Osho On astrology_1

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Osho : Hidden Mysteries : Chapter #5

Chapter title: Astrology: The Science of Cosmic Oneness

9 July 1971 pm in Woodlands, Bombay, India

Translation from Hindi

 

Astrology is perhaps the most ancient subject and also in a way the

most tabooed. It is the most ancient because as far back as we have

been able to investigate the history of mankind, astrology has been in

existence. Astrological inscriptions have been found on bone remnants

from the Sumerian civilization which existed twenty-five thousand

years before Jesus. Bone remnants have been discovered with

astrological inscriptions and with an outline of the moon's orbit in

the sky.

But in India this science is even older. In the Rigveda, reference is

made to a certain constellation of the stars which could only have

occurred ninety-five thousand years ago. Because of this, Lokmanya

Tilak concluded that the Vedas must certainly be even more ancient:

the constellation of the stars as the Vedas described it could only

have occurred at a certain moment ninety-five thousand years ago, so

that particular vedic reference must be at least ninety-five thousand

years old.

That particular vedic reference could not have been added at a later

period. Other, younger generations would not have been able to work

out a constellation that existed many years before. But now we have

scientific methods which we can use to discover where the stars were

at a particular moment in the distant past.

The deepest laws of astrology were first discovered in India. In fact

it was only because of astrology that mathematics was born. To make

astrological calculations, first mathematics was needed.

The digits used in arithmetic were invented in India -- the numbers

one to ten which exist in all the world's languages are basically

Indian in origin. And throughout the world the decimal system has been

accepted: the decimal system was born in India, and it slowly spread

throughout the entire world. When you say " nine " in English, it is

only a modification of the Sanskrit word nav. When you say " eight " in

English, it is only a modification of the Sanskrit word acht. The

numerals one to nine, prevalent in all the world's languages, came

into existence only because of the influence of Indian astrology.

The first knowledge about the existence of astrology reached the

Sumerian civilization from India. Six thousand years before Jesus, the

Sumerians were the first to open the doors of astrology to the Western

world. The Sumerians laid the foundation for the scientific study of

the constellation. They constructed a gigantic tower, seven hundred

feet tall, and from that tower Sumerian priests used to observe the

sky twenty-four hours a day. Sumerian metaphysicians soon learned that

whatever happens to mankind is somehow ultimately connected with the

stars -- they are the source.

Six thousand years before Jesus, it was the view in Sumeria that

whenever illness occurs, whenever epidemics are born, the stars are

somehow connected. These days there is a scientific basis for this

view. And those who understand the science of astrology today say it

was the Sumerians who began the history of mankind.

In 1920 a Russian scientist, Chijevsky, investigated this matter

deeply and discovered that every eleven years, enormous explosions

take place on the sun. Every eleven years a nuclear explosion occurs

on the sun. Chijevsky discovered that whenever such nuclear explosions

occur on the sun, wars and revolutions commence on earth. According to

him, during the past seven hundred years, whenever such phenomena have

occurred on the sun, there have been disasters on earth.

Chijevsky's analysis was so undeniable, and because it went against

the Marxist viewpoint, in 1920 Stalin had him arrested and thrown into

prison. Only after Stalin's death could Chijevsky be released. For

Stalin, Chijevsky's conclusions must have seemed very strange.

According to Marxist and communist thinking, whatever revolutions

occur on the earth are fundamentally caused by economic differences

among men. But Chijevsky declared that the cause of revolutions is

the explosions happening on the sun.

How can explosions on the sun possibly be related to the existence of

poverty or wealth in the lives of men? If Chijevsky's thesis is

correct, then Marx's entire system disintegrates into dust. Then you

can't explain revolutions any longer in reference to economics and

class struggle; then only astrology can explain revolution.

Chijevsky could not be proved wrong. His seven hundred year

calculation was so scientific, the connection he established between

explosions on the sun and phenomena on the earth was so close, that to

prove him wrong was difficult. But to send him to Siberia was a simple

matter.

After Stalin's death Khrushchev released Chijevsky from Siberia. Fifty

valuable years of this man's life were lost in Siberia. After his

release he could not live longer than four to six months, but in those

few months he gathered together even more evidence for his thesis. He

also linked the spread of epidemics on the earth to solar influence.

The sun is not a static ball of fire, as we ordinarily think, but

rather an infinitely alive and dynamic, fiery organism. Every moment

the sun changes its mood. And when the sun changes its mood even a

little bit, life on earth trembles. Nothing happens on the earth

without something happening on the sun. When there is a solar eclipse,

the birds in the jungle stop singing twenty-four hours before. During

the entire time of the eclipse the whole earth becomes silent. The

birds stop their singing and all of the animals in the jungle become

oppressed and frightened, full of apprehension. The monkeys abandon

their trees and come down below. They form themselves into groups,

apparently as a means of protection. And it is a surprising thing that

these monkeys, who are always gossiping and making a hue and cry,

become so quiet at the time of the eclipse that even sadhus and

sannyasins in meditation cannot compare with them.

Chijevsky explained this entire matter, but such thinking first

originated in Sumeria. Afterwards, a Swiss physician named Paracelsus

discovered more information. He made an unparalleled discovery -- and

this discovery will transform all of medical science, if not today

then tomorrow. Up until now this discovery could not be considered

valid because astrology is such an ignored subject -- the most

ancient, the most ignored, and the most respected at the same time.

Last year in France it was calculated that forty-five percent of the

people believe that astrology is a science. In America, five thousand

leading astrologers are currently at work night and day. They have so

many clients that they can never finish their work properly --

Americans pay millions of dollars yearly to astrologers. It is

estimated that throughout the world, seventy-eight percent of people

believe in astrology. This seventy-eight percent who believe in

astrology includes a very large number of scientists, thinkers, and

other intelligent people.

C.J. Jung said that the doors of the universities have been closed to

astrology for three hundred years, but that in the coming thirty years

astrology will open those doors and again enter the university. It

will be able to because claims that astrology has made which have up

to now been unproved can now be proved.

Paracelsus gave birth to one discovery -- that man becomes ill only

when the harmonious relationship between him and the constellation of

the stars at his birth somehow breaks down. For this, a little

explanation is necessary. Many years before Paracelsus, a Greek named

Pythagoras gave birth to the very valuable principle of planetary

harmony. When Pythagoras proclaimed this principle in Greece, he had

just returned from a journey to Egypt and India. When he had come to

India, it was intensely absorbed in the ideas of Buddha and Mahavira.

After his return to Greece, he included in his reports a specific

reference to Buddhist and Jaina sadhus. He gave the Jaina seers the

name Jainosophists, and also reported that they walk about naked.

