SWARA CHINTAMANI ( Divination By Breath ) Author- S Kannan

SWARA CHINTAMANI is a rare book dealing with a novel and an almost forgotten method of divination by breath and published now for the first time in English. It will be significant to note that every one has got a tendency instinctively to aim at maximum success by an easy and smooth path and to know something about future. Eccelesiastes states, "To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the heavens; A time to be born and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to break down and a time to build up; A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance; A time to get and a time to lose; A time to keep and a time to cast away." Such a time is ascertainable from one's own breath, the vital vibration governing the world, as revealed by this book.

This is therefore indispensable to Palmists and Numerologists to answer horary questions put to them. For an astrologer this is of absolute necessity. In fact, slokas  15 and 16 of Chapter VI mention forcefully, "An astrologer without the knowledge of Swara, a youth without wealth, a mouth with out capacity to read sastras, a body without head, a king without wisdom and a brahmin without righteous conduct lack charm." Even for a lay man there is a lot of interesting information in this 'book. How to control birth, how to get a child of desired sex,how to attract people and how to seize opportunities for a successful life, amongother things, are found in this.