15 The Dasha of the Atmakaraka
When I was writing this series for the Astrological Magazine, I received a letter from an astrologer : why I had not seen the role of the sub period of Mercury, the Atmakaraka of Rajiv Gandhi, the former prime minister of India, who was killed in a bomb blast, he asked me; I explained it :
In August 1990 I shared with readers of the Times of Astrology, an astrological journal, my research the most difficult dasha in astrology, the, Kaal Chakra: dasha I had done that. To illustrate, I had taken Rajiv Gandhi’s horoscope and had discussed it ten months before Rajiv Gandhi’s horoscope and had discussed it ten months before Rajiv’s death. After the death of Rajiv Gandhi, newspaper men though with their usual ignorance that no astrologer, had predicted this tragic event. Then a very’ decent journalist of the Times of India, Vandana Mandlekar, contacted me and after examining all the evidences, wrote in the Times of India, June 6, 1991) the following:
In all fairness sample these hints…. K.N. Rao analyzing Rajiv Gandhi’s’ horoscope in the August 1990 issue of the Times of Astrology wrote:
‘The Pisces-Sagittarius period (June 6, 1990 to August 20, 1991) is a period of Simhavlokan, a period of total change in his political style of functioning…. -a time of risks and dangerous dare-devilry, a cataclysmic change which can be both fatal and spectacular”. Rao emphasises that he had detected a primary mar aka indicating-death) in the June 1990 to August 1991 period.
Then why did Rao word it so cautiously in his interview to another magazine in April? (“There will be attemps on the lives of big leaders” is all he said). He did not want to invite the provisions of the AntiTerrorist Act, he explains.
The Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act ironically passed by the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1987, has become the proverbial aunt Sally for astrologers now. The act, for the first time, lumped star-gazers with terrorists to declare that action would be taken against whoever “predicts, prophesises or pronounces or otherwise expresses, in such manner as to incite, advise, suggest or prompt, the killing or the destruction of any persons bound by oath under the Constitution. . .”
Thus, an astrologer predicting Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination would have been liable to a minimum of seven years’ imprisonment.
– The Times of India