Pythagoras believed that every star, every planet and every satellite

gives out a unique vibration through its movement as it travels in

space. Every movement of the stars gives out a vibration, and every

star has its own individual movement. All the vibrations of the stars

together make a musical harmony which he called the harmony of the

universe.

When you are born, the melody that is created by the tuning of the

stars at that time is inscribed on your mind in its freshest, most

unsophisticated, and most sensitive state -- that of birth. Throughout

your life this will cause good health or ill health. When you live in

tune with the original musical harmony that existed at the time of

your birth, then you are healthy. And whenever your tuning with this

fundamental musical harmony breaks down, you become ill.

In this connection, Paracelsus has done very significant work. He

would not prescribe medicine to any patient until he had seen his

kundali -- his astrological birth chart. And it is a surprising thing

that after having examined a patient's birth chart, Paracelsus would

cure patients who had confused other physicians -- patients who could

not be cured by any other physician. He used to say, " Until I know the

position of the stars at the time of this man's birth, it is not

possible to know the notes of his inner harmony. Unless I know the

arrangement of his inner harmony, how can this man be made healthy? "

But what is meant by health? This we must try to understand.

Ordinarily, if we ask a physician what the definition of health is, he

will only say that health is the absence of sickness. But this

definition is negative. It is unfortunate that we must define health

in terms of illness. Health is a positive thing, a positive state:

illness is negative. Health is our nature; illness is an attack on

nature. So it is very strange that we must define health in terms of

illness. To define the host in terms of the guest -- this is very strange.

Health coexists with us; illness comes occasionally. Health

accompanies us at birth; illness is a superficial phenomenon. But if

we ask a physician what is the meaning of health, he can only say that

health is present when illness is absent.

Paracelsus used to say that this interpretation is wrong -- the

concept of health needs to be positively defined. But how can we reach

a positive definition, an interpretation of the concept of health that

will be creative?

Paracelsus used to say, " Until we know the state of your inner

harmony, we can at the most release you from your illness -- because

your inner harmony is the source of your health. But when we release

you from one illness, you will immediately catch another, because

nothing has been done about your inner harmony. Your inner harmony has

to be supported. "

Five hundred years have passed since Paracelsus, and his discoveries

have disappeared into oblivion. But now, during the past twenty years,

astrology has re-emerged. During this time a new science has been

born. I will describe this new science a bit, and then you will be

able to understand the ancient science of astrology more easily.

In 1950 a new science was born called cosmic chemistry. The originator

of this science is Georgi Giardi, one of the most significant men of

the century. This man, after endless experiments in the laboratory,

proved in a scientific way that the whole universe is an organic unity

-- that the whole universe is one body. If my finger is hurt, then my

whole body is affected. " Body " means that no limb is separate, all are

joined together. If my eye is in pain, then my big toe also

experiences that pain. If my foot is hurt, the message reaches the

heart. If my mind is ill, my entire body will be disturbed. If my

whole body is destroyed, then it will be difficult for my mind to find

anywhere to be. The body is an organic unity: touch a single part and

the whole body vibrates; all parts are affected.

Cosmic chemistry says that the entire cosmos is a body. Nothing in it

stands apart, all things are joined together. So no matter how distant

a star may be from us, when it changes our heartbeats also change. And

no matter how far away the sun may be, when it becomes very disturbed

our blood circulation is also disturbed. Every eleven years an atomic

storm occurs on the sun. T he last time such a great atomic storm and

fiery explosions were going on, a Japanese doctor named Tamatto made

an amazing discovery. This doctor had been doing work on women's blood

for twenty years. There is one property unique to female blood which

is absent in the blood of males. At the time of menstruation the blood

of women becomes thin, but men's blood always remains the same.

Women's blood at the time of menstruation grows thin; at the time of

pregnancy also their blood grows thin. This is one basic difference

between the blood of men and women, according to Tamatto. But when

atomic energy storms were occurring on the sun with great intensity,

the blood of men also grew thin. This was a very novel phenomenon.

Before this it had never been recorded that men's blood was affected

by disturbances on the sun. And if blood can be so affected, then

anything can be affected.

There is an American thinker, Frank Brown, who has been trying to

arrange facilities for travelers in space. For half his life, he has

made it his task to ensure that the men who travel into space will

face no difficulty. The most serious problem is how they will be

affected as they leave the earth. No one knows how much atomic

radiation they may encounter or how it may affect them.

For two thousand years after Aristotle, in the West it was thought

that space is empty, that nothing is there: two hundred miles away

from earth the atmosphere ceases and there is empty space. But the

investigations of space travelers have proved this notion to be wrong.

Space is not empty, it is very full. It is neither empty nor dead --

it is extremely alive.

The truth is that the two-hundred-mile wide layer of the earth's

atmosphere prevents many harmful influences from reaching us. But in

space all kinds of strange currents are flowing, the effects of which

man may not be able to withstand.

You will be surprised to learn this, and you will laugh, but before

he would let a man be sent into space, Frank Brown sent a potato

into space. It was Brown's contention that there is very little

essential difference between a man and a potato. If the potato rots,

then man cannot survive; if the potato survives, then man may also

survive. The potato is a very hardy organism, and man is very

sensitive. If even a potato cannot survive in space then for man there

is no hope of survival. If a potato returns alive, and if it sprouts

after being sown in the ground, then man can be sent into space.

However, there would still be fear concerning man's ability to survive.

From his experiment Brown proved one more thing -- that a potato seed

lying in the ground, or any seed lying in the ground, grows only in

relation to the sun. The sun alone arouses it and encourages it to

emerge. The sun alone summons the embryo plant and induces its growth.

Brown also did research in another field. This other subject has even

now not been given a suitable name, but at present it is called

planetary heredity. There is another word in English, horoscope, which

comes from the Greek horoscopos. The meaning of the word horoscopos

is: I observe the emerging planets.

When a child is born, at that moment many stars are emerging all

around the earth's horizon. Just as the sun rises in the morning and

sets in the evening, so stars rise and set in space twenty-four hours

a day. If a child is being born at six o'clock in the morning, at that

time the sun too is rising. At that time some stars are also being

birth, and other stars are setting. Some stars are ascendant; some

stars are on the decline, other stars are rising. This child is being

born into a certain arrangement of stars in space.

Up until now we have doubted -- and even now many people not deeply

familiar with the subject still doubt -- that the moon and stars can

have anything to do with man. Wherever the stars may be, what

difference will it make to some child being born in a village? And

then too, on the same date, under the same constellation not just one

child but thousands of children are born.... Among these one may

become the president of some country, but the remainder will not.

