Eternal India

ETERNAL INDIA 1 KN RAO 27 November 2007, 9:13 AM

Do what you will or desire to, the eternal India springs back into life li fe time and again, as has happened in Indian history and reminds you of the eternal spiritual l egacy of the country. It never dies. It gets revived always. The occasion to say so arises because today (27 November 2007) one television channel went on giving some glimpses into the lives of some Indian celebrities---all of them shown either visiting temples or showing the positive results of their prayers. Sanjay Dutt

Sanjay Dutt getting bail from the Supreme Court of India, not a judgement in his favour or acquittal,but relief is being shown by a television channel repeatedly. In the context of judicial delays well known to us in India, the judgement may come come after many months or even one year. The female anchor in the television channel was repeatedly referring to the continuous recitation of Hanuman Chalisa of Tulsidas, Sanjay Dutt has been doing. There was a news item that while in i n Yervada jail earlier, Sanjay Dutt woke through the night did 100 recitations of Hanuman Chalisa and early next morning he saw a monkey sitting on a tree outside his hi s cell in the jail. jail . He thought, said the press report, that Hanumanji was pleased with his him and his prayers. Today, the female anchor has been saying repeatedly that his prayers have been anwered again, but is failing to distinguish between bail and acquittal. This relief has come in Jupiter-Venus-Saturn. What will happen in the pratyantara of Mercury will have to be watched. Yes, I know of many cases where Hanuman Chalisa done by many, particularly the lines Chute Bandi Maha Sukh Hoi (there (there is freedom from imprisonment and happiness resulting from it) has offered great relief. Such an incident shown repeatedly is elevating and revives that spiritual zeal which never dies in India among Hindus who have no central or centralized authority to control and regulate their spiritual/religious lives. Do what you have faith in is i s the brilliant flexible scheme of spiritual remedies. There is so much freedom of thought and expression within its brilliant scheme of spiritual remedies. Do not be misled those mercenary astrologers astrologers who insist you must do what they prescribe. I have known the disciples of Neem Karoli Baba doing only Hanuman Chalisa for any and every problem and getting relief. The Dutt family belongs to that school. I know of many who do Vishnu Sahastranama Sahastranama as I do and Narayan Kavacham. There are others in Vrindavan who do Radha Kripa Kataksha Stotra only and some Gopal Sahastranam only. Of these, only those which an individual does it himself is seen to yield yi eld some results without

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of course liquidating karma phala or results of karmas. But remember, Sanjay Dutt has not been acquitted. It is only a relief for him , a story which will help many people see the beauty of prayers done by oneself and not through paid agents who claim to have received some license from God to alleviate all eviate the miseries of people---on payment, and exploit them. That is ofcourse a business in i n India’s cottage industry called astrology.

It is what has been emphasised repeatedly in the beautiful book of Dr. Geeta Kathuria, ASTROLOGY AND FAITH with case studies based on medico-astrological analysis and shantis done by the suffering individual or his mother/father, wife or husband etc. Pratibha Patil

Then they showed Pratibha Patil, the woman president of India visiting Shirdi Sai Baba temple and praying for the prosperity of India. When the president of India does it, it becomes a good example before the audience, the viewers, the l isteners. Now see the variety--she is praying at the temple of Shirdi Sai Baba, and it is not Hanuman Chalisa as is being done by Sanjay Dutt. There is no rigid conformism in India among Hindus. You can pray according to your tradition and samskaras. samskaras. Bachchans

And the Bachchan family in Dwaraka in Gujarat is shown, the place of Lord K rishna, King Krishna, not Bal Krishnakrishna of Vrindavan. Now see the variety and the inherent catholicity of Hindu religion which is described as Sanatan Dharma. It is on the bi rth anniversary of the father of Amitabh Bachchan which is also the centenary. Harivamsha Rai was born on 27 November 1907. Bachchans are either big news always or the television channels make it bi g news. Bachchan bytes have become a common, even sickening, features of television news. I know personally that the mother of Amitabh is a devotee of a Mahatma of Chitrakoot and Amitabh is deeply religious, an aspect of life which the television channels fail to bring out. I will post soon in two parts an astroprofile of Harivamsha Rai Bachchan,the Bachchan,the poet and father of Amitabh Bachchan which I had written four years as an astro obituary. ( 27 November 2007)





















ETERNAL INDIA 2 KN RAO 29 November 2007, 7:23 PM

As I have said, all those who got relief from their troubles are those WHO PRAYED THEMSELVES. A female preacher seen on a religious channel is always caustic in her comments which are apt and hard hitting. She asked once “What do y ou ou do when you are hungry ? Do you eat food yourself or will ask someone to eat to satisfy your hunger ? Why can you not pray yourself ? It is your problem and it is your prayer that God will answer.” answer. ”

Another preacher, the famous Kripaluji, who has an encylopaedic knowledge of Hindu scriptures uses strong word against Karmakandis and asks “ why can you not pray to God with a sense of surrender and faith yourself ? “. He is very convincing.

I read, while surfing some reviews of some books which have appeared in the west questioning God, faith and religion. Excessive material prosperity, lack of spiritual understanding, total lack of first hand experience of the spiritual, leads t hese blind physical scientists into an abyss of atheism which is irrational and a rrogant in its ignorance. It is true, since the rise of physical sciences in the west, the Church lost battl es after battles, failed to inspire people with faith and help them to pray with simple faith. It is not the omnipresent God they believe in or fear but ‘more ‘more than 30 million mill ion surveillance cameras, the average American is caught on tape more than 200 times a day: on the street, at the ATM, in department stores, stores, even in public restrooms.” restrooms.”

The difference in the case of India is i s that we have no central church trying to impose rigid uniformity, frighten people with eternal hell, and impose one religious book and one and only one representative of God. That God is One is well known and well described in Hindu scriptures which also speak of many facets, facets, aspects and forms of of HIS. That ONE becomes becomes MANY and those MANY become ONE. Your worship must lead you towards that ONE in the present or

future births. Yes, here comes in the theory of Karma which is well explained through innumerable case studies of reincarnations and ofcourse, astrology. Let us also recognise the menace of the contractors who claim to possess the power to relieve you or your pain and trouble---for a huge f ees. The result is loss of money and no relief. It starts with a fright. Read the following letters. The mother of this thi s man is a well known political figure of eastern





















Horoscope consultation?

