Necessity and Importance of Astrology Part 1 : The importance of time If we think for a while then we can easily understand that our lives are nothing than adjusting with different flows of time where we can never give up. The things help us in this struggle are our ability, knowledge, sense, outlook etc. A human being first must know himself before he attempts to know anything else. Knowing one's self is the first step and the doorway to know other people and stuff. Perhaps the ancient wise men knew the importance of knowing one's self or this self consciousness, and that is why they advised, "Know thyself." If we can know well about ourselves, we can develop our positive qualities, simultaneously fixing up our negative tendencies. Life then will become a lot easier to deal with. We all have different characters, different aptitudes and different tastes. Our friends, relatives - all have their own, different personalities. Living the life means repeatedly and continuously interacting with the people around us in different ways. If we can know about our friends and relatives, we can easily deal with them with a good harmony and can avoid misunderstandings as well. Just from getting in to a joint venture business or selecting the life partner - there always is a vast importance to know the people you are going to deal with. From even our childhood, we have been seeing that time is a very important matter in our life. It has been said, "A stitch in time saves nine." Because everything has a proper time to be done. There are proper times for sunrise and sunset. There are proper times to eat and sleep. There are proper times to go to school and office. Even there are proper times for prayers, too. If someone studies very hard whole year long but can not reach the examination centre in proper time then his whole labour will turn valueless. We also see practically that sometimes a work can be done so easily, with very less effort. Oppositely, sometimes we try thousand times but can not get it done. That is why it becomes clear that each part or duration of time has a 'value' of it. Each duration of time has it's own nature and potentials. Such as, when it is a rainy season, it would often rain, and that is the visible nature of the time we call rainy season. This time controls the nature with it's own values what we always see, but what we often fail to see that this time does control all of our lives in certain ways. Getting a good idea of the nature of time would surely be a very powerful way to live a better life from all the sides. Therefore, the role of astrology in our lives is immeasurable. Because it helps us understand ourselves, our friends and relatives. And it does tell us about the nature of time we pass through. That is why another name of Vedic Astrology or Jyotish is Hora Sastra, which means, The Science of Time. The word Hora came from the two words Aho (Day) and Ratr (Night). Thus Hora means the time, the phase of our existence in the eternity (Maha Kala). Part 2 : Life is not fair Truly and honestly, when we observe people's lives around us, we feel it needed to acknowledge that life is not fair. I have repeatedly seen that complete innocent people suffer for no reason and people doing all sort of unfair and immoral activities enjoy all sort of happiness. Is this fair? I have seen one's wife who has been proved to be most loving and faithful leaves him and his children for another man and how the husband destroys him little by little after that, and it is very difficult to believe such events even after they happen in life. It would be a lot more difficult to believe if it happens to you or to someone close to you. You will question yourself, "What did I do? Why this had to happen to me? Why this punishment?" You will often wonder if you are in an endless dream which is seeming to be real, because the reality would be too cruel to be believed. It will lead you to the condition where you will seriously start to doubt if there exists someone called God at all. Because if God is really there, how can he tolerate all these unfairness and punishes people for nothing? I have seen a few people getting religiously inclined for the pains life has given them, but they are very few in number. Most people lose all their potentials and destroy themselves little by little when they are continuously hurt over and over. Committing suicides and getting in to drugs are what we see, but we often fail to see the destruction going inside. Even before getting in to Jyotish I have dealt extensively with people's lives, and that always led me to the impression that what in general we know and believe about life, destiny and God is not true, can never be true.. There are some serious incorrect information about the things we are taught from our boyhood, like pray to God he will listen to you, do good things and God will be kind towards you, etc. etc. Good deeds are not rewarded the way we expect nor bad deeds are punished right away. I have dealt with a large number of human lives and saw that most of the times the innocent people are the victims of the misfortune and problems. This world is full of unfairness and full of cruelty. This world is a very bad place and everyone is so selfish. All sort of unfair things are possible to happen in anyone's life. In my life a few of the prayers were answered by the God but a lot more were unanswered same time, including the most intense and serious prayers and pleas to him that I