The Professional Astrologer Who Refused To Give Consultations

We were in North India in 2006 with a friend who was unemployed. Being unemployed in India
is the worst sin, especially if you have grown up with a flamboyant lifestyle, having expensive
tastes and habits. Though we were well networked, we called up “X” who has been referred to
many times in the editorials[3]. X was told that our friend was in desperate need of a job, that his
parents were old and in huge stress as the friend had just left a high paying job as GM of a small
company. X was told that the friend had lost hope with astrology and that he really needed accurate
advice. He needed to know the date when his next job would begin, and needed to know if there
was an astrologer who could tell him this. X referred to the astrologer named S. K. Mehta. X’s
intention was that we go and meet Mr. Mehta and learn his unique system, as he was known to
predict “to the day” without using Horary astrology. So it was our intention to meet Mehta, and
this was more important than anything else. When we called him, he asked who had referred us,
and as X had asked us not to mention his name (because he was concerned that Mehta would not
charge us a fee if he knew we were sent by a friend[4]), we said that a film producer in Bombay
had recommended him. Mehta Saheb[5] stated that he did not know such a person and that we
should not come to see him. Next day, he was once again asked for a reading; he subsequently
asked who referred us, and this time we answered with another name, and he said we should go
away and not bother him again. Then, we called up X and updated him, at which point, X said it
would be okay to mention his name. Evidently, X had known him for 20 years and had not wanted
Mehta Saheb to do a free reading based on his friendship, which is why he had not wanted his
name mentioned. This time when we called X, I said, “Sir, we are paying $80 per day in a hotel
room, and Mehta Saheb’s fee is only $20, so he must allow us a reading as we desperately need to
see him, and still he turned us away.” However, when we called Mehta Saheb and mentioned the
“magical name” of X, instantly, he told us to come at 3:30 in the afternoon. It seems X had been
doing this often before, wherein he had not wanted his name mentioned in the referral.

At 3 P.M., we were at his house and were ushered into a consultation room, where four people
were already sitting. Mehta Saheb was at his desk with a lit cigarette, the smoke of it filling the
stale air in the small room, and a young man in his late 20s was sitting in front of him. Mehta
Saheb was shooting off rapid predictions to this young man, in a nasal tone and high pitched voice
which was barely discernable. In between, he would offer astrological explanations to the young
man, who did not seem to understand astrology, but who wore a wide smile nonetheless. He
seemed to be enjoying the stunning predictions, such as…

1. Your mother is 5 feet 6 inches tall, and she limps while walking.
2. You found a job in January exactly two years ago.
3. Your father is in a property dispute, which has been ongoing for four years, and which will
be resolved in another five years from now.

We realized that we were sitting in front of a master, who incidentally did not have any books,
certificates, or photographs of saints or gods on display. Mehta Saheb was constantly smoking and
many times kept the cigarette lit for a long interval without even smoking it.[6] Then he made us
wait, as it was time for him to eat, and he offered us food, after which he asked for the birth details
of our friend, and he created his chart on a Palm Top like instrument. He scribbled the chart on a
notepad, and our investigative eye noted that he had drawn the natal chart and next to it the same
chart from the Moon Ascendant.[7] I do not recall if he created a D-9 chart or not. After he did
many calculations by hand, he scribbled in minute detail what is popularly known as the
Period/Dasa[8] calculation in India, which helps in timing results. Indian astrologers popularly
think that the Period/Dasa is not available in Western astrology, but this is far from the truth.
Western astrology also has a method of Period/Dasa computation. Mehta Saheb was calculating
this by hand, and we realized that he was also doing something “more.” He then stared at the
horoscope for approximately eight to ten minutes and not more than that.[9] X would not agree
here since he has probably seen Mehta Saheb divulge stunning predictions in seconds, but maybe
for some reason, Mehta Saheb stared at it for this long time. Then he started reeling off predictions
which left us speechless and made us realize that we were sitting in front of a “master of masters,”
perhaps the finest God could ever make. X would often say about Mehta’s predictions, “It was as
if Sage Bhrighu[10] was speaking through him.”

Kindly note that any client in India knows “in his heart” that the greatest of astrologers can reach
a maximum 60 percent accuracy, whereas many astrologers would tell you that they easily get 80-
90 percent accuracy. The details of the chart of our friend are not given for privacy issues, but one
must remember what Mehta Saheb said to us on the telephone, as his parting shot before he passed
on: “Try to predict the chart by knowing the events of a person, and you will master
astrology.”[11] Now read the predictions as given by Mehta Saheb on our friend’s chart, and
please note that 80-90 percent of these predictions did come true.

