Guest guest Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Dear members, I have been reading the beautifully written autobiography of the great V.Kurien "Father of the white revolution" who revolutionised milk production through the milk cooperative at Anand (Gujarat)under "AMUL" brand. An interesting extract from (page 26) "I too had a dream" by Verghese Kurien " Around this time my friend Medora, now a chemist with the Bombay Milk Scheme's laboratory at Anand, asked me to accompany him and his brother on a rather unusual trip. His brother wanted to consult a chhaya jyotishi in Cambay. The chhaya jyotishi measured your shadow in the noonday sun, consulted his collection of ancient parchments and looked for the one that matched with the measurement of your shadow and predicted the future. ............ "After Medora's brother got his shadow 'read', they persuded me to do the same. So as not to appear a spoilsport and also for some fun I stood in the sun with the jyotishi measured my shadow. Shuffling through the bunch of parchment-like leaves, and finding what he was looking for, he read out: "You have no faith." I told him he was absolutely right: I was an atheist. Ignoring me, he continued to read out some details about my family and childhood which turned out to be absolutely accurate. He then asked me if he could read me my future. By this time I was rather intrigued so I agreed. "Among the many things the jyotishi told me, a particular detail remained firmly stuck in my mind: 'You are very unhappy in your job right now but within a month you will change it and then you should just sit back and watch,' he read out. 'Your career is set for a phenomenal rise - the kind you can never imagine.' I had smiled sceptically to myself then, but in hindsight what he predicted could not have been truer. Within a month I left the government creamery to join the Kaira cooperative. The rest, as they say, is history. Till today I have not arrived at any rational explanation for the Chhaya jyotishi's prophecies. Certainly it did not turn me into a believer. I continue to have no faith in occult matters and consider this little incident as simply one of life's curious incidents." Regards, Pradeep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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