Fortune Telling vis-à-vis
The Freedom to Choose
Who to Love and When to Marry
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ne sunny afternoon, I took a snack at McDonald’s which is quite near my university. As there were a lot of people at that time, I asked 3 ladies all in white uniforms, if I could sit with them and share their table. They looked at me and silently nodded. After thanking them, I sat down and hungrily took my first bite.
As I was busy eating my cheeseburger, I overheard that they were all nursing students. One student said quite excitedly and happily that she went to a certain woman a week ago and had her fortune analyzed thru card reading. The fortune teller told her that she will get married with her current boyfriend within the year. Her two classmates excitedly laughed. One remarked, “I do believe in card reading. There are some people who have such special talent. So, my dear friend, I guess you will be the first among us to get married.”
I felt like sharing what I know to put such fortune telling into proper perspective. As I took my ID, I said, “Excuse me. You see, I am a professor in the same university where you are studying. Here is my ID. I overheard that story about the woman who told you that you are going to get married within the year. I also do some kind of fortune telling and I do
it for free. Would you like me to re-check that story? Consider it as a sort of second opinion. I could do it in 10 minutes. Just give me your real first name and the first name of your father or mother”.
Each of them read my ID. When they gave it back to me, they briefly looked at each other with eyes asking if I could be trusted. Then one of them said, “Okay. We would like to have that second opinion as you said.”
I stopped eating and began to focus my mind. Ten minutes after, I told them, “You know, that idea of you getting married with your boyfriend this year comes from your mother as well as from the mother of your boyfriend who are good friends. They think that you and your boyfriend would make a good couple. They think it is hard to find a good man and a good woman nowadays. Thus, they believe it is a good idea that you and your boyfriend get married this year because you or your boyfriend still have two years to graduate. They believe that in two years, there is a great chance that you and your boyfriend might have some serious misunderstanding which would lead to a break up. Then, as there are a lot of bad and irresponsible people nowadays, either one of you or both of you might fall for a wrong, bad person. In the language of fortune tellers, these are the vibrations that I got.
In many cases, a partial reception of messages or vibrations, a partial understanding of a thing can lead to a different interpretation. It can lead to a wrong interpretation as in this case. The fortune teller wrongly thought that the vibrations of getting married which she received came from some kind of the hand of destiny when in fact it came from your own mother and from the mother of your boyfriend.
Another wrong interpretation comes from a wrong belief, a wrong framework of analysis about the fortunes of people. The truth is, there is no such thing as the hand of destiny or an entity called fate. The simple truth is that we make our own lives. Each of us has a free will, the free will to think rightly or wrongly, the free will to do the right things or to do wrong things in life.
There are only two things you can see in the future. One has to do with the result of a good or a bad action you did. I can know the result of important good or bad things you did in the past that will come back to you. That is called karma, the universal law of cause and effect. You should bear in mind that such results or effects of certain important actions you did were the results of your free will to choose a certain course of action.
Another thing you can know in the future has to do with your lovelife. There are at least two persons you are scheduled to meet in this life. Such a scheduled meeting or an appointment was arranged by your Soul with another Soul somewhere up there before you went back into this world. Again, such an appointment is the result of two Souls who freely decided, freely willed to meet again.
Of course most people do not consciously know this because they do not have access to their higher consciousness, the consciousness of their Soul. Then, not consciously knowing this, when two people meet due to the appointment they made up there, they feel something extraordinary, and sometimes they wrongly think that it was their fate, the hand of destiny that made them meet each other. Anyway, let us go back to your situation.
Because we have free will and therefore we make our lives, the important questions related to your getting married are, first, is it right for parents to determine for their children who to love and marry as well as when to marry? She shook her head and in a low voice said no.
I said, “You are right. Such an important decision in life must be made by the persons concerned. Parents can give advice and suggestions which is part of their role but the final decisions should be made by the persons concerned. The second important related question is, when is the right time to get married? Is it nice to eat an unripe fruit like an orange, a banana or a santol?”
She once again shook her head. I continued, “There is a right time to do something, a season for everything. Our life, just like many things in nature, have stages. One stage should lead to another and in every stage, there is a primary thing to do. For instance, at the stage when we are still young and are still studying, our priority is our studies. After graduating, our priority is to build a career. At a certain point in our career, our priority is to get married and raise a family. If while studying, we get married and have children, we break, we disrupt the right, natural flow of the stages of life. There will then be an imbalance, and you will have serious problems.
Regarding your situation, one important aspect of the right time to get married of course has to do with financial independence and stability. This means that you and your boyfriend have jobs to enable both of you to live independently in a decent way. Other important aspects of the ripeness to get married has to do with the level of a person’s emotional, mental and moral maturity. Adults who think and behave in a childish, selfish and irresponsible manner are obviously not ready to shoulder the duties and responsibilities of married life. As you and your boyfriend are still studying, it is not the right time to get married.”
She and her two friends looked at me in a somewhat curious, somewhat surprised manner. After a few minutes of silence, the student who had her fortune analyzed, “You are a professor of history in this good college of ours. Therefore, you must know what you are talking about. How do you know these things? How did you learn these things? That woman who read the cards and told my fortune, is she a fake? How do you know whether a certain fortune teller is real or not?”
I lightly smiled and said, “I learned these things sometime in the middle of 1994. I had then some kind of an unusual experience. This is not the right time to share that experience. Perhaps, some other time. When you have firmly decided that you seriously want to study these unusual things, see me. I would happily share these unusual knowledge and skill.
I don’t know that woman who read your fortune so I cannot say if she is real or not. There are fortune tellers who are bad people. They have bad intentions of making money out of fooling people. They are plain and simple swindlers, charlatans. They should be jailed. Worse, they wrongly affect people’s lives, creating serious problems for people. If you follow the wrong reading of this kind of bad fortune tellers, your life will have more problems, more complications.
There are fortune tellers who are good people. They have good intentions of helping people thru some amount of knowledge they have acquired in card reading or palm reading. The problem is that while they have good intentions, they do not have a comprehensive, right way of looking at life and they have a very limited knowledge of the esoteric sciences, the mystical arts. And so, they give people the wrong ideas like making people believe in fate, in the hand of destiny. Getting and using only bits and pieces from the vibrations can easily be misinterpreted like what had happened to you.
Further, not knowing the right way of looking at life in general, they cannot give the right advice. These good-intentioned fortune tellers should know the limitations of their ability to read vibrations and honestly tell those seeking their knowledge that these information they got from card reading or palm reading are just bits and pieces. The clients then should be advised to be careful in trying to know the full meaning of these bits and pieces of information because it can be misinterpreted.
These fortune tellers should also study the right way of looking at life, the right way of looking at important things, important relationships, etc. Only then can they give the right advice. Those who really know these things do not look at these extraordinary skills and knowledge as an opportunity to earn money but rather as an opportunity to help people.
When the Lord Jesus cured the blind, did He ask for any payment? Jesus even gave back the life of a dead man who deserved to be revived. Did He charge anything for such a very extraordinary service? One should not make a business out of helping people.
You might be late for your classes now in the same manner that I have to go and catch my class. Remember, we make our own lives. There is no such thing as fate, no such thing as destiny. I hope you will make the free, right decision. Focus on your studies now. Finish your course. Then build a career and later, get married. This is the right general plan to follow. Goodbye. Take good care of yourselves. I hope to see you all again.”
They stood up, smiled and thanked me. Just before leaving, the student who was supposed to get married within the year said, “You are a different kind of history teacher. I will see you again, Sir.”
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