submitted waking all nights with long and tiring worships. Surprisingly, all those subjects of prayers took a route of most miserable ends with the course of time. And observing all these, I always felt that there is some things, some truth, some facts about destiny and life-mechanism that we never know. There is a hidden system that works behind all these things happen to us. It responds to each and every act we perform, but it does not respond the way we expect, rather it has it's own system and nature of responding to us. Only those who can knowingly or unknowingly tune up or adjust with this system are happy and others are unhappy, does not matter how innocent or how qualified they are. I know that many people would not agree to me and would call this world to be a beautiful place. I do not declare them to be wrong. Because, people believe what they experience. Some believe life to be fair because unfair things did not happen to them that much. And they are lucky that is why nothing wrong happened to them. I have always seen that being rich, happy or successful does not prove your qualification or innocence but it just proves your fortune. Because it has been my constant experience from people's lives that without fortune one is not rewarded for his qualification nor for his goodness as a human being.. That is why when I think of one's life, I see it as a person driving a car through a highway. Simply how good you drive, you can never assure that you would not be caught down with an accident because accidents do happen for others' faults where we have nothing to do than just taking part in it or just being present in it. Similarly in life sometimes we do nothing wrong but for others' mistake we fall the victim of condition and have to pay, and we find no ways to get out of these. Oppositely sometimes we get a lot more rewards than we actually deserve. All these confusions of me only found true and practically effective answers when I got in to Jyotish and started to realize how life works. Basically, Jyotish is the set of rules that operate our lives. God had to make a lot of rules when creating this universe. As an example he set the gravity for which anything falls in to the ground. The earth pulls us toward it, the sun pulls the earth and other planets toward it.. When we press our hand in to a wall, it gets obstructed by the wall and does not pass through it instead. When the temperature can be lowered then the water would turn in to ice... there are innumerable laws of up on which the creation is getting maintained. We are discovering and controlling these more and more with science. But actually there are a lot more 'laws of nature' that physics etc. cannot reach or explain. Those rules cannot be proved by scientific theories but only by observing lives they prove true. Those are the rules that operate our lives. And the set of those rules is called Jyotish. And in Hinduism it has been described the same, when Lord Brahma created this universe then he received the knowledge of the material creation from Lord Vishnu a part of which was Jyotish or Vedic Astrology. Vedic Astrology was not discovered or developed by people or scientists but just was received from the God, who created this universe and told us the rules of this universe. And if you study even a little of Jyotish you will see that it's nature and structure is something like that what cannot be developed by human effort. When we realize this fact and also apply Jyotish theories to our lives then we see whatever is happening to our lives are happening as per the horoscopes of us i.e. the Jyotish. Then it answers all sort of questions and confusions I talked about. It answers that God is not unfair, nor he is cruel to make you suffer, but you are just experiencing everything according to the karma you have performed in your past births. It shows that God is not bothering to punish you but he has set a complete set of rules over your head and each of the events happens to you for you perform a particular action to make the event happen. It is like the echo, the sound you make, it reflects accordingly up on you. However this echo does not reflect as we generally expect it to do, such as work hard and you will be rich, study hard so that you do good in studies, and so on. Because we see that working hard cannot always make someone rich nor studying hard ensures a good grade in your exams. (As I said, most unfair things happen.) And so these things happen as per the karma or destiny you have been carrying from the previous births. In general they do not happen for what you are doing now, and the exception is performing remedial measure, when you know what sort of action is going to react in which way, and then you do accordingly. It is not engaging 'worldly efforts' to get something done that often fail, but it is about working with the mechanism and the core rules. Because you know the basic rules and know what sort of action will carry what sort of reaction from the nature, since you know the rules of creation. And when you start realizing this, you will see that trying with worldly efforts is like blind efforts, because that might be or might not be fruitful, (depending upon the horoscope, that shows the destiny most of the times.) but when you work as per the rule of nature or creation, you get it done. However the observation that worldly efforts often work is also true, but only partial. Worldly or material effort would mean the efforts we