Birth & Early Life
He was the youngest child of Pt. Jagannath Rath and Chandra Devi. He
had four elder brothers and three elder sisters i.e. he was the
astama garbha (8th pregnancy - Moon). The two eldest brothers
had died before his birth from a natural cause and snake bite
respectively. His father had mourned the death of the second
brilliant son very much and had worshipped Lord Shiva by keeping a
21 day fast for his birth.
His early education was in the free village pathsala (school
of sorts) and later in the neighboring village school where the
headmaster paid his fees as his father had lost his job on account
of the freedom movement - he held the Puri collectors horse by the
reins (Parasara style!).
His favorite childhood hang out was the village Somanath (Shiva)
temple where he enjoyed the fruits and swimming in the adjoining
Bhargavi (Venus) River. Every other year the river would flood and
the inhabitants had to swim for their lives and he has fine accounts
of survival. On one occasion he swam neck to neck with a huge cobra
and got the floating tree trunk before the cobra!
His first experience with black magic was when he was barely 12
years old in Moon dasa Ketu antardasa when his eldest sister was
possessed by an evil soul and the local tantrik had to be called to
remove the same. He was the only one (bachelor required) who
volunteered (after his father's coaxing) to be the tantriks
assistant, visit the local cremation ground on amavasya and
retrieve a bone after a rite, bring it near his sister and then
carry it to the river and throw it - she recovered!!! He remembers
that he ws frightened and would hold his sacred thread and recited
the gayatri mantra before going and the name of Lord Somanath
throughout. That's how his faith in Lord Shiva was built.
He and his mother went to stay with his father at Puri. Poverty was
natural to all the people of Orissa and it did not matter. He would
swim a mile into the sea and the captains of the foreign ships
coming to Orissa always fed him well. The sea adventures are many
and shows daring and the ability to survive - the zeal of Venus is
strong. At the fag end of the Moon dasa he had a life threatening
small-pox attack. His survival was nothing short of a miracle and it
happened exactly on the date and time his father had foretold. At
this juncture he was advised by almost everyone to skip the
matriculation examination as he was not prepared due to his illness.
His father sat overnight doing his astrology calculations on a slate
and chalk (paper was too expensive to afford) and in the morning
said, "Do you have faith in me and Lord Shiva? If so, then take the
examination. Your Mars dasa has just started and you will top the
examination and get a scholarship for your engineering. You know
that we have been dispossessed of our home and lands and I have no
wealth left for your education." He took the examination as his
headmaster paid the exam fees and went on stand first in the Orissa
State matriculation examination winning the scholarship for college.
His middle brother bought his one-way general class ticket to Pilani,
Rajasthan and his uncle gifted him his first pair of shoes - after
all he was going to be an electrical engineer from BITS Pilani. With
two half pants and this shoe he took the tedious five day journey to
Pilani. The scholarship was always late due to red-tape and after
his marvelous performance in the first year, he became the pet of an
industrialist, the founder of BITS Pilani - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla.
He was gifted a badminton racket and went on to be the Rajasthan
champion and India No.2 with it. They gave him swimming trunks and
he went on to hold the national endurance swimming record in it
spending 72 hours in water - he can sleep in water! The Rajputs of
Rajasthan turned out to be very large hearted and brave friends like
Mr.Talwar who gifted him his first pair of trousers and he could
debate in all forum in them making his college very proud. That was
Mars dasa causing nicabhanga of the Sun. After graduation
Shri G.D.Birla offered to fund his Masters degree at Harvard, USA
but he had a responsibility towards his family who were poor and he
had to return home and take up a job with the Orissa State
Electricity department and maintain them.
Marriage & Middle life
He married into the leading family of the Tripathi's from Cuttack on
23 Feb 1961 (Rahu-Sat-Rahu: astrology pundits check this out!). His
father-in-law Dr. Kailash Chandra Tripathi was a leading doctor.
