About the Book The book in your hand is a simplified version of the original Bhrigu Samhita. The original volume is an astrological classic written by Maharishi Bhrigu thousands of years ago during the Vedic Period in a tone, manner and language with which the present day readers are not familiar with. While the theme and substance remains unchanged, the vocabulary and sentence structure has been simplified in this book for everyone to understand easily.

We are aware that the man, by nature, is very inquisitive to know what the future has in store for him. The contents in Bhrigu Samhita satisfy that urge. It is a compilation of results based on predictive astrology to help average people cope with the pressures of life by learning how to become morally and spiritually strong and also the path they should to follow in their daily lives. Prepared from about five lakh horoscopes of different people, Maharshi Bhrigu made predictions of their current and future lives as well as the past. Each of these horoscopes was based upon the planetary positions of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Rahu (North Node of the Moon) and Ketu (South Node of the Moon).

Readers of the book will be able to understand the meaning and importance of the terms used in astrology, such as Birth chart, Horoscope, House, Zodiac, Rashi, Stars in motion, Sun, Planetary movements etc, in their everyday life. They will be able to cast a birth chart, create a horoscope, study the ascendance, beneficial and malefic influence of planetary movements and make predictions. The book has 25 chapters based on "Laghu Parashari' principles and written in the form of 42 Shlokas that describe basic rules, effects of planetary positions and their influence on a human being.

The original Bhrigu Samhita was written essentially for those well versed with astrology, this book has been simplified to help common people understand how to read a horoscope or make predictions.

About the Author Mr. Lakshmi Narayan Sharma was born in Alwar (Rajasthan). From his childhood he displayed great interest towards religion, spirituality and astrology. He spent over three decades serving the Education Department of Haryana and retired as a district level gazetted officer. For his contribution to social services, he was honoured by the Governor of Haryana. He was the Editor of "Jansankhya Shiksha" a departmental magazine of the Education Department, Haryana. The present book "Bhrigu Samhita" is his fifth piece of work on Astrology.

Foreword Astrology is indeed a great human guide, which can give a fair idea of the possibilities in human life. The events in the life of an individual can be fairly accurately predicted, which can help one to meet the ups and downs of life with equanimity to take full advantage of one's auspicious periods. Life on this planet as well as human behavior is greatly influenced by planetary configurations and the transits, which highly influence the lives of natives in all spheres of human activity particularly health, happiness, marital bliss, financial gains, prestige, business acumen and most important of all is personal relations. Astrology helps one to know the pitfalls in one's progress and helps get over them with least mental disturbance and thus provides perfect mental equilibrium.

Preface From time immemorial man has tried to establish a relation between himself and wider cosmos around him. The stars and planets have a sense of wonder. quest for knowing the world around is the science of Astrology, the study of patterns and relationships of planets and stars in motion and its consequent impact and influence on individual birth charts. Astrology provides mankind a guide to know the unknown future flagging some indications and possibilities.

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