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December 29, 2007
Askenni wishes one and all a very Happy New Year!
The year 2007 was good, and I wish and pray that the coming year should be better for one and all. I have already put up 2008 yearly predictions based on your Ascendant. And here I have made few predictions for few important people in the coming year. If you want to know about someone else too – just drop a mail at kennedig@yahoo.com
2008 predictions for….
1) Sachin Tendulkar will struggle to perform, and retire from International cricket. Will take up new responsibilities in Cricket related field
2) There is a strong possibility of India winning at least one Gold medal at Olympics 2008, Beijing.
3) Sanjay Dutt will continue to have a bad period, which will restrict him from getting busy in films
4) There won’t be any major shoot up on Stock Market front. It will go down, and stabilize. Industries related to computers, automobiles, written communication, travels, and media will do well
5) The BJP will have a new leader, and L K Advani will refuse to take up the lead role
6) Deepika Padukone will give few major hits in Bollywood, and will start to rule the Hindi filmdom
7) Ashutosh Gowarikar’s ‘Jodha Akbar’ will be a hit, and will win international acclaim
8) A major scam in the medical field is possible in the year 2008
9) Sania Mirza will have some minor health issues, and the year 2008 will be just an average year for her
Posted by Kenni at 07:51 AM | Comments (0)
Good news for free loaders!
Five years back when I started to read horoscope for people and predicting their future, I always wanted to keep my services free of cost for lifetime. But it led to many confusion – firstly none took it seriously (anything given out for free loses its value) and secondly people got into unnecessary arguments just for the heck of it. Well who doesn’t want to know their future without shelling a penny out of their pockets?
Later I thought I should at least segregate sincere seekers and people who see me as a mere entertainer. I thought I wouldn’t do it for free anymore, and gave a chance for the people to fix their fee. It led to another problem – people earning in lakhs will just come home when they find free time, talk for hours together and pay Rs 50 and go. I thought this isn’t working either.
There is a very thin line between charging for your services, and working for money alone. Given a chance I will always keep my astrological services free for sincere people, but then I am yet to find sincere seekers in the modern age. I also hate to sound like a vegetable vendor – where in people bargain on rates.
We bring many changes in ourselves depending on the situations we are subjected to. Recently a lady called me from Gurgaon saying she wanted a reading. I asked her to mail me her details, and also her preferred mode of transaction – she said innocently, “I just want answer to one question? Do you charge for one question too?” I accept her ignorance but I wanted to tell her – I would do a reading free of cost if you cannot afford me. But if you think astrological predictions are not worth your money – then sorry find another astrologer!
Though most people who get in touch with me know the seriousness of astrology and are kind enough to ask my service charges, there are few who still think I am desperately sitting in front of the computer to answer their astrological queries and that my happiness depends upon serving them.
Recently someone kept sending me mails - at least 6 to 7 – trying to persuade me for a free reading. Of course I refused – not because I don’t want to do, but because I hate the marketing smartness people try to use on anybody and everybody.
With experience it becomes very easy to guess what people are up to by just reading their mails or by reading the message they sent by messenger. There are many mails I still receive that sound very arrogant – My date of birth is …., my time of birth is…., my place of birth is…Send me my future report. I don’t ignore those mails. I send a mail asking for preferred mode of fee remittance – and there is no reply from them. It is fun.
Though I strictly charge for my services, I would somehow want to stick to the promise I made when I started reading for people or do some kind of justice to it. Hence I decided that on every Tuesdays I would keep my reading free. This isn’t applicable for online consultation or consultations over phone. Anyone who reaches my house with a printed horoscope on Tuesdays – I will do a consultation absolutely free of cost!
Posted by Kenni at 07:45 AM | Comments (0)
December 21, 2007
Pray for me brother!
I am reminded of a joke where a millionaire wanted to get married. He had called upon women applicants who in turn had to pass through several competitions to top the list of the probable brides. The competitions included – marathon (42 kms), high jump, long jump, cooking, stitching, oratory competitions, gymnastics, intellectual debates, spiritual inclination et al. After all the competitions were over ….
the rich man decided to marry the woman who had the biggest pair of boobs!
