Text 105] Pastimes of the Lord in His Youth 313
a man who knows past, present and future; prabhu-va@kya—the words of Lord
Caitanya; Suni—hearing.

TRANSLATION
‘Please tefl Me who | was in My previous birth,” the Lord said. ‘Please tell Me by
your astrological computations.” Hearing the words of the Lord, the astrologer
immediately began to calculate.
PURPORT
Through astrology one can know past, present and future. Modern western
astronomers have no knowledge of the past or future, nor can they perfectly say
anything about the present. Herein we find, however, that after hearing Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu’s order, the astrologer immediately began his cajculations. This was
not a facade; he actually knew how to ascertain one’s past life through astrology. A
still existing treatise called the Bhygu-samhita describes a system by which anyone
can immediately get information about what he was in the past and what he is going
to be in the future. The brahmanas who went door to door as if beggars had perfect
command of such vast knowledge. Thus the highest knowledge was easily available
even to the poorest man in society. The poorest man could inquire from an astrolo-
ger about his past, present and future, with no need for business agreements or ex-
orbitant payments. The braéhmana would give him all the benefit of his knowledge
without asking remuneration, and the poor man, in return, would offer a handful of
rice, or anything he had in his possession, to satisfy the brahmana. |n a perfect
human society, perfect knowledge in any science—medical, astrological, ecclesiasti-
cal and so on—is available even to the poorest man, with no anxiety over payment. In
the present day, however, no one can get justice, medical treatment, astrological
help or ecclesiastical enlightenment without money, and since people are generally
poor, they are bereft of the benefits of all these great sciences.
TEXT 105
sifey egica CACY es, —sEICoTfeAa |
OG CAFS-AWHHY— Nata WH ll se lt
gani’ dhyGne dekhe sarva-jria, —mahd-jyotirmaya
ananta vaikuntha-brahmaénda—sabéra Gsraya
SYNONYMS
goni’—by calculation; dhydne—by meditation; dekhe—sees; sarva-jna—knower of
everything; mahd-jyotirmaya—highly effulgent body; ananta—unlimited; vaikugitha—
spiritual world; brahmdnda—planets; sabara—of all of them; asraya—shelter.
TRANSLATION
Through calculation and meditation, the all-knowing astrologer saw the greatly
effulgent body of the Lord, which is the resting place of all the unlimited Vaikugtha
planets.
