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 time and again, as has
happened in Indian history and reminds you of the eternal spiritual legacy 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 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 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 cell in the 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 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 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 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 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 some results without

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 the miseries of people---on payment, and exploit them.
That is ofcourse a business in Indias 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 listeners. 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.
Bachchans
And the Bachchan family in Dwaraka in Gujarat is shown, the place of Lord Krishna, 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 birth
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 big 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 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 you 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.
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 these blind physical
scientists into an abyss of atheism which is irrational and arrogant in its ignorance.
It is true, since the rise of physical sciences in the west, the Church lost battles 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 than 30 million surveillance cameras,
the average American is caught on tape more than 200 times a day: on the street, at the
ATM, in department stores, even in public restrooms.
The difference in the case of India is 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, aspects and forms of HIS. That ONE 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 fees. The result is loss of money and no
relief. It starts with a fright.
Read the following letters. The mother of this man is a well known political figure of eastern
India and has held high positions in her life. I gave her some successful predictions and
guided her some years ago. We got out of touch with each till this letter arrived. His father
was a very famous and big political figure.

Horoscope consultation?
From: A. S.. (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 both my daughters to you. I remember you never provide any
consultancy unless the child is 8 yrs or older. Thank you again.
knrao <k@l.com> wrote:
A,
Send the details by email.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:34:30 -0800
From: r@mail.com
Subject: Horoscope consultation
To: knro@.com
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 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 their children too deeply, so deeply that it becomes a
dangerous Moha (attachment.) Tell a Hindu father particularly the mother that a child of
theirs is passing through a fatal period and that you have an anti-biotic mantra which can
save the situation, they will accept your claim and will be prepared to pay you the amount
you demand.
Such are the cases of blind and irrational faith and superstition in the middle class families
of India. This is being done by Karmakandi Brahmins who will remind you of the corrupt

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 mentioned 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 diabetes 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 doctor 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, 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
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
fraudulent astrologers and pandits claiming to change your fate with their specific antibiotic
mantras, after pretending to find out your Ista Mantra and Ista Devata and the specific
mantra and exploiting the worried parents, particularly mothers.

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 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)

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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 ones 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
kheeshayate karma, janmakoti-shatairapi
Prarabdha has to be suffered, both the positive and the negative elements in 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. 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 lakhs 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.
Ones own worship
The second point I want to clarify is that I have found ones own worship giving some relief.
It is because the inner strength to suffer, face life, take right decisions becomes positive. It
is known as Atma Bal or the spiritual strength.
The danger is what is the spiritual tradition for the yogi becomes for the bhogi a
superstitious belief and there he gets trapped easily by karmakandis.
TV spreads superstiton
If these superstitions are not kept alive the astrology programmes in the Hindi television
(may be in other languages of India also) will not have a higher TRP. So one fraud must
help promote another fraud.
The gullible fools
Educated mothers are more gullible and, of course those businessmen who can evade and

also avoid taxes, adulterate medicines, food stuff, oppose the Health Minister of India in 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 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 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 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 own worship.
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,
the other man said that it was impossible.
I told him that his work would be done.
Why and how he asked me.
He has siddhis I said. What nonsense ? No it was not nonsense.
In Hanuman Chalisa, there is a line
Asta siddhi, nava nidhi ke daata
As var deen Janaki Mata
Meaning that Goddess Sita blessed Hanuman with a boon as a result of which he had asta
siddhi and nav nidhi which is what bhogis run after in their miserable life to seek material
prosperity, at any cost.

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)

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KN RAO

2 December 2007, 10:00 AM

In Yogis, Destiny and the Wheel of Time I referred to the incident 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 this world within a space of six months in
one year.
Chandi Babus wife suffered from cancer 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 said to have staged a great come back at the 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 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.
Smt.Bijoya Chakrabarty, the Water Resources minister (BJP leader from Assam) in the
cabinet of Atal Bihar Vajpayee had got me examined by big doctors. I had given her a
prediction about her victory from Assam and becoming a minister. She came to meet me
again in 2006 and when she saw me walking without even a walker, she stared at me with
disbelief and describes it all now as the eighth wonder of the world ! No leading doctor had
given me one percent change of recovery she keeps saying now. But she had not told me of
the gloomy diagnosis of doctors then.
I was one of those fantastic cases of a patient who was given no medicine. I recovered
through prayers only. I do not quote such personal examples but here I have to since I
emphasise that one must do it, offer prayers, oneself. I did my Guru Mantra, Vishnu
Sahastranama, Narayana Kavacham, lying on bed, violating all Vaishanava rules of shuchi
or cleanliess. I recovered partly and can walk without a stick, climb stairs but cannot walk
now for five miles at a stretch.

In 1957, I had gone trekking 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 in
Vishnu Sahastranama and Narayana Kavacham and some of them do it 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 longevity! By 2007 that
young man now sixty five years old has been hospitalised at least fifteen times, 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 life with its enigmas of bliss
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 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
what I found in my interactions with westerners. Scratch them and comes out like a
dangerous devil the somnolent, disbelieving , questioning, challenging atheist in them. They
talk of the Bible and do not remember that Christ talked of men of faith and derided Ye,
men of little faith!
(1 December 2007)

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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. Then the reference to God
as Anantkoti Bramhanda Nayaka or lord
of millions of worlds or galaxies and these galaxies forming, dissolving, appearing and
disappearing dazzles the westen astronomer who wonders how Hindus could reach this
great scientific conclusion.
And how the Gita inspired Roman Rollaind, scientist 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 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.
In the eighteenth chapter it is explained that Brahma-bhootah is always blissful, he regrets
not, he craves not. The message is clear---face and understand the inevitable reality called
death and then understand life and perform your duty.
Here you are only a puppet.
In the eleventh chapter, Lord Krishna opens his mouth and shows the procession of the
dead warriors even when the war of Mahabharata has not begun ! Who then is Arjuna? An
instrument chosen by destiny to perform his duty only. Did Arjun kill them or was it already
pre-ordained ?
And remember, my Jyotish Guru always used to say, in the procession of the dead
Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna is not shown. What is revealed and what is hidden--that is His
will. When God does not want us to know certain things, we cannot know however excellent
you may be as an astrologer. As an astrologer when you are giving consultation, you will
miss or fail to see and warn your client. How many times it happens is to be experienced by
an astrologer.
Analyse life through horoscope and you find the meaning of destiny, instrumentality through
which divinity works and the futility of so many stupid hopes to be prosperous, famous,
powerful etc. Where else in the world will you find such sublime messages which are the
climax of millions of years of spiritual quest of ancient Indians unlike other nations which
were rapacious, conquering enslaving and converting people to their religious beliefs to
ensure the stability of their empires? There lies the difference between true civilization and
barbarisms
mistaken for civilizations.

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 in is that these successful men dominate and influence
human thinking and writing. Adam Smith, Marx and Freud, among 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.
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 spirituality. 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
karmakanda because he earns out of this. But why should he claim that it changes fate?
The equivalent to the karmakandis in the
west is ofcourse men of the church, particularly the Roman Catholic church.
When jyotisha gets tied to karmakanda, the irrational kaal sarpa yoga etc., what we are
doing is damaging the eternal sublime tradition of India. The great vidya called jyotisha,
brought from the sacred ashrams of rishis has been thrown in the garbage dumps of
markets.
Yet, the spiritual tradition is eternal, alway alive and getting renewed with mahatmas born
all over India. It is why we call it not Hinduism but Sanatana Dharma---a dharma which has
an innate capacity to renew itself.
Ravaged northern India got de-Sanskritized, not despiritualised, because came Tulsidas with
his great Ram Charit Manas and Hanuman Chalisa and flowed a mighty spiritual current
which inspires, nurtures and sustains faith in spirituality. The lyricism of Krishna Bhakti was
glorified by Soordas and Mirabai. The saint poets of the age of Bhakti gave us back in the
local regional languages what otherwise would have been lost.
How many times in Indian history such miracles have taken place----the history of ritualism,
dogma and superstition with distorted Karmakanda of the greedy and the sublimity of the
spiritual made available by mahatmas. You have to live in different parts of India as I have
not merely visiting,(I have lived in all
states except Kerala, Kashmir, Goa and Karnataka,) to see it, watch it, know it, appreciate
it, scratch the surface and see the underground currents of spirituality always renewing
itself.

Shankar Deb of Assam brought Vaishanism there before the world heard of Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu. You have to live in Assam to know the great influence of Shankar Deb and
Madhab Deb.
Dakshinachar Tantric practices have regarded woman as the finest creation of God, not the
male. But we know, and it is 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.

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KN RAO

7 December 2007, 12:40 PM

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 reality of life. Who does not face problems? Are these problems
solved through efforts (and prayers if you believe in it) 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 to do it, let him first see how much time 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 difficult to find them these days. Self had experienced only
the Kanchi Paramacharya here. But even they do not claim any knowledge of astrology or
speak about planetery influences !! Indeed.
About Moha for children- true the mother has deep rooted bond and affection for her
children. It is rather vatsalya and not MOHA!! Mothers cannot be detahched to their children
- Rao saab should understand this. Mothers- affection, guidance and blessings are required
for any child, as protection. One cannot cut off that deep rooted bond and live like saints. A
chidl may neglect parents, father may neglect family, but very rarely u may come across a
mother who does not care for her child. Rao saab would have experienced this himself,
Hence to call it as Moha Or desire- Sorry I do not agree with you Rao Saab !! .
My comment: Cow Rhino
Let me refer to two beautiful experiences of my life. I had gone with a colleague to
Kaziranga, the sanctuary for rhinos in 1962. We were to go on an elephant ride in the
afternoon. In the time available, I read quickly some literature on rhinos. When we reached
the spot where a cow rhino was with her calf rhinos, I asked the mahaout to take the
elephant near the cow rhino. My friend objected to it.
As you got nearer, the cow rhino would charge at the elephant because she will think that
we had come to take away her calf rhinos. The male rhino will continue to laze in the sun.
Nothing happens after that except that either the rhino chases the elephant or the elephant
chases the rhino and then the fight ends. It is the fight of two of the strongest herbivores in
the animal world. There is no blood shed , no death. The mahout wanted me to enjoy this
experience but my colleague got frightened.
Lioness mother
In 1970, I had gone to Gir, the sanctuary for lions in Gujarat. I saw the lioness guarding her

offsprings while the lion was lazing in the sun. The guide asked us not to 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 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 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 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 is 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 into which every good human
being must step sometime or the other. Inability to detach from children at some
stage is to increase and mutiply your own worries.
Spiritual importance of mother
It is time Indian parents of new generations told their children about the spiritual
importance of serving mother.
In Ramacharita Manas of Tulsidas when Lord Rama is to go into exile, he goes to his
mother, Kaushalya to seek her permission and she tells him. Jo keval pitu ayesu tata, To
jaani jaahu jani badi maata, Jo pitu, matu kahau ban jana, To kanan sat Avadh samana. In
any case, if it be only your father's command, my son then do not go; put only your mother
first; but if both your father and mother have asked you to go to the forest, then the woods
will equal a hundred cities like Ayodhya.
I have not seen a single case of a person who has served his parents sincerely, particularly
mother, and suffered materially.Pitri devo bhava,matri devo bhava are not mere beliefs.
(3 Dec 2007)

ETERNAL INDIA 7
KN RAO

7 December 2007, 2:12 PM

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 and 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 came
with a woman some time in 2004 and asked a question giving the horoscope of her son.
She explained in her own way what the ailment of her son was which can be better
explained in medical terms, as Pott's Spine and its seriousness shown.
Lord of 22 Dreshkona is Mercury and Jupiter is placed there.
Lord of 64 Navamsha is Jupiter and Jupiter and Venus are placed there.
Lord of 85 Dwadashsha is Moon but Mercury is placed there aspected by Saturn.
The Vimshottari dasha in Rahu mahadasha in November 2004 was of Mercury which began
in 5 Jan 2003 and would be over on 24 July 2004

Astrological explanation
Four doctors of the All India Medical Institute suggested a surgical operation but in view of
the long waiting list, it could be performed only after some months.
I immediately saw that it was the mahadasha of Rahu and the antardasha of Mercury
which is in the second house and is the lord of the twenty second dreshkona. It was clear
from an astrological analysis that any operation performed at that time would be fatal and
instead of curing might have led to more complications.
As it is, doctors did not give more than ten to twenty percent chances of cure even after the
operation.
Transits
The transits in May 2004 were very frightening.
Saturn and Mars in the eighth house from the lagna could not be favourable at all.

