Do donations and charity really work?

One day, one of my students, asked me, how is it that the donation of food or materials gave relief to a fellow person?”

I replied, “This is the theory of confusion.”

“What is that?” He asked, with a look of utter perplexity plastered over his face.

” Yes, this is the theory of confusion.”

“Can you explain it?”

“Say, one malefic planet (moon) wants to harm you.” I began to explain.

“Why will the moon harm me if I have not done any wrong to him?” He interrupted me.

Annoyed at his interruption, I explained. “First you should understand the theory . As per this theory, at the time of birth, we generate a horoscope of a person. In that horoscope, the 9 planets are placed in 12 houses as per the days, Lagan and Panchang.”

“From where do we get this information of placement?” He again asked.

“This information comes from Jantri. Jantri is a book which gives details of the present day’s start placement with its degree etc. And it gets published at the start of Hindu Year. Calculation of this book are very impressive and get corrected up to 99%. These calculations have been done from the ancient times. Evan during the time of Rama and Krishna. Pundits used to make horoscope with the help of these books.

Bhrigu Samhita is a refined form of these books.

The placement of the star as per your birth chart is fixed for your whole life, and the astrologer studies your past, future and present on the basis of these placements only.

“It means that the planets that were badly placed or malefic in my birth chart will always have a bad effect on my life.”

“Am I not going to gain anything in my life if the placements of the planets in my life are bad?” He asked.

I said “you are right! But there is one twist in this tale.

Though the birth chart planets are fixed for their results, the bad effects of planets can be reduced by confusing the star.”

“Confusing the star how?” He asked, truly perplexed now.

I then replied “By buttering up to a related planet that is causing these misfortunes in your life, it reduces its effect on your life. It will also give you the strength and the will to fight it over time.”

“Can you give me an example of this.” He requested.

I went on to explain further “Say your moon is bad, or it has been made that way because of your conduct. It is now revealing its ugly side. The bad effect can be seen in things which are governed by Moon, that is peace of mind, health of your mother or how much you earn.”

“Now to subsidize the bad effect we have two options, “I continued.

“Let the things go as they are (bad side) or follow the remedies defined for the moon.”

General remedies for the moon are donations of rice, milk, silver and so on and so forth. This is like serving food to a bad guy who has come to heart you.”

“What you do if a bad guy has really come to hurt you?” I asked him.

“Run. Run as fast as I can.” He replied.

“What if you can’t avoid him then?” Was the next question raised by me.

“I would simply go to him, try to cushion up to him, say sorry to him or even touch his feet if he is really a bad man and made up his mind to hurt me.” He replied.

“Same thing here boy, we are doing everything to pacify the planet.” I spoke.