Transcendence

Now let us go to the roots of this Ayanamsa Controversy. This was started by "arrogance of the Vedic astrologers in US and Europe". "The Indian Gurus and their Western followers imported Hindu Sidereal Zodiac to the mighty West". Who are the Indian Gurus ? Swami Vivekananda ? Paramahamsa Yogananda? Swami Ramathirtha ? Mahesh Yogi ? Dr Deepak Chopra? And their Western followers ? Dr Robert Keith Wallace of MIU ( Maharshi International University, US )? Noble Laureate Dr Brian Josephson? Nobel Laureat Melvin Calvin? Nobel Laureate Prigogine ? Dr Paul Brunton ? Dr David Frawley ? Why call the Sidereal Zodiac " Hindu ". Is there a Christian Tropical Zodiac? Christian Theology is against Astrology ( "Thou shalt not practise Divination" - Deuteronomy ). Popes condemn Astrology as Magic and Superstition, as Paganism and Witchcrat.  How can Popes follow the Vedic Calender ? Jesus said " Go and preach to all the nations of the world, ba

Bha means Light and Rathi means attachment and Bharata is the land where people are attached to Light, where the call of the Infinite is listened to with keenness! This is the land where the Vedas and the Upanishads first saw the Light, where Bhagavan Sankara established monasteries for the propagation of the Eternal Law, the Sanatana Dharma. Even after the onslaughts of the Moghal Empire and the British Empire, we have not changed our faith. The same Faith  which our Lord taught,  the Yogis cognised,  the Rishies disseminated and our poets confirmed. Now a "Pratyaksha Professor" ( A K Kaul )  is coming out with a theory which, as one scholar pointed out, can shake the foundations of our knowledge and belief ! This is the land graced by high intellectuals like Aurobindo and Ramana Maharshi, Dr Radhakrishnan, Vivekananda and Tagore. Yet we are challenged by a "Pratyaksha Professor" of low learning and low intellect !

All have agreed that Jupiter is the Veda Karaka. There was some opposition to highlighting  Sun in Gemini  as an astro indicator. Angular Jupiter is a visible factor. Mercury rules Ganitha and both together can make one an astrologer. I am not going to talk about the Sun in Gemini ! Also the Moon in Cancer   He who is born when Moon tenants Cancer Will be subservient to women Knowledgeable in Astrology Owning houses galore His wealth cyclical Subject to vicissitudes Short with conquering eloquence Lover of relatives good Interested in watery sports Such is Astrology's decree ! Source :  http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/vedic_astrologylesson108.asp

The Sanskrit poets defined the Absolute Self as Space Eternal, the Vedapurusha and said that the six Veda Anga Saastras, the six auxiliary sciences, form His body ! Chandau Pada, Shabda Saasatram cha vaktram Kalpam Vanee Jyothisham Chakshushee cha Shiksha Ghraanam Shrotha muktham Niruktham Vedasyanga Nyeva Mahur Muneendra ! In our last post, we forgot to define Shiksha or phonetics.  Shiksha Shikshayathhi Vyaktam Vedocharana Lakshanam , Shiksha teaches correct pronunciation. The term Hindu Zodiac was not coined by me, but used by the great Dr B V Raman. Quote The sidereal basis of the Hindu Zodiac brings to relative significance the importance the Great Rishies have assigned to Suns apart from ours,  while being aware of the fact that our immediate overlord is our magnificent Sun. They were far more aware than the modern astronomers of the shfiting character of the Vernal Equinoctial Point " Unquote The 'Pratyaksha Profe

Ours is a broad minded and tolerant culture. We should respect the Rishies of the West, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Emerson,Thoreau, Whitman and their mathematicians and astrologers, Kepler, Laplace, Sir Simon Newcomb, Brown, Leverier etc and their astrolgers, William Lilly, Dane Rudhyar et al. Now I have developed a healthy respect for Western Psychological Astrology, which is based on the Depth Pychology of Freud and Jung, the Transpersonal Psychology of Abraham Maslow and the Humanistic Psychology of Carl Rogers. It is heartening to see parallels to these systems, like Transpersonal Astrology, Humanistic Astrology and Archetypal Astrology. Varaha Mihira said it correctly Melaccha hi yavanastheshu Samyak Saastram idam sthitham Rishivatyepi Poojyanthe Kim punar daivavid Dvija ! Respect the Western scholars as Rishies ! The great Puliyoor Purushotaman Namboothir echoed the same when he said " Paschathya Nirmitan Granthan Na Swee Kurvanthi Panditha " ! Why cant the

Well, the Universal Mind is known as Mahat Brahma .   Says the Lord This Universe, the Womb is where I plant Seeds of all lives From thence, O Prince of India Comes birth to all beings Whoso, Kunti's son, mothers each mortal form Universal Mind conceives And I am He that fathers, sending seed !     ( The Song Celestial - Sir Edwin Arnold's translation of the Geetha ).     Mama Yonir Mahat Brahma Thasmi Garbham Thadamyaham Sambhava Sarva Bhoothanam Thatho Bhavathi Bharatha ! Sarva Yonishu Kounteya Moortaya Sambhavanthi Yaah Tasam Brahma Mahat Yonee Aham Beeja prada Pitha !     This is in line with what Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi taught, that the Absolute Brahman becomes the Cosmic Mind ( Mahat Brahma ) to spread the world and that all this is mirrored in the Universal Mind, Mayayam Bimbithasthvam !  