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 duties. She could not have done 11 lakh
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.
2. The boy continued with medicines.
3. Six months later when the boy was examined by doctors there was no sign of the
ailment at all.
4. Doctors called it nothing short of a miracle.
Astrologically, the antardasha of Ketu in the ninth house has begun and Saturn had moved
away from Mithuna into Karka.
Dr. Geeta Kathurias comments
The boy developed severe pain in lower back while playing. He was taken to the hospital.
He was diagnosed to have Potts spine (Tuberculosis of spine). 4th and 5th Lumbar
vertebrae (the small bones forming spine and supporting the lower back) were involved. In
between the two vertebrae there are holes which allow the outlet of nerves from spinal cord
(part of central nervous system), which lies protected in vertebral column, From 4th and
5th lumbar vertebrae the nerves that come out provide sensation and movement to lower
limbs or legs.
If any damage occurs to this area there is paraplegia or paralysis of legs. The severity of
situation; it was crippling, though it was not fatal. MRI of the child showed pus. It had to be
aspirated and stents were to be put after six months (due to busy operation list) in AIIMS,
The success rate of surgery was explained to be 10-20%.
The Anti tuberculous treatment (ATT) was started in the meantime. During this period they
met Mr. K.N. Rao and were advised to postpone surgery and do the Mahamritunjaya mantra
japam.
Looking at the discouraging success rate of surgery, the decision was difficult.
Here astrologer's role came into play. Seeing astrologically the period was difficult and
surgery could be fatal. Hence she was advised pooja and wait for the right time for surgery.
In the meantime treatment had to be continued. They followed the advice. His mother
prayed intensely for her son. The finding on MRI showed marked improvement after six
months. The surgery was cancelled by doctors. The child continued the treatment with ATT
and was cured after 2 years, without surgery. The child can walk, play and do everything
today like any other normal child. One can see that a proper guidance of an astrologer and
the faith of parents in God saved the child, in his most diffcult moments. (4 December
2007)

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 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
piece. But their belief in the supernatural is also a tradition. Some of them have mere belief
in it which can be shattered. Some have faith because of first hand experence.
Modern man is that physical being for whom sex, libido, death as the end of everything with
no after life, no consequences of karma is the meaning and purpose of life. He, an epicure,
is caught in a vicious circle of which he is not aware. Some who are aware want to know if it
is ever broken. Here comes in the importance of astrology and any supernormal experience
which is genuinely supernormal.
Patanjali Yoga sutra
Those who have read the Patanjali Sutras will understand at once why such a need exists
for such a vicious circle to be broken and, is broken. Emphasise here Ishwara Pranidhan
and what are described in the chapter Vibhuti Paad.
It is mere theory for many but when you meet someone with supernormal powers, what it
does it that it restores your faith in the eternal spiritual tradition of India. But that is the
grace of God. If it happens to you, do not forget it ever, even if it is only one or solitary
experience.
Do not accept any supernormal experience as genuine till you have tested it many times, or
examined it through sharp reasoning. Is it a hallucination or is a genuine experience ? If it is
genuine, it is enough for you for the rest of life to reject the vicious logic of physical
scientists that what is not explainable through their methods is not acceptable or scientific.
Rationalists
Those people who call themselves rationalists and are ever ready to reject anything which
they are predetermined not to accept, manage to get lot of television exposure in India
these days.They have never succeeded in making any case against astrology, ghosts,
supernomal phenomena.
In the three court judgements in India involving astrology the physical scientists,
rationalists collapsed miserably and lost. Yet, the idiot box has been their favourite medium
to express themselves, not an open stage with an open debate. They know that here their
ignorance will be exposed while in the television programmes,recorded earlier, what shows
them unfavourably can be edited out.

The media in India is 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 into the well known categories of the
needy, the greedy, the inquisitive and the the gyani as given in the Gita. At any rate, the
need for them is to know if other than the methods of physical science, can things be
known. Here comes in the role of traditional Hindu astrology.
Let me give one instance.
In 1984, a high ranking police officer asked me in March if he should take voluntary
retirement as he was disgusted with the behaviour of a man in the secretariat of the Prime
Minister, Indira Gandhi who was sitting over his file and was preventing his next best, most
prestigious promotion to the post of the Chairman of Joint Intelligence Board.
I asked him what will happen if the man doing it against you does not remain in that post
after October 1984? He did not understand what I was hinting at. He waited, Indira Gandhi
was killed in October 1984 and that man obstructing his promotion was removed from his
post. He got the prestigious promotion in January 1985, under Rajiv Gandhi.
Later, he came to study astrology and called that prediction as a supernormal experience
and said that there was no reason to be an atheist, not believe astrology. Devotion to God
was the best way of life he concluded and his post retirement life is totally different now.
Helicopter crash
I have a written account from a woman who wanted to celebrate, on a particular day, the
birthday of her husband in a famous pilgrimage, Amarnath by going there on a helicopter.
Her Guru asked her to visit it a day earlier and return the same day. She was surprised but
did as instructed by her guru. Those who went on the day originally fixed, died in a
helicopter crash. I have included this written acount in the book I am compiling and it has
stunned most of them who read it in the manuscript form. This is ofcourse from a very
famous family of India.
Some months after I met another family whose members had travelled on that fatal day
and they all died. I saw it in their horoscopes and have included in the book.
These are Gods mysterious ways which saints foresee. This case has put many people in a
daze as they dare not question the writer of that account from a very famous family of
India. Is it true ? Do these things happen ? There ends the vicious circle.(6 December
2007)

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.
It is addresed to those who want to seek God. They must first burn down their houses
meaning destroy their worldliness, their attachments.
Making houses
Do you find Hindus burning down their houses or making them with the saving of their
lifetime earlier and now with bank loans? Not satisfied with one, many of them make more
than one house.
Social compulsions to be worldly
Social and domestic compulsions makes Hindus deeply materialistic.They like to educate
their children at a huge price and these days it is enormously expensive, costing lakhs
compared to few hundreds even upto post gratudate level during my time. Then they had to
and still have to accumulate money to pay the dowry of their daughters which they rarely
escape and have no desire to escape in most of the cases having accepted this evil as a
gainful necessity. They make up in the dowry they get in their sons marriage what they pay
in a daughters marriage.In either case, it is not other worldliness but pure greed,
compulsion and necessity. Birth only of daughters and no sons is therefore looked upon as a
curse. This a well known calculation of the grossly worldly persons in whose life there is
nothing other worldly ever.
Gold in iron safe of office
Once during my service career when I was relieving a person as the head of the office, he
removed from his iron safe in his office room, big packets which contained pieces of gold he
had kept there and had accumulated for the marriage of his daughters. He thought that the
office safe as safe as a bank locker. But he talked of religious books mostly and of
Shankaracharya, the param guru.
Four types of devotees
Of the four types of devotees, the needy, the greedy, the inquisitive and the gyani, vastest
majority belong to the needy and greedy category.Hindus go to pilgrimages not for
salvation but for prayers for worldly gains. Have you heard of anyone going to Tirupati to
pray for salvation? It is a worldly wish on the fulfilment of which they visit this pilgrimage
again and donate some money and even shave themselves off as a token of gratitude to
God for fulfilling their worldly wish. It is like a bargain with God and these days, it is almost
like offering a bribe to God.

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
not signs of other worldliness. As an astrologer, I know of thousands of Hindus who have
come to consult me only for their worldly problems. I have seen them visit pilgrims again
for the fulfilment of worldly wishes only.
What then is eternal about it?
To understand it, remember the excellent four fold division of the society into Brahmacharis,
Grihasthis, Vanaprasthis and Sanyasis. Where else in the world do you find such a deep
thinking and division? What was true in my childhood and is truer now is that we have some
sort of Brahmacharis even in these days of sexual freedom but we have an overwhelming
majority of Grihasthis. Among many millions we have some Vanaprasthis and still fewer true
Sanyyasis after excluding the saffron clad who are more like pieces of advertisements than
true Sanyyasis.
What is unique and eternal is the institution of Vanaprasthis and Sanyyasis? I have seen in
some houses, men staying in families having led an active life, and are now detached from
more than eighty percent of worldly activities, living for society and devoting their lives to
spiritual practices. They are excellent examples but fools in a worldly sense in modern
evaluation.
I have seen boys in some families who from childhood have been other worldly and soon
became sanyasis. How they have developed spiritually is not known to me but what is
eternal about India is these two institutions of Vanaprasthis and Sanyyasis. It is not a
church giving you a career as a bishop or a nun with physical comforts, accomodation a
church etc.
The Vanaprasthis and Sanyyasis keep alive the eternal spiritual tradition. Some of them
write books on spiritual subjects, some take to preaching and most of them lead a detached
lives because they know the pains of attachment,the tension of money earning careers, the
jealousies of professional life. This far and no further is the realization that comes to them
and their vanaprastha begins with this feeling and note.
A form of spirituality It is spirituality that is suited to contemporary times. Prof Alan
Roland, a noted American cultural psychoanalyst, postulates
that every Indian has a spiritual side, whether latent or expressed. Far from abandoning the
spiritual quest, the modern middle-class is seeking new forms of spirituality suited to the
times witness the growth of Art of Living, Buddhism, Reiki, lectures on the Gita et al. This
is in addition to practising religious rituals, following the family Guru and consulting
astrologers.
Otherworldliness is not a myth but rare and rarer in Indian life now. It is there and will
always be there but confined to vanaprasthis and true sanyasis only.
Do what you like, India will always believe in Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha but
majority will believe in the first three purusharthas only. But not the vicious circle of
atheism or agnosticism for them. They experience it ,the truth of astrology etc.early enough
in life to know that Indian,the Hindu way of life, is based on superior wisdom than in the
west.

One example will suffice.

From: A. K. <..@yahoo.co.in>
To: knrao@com
Subject: Namaste
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:00:28 IST
Respected Sir,
This is Akshat K., with all your blessings I have got an offer from G., Gurgaon. I have been
told to report at the Delhi IT Park office by 9:30am on the 12th of this month. As you had
said that something good will happen for me this December. It seems to be that way. Also
you had said that it should be somewhere in the west, that too has come true as Gurgaon is
in the west of Delhi. Thanks for all your blessings.
Warm Regards,
A.K.
The tradition he believes in is true is what he realises. If his samskaras are better, in old
age he will become an ideal vanaprasthi. That is eternal India.
( 7 December 2007 )

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
the world but with a difference---there is the other life, more sublime, to be wished for and
attainable because they see examples of sublime spiritual life also of vanaprasthais and
sanyasis.
It is not an otherworldly India but a worldly India with an other worldly ambition
based on realism. That is the brilliance and beauty of division of life into four ashrams,
brahmacharya, grihastha, vanaprastha and sannyas. To practise is the another four fold
division of our efforts, known as purusharthas, dharma, artha, kaama and moksha.
The average Hindu mother trains her children in some sort of dharma right from childhood
herself remaining hundred percent worldly.
Dharma is not the path to salvation but the path to religious thinking. You see a
contradiction here. The child see its parents lead purely worldly life but talking of God and
religion. It is not hypocrisy but the tradition of dharma. Then pursuing worldly life, money,
sex, enjoyments are normal. These are artha and kama. The child sees great examples of
worldly pursuits and also of acceptance of dharma.
Some of them, only some of the rarest of them, enter vanaprastha ashram and pursue
moksha as the final aim. That is the eternal tradition of eternal India. It is actually,
half other worldliness in most of the cases. Temple going, visiting pilgrimages, getting
initiated by a guru are part of such a life. But does it end here? No. They also accept the
supernormal as a fact of life.
Brajendra of Vrindavan
But let us not forget that in India we have strange supernormal experiences when you
expect them least. Among many I have witnessed one relating to Brajendra, the wonder
boy from Vrindavan who used to stay with me in the period 1980 to 84 in my Delhi
residence had caused such a big commotion in many circles, from the poor, middle class
families to the rich and mighty.
The boy had supernormal powers and could predict and forecast for people just by looking
at them. I have referred to him in my longish article on Dr. Nagendra Singh, ( Predicting
through Astrology and Clairvoyance) the former Justice of the International Court of Justice.
He had told him that he (Nagendra Singh) would be re-elected for the ICJ for a term of
seven years while the term was for nine years. I had predicted his reelection only.
Dr. Nagendra Singh did not live to complete his full nine years but died in the seventh year.
How could Brajendra, a five year old boy with poorest powers of expression predict so easily
for so many so often? In India, such phenomenon does not create big sensation while in
USA they would immediately jump at it and produce a book calling him the greatest psychic
of the world. But he had become something of a folk icon so long as he had those powers
which he lost soon after and has now become a common half rustic young man.
But it is the reality of the Indian life--the normal and the supernormal co-exist, a perfect
blending for the acceptance of holistic approach to life. It is here that astrology begins to
play such a big part in our daily lives. The acceptance of holistic approach leads to the

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 some
examples.
1. A girl from an orthodox family does her MBA course, changes jobs four times and lovers
three times in five years. Then when she decides to marry her latest lover, she wants her
horoscope to be tallied with that of her latest lover. It is a universal fantasy that she must
have astrological approval for her love affair while the fact is that when she has chosen
someone herself, astrology has become irrelevant for her. If you refuse to do it as an
astrologer, she will go to someone else who may frighten her and make substantial money
in the name of remedial measures. I will give a strange instance of such a case
subsequently.
2. India was, is and will always be a land of great hypocrisy, like every nation in the world,
and also genuine spirituality, unlike other nations particularly in the west. If this
contradition is understood then you accept this strange land called India, the land of great
rishis and great frauds, genuine spiritual gurus and those fake ones who claim to have a
great parampara and indulge in adultery uttering Sanskrit shlokas!
3. You have DMK and the chief minister of West Bengal questioning and doubting the
existence of Lord Rama and a vast majority of Hindus protesting. That is the hypocritical
brand of secularim handed over to the nation by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress
party to the nation none of whom dare to utter a single word that would hurt the adherents
of other religions. If a Hindu leader atttacks Hindu belief it is secularism.
4. Examine any aspect of Indian life and there is glut of hypocrisy and double standards.
Astrology and some genuine saints restore your faith in the supernormal. Life goes on in
this manner. It is a baffling, confusing life. Kamasutra and Khajuraho and Kedarnath and
Kashi all exist in his life and he sees no contradiction in it because life must have all this and
heaven too. That is the half worldly life.
5. Article 498, Domestic Violence Act for married women and Article 376 for unmarried girls
are said to be the trishul (trident) in the hands of the girls in India to torture males now.
Earlier, it was the marriage of the girl that was a story of torture. Now, the story is
reversed. Is that the great India of rishis we boast of ? It is a strange experience to see the
pitiable victims, the male and his family who have suffered imprisonment for some days in a
jail.
What is other worldly element in it?
Yes, they go to astrologers, tantricks anyone who claims to have supernormal powers to
change fate and spend a fortune. They will visit temples, go to pilgrimages and claim to be
following some guru even.That is the half worldly India, indulge in villanies and take the
help of someone who claims to have supernormal powers.
The villanous girl who now can torture her husband, armed with new legislation, also breaks
down at some stage and is trapped by a Tantrik who exploits her sexually. Mostly, the belief
in the supernormal, particularly Tantriks, by these women has proved dangerous. It means
that the so-called belief in the supernatural proves to be their doom.
( 8 December 2007)

