Predictions - strange but true !

Predictions - strange but true !​

This was a story related to me by my dad, over 40 years back.
The incident in the story took place during late 1930's.
My dad had an younger sister, my aunt, whose marriage was getting delayed on one pretext or the other. In those days, even 18 years was considered too old for the marriage of a girl. My grand father had consulted many an astrologer and finally was advised to get her Nadi read from Vaitheeswaran Koil.
Accordingly, one fine morning he and his cousin reached V Koil. It was a hot summer day. They could not easily locate the house of nadi astrologer. After roaming about an hour or so, they decided to rest on the pyol (Thinnai) of a house for sometime, before resuming their search.
Within minutes of their sitting on the pyol, someone from inside the house came asking whether he was Subramaniam.
On his replying in the affirmative, the inmate told him that it was the house of a nadi astrologer and the nadi was calling him inside.
Surprised, my GF and his cousin went inside the house.
It transpired that the astrologer was reading someone else's nadi leaves when it appeared in the leaves that " One Subramaniam has just come out side. Now, I am going to tell predictions for him". Thereafter, the leaves contained verses about my GF, his purpose of coming there and also predictions about my aunt's marriage.
My aunt's marriage took place as mentioned in the leaves.
I wouldn't have believed this story had it been told by anyone else, other than my dad. Even in my later days, when I got associated with nadi predictions, more due to my interest in astrology, I had never come across one person's future being found in someone else's palm leaves.
Be that as it may, this story explains the precision levels reached by ancient sages while predicting/ recording happenings thousands of years hence.

Thereafter, I was keen on getting my future read, but my dad didn't permit. He felt it was too early for me and I totally forgot all about it.
During mid '90s, once my younger brother told me that he got his nadi read by someone in Kanchipuram and the readings were by and large accurate. This brought back to my memory the above story and I decided to consult nadi for myself, more out of inquisitiveness. The predictions were pretty accurate, all details about me, my parents, my wife (including her being employed in a senior position in a Govt bank) and also my kids. For my daughter, it stated clearly that she was studying medicine - to predict thousands of years ago about my wife being employed and my daughter doing medicine - some prediction that! For all that, I gave them only my right thumb impression.
My future as told have also come true so far.
This prompted me to consult the same nadi astrologer once again, for one of my nieces, regarding her marriage. What happened then was something which I would never forget. Amazing, so to say!

I would revert with that anecdote separately pl, ASAP.

Anbudan,
Rrg

 

Dear Surekha,
Thanks for your frank views.
Cheers!
Rrg

 

Dear Mindi,
Pleased that you liked it.
I have posted a detailed article on Nadi Astrology under a thread by Ramya Srivatsan in Religon & Spirituality, Queries on Religion & Spirituality .Perhapsyou may like to peruse.
For your reading pleasure, I am posting the 2nd part of the story.

Part 2:

During late 90s, I had gone with my niece for reading her naadi predictions.
These naadi predictions are in ancient Tamil and one trained naadi reader is assigned to each client for reading and interpreting the verses.
The reader assigned to us was relatively a senior one and other readers were consulting him whenever they had any doubts in interpretation.
During our session, one of the junior readers happened to disturb our man repeatedly. This irritated me no ends and I firmly asked our reader to complete our reading first, without any further interruptions, as we were also getting delayed.
There upon, the readers looked at each other and decided to confide the problem in me. There was a couple who had come for consultation, sitting in another room and the junior reader was reading out the predictions for the lady. He had come across a verse in her reading which stated that the lady would ditch her husband and run away with a neighbour, through whom she would beget children. The reader was literally scared to interpret that stanza for fear of annoying the man. Also, professional ethics demanded his not hiding the prediction. He could not make out from other verses whether this man was the husband who would be ditched or the man with whom she had run away. He was confused and hence his repeated consultations with his senior.
It was like a puzzle. Finally, the senior one gave a common-sense solution - to check with the couple casually whether they had any kids. If they had, certainly this man was not her husband, as per the reading. If they had no kids, the man could be either and care be exercised in proceeding further.
His suggestion worked, as the couple had a kid of their own. The reader came back to thank his senior, after finishing the lady's reading. It appeared that the couple were taken aback when he translated the verse as it was and the lady confirmed that the reading was true.

From then on, I took more interest in this form of astrology. In many cases I did find that the future predicted coming only partly true.
For myself, I had consulted it once, over 10 years back and found it to be amazingly true, excepting ofcourse the year of happening of an event shifting by an year or so either side. As I am planning for a major shift professionally, I consulted once again couple of months back.
Amazing predictions!

My personal feeling is that while the predictions in Naadi system of astrology depends upon locating the correct palm leaf as also the proficiency of the reader in interpreting the verses, one's 'free will' plays a major part in shaping the future. I had used my reading mainly for guidance, cautious during the period when some set-back had been indicated and pushing my luck to the hilt during the positive periods. So far I am successful.
Anbudan,
Rrg