generally make, like going to see the doctor when we have a health problem, etc. Actually, the fact is that, going to doctor is actually an excuse the planets are making to let the incident happen. It is a way or medium the work is getting done. More elaborated, with serious misplacement of planets, a person would not have even the money or scope to visit the doctor. A better planetary position, he would visit the doctor but still health problem remains. A normal position, he visits the doctor and gets his solution. Much better, his health problem goes away from it's own even before he visits a doctor. The best position - he does not have any health problem. (In a particular time only, because all of us would fall in to health problems more or less in our lives. But, how frequently and seriously the health troubles would occur would be caused by the horoscope.) Thus an experienced astrologer who deeply watches lives would see that actually it is the planets making the person undertake different worldly efforts to solve his problems. It is the strength of evil planets verses the strength and placement of beneficent planets which would decide how and when the problem would be solved and also how easily. As I explained with the example of visiting the doctor concerning a health issue. Jyotish explains how the nature responds to each of your actions in a particular way, according to a set of rules. As I said, many of my serious prayers were not accepted and those subjects took a shape of miserable ends at last. There is nothing to blame God for not listening to me, nor to blame the people who acted to 'materialize' the events in this world, nor my prayer was insincere or anything. Because when I consult my horoscope, it clearly and prominently shows those areas of life worsening in the exact time periods when it happened in real. So actually it is not that the God did not listen to me, but the things just happened the way they were supposed to happen, and also in the exact time frame. Also, I see that the results of my successful prayers were also to happen as per my horoscope. So not my prayers granted them for me. So it all shows that prayers etc. is not going to affect the life but whatever is to happen would happen. By simple prayers and other good deeds we cannot get something done. But there are systematic keys to all these. As an example a password protected file in your PC would need the exact password to open it and does not matter whatever you do, it would not open. Even deleting the file itself is not the answer. Similarly in our life each and every problem needs a password, a specific action to be done to solve it. Otherwise whatever you do, it would not work because it just needs the correct answer, or step of action to get it accomplished. And a good knowledge in Jyotish or Vedic Astrology tells us a lot of passwords to open many files i.e., solve many of our problems. Otherwise even deleting the file itself, or a suicide is no solution. As per Hinduism, God has given us Jyotish to deal with the life, karma and destiny and this is just the set of rules controlling our lives. God knows them the best and not us. So we should follow his path. The manufacturers of your PC knows the best how to operate it and take care of it, you must follow their instructions to operate it. Jyotish answers such questions why people act so cruel to you sometimes. It shows us the divine miracle that each of us act in a very planned and controlled way to build the destiny as it was planned. You will surprisingly notice that whatever had to happen to you as per your horoscope is exactly happening, and to make them happen in the planned way, the people around you are behaving in a complete planned way! Your fate is composed by the activities of people related to or around you, and their action and reaction about you is just what is indicated in your chart. That is why when a 'have been faithful wife' leaves you being most unbelievably cruel and showing dramatic infidelity, you will actually see that both your horoscopes indicated something like that in that time! Thus whatever we do is planned and is used to make the destiny of us and people around us. In other words if you are killed then it is just your destiny to be killed and you need a person in your life who will kill you. And the person who will kill you carries a destiny to kill someone and he needs someone in his life to kill. So you play a role in his life by being his victim and he plays a role in your life by killing you. And these two events in your horoscopes are set to happen on the same day same time, and so you meet and the conditions runs to that stage to make it possible! It's all about playing different roles in each other's lives, and that is why in Hinduism it has been said that this Samsara (life in world) is actually a drama or role playing, we play roles in each others lives and learn our lessons this way. That is why we really do not do anything but we are made do all the things. So basically and truly, you really can not blame anyone for whatever they did to you, all you can blame is your destiny or fate! That is why we often say stuff like, "Even such a nice person like him did this to me, this is all my fate!" And this is very true. The agents of karma, the nine planets make people do all the things to you, as either reward or punishment. That is why even a most faithful wife can do most immoral act, but actually it is not her fault, but both your