A publisher offered me to write a book, and asked me to come up with few topics. And a couple of days back I had asked my readers to suggest me few topics to write a book on. They came up with beautiful topics, which included – life after death, astral projection, timing events through astrology, Tarot for daily use, Indian astrology and sexual fantasies and few more. I extend my gratitude to each one of them – those who took the effort to mail me, and also who read the blog and kept silent for various reasons.
I personally wanted to a write a book on Indian Astrology and love, marriage and sex, which I thought could be interesting. But the publishers thought a book on Numerology will do well - I am sure they are right for they know the industry better. We as writers can claim all our shitty thoughts could sell, which need not true at all. So it is always better to keep our mouth shut and listen to someone who has wider experience in this particular field.
I am finally writing a book on Numerology and the topic of book is ‘Secrets of Numerology’ for now, which might change depending on market study!
So I would want each one of you to pray for me…..
Posted by Kenni at 07:03 AM | Comments (0)
December 20, 2007
Ignore Taslima Nasreen!
Only two things can make a writer or a journalist famous – one is controversy and another is lathi charge. And the author Taslima Nasreen belongs to the former cadre. In fact money, fame and success comes to authors who are bold and experiment with existing philosophies. Whether they believe in the philosophies they pen down doesn’t really matter – provided their books sell and bring both the publishers and author some good money in return. Even you can write a book on how group sex with 10 blondes on a open beach in Hawaii can give you darshan of Lord Shiva – but whether you have done this before or believe in it doesn’t matter, provided your books sell like hot cakes.
I neither had heard about Taslima, nor had I heard about her book Lajja. But the controversies it gave rise to – made me buy the book and read it. And to be honest – it was one of the most boring books I ever read in my life. I could not complete the book and I think I donated it to someone free of cost. More than the content of the book, I think it is the controversies that made the book sell more.
As I have stopped reading her books for sanity reasons. And I don’t know what exactly do her new books contain, which sell like crazy in many countries. Through a magazine I came to know that she referred to Prophet Mohammed as a pervert because he married a 40-year-old woman when he was 20, and also because he had 11 wives. (will write another blog about why Muslim men are better than Hindu men later).
With my experience with religions – I personally feel that Islam is the best religion that exists today for spiritual growth for the society as a whole. Given a chance I will convert India into an Islamic country. That doesn’t necessarily mean that I will circumcise all BJP, RSS and VHP believers forcibly like Sanjay Gandhi did vasectomy on poor Indians. And it also doesn’t necessarily mean that I will make all the women wear burkhas.
Wearing burkha or roaming with a bikini on a nude beach is a personal decision. It depends on what you give more importance to – character or libido. Now don’t flash your panty in front of a crowd and call yourself a Muslim lady. You cannot be a Muslim if you don’t follow its rules. You cease to be a Muslim even if you don’t pray 5 times a day. Just being born in a Muslim family doesn’t make you a Muslim. It holds true for Hindu Brahmins too – cross thread loses its significance if you don’t practice Sandhya Vandanam 3 times a day!
Take this example – if a bitch (female dog) enters a church and barks at the Holy Cross – what difference does it make to Jesus Christ or Christians a whole? The bitch will die in another 10 years, but Jesus is here to stay forever, and so is Christianity.
Women in general have lesser brains, and how can we expect them to interpret religion and spirituality in the correct sense, which requires masculine intellectual expertise? Her opinions about Islam could be correct for her, and she has all the rights to express it. But the point is if Taslima has thrown filth on the great Prophet Mohamed and Islam with her retarded vision and miniscule interpreting capabilities – what difference does it make to this great religion? Just ignore her – and her sale of books will drop.
Any comment of existing belief system doesn’t make the minutest difference for a believer. Taslima will be no more in another 3-4 decades, but Prophet Mohamed is immortal and Islam will survive forever! I am sure if Prophet Mohamed learnt about what Taslima said about Koran – he surely would have had a mighty laugh, for you don’t punish a toddler for peeing in its pants.
Posted by Kenni at 06:19 AM | Comments (0)
December 17, 2007
Few ‘not so serious’ telephonic conversations!