1. Your father is a government employee who was falsely implicated in a case and then
suspended. The “Committee Enquiry” would reveal that he was not at fault but that it was
his superior who falsely implicated him. He would be re-instated after exactly one year
from this trouble. – Friend replied with astonishment that this was very true, and no
astrologer in India had ever before predicted this to him.

2. You are a clean-hearted person and you have been fooled mercilessly by many, and your
whole life is a tragedy since everyone cheats you or takes you for granted. Just five months
back you were cheated similarly. People like you can never become successful. – Friend
was about to reply that this was very true, that it had unfortunately happened just like this,
but Mehta Saheb was busy looking at the chart, and just put his hand up as if to say, “Don’t
disturb me. I know that my prediction is true.”

3. You are not married right now, and I am not sure if you will get married, but first reply to
me if any of your father’s elder siblings are unmarried. My friend replied in the affirmative
that four out of five of his father’s siblings were unmarried, and Mehta Saheb then raised
his voice slightly, “Okkk, you will then get married.” Here, one must intervene that it was
felt he would never get married since he was 34 years old with a very badly afflicted chart
by any standards, and all famous astrologers had failed miserably on his chart in regards
to timing marriage. – Friend replied that two of his aunts from his father’s side and two of
his uncles from his father’s side were unmarried. We intervened to ask him if this is due to
Rahu debilitated in his 7H with its dispositor debilitated, too. Mehta Saheb smiled and
asked politely that we not disturb him. Kindly note the word “then” above, that’s the key.
 4. Mehta Saheb said that the wife will have some practice of her own, like a lawyer or doctor,
that right at the time, it is not her own practice, but when he would meet her, it would be
her own practice, in which she was doing some kind of “preaching,” and working with the
government – Years later, it was noticed this prediction failing partially as the wife of the
friend was a teacher and not a lawyer or doctor, but she was into preaching as a teacher,
and she was taking private tuitions from childhood and later she was taking her own
tuitions and also employed with a government school. Incidentally, what we checked was
that in 2006 she was taking tuitions under her brother’s classes, and later became
independent starting her own tuition classes, making the prediction true in a way.

5. Then Mehta Saheb said in his slightly nasal voice that friend’s wife will be one of five
children and yet heir of a huge inheritance, and she might be the youngest (this did not
come out as true), but when he meets her, she would have almost none of the inheritance,
that right now her family has two houses, but when he meets her they would have sold one.
She would have been cheated of her inheritance. At the time of this prediction, the family
would have two vehicles. He went on describe that three of her siblings would have taken
an MBA, one would be in the hotel business, one’s marital life would be spoiled and he
would be divorced by the time friend meets his wife-to-be. – Have followed this case and
noticed that part of the prediction is not true but yet astoundingly true to a larger extent,
as the friend married a girl who has in total five siblings including herself, in spite of her
being the second eldest, her father had openly said to all five siblings that the whole
inheritance which he is supposed to receive would be hers only. When the friend met the
girl, she told him that she was heir of a huge inheritance but that her uncle had cheated
her father and given him a small insignificant percent of it amounting to some 20 lakhs
(40,000 $). They had thus two houses but due to this cheating, one was gone and the other,
her brother had cheated her whole family out of to make it in his name. Two siblings are
right now doing MBA, the third is an MBA graduate who is divorced, the fourth does not
have a hotel business and is into Telecommunications, but he did his studies in Hotel
Management, so here Mehta Saheb was a bit off.

Some of the other predictions we don’t remember, though we noted a few in our diary. He was the
only astrologer we had to stop after 45 minutes of predictions since it was too stunning and we
wanted it on paper due to his indiscernible voice. Also, he said that these predictions were just
preliminary, and that after he would give us 30 predictions for the next 30 days, we were to give
him feedback in writing, and only then he would rectify the birth time. After this, the “real
predictions” would be given. And we had thought that already his predictions had been stunning
enough! We sat in awe as we were in front of the finest astrologer so far, though others may have
experienced better than we had. Then we realized why X had sent us to him. The problem was that
X secretly desired that we learn Mehta Saheb’s system, but Mehta Saheb had an accent which was
too difficult to discern, and his writings were “indecipherable,” as we were to discover later.