destiny say so through your horoscopes. That is why the sages and enlightened personages like the saints never blame anyone for anything, nor they hate anyone or get angry at anyone ever, because they all see it clearly that it is not our fault. And though many of us see it, but can not act as per it, being limited with maya and illusions, and the desire toward all happiness and joy etc. That is the difference between them and us. They practice non attachment while we attach ourselves more and more to this race of greed and meanness. That is why, how much cruel or unfair someone behaves to you, or the whole world behaves cruel to you - no point to blame them or there is even no benefit to do so. If your horoscope says being cheated then you can really not blame anyone and even dealing with most honest people will result being cheated, even he might not do it intentionally. So there is no benefit blaming anyone or doing anything unless you focus upon the central cause, or the central system administrating all these in a particular way. And that you can do only through Jyotish. When you will look at your horoscope you will be definitely seeing the problems were to happen, and then you will see the actual cause for this, i.e. the agents of karma who do all these, and then when you will put effort in the 'real way' i.e. performing Jyotish remedies, you will see how easily and surprisingly the problems get easier or sometimes even get completely wiped off. And it all will happen in a way that you will understand the changes started taking place after you did the remedies, i.e. the positive events happened for the remedies and if you did not perform them, they would not have been happened so. You will surprisingly observe how people's reaction and behaviour to you changes surprisingly. For misfortune a most honest person can unintentionally end up cheating on you and for remedies you will rather see a most wicked sort of person is going fine with you. For remedies, you will see how easy everything becomes to you to handle. And then success and happiness will seem easy to you, and you will realize one ultimate truth that though a person works with qualification, he can not get his reward unless the nature responds to him. There is a saying that only losers and failures believe in fate. In practical I have seen it to be true to some degree. Because only an unsuccessful person who actually deserves to be successful sees and realizes how fate and destiny weighs him down all the times. Doing everything in the right way he can not get his goal and only then he realizes the truth. On the other hand the nature responds to each action of a successful person that is why it all seems to be easy to him and he 'perceives' that he is doing all these by his effort, but actually it is the nature to decide to who's effort it will respond. That is why sorrow, pains, problems, difficulties can teach us so much true lessons and facts that happiness and joy can never do. And that is why sorrow, difficulties, pains are all ruled by the eighth house in astrology which also does rule the ultimate truth and also spirituality and loneliness. That is why most of the spiritual people have achieved the ultimate spiritual realizations through pains, grief, loneliness etc. This is just a mere example how facts around us are astrologically justified. Part 3 : Power of remedies : Interfering in to nature's own mechanism and changing even the past ! The most amazing power of Jyotish and remedies is to change even the past, which is very much unbelievable. It is indeed unbelievable, but it always happens. When you perform remedies they often change your own past as a part of the blessings, and even in normal life we face this change of past what we often fail to see. As a practical example when a dasha (period) of a malefic planet starts, a person might feel sick and going to doctor, he might actually come to know that he has got cancer. However it is the result of some 30-35 years heavy smoking, and the doctor tells him that the cancer is some 4/5 years old from today. Now, the cancer he has been carrying since last 4/5 years, but he watched his past as healthy existence, but now he comes to know that what he has been knowing about his own past, is incorrect - so it is changing the past! Thus planets can even change the past and they do it very frequently while you do remedies; Of course they do it in a positive way. Another example. A student might have a very good MBA exam and expect a very good grade. Say to publish the result it took 4 months and in the meanwhile he ended his good dasha and started a bad dasha. Then in this bad dasha he will see that for some unexpected reasons, his result actually came out as simple B- grade where he was expecting a solid A. So the 'Exam was good' impression is no longer valid, i.e. past changed. Then he will have an impression to face difficulty in getting a good job with this B- grade. Now if he does remedy or say if a good dasha again starts then he will come to know that his B- grade would be enough for a good job, and he will somehow get a good job, that he would get with an A grade result, and then the past fear will turn invalid and the event of getting B- grade will be no longer significant. Thus again past changes. Most amazingly, there might be several basic changes to one's past and status about the same subject! But, it needs a strong reversing dasha to change the past that does not happen so often, so