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|| Gururbrahmaa Gururvishnu Gururdevo Maheshvarah |||| GururSakshaat Parambrahma, Tasmai Shri Gurave Namah||Vol 7 – C. S. Patel 2 nd Memorial Issue - Part 2In continuation with the Part 1, this part of a very long but essential Publitorial will concentrate onthe need to dig deeper into books and manuscripts rather wasting time on forums and chats whichconsume whole day & money of the sincere astro students. Also will be discussed ‘How our studiesneed to be done’ otherwise huge wastage of time happens. In order to understand why we need todissolve ourselves in our books and manuscripts, let’s first see the end result of our studies, which arepredictions.1.7 What Is A PredictionMany of us spend decades in astrology without realizing ‘What is a Prediction’ – though it has manylevels let us touch the very mundane level of it here. The reason for touching this aspect is many of usget impressed with some modern writers and spend years without digging deeper into classics, thinkingour so called heroes are the greatest or only mantras can give great predictions. Predicting outcome of anevent when the event is known is like 50:50 chance of success, one’s office housecleaning staff can alsopredict the outcome of elections or predict an earthquake somewhere in the world as every 9 monthssome earthquake keeps on happening. But when we know nothing about the background of the personwhose chart we see and are able to predict a ‘Rare’ event that is a class prediction.Once upon a time there was an astrologer by the name of K C Saxena who modern students donot know much except that they have seen one or two books in his name in the local astro bookshop. K C Saxena was considered one of the foremost authorities on Bhrighu Astrology andrumor was it he learnt it from one of his office colleagues, later went to Nepal and some locations inIndia to collect more knowledge on this oldest branch of Indian Astrology of Sage Bhrighu. Once upona time Mr Saxena was travelling to Mumbai from Delhi and on his next seat in the plane there was aman who did not believe in astrology and for 30 minutes he bothered Mr Saxena deriding astrology.When finally Mr Saxena said he is an astrologer himself the man shamelessly took out his horoscopefrom his bag and asked Mr Saxena to see it citing that he by chance had his horoscope in his bag as hiswife wanted him to meet some astrologer in Delhi.Then Mr Saxena took few minutes on the chart and said ‘Your wife right now at this very hour, sheis learning Tabla (a particular Indian classical music instrument) with her Guru’. ‘In 2 months from now shewill run away with the Guru and leave you’. The man started shouting to Mr Saxena as to how childish isastrology blah blah blah. Mr Saxena asked him ‘Isn’t at this moment your wife supposed to learn Tabla’. Theman realized that how did this astrologer predict that, he did not even ask if she has interest in music,straight away said at this moment she is learning Tabla 1 and not another instrument. He said ‘it’s trueshe should be learning Tabla right now, but after she runs away with that Guru, will she come back?’Mr Saxena then coolly gave out his card and said ‘when she runs away then you come to Delhi at my officeand then I will reply back’. Dot after 2 months the man was in Mr Saxena’s office. It is easy to guess whathappened.On our way to the Himalayas we, P.M.Padia and Andree Leclerc stopped at Delhi to payrespects to Mentor and then to Shri J.N.Sharma a friend of ours and a very dear friend of Mentor. Welike asking people about their Gurus and fondly listen as they pour out their love for their Gurussomething that is missing with the modern students of astrology. We asked Sharma ji about his GuruK.G.Dutta as mentor had told a story to us when mentor took a famous industrialist to Late ShriDutta’s house for a consultation. Mr Dutta was known as the finest master of horary (Prashna) and infront of Mentor Shri Dutta said ‘Immediately feed this man (industrialist) as he hasn’t eaten food for 2 days’.1 In some classical texts/nadi readings there is reference to planets and various types of instruments.36