This incident took place some time before I had actually trained my mind to a ‘let go’ state of affairs. Way back in the year 2004, I was under the illusion that advertisement in newspaper about my existence, availability, and astrological services will bring me good number of clients. I didn’t have much fund to advertise in leading newspapers hence I opted to put an advertisement in the local newspaper named Adyar Times. I checked the previous issue of the newspaper and spotted another astrologer who already had advertised about himself. I thought talking to him about the response would help me clear little confusions I had on my mind about the feedback the ad can get me.
I called him and the conversation went this way…
Me – Hello, I am Kennedi here
Him - OK
Me – I am an astrologer
Him – OK
Me – I saw your advertisement in Adyar Times
Him – OK
Me – I just wanted to know the response you get through your ad
Him – OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Me – OK
Him – OK
Me – Thanks
Him – OK
I inserted an ad about myself in the newspaper after this ‘OK’ conversation and failed to a get a single response. After this particular ‘NOT SO OK’ experience I dropped the idea of advertising in newspapers completely.
I AM ‘Joking’!
At The Indian Express Online Media Ltd (also called as TIEOML), Mumbai, my boss’s name was Anil Nair. He was quite a famous guy, who had many friends to his credit – and he was/is also an active member of Press Club of Mumbai.
Mobile phones had not hit the market as yet, and people still were finding immense pleasure in flaunting their sick Pagers. Anil used to get many calls from his friends at office, and most of the calls used to come in his absence, and one of the jobs of us sub-ordinates was to attend his calls – and say Anil has just stepped out, may I know who is on the line?
I picked up the call once, and the conversation went this way…
Me – Hello
Him – Anil Nair?
Me – No, Kennedi
Him – Can I speak to Anil Nair?
Me – Yes, you can. But then he has not reached the office as yet.
Him – What time is he expected?
Me – (God knows) 11 ish
Him – Ok
Me – May I know who is on the line?
Him – I am joking
Me – that is fine, but who is on the line?
Him – I am joking
Me – you can joke later, but then what is your name?
Him – I am joking – J O E K I N G – Joe King!!
God knows why parents name their children with such Phani names!
Posted by Kenni at 12:53 PM | Comments (0)
December 14, 2007
Where Science stops, Arts begin!
Scientifically any woman is a bag full of bones, blood, flesh, and excreta. But the moment we think about women like Aishwarya Rai or our own girl friends we feel elated about an all-new concept called beauty, which sounds very unscientific. Also according to science when a man with a relatively good semen count has sex with a woman with proper ovulation– they will have children. But science cannot explain why a particular man falls in love only with a particular woman, and why a particular woman prefers to sleep with only those men whom she loves? There is where science stops and Arts begin…..
I have referred many books written on astrology, and in most of them I have noticed that the author struggles to refer to many scientists who believed in astrology. They do it may be to convince the readers about the greatness of astrology and to increase the credibility of their approach towards astrology. They also mention how scientific astrology is – right from the placement of planets in the horoscope to how mind influences the lines on our palms – and how scientifically it is used for predicting human lives.
It is very true that the present generation of pseudo intellects expects some strong scientific base to accept any subject, which doesn’t have clear-cut logic. But I strongly feel that the very effort to combine sciences and arts together is wrong. They exit on different planes where science can take you till the door, while Arts can take you beyond.
Take a rose to a scientist and peep into his eyes – and he will say calyx, corolla, androecium & gynaecium. And take the same rose to your beloved and peep into his/her eyes – you will see only love!
Adobe Photoshop is a scientific tool, which is used for designing purposes. Anyone can learn the usage of this particular software with in 2 days. You can explore the menu, and study what result each function can produce. But then only a creative person can produce something worthy out of this scientific tool, and this creativity isn’t science – it is an art. And give any tool to this creative person – he will come out with a beautiful design. Creativity doesn’t come out of a science lab - it comes out of the heart! The same holds true with any musicians, singers, moviemakers, writers, and astrologers.
Go to a psychiatrist if someone ditches you in love. All that he can do is give you sleeping doses. He neither can make you feel better nor could he help you come out of it. But psychologists can bring you out of your emotional pain in a couple of sittings – and psychology is again arts and no science. Man is an emotional animal, and for him to live a better life it is art that can help him more than science.
