A reading of Sri Ma’s palm on 5th
February 1937, as recorded in the diaries of Gurupriya Didi,
Volume IV, Pages 37-39
Jyotish
Dada introduced a gentleman from that house to Ma and said, "He has been to England and
is very
proficient in astrology." All the people began requesting him to read their palms. The gentleman
did pranam to Ma and with her permission began reading her palm. He
exclaimed, "I have never seen such
a palm
in my life before. I must have written out ten or twelve
thousand horoscopes - and I have read
a
countless number of palms, but this chatuh sagari yoga that
is present in this palm is capable of
almost anything at all, I know nothing but I say a little because of my Guru's will. I understand that Ma
has the
beneficience of four planets and so far only the effect of one planet has begun to manifest.
Work
worth only a quarter of a rupee has been achieved ;
what has been done will be nothing compared to
what is going to be done in the coming years. The waters will drown everything and rise still higher."
Jyotish Dada questioned, "How do you see Ma's sadhana ? Will it be of any help to the world
or not ?" The
astrologer replied, "What shall I say of
sadhana ? She is beyond it !" Jyotish Dada said,
"People say she is a
worshipper of Kali." The astrologer, Abinush Babu laughed and declared, "Kali will come and worship
her !
And about
being helpful to the world, I can only say that even
Chaitanya Dev and others had to put
some
effort to help the world, but in Ma's case, as I see it, even those deeds do not have to be performed.
Everything will occur of its own accord which
is called 'falling from above', In my life 1 have
seen
another
hand which appears to match this one. It is the hand of a person who lives near Manasarovar
and, as he himself told me, his age is 350 years. But he is a yogi and had to perform yoga to attain
his
present state. I see that Ma did not have to do even that. I
have read about certain markings in books,
but I
have never seen them on any human hands. Today I have sighted them on Ma's hand. My Guru has
said, 'Whosoever has such markings on his hand is beyond the control of the invisible".
After
making various such comments and after reading the
palms of some others, the astrologer spoke about the
invisible.
He was not like other astrologers and seemed to be enveloped by a strange mood. His readings
were
quite correct and he mainly disclosed the natures of
people. He is one who performs intense spiritual
practices. We heard that he took his image of
Siva with him when he went to England and worshipped the
image
every day.
Later he took me aside and said, "Listen, I have never seen Ma before. Yesterday when I sat down to do
puja I saw Ma. I have never seen such a phenomenon before. I have also never seen earlier what I saw on Ma's palm.
From the lines that I see on her hand I am convinced that she is Brahma Vidya Herself. I have absolutely no
doubts on this score. I am only afraid that she may not retain her body for long. I can see the marking of this
disaster looming over your heads but I am also anxious about the preservation of Ma's body,
therefore I
shall also ask Ma about it,"
In fact he did speak privately to Ma about all this and prayed to her to preserve her body. Ma replied,
"Whatever has to happen will happen; if you can protect this body then do so. To me everything is fine."
Abinash
Dabu said, "A disharmony is destroying this body and
without changing that it will be difficult to
look after
this body." On our asking him for a solution he
replied, "I shall also go to Ma and say whatever
occurs to me at that time. 1 shall certainly aspire for the protection of Ma's body, but what powers do we
have anyway? To speak thus to Ma is blasphemy. Yet I dared to read her hand only with her permission."