SAVol7Dec09WesternCo.. - Saptarishis Astrology

Mentor thought ‘Ohh now my reputation is finished, I told the industrialist such great things about thepredictive power of Mr Dutta, he has obviously failed, how can such a rich man not have food’. After fewmoments the Industrialist started weeping saying ‘It’s true I have not eaten for 2 days since I have had a fightwith my wife’.So we narrated this story to J N Sharma, asking him fondly about his memories of his Guru andthe generation of his Guru. After a long chat something emerged when we mentioned to him about theefforts the team of Saptarishis Astrology is taking to bring Ravana Samhita out. He said at the house ofhis Guru Shri K.G. Dutta, there used to come an old and very pious Pandit (priest) whose name nobodybothered to ask since all called him Panditji 2 . He said Panditji would often come and it was said that hewas a Master of Ravana Samhita having committed the whole of it to memory. Now our ears werewidened since we knew that even today many old village astrologers swear only by the text RavanaSamhita 3 . The great astrologer that Shri Dutta was had even greater respect towards this Panditji for hisextensive knowledge in astrology. Now J N Sharma continued that one day while Panditji came ShriDutta was about to leave for a restaurant with one of his friends for his afternoon meals. So the RavanaSamhita expert Panditji said to Mr Dutta ‘On the route to the restaurant you would find two snake charmerswho will meet you and beg you for money, after you give them few coins still they will refuse to let you go insistingthat you give them a Rupee (dollar) only and then they will let you go. After that when you reach the restaurantthere you would have to wait in queue as there would be lot of rush in the restaurant and infact you would think ofleaving but just at that moment a man will get up from one of the tables and ask you to sit in his place and that manwould be blind by one eye.’ Now Shri Dutta along with his friend started walking on the road towards therestaurant while that Panditji trailed behind at a distance wanting to see how his prediction would shapeup. After few minutes of walking two snake charmers came on the road and asked Mr Dutta for money,Mr Dutta looked behind and the Panditji smiled knowing his prediction was coming true. Mr Duttagave few coins but the snake charmers refused to let go and begged for one rupee. In the olden days onerupee was a big amount and so reluctantly Mr Dutta dished out one rupee whilst looking back and thePanditji had a huge naughty grin on his face as his prediction was coming true. Then when Mr Duttareached the restaurant he saw to his dismay but true to the prediction of the Pandit that the restaurantwas packed, whilst they were about to leave, a man got up from one of the tables and offered Mr Duttahis seat to take meals. Mr Dutta just then noticed that the man was blind from one eye. Mr Dutta whohad previously seen so many great predictions of the Panditji come true was once again shocked for sucha novel prediction to come true.We can go on and on regarding some of the other great predictions of this Ravana SamhitaPandit and Mr Saxena but would reserve it for some other issue. What is important is for us to admitthat we don’t think so in our lifetime we would be able to make such kinds of predictions; theirknowledge is lost, not documented in books, not encouraged by publishers and organisations that existedeven then due to politics. This knowledge still existed it seems just a few decades back but how cantoday’s Paramparas (traditions) who claim to be 800 years old and having the experience of 800 years2 In olden days and even in modern day Varanasi still every scholar of shastra will be called either Guruji or Panditji withoutbothering to ask ones name.3 Authenticity of Ravana Samhita is doubtful but so far we have found 2 versions and the most original of them is availablein a place below Varanasi is what most scholars in Varanasi told us. This version inspite of our volunteer’s efforts haveevaded us. Beloved friend Prof Ramachandra Pandey, Ex-Head Jyotish Dept Banaras Hindu University has given us morespecifics but no contact number ‘A pandita named Vagishwari Prasad Pathak resident of Gurvalia village in Deoria Districtnear Gorakhpur, brought this book the Ravana Samhita from Nepal. Now that Pandit is no more, but his son KamakhyaPrasad Pathak is using this book in his Astrological practice.’ Another team member Ashutosh Kumar says that inMuzaffarpur, Bihar has been to this Pandit and saw it but he wouldn’t share. The one in our possession is not in manuscriptform and we ourselves doubt if it is full or totally original version but so far from the commentary that we have published inprevious issues you can make out that inspite of its non-original manuscript form, the rules mentioned on nakshatras inRavana Samhita is most stunning and over rules all nakshatra books so far published. No doubt Ravana was a great scholarand even in the Jyotish famous area of Darbhanga, Bihar the Jyotishis pray to Ravana daily is what is told by AshutoshKumar. Another volunteer who has visited the Gorakhpur area Ravana Samhita pandit claims that it contains a lot ofmundane astrology prediction (not found in our version) and this prediction his uncle has observed for 30 years all becomingtrue. All in all the old astrologers belonging to the North Indian Belt of India have often quoted the greatness of RavanaSamhita and though young ones will ignore such rules given in it but the village astrologers commit it to memory to makestunning predictions is what has observed over many years.37