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