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Younger Siblings
CHAPTER 3 OF 12
Chapter 3: your younger siblings, and where your courage shows
Chapter 3 reads your younger brothers and sisters: their lives as a whole, the major problems in them and the high points. It says whether you and they keep a good relationship, and who is going to give you trouble. It also records where and when your courage can be shown, and your physical compatibility.
What this chapter covers
Chapter 3 is about the people born after you. The Maharishis describe your younger siblings and their overall life, not a single episode of it. The major problems they meet are set down, and so are the highlights, the points where their life goes well. You hear both, in the same passage, about a person you have probably stopped being able to see clearly.
The chapter then turns to the line between you. It says whether you are able to maintain a good relationship with your sibling, which is a plainer question than most people expect to be asked out loud. The chapter also explains who will give you trouble in your life. That is why this chapter is often read by people who did not come in thinking about their brother or sister at all.
Courage is the second subject of Chapter 3. Not courage as a compliment, but as something located in time and place: where your courage can be shown, and when. The Maharishis record it as a fact about you, in the same register as everything else on the leaf, and it tends to arrive as a correction rather than as praise.
Physical compatibility and physical pleasures are also explained in this chapter. They are read as part of the same passage and in the same measured way, without elaboration beyond what the leaf carries.
Questions this chapter answers
Seven questions Chapter 3 is read to answer, every one of them drawn from what the Maharishis set down here.
- What does the leaf say about my younger brother or sister’s life as a whole?
- What are the major problems my younger sibling meets?
- What are the highlights in my younger sibling’s life?
- Will my younger sibling and I be able to maintain a good relationship?
- Who is the person who will give me trouble in my life?
- Where can my courage be shown, and when?
- What is written about physical compatibility?
How Chapter 3 sits with the rest
Chapter 3 covers only the siblings born after you. Elder brothers and sisters have their own chapter further along, Chapter 11, elder siblings, which also carries second marriage and gains. If you want both sides of a family read, both chapters have to be read; neither stands in for the other.
This is read from your leaf, not your sibling’s. What the Maharishis describe is their life as it is written into yours.
The chapter before it, Chapter 2 on education and speech, deals with the way you talk to people, which is frequently the thing standing between two siblings. The chapter after it, Chapter 4 on your mother, land and vehicles, covers property, and property is the other thing. Read together, the three explain a good deal of what goes wrong in a house.
Physical compatibility appears again in Chapter 7, first marriage, there in the context of a husband or wife. Trouble from people outside the family, including who they are and how to recognise them, belongs to Chapter 6. How the leaf is found, and the order the chapters are read in, is on how a Nadi reading works, and the seven special chapters are a separate reading altogether.
Questions people ask
What if I have no younger siblings? +
The chapter still has something to say. Alongside siblings it records where and when your courage can be shown, who will give you trouble in your life, and physical compatibility. Whatever the Maharishis wrote about siblings on your leaf is read out as it stands, and nothing is added to fill the space if they wrote nothing.
Does Chapter 3 cover my elder brother or sister as well? +
No. Chapter 3 is for siblings younger than you. Elder siblings and the relationship between you and them are read in Chapter 11, which also covers second marital life and the modes through which gains come to you. If both matter to you, both chapters have to be read.
Can the chapter really say who will give me trouble? +
Chapter 3 explains who will give you trouble in your life, in the terms the Maharishis used. It is read out exactly as written, without being turned into an accusation against a particular person in your family. If enemies outside the household are your concern, that detail sits in Chapter 6 instead.
Why is courage in the same chapter as siblings? +
Because that is how the Maharishis arranged the twelve chapters. The chapter that speaks about your younger siblings also records where and when your courage can be shown. We read the chapter in the order it was written rather than splitting it into subjects that would suit a modern index.
Is this chapter read for me or for my sibling? +
For you. It is read from your leaf, found from your own thumb impression. What the Maharishis describe is your younger sibling’s life, the major problems and the highlights in it, and the state of the relationship between the two of you, all as recorded on your leaf rather than theirs.
Where to go next
Chapter 2: education and speech
The chapter before this one. How far study runs, which stream to concentrate on, and what your speech earns or costs you.
Chapter 4: mother, land and vehicles
The chapter after this one. Your mother, property and the age at which land and vehicles come to you.
Questions before booking
Who can come along, what happens if the leaf is not found, and how much of the family can be read in one sitting.
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