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Prophecies for Kali Yuga from the Bhagavata Purana ALL GLORY TO SHRI GURU AND SHRI GAURANGA The World Acharya -His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder Acharya: International Society for Krishna Consciousness “It is said that service to a mahatma, or elevated devotee of the Lord, is the royal road of liberation. Rendering service to the materialists has the opposite effect.” From Teachings of Lord Kapila (20) THE ASTROLOGICAL NEWSLETTER Mithuna Twiins Astrological Services “Home of the Bhrigu Project” In this issue: Prophecies for Kali Yuga from the Bhagavata Purana 1 Chant this mantra: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare …and your life will be sublime 14 Apr. 2012 (#28) Vaishakha krishna ashtami, 526 Gaurabda Era, corresponding to the 8th day of the waning Moon of the Gaudiya month of Madhusudan. Also, Mesh sankranti, the 1st day of the Solar Year when the Sun enters Aries. The Astrological Newsletter (Please e-share it with your friends) Patita Pavana das Adhikary, Ed. Abhaya Mudra Dasi Jyotish Shastris, &c. Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria Visit us at: www.vedicastrologers.org Letters, consultations: [email protected] To peruse past issues: http://ebooks.iskcondesiretree.info/index.php?q=f&f=%2Fpdf%2FAstrological_Newsletter In This Issue: Dear Prabhus: From the Editor...………………………...page 2 A Determined Reporter Meets Shrila Prabhupada …… page 3 Horoscope of The World Acharya ……………………… page 4 Who Gave Us Astrology? ……………………………….. page 7 Prophecies for Kali Yuga from the Bhagavat Purana…...page 10 Rudrakshas and their Relationship to the Nine Planets....page 15 Letters ……………………………………………………...page 22 Dear Prabhus, Dandavats to the Vaishnavas and welcome to the issue. Shrila Prabhupada once said that whenever a person comes into one of his centers, it is because Krishna has brought that person by the hand. Back in the winter of 1967 when I first entered the Western World’s premier Hare Krishna Temple, there were only a few dozen devotees in the whole movement. Yet each devotee knew and preached that Shrila Prabhupada was (is) an eternally liberated pure devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Shri Krishna. Now as then faith in 2 the Lord’s representative is the crux of continued advancement in Krishna consciousness. But then, one may ask, if the Founder-Acharya is a nitya-mukta jivan, then why has he taken birth? As an answer, Prabhupada once told one of his disciples, “Oh, the acharyas don’t actually become liberated, they continue to be re-born in the material world for the deliverance of fallen souls.” Therefore, there is no adquate gift that the disciple or grand disciple can offer to the World Acharya. We can never repay His Divine Grace for the blessing of becoming engaged after millions of births in the divine service of Shri Shri Radha-Krishna. We must completely and unhesitatingly offer our very selves. To each one of you: thanks very much. Enjoy the issue. Always wishing you the very best in Krishna consciousness, Patita Pavana das Adhikary, Ed A Determined Reporter Meets Shrila Prabhupada Narada Muni Das There is a wonderful story from the Memories series, the volumes and DVDs of Shriman Siddhanta das Adhikary www.prabhupadamemories.com. Our gurubhai Shriman Narada Muni Prabhu recounts: “In New York a reporter asked Shrila Prabhupada, ‘How old were you when you realized God?’ Shrila Prabhupada didn’t want to glorify himself, but rather to praise his spiritual master and Krishna. So His Divine Grace said, ‘God is a person like you or me. The difference is that we are many and God is one, our leader. Now what is the difference between the one and the many? He maintains all these many, he maintains us. But He is also a person like you and me. Do you follow?’ 3 The reporter persisted, ‘Yes, I appreciate your answer, but at what age did you realize the highest truth? At what physical age…?’ Prabhupada explained, ‘There is no question of age. Realization of God should be from the very beginning of life. The reporter countered, ‘I understand that, Swamiji. My question to you was at what age did you yourself realize the highest truth?’ Shrila Prabhupada replied, ‘Of course we were born into a very nice family. Practically from the very beginning of our lives my father educated us in this way.’ Now, the reporter wouldn’t give up, ‘I understand that. I mean at what time did you have your own personal realization, Swamiji? At what age?’ Prabhupada answered, ‘From age four or five years.’” Narada Muni Prabhu continued: “In the Bhagavatam Shrila Prabhupada wrote about some of his childhood pastimes and he also narated the histories of Maharaja Parikshit and others who displayed symptoms of God consciousness. Shrila Prabhupada has always been God conscious. He came into this world God conscious and he left this world God conscious. And now he’s undoubtedly giving Krishna consciousness to others on another planet. My hope is that all of us can eternally be with him and somehow serve him in this mission.” Horoscope of the World Acharya Patita Pavana das Adhikary Tirupati 1977: $1.50 a day is all Gargamuni, then the head of the BBT Library Party out of Bombay, would allow me for food, travel, and shelter. So on a budget of $50 a month I was traveling third class and alone throughout India to collect reviews of Shrila Prabhupada’s books. I would introduce scholars to the “Library Encyclopedia of Vedic Knowledge” (as we members of the BBT Library Party called the collection), and they would all oblige with letterheads of glowing 4 praise. Today, looking back, none of those intellectual leaders sticks in my mind as does the renowned scholar Dr. D. Arkasomayaji. He was a strict brahmana, an author, a past college principle and a Government of India award winner in Sanskrit. He was also the head of the Tirumati-Tirumala Devastanam which oversees the world’s most opulent temple of the Lord of Lakshmi at Tirupati. Since he was also a pandit I showed Dr. Arkasomayaji Shrila Prabhupada’s horoscope. Immediately he noted that His Divine Grace had been liberated from birth. He declared, “This is the chart of a nitya-mukta jivan.” Dr. Arkasomayaji (who hailed from a long family line of astrologers and whose name means “yagna to the deities of the Sun and Moon) quickly spotted some of the rare horoscopic combinations of the liberated pure devotee. He observed, “There are separate yogas for Lord Vishnu (Hari Yoga), His wife (Lakshmi Yoga), the creator (Brahma Yoga) and the creator’s wife (Saraswati Yoga). That means that there are two sets of Husband / Wife yogas, an unheard of rarity in any horoscope.” After scanning the stars of His Divine Grace, Dr. Arkasomayaji took out his pen and wrote the most spectacular review for Prabhupada’s books out of the hundreds I collected. He considered Shrila Prabhupada to be “the world’s greatest spiritual force in the Twentieth Century.” Naturally all the state’s college libraries purchased complete sets of the BBT publications. I sent Dr. Arkasomayaji’s horoscope reading and review to Shrila Prabhupada who much appreciated the good devotee-scholar’s understanding of his position as the World Acharya. Dr. Arkasomayaji wasn’t long for the world after that, but when he left here he was surely blessed by the pure devotee. From our Bhrigu Project’s Yoga Dictionary, we give the explanations of the four yogas Dr. Arkasomayaji spotted above. Hari Yoga is formed by benefic planets in the 2nd, 12th and 8th from the 2nd lord. Since Prabhupada’s lagna or ascendant is Sagittarius, the second from there is Capricorn, so the 2nd lord is exalted Saturn. Exalted Moon is in the 8th from Saturn and Venus and Mercury are in 5 the 12th from Saturn. As a result, “one enjoys wealth, is happy and is blessed with children.” Lakshmi Yoga in this case is caused by the mutual association of the lords of lagna and the 9th. Of course this combination achieves a new dimension in Shrila Prabhupada’s chart since the combination takes place in the 9th house of dharma itself and the lord of the 9th Sun is in his own sign of Leo. Shastra says, “One born under this combination grows quite wealthy, owns vast lands, and rises to the post of a king. He is widely renowned, blessed with numerous comforts, and has many good children.” Brahma Yoga: Prabhupada has a strong permutation of this combination which links to the head of the Brahma sampradaya, and of which His Divine Grace is the most recent acharya. As seen in Lakshmi Yoga, he appeared when his lord of lagna was in the 9th with the lord of the 9th. Further Mercury is exalted in the 10th as the 10th lord. And Venus as the 11th lord is conjoined the 10th lord in an angle which also cancels the debility (nicha bhanga raja yoga) of Venus. Shastra says, “The native will enjoy pleasures and luxurious foods; he will be respected by brahmanas and learned men, will be highly learned, long- lived, charitable, religious and ever intent on performing pious activities.” In other words, one born under this combination is like a Brahma of this earth, with all facilities for material and spiritual pleasures and a long life to realize them. Saraswati Yoga: This is a combination for learning and scholarship. When the benefics (Mercury, Jupiter and Venus) are in their own / exalted / friendly signs and occupy the 2nd or kendras / konas, then the native is not only “intelligent and learned, but is praised by the learned.” In Shrila Prabhupada’s chart Venus is debilitated but due to conjunction with exalted Mercury in the 10th the debility is cancelled 6 and Venus becomes exalted.
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