This fight between the Tropicalists and the Siderealists have been going on for years. There are Siderealists in the Western ( Fagan,Cheiro who developed their own Ayanamsas ) and there are tropicalists in the Eastern ! About ten years ago, in a Western list, I quoted the Vedic Astrologer, Jeff Armstrong and was labelled as " arrogant". Jeff Armstrong's article was " You are not the Sign that you think you are, the Greek blunder". I said the Greeks have blundered and Moser Sirgar II, the Moderator got hot with me and said "Kumar, do you know how arrogant you are?". Now I am far more mature and avoid Tropical vs Sidereal fights ! I did not blame the Western scholar. How will you react when somebody says  the Indian Astronomers, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara, Aryabhata, Madhava, Parameswar, Jyeshtadeva, Neelakanta etc were wrong ? Similarly he reacted. He was influenced by Hipparchus, Ptolemy, William Lilly, Kepler, Laplace etc and how

Let us put an end to these arguments. The tropicalists think they are right and the Siderealists are wrong. Communists think they are right and Capitalists are wrong. We pointed out that this world is a maelstrom of warring passions where ideologies clash. He who advances the Anti Theory or Anti Thesis is insulted and he reciprocates. Who is the villain of the piece? There is a villain of the piece and it is Mind. ! Mind is Biplar, said Tolman. The feeling that Something is Truth and Anti Something is Falsehood is projected by the Mind ! Esse est Percipii and Mind is all in all. All this is just a projection of the Universal Mind,  bhootha gramendriyadyairapi Sakala Jagath Swapna Sankalpa Kalpam ! We are all brothers, parts of the Whole and instead of clashing with each other, let us LOVE ! Let us work out what the Divine wants us to do ! The Absolute, the Perfect, the Alone Our mask of imperfection has assumed He ha

There is another cycle which is controversial. The Metonic Cycle, occurring in 19 years.   228 solar months = 235 lunar months The seven intercalation months are Adhi Masas. Discovery attributed to Meton. fifth Century BCE.   It was known to the Rishies and they said " Soorya Samkrama Rahithe Mala masobhidheeyathe " !

There are three levels of Being.  They are Doing    - Gross Level Thinking - Subtle Level Being     - Unamanifest Level This can be illustrated by the Bubble Diagram. Like the waves of the Ocean. On the gross level, we find agitations. This is the gross level of Doing. When we go to a deeper level, there is more calmness. This is the Subtle Level of Thinking. When we go still deeper, we find the Unmanifest level, the true level of Being. The subtlest of all subtle thoughts come from Being. The Rishies and the Yogis know how to tune to this level. The Science of the Absolute, Geetha, identifies these Three Levels of Being and calls them Adhi Bhootha - Gross Stae Adhi Yajna    - Subtle State Adhyamtika -  Unmanifest State Adhi Bhootha Ksharo Bhava Purushaschadi Daivatham Adhi Yajno ha trameva Dehe Deha bhritam vara Aurobindo says " I experienced three  of the four  faculties of the Intuitive Reason, Revealation, Inspi

Against the Pingree and the Naugbauer Hypothesis, we have the Dr Raju and Dr Joseph Hypothesis. According to Western Learning, the first book on Astronomy was the Almagest by Ptolemy. Date 2nd century CE. There was a text prior to that, the Vedanga Jyothisha by Lagadha. Date 1150 BCE ! Dr Raju vehemently argues, in his "Cultural Foundations of Mathematics", that the Almagest was influenced by Indian sources. Dr Joseph opines that the Indian mathematicians used differential equations, at least 600 years before Newton and Liebniz, in his "Crest of the Peacock, the Non European Roots of Mathematics". Dennis Duke, of Florida State University, says " We have only to conclude that Ptolemy did not invent the equant. " If Ptolemy did not invent the equant, as Westerners widely believe, then who did ? "The bisected Indian equant model is pre-Ptolemaic' says he. Other Greek books, prior to Ptoemy, may have influ

If the Tropicalists "tropicalise" the Vedic Zodiac ( "which is imported from the West" ), it will go the Gregorian Way. The Vedic Astro Calender will become the Gregorian Calender ( again to be rectified later ! ) We have the Pingree and Van der Werden Hypothesis, the Naugbuer Hypothesis that the multi step algorithms of Indian Astronomy approximated a Greek Planetary Model, an eccentre and epicyclical Model. We have to respect them, as at least they admitted that India has an Astronomy. Not like Thibeau or Whitney who said that the ancient Indians  had no knowledge of Astronomy or Maths, when they saw gigantic calculations like 311.04 trillion year cycles ( Maha Manvantara ) and the Cosmological Cycle (4.32 billion years ). They said these calculations are plagiarised from the Romans and the Greeks! Dr Carl Sagan opined that while Christians were calculating in thousands, Hindus were calculating in trillions ! The Radius Vector,

The Eleventh House rules Gains and is one of the Houses of Wealth. The  others being 2,5 and 9, deshveanka. If the Eleventh lord be In angles or trines And if Eleventh be tenanted by malefics A wealthy man indicated ! If the Eleventh lord be In House Second And if Second lord be in Second Rich man indicated ! If the lords of Second and Eleventh be In angles or trines favorable Wealthy the native becomes Such is Astrology's decree ! If the Eleventh lord be Powerful, posited in Eleven This itself is a Regal Yoga Rich the native becomes ! If House Eleven and the Eleventh lord Be in Shubhakarthari Yoga Hemmed in between benefics Wealthy the native becomes ! If House Eleven and the Eleventh lord Or the Eleventh lord's dispositor Be in benefic Navamsas Rich the native becomes ! If the Navamsa lord of Eleventh lord Be powerful, angular or trinal And aspected by the Second lord Wealthy the native becomes ! If the Trimsamsa lord of Eleventh