Basic Principals of Astrology-LAGNA

Basic Principals of Astrology-LAGNA

Aries:

Ø  A Sun-Moon combination confers rajayoga

Ø  Venus is a maraka

Ø  Jupiter becomes a maraka if he occupies Capricorn

Ø  A Jupiter-Saturn association doesn’t confer a rajayoga

Ø  An Aries native will have fear of diseases (especially smallpox), weapons and injuries

Ø  If Mars conjoins Mercury, death by brain disease occurs in his dasa and bhukti

Ø  This is the only lagna where it’s great if the 2^nd lord is in the 12^th; this isn’t the case with

o   any other lagnas

Ø  A Mars-Venus combination can be both favorable and fatal

Ø  Mars, when conjoined with Jupiter and Venus in Taurus, becomes a yogakaraka

Ø  If the above combination occurs in Gemini, there isn’t any yoga

Ø  If Mars conjoins Jupiter in Cancer, he becomes a yogakaraka

Ø  Mars will prove a benefic during his dasa if he’s in Leo

Ø  Jupiter in Aquarius won’t automatically give good results in his dasa

Ø  A Mercury-Mars combination in Virgo gives the native skin diseases, eruptions and wounds.

Ø  The native will possess self-earned wealth if Mars and Venus are in Libra

Ø  Mars, if in conjunction with Sun and Venus in Scorpio, will confer some fame

Ø  17. There’s a special yoga produced when Mars, Sun and Jupiter are in Sagittarius,

Ø  with Venus and Saturn in Libra

Ø  Venus confers a rajayoga if he’s in lagna with the Sun and unaspected by Jupiter

Ø  Sun will become a yogakaraka when aspected by Jupiter; the same can’t be said for Venus when she is aspected by Jupiter

Ø  A Sun-Mercury-Venus combination in Aquarius is a fortunate combination, with all three conferring riches during their dasas and bhuktis

Ø  When Sun is in lagna and Moon in Cancer, the native enjoys a rajayoga

Ø  A Sun-Jupiter-Venus combination in Capricorn helps the native enjoy dips in holy rivers like the Gaìgä

Ø  Taurus:

Ø  Neither is Saturn a yogakaraka, nor do Sun and Mercury confer any fortunes if they’re in lagna

Ø  If there’s a Mars-Jupiter combination in Capricorn or Rahu is in Aquarius, the native enjoy dips in holy rivers like the Ganga

Ø  Moon is capable of producing a yoga when posited in Leo and aspected by either Jupiter or Mercury

Ø  Mars, when in 7^th, is a benefic. If Sun and Jupiter are conjoined in Pisces, long life is indicated

Ø  A Jupiter-Mercury association causes dhana yoga

Ø  The above dhana yoga is destroyed if either planet is aspected by Mars

Ø   There will be debts during Mercury’s dasa if there’s an association between

             Mars, Jupiter and Mercury .

Ø  Jupiter’s dasa will give mixed results whereas Mars’ dasa gives wealth. If

Ø  Mercury is in a quadrant, the native is blessed with happiness during its dasa

Ø  If Mercury and Venus are in lagna and Jupiter is in Scorpio, Mercury dasa will

Ø  be fortunate

Ø  If Mars and Venus are in lagna, and Jupiter is in Capricorn, both Mercury’s and Jupiter’s dasas will be fortunate

Ø  If Saturn, Mercury and Mars are in Capricorn, and Rahu in Pisces, the native enjoy dips in holy rivers like the Ganga during the dasas of Mars and Rahu

Ø  If Moon and Venus are in Libra, with Jupiter and Mercury in Pisces, Jupiter dasa will cause a dhana yoga

Ø  Lots of wealth are indicated in the Venus dasa

Ø  Moon in lagna isn’t very auspicious, and will afflict other dhana yogas present in the chart

Ø  The native becomes very fortunate if Moon is in the lagna of any sign other than Taurus

Ø  Gemini:

Ø  The placement of Sun and Mercury in Leo proves fortunate in Mercury’s dasa

Ø  A Venus-Moon-Mars conjunction in Cancer results in wealth during the Venus dasa

Ø  There will be mixed results during Saturn dasa if Mars is in Cancer, with Moon and Saturn in Capricorn

