Constellations or Con Artists?
Dear Diary,
Well guess what, my mother not only wants but expects that I fall in love with India by the end of February. Having lived out of it for 18 years, I find a tad bit hard to do.
Anyway, so on our JOURNEY here. We went to a Nakshatra (Constellation) Convention today. And we thought it would be really cool, they'd have seminars, and famous astrologers. But what we hoped was far from the truth. When we got there, it was literally a bazaar of astrology to aura healing to tarot cards and vastu- and not information about them, no not at all. But, items to buy, readings that are charged, and souvenirs to supposedly relinquish your worries.
ALONG with that there was a plastic pyramid tent that you could sit and meditate inside to energize yourself and reduce negativities. The secret was that there was an elixer of the 9 planets that was placed on top of the pyramid for us to inhale.
If I had to sum up the exhibition in 3 words- gems, gems, gems would be it. As there even more of them than gold plated yantras (which you can find on paper everywhere 100 times cheaper) and I guess they had to - to fill up the gap of the mantras, cds, and actual seminars.
As you can see, I was not impressed. But something did come out of it. I realized, and I'm sure I've said this before (but probably not enough) is that we are special. Seeing the country and the people and their culture from a bird's eye view; the spread of materialism and greed is visible and evident.
My mother believes in astrology as a science and God's own divinity to help people, where as I do $ee a lot of dough in it; I also agree with her sentiments. As there should be more good people in this world (to get trampled upon).Perhaps this is why astrologers and pundits have lost their name, because they have been reckless with the power they behold and try to scare and cheat people with this selfless divination.
Some observations about the bizarre bazaar:
- All the Tarot Readers were women. Smug, superficial ones who looked alike. And I didn't go for their free reading as I don't believe they have the intuition nor the spirituality to read the cards. Frankly I didn't want their worldy advice or analysis as I'm an out of the world person. The thought of doing Tarot in this country has deteriorated thanks to them- no way in hell are we gonna be associated to those wannabe's!
- Another point to note is, with all their flyers and business cards they distributed- they had at least 10, and sometimes even 19 specialties listed. How can 1 person expertise in Astrology, Numerology, Reiki, Tarot, Acupressure, Feng Shui, Hypnosis, Crystal Healing, Vastu, Thumb impressions???(Gonna read my DNA or pull up my police record?), and Spiritual Healing. All that means is that they hardly know anything.
- Now what's this 'Spritual Healing'? What does that even mean? We asked one of them, they couldn't answer. There are so many ways a person can be spiritually healed- good will, praying, a pilgrimage, a vacation, good news...come on!
Now that I've discussed the fair. I know you're dying to know how my day went and how I insulted the astrologers! And you can! All you need to do is go to my adventurous narrated Nakshatra 2008 album, you won't regret it!
http://picasaweb.google.com/karmicsecrets/Nakshatra2008
Until my next awesome post,
Tata Lamerzzzz
Bhairavi
http://picasaweb.google.com/karmicsecrets/Nakshatra2008
Until my next awesome post,
Tata Lamerzzzz
Bhairavi
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