ASTROLOGY

Buddha 

Gautama Buddha was put the same question ['is there a God?'], not once but several times, by his chief disciple, Ananda. The Enlightened One did not deign to reply. The only conclusion we can draw from his silence is that he EITHER wanted people to find out the answer themselves OR it must be taken as an admission that he did not know it himself.* 

        - Khushwant Singh 

*I am very glad that Buddha did not declare that he was God. Nowadays, the whole world KNOWS Who is God, thanks to Him because He has very kindly revealed His secret identity to the whole world.

I hope buddhu is not related to Buddha, "The Enlightened One".

শিং নেই তবু নাম তার সিংহ 

ডিম নয় তবু অশ্বডিম্ব [zero]

শ and স are not identical but different letters. Stupid zeros cannot comprehend Infinity.

Kishalay Sinha [G]

ASTROLOGY 

There are some professions, much practised in our country, which contribute nothing to society but instead do a great deal of harm to it. The most popular of them is forecasting the future through ASTROLOGY, casting horoscopes, palmistry, crystal ball gazing and deciphering ancient texts like the Bhrigu Samhita and the Sau Saakhee. Of these, ASTROLOGY is the most widespread and believed in as much by the highest placed [CUNNING CHEATS] as by the masses [IDIOTS]. Prime ministers, chief ministers, other ministers, governors, bureaucrats and businessmen regularly perform tantric rites and practise black magic ["black magic" My foot!] ostensibly to overcome the influence of evil stars. New ventures are undertaken only after making sure that the stars are in their proper positions.

In India, astrology has religious sanction. It must therefore be exorcised [removed] from the Indian religion of the future. That it is totally unscientific is beyond dispute. Astronomy is a science; astrology is not. What superstition is to religion, astrology is to astronomy - the illegitimate offspring of sick minds.

There is no evidence whatsoever to prove that marriages made after matching horoscopes do better than those consummated without consulting them. I know of the case of a leading astrologer who wrote a weekly column, 'What the Stars Foretell', for the Hindustan Times who arranged his daughter's marriage after reading her and her future bridegroom's horoscopes. The marriage lasted only a few months. Belief in astrology has assumed menacing proportions and, unless banned by legal enactment, will continue to govern the lives of people [those people who are idiots] to their detriment [harm].

     - Khushwant Singh 

(Khushwant Singh quotes from "Agnostic Khushwant THERE IS NO GOD!" by Khushwant Singh with ASHOK CHOPRA, publisher HAY HOUSE INDIA; ISBN 978-93-81431-11-5; 246 pages. This collection of essays on religion is dedicated to Jaya Thadani [?]. I have noticed that despite the provocative title of this book, a clever gimmick intended to attract potential buyers, nowhere in the book does Khushwant Singh declare that "there is no God". Being an "agnostic" means that one is not sure about the existence of God - "a" means NOT, "gnos" means KNOW - which is NOT the same as saying like a fool "there is no God". ANY guy who says "there is no God" would be considered a FOOL nowadays. Khushwant Singh is late. Ashok Chopra [?] must be a fool. - G)

Kishalay Sinha [G]