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| Sun-Saturn
conjunction in Cancer
Conjunction
of Saturn & sun in Cancer on from July 17 to August 17 will
be very challenging for the ruling class especially politicians
of the world. On August 7, this conjunction will be complete with
both planets at 20 degrees. Conjunction has the tendency to expose
their scandals & failures.
This
is the period when sun starts its journey towards south. This conjunction
in Cancer in the sign of moon a watery planet & a watery sign.
Moon is significator of mind covering royalty, emotions, name &
fame. This sign is the 4’Th sign of the zodiac also governs
domestic peace. Cancer is a sign of the north direction & the
placement of sun journeying in south direction & Saturn both
inimical to each other does not go well with the ruling class.
Astrological
implications
- Saturn
rules masses & sun the people in the authority. This will
put many democratic countries into political uncertainty. Ruling
class will become weak. A state of phobia will prevail in the
political arena.
- People
of the nations will be unsatisfied with the performance of their
government.
- Saturn
provokes opposition so Opposition will become stronger, aided
by Saturn.
- Venus
& Mercury also join this conjunction so scandals involving
celebrities, film personalities, & other personalities in
sports & financial institutions can not be ruled out.
Impact
on India
The
conjunction of Saturn and sun will have significant influence on
India, as the conjunction occurs in the month of Indian independence.
Exact
conjunction of Saturn and sun at 19, 18’ cancer occurred on
5 August 1947. This year, the exact conjunction will occur 8 days
ahead of the Independence Day, on 7 August 2006 at 20,53’
cancer.
One
can observe that the conjunction is very similar, but for the small
change of dates. The pre-independence conjunction occurred in the
2nd drekkana of Mars, while the current conjunction happens in the
3rd drekkana of Jupiter.
Effect;
- This
conjunction is occurring in the fifth house of the horoscope of
independent India. This house stands for religion, sports, stock
markets, legislative house, ambassadors and diplomats from foreign
countries, political funds and resources of a political party,
government’s gain from mining operations. All these can
have following impact
- Religious
laws may be reformed. Religious heads will face critical times.
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Serious tensions can brew up in the foreign relations. India can
become the victim of double standard. Some clashes with the foreign
elements is feared.
- Government
authorities, members of the parliament and some important authorities
may face rough weather. Its activities will not conform to the
spirit of the constitution & some of its vital provisions
may be against the spirit of the constitution.
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Is
bad Vastu to blame for RSS woes?
Jaideep Hardikar
Sunday, June 04, 2006 00:34 IST
NAGPUR:
Is there something wrong with the Vastu of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh building in Nagpur? Are the problems plaguing the Parivar
an outcome of Vastu Dosh?
Battered by some recent setbacks to its political front and plagued
by the growing rivalries within, the RSS is indeed sprucing up its
historic Mahal headquarters to remove what its architects describe
as Vastu Dosh in the Vastu Shastra parlance.
Senior functionary and RSS executive body member Indresh Kumar Thursday
confirmed that the building is being renovated on Vastu lines. "It
includes every aspect, also the security," Kumar told DNA after
the terrorist attack. "Vastu norms also include of security
aspects, apart from progress."
The building's entry is being redesigned from east while closing
the one that exists in south. The Sangh bosses, who have ratified
the proposed alterations, hope the directional changes would set
things in order.
The RSS consulted a Vastu expert in Visakhapatnam, after a young
local architect Abhishek Deshpande submitted a project report on
vastu-faults in the building. The renovation work takes into account
the threat perception and modifications also provide for improved
security cover.
Sudarshan, who, RSS sources say, liked the idea, referred it to
an expert in Vishakhapatnam, who spruced it up for execution.
Though officially the Sangh did not initially admit to the vastu-theory,
it is now confirming that the building is being perfected on vastu
shastra lines.
Something that old time hardliners are bitterly unhappy with.
"It's true, Sangh followers and volunteers know that the RSS
bosses have consulted a vastu expert apparently to remove the anomaly
believed to be the root-cause for the problems it has confronted
recently," RSS analyst Dilip Deodhar told DNA. "Many within
the RSS don't approve of it."
Deodhar, who is the convenor of Dr Hedgewar Pradnyapeeth, noted
that the trio of former Sarsanghchalaks Hedgewar-Golwalkar-Deoras
never followed any superstitions.
"They wanted to develop the concept of Hindu as a civilisation
and not as religion. So the old timers feel it derails those objectives
if the Sangh follows the Vastu advice. At the same time those who
have religious lineage are happy about the development," he
said.
The RSS headquarters in Mahal, which was under the attack on Thursday,
was once known as a bhoot-bangla (ghost bungalow). When Hedgewar
came to know of it, he requested his owner to hand it over to them
and instructed his volunteers to search for more bhoot-banglas so
that they could be bought cheaply and converted in to the RSS offices
to expand the activities. RSS has been occupying its Mahal headquarters
since 1925. |
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Friday
June 2, 02:48 AM(The Indian Express)
Just days ago, Sangh turned to Vaastu to ward
off Parivar cloud
Sarsanghchalak sent a swayamsevak to Vizag to verify new building
plan with senior Vaastu expert, reconstruction had begun
Terror has targeted the RSS at a time when it's restructuring
its building as per Vaastu Shastra to lift the Parivar's fortunes.