From: A. S.. (r,@yahoo.com) (r,@yahoo.com) Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 8:43:43 PM Sir; Thank you for the advice and moral strength provided this evening. It was a pleasure and refreshing to see you so active and healthy in mind and body. I will contact you next week and seek a time to bring b ring both my daughters to you. I remember you n ever provide any consultancy unless the child is 8 yrs or older. Thank you again. knrao wrote:

A, Send the details by email. Yours, K.N.Rao.Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:34:30 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: Horoscope consultation To: [email protected] Respected Sir; My name is A. S. and I had come to meet you earlier also with my mother Dr H.P.S. of Assam. I seek an appointment with you to consult the horoscope of my second daughter Miss N who is now 10 years old. I have h ave been advised by someone that N has a 'markesh' period presently and have advised 'Maha Mrityunjoy' Japa for 162500 mantra. Her birth details/computer horoscope is ready and if you advice I can send the same by mail to you as well. Please advice whether I can personally meet you or send the details on mail. Mr. A. K.S. How the tricks work

When he came to meet me he told that the karmakandi demanded Rs.32,000 and that he had already paid Rs.11,000. It is well known that Hindus love l ove their children too deeply, so deeply that it becomes a dangerous Moha (attachment .) .) Tell a Hindu father particularly the mother that a child of





















Roman Catholic clergy against whom Martin Luher led a revolt through his Protestant movement. I am a Brahmin myself and therefore write boldly and ask in my speeches to show me an authority where it is m mentioned entioned that a Brahmin can charge a fee .

The Brahmin can accept dakshina and give dakshina , not demand a fee. The greatest Karmakandi mahatma in Gupt Kashi whom I know rather well, calls these Brahmins, banias or vaishyas because the moment a Brahmin demands a fee he ceases to be a Brahmin. This mahatma is a severe patient of di abetes and four times his sugar level dropped to 30 in 2004-05 but he survived. Later, on my insistence his disciples brought him to Delhi in 2004, got him admitted in a famous hospital. I went there, talked to the d octor who did not hold out any hope for the mahatma. A complicated operation too was performed on him. He was kept in intensive care unit for some weeks when I went to meet him. Some of his disciples were sitting there. He called me to his bedside and said “ I am not going away right now as doctors and these disciples fear .” He knows his own future.

In 2007, three years after that, he has been performing more yagyas where he does not allow anyone who is not clean, has not bathed.He must be in proper dress. On his insistence, I had to accompany him once to Jaipur in March 2003 where among others came a famous woman leader of BJP (though he avoids politicians) and he told her that after becoming the Chief Minister what she should do. Six months later, there were election in Rajasthan. Pre-poll and exit polls predicted the success of the Congress party. But the BJP won elections and she became the first woman Chief Minister of Rajasthan in December 2003. Nine months before we knew that she was going to be the chief minister of Rajasthan. I am referring to Vasundhara Raje. I know of another mahatma who prescribes Vishnu Sahastranama Sahastranama , a Krishna mantra and asks you to recite at least one shloka of the Gita everyday. His disciples do not get trapped by dangerous Karmakandi pandits or fraudulent astrologers who claim to find out your Ista Devata. It is only a mantra drasta (those who can see what mantras will suit you) that can tell you your Ista Devata. While we have dangerous karmakandi pandits who frighten you to death after learning l earning some astrology perfunctorily, we have real great Mahatma who tell you about the spiritual essence of human life. That is eternal India I know of, with its twin currents, the filthy, dirty one where you find





















The other current is --- we have great mahatmas who tell you how to face life, with willingness to suffer and how cheerfully you can worship HIM and experience HIS grace. Pray with a pure heart with faith is i s what Mahatmas tell and I have seen that alone working and beautifying your life. In some families that tradition continues which is why the spiritual legacy of India, of Hindus is eternal. And some of these mahatmas ask you not to consult any Tom, Dick or Harry claiming to be an astrologer I have referred to the incident of Sanjay Dutt. Here is the new item. How Sanjay Dutt sought the blessings of Lord Hanuman in jail. 27th Aug 2007 09.00 IST, By Agencies Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt used to spend most of his time inside Pune's Yerwada jail reading 'Hanuman Chalisa'. On a day when he read it 101 times and slept, the next morning he woke up to see a monkey on a nearby tree. The same day he heard the news of his release by the Supreme Court. When 'Sanju baba', as he is fondly called in the film industry, saw the monkey, he narrated this to his friend and co-convict Yusuf Nullawala. In that instant, both of them agreed that ''something good was going to happen.'' Three days later, Dutt walked out of the jail after the designated TADA court issued the release orders following furnishing of sureties. !! ( 28 November 2007)























ETERNAL INDIA 3 KN RAO 30 November 2007, 10:36 AM

Let me clarify here certain points which are often debated with regard to shanti or upayas or pariharas. Karma phala The first point is that no one can escape the results of one’s karma. I have seen in thousands of cases. I have written in my book Karma and Rebirth in Hindu Astrology. Aveshyameva Bhoktavyam kritam karma shubhashubham,Nabhuktam shubhashubham,Nabhuktam kheeshayate karma, janmakoti-shatairapi janmakoti-shatairapi Prarabdha has to be suffered, both the positive and the negative elements i n it. Without it the bondage of karmas does not get exhausted in even thousands of births.

The Yogi accepts it as a wise person and allows it to exhaust itself. The bhogi (the worldly) tries all tricks gets trapped by astrologers, psychics and all other types of occultists and yet does not succeed in averting it. Some yogis who help others overcome actually postpone it to other births. That is not the nullification of prarabdha but only its postponement. False remedies

Therefore, I never say that one will escape the results of karmas. I know that all those who speak of pariharas are cheats enriching themselves at the cost of a helpless bhogi who has lost all his spiritual sense and does not want to suffer ever, at all. In my book UPS and DOWNS IN CAREER I have referred to S.S.Srivastava in the piece, Predicting Light Amidst Gloom about a big fortune having been spent on all types of shantis and he died without seeing his case being settled in his lifetime. li fetime. It was one of the worst cases of cheating I had known more than thirty years ago. Since then I have met hundreds of Indians, Hindus who spent l akhs of rupees on such pariharas never regretted it, never got relief and continue to be fools ready to be cheated by another crook at the earliest opportunity.





















also avoid taxes, adulterate medicines, food stuff, oppose the Health Minister of India i n his anti-tobacco campaign through other politicians, whom they help financially. You cannot argue with them. The mother is stupid because of her moha and the businessmen are crooks who think that they have no time to do their worship and improve their morals. If some pandit is prepared to do graha shanti for them at a price, they th ey are prepared to pay him. Lord Rama and Yuddhistira suffered Lord Rama explained in the Valmiki Ramayana why he believed in Daiva (destiny) and accepted fourteen years of exile. Yuddhistira accepted Daiva, did Surya worship at the

instance of Dhoumya rishi, suffered with his brothers thirteen years of exile and became the king later. Which Hindu scripture supports it ?

