Ujjain darshan - Mahakaali's blessings

From my childhood days, I am very much obsessed and passionate about Mahakali pooja. It may be because of the stories I heard about King Vikramaditya and famous poet Kalidasa of Ujjain (formerly known as Avantikapuri). Kalidasa got the boons from Mahakaali and became great poet. I too wanted to get boons from Mahakaali. Due to restrictions from family, I never got an opportunity to perform pooja to Mahakaali. From that time, Mahakaali sat in my subconscious mind, waiting for the right time to arrive.

That waiting moment came to me this year during my visit to Ujjain. Mahakaal is the Lord of Time and the main deity in Ujjain. Other important temples in Ujjain are Gad Kaalika temple and Kaal Bhairav temple. Gad Kaalika temple is the place where great poet Kalidasa got his literary skills as a boon from Goddess Kali. I prayed to Goddess Kaalika to bless me and give boons to me as well. My prayers were answered and got the boon in the same day. It is not the magic of one day prayer that got me the result. It's my prayers from many decades with sub conscious & conscious mind for the blessings. The photo of Gad Kaalika is uploaded for the benefit of my readers to get the blessings and boons from her. 

Kaal Bhairav Temple is another historic temple not to be missed. Liquor is offered to Kaal Bhairav as part of worship. The photo of Kaal Bhairav drinking liquor is uploaded below.

Miracles happen

Somewhere , sometime or at some point
i thought, do miracles happen
believe or not?
many years passed without any miracle........
I do remember the day, when Kaalbhairav at Ujjain
blessed me to live with Kaal (time) and to guide the people with Kaal.....
i left my corporate job and just obeyed
then what, why something is waiting for me now at Sathuragiri hills
got the call to visit Mahalingam
what else karma is pending for me?
prayed 18 siddhars and got blessings
felt very happy without communication (no mobile connectivity and no electricity with some solar lights)
my soul got lighter and lighter, got connected to nature..........
lost the route in my return journey
then, where to go?
for some moments, again felt very happy for missing the route
Miracles do happen
Lord Bhairav came in the form of Dog
and showed me the path
he asked, why slow? still you got time to live and guide the people
and said, yourself cannot be liberated easily
slowly, reached the edge of the hills
finally agreed, miracles do happen

(Just remembering this post shared on 28th Jan, 2015)

Photo taken at the entrance to Sathuragiri Hills 

Fate is Inevitable

In my experience I had seen many instances where Fate is inevitable and man has no choice. If we accept the Fate, we can be comfortable to some extent or else, we may loose whatever is remaining.

I would like to share some live experiences in this context.

One day, a person walked into my office with prior appointment and asked about his future. I prepared his horoscope and started reading it. He was happy with the readings of present time. Then I predicted about his next year and said he should be careful in his business dealings and there may be financial problems due to it. I cautioned him to solve the financial commitment, if any, at the earliest and also warned him not to enter into any new business investments.

My Client had listened to my predictions and told me that he is financially sound and he can cope with any problem in the next year. He took the blessings and left.

After one year, he called me and informed that his business turnover has decreased and overheads (expenses like Rent, Branch expenses, Advertisement, salaries to employees etc) had increased. He had spent his hard earned money to meet the expenses for some time. He also took some loan on credit and paying interest for the same to meet his daily needs. Now he wanted to know when his problems will come to an end.

Conclusions: Fate had given him a warning to be careful the next year, through my horoscope readings. However, he never cared for it due to the present success and over confidence. If he had taken care, he might have closed the loss making branch, reduced the staff, reduced the advertising expenses and could have kept low profile for some time, till the bad time crossed over. But Fate is inevitable, he cannot escape from it. 

Note: The above is the real life experience of my client.

Professional Astrologers, Fake Astrologers & Commercial Astrologers

In my view, there exists three kinds of Astrologers. They are as follows:

1. Professional Astrologers: These Astrologers are qualified and well trained. They should be having valid certificates from authorized educational institutions. Some of them have good training with Masters in Astrology and have good word power.