With no end to the problems of the Parivar, from the BJP losing
power at the Centre to the fight within, RSS leaders were told
by a young Vaastu expert to change the direction of the building
front: the present south was inauspicious, it should be facing
east.
"Yes, Vaastu is the main reason behind this exercise. If
problems can be prevented this way, why not? Even the cadres have
been discussing it. Some want to know why this belief in something
never entertained by the RSS," said a senior RSS follower.
RSS watcher Dilip Deodhar too confirmed the Vaastu exercise. "That's
true. RSS founder K B Hedgewar's biography by N H Palkar mentions
that Hedgewar laughed when the original owner of this place claimed
it was haunted. Hedgewar joked that the swayamsevaks would chase
out all evil."
According to Deodhar, RSS chief K S Sudarshan specially sent a
swayamsevak to Vishakhapatnam to a senior Vaastu expert to verify
the building reconstruction plan submitted by Vaastu expert Abhishek
Deshpande. "When they were satisfied, the reconstruction
was taken up," he said.
Deodhar recalled how the late RSS leader Moropant Pingle, who
was also its all-India Bouddhik Pramukh (intellectual chief),
was told about the direction of the Hedgewar memorial in Nagpur.
"When the RSS built the memorial, an expert told Pingle to
change its orientation as it didn't conform to Vaastu Shastra.
Pingle asked him what Vaastu was. The man said ancient gurus have
given it to us. Pingle told him we have built it according to
our Guru's (Golwalkar) direction. No question of changing it,"
he said.
RSS Nagpur Mahanagar Sanghchalak Dilip Gupta, however, maintained
that the building reconstruction was being done for "security
and better utility". "There was some concern about security.
If Vaastu is also taken care of, what's the harm? Many people
consider Vaastu as science," he said.
And today, after the terror attack bid, Indresh Kumar, the only
senior RSS leader present in the building at the time of incident,
said: "Vaastu takes care of everything, including security."
Another
'haunted' house TIMES NEWS NETWORK
[ SATURDAY, JUNE 03, 2006 01:10:52 AM]
NEW DELHI: Pramod Mahajan wanted to make 7, Safdarjung Road his
home after its previous occupant Atal Bihari Vajpayee moved into
the coveted bungalows of 7, Race Course Road, the Prime Minister's
official residence. The same Safdarjung residence has since brought
tragedy to the Mahajans and the BJP — joining the ranks
of other 'jinxed' houses in Lutyen’s Delhi. If 7, Safardjung
Road has been witness to the deaths of two people who worked out
of it, just a few buildings away is where former Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi was shot dead. 1, Safdarjung Road has since been
turned into a memorial. Unlike other bungalows, which are avoided
by politicians for their alleged reputation to be able to throw
out occupants (and by insinuation take away the post that they
hold), 7 Safdarjung Road seems to have crossed into the league
of houses that bring death. Another is that of bandit queen Phoolan
Devi, who was murdered outside her 44, Ashoka Road house. It is
now occupied, after being left vacant for while. A room in Shramshakti
Bahavan, where the power ministry is located is also rumoured
to have bad name. After successive power ministers PR Kumaramangalam,
Ananth Geethe, Suresh Prabhu and PM Sayeed were forced to vacate
their offices due to death or short tenure, Sushilkumar Shinde,
the current minister, got a new room fixed up for him. There are
also houses which are just plain 'unlucky'. The house at 2, Krishna
Menon Marg is rumoured to be one such case. Its two former occupants,
Naveen Patnaik and SR Balasubramanian could not stay in Delhi
for too long. Then, there are 77, Lodhi estate, currently held
by minister of state for HRD Renuka Chowdhary which has been 'altered'
using Vaastu techniques to make it congenial towards its current
occupant. Vaastu was also used on the hallow, 7 RCR. After the
assassination of Indira Gandhi, 7 RCR was chosen as the PM's residence.
Subsequently the other bungalows - 3 and 5 - were merged into
what is the PM's residence today. During Mr Vajpayee's second
innings, 3 Safdarjung was included in what some say was an effort
to balance the negative fulcrum in the residence that had seen
a number PMs from the VP Singh's time undergo a turbulent time
in power or short terms in office. Not to miss are the 'lucky'
houses that MPs scramble to occupy in the hope of breaking into
the bigger league. The 7, Safadrjung Road was one such house that
Mr Mahajan managed to keep for himself. He held on to it even
after the UPA government came to power, getting it transferred
to the Rajya Sabha’s pool of allotable houses. (The BJP's
much hyped 'India-shining' manifesto was launched from this very
house). Another house considered lucky is that of former Prime
Minister Chandra Sekhar, who has lived in his South Avenue residence
for well over 20 years. Even during his brief tenure as PM, he
did not move into the PM’s official residence. The house
at 9, Ashoka Road, allotted to BJP leader Arun Jaitley, is also
considered lucky with its former occupant, Narendra Modi (who
lived in the outhouse) having made it as the CM of Gujarat. As
for 7, Safdarjung Road, it is probably not going to be as attractive
to the capital's power set any more.
