Why did the client not want to listen to the idea of the woman's being in his life? What was he in search of?

It is in human nature to sort out the priorities of their
life. For guru nayak his main priority was to find the person who had tried to kill him,
for the simple reason of taking revenge. Also, he always doubted most people (as is
evident from the story), so he wanted to test wether the person really did know
astrology. He considered the 'there is a woman in your life' quote to be one of their
catch lines(commonly used lines to please people), which it was. So, he did ot want to
listen to the idea of the woman's bieng in his
life.

Either way, we don't know wether the
author has potrayed guru nayak as a married man, so we cannot exactly state that one
would like to hear somebody else's advice in extremely personal
matters.