps us busy.
Life is all about now. Whatever is happening is
happening. There is no guarantee for the next breath.
We simply have to learn to takes things in our
stride. Analyze your life. How many lies you believe in to be true? The more
the number of unquestioned beliefs, the farther you are from reality.