Ø  With the above planetary placement, Mars confers wealth during his dasa

Ø  If Mars and Saturn are in Cancer and Moon in Capricorn, the native’s prosperity and wealth get mostly destroyed during the dasas of Mars and Saturn

Ø  Despite being the lord of 2^nd, Moon isn’t a maraka

Ø  When Saturn is in Aquarius and there’s a Mars-Moon conjunction in Aries, a powerful dhana yoga results

Ø  If Saturn and Jupiter are in Aquarius, the native enjoy dips in holy rivers like the Ganga during the dasas of Jupiter and Saturn

Ø  When Mercury is in Aries, misunderstandings with elder brother are indicated

Ø  Cancer:

Ø  While Mercury proves fruitful, Jupiter doesn’t cause any yoga

Ø  Mars is a yogakaraka, and even more so if posited in either of his own houses

Ø  Venus can also be a benefic, but only if he’s posited either in Leo or Gemini

Ø  If Mars, Jupiter and Moon are in Leo, with Sun and Venus in Scorpio, the native will become wealthy and fortunate

Ø  If Mercury and Venus are in Scorpio, Mercury confers fortune during its dasa

Ø  If Mercury, Venus and Moon are in Gemini, Jupiter in Cancer and Sun in Aries, the result is a maha rajayoga and will definitely make the native a king

Ø  If Sun and Mars are in Aries, the native will always be wealthy. Death results during the Jupiter dasa

Ø  If Mercury and Venus are in Gemini, Venus dasa will prove fortunate

Ø  A Jupiter-Moon conjunction in lagna will make the native famous and fortunate

Ø  When Moon is in lagna, rajayogas are produced when either Mars is in Capricorn, Saturn is in Libra, or Sun is in Aries

Ø  When there’s a combination of Sun and Mercury in lagna, Venus in Libra, and Moon-Mars-Jupiter in Taurus, the native becomes bankrupt during the Sun dasa, while other dasas will be good

Ø  If Mercury and Jupiter are in Taurus, and Saturn and Rahu are in Scorpio, the native enjoy dips in holy rivers like the Ganga during the Rahu dasa

Ø  Leo:

Ø  Sun-Mercury-Mars or Sun-Jupiter-Mercury conjunctions indicate wealth, whereas only a Sun-Mercury combination indicates moderate fortunes

Ø  A Jupiter-Venus combine causes destruction of other yogas

Ø  Venus can’t produce a yoga. However, he becomes a benefic when in Libra but a malefic when in Taurus

Ø  If there’s a Sun-Mercury-Mars conjunction in lagna, the Mercury dasa brings in much wealth

Ø  The Saturn dasa will be fortunate if there’s a Saturn-Mars combination in Cancer

Ø  Virgo:

Ø  A Sun-Moon-Venus association will bring in lots of wealth during the Sun dasa

Ø  The native loses wealth during the Venus dasa. Mixed results can be expected during the Moon dasa

Ø  When Moon and Venus are in Pisces, with Jupiter in Cancer and Sun in Aries, during the Jupiter and Venus dasas, the native will have multiple wives, who will all be alive. Virgo natives possess women of high rank

Ø  A Jupiter-Venus combine in Sagittarius produces fortunes during their dasas and bhuktis

Ø  If Saturn is in Cancer, its dasa will be fruitful

Ø  Libra:

Ø  Saturn is a yogakaraka. Though lord of 3^rd and 6^th, Jupiter is also capable of producing yogas

Ø  Mars doesn’t become a maraca, although it lords the 2^nd and 7^th houses

Ø  If Jupiter and Venus are associated or are aspected by Saturn and Mars, during the Jupiter or Venus dasas and bhuktis, the native suffers from skin infections and wounds

Ø  If Sun and Mercury are in Virgo and aspected by Saturn, the father will be fortunate

Ø  If Mars is in association with Sun, Saturn and Mercury, it produces immense good

Ø  If Sun, Mercury and Saturn are combined with either Moon or Mars, a rajayoga is produced

Ø  If there’s a Sun-Venus-Mercury combination in lagna, the native gets very fortunate and wealthy

Ø  If in lagna there are Mercury, Saturn and Venus, or the Moon and Mars in Aries, the Mercury dasa will prove fruitful