Among these one may die after one hundred years, and another after two

days. Among these one will be a genius and one will be an idiot. So

from a superficial viewpoint one might ask how a child can be related

to a horoscope just by being born under a certain constellation and

planetary pattern.

The logic of such a question seems clear and direct: Why would the

stars be concerned with the birth of a single child? And then also,

not just one child is born; under the very same stars many are born

who are not all alike. From such logic it seems that the birth of a

human being has no connection with the stars.

But from the investigations of Brown, Picardi, Tamatto and others, we

can draw a great conclusion. All these scientists say that while we

can't yet claim that a child as an individual is influenced by the

stars, still, we can now say for certain that life as a whole is

affected. Whether a child is influenced as an individual we cannot now

say or know, but life as a whole is. And if life as a whole is, then

as we investigate the facts of the matter more deeply we will discover

that the individual, too, is affected by the stars.

One thing more must be considered. It has been thought that astrology

is a science which, because it originated in an earlier time, could

not develop. But in my view the situation is just the opposite.

Astrology was an infinitely developed science in some extremely

advanced civilization, but that civilization has been lost and only

incomplete fragments of its astrology has remained in our hands.

Astrology is not a new science which needs to be developed, but a

science which was at one time very advanced. Then the civilization

which developed it was lost. Civilizations come and go every day: the

fundamentals, the basic sayings and the basic principles of those

things which have been developed by them, become lost.

Today, science is approaching the point where it will accept the

thesis that life as a whole is affected by the movements of the stars.

 

At the time of birth, the condition of a child's mind is exactly like

a very sensitive photo plate.... Two or three things need to be

thought about if we want to understand how life is affected. And only

if life is affected can there be the possibility of astrology -- not

otherwise.

We should try to understand the phenomenon of twins. Two types of

twins exist. One is identical twins -- those who are born from one

egg. The other type is those who, although they are twins, are born

from separate eggs; in the mother's womb two eggs become fertilized,

and two children are born. The first type is more rare -- two children

from one egg. They are very significant subjects to study, because

they are born at the same time. Out of necessity we call the children

born from separate eggs, " twins, " but the moment of their birth is not

exactly the same. It must be understood that birth is an ambiguous

phenomenon. The first aspect of birth is conception -- the actual

birth takes place on the day when the foetus is conceived in the

mother's womb. This is actual birth. What you call birth is really

birth number two -- when the child comes out of the mother's womb.

If we were to carry out a complete astrological investigation -- as

the Hindus alone have done, and done very thoroughly -- then our

actual concern would not begin when the child is born. Our actual

concern begins when the child starts its journey in the mother's womb,

when the embryo takes shape -- because that is the actual birth. So

Hindus have also come to feel that if a particular type of child is to

take birth, it will be born if intercourse and pregnancy occur under

an arrangement of planets and constellation most suitable for that

type. Now I will explain to you a little of the background of this,

because much work has been done in this area and many things have

become clear.

Ordinarily, when a child is born at six o'clock in the morning, we

think that the constellation which exists at that time influences the

child. My view is different, fundamentally different. Just because a

child is born at six o'clock in the morning the stars don't cast their

influence over him. No. Rather, the child chooses to be born under

those stars which will influence him as he wishes to be influenced.

This is a radically different thing. When the child is taking birth,

then it chooses the planets and stars and the moment at which it will

take birth. And if we go still more deeply, then the child also

chooses the time of its conception.

Every soul chooses its own time of conception -- when it will accept a

womb, at which moment. The moment of conception is not insignificant.

It is significant in that it is a question of how the entire universe

exists at that moment and to what sort of possibilities the universe

opens the door at that moment.

When two children are conceived together from one egg, then the moment

of their conception is the same and the moment of their birth is the

same. It is interesting that the lives of the two children who have

taken birth from one egg are so alike that it is difficult to say that

the moment of birth has no influence. The I.Q. of twins born from one

egg is just about equal. And the fractional difference which arises --

those who know say that it is because of our faulty measuring devices.

Even now we have not been able to develop adequate criteria by which

we can quantitatively measure intelligence.

Even if twins born from the same egg are brought up far apart from

each other, still their I.Q.'s do not differ. Even if one child is

raised in India and another in China, and neither is aware of the

existence of the other, this will still be true. Cases have occurred

where such twins have been raised far apart from each other until they

have attained maturity, but their I.Q.'s did not differ. It is

surprising that the I.Q. can be associated with the child's potential

at birth.

When the twin who lives in China suffers from a cold, at that time

its twin in India also suffers from a cold. Generally, twins born from

one egg die in the same year. At the most, three years elapse between

their deaths, and at the least, three days -- but never more than

three years. If one twin has died then we can assume that after three

days or within three years, the other will die. Their attitudes, their

behavior, their feelings, are parallel, and it seems that the two live

in almost exactly the same way. Their similarity is seen in many other

things also -- each acts like a copy of the other.

Is the moment of birth so influential that their lifetimes are of

about the same lengths, that their I.Q.'s are almost equal, that their

bodily behavior is the same, that when the two fall ill it is from the

same illness, and that when the two become well again it is from the

same medicine? Can the moment of birth be so influential?

Astrology has been saying that the moment of birth is even more

important than this. Up until now science has not agreed with

astrology, but now it is beginning to do so. In coming to this

increasing agreement, some new experiments have been helpful.

For example.... At the time when we launched an artificial satellite

into space, we learnt that a network of infinite types of radiation

continuously pour out from the universe and from the constellations,

and are diffused throughout the earth. On the earth, nothing is

unaffected by this phenomenon. We know that the ocean is influenced by

the moon, but we have not taken into consideration the fact that the

same relative proportion of water and salt that occurs in the ocean

occurs also in the human body -- the same proportion. Forty-five

percent of the human body consists of water, and the proportion of

salt contained in that water is the same as is contained in thousands

of bays. If the water in the ocean is affected by the moon, then how

could the water inside the human body remain unaffected?

Now, in this connection, two or three facts emerging from recent

investigations must be kept in mind. For example, as the day of the

full moon approaches, the amount of madness in the world increases.

And on the last day of the darker fourteen days, the least number of

people go mad. As the moon grows brighter the proportion of madmen

also begins to increase. On the day of the full moon, the greatest

number of people enter madhouses; and on the last day of the moon's

waning period, the greatest number of people are discharged from

madhouses. Statistics are now available....

In English there is the word lunatic; in Hindi there is the word

chaandmara. Chaand refers to the moon, just as lunar does in English.

Chaandmara is a very ancient term, and the word lunatic also is some

three thousand years old. Some three thousand years ago, the thought

came to men that the moon does something to the insane. But if it does

something to the insane, then how can it avoid affecting the sane?

