Saturday, November 26, 2005

AMAZING ENCOUNTER WITH DESTINY

Ram's remarkable experiences with Naadi Shastra (NadiAstrology) Had a meeting with Destiny last month. By appointment. I was not very sure whether it was Destiny that I met or an imposter in his garb. Whoever it was, it was an amazing experience. Just to be sure that it wasn't an imposter, I managed to get appointments for a few friends and sent them along too. Now, when I sit back and analyze the happenings, I am beginning to feel that it was indeed Destiny that we had all met, in person. So unassuming and casual he was, yet so chilling and so uncompromisingly to the point. Wondering what that was all about?! Well, it was my appointment with the Naadi reader. We could perhaps begin with a brief about what the word Naadi means. It refers to a very small arc of the zodiac of dimension ranging from 1/150 of a sign to 1/600 of a sign (12 minutes to 3 minutes of arc). There are many ancient Naadi astrological texts that are extant – some dealing only with astrological implications and some combining the features of palmistry and astrology. Of the former kind are texts like Bhrigu Naadi, Dhruva Naadi, etc., while texts in the Tamil language like Saptarishi Naadi belong to the latter category. Persons born with each given segment of arc as the ascendant, are said to be subject to definite life patterns and their unfoldment is expressed in terms of planetary transits. Based on this scheme of astrological interpretation, a vast body of manuscripts have been recorded on palm leaves and stored at various places, purportedly many centuries ago. This is what the reader that I went to had to narrate about the history of the Naadi palm leaf collection that he was using.
Court Astrologers He belonged to a family of Naadi readers whose forefathers were court astrologers to the kings of yore -- some 1500 years ago. The collections have been in the possession of their family since then and they were based in the temple town of Vaitheeswaran Koil in the state of Tamil Nadu. Of late, they have begun to migrate to other places carrying a portion of their heirloom. But they still maintain their strong links with their family back home and keep this pursuit of Naadi reading within the confines of the family members. He also said that the Tamil manuscripts were translated from the Sanskrit originals many more centuries earlier. Without specific dates being quoted, the time spans mentioned by him were more approximations than exact.
108 Categories in a ThumbprintThe process began by taking an appointment with the person about two weeks in advance. Naadi readers are a busy lot nowadays. On the appointed day, my sister and I reached his residence at 8 in the morning. We were asked to record our thumb impressions (right thumb for males and left for females) on small sheets of paper, along with our names (it was not required to give our real names if we so desired). It was explained to us that thumb impressions were divided into 108 categories for the purpose of this particular Naadi reading. It would be first ascertained to which of those 108 categories our respective thumb impressions corresponded to and then a search for the associated palm leaf collections will be made. We were given a typed notice mentioning the charges applicable for this service and it was specifically mentioned that we should be prepared to wait until the evening if necessary to complete the process of searching. This search process itself had two dimensions -- one in which we had no part, that being an internal search to locate palm leaves corresponding to the impression given, and the second which was a joint search involving the reader and us to locate the specific leaf that corresponded to each of us.

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