In which sacred book of Hindus is it mentioned that through paid pandits prarabha can be wiped out ? Scriptures refer to tapasvis doing it, not the idiotic pandit who has no tapasya. The book under preparation

I have more than half complied first hand experiences of many people who got relief from their pain and were also cheated. The book may come out next year. Here all are first hand experiences with verifiable accounts and the addresses of narrators. I will not state the conclusions arrived at here through honest and astro-spiritual analysis. As I was writing this came an elderly couple with two sons. One of the t he sons,the elder one has a troubled marriage, a court case etc. They went to an astrologer who told them that this son of their will have to have three marriages, and after the second marriage, he should be married to a peepul tree and to avert the trouble t rouble in the third marriage, he would do japam of an anti-biotic mantra many times for which he would has already charged fifty thousand rupees. There has been no relief. I asked them to do their thei r own worship. Modern siddhis Modern siddhis

I can reveal it now. Many years ago, may be twenty six years ago two Politicians were sitting at one place and one of them had some important work to be got done. After he left,





















“What “What was his siddhi ?”

I said he had the right approach to the powerful R.K.Dhawan, PS of Indira Gandhi, the Indian Prime Minister, who like Hanuman was blessed by Indira Gandhi to bestow favours on people. Knowing R.K.Dhawan personally those days was a siddhi , a modern siddhi . ( 30 November 2007)





















ETERNAL INDIA 4 KN RAO 2 December 2007, 10:00 AM

In Yogis, Destiny and the Wheel of Time I referred to the incident i ncident of Chandi Babu and my Guruji when Guruji told him (in 1948 I wrote but am told that it was in 1952) that he (Guruji), Chandi Babu and his wife will leave l eave this world within a space of six months in one year. Chandi Babu’s wife suffered from can cer and I had to give him a prediction about his wife in

1978 when he did not expect it. In the first quarter of 1980 his wife died thirty eight or forty two years after the prophecy; Guruji took his samadhi in June 1980 and Chandibabu died about four months later---all in 1980. That is the vision of a mahatma. India is great, eternal because we have such mahatmas all over the country. But if Madhuri Dixit who is i s said to have staged a great come back at t he age of 42 is the main attraction, there is no interest or quest to seek true mahatmas. We do not publicise these facts of our lives in India as Vaishnavas do not speak of siddhis but of surrender to the Lord while performing their worldly duties. And it is strictly applied to us worshippers of Lord Krishna who speaks of avyabhicharini bhakti in the Gita (devotion without aberrations---actually aberrations---actually avyabhicharini refers to sexual misconduct) Therefore, we keep to ourselves such experiences and we die with them without these experiences being disclosed fully in all cases. Manu gurus forbid their disciples of talking about miracles which they witness. In 1963

In 1963, while I was walking with Guruji, he told me that in old age I will have serious trouble with my legs. In 2000, thirty seven years later, I was nearly crippled and no doctor in Delhi or Lucknow gave me even one percent chance of recovery. They said that I would never be able to walk ever again in my life.





















In 1957, I had gone trekking t rekking to Rohtang Pass in a continuous walk of many hours, covering 36 miles at a stretch ! My students who have seen my condition in 2000 and see me now have started believing i n Vishnu Sahastranama Sahastranama and Narayana Kavacham and some of them do it i t now, having learnt the recitation of these with me. Again 1963 --a young man

Similarly, Guruji had told me in 1963, about a young man of twenty one years that he was born with a rogi shareera (sickly body) but that would not affect his l ongevity! By 2007 that young man now sixty five years old has been hospitalised h ospitalised at least fifteen times, ti mes, excluding the period when he had to remain to confined to his bed at home which may be more than twenty times! Nearly thirty five such attacks of sickness, illness accident etc. in a period of forty years is what I am witness to. In the Yogis book I did not confine myself to my Guruji only but I wrote about other saints to show how this great spiritual current flows all over India. I revealed only twenty percent of what I have been a first hand witness to It is my luck that I met such great mahatmas. They have never said that karma phala or results of karma can be liquidated so easily. One has to reconcile to fate cheerfully. This is what an astrologer can see and prepare people to face l ife with its enigmas of bliss bli ss and pain, that duality of joy and torture which is what human life is. If an astrologer claims that he can wipe it out, what he is doing is i s to talk against our own scriptures, the great preachings of mahatmas , and great examples like that of Rama Krishna Paramhamsa or Raman Maharshi. I know many more such examples and in not a single case of those suffering mahatmas was there any lack of the divine ecstacy which they enjoyed and gave to their disciples experiences of ecstacies in ample measure. They had risen above their body consciousness, that transcendental stage which is a fiction to the stupid western scientist because in their countries they can never see such examples. Where there is spiritual barenness, atheism needs no fertilizer to grow enormously. It is























ETERNAL INDIA 5 KN RAO 3 December 2007, 3:09 PM

Why the Gita has inspired so many people, so may intellectuals and even scientists of the west is because it answers many of their questions. If Carl Sagan found Hindu cosmology most scientific it is because of the calculation of the day of Lord Brahma.That is the age of the world now accepted by astronomers---a calculation given in the Vishnu Purana and also Manu Smriti etc. etc. Then the reference to God as Anantkoti Bramhanda Bramhanda Nayaka or lord of millions of worlds or galaxies and these galaxies forming, di ssolving, appearing appearing and disappearing dazzles the westen astronomer who wonders how Hindus could reach this great scientific conclusion. And how the Gita inspired inspired Roman Rollaind, scientist Oppenheimer Oppenheimer etc. need not be recounted. But each one, be he a reader, commentator or scholar approaches the Gita in his own way. When I am asked my answer is very simple. The Gita--my understanding

In the first chapter, Arjuna puts his question questi on with his anguished mind. Lord Krishna proceeds to answer in the most startling way because he first explains to Arjuna what death is. Understand death first to understand life and then the life of that transcendental man the Brahma-bhootah.





















