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NADI
JYOTISHYAM
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Nadi (pronounced
'naadi') Jyotishyam, is a unique way of unravelling a person's
past, present and future. Popular in Tamil Nadu, this is a system
where any person who gives his or her thumb impression, can know details
of previous birth(s), sins, virtues, the rationale behind one's present
birth, one's future in this birth and also details of future birth(s).
It is claimed that sage Agastya had the knowledge and vision
of the reasons for the birth of each human being. He wrote this down
on palm leaves called Yedugal, meaning books, in Tamil.
During the reign of King Sarabhoji of Tanjavur (circa 18th
century A.D.), these were rewritten and referred to as Volai
Chchuvadugal, meaning leaf prints. These prints form the keys
to the thumbprints in the prediction process.
Today a few families, from places like Chidambaram and Kancheepuram,
in Tamil Nadu, have inherited these palm leaf prints, for generations
and are involved in predictions for seekers, both within the country
and from abroad.
D. Balasubramaniam, 39, of Sri Agathiyar Nadi Jothida Nilayam,
from Kancheepuram, is one such Nadi Astrologer. Chennaibest.com
spoke to him in this exclusive interview:
Why is this process of Prediction called "Nadi"?
Normally, any astrologer can go to any place, refer to a palm or a
horoscope and predict. However, our system involves referring to the
ancient palm leaf scriptures, which are in one place and cannot be
moved frequently. Hence the person, who wants to know of his or her
birth details, has to come to our place and "seek" these details from
us. In Tamil the word "nadi" means seeking, among other things.
What is the system of your prediction?
 Any
person, who seeks this information, has to come to us on any day,
except Tuesdays, before 8.00 am, and give us his or her thumbprint.
Right thumbprint for men and left thumbprint for women. Based on their
thumbprints, we search and refer to the correct collection of palm
leaves that belong to that particular person's details. There is a
palm leaf print for every type of thumbprint. As per our system, the
thumbprints of human beings are classified into 108 major varieties.
Among these 108 varieties, there always are differences. So, we study
the prints carefully and pick the concerned palm leaf print/s. Then
we check with the concerned person, on parameters like their names,
their parents' names, their place of birth etc., which are indicated
either directly or indirectly in the palm leaves. If all the parameters
are met with and accepted by the person seeking, as correct, we shall
proceed with the predictions.
In what language do you predict?
I read from the scriptures, which are in ancient Tamil and not comprehensible
by many, today. Hence we also give definitions for certain words and
try to explain in understandable Tamil. Today, we are also able to
help people with predictions in English, Hindi and a few South Indian
Languages.
How about predictions to foreigners?
They may be from different places, religions and of different languages.
We have received seekers from many foreign countries. But, today,
most of our foreign clients are from Japan. They always bring their
own interpreters and we never found it difficult to predict to them.
Even if they are from different places and belong to different religions,
there are indications in the palm leaves and while checking for the
parameters, we found that they do match.
How long does this procedure take?
 It
takes about 4 hours to search for the correct palm leaf print. Then
depending on the person's request for information, it may take another
few hours, to predict and explain. If it is in Tamil, we may process
in about 4-5 hours. For other languages, it takes more time.
What is the accuracy of your predictions?
99% accurate, as claimed by my clients.
How long have you been practising this?
To my knowledge, our family has been into predicting from the palm-leaf
scriptures for about three generations. I had been initiated into
studying the palm leaf prints in my teenage. It took me about four
years to understand and decipher the ancient script (which is very
miniscule and looks like flowing scrawl). It took me a further six
years to understand the content of the scriptures, to enable me venture
into predictions.
Have you learnt this on your own or did you learn it under anybody's
tutelage?
I have learnt the art from my father's younger brother Sri V. S.
Arul Siva Arumugam, who became my guru.
Are you training anybody now?
Yes.
Normally this art is found in and around Chidambaram. How come in
Kancheepuram?
I hail from a small village called Valathan Pattinam, near Mayuram
of erstwhile Tanjavur and today's Nagai Qaid-e-Millat district of
Tamil Nadu. However, I had a foreboding that I will be comfortable
in a place, which is an abode of Goddess Amman. Since Kancheepuram
is the abode of the Goddess Kamakshi, I came here in the year
1987 and have settled here.
The way clients, from far and wide, throng Sri Agathiyar Nadi Jothida
Nilayam, it appears that Balasubramaniam's prediction, for himself,
has indeed come true.
- Hemantha Kumar Pamarthy
Pictures : Leslee Lazar |
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