Though he was very strict on this 30-day feedback, he still gave us three dates that were for a
particular month only, as to when the new job would be found. He said that out of the three dates
he would guarantee one date even though we had not gone through the process of chart
rectification. This scribe was stunned since no astrologer had ever guaranteed his predictions
since the 6th century astrologer Varahamihira, who was ready to be hanged if his predictions did
not become true, yet, this scribe cannot guarantee even one of his own predictions. Because of his
dazzling predictions, this scribe started calling Mehta Saheb the “Guaranteed Astrologer” in
various Internet forums.

Now these dates for the upcoming job were nine months later than the dates given in most
consultations, and we were dismayed since it was not exactly what we had wanted to hear. Most
of us go with pre-conceived notions of what the astrologer must say to us. In fact, most astrologers
in India might have given our friend a one-or-two-month period for new job gain, and Mehta Saheb
was the only astrologer who gave us such an extended-wait- period prediction.

X’s Reaction

In November when my friend landed a job, X asked, “Out of the three dates which Mehta Saheb
gave as good, better and best, which one was accurate?” I said that none were, and then X asked
how much did it differ, and scribe replied that it differed around 22 days. X immediately wondered
aloud in great frustration if Mehta Saheb had lost his astrological ability. X seemed to feel, based
on this one case, that his recommendation had been useless. This writer, on the other hand, was
quite pleased and astonished that the month of the job hire had been predicted to the “T,” and that
this prediction had been made nine months in advance, and so what if his prediction had been off
by a mere 22 days? However, X had known Mehta Saheb for 20 years of close friendship, and in
this time, had seen him predicting a minimum of 50 cases of job gain to the day, which is why this
was a surprise to him.

In one future instance on the same chart Mehta Saheb failed dramatically, but by then he had
moved to the holy city of Haridwar, India, due to his ill health. He did not want to make this
particular prediction, and scribe had to pester him several times for it, but in the end, his prediction
failed anyway. He did not tell us that it was time for him to pass on… but he had told X three years
earlier that a particular week three years later would be bad for him, and then three days before the
event, he called up X and said its time to say goodbye to 20 years of friendship.

Some Of His Predictions

This is what X and some contacts in Delhi told me. What we have heard from X will always be
totally true since we know X to be the most honest devotee[12] of astrology that we have ever met
and known personally for a long time. Some of this might be factually erroneous since we heard it
on the phone and there is a slight chance we could have heard the facts wrong.

1. X had an industrialist client whose brother was jailed by the Enforcement Directorate.The
industrialist was a long time client of Mehta Saheb and was worried about his brother, and
Mehta Saheb said that at 10 o’clock he would be freed, and exactly at 10:05, the
industrialist who was sitting with Mehta Saheb received a call from his brother that he had
been freed. X was witness to this prediction, which incidentally was not made through
horary astrology, but from natal astrology, which makes it more astonishing; but if you
knew the kind of calculations Mehta did, you would not be so astonished. He was quite
keen and almost fanatical about doing his astrological calculations by hand; we have not
seen any other astrologer so meticulous and quick at it.
2. A friend of X in Delhi had his marriage falling apart, so X took him to Mehta Saheb as X
realized that one cannot play in experimentation with popular astrologers, but rather should
take his friend to astrologers who can really deliver. This friend of X was in a very high
position, and so was his wife, both being employed in MNC companies with huge salaries.
Mehta Saheb saw the chart of X’s friend and said that he was married, and then asked if
they had two children. The man replied that he had two children and mentioned their ages.
Mehta Saheb said “Oh, in that case you would soon be divorced, and within a year, you
would have a girlfriend who would live with you (live in relationship), and she would give
birth to your child.” X tells me that the prediction came out true “to the T.”
3. To another friend 15 years before the event, Mehta Saheb saw the charts of his daughters
and said about one that “she would marry at such and such age, the name of her husband
would be starting with such and such letter, he would be doing such and such business,
and his father would be of such and such status in life, and his uncles would be in such and
such profession.” For brevity and privacy, the details were deleted. Having one firsthand
experience of Mehta Saheb, we knew that he was an absolute master in looking at the
profession of relatives and especially the relatives of the spouse. X indicates that he was
even a master at predicting the starting letter of the name of one’s spouse.[13]
4. One of his failed predictions that X often tells us is that of a very rich man from Punjab,
and Mehta Saheb was sure that he would become the President of India. The man
campaigned in Delhi for four years or so, and spent huge sums of money doing PR with
political parties, but the event did not happen. Like any other astrologer, Mehta Saheb felt
he was correct in his prediction, but he failed. In another chart, he got everything wrong
for seven years.
5. In one of our trips to Delhi, this scribe, P.M. Padia (Guru of James Braha) and Andree
Leclerc were visiting a famous publisher, and scribe was suggesting that the need of the
hour is to revive old classics in astrology, especially the books of astrology greats like the
late J.N. Bhasin and Bepin Behari. Their books need to be re-written, as all of them are
priceless jewels which need to be represented in clear simple English and systematic
presentation. At that time, I just removed the topic of one book which the publisher had
withdrawn, which was of S. K. Mehta, and the publisher’s son immediately pounced with
enthusiasm in the conversation as to what a brilliant astrologer he was. Kindly note that
publishers have met all kinds of astrologers and are forced to test either their knowledge or
their predictive ability. Later in the conversation, it was learned that S. K. Mehta used to
also give consultations at this publisher’s office and he had wide experiences of Mr.
Mehta’s predictions. In fact, the publisher’s son mentioned one experience concerning the
daughter or granddaughter of the late J. N. Bhasin. It seems Mehta Saheb used to often give
the date of accident or breakdown of her car and the granddaughter of Bhasin would get
the car serviced and in perfect order before the said date, “yet it would break down on the
concerned date and this would repeat and repeat for each prediction.”
6. He predicted that another famous Delhi publisher’s hand would break, and the publisher
did have a bad fracture some time later.
7. A client went to him and he said without knowing the background, “your father was in the
army and he has a huge mustache even now after retirement but he has no hair on his head
and is bald.”
These predictions are not so great, but this is what we have to offer now as to what we remember.
His students who have disappeared are requested to prove us wrong and bring out the true glory
of their guru’s predictive ability and more important than that, of his techniques.