Mundaka Upanishad

Read the Mundaka Upanishad first, a simple and plain translation and not tomes of commentaries. Then read the Gita where the Lord asks Arjuna to become transcendental. That is the essence of gyanakanda not karmakanda. The physical scientist, the western intellectual rooted in the material and material only and enslaved mentally by technology cannot even imagine that there is anything transcendental, beyond senses, to which all his investigation and knowledge is confined. The tragedy of the age we live l ive in is that these successful successful men dominate and influence i nfluence human thinking and writing. Adam Smith, Marx and Freud, among hundreds in the west, caused a high tide of spiritual barrenness. barrenness. There were no saints to show the other side, the transcendental side and give to some some of them those spiritual experiences which opens out a new dimension in li fe and strengthens belief in the spiritual. This is the worst tragedy of the west. The greater tragedy is that it dominates the world, materially, intellectually and influences the thinking of people. Spiritual barrenness in the west has dangerous consequences. Following religion as a dogma, as a superstition, as a tradition is not spi rituality. It is what you see in the west in whatever vestiges of religion are left there. In India, the damage is done by the karmakandi who is interested in the perpetuation of





















Shankar Deb of Assam brought Vaishanism there before th e world heard of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. You have to live in Assam to know the g reat influence of Shankar Deb and Madhab Deb. Dakshinachar Tantric Tantric practices have regarded woman as the finest creation of God, n ot the male. But we know, and it i s an ugly reality, woman being tortured for dowry and humiliated. The Goddess inspires the Dakshinachar Tantric and the worshippers who go to Vaishnav Devi I see in Delhi and around get a female child killed in the womb of a pregnant woman! India always was, and is , a complex land of complex conflicts and hypocrisies but through it all, her eternal spirit survives and resurfaces. resurfaces.






















Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear too much reality — T.S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton’’

The truth of the matter is that we are too preoccupied with the material problems of our life to think of the spiritual spi ritual reality of life. Who does not face problems? Are these problems solved through efforts (and prayers if you believe in i t) or through payment to someone to pray for you, that someone who has no tapasya and who will and cannot do it with such a sincerety as you can do yourself, for yourself, your husband/wife, child/children, parents. Are you sure that he is not a cheat ? No time ? And if someone says that he has no time ti me to do it, let l et him first see how much time ti me he finds to spend in parties, frivolous activities etc. I know so many who have time but do not want to spend it in prayers as they have become too tamasic mostly, or tamasic-rajasic. I agree with the comment under the second part of this series. But let me clarify. MS 30 November 2007, 4:36 AM Beautiful and excellent indeed ! The article was eye opener for many. True ! Great Mahatmas predict or say things with their true vison and foresight. But it is dif ficult to find them these days. Self had experienced only the Kanchi Paramacharya Paramacharya here. But even they do not claim any knowledge of astrology or





















offsprings while the lion was lazing in the sun. The guide asked us not to t o get near the lioness and her offsprings as she would otherwise jump at us and kill us. The MOTHER. I uttered within myself YA DEVI SARVA BHUTESHU MATRI RUPEN SAMSTHITHA etc from Durga Saptashati . Everywhere in nature, the mother is an angel protecting her offsprings. It is what we see in i n all families all over the world. An American woman had asked me, while I was doing her astrological reading in Washington DC, “ Do you know what it is to be a mother ?”

I kept quiet and laughed l aughed within myself. In Russia, mothers come and ask questions about their children and children about their mothers (rarely about their fathers). I am quite used to Hindu mothers who come to consult me not with a question but with a long questionnaire--all about their children. If she has three children, she has thirty quetions. Why I call it a Moha is: when her child is a child only, it needs mother most. As it i t grows up, it should be allowed to have its independence and mothers should understand that everyone is born with his own karma, karma samskaras and fate. And when the child has reached the age of thirty and settled or/and married, excessive attachment to the child i s a case of moha only, not duty anymore. You will see Hindu mothers treating their sons of forty years as children ! Read Bhaja Govindam of Shankaracharya. Read the poems of saint poets and see what they advise you to move into spiritual life li fe into which every good human
























As I have said, pray yourself or someone in your family should. Dr.Geeta Kathuria saw some examples of people visiting me and got them examined with the help of her doctor friends in the Lady Hardinge Hospital, New Delhi and examined them herself, being a doctor herself. After her marriage, she was to leave India soon. I asked her to complete the book soon which she did before moving out of India. Here is one instance from her book “Astrology “Astrology and Faith”. Faith ”. These are most

authentic and verifiable examples you will ever see in any book. No fake claim should be made is being manipulated in the some television programmes. Mother Praying for Son

My friend Jyotirmay, the Hindi journalist working for the Hindi newspaper, Jansatta Jansatta came with a woman some time in 2004 and asked a question giving the horoscope of her son.





















Advice

I advised the mother to do the Maha Mrityunjaya mantra for her son till the antardasha changed from Mercuy to Ketu which would be from July 2005. In the meantime, she should continue with whatever medicines doctors prescribed. But she as mother should do Maha Mrityunjaya mantra herself as Jupiter is aspecting the fourth house of the boy both in the birth horoscope and in transit. The mother is a journalist and has her own heavy duti es. She could not have done 11 lakh l akh mantra japa herself. It was suggested to her that she should do as much as she could and then try to have the 11 lakh japams completed with the help of some Karmakandi pandit or her relations. Feedback

She came with Shri Jyotirmay on 26 April 2006 and gave the following feedback. 1. She did 11 thousand Mrityunjaya mantra herself.





















ETERNAL INDIA 8 KN RAO 18 December 2007, 11:09 AM

Let me elaborate what I wrote in the earlier piece Eternal India 5. “The tragedy of the age we live in is that these successful men dominate and influence human thinking and writing. Adam Smith, Marx and Freud, among hundreds hundreds in the west, caused a high tide of spiritual barrenness. There were no saints to show the other side, the transcendental side and give to some some of them those spiritual experiences which opens out a new dimension in life and strengthens belief in the spiritual. This is the worst tragedy of the west.”

Hindus are materialists. Indians, particularly the Hindus, have always been materialists and have to be so because of family and social compulsions and traditions which will be explained in a subsequent





















The media in India is i s controlled and dominated by leftists who are determined to talk against Hinduism, astrology and the supernormal though they too have pop programmes on astrology to boost up their ratings. The need to refer to them arises because they somehow pose as intellectuals and get some currency among the neo-illiterates young men and women for whom immorality, free sex and justification for their obnoxious modernity must start with the rejection of scriptures, morality etc. first. But then there are those who do want to get out of the vicious circle of materialism and physical sciences. In some cases, it happens through the grace of some saint and in some through astrological prediction. Types of devotees The eternal tradition is that we have devotees who fall i nto the well known categories of the





















ETERNAL INDIA 9---ETERNAL WORLDLINESS KN RAO 25 December 2007, 10:36 AM

In my childhood and early teenage, I often heard people talking of Indians being otherworldly which was and can, never be true.That was a Propaganda of imperialists who ruled over us and sought this fictitous reason of otherworldliness to justify their rule. A whole nation, society and a group of people cannot be otherworldly as that great spiritual quality is a distinguinshing mark of a spiritual person, an individual not a collectivity. The line of Kabirdas was well explained to us in the class room by a good teacher. Kabira khada bazaar me, liye luhati haath Jo ghar phoke apno chale hamare saath

Says, Kabir standing in the bazar holding a baton in his hand---let those who are prepared to burn down their own houses,come with me.























