Your Friendly Philosopher & Guide

Out of the 7 (it sounds like a list of villains in some old Hindi movie) two of them are my clients now, two of them faced major problems on their career front (of course I didn’t do any black magic on them ;)), one of them is a very close friend, and the last one I will keep a secret.

The meeting was good, we shared few jokes, and the conversation was healthy. But I could spot a concern for me in his eyes. I don’t know if it was out of guilt or it was out of his urge to sympathize for me to make himself feel elated and better.

I was asking myself - why would anyone feel sympathetic towards me? May be because he felt I was not doing well monetarily, and that I should be struggling with my career as a full time astrologer. This is what most people around me think – and that is exactly the strange situation I am facing now.

The other day my wife was invited to a newly moved neighbour’s house. They asked her about my profession, and my wife replied that I am an astrologer. And the next question was – does he make enough income?

There is a general misconception among people that – the family of astrologers is doomed, and that they always are under acute poverty. This isn’t true. It is just that most astrologers preferred to keep themselves away from money for the fear of karmic repercussions. If they had wanted they could have minted money more than the Kings.

I can bet that I would be making triple the money that my neighbour makes – but then making it clear in front of them was unnecessary. Hence both my wife and me just shared a smile.

People judge others success only by external factors - like what brand clothes he/she is wearing, what brand watch is he wearing, what perfume is he / she wearing, what brand shoe he is wearing, and how much gold or ornament he/she is wearing. On that context I prefer to exist as a beggar – I have stopped wearing branded clothes long back (all that I have is 2 pair of black pants and 4 kurtas bought from Khadi Gramyudyog), I stopped wearing watches 10 years ago (if at all I wear a watch again in my life – it will be Rolex and nothing else), I have stopped wearing footwear, I don’t use perfume or any other cosmetic, and I don’t wear much ornaments just for my 2 tiny ear rings. My looks will surely deceive you!

On the other hand it would be literally impossible for me to carry my pay cheques and bank statement to make people stop sympathizing with me. And I cannot stand on the top of the roof to yell how much money I make every month – which is 3 times more than what I used to make at Sify.com.

One of the 7 important people once mailed me a Lakshmi Mantra, and the mail also said – chant this mantra to come out of your financial problem, which I was not in. And the mail reached me exactly a week after I received a 80 k cheque from one of the websites!

The truth is people in fact are unhappy to find happy and successful people around and they wait for an opportunity to sympathize with them, and in the process try to make themselves feel more humane. And I would be the last person on earth to expect or accept any fucking help from any fucking mortal.

This particular blog is specially dedicated to those 7 important people for I know they all read my blogs regularly J.

May God bless all and may peace prevail!