ME AND ASTROLOGY

ME AND ASTROLOGY

In another Blog on UNI Canteen, I had mentioned about the popularity of the Canteen and its visitors.  Shri T. Rangarajan (Astrologer) was one of the regular visitors to the Canteen and he is nearly 70 % blind.  However, he used to be regular and we got introduced as a regular persons visiting the Canteen.  One day, he asked me what is my birth star.   I did not know anything about my birth star etc. and I wrote to my father to let me know my birth star.  In reply my father sent me my horoscope cast by Kazhiyur Narayanan a famous astrologer in Chennai.  I showed my horoscope to Shri Rangarajan and he started giving me a commentary of my earlier life and predicted the future also.  Further he insisted my learning Astrology for which I was very reluctant and told him that I do not have any time.  He suggested that he will teach me Astrology during lunch hour in the UNI Canteen under a tree.  Thus my lessons in Astrology started sincerely.  This continued for nearly 8 years. After getting the basics of Astrology ie. Planets, Houses, Stars, their powerful places, Friends-enemies etc. of the planets, the house division etc. We used to analyse various horoscopes of personalities and discuss various nuances of prediction.  In fact at some stage, I used to foresee some events of national and international importance,  when there was conujunction of certain enemical planets.  Some of the events happened thus was the Air Crash off the Irish Coast, death of the then President Fakrudhin Ali Ahmed and Gujerat Earth quake etc.

After having learnt Astrology to a predictive stage, I was surprised to see my predictions to some of the people turned to be exactly true to the full extent.  One person came to be (stranger) and I predicted that when he comes to my house next, he would come in his own Car and that he would marry a girl chosen by his sister (without seeing the girl).  Probably he laughed at me and went away.   Nearly after two months or so, somebody was knocking at our door and the person introduced himself for whom I gave prediction.  I recognized him after sometime and he was followed by his Car Driver carrying a huge Sweet Box and he told me that he has taken delivery of his new car and just came to see my blessings.  After some time, the same person came to me with another lady  and gave me an invitation for his marriage.  The date of the marriage clashed with my programme of going to Chennai on vacation.  He insisted on my changing my programme or he will change the date of his marriage.  Even after coming to Bangalore, I had predicted to one of my friends in JP Park about the marriage of his daughter.  Again he could not believe that the marriage was settled within ten days. Some persons from Mahalaxmi Lay Out also have their horoscopes predicted and used to come for consultation when required.

 It used to take nearly 1 or 2 hours for he preparation of a horoscope manually with the aid of Ephemeries (Lahiris) and fix the position of various planets and work out the Lagna, Navamsa and the balance Vimshotri Dasa etc. on which basis a near accurate prediction could be made.  I used to buy books on Astrology written by famous Authors.  Of course, as on date I get the full horoscope with all the details in the soft-ware available.  Eventhough general prediction of the individual’s life event could be predicted from the individual horoscope, the actual current prediction is to be done with reference to the Planetary position on a particular date and time which is known as Prasna or Horary Astrology.  This year there has been movement of Jupiter and Saturn which are very important transits.

Shri T. Rangarajan my Astrological Guru has now settled in Chennai and I meet him as and when I happen to go to Chennai.  With best wishes to all.