(April - 2 - 2012) Monday
In
recent times (from 1962 onwards), I realized in my own experience that
99% of the Indians expect free services from astrologers, as a matter of
right; others pay paltry amount as fees (Rs.1 to Rs.3 in 1964; and
Rs.20 or 30 now in 2012). This results in the
expert astrologer to leave astrology, as his main profession and take up
other full time professions and make a decent living. I
did not take astrology as a profession till Mar-2003 only because I can
not earn even one plate-meal for one person a day on the income on
astrology-services of entire day (19 hours); it is really pathetic situation. I
earned a high first class M.Sc. (in 1964) and a Ph.D. Degree in
Electronics and Nuclear Physics (in 1970; three USA experts were
examiners). I retired as a University Professor (Engineering) during
Mar-2003. Expert-Astrologers like Prof. Tangirala
Gopala Krishna Murthy, D.Sc. (Mahamahopadhyaya in Astrology); Prof.
Pidaparthi Dakshina Murthy Sastry, M.Tech., Prof.
M.Gopala Krishna, Ph.D., were other University Professors, who chose to
forsake astrology as profession and change to better profession from
their teenage. Sri Katamaraju Narayana Rao had astrology training from his mother from early teen age; but he earned I.E,S., and served as Chief Accountant / Auditor General of Karnataka state and retired. After his retirement, he worked for 20 years as Chief Professor of Astrology in reputed Bharateeya Vidya Bhavan in New Delhi. So the conditions for expert
astrologers are very pathetic in present days and only quacks (so called
Babas, Swamijis etc) are managing decent earnings (as paada-pooja
dowries) by adopting various cheating techniques in the name of
astrology. 98% of astrologers in India or abroad, I can say by my
experience, are quacks. So if the people want expert astrologers to serve them genuinely, they must pay decent fees for their services (as
they pay a medico or a lawyer or an auditor). Then only expert
professional astrologers exist in India and people can expect genuine
astrological guidance from them.
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continued tomorrow) You can get my full particulars from my web-site : www.jyothishi.com.
You can get my astrological services by contacting me by e-mail: pandit@jyothishi.com
and know my fee particulars. I have 48 years of experience / practice as an
active astrologer. ---------- I dedicate all these astrology articles in this
blog to Sri Parama Paalakas (Supreme Rulers of this entire Universe): Bhagavan
Sri Siddhi Vinayaka, Sri Lakshmi Narayana and Sri Gouri Sankara and Sri
Saraswathi and Bhagavan Sri Venkateswara.
