from Yogis, Destiny and the Wheel of Time
- ch. 2: A Profile of Guru's Life
Swami Paramananda Saraswati
All that has been said here forms the background for the discussion
of the horoscope of my Guruji, late Swami Paramananda Saraswati.
He was like any true and genuine saint of India encouraging
the study of astrology, not for any mercenary motives, but
for the twin purpose of keeping alive a great Vedic heritage
and seeing practically, through the planets, how God controls,
regulates and guides the universe. I would have given up astrology
long ago but, he insisted that I should not, for the sake
of my own sadhana (spiritual practice). My straying
into astrological writings and becoming a predictor for many
is what he had foreseen and told a guru-bhai (fellow
disciple) more than thirty years ago, and more than twenty-two
years before, I wrote the first article on astrology. He was
a seer in the truest sense of the term and the greatest I
have met, though others who too are lucky like me to have
genuinely great Gurus, must be having the same regard for
their Gurus - and such feelings, sacred and pure as they are.
Natal Chart of Swami Paramananda Saraswati
Now see in the horoscope four striking sannyas yogas (planetary
combination giving renunciation and spirituality):
1) Four planets in the 11th houses with the 10th lord and
none of them combust. The conjunction being in the 11th house
(of gains) gave him his spiritual attainments very early in
life and brought him donations for his ashram (spiritual
center) in lakhs (100,000 rupees), not merely when he breathed
and lived amongst us but even ten years after he left us.
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K.N. Rao
reprinted with permission
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