Learning with the Mother

PALM READING

One day when the Mother sat surrounded by the children, She suddenly asked a child to show her palm. She commented something on the child’s future. Immediately another child put out his palm and then the third and fourth child followed and so on, the Mother saw the palms of all the children. Unfortunately, nothing of what She said to the children has been recorded. But I remember, She told one child that your hand is very artistic and you may become an artist someday. To another child, She said that you are very intelligent and whatever profession you take up you will do well. She also told another child that he would become a good engineer and so on.

After seeing the last child’s hand the Mother stood up to leave. I thrust my palm in front of Her too. She held my hand and suddenly became very serious. Without saying a word, She dropped my hand and left the class.

I was also not one to leave Her at that. I followed her to Her room in the Playground and asked Her that why did She not comment anything after seeing my palm.

She quietly went and sat on her divan and took my hand in Hers and started to study my palm again. I knelt before Her with my hand outstretched. She then went into a trance for a few minutes. When She opened Her eyes She explained to me that my line of fate and destiny was straight and strong but my life-line was very short, I therefore needed to aspire for a longer life so as to be able to fulfill my strong destiny. There was a gap between my life-line and the destiny-line and the destiny-line was going only partly over my life-line. She told me that the life-line had to join the line of destiny and I would have to aspire for it strongly. She also explained that for people on the spiritual path it was much easier to change their destiny if they sincerely aspired towards the change.

Since I was only fifteen years old then, I started folding and pressing my thumb on to the palm and placing my palm under my head every night before sleeping.

That was my childlike way of aspiring. But of course the Mother worked on me and in due course the life­line extended to join my line of destiny.