A great value of the Nadi is that it gives you an understanding of the link from your prior birth to your current life.

It also provides the exact ways to transform the residual karma from the previous birth. Your past really can come to haunt you. The Rishis not only wrote down your soul’s roadmap on your Nadi leaf but also prescribed a list of ‘remedies’ or ‘course corrections’ that will reroute you in a favorable path.

The Rishis had special scribes carefully etch each letter of your story into the dried leaf with a special tool or stylus. This was done all by hand to avoid splitting the leaf. The writing was almost always continuous, without any space between words. This is one reason why the reading of the leaves requires training, as well as an understanding of the ancient languages of Tamil or Sanskrit. When the etching was complete, lamp black or turmeric was applied to increase contrast and make it readable, and oil was rubbed in to help preserve them. A bundle of leaves in the same thumbprint category, or soul grouping, were then bound with a cord between two wooden covers.