Foot- prints of a great king

There is a story about Lord Buddha.Those days Buddha was living by the side of a river near Gaya in Bihar.After taking bath in the river He went to his ashram.These were summer days.While walking to his ashram,his foot-prints were visible in the sands near the river.After Buddha left the river,a great astrologer of those days also reached to the same spot where Buddha took bath.The astrologer saw the foot prints of Buddha,he was amazed.He was able to tell the fortune of a person by seeing the person's foot prints also.He knew by seeing the foot prints those should be of a great king.So he followed the foot prints and reached the ashram of Buddha,he found that there was none except Buddha,so now he was sure that the foot prints were of Buddha.He was now shocked.Buddha asked him-O brahmana,why are you looking shocked?The astrologer replied-"I am considered the greatest astrologer of the time and according to my knowledge the man,whose foot prints are those, should be a great king,but here i am finding you,who is just like a beggar.So i think all my knowledge is worthless."Buddha replied-"no,your knowledge is not worthless but there are some people who go beyond Astrology or any other wordly knowledge." The point is that though astrology is true in some extent but when it comes the matter of spiritual path,astrology fails.This is not the fault of astrology,but it has some limitations.You are what you are,the result of your past karma.When you do sadhana,your karmas burn in the fire of sadhana.You go beyond the rules of astrology.In normal cases predictions based on astrology may be true.Even in normal cases also, the predictions are not true.Before the election results,you will find that many astrologers claiming the victory of different political parties.Certainly all of them cant be true.Although all of those astrologers make predictions on the basis of almost same type of books.