INDIAN PROPHET

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19569, 16 August 1933, Page 8

INDIAN PROPHET

BIG AND LITTLE THINGS. A man /‘who knows everything” recently arrived in London. He is Pandit V. Krishnaswamy, 8.A., and graduate in science of Madras University. He is an astrologer. Months before the Cabinet had decided on the date for the Round Table Conference the pandit says he telegraphed to Mahatma Gandhi telling him the exact date when the sittings would commence and the result of the meetings. The stars, he says, told him. Three weeks before the Presidential elections in the United States he telegraphed to Mr Roosevelt that he would have a clear majority. He performed the same assuring services for Mr De Valera in the Irish elections. Nothing is hidden from Pandit V. Krishnaswamy. When Mr G. P. Pillai the Travancore representative at the Indian Conference, was worried about his wife, the pandit once more proved himself. He informed Mr Pillai that a male child would be born on the following Sunday, and that there was no need to w'orry. A few days later a telegram arrived from Travancore confirming his prediction. Weeks before the Test cricket matches in Australia he predicted that the M.C.C. would take the Ashes back to England, and that Bradman would not be up to standard. But Pandit Krishnaswamy is no aged, bearded sage. He is just 24. “Even since I was five years old I have been interested in the study of the stars.” he told a “Sunday Chronicle” representative. “In my home In Travancore I have a library of more than 5.000 books dealing with the science. My grandfather used to be tutor to the Royal House of Travancore, and I have had access to the library there —a great privilege. "Millionaires and poor people come to me from all over India, and every prediction I have made has been proved true. “When I was 22 years of age 1 met one of India's really great sages.” he said. "We were drawn to each other, although he was a man more than 100 years old. It} his home I lived for some time and he introduced me to the higher branch of astrology, Aruda Prasnain. By it all things are known There is no intuition about it. It is a sheer science and demands a long experience before correct predictions can be given.” Pandit Krishnaswamy is a high caste Brahmin, and a wealthy man. Few of his caste ever leave India, but he does not recognise international barriers. He is a non-smoker and a vegetarian.