WHAT IS BHRGU-SAMHITA?
"A real astrologer means he will tell you about your past life and he will tell you about your present life and your future life also. There is a system of astrology in India which is called Bhṛgu-saṁhitā." (Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.125 -- New York, November 27, 1966)
YOUR ORDER WILL BE EXECUTED
"One astrologer sometimes he read my hand. He said in Hindi, kukum calena(?). Kukum calena means "Your hand speaks that your order will be executed." (His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Disappearance Day, Lecture -- Los Angeles, December 13, 1973)
MY LIFE WAS SINLESS
"So far I am concerned, I cannot say what I was in my previous life, but one great astrologer calculated that I was previously a physician and my life was sinless." (Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970)
NEED OF GOOD VIPRAS
"There is a need of such vipras (good astrologers who could tell all the future history of a born child simply by the astral calculations of the time) in the social structure, and it is the duty of the state to maintain them comfortably, as designed in the Vedic procedure." (SB 1.12.29, Translation and Purport)
BRAHMANAS PROFESSION AS ASTROLOGERS
"Brāhmaṇas generally used to become astrologers, Āyur-vedic physicians, teachers and priests. Although highly learned and respectable, such brāhmaṇas went from door to door to distribute their knowledge. A brāhmaṇa would first go to a householder's home to give information about the functions to be performed on a particular tithi, or date, but if there were sickness in the family, the family members would consult the brāhmaṇa as a physician, and the brāhmaṇa would give instruction and some medicine." (CC Adi 17.103, Translation and Purport)
FALSE ASTROLOGY IN KALIYUGA
"The social and the scriptural rules and regulations were followed. So when a child is born the astrologer is called. Still that system is followed. But due to this Kali-yuga the astrologer has also become a false, and this has become a formality. Somebody is following; somebody is not following." (Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.330-335 -- New York, December 23, 1966)
JAYA SRILA PRABHUPADA!
Your servant in the service of Srila Prabhupada
Mohnish goel
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