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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Procedure to go for Nadi astrology

The Nadi Astrologer is generally busy and one has to take an appointment with him in advance. When one goes there on the appointed day he checks his diary and takes the three impressions of the right thumb for males and the left thumb for females on a paper giving a serial order number and asks you to wait till he calls you. Then he goes inside his library room where the palm leaves are kept which is not accessible to others. After an hour or so, sometimes quicker, he comes back with an old palm leaf bundle called index leaves. After making himself comfortable he carefully unwinds the long string which keeps the bundle in tact. He tells you to answer yes or no to his questions. With great devotion he takes the first palm leaf and starts reading on one side.

The reading style is of funny accent in a poetic way, not understandable to even Tamils. After reading one or two lines or even less sometimes he asks you some questions and you have to answer yes or no only. If you say 'No' he proceeds to the other side of leaf or next leaf and continues his questions. The questions are generally one or two at a time, such as whether your name is after some God / Goddess contains 3 or 4 or so letters or so, starts, ends with a particular letter in a Varga (series) of the Hindu alphabets, Similarly about the names of parents and wife/husband whether anyone of them or both are alive or dead, number of elder and younger brothers and sisters, number of children number of uncles, type of profession, whether you are born in rainy season / summer etc. whether you are born in movable / fixed/ dual Moon and lagna rasis, whether you are born in a particular Moon Birth star whether you are born in a particular day in a particular year whether your age is so and so etc.

He says that he does not know what questions to ask unless he scans the leaves and that is why they generally insist the concerned person or a person who knows every detail about the persons consulted, should be present to answer the questions correctly, otherwise they say the readings will go wrong. They do not bother much if you cannot answer questions about birth date, month age, Moon rasi and star, lagna and they seem to bother more about matching of your name names of parents and wife/husband. If he gets 'No' answers to all the leaves of the first bundle when he goes back into his library and brings another bundle.

This process continues for an hour or so generally covering up to bundles each consisting about 50 leaves or sometimes quickly even in the first bundle till he and your are satisfied and the answers to all the questions in a particular leaf are 'yes' only, concerning names, parents, wife /husband, co-born profession etc. Then he goes inside and brings another particular bundle and reads in poetic style your actual birth date, month and year, the astrological birth chart with position of planets sometimes with lagna also exact names of yourself, parents, wife/ husband, co-born, education, profession and gist of future predictions in a broad way and this is called General Kandam (chapter) of first bhava. You can verify the chart given if you know your birth chart he writes the concerned verses from the leaf in a notebook. Then he records the same in an audio tape with translation into common understandable Tamil or some other languages with the help of a translator if necessary. He generally charges a minimum amount for this General Kandam Then he asks you whether you want more details about any particular aspect of your life such as marriage, profession, etc and if so he picks up corresponding bundle and charges a similar amount extra for each aspect which he calls a separate kandam or chapter. Some chapters give details about previous birth, remedial measures etc.

At the end he hands over the notebook and audio tape to you with devotion and takes money generally at the place where the photos of Gods /Goddesses are.

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