The Fate
This is going to be the most controversial piece I have ever written, but I have gathered enough courage, solidified by the experiences I have had so far. As the title suggests, I am going to speak about “The Fate.” Most people might just ignore it as a superstitious term, but once upon a time, I wrote the opposite: that “accident” and “luck” are both useless, superstitious words. This article is not just to argue that fate is real, but to share how I came to the realization that every atomic movement and event is precisely predetermined. Why? How? I am simply going to share my experiences, thoughts, and inferences, and I am leaving the rest up to your own thoughts.
The Story
Since childhood, I have seen many methods of fortune-telling in my surroundings. There were, and still are, many forms of them. I was always drawn to mysteries, which sparked my interest in this field as well. Eventually, I found some excellent resources to learn Indian Vedic astrology, which involves reading the positions of planets in space and relating them to how they affect each human based on their time and place of birth. When I started learning, it was quite interesting to connect each of my life events to planetary motions. To keep it short, after studying astrology, I was able to relate every instance in my life, as well as the lives of my family and friends, to astrology and understand why things happened.
Evolution of My Inferences
After learning some astrology (I have probably only covered about 10% so far), I initially thought that planets moving in space were actively causing these effects on people. Even the person I was learning from has said and believes the same that planets causing this effect in your life. Everyone in my surroundings who believed in astrology shared this exact thought. The common belief system dictates that some higher force is acting upon us — some good, some bad — and if you want to escape the bad, you must perform rituals, make offerings to Gods, or find other shortcut methods.
But one day, it hit me: these planets aren’t causing these events; they are merely a map to view your life, much like Google Maps. The truth is, everything is predetermined. If you want to know what is predetermined, you must correlate various bodies (the known with the unknown). To explain this clearly: to us, human life is uncertain; we do not know what the next moment holds. However, with the help of modern scientific advancements, we understand celestial body movements and can calculate them precisely. Ancient people were highly observant and managed to create a map and a set of rules to correlate known entities (celestial bodies/planets) with unknown entities (humans/living beings). By using their rules to correlate the known and unknown, once you understand the moving bodies, you can predict the destiny of the unknown bodies.
My Experiences
After learning Vedic astrology, I predicted a few instances in my life and was able to correlate parts of my past. The same applied to my friends. Sometimes, I even corrected the timeline of events in their lives that they had previously remembered incorrectly. I mention this not to boast about my skill, but to justify that the rules I have studied so far are true!
For example, I met a 60-year-old person, looked at his birth chart, and made predictions about his siblings. He mentioned that one of them had passed away, and I guessed it happened in 2018. He said no, it was 2017. I took a pause and started recalculating, at which point he corrected himself: “Yeah, you were right, it was 2018.” There are so many instances like this.
The conclusion I came to is this: if one major event is pre-decided and can be seen through a birth chart (celestial chart), then every minor event must also be predefined or pre-destined to make that big event to happen, according to both contemporary science and common sense. If you or I could change just one event — one day, hour, minute, or even a second or even an eye blink — the entire trajectory of the universe would shift. This sounds most superficial but not as per rules of science. What I understand now is that, according to Vedic astrology, rules have been established to correlate every single event; it is just that I, and other astrologers, are not yet skilled enough to read and understand them completely. To reiterate, this article does not advocate for astrology, but rather for “The Unwavering Fate.”
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Before I jump into another mind-blowing experience I had, I would like to share a few writings from Tamil poets, saints, and sages. If I am the only one talking about this, it might just seem like a random thought. By quoting them, I hope to show you that great historical figures also spoke about this, encouraging you to at least consider it (though I have reached a point where I believe even your consideration is decided by fate ;D).
The following verses are from the “Thirukkural” (a Tamil text written 2,000 years ago):
ஊழிற் பெருவலி யாவுள மற்றொன்று சூழினுந் தான்முந் துறும். Explanation: What is stronger than fate? If we think of an expedient (to avert it), fate itself will be with us before the thought.
நுண்ணிய நூல்பல கற்பினும் மற்றுந்தன் உண்மை யறிவே மிகும். Explanation: Although a man may study the most polished treatises, the knowledge which fate has decreed to him will still prevail.
There are also similar references in “Purananooru” (another ancient Tamil poetic work). These poems were written by great Tamil poets who must have documented this after witnessing life unfold before them.
My Strange, Mind-Blowing Experience
So far, I have spoken about Indian Vedic astrology, but there was, and still is, another way of knowing the future. It involves reading your thumbprint and predicting your future (actually, it is not predicting, but reading). This is called “Nadi Astrology.”
The procedure is simple: you provide your thumbprint to a skilled man who filters through and finds your specific palm leaf containing ancient Tamil poems written about you. Once he locates your leaf, he reads it. In my experience, I never shared any personal information, yet the reader correctly read my name, my family members’ names, and even my exact date and time of birth. I referred a few friends, and he was 99% accurate for them as well. To add to this, one of my friends had been using the wrong birth time for over 25 years. Through her leaf, we found the correct time, which was later verified.
These palm leaves are said to have been written by Agasthiya Muni (a old Tamil sage) thousands of years ago. My question is: how can a person who lived thousands of years ago write about someone who will live thousands of years in the future? Moreover, how could he write down the exact name they would be given, who their parents would be, who they would marry, how many children and siblings they would have, and the details of their death? Everything is documented. I have listened to people who had their leaves read decades ago, and they say everything happened exactly on the spot, without a single change! How can this happen?
After raising so many questions, I do not want to turn this into a purely philosophical debate. I leave that up to the readers. For the people who do not believe this, no issues. To me, that is simply “The Fate”.
