From an Interview
with K.N. Rao
Question: Overall as a child and young adult, did you have
some inkling that you had some specific purpose in life? Have
you been an ambitious person?
K.N. Rao: I had always found astrology immensely fascinating
and spiritually enlightening, but had never ventured out in
the open. Most people knew me as a high-ranking officer in
the government of India and only a very few close friends
knew that I practiced astrology.
Coming to your question - No, I never felt that I had any
specific purpose or mission in my life until a great Mahatma,
late Moorkhanandji (whose actual name was Sri Vidyaranya)
told me in 1980 that astrology was getting “eclipsed”
but luckily had not totally vanished from our world. He said
that the world would witness a revival of Jyotish through
my instrumentality.
Now, twenty-four years later, I am realizing the truth of
that great prophecy. Through the teamwork of many of us, and
the blessings of my gurus and teachers, we have now produced
thirty-six books offering insightful research in the field
of Indian Astrology. We have also been running the largest
school of astrology in the world at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan,
New Delhi, where nine hundred students attend our weekend
courses on a regular basis. All this happened not because
of my individuality or ambition. I was simply a conduit to
the divine plan as blessed by Moorkhanandji.
Yogi Moorkhanandji and K.N. Rao in 1981
reprinted with permission
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