India was the richest nation

It is good to remember that in the preindustrial era, India was the richest nation of the world and Annie Beasant, the great theosophist, used to say that ninety percent gold of the world flowed towards India then. India produced more than twenty five percent wealth of the world which got reduced to two percent at the end of the British rule in 1947. These are























One example will suffice. From: A. K. <[email protected]> To: knrao@com Subject: Namaste























ETERNAL INDIA 10---ETERNAL HALF WORLDLINESS KN Rao 29 December 2007, 6:36 AM

Forget the imperial propaganda and look at the growing, prospering, consumerist India of the twenty first century to know that Hindus love the material as deeply as anyone else in























acceptance of the worldly and other worldly at the same time which makes most of us half other worldly. Scratch a Hindu and somewhere inside him you find a belief in the supernormal. It is a strange land, a land of hypocrisies and contradictions.Sample contradictions.Sample some examples.























ETERNAL INDIA 11--DURING THE BRITISH INDIAN DAYS KN RAO 10 January 2008, 5:52 AM

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ETERNAL INDIA 26 - LORD KRISHNA PROTECTS DWARAKA KN RAO 19 January 2010, 9:09 AM

During the 1965 Indo Pak war, Pakistan radio had blared incessantly for some days that the great Hindu pilgrimage Dwaraka had been ravaged beyond recognition. I was then posted in Nagpur the only time when in Indian war I was not in a frontier state. In the 1962 was with China I was in Shillong, the capital of Assam then. During the 1971 Indo-Pak war I was i n Ahmadabad, the capital of Gujarat. But in 1965 I was not in a frontier state facing the threat of war and direct attack. I remember the intense emotion in people who felt hurt by the t he news of devastation of Dwaraka which was denied by the Indian government. Truth is the first casualty in war is well known and I remembered the jokes of the war time propaganda by the British Indian government during the second world war when as a teenager I heard the All India Radio giving out war bulletins so many times a day. But what was the truth and who was to be believed in 1965 when both India and Pakistan gave different versions about the devastation of Dwaraka ? I had not to wait long to find out the truth as after few months I was transferred to Central Railway, Bombay where I got six railway passes and six concessional tickets apart from free travel while on duty with the metal pass given to me. At the th e earliest I took some casual leave and went on my first pilgrimage pi lgrimage to Dwaraka which I visited many times later when I was posted in Rajkot along with Dehotsarga and Tulsi Shyam two other pilgrimages associated with Lord Krishna. Getting down at Dwaraka I decided not to stay in railway rest house which was far from the main temple of Dwarakadheesh but stay right near the temple in a dharmashala. I started seeing everything around closely to see signs of damages. I asked the tonga driver and he said with emotion “Lord Krishna protects Dwaraka. Pakistan navy could do no damage t o the great pilgrimage except a portion of a railway building. Many bombs were rained and none exploded.”

I saw similar emotion on others faces when I put to them the question. I did di d see that there was no damage to the Dwarakadheesh temple or to any other part of t he great pilgrimage or to the Rukmini temple. The owner of the dharmashala where I stayed, said with confidence that inspite of so many bombs which fell all over Dwaraka, none exploded and no damage was caused to the city except the rail way building and that too a portion of it. Same emotion, same intensity and it was in 1966 August when I was visiting Dwaraka only eleven months after the war. Could I get an authenticated version this miracle I wondered and waited till I got one and many others in the internet. 1965WAR The Shelling of Dwarka Ramesh Madan (Ex-Sgt, IAF)-Ramesh Madan joined the Indian Air Force in 1959 as an airman and took part in the 1965 and 1971 conflicts. He was on site when the Pakistani Navy shelled Dwarka. He narrates the events in this candid story of that





















places. It was a normal day as there was nothing new and nothing old at all. all . Everyone was busy in his own job. It was September 7, 1965 morning and I received a message from our Admin Office that I was detailed for the Guard duty, as one of the guards was sick and I was to replace him. I was detailed for the third shift and my timing were 5.30 pm -7.30 pm; 11.30 pm - 01.30 am (on Sept 8) and 05.30 am - 07.30 am. Along with Air Force guards, we had DSC people doing the guard duties 24 hours a day and in all over the camp area. area. ... There is a light li ght house (Asia's second highest), a girls hostel, a girl's school and a civil hospital near the Dwarka shore. All these were almost in the line li ne of firing of that ship. We realized this fact only later. I looked at my watch and it was 0115 am on the morning of September 8, 1965. I wanted to say something to my companion, then, there was a l oud SWIIISHHH and a BOOOM. Both, my companion and me looked towards that direction but the first BOOOM was followed by more SWIIIISHES and BOOOMS!! Every one in the unit and in the city was up and running all around. People were jumping in the trenches and or falling flat on the ground to escape from this shelling. After about ten minutes the shelling stopped and slowly everyone started getting up. Every one was nervous and did not know what to do. Our Officer Commanding, Flying Officer S. Damodaran, Cpl Iyer and my self advanced towards the direction from where the shelling was coming. We did not find any thing there. After coming back from there we took a Jeep and went around in the village vill age to see if there were any damages. We did not find any damage or casualties in the entire village, Though the people in the village were now scared and there was a bit of panic around. After all this, our next turn was to find out about the safety of our staff that was deployed on our Signal Vehicles, about 10 to 15 miles mil es away from our base unit. Our Signal Vehicles (the Radar Units that tracked the targets and directed the aircrafts for a PINPOINT bombing) were stationed far away from our base (in VARVALA, between Dwarka and Mithapur on way to Okha). On hearing that shelling noise, the crews there got concerned and were driving towards our base to see what had happened to us. We met them on the way and the both parties were satisfied our respective positions. It was now daybreak and there was no sign of any tension anywhere. After refreshing ourselves, we had our breakfast and went back to normal routine. In the mean time we heard radio Pakistan giving the news that Pakistan Naval ship BABUR shelled Dwarka, that Dwarka was very badly destroyed and is burning and they could see the smoke from a distance of 10 miles. The Aftermath PNS Babur, a Cruiser of the Pakistani Navy which carried out the Shelling of Dwarka. Our O.C. summoned everyone and asked us to send a tel egram to our home to inform our family that nothing has happened and every one is safe and h ealthy. All the telegrams were collected and a couple of people rushed to the post office. The post master informed us tha t it will be better for us to write a letter than sending the telegram, as the line were cut and it was not possible to send the telegrams! In a letter, to my parents in Delhi, I wrote them every thing that had happened in Dwarka, with a l ast line "there are more donkeys in Dwarka than the people and none of the donkeys have been i njured so what can one say





