ETERNAL INDIA 11--DURING THE BRITISH INDIAN DAYS

KN RAO

10 January 2008, 5:52 AM

The wrong description of India as other worldly, particularly the Hindu society by British
rulers was never a correct and honest description. I was born and grew to be a teenager in
British India. I never saw any otherworldly society. What I saw was a more passive,
ignorant society with ninety percent illiteracy among women and seventy percent among
males. These days men in the age group 20-45 take to drugs easily without any inhibition,
indulge in sex, show more violence on the internet under assumed names and show all that
is known as bad upbringing. They are no better than the scum of the US society of the last
decades of the last century.
Kaliyugi tendencies
That is not eternal India but they fit into the eternal Hindu explanation for the rule of the
Lord of Kali. If the society degenerates we have an eternal explanation. In a way that is true
because we have fraudulent gurus whose five star culture shocks you and jyotish gurus who
drink, exploit women and do all that gets easily described as tendencies of Kaliyuga.
Illiterates are always more tradition bound and religious, more out of respect for the
powerful in the feudal society of those days than they are today. But they committed all
those crimes against women, particularly mothers in law proving a nightmare for the
daughters in law. The dowry demand had not reached such menacing levels as I saw after
independence.
Astrological guidance
Astrological consultations for each and every thing and decision was not known then at all.
The marriages of girls were decided without tallying horoscopes, more on the
recommendation of the barbers who visited so many houses and were walking marriage
counselors. One man fifty four years from Rajasthan had totally confused me once when I
asked him when had he got married. He had said fifty five years ago. His father and a friend
of his had got married and the wives of both of them had become pregnant. They decided
that one of them was a girl and the other a daughter they would be married. They were and
I met both of them. The wife was senior to the husband by some months.
Barbers as marriage counselors
If marriages were successful it was because the girls were told that they had to be a
success. In all the cases known to me, I saw few years after marriage, women dominating.
My joke then and even now is that every successful marriage is built around henpecked
husband whether he admitted it or not. And what were traditional women doing in northern
India? Cooking food, producing children till they reached menopause and reading Sundar
Kanda of Tulsikrit Ram Charit Manas. Life moved on predetermined lines till the second
world was created black market, corruption and the society started changing. That society
changed because it was feudal not eternal. But the eternal element in it Sundar Kanda of
Tulsikrit Ram Charit Manas seems to have become an eternal element suggesting that the
belief in the supernormal will never die. If that were not true we will not have had so many
preachers in the prospering religious television channels.
Post independence India After independence, literacy levels and health care improved but
women remained fettered by tradition till the late eighties of the last century. But they were
all downright materialists, with spiritual pretensions but accumulating money for the
education of their children and marriage of their daughters. In our locality in Lucknow of
less than one thousand households, only two freedom fighters were there, our family and
that of Gopinath Srivastava. In both cases, the CID was chasing us and imprisonment was a

common story. Other households had passive sympathy for us, being timid, and never ever
helped us openly when we were starving.
I always wondered then, and wonder even now, what is the use of such worship which
prevented them from helping suffering people. It is later when I read the Srimad
Bhagvatam, particularly the Devahooti and Kapil Muni dialogue that I found the right
answer. I had another and larger of that timid India and Indians in 1975 when Indira
Gandhi imposed national emergency and she and her party the Congress have becomes
symbols of national disgrace since then. Make no mistake those whom you mistake for
devotees are not devotees. Some of the drunkards and debauched people have greater
devotion.
During my childhood and boyhood we were in very active touch with south India also and I
found south Indians more materialistic though they memorized more Sanskrit stotras to
pose as wise men of society! Before fixing the marriages of their daughters they first made
some inquiries about the family property of the would be bridegrooms ! What was
otherworldly in all this I always wondered and never understood why the British called
Indians otherworldly.
This was the normal India but it had the other side always visible, the eternal side. Going to
take bath in rivers on sacred occasions, going to pilgrimages, respecting mahatmas,
memorizing some beautiful poems of Meerabai, Soordas, and of course Hanuman Chalisa
and reciting the Ramcharit Manas was the commonest feature of community life. Through
these, the spiritual ardor of some was kindled and kept alive. That was, and is the eternal
India we know of.
Fatalism
Fatalistic acceptance of sickness and death was inevitable because the average longevity
then was 27 years against 65 of these days, infant mortality was very high and death
through malaria and tuberculosis was common. Now when all this has improved that
fatalism also has vanished mostly. If the British mistook it for other worldliness, it was their
mistake or a deliberate distortion.
Astrologers were consulted only on very few occasions and that too by some families only.
It is now that astrology has become an obsessive mania with the middle classes. It turn has
led to the growth of fraudulent astrologers just as in Mexico there are fake plastic surgeons
and IVF operations in UK by greedy doctors. A pregnant now wants an astrologer to fix a
time for cesarean operation for the delivery of a child who should be an angel, a great
person whether her own or her husbands karmas promise such a great child or not.
What we must know is that kama, krodha, lobha, moha, matsarya, mada are eternal
everywhere. In India, the land of seers, we have thought and thought and thought about
these problems and found a way out which is why we have the richest spiritual traditions,
very genuine spiritual traditions and have not perverted the meaning of spirituality as
Americans have. No religion other than the sanatan dharma has understood all this and yet
we have the ludicrous sight of seeing the leaders of other religions, which appear more like
codes than deep metaphysical understanding of human life and world, wanting to convert
Hindus!
( 2 January 2008)

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KN RAO

3 February 2008, 9:22 PM

The stories are many, true stories, enthralling spiritual stories of people suffering mostly
and experiencing the sublime and of those rare cases where there was no suffering but only
sublimity because they had excellent samskaras. Khsipram bhavati dharmatma of the Gita
is so correct. Those who have led their lives in proper way ethically become dharmatmas
soon.
But how many people have led lives like dharmatmas? See most of the people who talk of
the spiritual in India. The younger generation of males fall into definable classifiable
categories. There are those who have made a career, know some Sanskrit, have lot of
money, and lead the life of a second class citizen in a foreign country. They have read some
religious books and now, in their thirties or forties, think that they are authorities on every
aspect of spiritual life, kundalini, mantra shastra, and anything and everything on which the
new age opportunists of USA have written books and made money.
For those Americans, Russians and other westerners, Hinduism, ayurveda, yoga, jyotisha
are commercial commodities for which there is a market in the west coast including highly
lucrative organized tours of India. Indians fall into this trap, make lot of noise on the
internet, on their websites, betraying more ignorance
and arrogance than modesty and humility. If he is a Hindu Brahmin the noise is endless.
It is not a spiritual revolution. It is a disturbance, an aberration. To this, he adds astrology
as a supporting cheating aid. Later, astrology becomes his source of income and gurudom
recedes in the background. Count and make a list of such cases you know of and you will be
suprised. I have seen enough of it in USA later, in Russia and am aware of it spreading in
Germany, France, Italy , Australia and even New Zealand.
Good examples
But I will concede that some of these foreigners become truly spiritual. One of them from
Australia used to meet me about twenty years ago and he got tired of those commercial
Indian gurus who have spread their nets wide and earned fabulously but cannot enter some
countries because of court cases against them.
He persisted and finally sought a real good guru in Kashmir and knew the value of vairagya
and gyan unlike many India reeling off their knowledge immodestly. He soon discovered
how the devilish foreign women coming to India chase them even in guruss ashrams for
dating. But this man was amazing and set his spiritual aims very properly.
The second an American with a very understanding wife both of whom have taken to
spiritual life in the truest spirit of the Bhagwatam and prefer the seclusion of Govardhan.
When this man drops in once in a while at my place, he appears to be so calm, so
concentrated on his sadhana without any distractions. The best place for sadhana according
to him is Govardhan.
Now read the last kanda, the uttarkanda of Ramcharit Manas or the last of skandaSrimad
Bhagvatam or the Vishnu Purana about the tendencies of Kaliyuga to know why this too has
to happen---the fraud along with genuine spiritual renaissance.
Keep away from it, read the works of saint poets again and again, Kabirdas particularly
because he delivers poetic hammer blows the blind guru and the deaf disciple etc. the guru
who knows how to take away your property not griefs.

Watch this dispassionately and see how well it was all foretold and anticipated as
tendencies of Kaliyuga. Become aware it.
In trying to discover the eternal India what you will meet most of the time is that Kaliyugi
guru, preacher, the astrologer prescribing his remedies at a high cost.
Your discovery begins when you succeed in steering clear of all these.
For nearly twenty seven years, I had the grace of God to meet extraordinary mahatmas. In
1963 when I could visit Vrindavan almost on every week end I invariably met some great
mahatma. I had no demand, no greed. Once I had heard of a tall, lean, dark bodied
mahatma who did parikarma of Vrindavan very fast. Once I saw him and ran to get near
him. He stopped suddenly, turned towards me and said in Hindi. Badi kripa ki Radharani
ne. Ab itni door jayoge ki Vrindavan aane ke liye tadapoge.
(Radharani has been very kind to you. Now you are going to go away so far that you will
pine to visit to Vrindavan.) He then walked away fast, leaving me
stunned. I never met him again.
Back to my office, I got my transfer order to a different station from where for four years I
could not visit Vrindavan. Who was that mahatma who warned me of the coming
disturbance to my week end blissful pilgrimage to Vrindavan ? He prepared me for a shock.
Is the meaning clear ? You can visit a great pilgrimage when there is the grace of God. You
need grace of God to meet a true mahatma. Binu Hari kripa nahi mile santa. (Without the
grace of God you cannot meet a saint.)
I am writing this to tell some people of the west who ask me or write to me to show them a
mahatma who can show them God in the first meeting!! They should remember: first
deserve then desire. They have read some books, read about some saints of India and think
that they are available in every street and corner here as though there were pieces of
vegetables. That is an extremely vulgar attitude which has come to stay in the western
mind now as in the days of imperialism it was the snake charmer and rope trick.
India is a land of great seers, it always was, and always will be. A great Mahatma may be
walking in front of you in an Indian pilgrimage and you may never know. He leads an
anonymous life and he loves his anonymity. In that sense the only foreigner who seemed to
have been lucky perhaps was Paul Brunton of the In Search of Secret India fame.
But what happens after you meet great mahatmas? Nothing. They drive you away. They
love their loneliness, their divine hours. Human company is a disturbance, a distraction.
The Kaliyugi among the saffron clad want to cultivate you if they think that you can promote
them, raise funds for their ashrams and various activities. I am giving you a hint here. They
gatecrash into religious television channels buying their telecast time at a huge price.
Do not be influenced by the New Age frauds of USA who do ranking of Indian mahatmas
and tabulate them them according to the marks they give!! When I saw such frauds in USA,
I started wondering why it was being done. Do not treat the great Indian mahatma as a
sight seeing item on your next trip to India.
At one stage you will begin to ask what is the use of great mahatmas? At any rate, you will

have to sit down in your own place, lead a cloistered existence and spend time in God
contemplation as the great mahatmas have done and are doing. If that lesson has been
learnt, meeting mahatmas has served its purpose. If that happens to you, it is in Gods
scheme. That is your destiny.
Satsanga must lead to cloistered life
Cloistered life must lead to non-attachment
Non-attachment must lead to cosmic truth
That is true spiritual life.
So ask yourself, do you really want to meet a mahatma?
(14 Jan 2008)

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KN RAO

9 February 2008, 11:21 AM

For the westerner who for centuries witnessed illiberal religion which claimed to
be the best in the world and therefore, sought to convert its colonies into Christian colonies,
there exists now, in the changed world an unbridgeable gulf between religion and science. It
is also called a conflict between faith and reason, in which battle you find the champions of
science using strong sharp tongue aggressively which does not help as it shows now two
types of intolerance--- the first by fundamentalist religions and then by scientists. The
fundamentalist claims that his religion is superior to all other religions and the rest of the
world should be converted to it. For the scientist religion is pure humbug and so is God.
Together with there is the multi ethnic and multi cultural jamboree almost everywhere in
the world to show how there are too many irreconciable ends. This shows how complex and
confused the world has become for a thinking, reading and thoughtful man whose faith in
God and religion will get shaken. In India we have had the advantage of great saints, not
merely preachers as in most of the world.
It is why religion never dies in India but along with the danger of superstition thriving has
always been strongest possibility and is so even today amidst us.
What you must always remember is that along with religion, superstitions always thrive and
strike root in the human mind. Physical science does remove some of these superstitions
and therefore no one can deny the great contribution of science. But to insist that physical
science has established the veracity of everything in human life is the biggest superstition
we harbour now.
The other big superstition which science promotes is that what is not physically provable
cannot be scientific. It is on this ground that physical scientists oppose astrology most
unscientifically, irrationally, like most contemptible idiots.
The occasion to say this a television debate in Sahara Samay of 3 February 2008 in which I
was the chief participant with Prasun Bajpai the chief editor, anchoring it. Other astrologers,
a tarrot card reader, a numerologist participated in it for some minutes along with a wooden
headed scientist who as usual uttered some nonsense. I answered him with logic and of
course rudely, in a language which the scientists understand better now in television
debates.
Remember jyotisha is an integral part of eternal Indias living and vibrant heritage.
Range of a prediction
Prasun asked me what could be the range of an astrological prediction. It can be a very long
range one etc. is what I said and quoted the spectacular example of Sir Woodrow Wyatt,
who had come to India with Sir Stafford Cripps in 1945 and had taken predictions from
K.P.Sharma the court astrologer of the state of Bikaner state. In 1988, he revealed it in an
article in the editorial page of Times, London while defending Ronald Reagan the US
president who or whose wife consulted a woman astrologer.
Wyatt was referring to the forty four year old prediction and praising Hindu astrology.
Record of feedback
It will be good if astrologers keep a record of honest feedback and reveal them from time to
time to restore peoples credibility in astrology which the Moon sign predictors or Sun sign

predictors including the tarrot card readers have destroyed. The topic under discussion was
these daily predictions in the news channels and newspapers which Sahara Samay does not
give now, for four months , after Prasun joined it as chief editor.
Longest ever TV debate
It was the longest ever discussion on astrology from 9 to 11 pm but was extended by half
an hour in view of the tremendous response from viewers, as Prasun said, after receiving as
many 10,000 SMS in which finally 74 percent people said that they did not believe in these
daily predictions while 26 percent seemed to say it became believable sometimes.
The stupid scientist
The stupid scientist provoked me and I hit back telling him that the scientists criticising
astrology lost their first battle in Madras High Court, the second in Andhra High Court and
the last and final in the Supreme Court in which I as the only astrologer argued. The
lawyers from the government side were helpless as they did not know astrology. I
demolished all the arguments advanced by lawyers based on hundreds of articles written by
these stupid scientists used by the leftists dominated English media of India and also
vociferously quoted by television channels.
I asked the stupid scientist why after suffering a hattrick of defeats in courts of law, were
scientists anxious to utter nonsense in these television debates?
An Example
Anyway, I am giving here an example of what I mean by evidences of the validity of
astrology. Astrologers should collect these and fight intellectual battles in future as there
will be no legal battle now, the Supreme Court having settled the matter in favour of
astrologers. To emphasize the methodology, invariably use varga charts and show the
science of astrology. Here see three charts and draw your own conclusions.
Letters
Dear Shri Rao,
20 Feb. 1998
The other day I saw you on Sony T.V. advocating Astrology to be a Science. Your address,
too has been obtained accidentally courtesy Hinduism Today published from Hawai.
I recall my meeting you along with my son Dr.Aloke Gupta in 1985. He was just out of
I.I.T./Delhi and he had taken G.R.E. exams for admission to Universities in U.S.A., for
further studies.You had studied his horoscope. You had predicted that he would clear GRE.
My son was also suffering from acute back pain for a number of years to come and that he
will marry a foreign national and settle down there. All of your predictions, though
unpalatable at that time, have been true.
I write this to express my faith and confidence in you. In fact my case is one of having
come to mock and now having remained to pray. With kind regards.
Yours sincerely,
sd/Amritlal
D-151 Anand Vihar
Delhi -110092, Tel: 215-2025
Aloke
22Oct 1963 2:44 am. Delhi

