GURUJI ABOUT SADE SATI

Guruji, your sade sati has finished?

Guruji: Not yet, it is in the last phase. Next year, finally, it will be over. It will be finished — then Saturn will come back again: that will be an interesting time.

Almost 30 years back, when the sade sati — I was in the last phase and Saturn came out in Kumbh, retrograded into Capricorn again — I got this place. So we will see! The feeling is good.

But Saturn is not your benefactor?

Guruji: I’ve always felt good whenever a period of Saturn was in any dasha or sade sati. In the last sade sati I wrote 5 books. In the last phase I got this place, left Gwalior and came here. Saturn is blessing me.

Saturn is the worshipper of Shiva Himself, carries a trident and rides a vulture. There were more than 70 vultures living on the roof — so Saturn was already looking.

What I see — your disciples are going through Shani dashas or transits very lightly in comparison with “normal” people?

Guruji: Most of them — yes. Somehow all the astrologers put great fear in people: now everything will be this and that when Saturn comes… but I felt good.

There was the story that Hanuman Ji released Saturn from…

Guruji: You see, Ravana was living for 3.11 billion years; that means the planets were not affecting him. Symbolically Saturn was there under his foot, and Hanuman Ji released him: that is a fact. And he threw him — and he landed near Gwalior, my hometown.

There is a crater there, and the very famous temple of Shani, and the very special statue of Shanidev. It is believed that they can’t recognize the stone: they say it might be a meteorite — and that the statue was created out of it. Very mystical place.

A cobra lives there, in an area, in a room; comes out, goes on parikrama all over the place, takes a look and goes back again. Thousands of people have seen him from time to time.