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[[Category:My Guru Maharaja Was... (Bhaktisiddhanta)]]
[[Category:Great Astrologer]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, 1966 - 1977]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, 1969]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, Festival]]
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<div id="Festival_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Lectures" text="Festival Lectures"><h3>Festival Lectures</h3>
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<div id="HisDivineGraceSrilaBhaktisiddhantaSarasvatiGosvamiPrabhupadasAppearanceDayLectureLosAngelesFebruary71969_0" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="42" link="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Los Angeles, February 7, 1969" link_text="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Los Angeles, February 7, 1969">
<div class="heading">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.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Los Angeles, February 7, 1969|His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Los Angeles, February 7, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
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''.
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<div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoSanatanaHonolulu10June1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="325" link="Letter to Sanatana -- Honolulu 10 June, 1975" link_text="Letter to Sanatana -- Honolulu 10 June, 1975">
<div class="heading">My Guru Maharaja was a great astrologer and astronomer, but he gave it all up.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sanatana -- Honolulu 10 June, 1975|Letter to Sanatana -- Honolulu 10 June, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"><br />
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.</p>
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