My Guru Maharaja was a great astrologer

Expressions researched:
"He was a great astrologer" |"My Guru Maharaja was a great astrologer and astronomer"

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Festival Lectures

He was a great astrologer, and he opened an astrological school when he was young man. And there are many big students still practicing. They are all students of my Guru Mahārāja.

His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Los Angeles, February 7, 1969:

In Midnapur district, when he was young man, he was holding meeting. He was a great astrologer, and he opened an astrological school when he was young man. And there are many big students still practicing. They are all students of my Guru Mahārāja. And there was a meeting in Midnapur district. The subject matter was "brahmins and Vaiṣṇavas." So in that meeting Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura was invited.

At that time he was not very in healthy condition, indisposed. So he asked Sarasvatī Ṭhākura that "You go and speak there." So he spoke the distinction between brahmins and Vaiṣṇavas, and he defeated so many learned paṇḍitas. Then the whole audience began to take . . . touch his lotus feet and touch with water and drink it, in this way, when he was young man. That book is also available in Bengali, Brāhmaṇa-Vaiṣṇava.

1975 Correspondence

My Guru Maharaja was a great astrologer and astronomer, but he gave it all up.

Letter to Sanatana -- Honolulu 10 June, 1975:

Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated June 6, 1975 and have noted the contents. No, you should not bother with all this nonsense. Astrology will not save you at the time of death. My Guru Maharaja was a great astrologer and astronomer, but he gave it all up. It is meant for the karmis. We have no interest in such things.