2-MS, re. Brief, comments to correspondence between Mu & Mark

April 29, 2005

Dear Mark,

The work you are doing is great. Whatever anyone might say, it is

obvious that so many people are benefitting by your advice and

comments. Maybe it is your "teacher" aspect that the others do not

understand rather than the "astrologer" part. I know of some people

who studied Jyotish(here in India) and talk just like you - that the

purpose of Jyotish is self improvement and how to grow. And not just

the "fate" and predictive part. Also, I feel that only those people

can say something negative about some else's Guru, who themselves

havn't been fortunate enough of receiving a Guru's Grace. I hope you

will continue to guide us all, for many many years to come.

Thanks,

MS

Dear MS:

Thank you very much. It's of course, always disheartening to be criticised.

But, after awhile the couple comments made me think more deeply about my

Jyotish.

I've been doing it so long I almost forgot how it evolved and what makes it

special.

See, Jyotish & Vedic Knowledge comes from certain people's 'cognitions' of

'Truth' or

what they called the Self, or Pure Awareness of Being.

Much of the Vedic traditon, for example, makes the point that essentially

it's an Oral

Tradition. In other words, writing down these truths is often discouraged,

so that

this knowledge will remain a personal, and subjective experience.

It's not enough to just read about these ideas, one is supposed to cognize,

for oneself,

deep inside all the many truths of Ved, including Jyotish.

I'd almost forgotten how lucky I've been because this has been my

experience.

When you hear about the principles of Jyotish, for example, take the rule on

conjunctions.

Or the one's on aspects. There's a rule in Jyotish that says, when the

Planets are in the

same house or space, they're said to be conjunct. And, when any of those

planets travel

to the 3rd House away, from say Saturn that influence of Saturn's will be

felt again.

Well, I'll never forget the time, I was watching the Transits, and I

discovered, I could experience

that. One day the Moon was in the same sign and house as Saturn, and 'you'

could definitely

feel that conjunction. Then, the Moon went into the next sign, and that

affect of Saturn, conjunction went away. I almost forgot about it, till the

next few day's, when that feeling of Moon/Saturn conjunction came back and

when I looked up the Jyotish/transits, I saw that the Moon was in that

'classic' 3rd House away from Saturn.

At that moment I realized what's unique about Jyotish, is that it contains

wisdoms about life, that are there, in life, in the Stars, in the Universe.

These aren't just man made rules and ideas, these represent true laws of

Nature.

Which of course has been the great draw of modern science these many years,

last 300.

Science studies the Universe to see if it can discover any of the eternal

laws and principles

of Life.

Now I understand that the rules and ideas of Jyotish are meant to be learned

and experienced, inside.

They're eternal, they exist out there, as they do in here!

Let's say, we grew up in a time, when all the slokas, or writings of Jyotish

and Ved were gone,

or had never been.

The rules and realities of Jyotish, could still, be experienced and learned

because they exist in Nature, inside and outside of us.

Again, thanks for your comments.

Sincerely,

Mark Kincaid

"myst070" <myst070

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:21:48 -0000

Re: 2-Therese, re. Brief, comments to correspondence between

Mu & Mark