Mother You said so ...

11 January 1963

There are many planets which are moving around. When a soul takes birth, it passes through certain planets at that time, and it feels their effect. There are, of course, vital, mental and physical beings to deal with. There are innumerable things but actually nothing is separate. The whole universe is wrapped in One—everything is One.

Some astrologers calculate times and dates and say things about one's life according to their calculations and intuitions. But they also fail in their prophecies. I met many astrologers in France, in India, in Japan and in Algeria but none could tell anything exactly.

I will tell you a true story. A man was told by an astrologer that he would definitely die on a certain day. So he wound up all his business and cleared up everything. The day arrived and he slept in order to wait for his death to come. Next morning, when he awoke, he saw all the things as they were before. Then he told himself, 'Goodness me! after death also I find the same things around me. Strange!'

Another true story is quite the opposite. A man was told by an astrologer that his son would die of drowning. So the father would not allow his son to go near the sea or any place where there was water. His son was not allowed to look even at pictures of the sea. Years passed by and the son became a young man, he got married, he had his own house, but still he had never happened to go near the sea. Once he went to a party, there he ate fish; suddenly a bone of the fish stuck in his throat and he died. So somehow he died of the sea.

Astrologers are not always perfectly right. Astrology is believed in mostly by ordinary people who do not have much intellectual development.

Even if astrologers are right, everything can be changed in the spiritual life. Whoever has taken the path of Yoga can change the surroundings and conditions. The horoscope is not binding on the spiritual life.

The horoscope is for the ordinary world — for worldly people. When you have taken the path of Yoga, the horoscope changes because the Law of the Lord is more powerful than the earthly laws. So when the pressure of the Law comes, the laws of the earth have no value: they become powerless and disappear.