Nitrogen Dioxide can make you laugh for a while, but there is no scientific medicine to make you happy, content and blissful. Hence Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s meditation course is known as Art of Living and not Science of Living. (I neither have attended the course, nor am I marketing his course – it is just an example).
There are many things in life, which we need to believe and trust with closed eyes, or I should say just for the heck of it. There need not be any strong logic or scientific evidences behind them. That simply doesn’t mean they don’t exist - existence of God is one among them and working of astrology is another.
Posted by Kenni at 05:48 AM | Comments (0)
December 12, 2007
Funny chat conversation with an asshole!
The one who wins an argument need not hold the truth, and the one who loses the argument need not hold falsehood. There are many a people who call me a fake or a quack or a fraud – of course without meeting me in person or taking an astrological reading from me. They are conditioned that way by the scientific world, and there is no harm in it. For the world to run the non-believers are as much important as the believer themselves - in fact their presence complement each other perfectly well. Also for a believer no proof is necessary, and for a non-believer any proof is insufficient.
Anyone who is on the side of belief will lose arguments based on astrology, God, miracles, black magic, spirits et al for there is no clear-cut scientific evidence for these things. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist or they don’t work. If you put me on the side of non-believers I can win the argument even better than an existing non-believer. But my speciality would be I could argue from the believer’s end too – which an existing non-believer cannot for lack of knowledge.
I was just wondering what to blog today, and God sent me a non-believer who had guts only to buzz me on Yahoo messenger….
Here is the unedited chat conversation between him and me….
kdeveshwar: Hello Sir, I am Karan, need a consultation
kennedig: mail me your birth details - date, place and time of birth
kdeveshwar: but I am not jobless to do all those things, better give me ur opinion online
kennedig: J
kennedig: don;t u think ur statement was a bit arrogant?
kdeveshwar: u are here to do biz, give me ur paypal Id, I will pay whatever u want, but I cant send out my personal details in email
kennedig: u sure am here to do business?
kennedig: if am into business - then i surely would send a paypal request
kdeveshwar: then?
kennedig: but in ur case i refuse to do a reading for u
kdeveshwar: an erudite cant be egoistic
kennedig: i have the biggest EGO in the world and am proud about it
kennedig: am just a mirror - if u r good, am better...if u r bad, am worse
kdeveshwar: then dont call urself an astrologist, u are only suited to read palms like hags do in elliots beach
kennedig: lol. u r funny
kennedig: u either haven;t good sex in life or haven;t got a good parentage
kennedig: ur depression seems to get reflected in ur words
kdeveshwar: oh yea, u think urself as an reincarnation of osho too, pathetic souls
kennedig: i think u should change ur name from Eshwar to Mother fucker
kennedig: go on - i think i will put this chat on my blog site - it is getting interesting
kdeveshwar: yes its worth it, u dont have anything else that trash to fill up ur own carbage bin, do it
kennedig: don;t need ur consent for sure
kennedig: anything else dear?
kennedig: or u r short of words?
kdeveshwar: I am not short of words, but helpless to save ur clients who believe in quacks like u
kennedig: u bohter abour ur life - my clients will bother about theirs
kennedig: u know there is a button called ignore on yahoo messenger - whihc can ignore u completely
kennedig: but then i want to keep the conversation going - because am having fun at ur cost
kdeveshwar: dont ever do it as u will lose a guiding soul forever, I am here to show u a right path to redeem urself a bit
kennedig:
kennedig: show urself the path first
kennedig: am alraedy there
kdeveshwar: do u know wht's aminocentosis?