Ø  The presence of Mars and Mercury in Leo, Jupiter in Taurus and Saturn in Gemini creates a rajayoga

Ø  If Moon is in lagna with Jupiter either in Virgo or Pisces, the Saturn dasa brings in wealth and fortune

Ø  Venus becomes a maraca if he’s in the ascendant

Ø  If the Saturn is in lagna and Moon in Cancer, a rajayoga results

Ø  If Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Mars are in Aquarius, and Rahu is in Cancer, the native enjoy dips in holy rivers like the Ganga during the Rahu dasa

Ø  Scorpio:

Ø  An association of Jupiter and Mercury brings in wealth

Ø  If Jupiter is in Capricorn, the native will be charitable

Ø  If Sun, Mercury and Venus are in Taurus, the Mercury dasa confers lots of fame and power

Ø  When Jupiter and Mercury are in Pisces with Moon in Virgo, the native will be fortunate

Ø  If there’s a Jupiter-Moon-Ketu combine in Cancer, the Ketu dasa will be ordinary but the Jupiter dasa excellent

Ø  Sagittarius:

Ø  Saturn, when in Aries, confers prosperity during its dasa

Ø  This is the only ascendant for which Saturn in 11^th confers a yoga

Ø  If Sun and Venus are in Leo with Saturn in Aquarius, the Saturn dasa will bring in wealth

Ø  Capricorn:

Ø  If Mercury is in Leo with Jupiter in lagna and aspected by Venus, long life is conferred, but with poverty

Ø  Venus in in Taurus is good; if in Libra, though, he may not prove so fortunate

Ø  If Venus and Mercury are in lagna with Moon in Taurus aspected by Jupiter, the native is certain to become an emperor. This is called a maharaja yoga

Ø  4. If Jupiter is in lagna with Venus and Mars in Scorpio, brothers will give the

Ø  native riches during the Jupiter dasa

Ø  When Sun, Moon and Mercury are in lagna, with Mars and Venus in Sagittarius, the native will be replete with wealth

Ø  A Saturn-Mercury combination in Virgo confers fortune. Rahu becomes a yogakaraka if he’s with Jupiter in Sagittarius

Ø  The presence of Moon in Cancer and Mars in lagna causes a rajayoga

Ø  Aquarius:

Ø  For both Aquarius and Leo ascendant natives, the mere association of the 9^th and 10^th lords doesn’t confer any rajayoga

Ø  If Venus and Rahu are in lagna with Sun in Scorpio, yoga will be caused in the dasas of Rahu and Jupiter

Ø  If Sun and Mars are in Virgo, the native suffers during their dasas. The Mercury dasa will be better

Ø  Jupiter in lagna with Saturn in Pisces will see mixed results during the Jupiter dasa and an ordinary time during the Saturn dasa

Ø  If Saturn and Venus are in Sagittarius, the Venus dasa proves fortunate

Ø  A Sun-Mercury-Jupiter combine in Aries is good, especially during the Sun dasa when the native enjoys power

Ø  Pisces:

Ø  While Venus in 12^th produces benefic results for all other ascendants, this isn’t the case for either Pisces or Aquarius

Ø  Saturn in Aquarius is good. However, if Moon is in Aquarius, the native suffers poverty (though there’s an alleviation of this in Jupiter dasa, Moon bhukti)

Ø  Jupiter in Cancer will bestow more daughters than sons

Ø  If Moon is in Aries and Mars in Cancer, Moon’s dasa brings wealth

Ø  If Moon and Mars are in Capricorn, Jupiter in Leo, Venus in Libra and Saturn in Scorpio, the native will be highly fortunate

Ø  A Moon-Mercury-Mars combine in Capricorn is an indicator of wealth and conveyances

Ø  If Saturn and Moon are in lagna, Mars in Capricorn and Venus in Leo, predict fortune for the native

Ø  If Mercury, Jupiter, Moon and Mars are in lagna, the dasas of these planets bring in immense fame, power and prosperity

Ø  Jupiter posited in Sagittarius certainly causes a rajayoga

Ø  If Moon is in Taurus, Sun in Leo, Mercury in Virgo, Venus in Libra, Jupiter in Sagittarius, Saturn in Aquarius and Mars in Capricorn, there’ll be much fortune to the native. Even if one or two of these combinations are absent, there’ll still the full effects of a rajayoga

Planetary ruler-ships in Horoscope.

