We are completely unwilling to investigate our heritage in a scientific manner."Ĭhandrama Pandey, head of the Jyotish (astrology) department at Banaras Hindu University agrees. “The sad part is that we have not looked at the book as a resource at all. Not only does he describe these ailments with incredible accuracy, he also gives incredibly effective prognoses." But Vaidya’s thesis was not accepted by Mumbai university. “I found references to cancer, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases and heart, lung and kidney transplants in his predictions. Sometimes, it is a medical lighthouse, warning the listener of potential health risks, says Ashok Vaidya, a physician-scientist who runs a centre of reverse pharmacology in traditional medicine for the Indian Council of Medical Research in Mumbai and has written a master’s thesis on medical references in the Bhrigu Samhita. “I do 8 hours of sadhana (meditation) and havan (fire rituals) every day to be able to find the right page for visitors and tell them their fortunes."īut the manuscript is not just a chronicle of fate that outlines coming events and past-life tales. Wielding such a powerful repository of human destiny is very difficult, he explains. It was written with yogic powers and mathematical calculations that we no longer have," he says. “I am only reading what Bhriguji wrote and still, it is not simple because these pages are filled with authoritative information about past lives, diseases, the future and future lives of millions of souls. It may sound like magic, but is actually very hard work, says Vyas. He said my father did not have a long life and as it turned out, I lost my father (when) he was just 54." She says so many predictions based on his reading of the Bhrigu Samhita had come true-about her health, her family’s well-being, her children-that “I have unshakable faith in it". And then, after seeing my palm, he told me everything about my life-the names of parents, the fact that I had three brothers, five sisters. When some friends told me about him, I went along. “I was a young woman in Udaipur when I heard about him. Sunita Nevatia, 68, a homemaker from Mumbai, who has been visiting Vyas for three decades, says she does not take any major decision without consulting the book.
Like Bremer, many say they were astounded by the readings. “It was the most incredible experience to sit there and listen to him read me things that I have never shared with anyone before," he says. One of the tourists, Ulrich Bremer from Berlin, heard about him in Germany. Vyas, one of about 100 people in the country who interpret the Bhrigu Samhita, shot to national fame in 2007, when Pratibha Patil, an unlikely candidate, became President of the country-he had predicted her victory six months before her nomination was filed-but his reputation was built long before that. Otherwise, there is nothing to see here," says Anil, who uses one name and runs a tea stall near the Vyas home. “People come to this place only because of him.
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