kennedig: and i never buzzed u - u buzzed me
kennedig: i surely don;t know the meaning of the word u used..i can;t even spell it...i know only one thing in life
kennedig: that God exists and i have realised his presence
kdeveshwar: bullshit
kennedig: God Bless YOu
kennedig: i can only say what Jesus said - Bless you because you don;t know what u r saying
kdeveshwar: u even make ur own fake prediction challenging medical science
kennedig: yeah i can do that
kennedig: i can even make scientists to lick my butt
kdeveshwar: sonography is what is seen just in front of own eyes not just making wild prediction in fake mental eyes
kennedig: ignorance is bliss
kdeveshwar: unless ur client's kid go for a transgender option sex won't change
kennedig: and u r ignorant...and am happy u r one
kennedig: my clients belong to the intelligent cadre - aren;t assholes like u Eshwar
kdeveshwar: dont u feel ashamed to make such predictions that they will smear mud on ur face after a few months
kennedig: u know i can defeat u any conversation - u just need to have the guts to meet me in person
kennedig: if God wants to smear mud on my face - am ready for that too
kennedig: and i know u will never have the balls to meet me in person
kennedig: coward u r - can only buzz me on messenger
kdeveshwar: all quacks and spineless like u drag god to support their false causes
kennedig: may be u r right
kennedig: i cannot drag ur prostitite mother to support me right?
kdeveshwar: this shows ur frustration
kdeveshwar: good u are losing control
kennedig: yeah i never said I am god
kennedig: i said am a mirror
kennedig: if u r bad...am worse
kennedig: didn;t i say - am enjyoing the chat
kennedig: or else i could have blocked u long back
kdeveshwar: u can do it, but won't benefit anything out of it
kennedig: i want few sentences more from ur side
kennedig: so that i can put it on blog
kennedig: after i get those sentences i will block u
kennedig: it is my priority whether am talking to u or not
kennedig: and not urs
kdeveshwar: pls blog it, let the world know ur fake values
kennedig: sure thing i will
kennedig: i care a hair about people like u
kennedig: and this blog will be a lesson to all those assholes out their - who without brains or analysis call astrologers fake
kennedig: and u should have seen, heard only about soft astrologers - i am the hardest one u will ever find
kennedig: physically and as well as mentally
kennedig: confront me in which ever format - you will eat the dirt soon
kdeveshwar: world has always given birth to such aberrations. that's god faults, even he needs some comic interludes like u on this serious earth
kennedig: u call it world - i call it God
kennedig: 2 more sentences
kennedig: Krishna gave Shishupaal 100 chances
kennedig: u have only 2 more
kennedig: be fast - u cant even type faster than me
kennedig: or think or act faster than me either
kennedig: ur count down starts
kennedig: 10
kennedig: 9
kennedig: 8
kennedig: 7
kennedig: 6
kennedig: 5
kennedig: 4
kennedig: 3
kennedig: 2
kennedig: 1
kennedig: chalo then
kennedig: thanks for the chat
These kinds of people are God sent who help me a lot to keep my cool and not to lose my focus and temper. In fact Jesus would have been forgotten long back if he wasn’t crucified. His greatness was in accepting and blessing assholes, and I do the same too..
God Bless the non-believers for they promote God and Astrology more than even the believers do!
Posted by Kenni at 07:58 AM | Comments (0)
December 11, 2007
The Anti IT Attitude!
The latest issue of Outlook has an interesting cover story. It is about how the IT industry has supposedly affected the otherwise green and culturally rich garden city. The article made a good read but what disturbed me was how the locals thrashed few IT guys recently just because they happen to belong to this newly emerging reserved genres. This heinous act is far worse than communal violence or racial discrimination. Of course violence is good, but then the reasons behind it should be strong enough – and this particular occurrence I feel is the most shameless thing that can happen in a Cosmo City called Bangalore!
The article also points at how – the huge salaries of IT people have led to the sky rocketing of real estate prices, which in turn has affected the non-IT persons’ dream of owning a house in the city, how the IT people have congested the city and polluted it beyond repair, and how the IT people have affected India’s culture by splurging money on West-influenced lifestyle.
I read a hoarding recently, which said – “Earn more than your father within 2 years”…join our IT course. It is very true that the money the IT people make today is 4-5 times or more than that which their parents made in their lifetime. I met a person who used to make 10k per month after 30 years experience in a bank, and his daughter started making 75 k with in 2 years in the IT industry. Now the real problem is how the non-IT people or the previous generation going to handle or react to this sweet TRUTH.