The Man, The Machine

This is the most important section as per this scribe, and a learning for even the best of the lot. If
some of the good points of Mehta Saheb are inspirational, then this write-up has served its purpose.
Mehta Saheb did not learn astrology from anyone or from books. He was an engineer, and when
he started to learn astrology, he read two books by one popular author. He read it and practiced it
on some charts, only to realize that no clear predictions could ever be made via that knowledge,
so he instantly discarded those books, and when we met him he showed us that in his house there
are no books. He was self-taught, and he called his system “Observational Astrology.”

He never met an astrologer, never went to any conference, never advertised his consultation
service, never wrote any articles and was light years away from Internet forums. In October of
2010 at Guru Shivananda Murthyji’s conference, we took a long pending interview of the veteran
astrologer K. N. Rao, and on the last day just before ten minutes of our departing, we asked,
pushing the MP3 recorder towards him, whether he heard of S. K. Mehta, and then K. N. Rao said
in his baritone voice very loudly, “Brillianttttt Astrologer.”

Mr. Mehta did not have many possessions in life, and this is often the mark of a great astrologer,
and he did not want many clients, and his fees were the same whether it was for others or the ex-
Chief Minister of a State, to whom he had predicted that in 11 days on such and such date, he
would become the Chief Minister of that State.[14] The Chief Minister’s wife would personally
invite him with an airline ticket to the capital city to give predictions, and X had seen her personally
at the residence of Mehta receiving predictions, too. Twice he had given to-the-date predictions to
this Chief Minister in front of X, as to when he would become Chief Minister. It is not known if
he distinguished between the common man and a Chief Minister, but it did not appear so, since
Mehta Saheb came across in front of us as a very humble astrologer, and he would not be of the
type to show partiality to people in power.

Mehta Saheb was not a popular person since he did not write articles or attend conferences and he
was not so well known in India, but only in those circles where he was recommended. Some so-
called holy astrologers had a problem with Mehta Saheb since he did not believe in God,[15] did
not believe in remedies and he used to smoke and drink alcohol. The problem with India is, in spite
of thousands of years of spirituality and all of us claiming that India is the most spiritual land, we
have not been able to eradicate racism, dowry, poverty, or corruption.[16] We have not been able
to go to the core of spirituality to understand that it’s not one’s eating or drinking habits that make
a man, it’s his heart, nothing more, nothing less. The saints of Maharashtra and Indian yogis have
shown this for hundreds of years, how they can smoke but also give great spiritual teachings,
perform miracles and be the kindest of humans. The Hugging Saint Mata Amritanandamayi once
said in an interview in Times Of India that “Spirituality starts where religion ends.”