In the final analysis, the construction of the brain and the internal

composition of the body are the same for all. Yes, it may be that the

moon affects madmen to a greater extent, and the sane to a lesser

extent. This is simply a quantitative difference. But it is impossible

that the sane remain completely unaffected by the moon. If that was

true, then nobody could go mad -- because everyone who goes mad was

once sane. The moon must first do something to those who are sane.

Professor Brown made an interesting study. He was a man completely

without faith in astrology. He was a disbeliever, and in his earlier

writings he had very much ridiculed astrology. But despite his

skepticism he began some investigation. He gathered together the

kundali, the birth charts of many famous generals, doctors, and other

professions. But then he found himself in great difficulty because he

discovered that members of a certain profession were born under a

special planet, under the same constellation. For instance, among all

famous generals the influence of Mars upon their lives is very strong.

In the lives of professors the influence of Mars is completely absent.

The study which Brown carried out on some fifty thousand men who are

generals, reveals that in the lives of these men the influence of Mars

is very strong. Generally, when such personalities take birth, the

planet Mars is ascending. The moment of their birth is the moment that

Mars begins to rise. Just the opposite to this, no matter how many

professors there are in the world, they never take birth at the time

of the planet Mars' ascension. If it happened only occasionally, you

could think it a coincidence -- but there cannot be a hundred thousand

cases of coincidence.

Mathematicians are born under a specific constellation; poets are

never born under this same constellation. In an occasional case there

can be a coincidence, but when it happens so often it cannot be a

coincidence.

In fact there is a great difference in behavior among people of

different professions and occupations -- for example, between poets,

mathematicians, generals, and pacifists. On the one hand there can be

a man like Bertrand Russell who says that there should be peace in the

world, and on the other hand a man like Nietzsche who says that the

day war ceases the world will cease to be meaningful. Between them is

there only an intellectual dispute, or also a dispute of stars? Is

there only an intellectual distance between them, or does the moment

of their births also separate them?

The more research is done, the more it is being discovered that the

talents of a man are revealed by the time of his birth. Those who know

even a little bit about astrology say that this happens by his being

born under a specific constellation. But I want to say to you that

man chooses the constellation under which he is to be born. According

to what he wants to be -- whatever his innate possibilities, whatever

the shape of his last life taken in its entirety, whatever his

motivating consciousness -- he will be born under the appropriate

constellation. Every child, every new life, insists on a specific

moment for birth before its entry. It wants to be born at a specific

moment, only at this moment does it wish to be conceived. His desire

and that moment are interdependent.

As I have told you, the water of the ocean is subject to certain

influences. But all life is created out of water; without water, no

life is possible. So in ancient Greece, seers used to say that only

from water is life born, that water is life. Ancient Indian, Chinese

and other mythologies also say this. Today scientists who believe in

evolution also say that life was born in water, that perhaps the first

life on the planet lived in the water. This was the first form of

life, and then out of this, man eventually evolved.

Water is the most mysterious element of all.

Whatever influences from the stars reach man from the universe, from

space, reach him through the medium of water. Having once affected the

water in a man's body, any radiation can gain entrance into him. Much

work is being done with water, and many mysteries concerning water are

coming to man's attention.

The biggest mystery about water which has come to the attention of

scientists in the last ten years is that water possesses a lot of

sensitivity. Whatever influences are active from any direction in life

are first felt by water. The water in us is the first thing to be

affected. Once the water in us is influenced, then it will be very

difficult for us to avoid being influenced.

You will be surprised to learn that when the child swims in the

mother's womb, he swims just as if he were in the ocean. The water in

which the child swims in the mother's womb possesses the same

proportion of salt as is present in the ocean. Whatever influences

reach the child from the mother's body do not reach him directly;

between the mother and the child growing in her womb there is no

direct connection. Water is the mediator. Whatever influences reach

the child from the mother do so through the medium of water; there is

no direct relationship. Then throughout our lives the water in our

bodies behaves just as the water in the sea.

Fish in the ocean have been much studied. There are fish which come

onto the seashore and lay their eggs when the tides of the ocean are

ebbing, when the sea is receding. Riding with the waves, the fish come

onto the sand, lay their eggs, and return with the ocean waves. At a

fixed time the ocean waves return. By then the eggs will have burst

and the spawn will have come out. Then the incoming waves will take

the spawn back out to sea.

Scientists who studied these fish were very surprised, because the

fish always come to lay their eggs at the time when the tide is

ebbing. If they were to lay their eggs while the tide is rising then

the eggs would be washed away in the flood. They lay their eggs when

the tide is going down, and withdraw for a little time in the recess

of the waves. The waves do not wash a second time over the place they

lay their eggs, otherwise the waves would wash the eggs away.

Scientists are very puzzled as to how these fish know when the tide

will go down -- when the time of the ebb-tide has arrived. If there

were even the slightest mistake in timing, the eggs would be washed

away. But they have never made a mistake in hundreds of thousands of

years. If they had made an error they would have disappeared as a

species. But they have never made any error. What equipment do these

fish possess by which they can know about the tides? What sense organ

do they possess that tells them when the tide will ebb? A hundred

thousand fish will be gathered together at one time over the entire

seashore.... There must be some code, some informative mechanism in

the possession of these fish. A hundred thousand fish will come from

thousands of miles away to lay their eggs on the ocean beach -- and

all at the same time.

Those who study the phenomenon say that besides the moon there can be

no other source. The moon is the source of the fish's intuition,

nothing else. It is from intuition that the fish know when the tide is

ebbing and when the tide is rising. The impact of the moon is the only

way they have of knowing the tides.

There is another possibility. It has been conjectured that these fish

might somehow be informed by the waves of the sea. So scientists put

them in a place where there are no ocean waves: in water, in an unlit

room. But the results turned out to be very surprising. The fish were

enveloped in darkness, the moon was not in view. No light was in view

at all, but when the moon reached the exact point at which the fish in

the ocean would go and lay their eggs on the shore, at just exactly

the same moment the fish in the laboratory laid their eggs. What does

this fact show? That it is not a question of the ocean waves.

Someone may say that the race begins only when the fish receive

signals from each other, but this hypothesis cannot stand either.

Scientists have witnessed the fish when they were isolated from each

other. They have tried to disturb the brains of these fish in every

way. They have placed the fish in darkness for twenty-four hours so

that the fish do not know when it is morning and when it is night.

They have observed these fish after placing them under a bright light

for twenty-four hours so that the fish would not know when it is day.

