Achuta Workshop CD - my feedback.

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Dear list,

I bought this CD and can confidently say it is money well spent and

for a good cause. I wanted to write to PVR thanking him for pricing

the CD very reasonably. Found time only today. This is just (possibly

opinionated) feedback of a jyotish student and please dont mistake it

for a proper review. FYI, I am a beginner level jyotish student

hoping to progress to intermediate level after testing myself with

few charts. Thanks, Narasimhaji, for a reasonably priced,

professionally made CD (except for the mp3 file recorded from VCR).

 

I will even go to the extent of saying it is one of the must-have

for beginner and intermediate students, if you follow the SJC school

of jyotish with empasis on argalas, arudas, divisionals, multiple

dasas, etc. Building a good foundation is the most difficult part

(finer techniques one can always learn if understanding of

fundamentals are strong). I cannot stress this enough, since I

started learning jyotish 6 months back through Internet and read

articles and some books of different authors, each emphasising a

different methodology and theory. Instead of a broad perspective, I

ended up getting confused and am still at beginner level, afraid to

make predictions. If you are a beginner like me, concentrate more on

getting the fundamentals right rather than familiarising with tons of

advanced techniques. This workshop CD and PVR's book might help in

understanding the fundamentals and how to apply them.

 

Even for advanced students, this might serve as a good ready reckoner

and the JHLite 5.0 is much better than JHLite 3.0. The UI is well

thought out.

 

To PVR:

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1) There are some illegal memory access exceptions that crash/hang

the program (JHlite 5.0). I didnt have time to note down as a bug

list. In future versions, if you can add a feature to automatically

report/email bugs by clicking a button it might be helpful.

 

2) Do make more tutorials/workshops oriented towards beginners.

I even suggest this Achuta workshop assumes some basic knowledge and

I think for newcomers it will be helpful if this workshop is preceded

by a tutorial with basics of rasis, houses, planets, yogas and

drishtis. This workshop material, as it is, might prove a bit of

information overflow for beginners who are very new to jyotish.

 

IMHO, it is the beginners that need the highest possible guidance.

Advanced students can/should pick things up on their own.

 

Thanks,

Siva.