Present Conditions for Astrology as Profession
Aug - 25 - 2012 (Saturday)
In
recent times (from 1962 onwards), I realized in my own experience that
98% 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 2011). 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 (it is really
pathetic). 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., Sri Kotamaraju Narayana Rao, (Indian Audit
Service), Auditor-General (Retired), Bangalore; were other eminent
Professors, who chose to forsake astrology as profession and change to
better profession from their teenage. 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. -------------- I dedicate all these 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 ! --------------- 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.