Most of the elders of the family had taken diksha from Ma lakshmi
Devi (Ramakrishna Paramhamsa's niece) and had built the R.K.Mission
at Cuttack. Almost everyone was either a leading judge, lawyer,
doctor or IAS officer. He had three sons. Just as predicted by his
father - being the blessings of marrying a girl born on amavasya
(dark Moon) and performing pooja: Brahma, Vishnu & Maheswara in the
reverse order would bless the couple.His eldest son Sukant was born
on 28 March 1962 during Rah-Mer-Ven on a Wednesday (Mer antar) with
vargottama Venus in exaltation in Pisces lagna and Sun (Shiva)
closely conjunct lagna. The second son Sushant (later changed to
Sanjay) was born on 7 August 1963 during Rah-Mer-Jup on on a
Wednesday (Mer antar) with Jupiter in Simhasanamsa in Pisces lagna
showing the protection of Chakradhara Vishnu (Saravali) and the
third son Sumant was born on 16 Feb 1965 in Rahu-Ketu-Sat on a
Tuesday (Ketu antar) in Cancer Lagna. Brahma is the deity of Saturn
(Parasara). His wife wanted a daughter very much but heeding his
fathers warning (see Parasara - daughter after three sons), he went
and had an operation preventing further childbirth.
He joined NMDC a Government of India enterprise and got the
Prseident of India's gold medal for his outstanding service in
developing the Kiriburu mines on 12 Nov 1964 (Rahu-Ketu-Jup). In
1966 anti-sikh riots started in the mining areas as a sikh truck
driver raped a tribal girl. He played a pivotal role in pacifying
the tribal people (more so as he was a Brahmin from Puri). One time
his driver Sardar Gurbaksh Singh, was chased by tribals carrying
bows and arrows and he came running home. Mrs. Manju Rath hid him in
the huge trunk and 3-year old baby Sanjay was placed on top to
guard! The tribals stopped short of the baby and hearing the calming
words of the lady and name of Jagannath gave up the blood thirsty
chase.
He later joined Larsen & Toubro Limited (now L&T) in 1969 (Rahu dasa
Moon antar) building a personal friendship with Mr. Hoc Larsen of
Denmark. He had his first private car - a black sedan in the same
year (ORO 710 - number 8 repeats often). The nationalist movement
had gripped India when everything from banks to foreign companies
were being taken over by Government. He left L&T to start his own
business in March 1973 (Jup-Jup) and also built his huge house
modeled in a German design in Bhubaneswar in the same year. He got
the design from friends in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1971 during a
visit. Very soon Mr.Larsen also left India when he was forcibly
divested of his ownership of L&T due to changed laws.
Mrs.Indira Gandhi
He admired Mrs. Indira Gandhi and was an ardent follower of hers. When his
license for building the fastener plant was withheld by the cental
government, he requested Sri G.D.Birla to intervene (basically the
industry planned would manufacture bolts and nuts for the Calcutta
based Hindustan motors of Sri Birla). In his second meeting with
Mrs.Gandhi he flatly told her, "Ma'am your dictator of a secretary
is neither giving me the license nor is giving me a plausible cause
for withholding". To this the most charismatic leader India ever
had, Mrs. Gandhi explained the policy clearly and deftly in a few
words and smilingly replied, "now that you understand, tomorrow the
same dictator of a secretary will give you the license".
Later when the Piss-Cola culture grabbed India and Morarji Desai put
her in jail, he was among the few who visited Mrs. Gandhi to give
her moral support. Remembering him from an earlier meeting, she
enquired as to why he had risked this visit and could be prosecuted,
he replied, "At good times, there are many who will vie for your
attention, and it is at such times that those who admire you will
stand up against this atrocity. I agree with father - this jailing
for political vendetta is a pathetic development in democratic
India.
*Believe-it-or-not: Morarji Desai actually drank a
glass of his own urine every morning for good health and even
expected
the nation to follow him in this.