Well one brief meeting and few calls is a very short period in which to get to know anyone, but
after a certain age, one gets the experience of how to judge character. With Mehta Saheb, we did
not notice arrogance or a bloated ego; though he deserved it, and yet he himself answered that he
learned astrology on his own through “Observational Astrology.” One does not know why he
refused to call it “my research,” but it was only called by him, “Observational Astrology.”
Speaking of Observational astrology, he would often sit with X and discuss charts and then remove
his small diaries and say something such as, “In 1982, so and so had come with so and so
combination in his chart, and this current client has the same combination, and the same events
have unfolded.” X said that if one kept the rule books of Mehta Saheb, where he scribbled his rules
of prediction, it actually would be one metre in height. Mehta had a huge memory and would
remember charts well. He had some eight to ten students that he taught over a period, but
unfortunately no writings or teachings have come out of them. In fact, one of Mehta’s books was
withdrawn by his students from a famous publisher, which is what the publisher told us. X found
him to be one of the few astrologers with whom he could discuss astrology without worrying about
the politics of astrologers or hurting the ego of astrologers when asked some tough technical
questions.

His Books

It has taken us three years to procure the two marvelous books written by the Guaranteed
Astrologer:

1. “New Rules & Combinations In Hindu Astrology.”

2. “Synchronization of Periods.”

The former maybe can be used by any Western or Indian astrologer student for marvelous
predictions, and the latter gives a very technical form of timing periods in astrology (Vimshottari).
Both the books, especially the latter, are beyond this scribes’ intelligence, but one would want
others to learn it well, and if you read it and find it working, then please do write articles on it by
sharing your experiences. Please note that with his work, one might need to relearn astrology,[17]
so if your cup is not empty, don’t bother to go through it as we would not want you to waste your
money.

Do note that X clearly mentioned that not even 1% of Mehta Saheb’s knowledge has come out in
the books, and the books were written by his students.[18] X said these books need to be re-written
by a good writer, as Mehta Saheb was a predictor and everyone in India knows that the ones who
can predict are rarely good writers. It’s almost a 99 percent rule as these predictors do not have
time to write books or have time to write in Internet forums, as the population of India is so much
that if one gets the wind that one is a great predictor, then his house will often have queues waiting
to get in, whereas most writers do not have the fortune of having people lining up outside their
homes. Along with one of our volunteer writers, Mr. Venkat, we had tested some of the astounding
principles given in New Rules of Hindu Astrology, but we found it working on a few charts
stunningly and failing on a few, so apparently, we did not have the master key of S. K. Mehta.
Young and old readers often criticize other astrologers’ techniques, not realizing that knowing a
technique and then writing “how to use it” can be the most difficult part, even when a writer wants
to openly share. Yet in the next installment of this article, we would take up some of his rules and
show how astoundingly it works on some charts and how it fails on some, giving a balanced view.
That should also serve as a reminder to young students that the best kept secrets of true researchers
and writers is that each technique can work on 100 charts and an article can display all those 100
charts, and similarly that same technique can be used to show how it is not working on another set
of 100 charts. If you plan to buy his books, do not expect miracles coming out. Remember that one
metre-in-height rule book of Mehta, and remember for a super computer like Mehta, it was never
possible to put his knowledge out in book form. It was only after the insistence of X and other
admirers that something had to be published, and for this, we must be grateful. The books of Mehta
Saheb remind me of the books written by sages, where each aphorism can seem to be working on
some charts and failing on some, yet it is our tradition that we do not criticize the sages so why
should we criticize a modern author and create bad karma.

Learning From Him

Over the years we have found that Observational Astrology is the greatest form of guru to oneself.
But this has to be blended with the ability to accept that our knowledge is limited, and there are
some rules which are not known to us, since if we believe that we know all the rules or we are the
greatest researcher ever born, we would not be able to learn from Observational Astrology. This
may have been the strongest point of Mehta Saheb, as he re-wrote astrology for himself, starting
from scratch. If there is something valuable I have learned from him and my mentor, it is that I for
one am not capable of becoming a practicing astrologer if I can’t be 99 percent accurate, since it’s
a sin to misguide someone, and if I am only 50-60 percent accurate, then I am making this
subject/science a form of entertainment, which it is not.