They have observed them after setting up an artificial moon, and daily

they either lessened or increased its brilliance. But these fish could

not be fooled. When the authentic moon came to the right point, at

that moment only did the fish lay their eggs. Wherever they were, they

would lay their eggs at that moment.

A hundred thousand birds every year fly hundreds and hundreds of

miles. The winter is on its way, and soon snow will fall, so the birds

begin fly away from the areas where snow will fall. They will stop at

a place thousands of miles away. To reach their winter encampment, two

months are required. These birds depart exactly one month before the

coming of snow. At the time of departure snow has not yet begun to

fall, but after exactly a month it will fall. How do these birds

calculate the date on which snow will fall? Our weathermen, who have

the most elaborate observatories, cannot come up with such exact

information. I have heard that some weathermen first ask astrologers

sitting on the roadside, " What do you think -- will it rain today or not? "

The arrangements which man has made seem juvenile. Birds know a month

and a half or two months before snow falls. After thousands of

experiments it has been observed that the day birds fly is fixed for

every type of bird. Every year the date changes, because there is no

fixed date for snow to fall. But it is certain that every bird will

fly away one month before snow falls. If snow is to fall ten days

later than the previous year, then they will fly ten days later. If

snow falls ten days earlier, they will fly ten days earlier. If the

date of the first snowfall is uncertain, then how are these birds

informed?

In Japan there is a bird which will evacuate a town twenty-four hours

before an earthquake occurs. It is just an ordinary town bird -- in

every town there are many of them -- but twenty-four hours before an

earthquake these birds will evacuate the town. At present, scientists

are unable to predict whether an earthquake is coming, even two hours

beforehand. Two hours before they are still uncertain, they are still

unsure. There is only a probability, a possibility, that an earthquake

can happen. But in Japan, people know twenty-four hours in advance

that an earthquake is coming. From whichever town this bird flies

away, the people of that town know that now there is only twenty-four

hours' time. This bird has retreated; not a single one of that species

remains in the town. How does this bird become informed?

For ten years now, scientists have been saying something new -- that

every organism possesses an internal sense organ which feels the

outside world. Perhaps man too possesses it, but has lost it through

depending on his intellect. Man is the only living being in the world

who has, through intelligence, lost many things which he once had.

Through the same creative intelligence he has also gained many things

he did not have, but at a great loss. What he had he has lost, what he

did not have he has invented. But even miniature organisms possess an

inner source of feeling. And now scientific data is becoming available

which proves that such an inner source exists. This discovery of an

inner source makes us aware that nothing alive on this earth is

isolated or separate. Everything is joined to the cosmos. If anything

happens anywhere its results will begin to be felt here.

I was talking about Paracelsus.... Present-day physicians are also

arriving at the conclusion that when spots emerge and grow on the sun,

illness on the earth increases, and that when sunspots decrease,

illness on the earth also decreases. We will never get rid of disease

on earth while sunspots last. Every eleven years there is great

turmoil on the sun and huge explosions take place. When explosions and

turmoil occur on the sun, at that time wars and disturbances occur on

earth. The wars that take place on earth follow a ten-year sequence.

Epidemics also follow a ten or eleven-year sequence. Revolutions also

follow approximately a ten or eleven-year sequence.

Once you have the idea that we are not separate or isolated but joined

together in an organic way, then it will be easy to understand

astrology. This is why I am explaining all this to you.

Some men have thought, and even now think, that astrology is

superstition, blind faith. To a great extent this seems to be true.

Those things that it is difficult to find a scientific explanation for

seem to us to be based only on blind faith. But astrology is very

scientific. The meaning of science is the investigation of the

relationship between cause and effect. Astrology says that whatever

happens on this earth is not uncaused. However, we may not be aware of

the causes. Astrology says that the shape which the future will take

cannot be isolated from the past but must be joined to it: what you

will be tomorrow will be joined to what you are today; what you were

until today is joined to what you will be tomorrow.

Astrology is a very scientific way of thinking. It says that the

future will emerge only out of the past: your today has emerged from

your yesterday; your tomorrow will emerge from your today. Astrology

also says that whatever will happen tomorrow is in some subtle way

present even today. Now try to understand a little about this.

Three days before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln dreamt that he

had been murdered and that his corpse was lying in a special room in

the White House. He even noted the number of his room. At that point

his sleep was broken, and when he woke up, he laughed. He said to his

wife, " I dreamt that I was murdered and that my body was lying in

such-and-such-number room, and in such-and-such wing of the White

House " -- he was sleeping in that wing of the White House. " You stood

at my head, and such-and-such people were standing all around. "

It was a joke, a laughing matter to him. Lincoln and his wife went

back to sleep. Three days later Lincoln's assassination took place.

Three days later his body was lying in that number room, in that very

place, and in that sequence people were standing around his body.

If what was to occur three days later had not in some fashion already

occurred, then how could such a dream have taken place? How could the

dream resemble, in such detail, what actually took place? Such a

glimpse is given in a dream only if in some way it is already implied

in the present moment. Then only can we get a glimpse of what will

take place in the future.

If we open the window of the present, then we will be able to see that

the future is just outside this window. It is the thesis of astrology

that the future is simply our ignorance -- so, it is " the future. " If

we were to see, then the future would not be a " happening " for us --

we would know it is already present here and now.

There is reference to one event in Mahavira's life, over which there

has been much dispute. Because of this dispute, a group of his

disciples broke away from him, in his very presence. Because of this

dispute, five hundred of Mahavira's munis created a separate order.

Mahavira used to say that whatever is happening has in some sense

already happened: if you are walking, then in a sense you have already

arrived at the destination; if you are growing old, then in a sense

you have already grown old. Mahavira used to say that whatever is

happening, whatever is in process, has already occurred.

One senior disciple of Mahavira lived far away from him during the

monsoon. He was sick, so he asked a junior disciple who was present to

spread out a mat for him. The junior disciple began to spread out the

mat. He had just unfolded the twisted, rolled-up mat a little when the

senior disciple remembered Mahavira's saying. He said, " Stop! Mahavira

says that what is happening has already happened. " The mat was in the

process of being rolled out but it was not yet opened. It had suddenly

occurred to him that Mahavira had said a very wrong thing. The mat was

half-opened, but in what sense was it already opened?

He left the mat there. After the monsoon he went to Mahavira and said,

" You are mistaken when you say that what is happening has already

happened, because right now the mat is lying half-opened. It was being

opened, but it has not been opened. So I have come to prove that your

saying is wrong. " Mahavira told him that he had not understood

the saying. This disciple must have had a very childish mind;

otherwise he would not have come with such talk. Mahavira said, " You

have stopped the process. It was happening but you interrupted it. The

mat which you prevented from unfolding was already actualizing itself

in the very unfolding process. It had, in fact, already been

actualized. You only saw the mat in the process of unfolding, but one

more process was going on, and that is what has already happened. So,

for how long will your mat remain folded? It is becoming opened, and

will open. You go back. "

When the disciple returned he saw that a man had opened the mat and

was lying on it, resting. This man had upset everything; he had

destroyed the whole thesis of the disciple!

