Shabda and mantra (Kavachas...Mental Chanting)

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, "crystal pages"

<jyotish_vani wrote:

>

> A naive -- even dumb question, puritanically speaking ---

>

> In the last few hundred years that history of culture of humankind

> (the growth, the care and feeding of human psyche through what we

> know as society/societies has really been documented) -- how have

> those helped a large number of people?

>

> Are we humans looking for a brighter room, a well-cooked meal or

> spiritual suicide, en masse?

>

> How can jyotish serve us?

>

> Can it save us, all??

>

>

Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!

 

Namskarams dear Rohiniranjan!!

 

sooo....are we trying to stir things up a bit? are we a little bored

with the current topics and want to get us going on the "save the

world" theme?

 

certainly my friend, you can answer your own question just as well as

the next jyotish fan....after all you've been around the block quite a

few times over the last 30-40 years haven't you?

 

what did our revered KN Rao used to say? He told us to get a job!! a

real job!! because otherwise we wouldn't be doing the world much good

at all...after all, don't most of the folks consulting jyotishis only

want a better cooking fire? as for more light, i doubt that they are

interested in that unless they are writing letters to their local

government representative...almost NO ONE ever comes to a Jyotishi

asking about salvation...or spiritual questions...they all want to

know when they will get a better job, a better wife, a better son or

daughter, a better everything material...they couldn't care less about

salvation...that's not what we're for according to the masses...we are

here for the thrills of peering into the future labour market...the

future marriage market....the future hospital market...the save the

soul market is left to the preachers of all faiths.

 

i think that jyotish can serve us to a certain extent, especially the

jyotishis themselves if they are interested in spiritual research, or

even mundane research, like K N Rao used to do...that is interesting

and might help society in the long run to a certain extent (if the

usefulness can ever be proved that is)...

 

it seems to be clear to me that Jyotish is mostly interesting and

helpful for us practitioners of the Holy Science...as for the general

public, all they want is a new job, or wife...let them have it...

 

in the Service of Love Divine,

as ever,

 

visvanathan