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KN RAO

14 February 2008, 2:58 PM

"After the betrothal an auspicious day is fixed for the wedding ceremonies. Astrological
considerations do not seem to play an important part in ancient times. As the union of the
bride and the bridegroom depended upon mutual attraction of love, there was not much
scope for making matches on the actual calculation and the determination of stars.
Moreover, though the ancient Hindus were acquainted with astronomy and astrology, that
particular branch of astrology that deals with marriage was either not developed or was not
much consulted for arranging a marriage. In the Grhyasutras, astrological considerations
are very simple. Marriage was generally performed when sun was in northern hemisphere,
in the bright half of a month and on an auspicious day. The later Smritis, the Puranas, the
mediaeval astrological works and Nibandhas are very particular about fixing the proper time
for every detail of the marriage ceremony." (page 209 HINDU SAMSKARAS Rajbali Pande,
Motilal Banarsidas)
In the previous piece in this series (13) I have talked about the debate between the
astrologer and the critics of the science of astrology. Part of the reason for this results from
the complications introduced into certain aspects of Hindu life and the considerations for
marriage. Rajbali Pande hinted at it in his famous book and we as astrologers know how
stupid we become when we refer to some dogmas in the fast changing world of ours.
Modern educated girls and boys in cities, mainly metropolitan (may be other cities also) who
have lot of sex in school and college days, do not take marriage as a sacrament. When it
comes to their marriage, they have invariably a conflict with their parents who go to some
pandits with their horoscopes. The pandit
comes out with some objections which are very irrational but suit the parents who want
their children not to marry according to their choice. Invariably, to counter it, these college
students, now settled in some profession, go to astrologers, including me, with the hope
that we would counter the objections of the pandit and approve, astrologically, their choice.
These marriages in our times become a cross between swayamvara and gandharva
marriage, more of the latter though. There is nothing strange or new about it but I have
seen these marriages not succeeding mostly. But astrologers who try to help parents and
talk against such marriages have their own arguments based some medieval notions of
family and social life which does not suit the modern educated Hindu particularly girl.
These girls and their husband become critics of astrology at some stage or the other.
If you honestly look into the life and conduct of astrologers you will have no respect for
them, for their values in life. They must always have been the least respected members of
our society. I have always advised some professional people in recent years to rise high in
their professions and then talk of astrology
openly and not give up their jobs and take to astrology as a profession as some of them
have been doing actuated by the greed to earn lot of money in a brief period of some
months as many have done recently.
Contempt for astrology and astrology along with enigmatic respect and fear has been an
eternal legacy of India. There is a terrible reflection on astrologers or fortune sellers who
earn money out of this profession somewhere in the Mahabharata which I am not able to
locate right now. Those who have read the Brihat Samhita of Varahamihira know how he
refers to bad astrologers.

We have plenty of them now with proliferating websites, parihara specialising frauds, stone
selling crooks both in India and now, abroad.
Parashara lays down a difficult condition for a good astrologerjitendriya is the word he
uses.
Where will you get a good astrologer now if you seek one ? Almost every day these days, I
come across cases where a girl wants to marry a boy of her choice and the mother takes
the help of some astrologer-cum-tantrik to ruin it. These incidents ruin the reputation of
astrologers and astrology.
This must have been an eternal problem in India where astrology is recognised a Vedanga.
In the west, where the Church has always been a mighty obscurantist force, astrology was
opposed as the men of church must have felt that a predictor reduced their importance in
the society. It must have been a case of terrible jealousy and ignorance which Copernicus
suffered (the church should have condemned Aryabhatta of India whose research was
plagiarised by Copernicus).
The western scientist has not overcome the prejudice of the Church against astrology. In
1975 when the BBC asked some scientists why they had signed a statement against
astrology, they had answered on religious grounds. These scientists should have been
ashamed of themselves for this act of theirs. But they could not overcome the influence of
the church in their lives!!
In 1982, I became aware of fake claims of parampara among astrologers who pretended to
have some secrets not given in any astrological book. Such pretenders have increased in
recent years with Nadi or Bhrigu methods also creating ripples and ending up as mere
whimpers.
All this leads me to believe that astrology will always have its critics because there are
fraudulent astrologers, many of whom are getting promoted by television channels these
days. It cannot be stopped because there are more unscrupulous astrologers than honest
and genuine ones and astrology will always be looked upon as a pseudo science or black
magic. Astrologers are responsible for all this.
But when were astrologers known for any moral responsibility?
( 13 February 2008)

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KN RAO

19 February 2008, 9:00 PM

The wealth of information, knowledge and wisdom concealed in aphoristic ways in our
ancient Sanskrit classics is to be read, analyzed, understood and elaborated to be believed.
Among many instances, I had produced a research on Saturn in Rohini as early in 1984
which Sri M.S.Mehta elaborated some years later into a full fledged research on mundane
astrology. In 2001/2002 when this phenomenon was occurring, two writers in Delhi and one
in the west stole this, without acknowledging it, padded it with other facts and
quotations to show it as their research.
From 2001
It is from 2001 that the world got disturbed after 11 September 2001, invasion of
Afghanistan and Iran. There was a terrible earthquake in Gujarat and of course the drought
of 2002 in India. To say that is a prediction arising out a research based on the reading of
the Mahabharata and the Padma Purana is superior to the analysis of political scientists and
the intelligence agencies of the world, will be unacceptable to politicians, will shock the
physical scientists, particularly Indian scientists who borrow all their wisdom from the west
only without looking into the rich Indian resources. I have talked about, taught and have
produced researches on interlinked destinies and have given the planetary combinations for
modern technical, semi-technical and non technical education whole of which have been
plagiarized and produced and shown in some websites, as a student of mine pointed to me!
All these are written, published and yet plagiarized !
Plagiarism is always done unabashedly and fearlessly. In middle ages, many of the Sanskrit
texts, manuscripts reached West Asia and Rome etc. That the Arabian sciences which
inspired renaissance in Europe were actually Hindu sciences is established by many.The
famous Omar Khayyam acknowledges it openly and remember him as an astronomer,
astrologer and then as a poet of world famous Rubaiyat.
Albert Schweitzer called India mother of civilizations and Albert Einstein thanked India for
inventing zero and decimal system to make the progress of mathematics and science
possible. How and what Copernicus stole from Aryabhatt is for someone to establish. But it
is what was said in a conference of Indian astronomers that Copernicus was given credit for
what was an original research of Arya Bhatt and it amounted to plagiarism.
Greek dasha systems !!
Let me give another instance .When Robert Schimdt of Project Hindsight presented his
ancient dasha systems from Greece in 1995 in an astrology seminar in USA, I, an invitee,
pointed out that it was Dwisaptati Sama Dasha of Parashara on which I had done some
research and even had written about in 1984 in a published paper in the Astrological
Magazine (now defunct). Manoj Pathak has written an excellent book on it. The Greek
plagiarism was caught by me because of the eight dasha periods of nine years each used by
Robert who was getting a total of only 64 years and not 72 which is the total period of this
dasha !!. The ninth, missing one, I pointed out was that of Rahu which was not used in
western astrology! Was that really a Greek dasha system? A dasha system of 72 years with
eight nine year periods could not be complete with bringing in Rahu along with the seven
planets, I explained.

With no centralized religious institution like the church in the west suppressing scientific
discoveries, in the land of Hindus it has always been possible to produce such researches
without any opposition. Read the Mahabharata carefully and see how many of the modern
researches in sociology, psychology
and even sexology have been anticipated and hinted at here. Villainous state craft of
Kautilya or Machiavelli are also present in the Mahabharata. Who knows how much of it is
known to how many? Lesbianism is referred to here and it is not for the first time time that
we have heard about it from the west !
I read the western books first, Marx, Freud, Adler, Max Weber etc. during my student days
because I had to prepare for all India competitive examinations after succeeding in which I
devoted my time to reading the great Indian classics. I then discovered these plagiarisms.
Apparently conflicting ideas have existed side by side in India without arousing any
puritanical reaction or suppression as has happened in the church dominated west. There is
the praise of Brahmacharya and also Kama Sutras, austere penances and Khajuraho.
Different types of marriages, eight, and different types of children, twelve, mentioned shows
a high level of tolerance and acceptance of the reality of human society with its frailties and
different brands of immorality. Read the Mahabharata and the puranas carefully and see
how many of the heroes and villains were not legitimate children of their parents! Yet, it is
also emphasized that practicing Brahmacharya and avoiding non-vegetarian food is good for
spiritual life. Accepting contradictions, conflicts and enigmas is a way of life , the path to
tolerance which Hindus alone have known , practiced and survived till the invaders came
with their barbarian ideas and narrow religions, conversions and proselytization to ensure
the stability of their empires. They thought that monotheism, as they understood, alone was
true religion without appreciating that what is polytheistic in practice outwardly can be
monotheistic in essence. Read the Rig Veda and Narayana Kavacham etc to appreciate it.
Acceptance of variety is the foundation of the great religious tolerance of Hindus which
should teach the fundamentlistic religions great spiritual lesson and dissuade their religious
leaders from their anxious mission to convert the whole world to their religion.
In the middle ages when during invasions Hindus fell into a self protective shell, they
seemed to have devised many dogmatic and ritualistic rules to save themselves. It seems to
have increased with caste system becoming rigid and not allowing a Vishwamitra, born as a
Khastriya, become a Brahmin through his tapasya. A Valmiki, criminal, becomes a seer,
writing his magnum opus, the Ramayana for posterity which the Hindu Brahmin quotes
without shedding his caste rigidity! Janmana Jayate Shudra (one is born a shudra at birth)
is unacceptable to the caste ridden society now.
No society in the history of the world had so many varieties of tolerance because all the
religious refugees of the world could think of taking refugee only in India in the middle age
of religious intolerance--a lesson which the west is learning now because it has grown
irreligious ! In its religious days, the west was as fundamentalist and rigid as it accuses west
Asian Muslim countries of being now. As early as 1950, Arnold Toynbee described as exChristian Europe. If now the west talks of religious tolerance or multi-culturalism it is more
out of necessity because it cannot survive without immigrant population.
India has eternal message because it changes with changing times without shedding its
eternal ideas and ways. It is why in the uneasy turmoil visible now in the fast changing

urban India, there is unease, protest and amazement. But change is inevitable without the
core values of Sanatana civilization ever vanishing. That is and has been the eternal India
we know of.
(16 February 2008)

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KN RAO

26 February 2008, 6:40 AM

Some true gurus give some brief instructions to their disciples in almost short terse way and
they carry lot of meaning. Some ofthese are spoken words and some those strange looking
acts which amuse us.That has been and is an eternal tradition of Indias spiritual life which
we generally do not share. Someone asked me if I shared it ever. I said that I had done it
many times and on the insistence of a lawyer of the Supreme Court, who is now a high
court judge, I wrote out series of articles which I shaped into my book Yogis, Destiny and The
Wheel of Time.
The difference between this book of mine and other similar books is that I speak here not
merely of my guruji but also of some of the many great saints I have met from time to
time.
Prithvi mudra
A woman saint one of whose disciples was weighed down by too many worldly problems as
most of Hindi householder are, was instructed to do prithvi mudra during his meditation
sitting on padmasana or siddhasana. Instead of the gyana mudra, in this mudra you join the
thumb and the ring finger. Those who know something about mudras, call it prithvi mudra
and say that it energises them to attend to their problems with a fresh mind. After hearing
from me, many have done it and have reported positive results if it is done for thirty
minutes every day.
Such are the secrets of an eternal tradition more effective than the self improvement books
available in the market in plenty.
Genuine supernormal experience
If you have had a genuine experience which is supernormal and which has no other
explanation, be it the siddhi of a mahatma or an astrological prediction, remember it always
and keep reminding you about it to keep your faith in God and the supernormal. This is
necessary these days more because of the swirling tides of agnosticism and atheism.
In this context, see the following letter.
From: s m@mail.com>
To: knrao@.com
Subject: Benazir Bhutto
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:37:33 IST
Dear uncle,
Hope you are fine. I am back in Chennai after a breif visit to Cairo and Egypt. Though I had
got bored of politics, I was astonished when I heard about the death of Benzir Bhutto and
also faintly recalled your prediction in Oct. I am reproducing the same below :
"The clearest danger is between now and 23 March 2008 in the Chara dasha of Karka and
the antardasha of Kumbha. From Kumbha Atmakaraka, Saturn falls in the eighth house and
receives the aspect of Mars the Putrakaraka and Sun Gnathikaraka (Jaimini aspect) .
It can have two meanings. The first that she attains some big position and then gets
attacked fatally or the reverse of it". Fantatsic- analysis to give even this much of prediction
!! Hats off to you again.