ASTROLOGY
IS A SCIENCE AND IT SHOULD
BE POPULARISED SAYS NEW CEC
NEW
CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER
N GOPALASWAMI PREPARES FOR FINAL EXAMS
ON ASTROLOGY
By R Prema
NEW DELHI: On top of the mind of the 62-year old Needamangalam
Gopalaswami, the Chief Election Commissioer designate, is more
than
the excitment June 29 when he assumes the top post in the Election
Commission but July 3 when he has to appear in the final
examination in astrology.
Fondly called by friends as Gopu, who sports a long "Tilak"
on his
forehead to establish his Vadagalai Vaishnavite Brahmin origin,
of Tamil Nadu, is literally burning the midnight oil as he retires
to study late in the night.
His wife Raji, who has to get him a flask of hot coffee at 11
in the
night without fail, says he behaves like a kindergarten student
fully
engrossed in his studies. She can't make head or tail of the figures
he keeps writing on paper doing her calculations the hard traditional
way instead of using a calculator.
A retired Gujarat cadre IAS officer, Gopalaswami decided to study
astrology during his previous tenure as the Union Home Secretary
when he felt he was lacking to be a Brahmin without knowing the
science of astrology.
He goes to a school near the JNU complex thrice a week and says
he is not the only old man falling for quest of astrology at this
late age. There are dozen students in his class and most of them
are in his age group.
The examination for which he is to appear is conducted by the
Chennai-based Astrology Society of India, an old institution approved
by the Union HRD Ministry.
He has already cleared four papers in 2005 and is to appear for
three
more papers in July. The result will be out in August. Gopalaswami
is
confident to come out with flying colours to become a qualified
astrologer as he is quite at home with the application of mathematical
calculations of planetic positions needed for forecasts.
Shy of even mentioning that he is a student of astrology, Gopalaswami
may have to take leave at least for three days as he goes to the
examination hall to sit and write the 3-hour question papers.
When the teacher takes class on astro forecast, Gopu starts analyzing
horoscopes of his friends, relatives and batchmates that he has
collected for own practice and that is only how his interest in
astrology became known.
Someone in the class room having known his background asked Gopu
whether he studied the forecast of his two colleagues B B Tandon
and Navin Chawla. Gopu smiled it away, pointing out that as per
the planetic position of that moment, it was not desirable for
him to answer this question. The classmate could not pursue further
as he understands importance of the planetic movements.
Each second of the minute and hour has the influence of astology,
says Gopalaswami when pressed to know about his sudden interest.
He insists that it is a science and if given the subject a due
respect, one can become master of the science. He wants to be
the master and pursue it as a hobby in his years of retirement
that comes in February 2009.
A devout Brahmin, Gopalaswami felt for his community or rather
for the Vedic chanting in which the Brahmins are failing. He was
literally
thrown into the backwaters as Secretary, Culture Department, during
the NDA regime but he made use of it to push for preservation
of the ancient Indian culture and heritage by promoting special
schools exclusively for Brahmins to undertake a 5-year course
under the traditional gurukul system of oral recitation.
It was his attempt to approach UNESCO for proclaiming the Vedic
traditions as an "oral and intangible heritage of humanity"
so as to ensure financial support from abroad in promotion of
the Vedic culture that attracted attention of then Deputy Prime
Minister Lal Krishna Advani, who pulled him from the backwaters
and made him his Home Secretary.
Most interesting is that P Chidambaram in his 2006 Budget mentioned
about grants for vedic studies, were all copied from N Gopalaswami's
UNESCO funds. The financial advisor of Department of culture alone
knows how P Chidambaram used the funds sought by Gopalaswamy and
got it towards on Government of India
Gopalaswami's concern was that the traditional Vedic scholarship
that was preserved down the centuries as an unbroken tradition
was getting corrupted with all sorts of anomalies and may ultimately
disappear as fewer and fewer people were devoting their lives
to teaching or learning the traditional way of chanting.
What crystalised under his leadership were "Gurukul Pathshalas"
aimed at preserving "the world's oldest wisdom of ancient
Indian culture" that has been kept alive through religious
rituals.
These schools, called "Pathshala", will be part of a
5-year Action Plan of Rs 52.65 million envisaged to revitalise
the Vedic culture which is probably the world's oldest living
oral tradition kept alive through religious rituals. The Government
hails it as "the crystalised wisdom of ancient Indian culture."
As Gopalaswami stresses, the effect of chants is gone if the recitation
is not done in the correct way and hence he hopes that the scholars
coming out of the schools whose foundation he laid will be not
only able to preserve and pursue the Vedic knowledge but also
form a battery of "pundits" who can recite Vedas correctly
to have their needed effect in the host of the Hindu rituals.
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