Astrologers and Astro-haters !!

[Guest guest]

On 28 Feb- 1 Mar 2009, an international conference was organized

by two leading astrological organizations at Science Council of

University of Allahabad on World Peace, Economic Depression and

Diseases. These three sessions were respectively presided by Pt

Ramchandra Pandey (former HOD of Jyotisha at BHU), Vinay Jha (me), and

Pt Ramnaresh Tripathi.

 

In the first session, three persons from Kerala also participated :

Sreenadh, Sunil Nair and an unnamed lady, all belonging to the

group AIA (ancient Indian astrology). Sreenadh requested a chance at

the podium, which was readily allowed to him ( I supported him ). But

instead of speaking anything about the topic, he poked fun at the

audience, calling 90% of participants as ignorants, and said that the

muhurta of inauguration was inauspicious because Saturn was residing

in 5th house (its horoscope was on the podium wall). He failed to see

that lords of 5th and 11th houses were making mutual Parivartana Yoga,

which made Saturn ineffective in 5th house and gave total control of

5th house to its lord Sun in 11th house. It proved that he was

ignorant of fundamentals of Indian astrology, although he boasted of

" breating astrology " . Although he was requested to attend all

sessions, he left immediately after making his inglorious speech

against the tolerant participants who did not retaliate against his

abusive and fallacious statements. When the chairman asked him to

either speak on the topic or end his speech, he started speaking on

horary astrology, which was not a topic, and wasted our time by

repeating bookish things, although only those persons were being

allowed to speak there who had submitted research papers. Sreenadh

brought no paper, although he knew the topics well in advance.

 

Kerala is well known for glorious astrological tradition. But persons

like Sreenadh are bringing disrepute to Kerala by means of their

ignorant and abusive behaviour.

 

-Vinay Jha.