Firstly any new generation is always more intelligent and smarter than the previous one, and also life and society always moves towards better luxuries. The only thing the previous generation cannot digest was – the speed at which this jump from struggle for livelihood to luxury took place. It hardly took 10 years. And due to this very fact it became difficult for the non-IT people to handle IT’s success stories out of mere jealousy!
IT & Real Estate
I moved into my new house 2 years back when the rent was Rs 3500 – and I personally feel that it isn’t worth more than that any day. But today it is 7 k, which of course I feel is exorbitant - but when there are instant takers it can even go up to 10 k or 12 k. End of the day the price of any commodity depends on the buyer’s capability and its demand. And the IT guys have all the power and money to buy it - and we need to accept it.
If I am unable to pay the newly revised rent, I neither can ask my house owner to behave saintly and be non-greedy in life nor can I blame the IT guys for earning more. The only option left is to keep my mouth shut and move towards outskirts of the city where I can afford a decent house, without any complaints. Didn’t Darwin say – it is survival of the fittest - this holds true for all non-IT guys!
This was a foreseen problem, and if the government really wanted to help its citizens it could have asked all the IT companies to provide residential quarters for all their employees compulsorily in their premises. This would have kept the real estate value at check, would have avoided congestion of roads, would have reduced pollution, and also would have saved travel time for all the employees.
IT and the Previous Generation
It was not that our parents or the government employees out their chose to earn less for spiritual reasons and that they had an option to be a millionaire. In fact they never had any other option but to slog their butts to make few thousands, and get exploited at the hands of employers for decades together. House and car, which were considered to be their retirement plans is just 1-year away from the new generation.
The older generation can now just blame their fate to have born in the wrong era, and accept their bad luck, and should happily pave way for the newer generation.
IT and Indian Culture
The local Bangaloreans say that IT guys have tormented the Indian culture….
From the day I know Bangalore – all I could remember is sexy babes on MG Road, beers, and pubs. They were always there. How have the IT guys influenced them? May be they have helped them increase their business multifold in the last decade – which is a good sign for Indian economy.
And what Indian culture are we talking about? Even before IT boom happened in Bangalore, I have heard about Swingers sex parties and couple swapping being held in the city.
Indians tend to flaunt their monogamous stature to the world thinking they have better control on their erection, while the matter of fact is lack of elite brothels and professional prostitute have forced them to exist without any choice.
Pick any 10 culturally strong Indians and put them in the US – and the first thing they will ask for would be striptease joints! I don’t know whether we are culturally strong, but I can assure that we are all hypocrites by birth.
IT, sex and money
There is another set of argument, which says that IT guys don’t know the value of money, and they don’t even know how to spend it wisely – as if others do. Who cares anyways? The one who earns it has all rights to spend the way he/she wants it.
I know someone in the Textile ministry who makes 1 crore a day! They aren’t hard earned money but money which comes through corruption and red-tapism. When compared to Indian government the IT industry is far better for there is no corruption, and the taxes are paid rather snatched correctly on date.
The only problem with these politicians is they cannot use the money they earn for the fear of Income Tax department and the media. They can’t buy expensive cars – they have to travel by Ambassadors, they cannot wear expensive clothes – they have wear khadi, they cannot hire prostitutes – they might be victim of paparazzi. On the other hand the IT guys have all the freedom and the money – so why be jealous about their celebration?
IT & purpose
As rightly pointed out by Subroto Bagchi of Mindtree, most non-IT people really don’t know what the IT people are doing in those posh offices. All that we see from the outside is – neatly dressed men and women, with a company tag on their neck enter the office around 9 am and come out at 9 pm. They are picked up in the night and dropped at home in the morning. And for this they are paid a hefty salary.
The IT has helped India in many ways – right from bringing the mobile charges to 40 paise from 16 rupees per minute, to making a Chennai-based Indian astrologer to make you read this article sitting in your a/c fitted office – free of cost!
Posted by Kenni at 01:02 PM | Comments (0)
December 09, 2007
Bad Events? Keep flowing with a smile! - part 2!
