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August 13, 2004
When I became a believer!
I always found life useless. In fact I feel there is no need a person should be alive. The lift pattern is more or less the same for all. People are born, few get formal education few don?t, few study well few don?t, few get a good job few don?t, few get married few don?t, few become rich few don?t. There are few things that remain common for all ? all need food to survive, everyone has only 5 taste buds, the ratio of time a person stays happy and sad are similar for both - a beggar in Varanasi and the Microsoft head Bill Gates. What is different? Nothing. The chunks of people who feel that life is beyond these material successes become sanyasis ? but what next? Even they are incapable of escaping the cycle of birth, rebirths and death!
When in college, I belonged to the latter group and I had no interest in material things ? not even girls! Looking back I wonder how could I have missed those lovely creations of God! I was too much into Osho, Swami Vivekananda, and other religious Gurus. My mom was worried a bit about me. Anybody would be ? seeing a young guy with long beard, long hair, with no passion for life. I always had the thought of becoming a sanyasi - that worried most of the people who know me.
My dad was always cool ? because he knew what was coming. He is a staunch believer of astrology, and he had checked our natal charts with most good astrologers to know our future. One fine morning, he asked me to dress up. He took my horoscope, and we went to meet an astrologer. He wasn?t curious about my life, because he already knew, but he wanted to make me understand. I was a skeptic then. Now I realize skepticism is the easiest weapon used by the ignorant.
We didn?t ask the astrologer anything. He checked my chart, and said this person will get married before his 24th age, will do his PG, and will get jobs immediately after studies. He also said that there could be some problem with the father relating to the person he is going to get married. I said IMPOSSIBLE ? not to the astrologer but to myself. And also how can my father have problems in my marriage, when he has given all the freedom to select my partner.
I completed my degree, and got admitted for my PG without much hassle. I got a job my first job in the first 2 months after I completed my PG in one of India?s esteemed organizations ? The Indian Express, Mumbai, and I got married in 1998 when I was just 22-23 just before 24!
And what was the problem I had with my dad? Incidentally I married my brother in law?s sister, and my dad hated my brother in law to the core. This lead to 3 years of ZERO communication between my dad and me!
For skeptics these incidents could be easy guesses by the astrologer or probably mere coincidences...but for me they were miracles?miracles that changed me FOREVER!
Posted by Kenni at August 13, 2004 06:44 AM
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