Planetary ruler-ships in Horoscope. 

1. For Sun, Aries is friendly being the sign of its exaltation, Taurus inimical, Gemini neutral, Cancer friendly, Leo both the own house and moolatrikona, Virgo neutral, Libra the place of debilitation, Scorpio and Sagittarius friendly, Capricorn and Aquarius inimical, and Pisces a friendly sign

2. For Moon, Aries is neutral, Taurus the sign of its exaltation, Gemini neutral, Cancer own house, Leo and Virgo friendly, Libra neutral, Scorpio the place of debilitation, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces neutral signs

3.For Mars, Aries is both own house and moolatrikona, Taurus and Gemini inimical, Cancer is the place of debilitation, Leo friendly, Virgo and Libra inimical, Scorpio own house, Sagittarius friendly, Capricorn and Aquarius inimical, and Pisces a friendly sign

4.For Mercury, Aries is neutral, Taurus friendly, Gemini own house, Cancer inimical, Leo friendly, Virgo own house, moolatrikona and place of exaltation, Libra friendly and Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn and Aquarius neutral, and Pisces the place of debilitation

5.For Jupiter, Aries is friendly, Taurus and Gemini inimical, Cancer the place of exaltation, Leo friendly, Virgo and Libra inimical, Scorpio friendly, Sagittarius the own house and moolatrikona, Capricorn the place of debilitation, Aquarius neutral and Pisces own house

6.For Venus, Aries is neutral, Taurus own house, Gemini neutral, Cancer and Leo inimical, Virgo friendly, Libra own house and moolatrikona, Scorpio neutral, Sagittarius inimical, Capricorn and Aquarius friendly and Pisces sign of exaltation but also inimical

7.For Saturn, Aries is inimical and place of debilitation, Taurus and Gemini friendly, Cancer and Leo inimical, Virgo friendly and Libra the sign of exaltation, Scorpio inimical, Sagittarius neutral, Capricorn is own house, Aquarius is the moolatrikona as well as own house and Pisces a neutral sign

8.For Rahu, Taurus is the place of exaltation, Gemini and Cancer are moolatrikonas

9.For Ketu, Pisces is own house, Libra friendly, Aquarius own house, Scorpio the place of exaltation, and Sagittarius and Capricorn the moolatrikona places

Yogi raj Devraha Baba ( Rare Videos)

Devraha Baba was a siddha who lived for over 250 years, before entering samadhi in 1989. So elderly was he that the first President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, more than fifty years ago, said that his father had sat at the feet of Devraha Baba as a child - that is, in the middle of the nineteenth century - and Devraha Baba was already elderly at that time.

This rare video footage was recorded for a russian television channel around 1987-1989, so it is not in English.

Devraha Baba Rare Video 1987-1989

SRI DEVRAHA BABA

Brambha Rishi Yogiraj Shree Devraha Baba

Shree Devraha Baba was one of the greatest and the most famous yogis in the history of India, the eleventh from the lineage of Sri Ramanuja Acharya, also known as Ramanujacharya (the saint and the philosopher from the south of India and the founder of the Vaishnavism) was one of his most prominent followers.

Devraha Baba was a siddha who lived for over 250 years, before entering samadhi in 1989. Dr. Rajendra Prashad, who was the first president of India, verified Devraha Baba's old age. He said that he personally attests to Devraha Baba being at least 150 years old. He said that when he was 73 years old that  his father took him to see Baba in young age , when Baba  was a very old man. His father already had known Baba for many years before that. An Allahabad High Court Barrister had stated that seven generations of his family had sat at the feet of Devraha Baba. Incidentally, Devraha Baba had predicted the time of his death five years in advance.

Devraha was described as a "fully God realized master" and "an ageless saint of legendary repute". One legend has it that Devraha blessed Tulsidas (1532 – 1623), which would make him even over 500 years old.[3] A rough estimate is that around the world, his devotees may number in hundreds of thousands to millions of people.

He was always radiating love. He was Premasvarupa, the embodiment and incarnation of true spiritual love. People of all castes and  states came from every corner of India to worship him.

