ASTROLOGY IS VEDIC

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Dear all,

 

Hindu astrology is very much Vedic. Jyotish is a Vedanga (one of the

six Vedangas (literal translation of Vedanga is "Limbs of Veda")).

 

Here is a nice succinct writeup on history of Vedic astrology -

http://www.shyamasundaradasa.com/Shyama_site/what_is_jyotish/jyotish_h

istory.htm

 

For more resources go to Google.

 

A humble request to people who still have doubts - Kindly get your

basics right elsewhere and let the people in this forum concentrate

on "Vedic" Jyotish.

 

Namaste.

 

Rageshwari.

 

vedic astrology, Rajinder Nath

<jinderman> wrote:

> shree rajiv ji,

> it will be hard to prove that astrology does not

> have any ref in veda as astrology is branch of

> astronomy .dayanad was a social reformer and he

> try to put end to social evil of so called pundit

> sucking blodd and money from poor at hardwar and

> other hindu matth.

> i am glad this topic is on as you know dayanad try to

> stop the idol worship too by snathna dharma .

> he has to criticise what was dominate aplace

> for money making business and jesus get mad at

> trader at jeruslem ttoo

> basically astrology point out that there is unity

> between us and the havenly bodies realising that

> unity we will find out we shoul harmonise with

> it. would you ignore the effect of moon on the tide of

> sea so why not on our mind and thougt we are 75% water

> too.

> please read carl sagan book candle in darkness his

> work is almost like dayanad swami but he refuse you

> agrree astorlogy is fraud.

> yes there are fraud astrologer.

> so may be astrologgy higher purpose is tomake us

> realise

> the tez of light not just see the light.

> also in book secret search of india paul burton

> has a chapter on written in sta

> --- Rajeev Kumar <satpath1> wrote:

> > Namaste Rajesh Mohan Ji,

> >

> >

> > Belief is based upon evidences, whereas faith is

> > blind and require no evidence.

> >

> > If we go by what you say and start believing that

> > sand is sweet and eat a spoonful of sand , then is

> > it going to appear sweet in taste? if not then your

> > statement is wrong, if yes then how long you can

> > keep on eating sand as sugar. I know only one thing

> > that whether you eat poison knowingly or

> > unknowingly its going to have bad effect on your

> > body.

> >

> > Now coming over to origin of Vedas. I said that

> > Vedas are there from the very begining of mankind. I

> > have following points to support this.

> >

> > Had God not given Vedas nobody could have become

> > learned. You may say that humans have instinctive

> > knowledge and could become knowledgable on their

> > own.Now I say that had it been possible then why

> > still in different parts of even India as well as

> > world we see uncivilized people who remain nude,

> > they live and act like animals only.Had god not

> > given these people the instinctive knowledge?

> >

> > So what it proves , it proves that instinctive

> > knowledge cannot be increased or decreased, instead

> > the knowledge that is acquired from somebody more

> > civilized makes the uncivilized civilized.

> >

> > God gave the Vedas in the begining based upon which

> > you , me and the whole world become civilized.

> >

> > More on this issue can be read from.

> >

> > www.vjsingh.com/books.html

> >

> > Think over it twice before making any assumption.

> >

> > Regards

> >

> > Rajeev

> >

> >

> > Rajesh Mohan Kumaria <rajeshkumaria2000>

> > wrote:

> > Respected Members,

> >

> > After reading so many emails on this topic yesterday

> > night, here are

> > my humble ideas and thoughts (it took me a long time

> > to reach these

> > conclusions. In short there is nothing called

> > perfect and logical….

> > its all a matter of your beliefs only)

> >

> >

> > 1. Palentological evidence indicates that life

> > started as bacteria

> > type organisms, some 4.2 billion years ago and

> > another billion years

> > life existed in deep sea bottoms only in the form of

> > ancient sea

> > plants and ancient fish. It took another billion

> > years before the

> > fish evolved into amphibians and reptiles.