Lord Somanath
He built a modern fastener manufacturing
industry in 1982 in Jup dasa Venus antardasa called SN Corporation
Limited with a technical and financial collaboration with the
Sakamura Group
of Japan and Mr. Sakamura was a personal friend who was very
spiritual, steadfast and of impeccable character. SN stands for
Somanath - just as his house is named Somanath Villa after Lord
Shiva. In April 1984 in the fag end of Jupiter dasa Moon antardasa,
the Government of Orissa took over the management of the company and
successfully managed to make it completely sick after corrupt
bureaucrats looted it for several years just as the temple of Lord
Somanath was looted by the Ghaznavi plunderers. He fought the cases
in courts believing that justice would come and he did win all of
the cases showing that the action was illegal and malafide, but it
was too late. The industry was destroyed beyond redemption and with
it his dreams. He still nourishes a dream of building a temple for
Lord Somanath in Bhubaneswar.
A Confession
In 1987 when I returned to Orissa after mechanical engineering
graduation, I got involved in the court cases and was very angry
with the way my father had been betrayed by his closest and trusted
lawyer friend Mr. Mohanty. I started learning tantra and in the
winter of 1987-88 started learning the Bagalamukhi tantra (Sat-Ven
period) for the complete annihilation of enemies with the prime
objective of destroying my fathers terrible enemies. Sri Bhagavan
Mishra the great tantrik of Orissa was a teacher and I also visited
Calcutta and had a Bagalamukhi kavacha prepared by the son of the
greatest tantra master of Bengal - Pt. Ramesh Chandra Bhattacharya.
Thereafter I was able to convince my father (after a lot of
arguments) to have a Bagalamukhi puja done. When Sri Bhagavan Mishra
asked him to take the names of his enemies at the time of breaking of the
coconut, father refused and said that there are no enemies! So, the
Puja had to end with prayers for destroying bad karma.
I was very angry with father and called him a coward for not
fighting his enemies, especially Mr.Mohanty the criminal lawyer. Mr.
Mohanty had suddenly developed Cancer in 1987 and had wasted away
all his money in fighting the disease at Bombay since then. Father
said that he was suffering for his sins and that was the will of
Shiva and that he would not fight an old friend. In 1989 I did a
powerful Bagalamukhi anusthana and swore not to do Ganesh Puja again if he
was not destroyed! - my guru for all pujas is Shakti Ganesha. Mr.Mohanty
died the night before Ganesha Puja!!! I was shocked; mother was shocked; gurudev was mad with me. His words that had made me leave
Karate and all forms of physical violence - "there are no enemies,
there are only mirrors" kept ringing in my ears. Father wanted me to
leave Orissa and get out of his issues.
The next year he sent me to
Cuttack on the pretext of some work and when I returned, a bonfire
had been made with all my astrology books. I was told that an
astrologer had advised that Jyotish was not good for me. I have
always suffered the jealousy of scheming astrology colleagues. They
could not take the reputation that a young Sanjay was getting with
astounding predictions thanks to Sri Sri Shakti Ganesha. The
Bagalamukhi anusthana did not go in vain and the arrow that leaves
the bow of an expert archer will find its mark. It was too late to
call it back. Father was grossly betrayed by three partners - Mr.
Jain, Mr. Agarwal and Mr. Mohanty. Mr.Jain's darling daughter was
caught by the Calcutta police for smuggling gold and went to jail;
Mr. Agarwal went to the Ranchi mental asylum after his wife died
suddenly and Mr. Mohanty had Cancer and died. All this was too mcuh
and in Mars antardasa (9th lord), I turned to Jagannath seeking
peace within. I left for Delhi in 1991. Since then there have been
many occasions or rather provocations, but gurudev's words - "there
are no enemies, there are only mirrors" keeps ringing in my ears.
That was my Saturn dasa...one dark age of my life.
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