we experience it less. But still, it happens. And remedy can change this past so easily and so efficiently. A man smokes for 20 years. He is healthy. But he starts a bad dasha, he has some health problems and goes sees his doctor. They found that he has got cancer. The doctor said smoking has a great deal to say about this. Now, he smokes for all last 20 years, and not just in this current bad dasha he is in when the cancer was found. But, he is experiencing the result in the bad dasha only. In good dasha he knew he was healthy, and experienced no health problems, and it was the truth and the fact to him that he was healthy. But now, a bad dasha lets him know that he has been carrying cancer for the last few years, and what he knew, i.e. he was healthy was wrong. So this bad dasha is totally denying the experience of his past letting him know that he was actually not healthy at all in the time when he was thinking himself to be healthy. Thus it changes his total impression and it changes what has been the fact to him until recently. This is changing the past. Now right at this point if he is able to do a very successful remedy then he will come to know from other doctors or further investigation that his cancer is not serious at all and can be cured easily. Now, with a tremendous strong remedy, he would come to know that he has got no cancer at all. The latter remedy is very much difficult to obtain because when planets do something to you then they generally make sure that you can not change it so easily. You love a girl. So you both expect and think that you would be happy in life. So you marry. But in a bad dasha you see some serious problem between you, and the previous impression and hope of being happy becomes invalid. Past changes. You might have a feeling that you would never be happy with her again. Then, if the marriage survives, again in a good dasha everything becomes so fine. So the problems you never thought to be gone away actually go away showing your impression wrong. There are constant minor changes to our past that we fail to see. But there can be major changes also, to the past. Since I explore human lives to a very deep extent, I always see how serious this 'changing past' might be. I am giving a true example, changed the background for the privacy keeping the basic facts same. A lady wears a stone without being sure of it's effect and within some 10/12 days of wearing it, she faces some tremendously shocking reality in her life. She comes to know about a black chapter of her husband's life about his another marriage before she (this native) was married to him. They have kids and have been living a happy life and her husband was a source of jealousy of her co-workers for the sort of loving, caring and 'honest' he always has been. Those happiness with an honest husband was promised in her chart with no sign of infidelity, esp. on that time it happened. But for wearing the gemstone it did so changing the past. Explanation : She wore a stone of her 8th lord, which is in the 2nd house. This 8th lord aspects her Venus, i.e. married life, spouse etc., and 8th is the house is immorality, cheating, dishonesty etc. So 8th lord aspecting Venus can do cheating from husband. But, a mere aspect is not enough for causing this, there are so many aspects in the chart. But as she wore the stone of the 8th lord, the 8th lord gained much power and then his mere aspect caused much trouble. Or, we can say that the 8th lord aspecting Venus caused cheating from husband, through a gemstone, i.e. the 2nd house, where the 8th lord is in! Most evidently, she has passed the whole Maha Dasha (MD) and two Antar Dashas (ADs) of her 8th lord after being married, nothing caused the cheating. But only within some 10/12 days of wearing the stone it happened. If the 8th lord normally caused it, then it must have been happened in the MD / AD of the 8th lord, or at least of Venus. But it did not happen so. On the other hand, when she was passing a very normal MD and AD, which had nothing to do with cheating, wearing the stone caused it within short. It did change the past for her. The most important fact to note here that the above true event implies that any of these two must be correct that
This second implication is very hard to believe and so let us reject it, but then we must accept the first implication i.e., wearing of the gemstone must be fixed. Then, it leads us to the conclusion whatever we do, we do not do! We do not do anything but the destiny makes us do all these things. This is also unbelievable, because we always 'feel' that we are doing everything at our own choice! And that is what I have been telling throughout, that we perform preplanned actions because each of our actions is a 'piece of brick' in the building of someone's destiny of even our own destiny and to build the building (destiny) fixed as per the architect's (God's) will, we must put all the bricks (do all the actions) in a planned way. Each small actions take part to make up a big event, or in other words a big event is composed of so many small actions and to make the big event happen in a particular way, the small actions must be done (by us) in the particular and pre planned way too! And Lord Krishna has revealed this very same in Bhagavat Gita -
If I am misunderstanding any of these verses, please bring it to my attention. |
Friday, September 11, 2009
Necessity and Importance of Astrology
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