> > Eventually after more than

> > 3.5 billion years of evolution, Crocodiles and

> > Dinosaurs came some

> > 240 million years ago. The age of dinosaurs was from

> > 225 million

> > years ago to 65 million years ago. Crocodiles came

> > before dinosaurs

> > and they are still here. There is no sign of man

> > until some 10

> > million years ago when the Cro-Magnon man came and

> > the modern man

> > (homo sapiens) has come just a million years ago

> > only. So more than 4

> > billion years have passed, yet there was no sign of

> > man on this

> > earth. There is not a single species of man on earth

> > when the huge

> > gigantic dinosaurs ruled the continents, which were

> > all fused

> > together and ultimately drifted apart due to various

> > forces working

> > underneath the earth's surface. The history of

> > written language in

> > ancient civilization shows that they started around

> > 6000 years ago or

> > say 6000 BC. So it would appear very illogical that

> > the God handed

> > the Vedas to the First Man at the beginning of the

> > Creation. Its all

> > a matter of one's belief only. Palentological

> > evidence has shown

> > existence of huge dinosaur bones, skeletons and body

> > structures, yet

> > we are still struggling to find the lost palaces and

> > temples of Great

> > Lord Rama's era, which supposedly happened in

> > tretayuga some 2

> > million years ago! So how come we can find dinosaur

> > structures almost

> > on daily basis around the world thesedays, yet not

> > able to locate our

> > great ancient civilizations which are of more recent

> > history. Yet

> > everyone has acknowledged the physical evidence of

> > Mahabharata war

> > and Lord Krishna's existence has been verified

> > beyond doubt since it

> > happened just 5000 years ago!

> >

> >

> >

> > 2. Linking Everything: So if you link the handing

> > over of Vedas by

> > God to the First Man at the beginning of

> > civilization and yet history

> > of written languages is just 6000 to 8000 years old,

> > then it would

> > appear that God handed over Vedas to Man(when the

> > first man came)

> > about one million years. At the same time the

> > ancient man is just

> > learning how to grow crops, develop animal farms,

> > build houses etc.,

> > He has no idea about languages and here God gives

> > him the great Vedas

> > in a complicated language called Sanskrit: So what

> > is the man

> > supposed to do (All this appears so humorous and

> > illogical).. Stop

> > all his work and start learning Sanskrit grammar or

> > start developing

> > sanskrit grammar, when he has no idea what languages

> > are . His

> > primary concern is to get next meal for himself and

> > his dependents.

> > Heavy Rains, hot sun and other types of offensive

> > climatic changes

> > are affecting this man and yet he is supposed to

> > study these

> > documents from God. I doubt if such a thing happened

> > and even if

> > there was one in 40 million chance of such a thing

> > happening, then

> > that man would have thrown away those papers on one

> > corner and

> > continue with his usual work as if nothing had

> > happened. In nutshell

> > it's all a matter of belief only.

> >

> >

> >

> > 3. The Vedas are the Great Truth in their own

> > regard and

> > palentological evidence exists undeniably as another

> > great truth. So

> > these two great streams do not mix at all.

> > Obviously the various

> > developments of Satayuga and Tretayuga (Hinduism)

> > either did not

> > happen at all or they happened on another earth

> > which might have been

> > identical to this earth. Then all such developments

> > were recorded in

> > Sanskrit by great ancient rishis, including Vedas,

> > and brought to

> > this earth , when man (on this earth) was

> > intelligent enough to

> > understand and acknowledge them. So Devas and Asuras

> > are/were another

> > men from another earth/planet. So basically when we

> > pray to

> > God/Devatas/Devi we are praying to great powerful

> > men and women who

> > do not reside on this earth. Again this is one more

> > logic, which you

> > may like very much or may not agree at all.. when we

> > chant the

> > mantras for various Devatas/Devis, we have

> > tremendous confidence and

> > belief that our voices are reaching the heavenly

> > abodes of those

> > powerful forces, who exist billions of miles above

> > earth, when in

> > reality our voices cannot be heard by people who are

> > just few feet

> > away from us. Yet we belief that fire god and/or the

> > mantras connect

> > us to those great gods and goddesses somehow. So its

> > all a matter of

> > faith and we do not like to even have a single doubt

> > about this

> > phenomenon of chanting mantras and their effects.

> > Also

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