My Naadi Astrology Experience- A Truly Bewitching one.
Is Naadi shastra real or fake?
It was many years ago. I was living with my college friends in the city’s suburb. We never got the real seriousness until it was the final exam time of the semester. It was such a casual evening when my friend dropped by my place. Soon after, my roommates joined for a chat with him too. As we were gossiping and laughing about the happenings at college, he suddenly started a new topic that jumped off the track of our conversation — it was about ghosts and spirits.
I must admit — though I never believed any of these stories, I did not ever miss a discussion on ghosts either. These discussions would invariably start off with two or three people and at the end of it, unknowingly, a big group of 10 to 12 people would be around carefully listening in. Spooky stories are always enchanting and definitely are a crowd puller. Back to the story — my friend said that he had been long suspecting that his house was haunted by a spirit. He also cited some creepy, unexplainable incidents like “black images”, “hollow space” “shadows without an object” moving hither and thither at his place. Apparently, this was happening for long. Only later did he learn from his landlord that the house was vacant for years, before he moved in. And that it had been occupied by a family which moved out after a 9-year old girl in the household committed suicide. Though his narrative made us hold our breaths at times and left us open-mouthed, to me, it was just a nicely concocted story.
Then he added that the spirit of a killed or a prematurely dead human would lament, cry aloud and beg, on seeing its body being cremated in grave yard, longing to get back to its body. It sounded so irrational to my senses and I shot back with my argument. My roommates also started making fun of him for all that he said, which we thought was BS! He definitely was irritated being unable to prove anything that he said, and he quickly stood up, and snarled, “You guys may laugh at me now. But you will understand very soon!” He added,
“I’m sure you guys won’t believe if I said, you can even know what your previous births were, and where your next birth will be! Naadi astrology tells you that. Go, see it for yourself!”
He quickly disappeared from the spot. Even after a long time after he left, his last sentence was haunting me during the darkest times of that night. Rest is the main story.
The word ‘Naadi’ kept resonating in my mind even the following day. I had heard about such an astrological practice many times in the past, but I was never keen on exploring it, and even at times when I thought of giving it a try, this was not a priority as I had more important things to do. However, this time around, this overwhelming force made me become all the more keen on giving it a try. But only for one simple reason- to prove to my friend that this was just a humbug. The next moment, I was standing in front of this place where Naadi astrology was sought. I couldn’t help myself.
It was just a big house, with a board which read “Agathiya Naadi center” hanging in the front. I entered the building with some reluctance as I’ve never been to an astrology place ever before in life. The place was buzzing with activities and packed with people who I could easily identify to be of different cultures, and some were from different countries too. I noticed a picture of a king who I later understood to be the Maratha king Serfoji, who had preserved the naadi palm leaves. The wall opposite to it was almost left with no space as a lot of paper cuttings of magazine articles had been stuck. Each of the paper cuttings was from magazines in different languages such as German, Japanese, Chinese, English, Tamil, etc. I was attracted to an article titled, “Is there a next birth?”. As I was totally immersed into reading the article, I didn’t notice a hand coming towards my shoulder. “Tap!”
To be continued..