By the way I also want to personally acknowledge one prediction you gave when I came
with my son. Based on my son's horoscope you had asked me if I got any increase in salary
or promotion !! Yes today i have recd increase in salary - massive close to 2 lacs per annum
effective Oct 07. I am amazed at your prediction coming out true for me especially when
nobody has anything much nice to say about my horosocpe. Though you had also asked if
we have purchsed a house in Chennaithe fact is I am on the look out vigorouly and Good
willing your prediction comes out true- I may succeed in buying one. Real Estate price are
unimaginable here.
I personally thank you for giving time to me when I came to Delhi. My sons recognizes your
face appearing on the PC or NP and says "Hey Balu thatha's friend with long beard like
Rabindranath Tagore- I like him !!. When I showed him your prediction about Benazir- He
too was stunned and asked me if there is any element of truth in astology ? What should I
say ? I have asked him to read Eternal Indian article which I read so eagerly and rate too !!
My gurujis advice to me was not to give up astrology as early as 1975 when I was getting
disgusted with people wanting to see the fulfilment all their worldly wishes whatever their
desires and karmas. That is the bane of the modern consumerist India more because of
which fraudulent astrologers are multiplying. But my gurujis advice was that one good
prediction which appears unlikely at the time it is given is enough for an intelligent person
to retain his or her belief in the supernormal. It also strengthens belief in the great
astrological tradition of India---the great living tradition.
The letter quoted from the second daughter of a late colleague of mine in the service I
retired from pleased me as she picked up some astrology when she was in Delhi nearly
twenty years ago and is aware of my strong opinion against fraudulent remedial measures
prescribed by astrologers. She has been like a sweet niece to me.
If her sons horoscope could give an indication about her own career what does it mean ?
Think about it.
(26 February 2008)

ETERNAL INDIA 17
KN RAO

29 March 2008, 8:14 PM

We attract to our classes in Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan the cream of elitist classes to study
astrology in the week end courses.
Among many we got in 1999, a bright student of MBA who had passed the examination in
1994, was well employed and was interested in doing his PhD in management and seek a
career in academic line. Soon, he discontinued astrology classes to join a management
institute in eastern India to do his PhD in management along with a handsome job. He
continued it slowly and also rejoined the astrology classes. When he had completed his
thesis under his internal guide, he came across an external examiner who was proving
difficult and was said to be hostile to many PhD students. It became a cause of serious
concern to him and asked me predict for him in this situation.
He has acknowledged the prediction in a letter.
From: r@rediffmail.com>
To: KNRAO@COM
Subject: Pranaam Sir, R here
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:20:12 IST
Respected Sir,
Pranaam. I hope you are in fine health. I had met you on Oct 25, 2007 regarding some
obstacles on the path to my completing my PhD (Page 12, October 2007 register). You had
predicted that I will succeed by March 2008.
It gives me immense happiness to communicate to you, that in line with your prediction, I
successfully defended my thesis on March 20, 2008 and will be awarded the PhD on April 5,
2008. This again proves the divine nature of this sacred science of astrology and
.......May the Almighty always shower His
blessings on you.
With warm regards,
R

Dasha running
Instead of doing prashna, straightaway look at the chara dasha running (my method which
has been tested on thousands of horoscopes). It is Kumbha dasha from where Sun the
amatyakaraka in the sixth house joins the atmakaraka and putrakaraka. There is that
opposition he spoke of, but all of them aspect the sixth house and he would overcome it.
The antardasha is Karka which has the combination of all these karakas and the tenth house
of the birth horoscope. This antardasha would be over in March 2008 which was basis of my
prediction.
In the Vimshottari dasha it was Mercury-Mercury-Rahu till April 2008. Again the fight and
overcoming the opposition is indicated as Rahu in the sixth house in the birth horoscope is
in the tenth house in the dashamansha.
Future transits
Saturn would be aspecting his fifth house and Jupiter the fifth lord in March 2008 and Venus
and Mercury in Makara will beaspecting the tenth house and Sun in his fifth house will show
academic achievement is what could be seen.
I am narrating this incident as yesterday 26 March (Wednesday) he came to our place to
join the Vishnu Sahastranam recitation and after it presented to me some money and bed
sheets saying that he knew that I do not charge but he wanted to pay it as a piece of
gratitude or guru dakshina whatever it may be described as.

But why all this ? I asked him. He told me that after studying astrology, his life had
undergone a sea change. He had turned spiritual in the truest sense of the term. He
understood that there were forces beyond our control and perception which controlled our
destiny and a dim silhoutte of it could be seen by astrologers some of whom see it more
brightly than others, depending on some factors.
That is the eternal tradition of India, a holistic view of life and proofs galore of the
supernormal controlling human destiny.
( March 27 2008)

ETERNAL INDIA 18
KN RAO

11 April 2008, 1:16 AM

Faith moves mountain is a well known saying. A friend had told me more than forty five
years ago about Raghavendra Swami of Mantralam. A familiar story of British greed in India
during the imperialist rule was narrated by him and I found it in the website given below. I
have told many people about it but I could not visit this great place. The occasion to write
this piece will be explained later. First
read this piece.
It once happened http://www.iskcon.org.uk/news/2004/apr/index.html
The British were in India and held great sway through the East India Company. One of their
rewarding financial `arrangements' was to arrange for monies being paid to temples for
their maintenance to instead be paid as a tax to them.
The Indian system is that endowments are often left by rich devotee patrons so that the
Deity of the temple can be worshiped in perpetuity. And often the endowment was the
entire village wherein the temple stood, along with all its fields, many of its rented houses
and tithes. In the world-view of the Europeans this did not make sense. Why should taxes
be paid to a sacred `image' in a temple and not to the ruling monarch or the empowered
officers?
Sir Thomas Munroe, one of the East India Company officers in south India in the
early part of the 19th century, was asked to `resume' one such endowment village: the
small community of Mantralaya.
On the appointed day he met with the elders of the temple who told him that he could pay
his respects at the Samadhi (tomb) of the great Madhva saint who had established the
temple - Sri Raghavendra Tirtha Swami. Sir Thomas slipped off his shoes and entered the
tomb. The onlookers then heard him talking with someone within. However, they could only
hear Sir Thomas's voice and not the person he was talking to.
Several minutes later he emerged from the tomb with some yellow-colored dry rice in his
hand. He told the onlookers that he had just spoken to `the swami' who had convinced him
of the irrevocability of the endowment and given him some Prasad, and was astonished
when the elders told him who had given it to him!
Sir Thomas ordered the rice - Mantrakshate Prasad - to be cooked along with
his evening meal and gave up any thought of `resuming' the taxes of the village to the
British. (This episode is found in a British newspaper of the time, The Madras Gazetteer,
which can still be viewed at the Collectorate in Anantapura)
http://www.mantralayam.com/html/miracles.htm
I told about this to many in Delhi. In January 2008, some of us had gone to
Bangalore where after speaking in a workshop, I could not move easily as I was suffering
badly and had become very weak. But six others who had gone with me left for
Mantrayalam and Srisailam, talked of their beautiful experiences and talk about it even now.
The priests in Mantralayam were very happy with this group and gave them special facilities
inside the temple to do Vishnusahastranam twice during their visit.
Then from the first day of the New Year while our nine day recitation was going on came

Mr.S from Madras. He had taken a prediction from me some years ago.
From: s@l.com
To: knrao@.com
Subject: RE: Horoscope 1
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 07:50:47 +0000
sir,
I came in person and thanked you. yr prediction was perfect. you ve predicted that in civil
eng business i ll do well and i ll start many other venture /related business and latter into
other activities. Already connected ventures like interior/ infra started. I strongly believe yr
prediction I enclosed my horoscope for yr reference as cast by you. yr ref no P45 new
1997..
So he was contacting me eleven years later and now wanted a prediction about his son. He
came on an appointed day during his Delhi visit and while the reading was going on, he told
me a family story about Raghavendra Swami of Mantralayam.
From: s@.com>
To: knrao <knrao@.com>
Subject: RE: Mantralayam
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:25:08 IST
Dear shri mr. rao,
ref: p/58 part 1/2008 born ...... @... in
thanjavur wednesday
name:U S
I married ...... While she was young when she came back from school she could not walk as
her left leg is paralyzed. Being a girl child and became paralyzed everybody home were
crying. She was brought to Chennai from her native place Thanjavur for treatment. Doctors,
orthopedition, neuro physicians were clueless and helpless except prescribing some
medicines for nearly six months. on advice of some local person she was taken to
Shri.Krishnaswamy Rao lived in Thambu Chetty Street in Chennai as he used to talk to
LORD RAGAVENDRA DIRECTLy AND GOT MESSAGES DIRECT. He got the message that
someone from the family should do 48 days pradakshina namaskarams and every day 48
times of Ragavendra Swami photo in the house with real devotion ; during those days one
should follow satwic food sleep on the floor etc. Her grandfather did pradakshina as
this girl could not do.
On 13/04/1970 ie 48 th day night an old man came in the dream of the girl and told her
that there is nothing wrong in her leg and put her hand on her leg (in dream) and smoothen
it. She was afraid and fallen down from the cot and woke up. on her own she stood up , a
miracle nobody home can think off.
We are Smarthas belonging to Kanchi mutt and never knew Ragavendra before this 48 days
and there on HE is main deity home. We go mantralayam there after.Any problem she
always pray to RAGAVENDRA.
I also request you to go thro her ......
S
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 03:19:30 +0000
From: knrao@...com
To: ..@h.com

Subject: Mantralayam
8 April 2008
S..ji,
I told our Vishnusahastraam group today about the Raghavendra Swami story of your
family. They felt happy and inspired because some of them had visited Mantralayam in
January this year when we had gone to Bangalore. I had gone there to conduct a workshop
in astrology but could not go to Mantralayam because of my illness. I was confined to my
bed there after the workshop and back to Delhi I rested for one month.
The small group that went to Mantralayam did Vishnusahastranam there and the priests
were so happy with them that they welcomed them and took them inside the temple inspite
of the crowd and gave them the facility to do group recitation which impressed the priests.
I will wait for your family story and will show it to the group. I always collect first hand
account from the families concerned in first person and do not garble the account.
Please send your narration as soon as you can.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
I have a collection of some first hand narrations from people who benefited from
saints and pilgrimages as here. I will , God willing, bring out a book of this collection
consisting of first hand, first person narrations of people.
(10 April 2008)

ETERNAL INDIA 19 - THE GITA, THE BHAGVATAM AND VISHNU SAHASTRANAMM

TRADITION - PART I
KN RAO

19 October 2009, 11:51 AM

It is an incident which happened more than twenty seven years ago or to be precise in
Octobter 1982 and I learnt a lesson though enigmatically here I was the preacher. Those
days I was in government service and every evening we had the recitation among other
stotras of the Vishnu Sahastranaam which is my universal prescription to anyone wanting to
seek remedial measure from me as an astrologer. I otherwise ask anyone interested in
spiritual pursuit to do it regularly.
I share with some of the more intimate friends who have spiritual inclinations some
experiences of mine and others to which I have been a first hand witness. What I have
written in my book Yogis, Destiny and the Wheel of Time is only a tiny fragment of what
all could be narrated. But the eternal warning given everywhere dont cast pearls...is a
warning repeated in so many places in our scriptures and even in the Gita in the last parts
of the eighteenth chapter.
I have reasons to remember a person in his late seventies or early eighties in the years
from 1980 to 1984. He was the father of a a friend seventeen years younger to me. This
young man used to join our Vishnu Sahastranam recitation as many times as he could
though we had it everyday those days at my place. I will call him MGA. He also joined our
Vrindavan pilgrimages which were once or twice a month. But he was familiar with
Vrindavan because he was born there after his late father had migrated to this great
pilgrimage after the partition of India.
This piece is of course is about the old man, the father of my young friend MGA. Those
affected by the partition in what now is Pakistan, or rather west Punjab of prepartion days,
mostly went to well known big cities and soon made enough money to become prosperous.
How can pilgrimages offer any opportunity to earn big money ? But some of the refugees
decided to migrate to pilgrimages and my friends father decided to go to Mathura from
where he could go to Vrindavan and spend as much with saints and in satsang and also earn
money to fulfil his duties as a householder for his family. He had lost one arm, had a small
business and earned enough to educate all his sons well. Each of them got good jobs and
served their parents faithfully.
The father of MGA fell seriously ill in 1982, was on his death bed. In desperation, once he
told his son who had got him admitted to a hospital that he wanted me to see his horoscope
and also expressed a wish to meet me. I went to Mathura, where he was in a hospital, to
see him.
He asked me to see his horoscope and make a prediction which surprised me . I collected
myself and asked him why had he decided, after the partition, to migrate to Mathura and
not to a bigger city where he could have earned a big fortune like many others. He said that
he wanted to devote his life to Lord Krishna and he had often quoted from the Gita and the
Srimad Bhagvatam which he knew as well as any seasoned preacher. I asked him then was
he remembering what Lord Krishna had demanded---surrender unto ME ? Was astrological
prediction superior to the preachings of Lord Krishna ? The old man kept quiet, took deep
breath and after a very long pause, as though woken out of a deep meditation, said that

I preached to him what he was forgetting. When he had decided to surrender everything to
Lord Krisna why should he forget it now, with death staring at him ?
Slowly a strange glow appeared on his face. He kept quiet, became cheerful and felt very
peaceful. I was reminded of what C.G.Jung, the great psychologist, had written once. Jung
went to hospitals, saw old men on death bed wanting to cling to life desperately.Jung asked
them what was the most important event left to happen in their lives. The answer invariably
was Death. Yes, that was inevitable Jung would tell them and was the only major event
awaiting them. Once those old men reconciled to the fact that death was the only event to
take place, they became calm and peace reigned on their faces.
I almost did the same to the father of MGA---but with a difference. I was talking to a Hindu
who had such strong spiritual background.
After my rhetorical questions to him he seemed to remember the entire eighth chapter of
the Gita and reconciled himself to death beautifully, was remembering only Lord Krishna,
forgetting the world, his family and other worries. He became absolutely peaceful and few
days after died a beautiful death.
The story of MGA himself in July 2009 is equally beautiful, like his fathers, but with a
pleasant difference and I will narrate it after some days. But then remember the eighth
chapter of the Gita, the eternal and most beautiful message ever delivered to mankind.
( 17 Oct 2009)

