Omens

Omens have their origin from early man's attempts
to explain nature from human view point and they
are supposed to invite fortunes or evils incusive of death.
We have read more about omens in the plays of
Shakespeare
like Julius Caesar,Macbeth,Romeo and Juliet and
in many other plays.
China is noted for superstitions.
USA ,UK and other western countries too
have their own share.

• While leaving for a trip, if someone sees a married lady with flowers on her head and sindoor on her forehead, it is a good omen.

• Seeing an elephant on your way is considered auspicious.

• The curd and sugar are all we are aware of. Eating curd and sugar before heading for an exam or any other auspicious work brings success in the work.

• When talking to someone in your home, if you hear the sound of lizard in your home then it is a good omen. It means that the other person is speaking the truth.

• The power of dreams is also significant in India. Dreaming about gods, goddesses, auspicious animals, demons, or any other auspicious thing is considered good.

• Moreover, if you see a while cow and a calf in the morning then be happy, the day will be in your favor.

• A pot full of water, a mirror, a light, a pair of fish, turmeric, and flag, all are considered highly auspicious to witness.
• Many Indians also look at their hands in the morning while praying to Lord. They believe our fingertips contain goddess Lakshmi, Goddess Saraswati is in the middle, and goddess Parvati resides in the palm.

Bad omen

• A black cat crossing your way ;

• Seeing a woman who cannot conceive and a widow, both are bad omens in a country like India. Also meeting a woman dressed in white
• sweeping the floor at midnight;

• The twitching of a woman’s left eye and the right eye of a man is another symbol that is believed to be a bad omen.

• Falling of a picture, breaking of glass, or blowing off of a burning lamp causes a fearful situation for Indian people.

• Indian people also prevent walking under a ladder as people believe that it brings down one’s career
• Every one is particular in avoiding a bad omen rather than adhering to a good one.

All our epics contain innumerable examples of throbbing or
shivering,thunder and lightning forecasting fortunes or evils.
Western legends have no exceptions.
40 years back , at the time we started our trip on LFC,
the mirror held by my daughter fell down and broke to pieces.
We just drank a cup of water and left.
We reached Tiruchendur by bus from Tirunelveli.
Hardly we walked a few steps, I observed that my
diamond nose stud was missing and had fallen somewhere.
As the bus was scheduled for its trip we were advised
by the conductor to make a search in the bus,after it returns after 4 hrs
I had lost all hopes.Yet on the arrival of the bus I cleaned
the entire bus with broom and brush onlt to find ground nuts,
pieces of papers and bits of torn dirty cloths.
There was a torn slipper lying uncared which also I wanted to
throw away.
When I accidentally turned the slipper upside down,
my nose stud with four diamond droplets were dazzling in
between the accumulated mud in between the undulated
surface of the withered sole.Amidst hundreds of passengers
getting in and out of the bus for four hours ,the jewel had neither been noticed nor dragged away unknowingly.
The conductor exclaimed'The slipper is nothing but Arumuka Kavacham'
Happy and sorrowful events just happen unrelated
to omens.The outcome of the examination/interview
or bridegroom hunt is no way indicative of the positive
or negative omens preceding the event.It may be accidental
coincidence.
Normally men used to remark sarcastically that all WOMEN
have inbuilt OMEN within themselves Invariably men are
bound within WOMEN.
Dear OMEN,we do not want you neither to trouble us with
loathsOMENss and fearsOMENess, nor want you to be
as soothing as fOMENtation.No special nOMENclature
is needed to be branded as good or bad.
We humans are happy to reserve a cordial accommodation
to you not with irksOMENess but with a distinct mOMENto
of a unique status of 'incognito' for ever. Can you please remain calm without causing even a mOMENtary disturbance in us?
Will you quench your all time desire of creating phenOMENal
implications on us?Can you promise us not to take
any avatar of dream in Godmen leading to 'hunts'?
We expect this yeOMEN service from you.
Oscar Wilde remarked:
There is no such thing as OMEN.Destiny does not
send us heralds.She is too wise or too cruel for that."
Can members endorse saying'AMENl

jayasala42

 

Being brought up in a village in a joint family I am aware of all these omens. We can avoid certain things using our wisdom and common sense and definitely not on the basis of prevailing omens.We are not so great to be cautioned by natural forces of the impending evils. If it is so, no evil would have been faced by those who follow these superstitious things. Good and bad things are experienced by one and all in life. No omen can prevent bad things from happening whatever staunch faith you have on omens. They are just beliefs. To have faith or not is left to the individual.
Jayasala 42