The great singer S P Balasubramanian, music director Ilaiyaraja, and his brother Gangai Amaran were traveling in their Fiat car a couple of decades back. They were not very famous then, and were still struggling to make their names in the film industry. They were on a long drive on business purpose and all of a sudden their car toppled and fell into the nearby lake. The car was upside down and there were no signs of all the three!
After 2-3 minutes of struggle under water all the 3 came out unscathed. They looked at each other with immense fear in their eyes, and all of a sudden Ilaiyaraja said – I think our period of struggle is over – we will make it big in out lives. And from that particular day there was no looking back in their lives. All the three still hold a special place in the Tamil filmdom.
“Saturn transit will give you immense lift in your career and Jupiter transit will lead to minor health problems for you.” I told this to one of my clients, and with in 3 weeks the same person came to me saying he met with a bad accident. I said, “good.” He was kinda shocked. I said, “Jupiter has shown its results, now wait for the effect of Saturn.” I am sure this client of mine will rock in the year 2008 and 2009 – astrologically.
Our own Arun Pourie - the editor of India Today - had an interesting story to tell once. He was doing just ok in his life, when suddenly he fell into a manhole on a rainy day. He was about to drown and for seconds he thought his life is all over. But he came out with minor injuries and this particular incident brought plenty of insights and changes into his life. In fact he claims he succeeded more after that major fall.
These incidents do not mean that you should start falling into a lake, or dive into a manhole, or fall headfirst jumping from a lamppost to make it big in your life. They are just living examples of how God always keeps blessing and how good and bad are just passing clouds in our lives.
In fact we can say that -
Good and bad events in our lives seem so only because they clash with our general perception of good and bad. On a whole nothing is this world is good or bad – all events are somewhere in between - they are all neutral.
Another rule of life is - good leads to bad and bad leads to good, and you cannot escape both.
When you are running a good period you are afraid of the bad time, and when you are running a bad time you hope for a good period. And the moment you start flowing – both good and bad merge into harmony.
So try to exists somewhere in between…God Bless All!
Posted by Kenni at 10:55 AM | Comments (0)
December 06, 2007
Bad events? Keep flowing with a smile! – Part 1!
The year was 1996. We had to complete an internship at any of the newspaper organizations as part of our Mass Communication curriculum. Out of 17 students, 15 had already started their internships 20 days back. And the only people left out were my friend Chandru and me. No firm accepted us in Coimbatore & Chennai, hence we moved to Bangalore searching. The secular newspapers of India - The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, and The Times of India – all of them said they prefer Kannadigas to Tamil students for internship and rejected our requests. Hence we had to move to New Delhi to find Internship for ourselves!
We never reserved our tickets and had to travel by unreserved compartments. I don’t understand for what reason the unreserved compartments don’t have cushions to sit. Does it imply that the poor people’s bums have more resistance to wear and tear? Or the poor people have cushions attached to their butts? The 2 days journey was acute pain in the ass – literally! We neither could stand nor could sit properly. But we somehow reached New Delhi in proper format.
A senior of ours was trying to get us into some newspaper organization in Delhi, and nothing seemed to work out. He was trying hard for us in The Statesman too, but the chances looked meager. Personally both my friend and me were least disturbed by the event. We had enough money to splurge, and we carried a let go attitude.
We were called on the 5th for a meeting with the editor of the Statesman, and it was 3rd today. We had 2 days on hand, so we thought we could watch a movie in the meantime. Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman had just released, and we were just reaching the theatre. Chandru was a 6-footer, and I am just 5 feet 6 inches in height. We either had to take a round about road of 2 kms to reach the theatre or could simply jump over a divider and reach the theatre immediately. Chandru didn’t have a problem jumping it with ease, but when I tried a stunt like Jackie Chan – I fell from a height of 5 feet and landed on my hands and knees first, with my lips just kissing the roads.
I had got some 10-15 sprains in my hand, of which 1 or 2 is still persisting in my left hand till date. I can only thank God for saving my bones. I got up, held my left hand tight, and the first thing I told Chandru was – “Chandru don’t worry we will get the Internship on the 5th.” He was a bit taken back – why on earth am I talking about internship after a free fall?