miles. After the day break, the villagers started bringing the shells from thei r fields after digging them out of the ground carrying them on their shoulders. We collected almost 25 to 30 shells. They were displayed in front the Guard Room for the public to take a look. The amusing thing about them was that they bore the marking 'INDIAN ORDINANCE' and were dated 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946 and so on. These shells were all prepetition ammunition that was given to Pakistan during the partition in 1947. It turned out that the Indian ammunition was LOYAL to India. None of them exploded to harm its country. The one, that did explode was the one that hit the Railway Retiring Room on the outer edge of the building that was not occupied at that time. All the other shells went over the village and into the fields. The miracle behind this was that the sea level l evel had risen from the time ti me the Pakistani ship had taken its position to the time it started shelling. This resulted in most of the shells overshooting Dwarka. Of course, it is quite obvious that, the learned and experienced officers and the crew on board of that Pakistani ship did ignore this fact and were rejoicing that they have shelled Dwarka without any resistance and destroyed it. Needless to say, even after this shelling we were on out toes 24 hours a day for at least a week to ten days. The total manpower in our unit at that time was hardly 75 to 80 men including the DSC guards, with a limited supply of arms and ammunition. We were all thinking about our fate if the Pakistanis had decided to start an ‘i nvasion’, they could have done anything to us or

to the public. A similar first person person account from the Navy's Official History by Mr. S D Kadawala, Kadawala, Senior Platoon Commander, Home Guards who was at the Dwarka Light House is reproduced here:

"On the evening of September 7, 1965 at around 1730 hours some Pak Navy ships, disguised as merchant ships, arrived at Dwarka and anchored south of the t he Dwarka Lighthouse, very close to the coastline and visible from the Dwarka town. At that time I was on messenger duty in the lighthouse which is close to the Air Force base, a small observation post which had just been set up. A regular watch was maintained from the top of the lighthouse by the Air Force staff and I used to carry messages from the lighthouse to the Air Force base. During the Indo-Pak conflict there was a complete black-out in the Dwarka town. There was no naval ship in port as a naval base was yet to be established at Okha. However, a small group of cadets from the Indian Navy were stationed at Okha, having accommodation in the town library building and the Commander in charge of the group was stationed at the European Guest House. At this time, men from the Air Force, Home Guards and the local police used to maintain regular patrolling on the beach. As already stated, the 'merchant' ships arrived at low tide in the evening and it was difficult to identify the nationality of the vessel. However, the matter was immediately reported to the Air Force base at Dwarka. At around 2355 hours, during high tide, the vessels suddenly started firing over the main Temple of Dwarka, which l asted for more than 20 minutes.





















Nearly all the shells fell where the soil was soft and they remained unexploded. These shells were later collected by the Home Guards, the l ocal police and Air Force men and brought to the Air Force base. Out of them about 35 to 40 were unexploded live shells." The city of Dwarka was completely blacked out and target could only be identified on radar. At 0024 bombardment was ordered to commence when ships were 5.5 to 6.3 miles from Dwarka light. It took only four minutes to complete the bombardment, firing altogether about 350 rounds on the target. " http://www.bharat-rakshak.c http://www.bhar at-rakshak.com/IAF/History/ om/IAF/History/1965War/Dwarka.h 1965War/Dwarka.html tml Till today I can recollect the emotion on the faces of people in i n Dwaraka. (20 Jan 2010)





















ETERNAL INDIA 27 - TANOT MATA PROTECTS HER TEMPLE KN RAO 28 January 2010, 2:09 PM

A friend belonging to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad always regretted regretted that so many Hindu temples were destroyed by Muslim invaders including the famous temple in Ayodhya which is still being disputed historically. He often referred to the book of late Sita Ram Goel who wrote a book giving historical evidence and photographs of such temples numbering around 800. I asked him to read about the crusades and see that it was first started by Christians under the leadership of successive Popes. Synagogues of Jews and mosques of Muslims were destroyed and later Muslim indulged in vaster acts of destruction all over Asia and parts of southern Europe. Proselyting and converting religions are least l east spiritual and most fanatical, dangerously lopsided. There are obsessed maniacal individuals led by close minded and religious bli nd mullah and clerical leaders. Non converting religions like Hinduism mainly suffered most and being tolerant and hi ghly civilized have been at the receiving end in these stories of religious atrocities. But there are stories of Hindu temples also saved mi raculously I told my friend of VHP. I had no ready list of such miracles and the more I tried to collect coll ect such authenticated stories, including the miraculous incidents in Ayodhya in 2002 and 2008 of the Ram temple and Hanuman Garhi the more frustrated I became because those who witnessed promised never gave me written accounts. Anyway, Kush wrote to me to describe about the miracle of Tanot Maa temple about which I had heard from others also. Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:35:45 IST

The incident happened both in the 1965 and 1971 war where a sum total of 450 bombs were dropped on village Tannot, the abode of Tannot Devi, t he warrior goddess of the Bhati clan of Rajputs. Not even one out of the 450 bombs exploded and even now all the bombs are there in display at the temple musuem It is indeed a miracle. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:44:42 IST

Rao Saheb The temple of Tannot Mata was the family famil y temple ( kul devi) of the Bhati clan of Rajputs from the royal family of Nachana and the goddess is also known as the warrir goddess. I can say with confidence because ..... After the war, the BSF (Border Security Force) pass on the temple to t hem. My ..... are still the head of the trustees for the temple and the ownership of the structure























It is historically authenticated thus: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tannot Mata is a temple in western State of Rajasthan in District Jaisalmer of India. The Village is close to border with Pakistan and is very close to the battle site of Longewala of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The tourists cannot go beyond this temple to see the Indo Pak Border unless one has got the permissions in advance from the District and Military Authorities. It is now a tourist destination in India. The area is said to have h ave oil and gas reserves. It is said that during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Pakistani Army dropped several bombs targeting the temple but none of the bombs could fall on the temple and large no. of the bombs in the vicinity of the temple did not explode. After the war the temple management was handed over to Border Security Force of India. On date Border Security Force Jawans (soldiers) man the temple. The temple has a museum which has collections of the unexploded b ombs dropped by Pakistan. As per Indian Census, The Population of Tanot Village is 492 Persons having 49 Household. The place being closer to Pakistan Border and totally Unfertile Plain land i s prone to enemy attacks. The Govts. of both countries have planted several Land Mi nes in the area. The animals like Camel, Cattle are the worst sufferer of these Land Mi nes[4]. The temple is approx. 180 km from the City of Jaisalmer and it takes approx three hours by road. The area is a high windfall area and as such large no. of wind turbin e projects have come up in the area. The road to Tannot is surrounded with miles and miles of sand dunes and sand mountains. The temperatures in the area can go up to 49 deg C and ideal time to visit the place is from November to January. The geographical coordinates of the place are Latitude : 27 48' 00 and Longitude : 70 21' 00[8][9]. http://www.maplandia.com/india/ra http://www.mapla ndia.com/india/rajasthan/jaisalmer jasthan/jaisalmer/tanot/ /tanot/ (25 January 2010)





