When Mahavira used to say that whatever is happening has already

happened, he was saying that whatever is happening is the present,

whatever may be is the future. The bud which is coming into blossom

somewhere has already blossomed, so it will blossom, it will become a

flower. Right now the bud is in the process of flowering, right now it

is only a bud. But if it is in the process of flowering, then it will

flower. Its having flowered has also in a sense already occurred

somewhere.

Now we should look at this from another angle. It will be a little

difficult. We always look from the viewpoint of the past. The bud is

blossoming, but our thinking is generally past-oriented -- bound to

the past. We say that the bud is blossoming, that it is becoming a

flower, that the bud will become a flower. But the reverse may be the

case. For instance, if I push you from behind, I am making you go

forward. But it may also be that someone is pulling you from ahead.

The motion can be in both directions. I am pushing you from behind and

you are going ahead. It may be that someone pulls you from ahead, but

that no one is pushing you from behind. In this case too you will go

ahead.

Astrology recognizes the incompleteness of the view that the past

gives the impetus and that the future happens as a result. If one

views a phenomenon in its totality, one sees that the past is

providing the impetus, but also that the future is exercising a pull,

an attraction. The bud becoming a flower is not all that is happening.

The flower is calling out to the bud to become a flower; it is

exercising a pull. The past is behind; the future is ahead. Now, in

the present moment, there is a bud. The entire past is pushing the bud

to become a flower and the entire future is calling on the bud to

become a flower.

Under pressure from both directions, past and future, the bud will

become a flower. If there were no future, then the past by itself

would not be able to create the flower, because the future must

provide space for the bud to become a flower. In the future a place, a

space, is necessary. If the future provides a place, only then will

the bud be able to flower. If there were no future, then no matter how

much the past tried, no matter how much it pushed you, it would be in

vain. No matter how much I push you from behind, if there is a wall in

front I cannot make you go ahead. Space is needed to go ahead. If I

push you and the space ahead accepts you with the invitation, " Come!

be my guest, " then only can my pushing be significant. For my pushing,

a space in the future is needed. The past does the work; the future

gives space.

It is the view of astrology that looking from the standpoint of the

past alone is insufficient and only partially scientific.

The future is calling all the time, drawing us all the time. We do not

know, we are not aware. This is the weakness of our eyes, this is our

shortsightedness -- we cannot see very far. About tomorrow nothing is

revealed to us.

If you look at Krishnamurti's kundali some time, you will be

surprised. If Annie Besant or Leadbeater had cared to look at

Krishnamurti's birth chart then they would have seen that to work with

Krishnamurti was wrong because his birth chart clearly shows that to

whichever organization Krishnamurti belongs, he will be its destroyer.

It shows that whichever organization he belongs to, he will bring

about its disintegration; whichever organization he joins, it will

die. But Annie Besant was not ready to accept this. No one could think

such a thing -- but this is the way it happened.

The Theosophical movement tried to groom Krishnamurti as its leader.

Theosophy made such an effort on Krishnamurti's behalf that the

movement died forever. Annie Besant created a big organization called

the Star of the East, just for Krishnamurti. Then one day, after

having inspired the organization, Krishnamurti separated himself from

it. Annie Besant had surrendered her entire life in order to put the

organization on its feet, and destroyed herself over it. But for this

Krishnamurti cannot be blamed. The star under whose influence he was

born clearly announced that he would be a destructive and disruptive

force within any organization.

The future is not utterly uncertain. Our knowledge is uncertain; our

ignorance is weighty. Nothing of the future seems to be revealed to

us. We are blind; nothing at all of the future is revealed to us.

Because nothing seems to be revealed to us, we say it is uncertain.

But something of the future is revealed to us -- and astrology is not

merely the study of what the stars and planets say or of calculating

their significance. This is only one dimension of astrology.

Then there are other dimensions of knowing the future too. People have

lines on the palms of their hands, people have lines on their

foreheads, people have lines on the soles of their feet -- but this

too is superficial.

In the human body there are hidden chakras. Every chakra has its own

unique sensation. Every chakra vibrates in its own unique fashion, at

its own frequency, all the time. There are ways to check what these

are. Human beings have concealed within them the mental impressions or

seeds of the past.

Ron Hubbard has brought a new word, a new science, to the West. For

the East it is ancient. The name of this science is time track.

Hubbard thinks that in whatever form a man has lived -- whether as man

or beast, whether as plant or stone... in whatever form he has lived

throughout his infinite span of lives, this entire stream of memories

is still contained within him. This stream can be exposed, and a man

can even be made to re-experience those memories.

In all of Hubbard's research, this is the most valuable discovery.

About time track Hubbard has said that within man there are engrams.

On the one hand, we possess a memory by which we recall what happened

yesterday and what happened the day before. This is our " working "

memory, this is our everyday memory. Just as every shopkeeper or

office worker keeps a daily register, this is our working memory. It

becomes useless every day. In fact, it does not exist -- it is not at

all permanent. This is the working memory through which we do our work

every day, and then every day we throw it out.

But even deeper than this is a memory which is not merely for getting

the work done -- which is our life, which sums up our entire

experience, the accumulated essence of our experience throughout

countless lives on the path. This, Hubbard has called engram -- it has

become ingrained within us. It lies in its entirety, locked deep

within, just as if a tape is kept locked in your pocket. It can be

opened, and when it is opened, it becomes what Mahavira used to call

race memory. Hubbard calls it time track -- it makes it possible for

you to go back in time. When it is opened the experience is not that

you are remembering; it is not as though you are remembering, you

relive the experience.

Now it is unlocked. When the time track is unlocked, you do not feel

" I am remembering " -- no. You relive it. Try to understand. If your

time track is unlocked, it will not be difficult. In fact, without it

astrology is incomplete. The deepest realization of astrology is that

your past must be unlocked -- because if you become aware of your

entire past, then you will be aware of your entire future, because

your future will emerge out of your past.

Without knowing your past you cannot know your future, because your

future will be the child of your past, your future will be born out of

your past. So first it is necessary that your entire memory track be

exposed to view. If your memory track is unlocked -- and for this

there are techniques and methods -- then if you think that you will

remember how you were a six-year-old child and your father slapped

you, you are incorrect. You will not remember how you were when you

were six years old, you will relive it.