• Devraha Baba never took food, and never set foot on the ground. 

• According to Devraha he wasn't born from a woman's womb, but emerged from water.

• He lived in a unique hut that was raised off the ground by bamboo poles.

• Devraha Baba was a yogi who lived just such a lifestyle.

• Devraha Baba’s first tapobhumi – Mael Tehsil District: Deoria (U.P.) located on river bank. 

   This area was called as Devar....... in local language......Bhojpuri. 

• He left this place Mael Distict : Deoria located near LAR ROAD Railway Station which is situated between Salempur Jn & Varanasi Jn,  after a long journey and showering his blessings on people of this area and shifted to Vrindaban- Mathura lived beside the Yamuna river in Mathura till mahasamadhi.

• He lived on a 12-foot-high wooden platform where he usually remained stark naked .

• He never ate food. He only drank water from the Yamuna river.

 • He could be in two places simultaneously (a siddhi described in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras). 

• Another attributed miracle was his ability to stay underwater for 30 minutes at a time, without resurfacing for air.

• He could also allegedly understand the language of animals, control wild animals, heal people by his look or word, and tell the future.

• He always radiated love. He was a Premaswarupa, an incarnation of love. He gave darshan (spiritual blessing) to devotees who came to pay homage. Many came to visit this great illustrious saint. People came from all over India and from all walks of life. He was a favorite among India's senior politicians, and was visited by Mrs. Indira and Mr. Rajiv Gandhi. Ministers, saints, yogis, priests, rich and poor all came for Baba's darshan.

• Regardless of his exact longevity, celebrities flocked to secure his blessings. President Rajendra Prasad, accompanied by the Uttar Pradesh governor K.M. Munshi, chief minister Sampurnanand, Lal Bahadur Shastri and C.B. Gupta, conducted a puja of the Devraha Baba during Kumbh Mela. Indira Gandhi too met the Baba and was said to be a devotee. Before beginning his election campaign in Faizabad on November 6, 1989, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, accompanied by the home minister Buta Singh, UP chief minister N.D. Tiwari and K.Natwar Singh, spent 40 minutes with the Baba.

 Among many other the names Madhu Chenna Reddy & Balram Jakhad are also taken.

• Devraha Baba at the greatest celebrations of Kumbh Mela in India, which takes place every 12 years, was recorded 12 times. 

• Devraha Baba would sit silently in front of his little hut during those festivals -Kumbh mela , when he was available for darshan, and would not speak. The tension for the listener would grow, until Baba would suddenly begin to offer a discourse, usually on Krishna devotion as a path opposed to the pleasures of this world. Devraha's voice challenged in its unpredictability: he would withhold his presence and voice, sitting hidden inside his aerial hut and then would suddenly appear, sit silently in view, and then suddenly speak.

Longevity Miracle - Devraha Baba at 250+ Years Old. 

Various researches on done on the miracle of his longevity. He was considered as “ The Ageless Yogi”.

What if a person does not eat at all, but is able to switch his body metabolism into living directly off of sunshine, can he prolong his life? Recent studies made on behalf of NASA, as well as other prior scientific research studies, have proven that humans can live without food. They do not understand why or how, only that it is possible for humans to do so. 

If a person were able to draw his required energy from cosmic sources he would eliminate the toxic fallout (free radicals and Ecs) that occurs from eating food, and this would help him prolong his life span. And, if the person practiced meditation and lived a relaxed lifestyle (thus lowering his metabolism), and also practiced yoga postures (stimulating his endocrine system), his life span would surely be prolonged. Taking these three factors together, it should be possible for a person living such a lifestyle to extend his life span dramatically.

The ancient teachings of the Rishis, which heretofore have been kept secret and only shared with the closest of disciples, now are readily available to everyone. As more people begin meditation practices and learn to tap their inner cosmic energies, and as medical science moves towards eradicating all diseases, it is conceivable that the human life span will be extended by decades if not by centuries.

The importance of the voice draws more on generational than divine transaction. The old body becomes a source of powerful charisma when it no longer constitutes a threat to children seeking legitimating of the morality of their appropriation of the household.

