Everyone's A Winner

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Dear All,

 

On the contrary - rather than the "Name and Fame" Elements, think of how

much MU who is Equally into Jyotish and Western Astrology is taking the

initiative by highlighting Jyotish more and more to his Western-Astrology

colleagues - he is spreading the Word.

 

I think that is his actual intention (and Parashara will no doubt thnk him),

and if the "Name and Fame" element happens to be a BY-PRODUCT (i.e. Mu

achieves critical acclaim) from that, SO WHAT?

 

The Man will have done good Two ways - for Jyotish and for himself

personally - every one's a winner.

 

And before someone has a Go at me for the Subject Title, I don't Gamble, or

don't even do the National Lottery - I'm dead agianst Gambling, as One Man's

meat is

definitely another Man's murder as far as Gambling is concerened.

 

Very best regards - Sateesh.

 

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Manoj Pathak <manojpathak

<mumin_bey

Cc: <gjlist

Tuesday, October 05, 1999 12:33 PM

Re: The Need for New Blood in Astrology.....NOT.

 

 

> Namaskar Mu'Min Bey and others on the list,

>

> I was watching this debate and was quite curious to know whether,

astrology

> is pursued for attaining name, fame and monetary gains or for Swanta

> Sukhaya, Sarvjana Hitaya, i.e., for self contentment and helping others. I

> think, that is astrology for me and could be the same for others also. One

> is respected for his knowledge, and with knoweldge one is endowed with

> humility. Humility is the key word here. "Vidya Dadati vinayam and vinayam

> labhate gyanam" is quite a popular adage here in India. Here in India, in

> ancient days, it was only brahmins who were pursuing the knowledge of

> shastras. But now everyone, who is interested can do it. Times have

changed.

> But to be born as a Brahmin, is indeed, a privilege, as it shows that the

> person was on a higher plate of knowledge and karmas in his past life. and

I

> agree with Sanjay Rath here, gotram and others what he said in his post.

>

> I do not at all worry for all these things and was not even interested to

> join in the ongoing debate. The new blood in astrology, is already there.

> The past teachers and students are no more active. But the bug of fame and

> name has indeed bugged these new line astrologers and they yearn for it

and

> in doing so they try to be different from others, the past astrologers, in

> the name of research, but only end up distorting the facts of classical

> astrology in most of the cases. This is what we need to avoid.

>

> On us, rests the responsibility, of taking pure astrology in the next

> century otherwise, the coming generations would point fingers at us and

> blame us that we all only bickered and disagreed amongst ourselves and

have

> handed over to them distorted version of vedic astrology, more distorted

> than what we received from our elders.

>

> This is my request and humble plea to all on the list.

>

> regards,

>

> Manoj

>

>

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