You will relive the event. Also, at the time you are reliving it, if I

ask, " What is your name? " you will reply " Junior, " not " William Smith

Junior. " A six-year-old child will be replying. You will be reliving

the event at this time; you will not be remembering. William Smith

Junior is not remembering when he was six years old, no, William Smith

Junior has become six years old. Now he will answer " Junior " ; whatever

reply he gives will be the reply of a six-year-old child.

If you are brought back to a past life and you remember that you were

a lion, then if you are allowed to remain at this point you will begin

to roar just like a lion. You will not speak like a man. It is

possible you will even attack someone with your fingers and nails. If

you remember that you were a stone and someone asks you a question

then you will remain completely silent. You will not be able to speak;

you will remain like a stone.

Hubbard has helped thousands of people. For instance a man who cannot

speak -- Hubbard would say that this man has been blocked by some

childhood memory and cannot go ahead. Then he would take him back

along his time track and break open his engram of the time when he was

six years old, or the point at which his growth became blocked and he

could not proceed. As he returns to this point, the influence of this

childhood memory will disperse. Then this man will come back to again

being thirty years old. The twenty-four years' difference will be put

aside. The surprising thing is that thousands of medicines might not

help the man to speak, but by going back along the time track and then

returning, he becomes able to.

Many illnesses come to you only because of this time track. Many

illnesses fit into this category -- for instance, hay fever or asthma.

For the patient who suffers from hay fever, there exists a fixed date:

every year at the same date, at the same time, his hay fever returns.

So there can be no remedy for hay fever. Why? -- because hay fever is

not actually a bodily illness, it is a time track illness. Somewhere a

memory has been fixed, somewhere a memory has been blocked.

For instance, a man may remember the twelfth of a month during the

rainy season. When the twelfth comes, when the rainy season comes, the

man is getting ready; he is already afraid of what will happen. You

will be surprised that the hay fever which will now attack him is just

something he is reliving -- it is not real hay fever at all. He is

only reliving what occurred on the twelfth, the previous year. If you

give him any treatment now, you will only be putting him in trouble.

Treatment is of no use because he is not the same man who existed a

year ago and who at that time could have been treated. You are

unnecessarily throwing away medicine -- because it is going into the

man who exists now, not into the man who was sick a year ago. There is

no connection between the two, no relationship. Every medicine will

fail, every medicine will only increase his hay fever, so he will say

that nothing is happening. He is again getting ready to repeat what

happened the previous year.

Seventy percent of our illnesses have happened through the time track

-- they have been caught and grasped so tightly that again and again

we relive them.

Astrology is not merely the study of the stars, although it includes

that. We will talk about this. Besides the study of the stars, there

are other, separate dimensions by which astrology tries to probe man's

future, by which it can get hold of the future.

To become aware of the future, it is necessary to become aware of the

past. To be aware of the past, it is necessary to read the

inscriptions traced on your body and on your mind. On your body there

are inscriptions and on your mind there are also inscriptions. From

the time astrology became obsessed with these bodily inscriptions it

could not go very deep, because these bodily inscriptions are very

superficial.

If your mind undergoes a change, then the lines on your palm will

immediately change. If under hypnosis you are assured that after

fifteen days you will die, and if every day for fifteen days you are

made unconscious and assured in your unconscious state that after

fifteen days you will die whether you like it or not, then by the

fifteenth day your age line will be broken. A gap will have appeared

in your age line; the body will accept the notion that death is on its

way.

The lines traced on the body are a very superficial phenomenon. Deep

within is the mind. The mind with which you are familiar, however,

does not exist deep down; it is superficial. Deep down there is a mind

which you do not know at all. The centers that exist deep within this

body alone, which Yoga calls chakras, are the accumulated forms of

many lives. One who knows can, by placing his hand on a particular

chakra, discover how active it is. By touching your seven chakras, it

can be known whether you have ever experienced them or not.

I have experimented with the chakras of hundreds of people, and I have

been surprised to find that at the most one or two -- and only rarely

three -- chakras have begun to be activated; generally, they remain

dormant. You have never used them, but they are your past. If a man

who has experienced them comes to me and I can see that all his seven

chakras are in motion, then it can be said that this is his last

birth. Then there will be no next birth, because if all seven chakras

are in motion, then there is no possibility of a next life. This life

will be nirvana, this life will be liberation.

If anyone came to Mahavira, he made it his concern to discover how

many chakras were active in him -- how much work must be done with

him, what his possibilities were, when and whether his labor would

bear any fruit or not, and how many more births he would need.

Astrology is an attempt to probe the future by many, many paths. Among

these -- the most commonly used path -- is the study of how the

planets and stars influence man. For this, more scientific evidence is

becoming available every day. This much has been decided -- that life

is affected and cannot avoid being affected by these influences. Only

the second part remains difficult to determine -- whether each person

as an individual is also affected. It worries scientists a little

whether each person is affected individually -- whether the three or

four billion men on this earth are each affected as individuals. But

they must realize that this is so.

Why are they so troubled? Nature can give each man a thumb that is

uniquely his, that is individual and unrepeated. Nature can keep such

a subtle account that it gives to each man a thumb which is uniquely

his and a thumb print which can never belong to anyone else, neither

now nor in the future. Several billion people may have lived on the

earth, several billion people may live in the future on the earth, but

my thumb print will not be repeated. You may be surprised to learn

that in the case of twins born out of one egg, which I have spoken

about, even their thumb prints will differ from one another.

If nature can bestow so much individuality on each man with regard to

a worthless thing like a thumb -- a thing which is of no special value

and which seems to fulfill no special purpose -- if nature can even

give a thumb a uniqueness, then can't it give each man a unique life

and a unique spirit? There seems to be no reason why not. But science

moves in slow motion -- and it is good! For science, slow motion is

good. Until a fact has been completely proved, it is not good to move

forward even an inch. But prophets can take a leap. That which will

happen a thousand or even a hundred thousand years later, they can

declare right now.

Science moves forward inch by inch. It sees only facts -- facts, that

can be experimented upon. Dreaming is of no use to science -- but

prophets can discover truth even in dreams. For them, even the future

is just the expanded present.

Astrology is basically the investigation of the future. And science is

basically the investigation of the past and the present. Science is

the investigation of what is today and what is its cause. Astrology is

the investigation of what tomorrow will be and what will be its

consequences. Between the two there is a huge gap. But every day

science experiences new things, and theories to which it has become

attached can never be proved absolutely correct -- they only seem correct.

As I have said, science has only recently accepted that every man is

born with built-in individuality. For a long time it has been

reluctant to accept the validity of this idea. But astrology has

always been saying this. Just try to understand....

