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S.K. Jain is an initiated disciple of Jayapataka Maharaj...

 

 

Bryan Adams offers mangoes to soothsayer

By Sangeetha Cavale

 

BANGALORE: Real life can be stranger than fiction and dreams are the stuff

that life is made of. And sometimes, those dreams come true. Astrologer S K

Jain got a call on Saturday from Dubai-based event organiser Padma Coram,

saying that Bryan Adams wanted to call on him. Next morning at 10, Bryan

Adams arrived at the Jain's residence on Wheeler Road in a hired Tata Sumo

taxi, mangoes in hand. To say that the Jains were excited and happy to meet

their VIP guest, would be an understatement.

 

Adams removed his footwear and spent an hour alone with Jain in his office.

The two talked about astrology and spiritual matters. Adams was fascinated

by the age-old palm leaves Jain showed him. The popular Udaya TV astrologer

gave him a bottle of Ganga water, some Ayurvedic medicine for general health

and an ISKCON book The Science of Self-Realisation.

 

Adams gave the astrologer his date of birth, time and place and got a tulsi

mala, which had been given to Jain by the Udupi swamiji. Adams promptly wore

it around his neck.

 

He showed keen interest in the scientific aspects of astrology. Adams is a

pure vegetarian and doesn't eat eggs. When Jain, who is a Krishna devotee,

told him that he too was vegetarian, Adams said, ``Do you eat fish?''

 

"Oh, no."

 

"You are like me."

 

Adams was born on May 5, 1959, in Kingston, a three-hour drive from

Vancouver in Canada. Jain says that the singer is a very lucky man because

Mercury and Jupiter were rising in the eastern horizon when he was born.

 

The Jains were moved by Bryan Adams' simplicity and gentleness. After the

private one-hour consultation with the astrologer, the singer hugged Jain

and told him, ``You have become my friend.'' He promises to come back to

India to bathe in the holy Ganga.

 

In true Indian style, Adams was given a shawl and garland and a tilak was

applied on his forehead before he left his new-found friends. He was

surprised when Veena told him that she is the mother of an

eighteen-year-old.

 

Sadly, Sandhya Jain could not see her hero as she had a BBM entrance exam to

write in Christ College. She'd gone to his concert two days before and wound

up with wounds on her feet. ``I saw him from 100 feet and when he came home,

I wasn't there,''she said mournfully.

 

Better luck next time, Sandhya.