On my morning walk yesterday, the signboard of a tailorshop caught my eye. It used to be “Julie Tailors”. Only now it has become “Jully Tailors”. I know the chap from his apprentice days. After a very good apprenticeship with a popular tailor, he put up a shop in the heart of the town and was coming up. Then tragedies started raining in his personal life, reducing him to penury. He closed his shop was not to be seen. Then after a few years, he opened his shop at the outskirts of our place in a humble way. Obviously, he was recovering slowly. Probably, at this stage, somebody must have suggested numerology to him. Desperate for revival, he must have taken the idea and so you have now, “Jully Tailors”. God bless him!
I know another chap, who had more than his share of business failures. He was desperately looking for solutions. He tried palmistry, astrology and then what? You guessed it, “Numerology!” He paid a princely sum of Rs.5000/- for an appointment with a famous numerologist. Got his name changed. That was years back. As far as I know, his problems still remain. Sensibly he has returned to the name given to him by his parents. God bless him too!.
My full name is a long one, which once a friend remarked looked like a “goods train to him”. Funny! I could not see the connection. But I generally use the short form, ‘SURI’ everywhere but for official documents. A colleague of mine who was avidly reading books on numerology told me: “Do you know if a person has “U” and “I” in his name, he will always have money in his pocket; knowing me personally, then he added defensively: “Though it may not always be his.”
Now, those of your believers in numerology, don’t pounce on me. I am not denouncing numerology. I have an open mind and only I am yet to come across people who have been helped by numerology. Maybe there is something in it, or maybe not. I only feel that one should use one’s brain to find solutions to problems. Faith in oneself, hard work, perseverance and some prayer may help. Don’t you think so?
I know another chap, who had more than his share of business failures. He was desperately looking for solutions. He tried palmistry, astrology and then what? You guessed it, “Numerology!” He paid a princely sum of Rs.5000/- for an appointment with a famous numerologist. Got his name changed. That was years back. As far as I know, his problems still remain. Sensibly he has returned to the name given to him by his parents. God bless him too!.
My full name is a long one, which once a friend remarked looked like a “goods train to him”. Funny! I could not see the connection. But I generally use the short form, ‘SURI’ everywhere but for official documents. A colleague of mine who was avidly reading books on numerology told me: “Do you know if a person has “U” and “I” in his name, he will always have money in his pocket; knowing me personally, then he added defensively: “Though it may not always be his.”
Now, those of your believers in numerology, don’t pounce on me. I am not denouncing numerology. I have an open mind and only I am yet to come across people who have been helped by numerology. Maybe there is something in it, or maybe not. I only feel that one should use one’s brain to find solutions to problems. Faith in oneself, hard work, perseverance and some prayer may help. Don’t you think so?
Incidentally, Wikipedia has a lot of information on Numerology. If you are interested, just click: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology
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