Indian astrologer lives after predicting own death

[Guest guest]

Dear Pervez Bhai,

 

There is a well known book for vedic astrology called 'maan sagari'.

It is very popular with small town / village astrologers. This book

gives the tithi and vaar { hindi date and the day }for death of

people in each Rasi. Some people take it literally. This Betul

astrologer too might have taken it to be true. I have heard about

others too who were taken in by that book , got into elaborate

poojas and thought that the date of death has been postponed because

of those poojas. Well thats how our country is.

 

Respectfully,

 

Varun Trivedi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lalkitab , " Sheikh Pervez Hameed "

<pervez@s...> wrote:

>

> Indian astrologer lives after predicting own death

> Reuters Thursday October 20, 02:29 PM

>

> BHOPAL, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of people flocked to a village

in

> central India on Thursday to see if an astrologer who forecast his

own

> death would indeed die as predicted.

>

> But the 75-year-old man survived the day.

>

> Kunjilal Malviya, who lives south of the Madhya Pradesh state

capital

> Bhopal, had been meditating in his house after announcing he would

die

> on Thursday between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m (10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

> British time).

>

> A police official confirmed the astrologer was fine and quoted his

> family members as saying the prediction failed because many of

those

> gathered had prayed for him to live.

>

> " We are afraid of his prediction coming true because all his

> predictions till date have been correct, " his son Anirudh said by

> phone earlier on Thursday.

>

> " My father had predicted the death of my grandfather 15 years ago

and

> it came true exactly like he calculated. "

>

> Police have been posted near the house to prevent the astrologer

from

> killing himself, authorities said.

>

> Millions of Indians consult astrologers about their futures as

well as

> marriage and job prospects.

>

> Malviya's prediction is not the first of its type by an Indian

> astrologer. But in the past, crowds have beaten up astrologers when

> their predicted demise failed to occur.

>