Your Destiny In Thumb by R G Rao (Hindu System of Thumb Reading as in Ravana Samhita) [RP]

PREFACE

Several foreign experts have proclaimed in their books that Indian astrological sciences are mar vellous, precise and accurate. I evinced keen interest in these sciences since my boyhood, contacted many scholars and with great difficulty I acquired bits of lore from each one of them. Sages (Seers) have declared in many stanzas in the silence of the finger Lines that one with a single chakra (wheel) is ever self-indulgent and one possessing two chakras will receive royal honours: also that he who is endowed with the fish line (matsya-rekha) will be rich. But, in the course of practical verification of the generals tion, it was noticed that persons having only one chakra were miserable from lack of food and clothing. when people exhibiting the matsya rekha were unhappy being without riches. Quite naturally, the doubt arose in my mind as to the validity of these formulae. Then followed years of patient application and verification. When 1 strove to make a deep research, the real truth at last became evident. We may observe the Chakra (wheel) generally, in

all hands; but the concept of the wheel raised in the mind several types of the same, namely-the wheel of the cart, the potter's wheel, the wheel of the chakra kha, the Vishnu, the Shree, the Siva Chakras and the Chakra of the nine planets (Navagraha Chakra) etc. Hence, it becomes important to decide which chakra denotes the coming in of riches. It may be borne in mind that when the wheel of the cart is broken, the cart cannot move along. But if the journey is under taken, it is possible that some unexpected accident or trouble may arise in the middle. Hence, a close 

examination of the shape of the chakra becomes necessary. Even so, it is equally vital to examine how the Matsya, lotus, temple, palanquin and wheat lines have been formed by the confluence (meeting of certain lines in particular planetary positions. The knowledge gleaned from a close study of the famous 'Nadi Granthas' (the entire future of mankind is contained in the palm-leaf, nadi grathas)-the Nandi nadi, Ravana Samhita, Suka Nadi And the assistance of Pandits have been tested and verified over innu merable hands and after arriving at the real truth I have described the same together with real thumb impressions. The source-books are in Sanskrit, Tamil and Pali languages. The Ravi, Nandi and Suka Nadis reveal from each of the symbols of the palm-the exact dates of birth and the tale of previous births of an individual. But, the Tamil book-Ravana Samhita exhibits the Janma lagna and even the entire history of an individual on the basis of the mysterious signs on the thumb alone. This book entitled "Your destiny in Thumb" indi cates how the 'lagna' is to be arrived at the definite predictions of life's happenings made accordingly. I am very grateful to all those who have con sented and given their thumb-impressions for com piling this work. I request the readers very humbly to excuse the unavoidable mistakes appeared in the book.

-R. G. RAO