Professional Astrologers will guide people with realities. They will explain about fate and freewill of the clients. Remedies without commercial benefit will be recommended to their clients.

2. Commercial Astrologers: Commercial Astrologers may be trained, educated or might have acquired knowledge from other seniors in astrology. Some of them might be certified and qualified. Their main aim is to convert every possible problem of their client into commercial way. These Astrologers may sell remedies in the form of Yantras, Kavach and Gem stones even though there is no necessity of it.

3. Fake Astrologers: These category people are not Astrologers at all. They are quacks / cheats. In spite of having no solution for many problems, these quacks will provide the remedies to their clients by charging heavily. They might be knowing some terms in astrology and use these words to create fear in clients. They sell all kinds of things which are profitable to them like duplicate stones, lockets, yantras, mantras etc.

People should be able to understand the type of Astrologer they are meet and know the reality.

Why Predictions fail?

Astrology never fails. But the predictions given by an Astrologer may fail due to various factors. Some of the general reasons for failure are given below:

1. Correct Date of Birth, Time of Birth and Place of Birth is necessary for casting Birth Horoscope. It may lead to wrong predictions if a person fails to provide correct details.  Many people have correct date of birth, but they fail to give correct time of birth. The difference of few minutes in the birth time may vary the predictions.

2. Faith and Trust plays important role in Astrology. The person should have confidence in the Astrologer's predictions or else it may lead to failure of predictions.

3. The person should ask genuine and correct questions to an Astrologer.  Please note, "Only True Question will get a True Answer".

4. Never interrupt or involve in the middle of Horoscope reading by an Astrologer.  This may disturb the mood of the Astrologer. Questions can be asked at frequent intervals.

5. If the Astrologer fails to read your horoscope properly, you may help him to rectify it or else you can say 'goodbye' to him. Failure doesn't shows the inefficiency of an Astrologer, but it shows that he is not entitled to read your horoscope.

Value of an Astrologer - 2

Continued from the earlier post Value of an Astrologer

Many people have a habit of asking free suggestions from Astrologers. One of my clients used to call me whenever he needed my suggestions like fixing muhurtha for his activities, good time for meeting clients, reasons for his failures etc. He paid me single time consultation fees and uses me for his life time. It's a great deal for him.

One time Consultation Fees =  Life time free astrological guidance

Will anybody provide this kind of service anywhere in the world?

When I have asked for fees towards my services, he told that Astrologer should provide free consultations, as it is a divine science and it is wrong to ask fees.

I never argued with this person however I simply do not attend his calls. These kind of people should understand that, Astrologers too have expenses like electricity bills, kids school fees, house rent, property tax, water bills, telephone bills etc......

If these services were provided freely to an Astrologer, we can provide free consultation services as well.

The value of Real Astrologers got diminished in the modern days because of the wrong perceptions of some people and with the activities of fake astrologers/quacks. I will discuss about Fake astrologers in my next post.

  

Value of an Astrologer

Many decades or centuries back, Astrologers were the most valuable persons in the King's court. Astrologers used to sit on par with other ministers in the King's cabinet. The astrological guidance of Astrologers were followed by many kings. The greatest example is the court of King Vikramaditya. Varahamihira and Kalidasa were the great astrologers in his court.

Kings used to take care of the financial needs of Astrologers. They were provided with comfortable accommodation and good pay. Astrologers used to guide common people freely without any fees as they were taken care by the Kings. Common people rarely contact astrologers for Naming purpose or to know their Rasi and Nakshatra. 

As the time changed, Kings and their empires vanished. Astrologers came into public and started practicing their profession for their livelihood. The honour of Astrologers came down drastically by the decline of empires. 

Many VIP's and VVIP's are using the services of astrologers secretly. The great predictions were kept as secret. Due to modernization, the profession of astrologer lost its glory. 

....................................................... Continued in next post