When an astrologer decides that he does not want to be known in the literary circles of astrology,
he may be at a great advantage and can excel far more than anyone. Often literary circles of
astrology are distracting and consuming time and precious mental energy, apart from at times
creating bad karma out of philosophical disagreements. If I can find faults in myself and compare
it with what I can learn from Mehta Saheb, it is, he did not bother to write articles, he did not have
the desire to stand in front of crowds of young astrologers in conferences, he did not have to spend
days to prepare his speeches like other conference speakers, he did not have to spend days writing
an article and then spend years promoting that article at every instance, and he did not want to be
surrounded by hundreds of students. Mehta Saheb was spared all this and he could save all this
time and devote himself to the “real astrology” and not pseudo astrology that I have been doing,
and most important is that he did not seem to have the desire to be called a guru or be given a red
carpet treatment. Even though we spoke few times, we spoke at length, and we never found him
complaining about any astrologer. Mehta Saheb was better off not believing in God, it seems. He
seems to have fulfilled the expression, “Fill It, Shut It, and Forget It.”

He died as the Unsung Hero of Astrology.

[1] We had referred to him in one of our past articles BSP-2 which mentioned a BSP-2 rule that
similarly corresponded to one of his techniques, which is that Saturn destroys one signification of
the house 2nd from it, and this is how Saturn gives results. That is the aspect of Saturn that Indian
astrology has missed, which the BSPs have been able to unravel and which “The One” had also
unraveled, though he took it to a far superior extent than BSP.
[2] Forum on Yahoo groups called Jyotish Group that was once a great forum, now everyone seems
to have deserted it due to “pollution.”

[3] Now due to many inquiries, SA is forced to hide the identity of X, who prefers anonymity and
lives in seclusion.

[4] An astrologer must always be paid his fees.

[5] Saheb is similar to “Sir,” and is a term used to accord distinction to someone senior or genuine.

[6] Seeing the cigarette, we realized which planet is strongest in his horoscope and attributed this
very planet to his stunning predictions. This is related to a new observation mentioned in our
commentary in the series on asterisms in the “Ravana Samhita” series. For Westerners, this is an
ancient text that has not survived in purity and we published it in English for the first time, and it
can be found in previous issues of Saptarishis Astrology.

[7] In India, it is customary to create the natal chart with Moon as the Ascendant even though the
Moon stays in the same sign for a long period, and this system has been followed for thousands of
years.

[8] Vimshottari Dasa, as it is called in India.

[9] In India, anyone who has been to masters of astrology believes that an astrologer cannot take
more than 30 seconds to reel off his predictions (no exaggeration here), and if he takes longer than
that, then he does not know astrology. Yet one must remember that today, such masters are very
few in number, and we must not criticize what is left of astrology.

[10] Sage Bhrighu is an ancient sage whose predictions are noted as the greatest ever and who
wrote a voluminous book where one can find any living person’s horoscope with stunning
predictions given by the sage and also remedies to the problems.

[11] We have tried this advice as a dictum and succeeded at times to locate the Ascendant and
some planets but failed miserably due to lack of knowledge and intelligence. Others are requested
to follow it and see the stunning results; you would get to know more about planets than what is
written in any book.

[12] Mark the word devotee; he has never behaved like a typical astrologer in spite of studying
astrology since 1962. In spite of reading every commentary on each classic and being at times a
stunning predictor, his approach/attitude (bhavana) towards astrology is something too pure like
a servant ready to serve rather than be served, guess that’s the reason he is so successful.

[13] Predicting the starting letter of one’s spouse if we are not wrong, one of our authors Dr. Paresh
Desai’s father, the late Ravindra Desai, was capable of doing; this the author has not indicated to
us but other sources have indicated it. What we remember clearly from various sources is that
Ravindra Desai used to predict the date and time of the event at times and the mighty of Mumbai
would visit him. Mehta Saheb had predicted the starting letter of the spouse of our friend but right
now we are unable to get the diary where we noted it in order to verify it.

[14] Due to compulsions of privacy we had to delete the name of the state, it is the most powerful
state in India is what may suffice.

[15] This is not entirely true, according to X, who says that Mehta’s concept of God was far
different than the text book definition.

[16] In fact, many of today’s astrologers would have the most corrupt politicians as their clients
and these astrologers shamelessly flaunt it since the time of Independence of India. In true spiritual
circles, astrologers are often not regarded highly in India, since astrologers have not been able to
convert their clients into honest entities or good human beings.

[17] His method of using exaltation and debilitation of planets is far different than the traditional
method of both Western and Indian astrology.

[18] Kindly note, as mentioned earlier, Mehta Saheb was not the best of communicators.