MAN WHO KNOWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18928, 24 April 1933, Page 12

MAN WHO KNOWS.

INDIAN SAGE AT 24, STUDY OF THE STARB. The man “who knows everything 1 * recently arrived in London. He la Pandit V. Krishnaswamy, 8.A., and graduate in science at Madras University. He is an astrologer. Months before the Cabinet had decided on the date for the Round Table Conference the pandit 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 service* 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, who was expecting a happy event, the pandit once more proved himself a pundit. He informed Mr Pillai that a male ohild would bo born on the following Sunday, and that there was no need for worry. 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 even that Bradman would riot be up to standard.

But Pandit Krishnaswamy is no aged, bearded sage. He is just 24. “Ever since I was five years old I have been interested in the study of the stars,” he told a Sunday Ghroniole representative. “In my home in Travancore I have a library of more than 5000 books dealing with the science. My grandfather used to be tutor to the Royal House of Travancore, and I 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 ever made has been proved true. "When I was 22 years of age I met one of India’s really great sages,” hei said. “We were drawn to each other, although he was a man more than 100 years old. In his home I lived for some time, and he introduced me to the higher branch of astrology, Aruda Prasnam. 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 highcaste 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. vegetraian.