Fate, Free Will & Vedic Astrology by Linda Johnsen

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Namaskar Mitra,

 

Fate, Free Will and Vedic Astrology by Linda Johnsen, first appeared in the Yoga

International Magazine. Excerpts from article below -

http://www.esamskriti.com/html/new_inside.asp?cat_name=prabuddha&cid=1061&sid=173

 

"The first time I heard of Vedic astrology was when I read Paramahansa

Yogananda’s spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi. “The stars are about to

take an unfriendly interest in you,” his guru, Sri Yukteswar, told Yogananda one

day. In India Yukteswar was famous both as a Kriya Yoga master and an expert

astrologer. “A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial

rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. His horoscope is a

challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future

results,” the master explained.

 

Our Vedic birth charts are maps of karma, showing a schedule of events that will

unfold throughout our lives.

 

The sages created Vedic astrology to help human beings understand the cycles of

their lives based on karma they’d created in previous incarnations. The

horoscope was designed as a kind of report card for the soul that summarized

their level of accomplishment up to the moment they were born. It revealed the

karmic status of different areas in their life such as family, romance, career,

finances, and spiritual growth. It also showed when particular karmas from the

past were most likely to manifest in the course of their life. And because

Vedic astrology helped people see into blind spots in the past and future, it

was called Jyotir Vidya in Sanskrit, meaning “the science of light,” or simply

Jyotish (“light”).

 

Fate and free will are equally powerful forces. Yet I consider free will to be

more important, because it is our conscious choices which create our destiny -

Veda Vyasa (Mahabharata).

 

Our Vedic birth chart sketches a quick picture of our sanchita karma, the karma

we’ve accumulated during our numerous past births. (Subcharts called amshas

reveal these karmas in more detail.) Planetary cycle called amshas reveal our

prarabdha karma, the fraction of our total karma that will play out in our

present lifetime. For example, the first Vedic astrologer I went to was able to

merely glance at my horoscope and planetary cycles and correctly tell me my

primary interests in life, my career path, when I’d gotten married, and that in

the early 1980s I’d lived in an ashram.

 

But few astrologers are more than seventy percent accurate. The very best might

be eighty percent correct on a good day. The reason is kriyamana karma, the

karma we’re creating now. The horoscope only reveals our karmic status up to

the moment of our birth. The chart also reveals the samskaras or tendencies we

carry in our karmashaya, the repository of karma in our causal body. But from

the moment of birth our attitudes and behaviors in this life modify the future

course of our karma, for better or worse. By living with full awareness, making

wise choices, and acting effectively and compassionately, we can to a large

extent override the vectors of destiny that were set in motion when we took our

first breath. Vedic astrology does not tell us what will happen in our future.

It tells us what might happen unless we consciously act to prevent or modify

it.

 

Your destiny isn’t written in stone; it is a living thing that changes subtly as

your level of consciousness changes.

 

Vedic astrology does not tell us what will happen in our future. It tells us

what might happen unless we consciously act to prevent or modify it.

 

The horoscope is a starting point for spiritual practice, a platform to work

from, not a judge’s sentence that leaves no chance for an appeal.

 

 

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