ETERNAL INDIA 20 - THE GITA, THE BHAGVATAM AND VISHNU SAHASTRANAMM

TRADITION - PART 2
KN RAO

29 October 2009, 11:50 AM

The story of the son, MGA resembles the fathers, to some extent. Deep inside oneself one
discovers , I mean the lucky man, that there has existed in him an unexplored spiritual
depth which he had not discovered till accidentally something happened.
And then he discovers the greater truth that it was not accidentally but through a divinely
preordained scheme that it happened. It is then, in that great supreme moment of truth,
that one discovers like Arjuna of the Geeta that when Lord opens his mouth what issues out
of it a story of predestination (11th chapter). It was preordained. It is then a stunning
moment of truth. It then becomes a story of spontaneous meditation with eyes open, eyes
closed, in the silence of the night and even in the terrible noise and dirt of the excruciating
hours of a daytime in an urban city of modern India. You are then a modern avadhoot in
modern western attire.
The story has its origin in your birth in a family where spiritual values of the eternal India
were preserved, never talked of, never boasted about. It emerged out, you think
accidentally one day, suddenly, you imagined. Then it dawns upon you that it was not even
accidental or sudden. It was part of a scheme and you came to know of it when the lid of
Maya got lifted off one day. But then Maya again conceals the Reality from your eyes. It is a
never ending game of hide and seek.
That is the story of MGA whose fathers story was narrated in the previous episode. To have
been born in Vrindavan was a great event. Tapovan maharaj, the great saint referred to by
Swami Chinmayanand, had said that in the tiny hamlets of Himalayan village at great
heights, even illiterate women knew Vedanta better than the theoretical scholar. That is
because they live and breathe in a great tradition of spirituality without ever realizing it.
In Vrindavan, the women know so much about the essence of the Bhagvatam but may
never have read this great book.The men folk of course read it, Brahmins particularly, to
make a living as preachers.
MGA brought up in Vrindavan, made a career at the right age and moved out to join a class
one central government service, married, raised a family to which he is deeply attached like
any Hindu father. In course of time in his thirties he married and came with his wife and
joined out small
group of Vishnu Sahastranaam recitation group. We went to Vrindavan and spent hours
during some week ends with the great Nagaridas baba. We met occasionally, talked on
phone and both retired, he busy and worried with his family burdens as usual but has his
heart in the right place. This is the India we live in where Hindus do not wear their religion
and spirituality on their sleeves. They always give you the impression of being crass
materialist till they are scratched. Such males become spiritual and their wives remain
religious and worldly.
Then MGA retired and his daughter went to USA to do a course which gave her a good
career. He went there with his wife in June 2009. They went to Canada to meet some
relation of theirs. There while coming of a kitchen on the first floor he slipped on a staircase

and fell headlong down below in what was a pit. He became unconscious and had brain
haemorrage.
Lying unconscious for five days he became a cause of worry for his wife and daughter who
did Vishnu Sahastranaam, Mrityunjaya mantra and Radha Kripa Kataksha stotra by his
bedside in that hospital in Canada. We came to know of in Delhi and other places and we
also did Mrityunjaya for him , a group of twenty five for some hours. I got the email of the
daughter of MGA from the elder brother of MGA and wrote to her. Here are some extracts.
From: R..@hotmail.com
To: knrao@.com
Subject: RE: Reply at once
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:46:10 IST
Dear uncle,
All's well. Papa is walking a bit now. However, he's weak and his head aches a lot. We really
want to come back soon. We spoke to the doctors and the social workers today and they
are of the opinion that he's medically alright. However, I told them that traveling for 24
hours in this condition is not a good idea. This is not in our hands. The insurance company
and the doctors will decide what the next steps are. It look is like that they will make
arrangements for Sat or Sun flight. I will also fly back on the 25th or 26th. He's getting
better everyday and was really happy to hear from you.
I will keep you updated about the plans.
Warm Regards,
R.............
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:29:08 +0000
To: r@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: RE: Reply at once
From: knrao@.com
R,
Let us know the latest.
KNRao.
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:14:21 +0530 R... wrote
Dear uncle,
I just got access to the Internet. Papa is doing very well. He's recovering at a fast pace and
is talking, listening and making jokes in the ICU, making everyone laugh. I will call you
tonight and give you more updates. I will see him in an hour and will call once I'm out of
the unit. He's was giving his salutations to you yesterday. His words were: Rao sahab is
great, Caroli is great! :) I will tell him that you e-mailed and asked about him and will let
you know what he said this time. I will see you soon.
Warm regards,
R
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:05:30 +0000
To: r@hotmail.com
Subject: Reply at once
From: knrao@.com
R.......

Let me know if this email is reaching you. If yes,write about the condition of your father
MGA as people are ringing me up to ask me. I can pass on the message and news them.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
MGA came back to Delhi and rang me up. One day he said that he wanted to come to my
house and meet me and I told him to rest more, recover more then come. He again rang
me up after some days and I told him to wait for time more. When he rang me up again
after sometime I asked him to come and he could come, walk up the staircase where I live
and talk as he had been doing for years with me , like a normal man. But he was changed I
could see.
He told me that he had an Ajamil like experience. Those who had read the Srimad
Bhagvatam know what he meant. He experienced like Ajamil the messengers of death, we
all Yama dootas coming and tying him up and dragging. It went on sometime and then he
started shouting loudly Radhe Radhe. His wife and daughter by his bedside must have been
surprised. He regained consciousness, started talking after that ghastly and frightening
experience. Doctors were surprised and happy. His family was delighted.
But he was a changed man and talked now of divine themes, those familiar themes, which
we read about, hear and forget in the turmoil of life and its exacting demands. He was
talking with deepest
conviction of the truths of the Gita and Srimad Bhagvatam with rare conviction. In thirty
years I had not seen or heard him speak with such devotion and fire as now. I listened to
him and then he left.
He came again one day with his wife when Pavitran (Paul Manley) from USA (Hawaii) and
Sakai from Japan were at my place. I introduced them to him and he was talking as he done
in his previous visit.
Nothing is accidental, everything is predestined (the Gita eleventh chapter), nothing is
unrelated , everything is interrelated (the Gita seventh chapter).
HE takes upon Himself to protect you.

Yogakheshamam vahamyamham
He is a changed man or an accident has woken him upto the divine reality---life at some
time must cease to be a story of materialist pursuit and become divine ecstacy. For him it is
the eternal truth of an eternal tradition of eternal India.
( 21 Oct 2009)

ETERNAL INDIA 21 - WOMENS DEVOTION

KN RAO

31 October 2009, 9:52 PM

It has rightly been said by the great saint poet, Tulsidas that women have shraddha (innate
faith in Gods grace) and she is an embodiment of it. This can be seen in all those Hindu
families and even of other religious groups throughout the world if these women are
brought up in an atmosphere of devotion, not of domestic strife. There are many beautiful
heart moving stories told in Indian families and remembered by subsequent generations as
family stories. No attempt is made to write them down and publish them in a book form.
We are trying to collect some incidents. A.S the writer of this did his jyotish acharya from
the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan topping and winning a gold medal and has been predicting for
her friends free of charge. For her astrology is part of her sadhana. I noticed her when she
sang a beautiful bhajan at my place when she had come to meet me with her husband who
is very considerate and caring, a gift from god. She was stage shy but I forced her to
present a research from a stage in an astrological convocation and also sing bhajans which
made her the attraction of that evening. Her children who watched her perform from the
stage were surprised and I eased them and their mother by saying that if I do not succeed
in dragging the shyest person on the stage, no one would succeed. Spirituality runs in some
families in India, true spirituality as can be seen in this story of three generation of women.
(K.N.Rao).
Here I narrate a few instances from the life of persons I personally know. These clearly
show how God ,by whatever name you may call Him sometimes expresses His Divinity in
various ways and takes us out of difficult situations we helplessly find ourselves in. But I
firmly believe that from the moment we enter our mothers womb to this very moment ,
only God protects and guides. And HE never comes down to take credit.
It is God with whose energy helps us move about physically to perform all actions, it is HE
who illumines our senses so that we can feel life, He illumines your mind to think, and even
when you sleep it is He who lovingly puts you to sleep. He is showering His grace , love and
blessings All the time , every moment of our lives, we just have to open our eyes and
realize.
These few instances where He expresses Himself have always led to a complete
transformation in the person and, his way of thinking , making him a firm believer of God.
Such acts of Divine Grace helps a devotee strengthen his faith. The better devotee
remembers these as unforgettable lessons for the rest of his life which saves him from the
mundane, worldly, materialist and family worries..
The first instance relates to my maternal grandmother as narrated to me by my mother. It
is a family story which I am narrating for the very first time to others through this piece
which I have scribbled.
When my mother was a young girl my grandmother fell very sick. She was taken to a local
reputed allopathic doctor who by mistake administered a very high dose of medicine.
Perhaps the medicine had some lethal effect and her condition became worse. The situation
seemed to have become desperate.

On such occasions it is customary to inform all relations about the condition of a person
counting his or her last hours of mortal existence. Her father, sitting near her heard her
murmur, but could not understand the seriousness of the situation perhaps. So he called
her by her name. She opened her eyes and told her father that he had woken her up from
the sweetest dream ever.
In her dream she saw that she was thirsty and wanted some water to quench her thirst.
She was requesting for water. She then had a divine vision. Lord Krishna, sitting on a tree,
lovingly poured water from a LOTA (tumbler ) which she was drinking with her palms.
Thereafter she slowly recovered from her illness.
It was, for her, the beginning of a life long long devotion to Lord Krishna.
2
The second incident is a personal one, a poignant one whose memory remains un blurred
because it my first hand experience of divine intervention as one hears about but rarely
experiences personally. It is a story of super-sublimination. I am using the word supersublimation deliberately because around me I see people escaping into drugs or medicines
to overcome their depressions.
Many years ago I suffered from severe mental depression, so much so that my only
memories of those days are that I was always crying and that I wanted to commit suicide all
the time. I was kept under strict supervision and on a high dose of sedatives.
Initially my husband did not tell anyone but when it became really tough for him he
confided to my mother. My mother immediately arrived and took me to her Guruji who
stayed in an ashram near Sonepat. When we reached there Guruji, sitting under a tree, was
interacting with his disciples. As soon as I came out of the car I ran towards Him and fell on
his feet. He lifted me and told me to sit straight.Then He touched my Trikuti (the point
between eyebrows) with his thumb. I saw small bright white sparkling lights filling my spine
reaching upto my forehead where His thumb was placed. I was immediatelyfilled with bliss,
my body loosened up and I fell., but I was not unconscious. I was taken to a room in the
ashram where I lay in that state of complete peace and ananda for the rest of our stay. My
husband quietly stayed by my side all this while. I know now that it was Shakti paat which
arouses and energies a particular chakra in the body and lifts one above the physical With
Divine grace, I was relieved of all pain and suffering, I was but a totally changed person,
always singing bhajans ,meditating , chanting Gods name, day and night..It was new birth
for me. Not to say I recovered fully , taking life head on no medication , no counseling,
Namasmaran and bhajans are my only daily dosage.
I do cry sometimes but these tears are only out of love for God, who has held my little
finger ever since and will never let go.
(2 Nov 2009)

ETERNAL INDIA-22 PILGRIMAGES

KN RAO

9 November 2009, 2:17 AM

In the west which has become too materialistic and is so much scientism obsessed and so
epicurean , one does come across some people who understand the meaning of divine
dreams. But I have not across a single individual in the west who explained the process of
divine happenings in a coherent and logical way.
From what I have known, seen and also experienced myself divine dreams in most cases in
India occur first of all to people who have some spiritual samskaras. In their families there
is a firm and unshakeable belief in divinity, pilgrimages and worship of God in many or any
of their manifestations inspite of knowing there is one and only God whatever name you
give him.
These people go to some pilgrimages, one of which becomes their favorite where they go
frequently and pray. When in agony, they do so with great sincerity. They have some
experiences, generally, in dreams or in meditations which are even prophetic. The God of
that pilgrimage blesses them in various ways which they experience in their lives and get
divine messages in dreams which are divine.
Freud and his followers have almost blocked investigation into this phenomena because
libido, sex etc. take precedence over the divine phenomena in most of the researches of the
west.
In India, our psychologists imitating the western models cannot think of going into it
because of their slavish mentality.
What needs stressing the link such dreams have to pilgrimages and India is a divine land
with really great pilgrimages.
Invariably see the link between the sadhak, his or her sadhana and pilgrimages.
Invariably most of such experiences are of women whom men dismiss as gullible in most
cases and not wrongly. But here is a case worth remembering.
Read here an account of such a divine experience and the birth of a son. The letter is self
explanatory.
From: sm. @.co.>
To:
knrao@.com
Subject:
A/C on Balaji & my problem
Date:
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:45:57 IST
Respected Guruji,
I am writing my exp.about Balaji as told to Ms. V. I faced complications during my
pregnancy, which was so serious that I needed to get it aborted. Someone told us to visit
Mehndipur Balaji.
At Balaji, I offered prayers to God, & went up the hill (during my third month of pregnancy)
to offer prayers to Anjani Mai. There I asked Ma to bless me with a boy like
Hanumanji. After returning from Balaji, I got hospitalized but then onwards my health
started improving little by little.