ETERNAL INDIA 28 - ASTROLOGER CHEAT KN RAO 17 February 2010, 6:27 PM

From the days of Adi Shankaracharya along with great spiritual masters, there have existed in India, as elsewhere in the world, the pseudo religious gurus who have cheated their disciples of their property but never relieved reli eved them of their pain, as Tulsidas says. In these days of television astrology in India (with the pseudo-religious astrologers dressed as priests or even "gurus" making lots of money because they get free advertisement through their television programs) and sprawling i nternet astrological groups which have invariably some graceless participants always always showing their low upbringing at the earliest, it is rare to come across subtle predictions. See this given by a woman astrologer. One businessman fell a victim to astrologer cheats, like of course, so many, these days. What happened to one such individual is being narrated here. The horoscope being discussed here is baffling and astrologers who do not know some subtle points (I have given the combination occurring here in some book) are bound to go wrong. Case history

His is a pathological case from astrological point of view. He consults anyone who claims to be an astrologer and pays them handsomely. He will not hesitate to get any shanti (upayas or remedial measures) done because of his keenest desire to grow richer though he had been rich once. Aatmakaraka Saturn, Amatyakaraka Mercury, Bhratrikaraka Venus, Matrukaraka Jupiter, Putrakaraka Sun, Gnatikaraka Moon, Darakaraka Mars





















He also learnt some astrology but had no ti me to do it seriously and develop an insight into the subject for which no one can blame him. hi m. He started showing his horoscope to many astrologers and had even nadi readings done and the prediction by all, except one woman astrologer, was that his Mercury dasha starting from 24 July 2004 would be a period of disaster. I have been reminded by a student of mine that when he had come to me, I had told him that he would have his court cases relating to properties and that he would be on the losing side mostly. The payments he made consultations and shantis From time to time he spent at the minimum rate of two thousand and one hundred rupees to five thousand rupees for consultation. In addition, he got shantis done including i ncluding a south Indian Brahmin who charged annually thirty six thousand, at the rate of three thousand rupees a month to "keep all the malefic planets in his horoscope under full control". His troubles started as soon as the antardasha of Jupiter in the mahadasha of Saturn started from 10 January 2002. In panic, he ran from astrologer to another and all of them assured him (seeing his coming period of Mercury) that his future was bright and that he would become richer than he was but ... In that "but" was concealed the story of the greed of astrologers each one of whom made lot of money from him in this period. They judged, hoped and expected that in his Mercury dasha, his second and the eleventh lord, he would earn fabulously and he would thank them for such a "brill iant" prediction.





















In Jaimini’s Chara dasha the dasha of Mes ha was starting from 3 June 2006 and this thi s dasha

will fall in the eighth house from Karakamsha. Additionally, Atmakaraka Atmakaraka Saturn falls in the tenth house. The disaster looming is visible. What could have Upayas done? The only sage advice would have been t o be cautious in plans for expansion and intensive investments. i nvestments. But destiny has its own role. A multi millionaire earlier, now he is reduced not to to a penurious level but has fallen steeply from his earlier l evel of booming business and enviable prosperity. And finally the subtle point which this woman astrologer remembered, given in an article of mine, clinched the prediction she gave of looming disaster. She wanted to join one of the astrology groups for internet discussion. I advised her not to do as there are many astroviruses circulating who do not discuss technically and academically but attack each other gracelessly showing their low upbringing. This is also eternal India---the nakshatra shuchi referred to by Varahamihira (15 Feb 2010)





















ETERNAL INDIA 29 - SUPPRESSION OF BIRTH DATA KN RAO 4 March 2010, 11:44 AM

The debate among astrologers about the correct birth data or the suppression of the correct birth details of celebrities and historical figures will be unending. Let me quote what I wrote in the preface to LEARN SUCCESSFUL PREDICTIVE TECHNIQUES OF HINDU ASTROLOGY. "Birth-Time: Hearsay Evidence — We in India have three historical instances of famous men being discussed in astrological articles, including what they call their ‘research’. The

late D.P. Misra, a well-known politician of Madhya Pradesh, wrote in hi s book, "Living an Era", that India’s super Bismark, Sardar Vallabh Patel, did not know his birth day, year and

time. When asked by astrologers, he decided, being an Iron Man, known for decisiveness, that he was born on October 30, of some year in the nineteenth century and at a particular time. Using that data, astrologers have discussed his horoscope too often and too nauseatingly. A more interesting case is that of the former Indian President, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, who according to a biography written by his son, S. Gopal, was born on a different day of September (in the 4th week of the th e month, perhaps) one year before the year used by astrologers and, the Government of India celebrates the Teacher’s Day on September 5 every year. India's astrological journals and books contain the horoscope of Dr.Radhakrishnan Dr.Radhakrishnan explaining Saraswati Yoga. But his own son has called his hi s father an illegitimate child with an entirely different date and year of birth. More amusing is the gimmick of India celebrating the birth anniversary of the former Indian Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, on October 2 every year when according to his well known family horoscope it should be 9 October. " Birth-Time: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu — The worst mistake committed by Dr. Raman in

Notable Horoscopes is in his discussion of the horoscope of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ignoring all traditional evidence. (a)As a contrast see what N. C. Lahiri gives in Advanced Ephemeris (p112) the birth detail of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as 17-30 I.S.T. with Simha Lagna























See for instance the results attributed to Jupiter in the 8th house- "Gurur etc. ....Which means that after death, those who have Jupiter in the 8th house go to the highest world. What blindfolded the American astrologer, was a prejudice. He saw concentration of five planets in the 8th house of Rajneesh (Osho) and concluded, not on the basis of any astrological logic, "the person is walking on the path to hell" . This is not astrology but dogma, not a scientific approach and is not in harmony with the Mahaprabhu’s spirit (Taror -

api-sahishnu more tolerant than the tree.) Lal Bahadur Shastri

Very early in my astrological career I came across a horoscope of Lal Bahadur Shastri with Moon in Kanya and Dhanu lagna with the date of birth not given by as many as three famous and established astrologers of India, Sri Suryanarain Vyas, Sri Hardeo Trivedi and Dr,B.V.Raman. I cast the horoscope and found that the date of birth was October 9 not 2nd on which his birthday is celebrated. I asked Dr.Raman and also Hardeoji about it and they said that out of their respect for Shastriji they decided not to give the date of birth bi rth but made successful prediction about his short term as prime minister and tragic death. Then in course of time an aunt of my younger brother’s wife married someone in the family of





