My birth place Tairia,Salempur,Deoria is hardly 15 Kilometers from this place-Mael. I had  visited this holy place many times when Baba was there and was  fortunate enough to have  Darshan, blessing and prasadam every time. And at last a diksha to recite;

ॐ कृष्णाय वासुदेवाय हरये परमात्मनः।
प्रणतःक्लेश नाशाय  गोबिन्दाय  नमो नमः.  ।।

हे श्री कृष्ण, हे वासुदेव (वसुदेवके पुत्र ) हे हरि, हे परमात्मन, हे गोविंद, आपको नमन है , मेरे सारो क्लेश का नाश करें, हम आपके शरणागत हैं !
Obeisance to Lord Krishna, who is the son of Vasudeva, who is
Lord hari (destroyer of ignorance), who is the Supreme Divinity!
I have taken refuge in Him. May he destroy all the afflictions
(miseries) of life.

 

Mother Teresa Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

Mother Teresa

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

Nationality: Albanian, Indian

Born 

August 26, 1910
Üsküb, Vilayet of Kosovo, Ottoman Empire (today's Skopje)

Died September 5, 1997 (aged 87)
Calcutta, India

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. At  mere age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ and left home at eighteen to serve the Almighty and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. She dedicated every day of her adult life caring for "The dying, the cripple, the mentally ill, the unwanted, the unloved" and she loved every minute of it because she was loving, she was cleaning, feeding "Jesus in disguise".

Selfless Service
From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta.

Without any funds she started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming.

The Missionaries of Charity throughout the world are aided and assisted by Co-Workers who became an official International Association on March 29, 1969. By the 1990s there were over one million Co-Workers in more than 40 countries. Along with the Co-Workers, the lay Missionaries of Charity try to follow Mother Teresa's spirit and charism in their families.
Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972). She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards.

Kisan Baburao Hazare alias Anna Hazare

Kisan Baburao Hazare alias Anna Hazare

He was born on January 15, 1940 in Bhingar village of Ahmednagar district to a family of an unskilled labourer who owned five acres of cultivable land. Adverse conditions pushed their family into the grip of poverty and in 1952 Hazare moved into his ancestral home in Ralegan Siddhi. He was brought up by a childless aunt who funded his education in Mumbai but financial instability pushed him into selling flowers for a living and he had to quit studies after Class VII.

Soon after, he joined the Army and trained as a truck driver but his days were spent reading books on the philosophy of Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Acharya Vinoba Bhave.

That turned him to social work. Two near-fatal mishaps in the 1965 war with Pakistan changed his outlook towards life and seeking voluntary retirement from the Army, he returned to Ralegan Siddhi in 1975 which was then in the grip of drought, poverty, crimes and alcoholism.

He used his savings for developmental work of the village. "I asked them to take an oath banning liquor, excessive grazing by cattle and felling of trees. Another oath was to have small families with men undergoing vasectomy," he recalled during an interaction.

He motivated villagers into voluntary labour. Canals and bunds were built to hold rainwater which solved the water scarcity problem and also increased irrigation possibilities in the village.

He calls himself a fakir — a man who has no family, no property and no bank balance. He lives in a 10ft x 10ft spartan room attached to the Yadavbaba temple in Ahmednagar's Ralegan Siddhi village, 110km from Pune and wears only khadi.
But when 71-year-old Kisan Baburao Hazare alias Anna starts an agitation, every leader from Mumbai to Delhi sits up and takes notice. Even his detractors and politicians who hate his guts, grudgingly accept he is the only person who has the power to mobilize common people across the country and shake up a government. His small frail body has taken several blows from the countless agitations, tours and hunger strikes he has undertaken since he came in public life in 1975.

" Anna lost his mother Laxmibai in 2002 and has two married sisters — one in Mumbai and another in Sangamner who worry everytime their "stubborn brother starts an indefinite hunger strike".

However Anna has chosen to firmly stay away from any family ties and never visits his sisters. "I do have a home in Ralegan Siddhi but I have never set foot inside it in the last four decades," he once said.
His achievements have won him many awards like the Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra award, the Krishi Bhushana award, the Padma Shree, Padma Bhushan and the Ramon Magsaysay award. Care International of the USA, Transparency International, Seoul (South Korea) also felicitated him.