Few days before my delivery , Lord Hanumanji appeared in the dreams of my mother-in-law
and gave her a mango to be given to her daughter-in-law as a blessing. There after I
delivered a boy who is a strong devotee of Hanumanji. He is fond of red clothes . Secondly,
things were not well b/w me & my husband. Some astrologer even told us that divorce is
inevitable. But having faith in Hanumanji, I asked my husband to come with me to Balaji.
After lot of efforts, we finally made to Balaji, where I asked my husband to put mangalsutra
across my neck, considering we are marrying in front of God with all his blessing.I think my
faith worked.
My husband started caring about me & has stop fighting with me. He is planning to take me
along with him to H (where he resides.) Not only that the mangalsutra which I wore in
Balaji ( was made of heavy pendant but in a simple chain) was remade into a very heavy
mangalsutra with same pendant- a kind of blessing from God. Till date, I get indications of
what ever may happen in future in my dreams by Lord itself.

ETERNAL INDIA 23 - MY DREAMS

KN RAO

19 December 2009, 4:59 AM

It is certainly true that there are dreams which embody suppressed wishes and fears, but
what is there which the dream cannot, on occasion, embody? Dreams may give expression
to ineluctable truths, to philosophical pronouncement, illusions, wild fantasies, memories,
plans, anticipations, irrational experiences, even telepathic visions, and heaven knows what
besides. - C.G. Jung
In the west which has become too materialistic and is so much scientism obsessed and so
epicurean , one does come across some people who understand the meaning of divine
dreams. But I have not across a single individual in the west who explained the process of
divine happenings in a coherent and logical
way. What they do at best is to fall back on a quotation like the one quoted above from
C.G.Jung.
Freud and his followers have almost blocked investigation into this phenomena
because libido, sex etc. take precedence over the divine phenomena in most of the
researches of the west.
For many years I used to have telepathic dreams. I will not narrate all except which are
connected to my transfers during my service career.
Here I am not referring to those telepathic dreams which give a warning of a
future event which takes places days or weeks later. Such dream symbolism is easy to
interpret by the individual concerned. Such dreams may not may not be related to a
pilgrimage. I am referring to pilgrimage linked dreams of which I have known and heard
many instances. It is the element of divinity in such dreams that becomes prominent and
here it gets associated with some pilgrimage and
the god of that pilgrimage. Even if that is not pilgrimage it still is a divine message in some
form or the other. During my service career I had many such
experiences myself.
1) I dreamt that in a new place I was visiting a temple inside a fort where Lord
Krishnas idol was installed. I got a transfer order to Jaipur where I saw Govindji temple.
2) Then I saw myself sitting in a Shiva temple near a tank. In Nagpur near a
tank I saw that temple which I had seen in my dream.
3) Then came Lord Dattatreya in my dream and I was transferred to Bombay where in
Dadar there is beautiful Dattatreya temple which I visited many times a week.
4) Then I saw Lord Hanuman once and saw myself sitting in the company of a
saint and reciting the Tulsikrit Ram Charit Manas and I reached Rajkot and met
Prabhudas Baba in his Hanuman temple where I recited the Ramacharit Manas for one year
almost every evening.
5) Once before going to Vrindavan I had a dream of Lord Jagannath warning me that two
women in our group would have trouble in the parikarma of Govardhan. Two women both of
whom had some surgical operation and never told us did give us some trouble.

Back to Delhi, I got transferred to Bhubaneshwar, Orissa and I visited Puri every
month to inspect a branch office under me and visited the temple of Lord Jagannath so
many times.
When any psychologist dismisses such dreams glibly by giving some western explanation,
I dismiss him and his interpretation contemptuously. I know the meaning far better
because of what happened to me after these dreams but I will not disclose those details.

ETERNAL INDIA 24 - DIVINE INTERVENTION

SANGEETA PRIJAAT

1 January 2010, 8:51 AM

( Dr. R. N. Gupta is an allopathic doctor who, having established some medical centres now
devotes his full time to spiritual pursuits and got built the Sai Temple of Najafgarh New
Delhi along with a rich businessman who wife experienced the grace of Shirdi Sai Baba. Dr.
R. N. Gupta once told us that he was getting built a Vishnu temple also above the Sai
temple. I and my other friends expressed a wish to do Vishnu Sahastranaam and Naamavali
there one day after the temple had been built. There we met Mr. Baljeet Singh who
experienced the grace of Lord Vishnu and got cured of what was an incurable disease
according to Dr. R.N.Gupta. The narrative here is given by Sangeeta Parijat , the daughter
of Dr. R.N.Gupta. Sangeeta a brilliant electronic engineer who also taught in Delhi university
is a gold medalist of Jyotish Acharya of the Bharat Vidya Bhawan having topped in the
examination. K.N.Rao)
The incident that I am narrating here is about my employee Mr. Baljeet Singh. He has been
working for me since 1986. Somewhere in year 2001 he started complaining of severe back
ache. I got his X-ray and CT Scan done and consulted many doctors. He was diagnosed with
Prolapse of Vertebral Disc.
Doctors tried all possible treatments like weight traction, medications, plaster, exercise etc.
but nothing worked. The severity of the problem continued to increase and eventually he
was bedridden. Doctors said that his vertebras have started degenerating and it cannot be
cured even by surgery.
He is the sole earning member in his family comprising of two small children, wife, parents
and grand father. While he was on bed I continued to give him his salary and paid for his
medical expenses. Periodically I would visit him to enquire about his wellness and see if he
needed anything.
One day when I visited him he sounded very depressed and said it was very difficult to sit at
home full day and do nothing. I suggested that if he wanted he could come to Sai Temple,
Najafgarh whenever he felt low and be there for sometime, may be change of scene would
help.
He started coming to the temple off & on and slowly started taking interest in the day to
day activities of the temple. As time passed he started feeling better and took on more
responsibilities to the extent that he was appointed the manager at the temple in year
2004.
His medicines gradually reduced and finally he could manage just with a support belt. At
that time the construction of Shri Vishnu Temple was in full swing at the first floor of Sai
Temple. He was assigned the complete responsibility of supervising the construction. He
worked with all sincerity and got so engrossed with the cause that many a times he would
stay all night long to take care of work at the temple.
The day came when Pran Pratishtha of the deity of Shri Vishnu Bhagwan was to be done.
He left very late at night after taking care of all what was needed for the ceremony and
came back early next morning. Full day he was running up & down the stairs of the temple.
At the end of the hectic day when the ceremony was over he suddenly realized that he had

forgotten to wear the belt in the morning. He was very surprised because he felt no pain
despite the heavy physical work load he had undergone that day. He went inside the Vishnu
temple and did a Sashtang Pranam in front of the deity thanking the Almighty for curing
him of his long suffered illness. From that day he has not worn the belt once and is running
his life very comfortably without any pain in his back.
This is a miracle because as per medical science his vertebras had degenerated and no
surgery or any other treatment could have corrected it. What would we call this if not the
Divine Intervention of the Almighty to cure the sufferings of his devotee who had so
selflessly served Him.
Dr. R. N. Gupta
Founder & General Secretary
Sri Sirdi Sai Baba Mandir
Najafgarh, New Delhi 110043.

ETERNAL INDIA 25 - MANTRALAYAM

KN RAO

8 January 2010, 9:42 AM

In January 2008, I had gone to Bangalore along with Col. Gour and others to conduct an
astrology seminar in a condition when doctors would and had advised me to get admitted to
a hospital. I was diagnosed with a severe condition of pneumonia. My chest was congested,
I was finding breathing difficult and my stamina was at a low ebb. I did conduct the class for
one hour after I had been examined by a doctor at Bangalore who had prescribed some
medicines. But after the classes I was so terribly exhausted that I could not visit Sri Sailam
and Mantralayam of the famous Raghavendra Swami about which a friend from Karnataka
had told me in 1964-65 when I was posted in Nagpur. He had given me an extract from
Madras Gazetterer to show me historical proof about a well known miracle, among many, of
the great Raghavendra Swami. Back from Bangalore, I could not teach my classes in the
Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan though I did not get admitted to ICU inspite of bad condition.
The reason for this foolhardy decision was that I never told and shared an experience I had
in Bangalore. I was lying in my bed in Bangalore while others except my younger brother
had left for Sri Sailam and Mantralayam and told me later about their beautiful experiences
there and the warm reception they had got from the priests of the temple.
I will narrate my experience at the end. First read the account about
Raghavendra Swami which is historically undisputed as can be seen. It is a pity that such
incidents are not narrated now in government documents which British rulers, not Hindus,
could do it with their sense of history and almost no faith in the great traditions of eternal
India, a spiritual India.
http://www.hindubooks.org/templesofindia/mantralaya/munro_eprisode/page1.
htm THE MUNRO EPISODE

This great miracle is recorded and preserved in the government archives. During the British days,
the foreigners unable to assimilate the Indian way of life and its sanctity, ordered the resumption
of endowments made during the time of the Nawab of Adoni. The temple authority then prayed
for retention of Jagir, as it was the only means, helping them conducting prayer services and
feeding the visiting devotees. The white men scoffed - "What! a Jagir for a dead brahmin
fakir!". They decided to lay their Bhasmasura hasta. But with a view to examining the truth of
the petitioners, Thomas Munro, an official was sent by the company. Being a god-minded man,
he entered the precincts removing his shoes and hat. As he stood near the Brindavan, he found a
saint emerging from it, and explaining the position. "If the Jagir were to be resumed, neither
prayers, nor feeding would be conducted there onwards. The temple is like an oasis that
quenches the thirst of the parched throats of all without distinctions. So leave it as it is".
The explanation and presentation of solicitation was too convincing that Munro immediately
quashed the proposal for resumption. He narrated all that went between them to the people
gathered there and showed the Akshatas he received from him. The listening people bent down
their heads all at once and praised him for the fortune of seeing the Acharya.
Thomas Munro :
During the rule of the British East India Company, the Company authorities sent an order to the
head of Sri Raghavendra Mutt to the effect that the jagir pertaining to the Mantralaya would be
abolished. On seeing the order, the head of the Mutt and priests performing pujas, felt very sad.
They wrote to the Company saying, " Mantralaya is a great pilgrim centre, if the jagir is
abolished, it will be difficult to cater to the food and other facilities of the visiting pilgrims.

Therefore, the jagir should not be abolished." Sir Thomas Munro came to the Mantralaya to
enquire into the matter at the behest of the Company's authorities. Removing his hat and leaving
his shoes outside the entrance, he went into the Mutt. As he was standing before Sri
Raghavendra's Brindavan and having 'Dharsan' of the swami, a sanyasi came out of the
Brindavan and began to speak to Munro in fluent English and in a dignified manner. Munro
asked the sanyasi many questions relating to the abolition of the jagir. The sanyasi replied
suitably and affirmed that the jagir should not be abolished.
Later the sanyasi gave Munro the sacred grain. No body observed the sanyasi speaking to
Munro. He was not visible to any person. People, who were present at the shrine, thought that
Munro was talking to himself about something. At the conclusion of the conversation, Munro
said to the people gathered there, " A sanyasi came out of the Brundavan , spoke to me in my
own language, against the abolition of the jagir, gave me the sacred grain and disappeared
back into the Brindavan."
Then the head of the Mutt said to Munro, " you are a fortunate person Sri Raghavendra
Swami himself appeared before you in person. He gave you the sacred grain and blessed
you." Munro felt exceedingly happy. He immediately cancelled the order abolishing the jagir
and restored it to the Mutt permanently. He ordered his cook to cook the sacred rice as his
staple food, and serve him at the time of meal. The entire proceedings are recorded in the
Madras District Gazetteers as follows:
EXTRACT FROM

MADRAS DISTRICT GAZETTERS

By W. FRANCIS esq I.C.S
VOLUME NO.I BELLARY
Reprint 1916 by the Superintendent Govt Press, Madras
Ch XV Adoni Taluk-- page No,213
Mantasala (Mantrayalam): A Shrotriem village with a population of 1212 on the bank of the
Tungabhadra in the extreme north of the taluk. The village is widely known as containing
the tomb of Madhava saint Sri Raghavendra Swami the annual festival in August connected
with which is attended by large number of pilgrims including even Lingayats from Bombay,
the Nizams Dominion and even Mysore. The tomb itself is not of architectural interest. The
grant of the landed endowment attached to it, it is said, is contained in one of Mackenzie
MSS is said to have been made by Venkanna Pant, the well known Dewan of Sidi Masaud
Khan Governor of Adoni from 1662 to 1687.
A quaint story of Sir Thomas Monro is told about the place. The endowment being
threatment with resumption, Munro, it is said, came to make inquiries. After removing his
boots and taking off his hat he approached the grave.The saint thereupon emerged from his
tomb and met him. They conversed together for sometime regarding the resumption, but
though the saint was visible and audible to Munro who was himself people declare, semi
divine, none of the others who were there could either see or hear what he said. The
discussion ended, Munro returned to his tent and quashed the proposal to resume the
endowment. Being offered some concentrated rice he accepted it and ordered it to be used
in the preparation of his meals for that day.