Like fools astrologers have always quarrelled without realising that they are fooled by politicians and celebrities. They keep burning their fingers and never learn any lesso n. But the age old Hindu or even Muslim tradition of giving wrong birth data will continue for some reasons which will be discussed in the next piece. pi ece. ( 3 March 2010)





















ETERNAL INDIA 30 - SUPPRESSION OF BIRTH DATA 2 KN RAO 5 March 2010, 6:51 AM

Once in writing an article for the Astrological Magazine I made a reference to the horoscope of late M.G.Ramchandran, a former chief minister of Tamilnadu, with Kumbha lagna and Dr. Raman immediately had the decency to pass on to me the correct birth details of MGR with wi th Kanya lagna as given here. Why did in the sixties, more particularly the seventies of the last century, the Astrological Magazine carry the wrong (Kumbha lagna) horoscope with a different date and planetary position of MGR by different writers and how h ow and why did Dr.Raman allow it and mi slead his readers? I never asked him this uneasy question and he never discussed it but he had the decency to pass on the correct horoscope to me which I had later passed on to late R. Santhanam. REMEMBER THIS INCIDENT AND LET ME NOT COMMENT ON THIS FURTHER.

In the heart of my hearts, I could never excuse Dr.Raman and the Astrological Magazine for such disinformation. Similarly, the Astrological Magazine carried for more than five years the horoscope of Rajiv Gandhi with Kanya lagna and both Dr. Raman and his daughter Gayatri discussed it lending it some sort of authenticity. In 1991, the lagna was suddenly changed to Simha without any explanation! How many astro-journalists and writers of books of astrology can say that they use only authentic data ? Except me, who has admitted in writing my failed predictions and





















Sanjay Rath who used to consult me along with his father till 1986 (he never discussed di scussed astrology as he did not know it till then is my clear impression) had sent me a book some Crux etc. containing many wrong horoscopes like that of Mother Teresa with Makar lagna and exalted Moon in the fifth and Venus in the seventh. I had raised in the jyotish list of Ben Collins a question how could Mother Teresa remain unmarried if that was the correct horoscope. The only correct horoscope of Mother Teresa that has even been used is in the book Famous Women (out of print) because after considerable research the birth data was collected. Similarly Sanjay discussed the Dhanu lagna horoscope of late R.Santhanam, the astrologer for whom I had got a job in a hotel through a friend and whom I had launched into astrological journalism by recommending his name to edit Your Astrologer a a monthly now defunct. After learning the tricks of trade there, Santhanam picked up enough courage to launch the Times of Astrology . Santhanam often discussed his own horoscope with me and the correct one is given here. But Sanjay used it





















Why does this happen ?

Indian politicians who have strong belief in astrology have stronger belief that their enemies can cause damage to them through maran and ucchatam (black magic) (Tantric rituals) in their weak astrological periods as hinted at even in some astrological book, perhaps, Narapati Jayacharya . This belief may have haunted Atal Behari Vajpayee who passed on repeatedly his birth year as 1925 and 1926 with a time t ime which gave Tula lagna. Of course there are great "guessologists" in India, particularly Delhi, who claim to have made great prediction on this basis. I got one with Vrischika lagna and 1924 as the year of birth and reeled off all correct predictions about him except in 2004 when, more out of irritation than any other reason, my political predictions went wrong four of five ti mes in five years. Irritation because none of these hypocrites, politicians or astrologers, even helped me even half percent to fi ght the case of astrology in the Supreme Court in November 2003. I had to do it all single handed with the Human Resources Ministry under Murali Mahohar Joshi not even preparing a defence of astrology on astrological grounds with the University Grants Commission and a long list their empan nelled lawyers !! That is Joshiji’s love and respect for astrology !! See even now how Atalji’s birth details are mentioned in different websites. Atal Behari

Vajpayee A brief Profile [Atal Bihari Vajpayee - The Poet | Hindi Poetry | English Translation Childhood & Education - Shri. Atal Behari Vajpayee was born on 25 December 1926, at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh. He was educated at Victoria (now Laximbai) College, Gwalior and D.A.V. College, Kanpur. He holds a M.A. degree. Shri. Vajpayee has remained bachelor. He also worked as a Journalist and as a social worker. In 1942, he was arrested during the freedom movement.























No one calls Moghul period of Indian history a saffronised period. Not understanding this, English and Indian historians debated whether Akbar was born in October or November of 1542. If they had known astrology or had taken the help of astronomer-astrologer astronomer-astrologer they could have seen that the horoscope given in Akbar Nama by Jyotik Rai, the Hindu court astrologer of Akbar and later Jehangir, clearly gives us 15 October 1542 ( Hindu dates have to be converted) which date could be cross checked through other horoscopes using sayana longitudes by some Arab astrologers again in Akbar Nama. My further argument was that Hindu Brahmins studying allopathy would become Christians, extending the communist argument, because they are studying a system of medicine which has come from Christian countries Not to annoy the judges of the Supreme Court I did not say that we all, speaking and writing in English, were Christians extending the communist arguments.





















ETERNAL INDIA 31 - A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE : DIVINE SOLACE CD TRIPATHI (IAS) Retd. 22 March 2010, 8:18 PM

It is only on three occasion in my life that during the darshana of a great soul I have felt spiritual elevated and a great calm and bliss descending on me. The last and the most uplifting was the darshana of Bhagawan Sri Satya Sai Baba about fourteen year’s ago.

It was in the later l ater part of 1996. My junior colleague coll eague Sri Dev Swarup, a spiritually evolved soul, was a great devotee of Sri Satya Sai Baba. He had d eveloped such devotion after Baba appeared before him in a dream like li ke state, a story that had hugely impressed me. He had narrated his subsequent experiences of meeting Baba in person too and these too were equally amazing. One day we decided to make an official trip to Banglore with the objective of visiting





















then suddenly said, "Why do you worry so much? Don’t worry." Evidently, I had nothing to

say but in an instant I realised that I was really worried that I was going to retire from service next year and what would happen after that. A misfortune that I had suffered a year ago also swam across my mind and I realised that I had not been able to forget f orget and get over it. A word about the said misfortune before I proceed further. In October 1994 I had joined as secretary to the President of India and expeted to retire f rom the same post in 1997. Suddenly in May 1995, within seven months of my joining, I found that the President (Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma) Sharma) got me removed from the t he post without any prior indication indi cation whatsosever. Next month I landed up the secretary in another ministry. I early July I suffered a cerebral stroke and everybody said it was a result of the shock caused by the sudden unceremonions throwing out of the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Immediately after the stroke I was naturally unconcious for quite some time and only later I learnt that for three days I was in a critical condition. Fortunately, I had received medical

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