On 5th we were on time for the meeting. The editor was in, and the secretary to the editor came out with a bad news. She said, we are sorry to tell you that we could not take you. We never lost the smile on our face. We thanked her and started to walk away. When we reached the out gate, the security’s phone rang. I asked Chandru to wait, and Chandru insisted we should to. I said wait, I think this call is for us. The security was clueless about the content of the call, and his eyes were searching for someone. We waited there patiently and the security asked – are you the guys who met the editor just now? We said yes. “The editor wants to meet you”, he said. And we were offered the internship.
I still don’t know what events took place in that 60 seconds – the time which took us to reach the out gate from the editor’s office.
Will be continued….
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December 02, 2007
You are born with a personal destiny!
My BIL (brother in law) is a highly efficient computer wizard and I am yet to meet someone who is in tune with computers as much as he is. But before getting into the IT field he was working as a government employee in Indian postal service. The salary was meager, but I am not sure about his contentment level then. Later I arranged an interview for him in Mumbai, and with a help of one of my close friends he got into IT. From then there was no looking back in his life. He earns in lakhs now, has invested in 3 houses and also a car.
At times I surely feel that whatever he is today is because of me. Here is another example.
I arranged an interview for another brother in law of mine at Sify.com. And he screwed it big time. He not only put me into trouble but also dragged another close friend of mine into it. The relationship between my brother in law and me got strained and it remains so still.
If I were really responsible for my first BIL’s success, then my second BIL should have also done well in his life. It never happened. Hence the truth is – you cannot be responsible for any body’s success or failure. Many a times things just happen through you, for which you cannot take responsibility. If my first BIL is successful, he is because of his own destiny and not because of my help. If it has happened through me, I can only be thankful and not egoistic about it.
Many a times people are already on the verge of change, and someone comes and gives them the needed break. This doesn’t mean that the one who was responsible for the break becomes greater than the seeker. They just compliment each other’s life. The doer ceases to exist if the seeker doesn’t exist. Just like a doctor ceases to exist if there are no patients, a spiritual master ceases to exist if there are no disciples, and an astrologer ceases to exist if there are no clients. They exist in perfect harmony – none is greater than the other.
The great Ramakrishna Paramahansa had 10-15 close disciples. But only one of them was able to make it big in his spiritual path - rest all were mere failures. In fact Ramakrishna Paramahansa was known to the world through Swami Vivekanand and not vice versa.
Of course Ramakrishna helped Vivekanand immensely, but it didn’t happen only because of the Master’s help. If it was so – then all the 15 disciples should have made it big in their lives, which never happened. The contribution should have been equal from Swami Vivekanand’s side too. And it is very much possible that whatever had to happen to Swami Vivekanand could have happened even without Ramakrishna, may be through some other master. And there is where personal destiny comes to play – whatever has to happen in your life, will happen - whether someone deliberately helps you or refuses to help you doesn’t really matter - destiny will overtake your course of life – sooner or later.
This particular blog comes in wake of few nasty comment passed by few important people in my life. They claim that whatever I am today in the field of astrology is just because of them. I am not sure whether I am successful today or not, but then they at least feel I am. Of course I am thankful and grateful to all those who helped me in my course of life – right from my Kinder Garten teacher who taught me English to ‘you’ who is reading my blog. I cannot deny it. But then if someone claims that I am what I am only because of certain people – then I refuse to take that shit. I am what I am ONLY because of MY personal destiny.
Here is another instance –
Whenever there is exchange of ideas between me and one of the managers of a particular website he/she always makes it a point to say – “remember Kennedi, we were the first to give you the break.” Point taken, but then what about my personal destiny? Just because they gave me the first break, I cannot be obliged to them forever. At the same time I cannot be less grateful to them. Also it was not that I was a mentally retarded beggar before taking up astrology as a career. I was doing well, and also was excelling in my dot com career. If I had not taken up astrology as a full time profession, I would have marveled in the IT firm.
And if I am doing well in astrology today - it is because of grace of God (50 per cent), blessing of a good teacher (25 per cent), and my personal destiny (25 per cent).
PS – Kindly don’t confuse personal destiny with personal effort – they are not the same.
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