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'In
the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But in the keen-eyed world
of cricket, a fellow with just one good eye-and-a-bit has to settle for
something less than the perfection he once sought. Lucky me, despite this, to have
been able to play the game all over the world in the company of giants.' Pataudi about himself.
I was taken straight to what was like an ashram with a temple. There in a room slightly spacious with carpets spread all over the floor in the middle sat Yogiji on an asana with his disciples, I presume , around and also some visitors. I was introduced to him and he called me straight to him and made to sit near him for many hours. He was talking in Gujarati, not Hindi, but easy for me to understand. His face, radiant, his smile so broad and never leaving him, his protruding teeth, slightly shriveled body, upper part of the body totally uncovered is what I vaguely recollect now, after four decades.
Both happened in the next four or five years and the father who met me once or twice a week was happy because a government job is a secure job for an unambitious father and those days, pre 1991 era of Indian economy where private jobs were so few, more so.
Some years after my predictions, may be six, the young man went to attend a marriage party, suffered from food poisoning after eating the food served along with some others. All who suffered food poisoning were saved except this young man. Did I see it ? Not at all as the prediction was given in a hurry to answer the question put to me. The gentleman father did not blame me ever but there was a deep pain in my heart.
What would I have told the father of the girl if her horoscope was given to me three years ago?
I would have warned him of the great danger to the life of the girl because of such a badly afflicted Moon which is very rare. And worst of all, the antardasha of Moon was starting from March 2008.
Like this, there are occasions when we astrologers suffer pain because we cannot help anyone avoid inscrutable strokes of destiny in a horoscope. I invariably adopt the policy of never predicting the fatal to the parents but make sure that I tell it to some uncle etc. to avoid being blamed for not predicting it.
But I am a totally unreliable astrologer for all those women who indulge in extra marital affairs, deceive their legally wedded husbands, desert their children and want to marry their lovers who in turn deceive their legally wedded wives. Not once, but at least ten or fifteen times I tried to prevent it and even gave tricky predictions which of course always went wrong. These women after marrying their lovers and deceiving their husbands have blamed me always.
In course of time when disaster occurred in the second marriage some of these women came to consult me and except scolding them, which I can do at this age, I refuse to give them a reading. They then realize that the moralist in me wins over the astrologer. I admit it as my fault.
But what do I do in such a case if a horoscope like that of this girL, is shown to me? The pain returns the terrible pain of an astrologer who does not want to see a weeping mother or parents. But nothing could be done. In this case the girl died about seventeen months ago. I could not find time to give prediction to her parents.
Yet the blame is still hurled. If I had seen and warned, it could have been avoided is the argument which is wrong. I am not God, I do not play god.
PS: The girl was born in 1994. If Moon is 00 degrees and some seconds, the balance of Jupiter is around three years and Saturn dasha is of nineteen years. Budha dasha never began.
KNRao.
(1 October 2009)
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