Guest guest Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 Dear Somdev, I think the book has only the palmprint but not the prediction, or maybe I have seen some other book of Cheiro. Usually if the heart line ends in a fork and one line of the fork joins the head line then this is taken to mean that a person will renounce. However the minor lines of the hand are always changing. There must be other indicators also. The birth chart has also to be consulted. Another thing, as per Mahapurush Maharaj, astrology fails when one surrenders to the Lord. He himself disposed off his horoscope in the Ganges enroute to Varanasi. Therefore after taking initiation a person may be enthused to renounce and succeed even if his horoscope or lines of the hand do not indicate it. I have an interesting incident to narrate here. The son of a colleague of mine is a very brilliant teenager but totally unpredictable. Fearing for him my colleague wanted me to advise. I took the boys horoscope to an astrologer. What the astrologer said left me stunned. However the astrologer also comforted me saying that the child had latent good qualities. Pondering on the matter I decided that arranging initiation for the boy was the only way out. Soon the boy was initiated. I had asked the boy to note down the exact time of the initiation and with this new data I again went to the astrologer for a fresh chart as I felt that this was a second birth for the child. This time the astrologer was stunned as the new chart displayed the full blooming of the very latent qualities he had earlier predicted in the boy. Needless to say the boy is faring better now and is mending his ways. God willing his bad days will soon be over. In a similiar incident recounted by a devotee of our Order, a person had a stronge urge to commit a sin. His wellwishers got him initiated thinking that with God's protection he would overcome the urge. This person did penance for a long time but he succumbed and visited a place of ill repute. However in that place he saw a calendar with the photo of Thakur and Ma. Liked a whipped dog he bolted and resumed his spiritual practice. This is how Sri Ramakrishna looks after his devotees. However initiation does not guarantee a good life. In fact the opposite may happen if there is karma to be resolved. Swami Bhuteshanandaji also said that a person may have to face a very tough period after initiation. This may happen at the beginning of the spiritual life or towards the end. But he also said that as God realisation was the goal of life no price was too high to achieve it. One must strive ones utmost regardless of the obstacles in his/her path. Regards, Jagannath."somdev48858" Does anyone in the list know about Chiero's predictions on Swamiji and how accurate they were? I have heard that Swamiji as a young boy and man used to show his hand and tell his friends that he was destined to be a sadhu and that it was written in his palm. FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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