For instance a seed, a mango seed: when we sow the mango seed there

must be contained within it some sort of built-in program, there must

be a blueprint. If this were not so the seed would be helpless. It

neither takes advice from a specialist nor does it study at a

university. How then can a mango tree develop out of this seed?

Still, it produces the mango tree leaf, it bears the mango fruit. In

the stone-like seed there must be concealed a complete program. If

not, without such a program what can the seed do? Everything must be

present within it. Whatever the tree will be must somehow be concealed

within the seed. It is not visible to us. We can smash it and dissect

it, and still it will not be visible. But it must be there somehow,

otherwise a neem tree might possibly emerge from the mango seed...!

It seems that there is never a mistake. Only a mango tree emerges;

everything is repeated correctly. In this tiny seed is stored all the

information which relates to what the seed must do. How it must

sprout, what type of leaf, how many branches to produce, how big a

tree to become, for how long it will grow, how tall it will grow --

all this must be hidden within the seed. How many fruits, how sweet,

whether they will ripen or not -- all this must be concealed within

the seed. If all this is concealed within a mango seed, then when you

come into your mother's womb will there be nothing latent in your seed?

Now scientists agree that even at this stage the color of your eyes

must lie concealed, that the color of your hair must lie concealed,

that the height of your body must lie concealed, that the

possibilities of health and ill health must lie concealed, and that

even your I.Q. must lie concealed -- because without it how will you

develop, and by what means? You must have a program that is built in

advance. How will certain bones join together as a hand, others as a

foot? One bone will begin to see, another bone will begin to hear. How

can all this be?

Scientists used to say that it is just coincidence. But the word

coincidence seems very unscientific. Coincidence means chance. By

chance a foot may begin to see and a hand to hear. But there does not

seem to be much coincidence; everything seems to be in order, prearranged.

Astrology says a more scientific thing. It says that everything is

available within the seed. Astrology says that if we can study the

seed, if we can discover the language of the seed, if we can decode

this language -- if we can ask the seed, " What is your intention? " --

then we will be able to draw up the complete blueprint of a human

being too. Scientists have already begun to draw up such blueprints

for plants. Up to now we have considered astrology to be superstition,

a matter of blind faith. But if science draws up such blueprints, then

it will in fact become astrology -- and science has certainly begun to

draw up such blueprints.

Astrology declares that if by divine grace we come to know the whole,

then the future as such will not exist at all. But because we do not

know the whole -- only a little fragment -- what we do not know

becomes " the future. " We are obliged to say, " Perhaps it may be like

this, " because much is unknown to us. If the whole were to be known

then we could say, " It will be like this " -- and it will be exactly so.

If everything is latent within the human seed, then it is only a

matter of studying the seed. What I am talking about today must in

some form have existed in my seed as a potentiality; otherwise, how

can I talk about all this? If some day it becomes possible to observe

a human seed, then after observing my seed, a blueprint could be drawn

up indicating what I will say in this life, what I will become, what I

will not become, what I will make of myself, what I will not make of

myself, what will happen. All this could be forecast. It will not be

surprising when tomorrow, if not today, we have the capacity to peep

into the human seed. The first steps have already been taken in this

direction.

Birth charts and horoscopes are only for probing into all these

matters. For thousands of years we have tried, when a child is born,

to find out what will happen to him. If we could get some estimate,

then perhaps we could make some arrangements, perhaps we could

increase the child's opportunities. Then whatever is to happen, we

could become accepting of it.

Mulla Nasruddin declared towards the end of his life that he had

always been miserable, but that suddenly one day he had become happy.

The entire population of the village was struck with wonder that a man

who had always been depressed, who always used to see the dark side of

things, should suddenly have become cheerful. He was a man who had

always been pessimistic, who always used to look for thorns.

Once there was an excellent crop in Nasruddin's garden. There were so

many apples that the trees were overloaded. In the neighborhood, one

man inquired whether Nasruddin could now possibly have any complaint.

He said, " This time the crop is such that it will rain gold. What do

you think, Nasruddin? "

Nasruddin, in great sorrow said, " Everything is okay, but where will I

get rotten apples to feed the animals? " This man remains miserable:

" Where will I get rotten apples to feed the animals...! " All the

apples were good, none were rotten -- this was his difficulty.

This man suddenly one day became happy, and so the people of the

village were curious. They asked, " You are happy, Nasruddin? Has the

kingdom become yours? "

Nasruddin said, " I have learned to cooperate with the inevitable.

After many years of struggling, I have realized something. Now I have

decided that what must be, must be. Now I cooperate with the

inevitable, so now there is no reason to be miserable. Now I am happy. "

Astrology investigates many things. To whatever is inevitable, it

lends a cooperative hand. Whatever is to be, it does not madly

struggle against. Whatever is not to be, it does not demand, does not

reach out towards.

Astrology was a means for making man religious -- for bringing him to

suchness, for bringing him to an ultimate acceptance. It has many

dimensions, it has many aspects. We will gradually discuss each

dimension. For today, just this much -- that the universe is a living

body, an organic unit. In it nothing is isolated, all is joined

together. Whatever is far away is joined to that which is near --

nothing is separate.

So no one should misunderstand this. No one is an isolated island, no

one is aloof. Each is joined to the whole, and each one is all the

time affecting the other and being affected by the other. Even when

you pass by a stone lying on the road, it is throwing its vibrations

in your direction. The flowers too are throwing out their vibrations.

And you are not just passing by, you too are throwing out your vibrations.

I have said that we are affected by the moon and the stars. I also

wish to say that the moon and the stars are affected by us, because

influence comes from both directions. Whenever a man like Buddha is

born on the earth, the moon may not realize that it is because of him

that storms are not arising on its surface -- that because of Buddha,

storms are subsiding. The moon is affected and the sun is also moved.

When spots occur on the sun and storms arise, disease spreads

throughout the earth.

When a person like Buddha is born on the earth and a current of peace

is flowing, and the pillar of consciousness grows strong, and the deep

beauty of meditation moves over the earth, then too a storm spreads

throughout the sun -- a storm of peace, bliss and consciousness --

because all is joined together.

A tiny blade of grass has an impact on the sun, and the sun has its

impact on the blade of grass. The blade of grass is not so tiny that

the sun can say, " I do not care about you, " nor is the sun so big that

it can say, " What can this blade of grass do for me? " Life is joined

together. Here nothing is big or small; everything is one organic unity.

Life is a whole. If you can perceive this wholeness, only then will

you understand astrology; otherwise you will not. Astrology is an

aspect of spirituality, a dimension of spirituality. It is the science

of wholeness, unity, nonduality.