Who is Dr. Jai Maharaj?

Answer 1

Who is this "Dr. Jai Maharaj".........

This person has generated so much annoyance in this and other groups that Roy Johnson ([e-mail]) created a FAQ about him. See that FAQ for full details. (If you cannot find it in alt.astrology, look in rec.food.veg.)

Briefly, his legal name appears to be Jay Stevens (e.g., this name appears in the articles of incorporation for his "Mantra Corporation"). He used to post under that name in other electronic forums, but when he discovered the internet, he decided to use a more Indian-sounding name, and began calling himself "Jai Maharaj." Lately, this name has evolved into "Dr. Jai Maharaj." In 1990, he was claiming that his birth name was Jai Mathura. He has many internet accounts, and he sometimes edits the headers of postings to obscure their origin and author. He is believed to create alternate personas and post under additional aliases to give the impression that he has supporters. Such personas are often recognised by their tendency to use the term "Swami" for him.

He has a "library" of articles that he posts, re-posts, and re-posts again, ad nauseam; this accounts for his ubiquity on the net. Each posting contains a .sig file that advertises his vedic astrology business, so the large volume of his postings appears to be part of a marketing scheme. (The official purpose of Mantra Corporation is listed as "business consulting, marketing, advertising and related services." Despite anything he might say, this company is *not* a non-profit organisation.) Netters have dubbed him "Jai Mirage" because they think he is a fake -- a con man. Don't be taken in. And please, please, please don't respond to his postings; he generates enough net "noise" as it is. Just put his most usual alias (Jai Maharaj) and/or all of his net addresses in your kill file for this newsgroup (see the Jai Maharaj FAQ for a list of these addresses). See # 22 for instructions about editing a kill file. For the curious, he once claimed that his birth data are October 7, 1946, 9:15 am (-5:30 h), New Delhi, India, 77E12, 28N36. Oh, and by the way, he is in the habit of posting a slightly edited version of this FAQ, changing this answer into an advertisement for himself, inserting a diatribe against western astrology at the beginning of the file, and putting his most common alias (Jai Maharaj) at the head of the list of contributors to the FAQ! There are two terms for this activity: plagiarism, and copyright violation. (The latter is one of his favourite activities; he often posts large excerpts from books without the authors' permission, and sometimes without giving the authors credit.

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Answer 3

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi, Vedic Astrologer,
he made the prediction about Kargil on June 20, 1999 at 2230 hours UTC that "a calm approaches within 192 hours from now." The 192-hour time window ended on Wednesday, July 7, 1999 at 2230 hours UTC, that is, on Thursday, July 8, 1999 at 0400 hours IST. The Indian Express reported that "The Shrinagar-Leh highway, closed to civilian traffic since the Kargil crisis broke out in early May, was reopened for the public" on July 8, 1999

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