Sir Thomas ordered the rice - Mantrakshate Prasad - to be cooked along with his evening meal
and gave up any thought of `resuming' the taxes of the village to the British.
(This episode

is found in a British newspaper of the time, The Madras Gazettier, which can still be viewed at
the Collectorate in Anantapura)
My friend in Nagpur used to tell me that Monroe had even a vision of Lord Rama and
Laksamana walking with their bows in the outskirts of Mantralayam but I found no historically
documented proof of this anywhere.
As to myself, back to Delhi, in that bad condition I came to know that Shri Upendra Vajpai, who
had been something like an elder brother to me since my Lucknow days, suffering from the same
type of chest congestion and pneumonia was admitted to a hospital, in ICU where doctors could
not save him. It was reported that as many forty people above the age of sixty who suffered like
me and late Upendra Vajpai died in hospitals. I survived.
The fleeting vision of a saint
What had happened to me in Bangalore is what I never told anyone but can narrate it now. It
was January 2008, I was finding breathing difficult and my two nephews who used to come to
see me before and after their office hours in the guest house where we stayed came next
morning and seemed to have noticed my condition. I had been doing my japam as usual in that
condition. What I never told anyone is that on that difficult night there appeared in a fleeting
vision a saint who blessed me with abhaya mudra (do not be afraid). Next morning I managed
to talk to people and even hobble on my feet to take my meals in the canteen down below. Back
to Delhi after what I thought was an arduous air travel, I reached my residence, climbed stairs,
then dumped myself on my bed. It continued for one month after which only I could teach my
research classes to get produced the best book on TIMING OF MARRIAGE, by a group of
brilliant students of research including Meenakshi Priya, Shaila and Anuj Gupta a brilliant
journalist in Hindi representing Nav Bharat of Madhya Pradesh.
PS:
Namit Gautam who read this account reminded that he had to lift me from my bed
physically in Delhi lightly and I had fallen on my bed such was my weakness. Still they took
me to Bangalore from the airport in Delhi.
( 8 January 2010)

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 in
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 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 earliest I took some casual
leave and went on my first pilgrimage 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 to
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 see that there
was no damage to the Dwarakadheesh temple or to any other part of the 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 railway 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
day. Ramesh Madan left the IAF as a Sgt.
I was posted to Dwarka in October 1963 and was there till middle of June 1967. There were
two signal units at that particular moment in Dwarka (No. 114 SU and No. 607 SU.) along
with one DSC Guards unit. I was posted to No.607 SU. ... The emergency was already
declared a few days ago and the trenches were dug all around the unit and at the suitable

places. It was a normal day as there was nothing new and nothing old at 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. ... There is a light
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 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 loud 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 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 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 telegram to our home to inform our
family that nothing has happened and every one is safe and healthy. All the telegrams were
collected and a couple of people rushed to the post office. The post master informed us that
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 last line "there are more donkeys in
Dwarka than the people and none of the donkeys have been injured so what can one say
about the people".
There was an Associated Cement Company factory just at a distance of half a mile away
from our base unit in Dwarka. The smoke of this factory can be seen from a distance of
about 20 miles that the Pakistanis referred to as seeing the smoke from a distance of 10

miles.
After the day break, the villagers started bringing the shells from their 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 had risen from the time 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 invasion, they could have done anything to us or
to the public.
A similar first person account from the Navy's Official History by Mr. S D 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 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 lasted for more than 20 minutes.
During this period the ship fired around 50 shells which included some 5.25 inch rounds
fired by the Pak cruiser Babur. But, due to unknown reasons, most of the shells fell between
the temple and the railway station, which is around three kilometres away from the
lighthouse. There was no damage to any building, though there was some damage railway
station. The twentieth-century avatars of Mahmud of Ghazni had failed in their mission.

Nearly all the shells fell where the soil was soft and they remained unexploded.
These shells were later collected by the Home Guards, the local 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.com/IAF/History/1965War/Dwarka.html
Till today I can recollect the emotion on the faces of people in 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 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 spiritual and most fanatical, dangerously
lopsided. There are obsessed maniacal individuals led by close minded and religious blind
mullah and clerical leaders.
Non converting religions like Hinduism mainly suffered most and being tolerant and highly
civilized have been at the receiving end in these stories of religious atrocities.
But there are stories of Hindu temples also saved miraculously I told my friend of VHP. I
had no ready list of such miracles and the more I tried to collect 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, the 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 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 them.
My ..... are still the head of the trustees for the temple and the ownership of the structure
and the temple is still with them but the control is with the BSF. It is a great place for
pilgrimage as it is surrounded by sand dunes of the Thar desert.
Regards
Kush

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 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 bombs 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 is prone
to enemy attacks. The Govts. of both countries have planted several Land Mines in the area.
The animals like Camel, Cattle are the worst sufferer of these Land Mines[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 turbine 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/rajasthan/jaisalmer/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 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 internet astrological groups which have
invariably some graceless participants 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 time

to do it seriously and develop an insight into
the subject for which no one can blame him.
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 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 "brilliant" prediction.
The notable dasha periods in this case were:
Saturn Mahadasha from 24 July 1985 to 24 July 2004
Saturn-Jupiter dasha from 10 January 2002 to 24 July 2004.
First see in the birth horoscope Jupiter the eighth lord in the eighth house aspected by
Saturn and Mars. It is a combination for Humiliation.
Chaturthamsha
Now see the Chaturthamsha and see the position of Jupiter and Mercury in them for the
story to unfold. If those astrologers who had exploited him, known astrology properly
instead of greedily wanting to cheat him in the name of shantis, they could have seen the
danger easily. But these UPAYACHARYAS do not know astrology and will never miss the
chance to exploit these gullible rich people ever.

In Jaiminis Chara dasha the dasha of Mesha was starting from 3 June 2006 and this dasha
will fall in the eighth house from Karakamsha. Additionally, Atmakaraka Saturn falls in the
tenth house. The disaster looming is visible.
What could have Upayas done? The only sage advice would have been to be cautious in
plans for expansion and intensive investments.
But destiny has its own role. A multi millionaire earlier, now he is reduced not to a
penurious level but has fallen steeply from his earlier level 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 his book, "Living an
Era", that Indias 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 month, perhaps) one year before the year used by
astrologers and, the Government of India celebrates the Teachers Day on September 5
every year. India's astrological journals and books contain the horoscope of
Dr.Radhakrishnan explaining Saraswati Yoga. But his own son has called his 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
(b)Dr. Raman takes the time as 8-56 p.m. which gives him Tula lagna.
(c)I have used the time given to me by some Bengali friends which gives me 4-42-10 p.m.
giving me Simha Lagna, though there is a difference of 48 minutes shown by N. C. Lahiri,
who, as he had once told me, that he not being an astrologer, could never correct a
horoscope.
Birth Lagna and Dogma: Prabhupad Prabhupad There is in this book a long portrait
of Prabhupad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami which took considerable scrutiny because while the
famous and distinguished astrologer, Gopesh Kumar Ojha, gave him Makar lagna, an
American astrologer insisted that it had to be Dhanu lagna, giving not any astrological logic
but, on the basis of a pure dogma. It is pernicious not to follow astrological basics. First of
all, there must be sound approach through the verification of life events.

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 Mahaprabhus spirit (Tarorapi-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 but made successful
prediction about his short term as prime
minister and tragic death.
Then in course of time an aunt of my younger
brothers wife married someone in the family of
Lal Bahadur Shastri and I got the Memorial
Volume in which the family horoscope given
was the same as used by the three astrologers
referred to above with Dhanu lagna and Moon
in Kanya.
Tendulkar
In early nineties of the last century a television
anchor from Bombay who specialised in sports
used meet me in Delhi and promised that he
would get the birth details of both Tendulkar and Kambli. In his next visit he told me that he
would not be able to get it as the families of both Tendulkar and Kambli were advised not to
give their birth details to anyone. This may have led to the creation of 24 April as the
birthday of Sachin Tendulkar.
Then when I got the birth details from Karveji and his daughter Pinky, I gave it to Manoj
Pathak who has produced a brilliant article which is there displayed on the website.
I told many that the birth details of Virendra Sehwag were different in earlier year with his
month of birth shown as May or April not 20 October of 1978. But then an article in an issue
of the Journal of Astrology, later in a book made it difficult for the wrong date to continue
since it was well known that I had got the details from a sister of the man who married the
elder sister of Virendra Sehwag. She is high ranking officer in the Indian railways and knows
astrology. Suppression of correct birth details were not possible in this case. There has been
no such compulsion in the case of Tendulkar.

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 lesson. 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.
( 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
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 and why did Dr.Raman allow it and mislead 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
apologized can you show me similar examples? Why do we offer excuses and seek shelter
behind stupid excuses and explanations ?

Sanjay Rath who used to consult me along with

his father till 1986 (he never discussed
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 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
with Dhanu lagna and dashed off something.
Santhanam whom politicians never trusted got some important political horoscopes from me
and, inspite of his promise not to use them, used them in his monthly magazine. We parted
company rather bitterly. He kept up that enmity with me till his death. He came from a
priestly family of Tirupati and his acts had antagonized everyone in his orthodox parental
family. All these are well reflected in his Vrischika lagna horoscope which he had given me.
He had no sense of gratitude for anyone ever in his life. That is human nature and this from
a man who owed his journalistic career to me along with the hotel job !!
How I was misled
I have fallen victim to such wrong data when some dishonest astrologers passed on to me
the horoscopes of important political leaders, particularly of the late Jagjiwan Ram.
It keeps happening and some of my predictions collapse because of this.
So many of us use the Karka lagna horo scope of Sonia Gandhi which Rodden even gives A
rating. But the late Giridhari Lal Goswami who had all the authentic horoscopes of the Nehru
Gandhi dynasty said that it was wrong ! What do you do in such a case ? Then do you know
the controversy surrounding the date of birth of Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of
India ?
Never run after the horoscopes of celebrities unless it comes from very authentic source and
is doubly verified by you. Or I will trust the supernormal powers of Karveji whom I respect
and who has given us some valuable horoscopic data.

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 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 times in five years. Irritation because none
of these hypocrites, politicians or astrologers, even helped me even half percent to fight 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 empannelled lawyers !! That is Joshijis love and respect for astrology !!
See even now how Ataljis 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.
Jana Sangh & BJP http://www.hindustan.org/index/abpprofile.htm Prime minister of India
Bihari also spelled Behari born December 25, 1924, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/621705/Atal-Bihari-Vajpayee
I used the 1924 as the year of birth and Vrischika lagna which is given in his biography in
Hindi.
For my failed predictions I have to blame myself always particularly when in 1978 the late
Uma Shankar Dixit (father in law of Sheila Dixit chief minister of Delhi) and a former Home
Minister of India had told me, since he had known me from my childhood in Lucknow, that
many astrologer-spies were planted in Delhi by both the government of India and foreign
espionage agencies to do all types of nefarious activities except astrology but behind the
facade of manufactured astrological screen and fabricated reputations. He had told me some
names out of which all except one is still alive and is now out of favour. But he keeps
barking his predictions with the help of a member of parliament.
Understand, then why and how we get misled.
Moghul Period: Saffronization ?
One of the arguments of Indian communist against the introduction of astrology in the
universities in the Supreme Court was that it would lead to saffronization (meaning
conversion to Hinduism). In arguing in the Supreme Court, one of my arguments was that
emperor Humayun. the father of emperor Akbar, had learnt Hindu astrology and made
predictions about himself. His wife, mother of Akbar (Hamida Banu) misled people by
circulating the wrong birth day of Akbar to protect the child from evil machinations of his
enemies.

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 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.
Politicians, lawyers and men in the media need not insist on the validity of their data,
arguments or "source". "Truth" for them is what clicks and strikes on the spur of a moment.
Are we astrologers swimming with and in this current of acceptable falsehoods ? In this
mercenary era of television and commercial and internet astrology, must we become
corrupt to survive and must commit the profane act of defiling a rishi tradition of jyotisha ?
(5 March 2010)

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 years ago.
It was in the later part of 1996. My junior colleague Sri Dev Swarup, a spiritually evolved
soul, was a great devotee of Sri Satya Sai Baba. He had developed such devotion after Baba
appeared before him in a dream like 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
Puttuparthi. Accordingly, one afternoon we reached Puttuparthi by car from Bangalore and
got accommodation in one of the Ashram guest houses. We were not in a position to spend
more than one night there and I was not sure if the next morning we would be able to have
a special audience with Baba.
An inmate of the ashram advised me to send a telegram to Baba introducing myself and
requesting for an audience next morning. He told me to be present in the assembly next
morning and hope when Baba comes out, to bless the assembly. I asked him how will he
call special audience. I asked him how will he call me since it was my first visit and he did
not recognise me. The devotee smiled and told me to leave it to Baba. I walked across the
road to the telegraph office and sent a telegram accordingly.
Next morning Dev Swarup and I duly reached the quadrangle in front of Babas residence.
While the crowd assembled for darsana sat under a shamiana, a few of the old devotees
were allowed to wait in the verandah in front of the room in which Baba lived. Dev Swarup
was one of them and I tagged along with him. These devotees sat down in two rows along
the length of the verandah leaving a passage in between for Baba to walk along. Shortly
singing of bhajans started and all of us joined in.
Then the doors of the room opened and Baba came out. He walked up the passage between
the two rows blessing the devotees and then retracing the steps went back to the front of
the room doors and sat down on an easy chair kept for him. By now I was sure that I will
have to be satisfied with this glimpse and there was no question of any detailed personal or
private audience. I was both happy and unhappy.
Within minutes I saw Baba beckoning some one from our row. I thought he was calling Dev
Swarup, his old devotee who had had private audience with him a number of times in the
past.
But Dev as well as the gentleman sitting behind me nudged me to say that Baba was
actually calling me and not Dev Swarup. I was amazed. How did he recognise me and why
did he decide to oblige me? However, I went up to him and he asked me to follow him
inside the room which I did.
Once inside, Baba sat down on an easy chair and I touched his feet. There were only two
other devotees in the small room. He asked me my name and from where had I come and

then suddenly said, "Why do you worry so much? Dont 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 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 from the same post in 1997.
Suddenly in May 1995, within seven months of my joining, I found that the President (Dr.
Shankar Dayal Sharma) got me removed from the post without any prior indication
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
attention within half an hour of the stoke as a result of which not only my life was saved but
no permanent damage to any part of my brain occurred and I had a near-complete recovery
within two months. All this splashed in my head when Baba asked me not to worry.
In the meantime Baba moved to an inner room and I followed him. For Babas darsana I
had changed into a lungi, not being used to it, it was getting loose and I had to somehow
re-arrange it. Baba noticed it and said something in Telugu. Till then I had used only
English. Evidently, he was chiding me for dumsiness. Baba came back to the chair and I
again placed my head at his feet. He placed his right hand on my head and said "Dont
worry about anythingwhat is there to worry about? I am with you."
I was overwhelmed by this divine promise. At least twice did Baba say "I am with you" and
"I shall be with you" and gave me a few sachet of Vibhuti.
Even after fourteen years that spiritual divine experience is fresh in my mind and I feel
perpetually reassured. I have always remembered Babas words whenever in difficulty and
hardly even go out of my house wife applying a pinch of Vibhuti to my forehead. Dev
Swarup has been kind enough to keep me supplied with fresh stocks of Vibhuti all these
years.
(4 March 2010)