Astrology science or art The words of VS Kalayana Raman

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namaskar,

astrology is superscience, which is still available and visible to

world.However, sceptics will always have doubt on astology's

efficacies. Astrology as its exists now is not a science. There are

many reasons for this. One, is knowledge, which has been passed on to

us has been considerably corrupted. Sage Parashar wrote BPHS, which

in its original form was extremely accurate for predictions. Howver,

there was system that true knowledge was taught to chosen few, whoc

were considered worthy of this sacred knowledge, mainly to prevent

its misuse. As time passed this knowledge and BPHS both got tampered

with some unfounded theories. Hence, in present form, it has become

something of art and science. Partly, current generation

ofastrologers are to be blamed. As most of current lot, believe in

predicting without learning properly. Still smaller are number of

astrologers, who want to do research and establish it as science.

 

It requires all of us to get involved and try and establish astrology

as science based on BPHS and supplementing it with research. To

convince world that astrology is science, probably one day

astrologers have to inviter rationalists and sceptics, and before

world they should go throgh charts chosen by sceptics and

rationalists and predict past events with great accuracy. The day

astrologers pass above test, then it will make world to accept

astrology as true science.

 

sanjeev

, " Sreenadh "

<sreesog wrote:

>

> Dear All,

> The following is an extract from an article by VS Kalyana Raman.

> ==>

> To Mr. Patric Moore, the astronomer, astrology is rubbish. But

all he

> wrote about Venus became rubbish consequent upon the revelations

brought

> out by the space probes during the past two decades. Venus probes

> revealed that its axial rotation was slower. Its day was longer

than its

> year. Further it was revolving from the east to west. Like that with

> newer discoveries many of the earlier astronomical assumptions had

to be

> reviewed and rewritten.

> According to Mr.Martin Gardener, the theory of sunspot cycles is

the

> last respectable survivor of the ancient view, that human affairs

are

> linked with astronomical phenomena. But since then, i.e. 1957, far

more

> impressive correlations than sunspots have been firmly established.

> Brihat Samhita, written centuries before, gives valuable information

> about the sunspots and how they influence the earth.

> To Dr. Harold Spencer Jones, " Astrology is a queen of sciences

and

> astrology is the queen of humbug. " When asked about the possibility

of

> space travel by the journalist in the 1957, Dr. Jones, well known

for

> his prophetic views on space research explained, " Space travel is

bunk. "

> Alas! Two weeks later the first sputnik went into space.

> Orator, poet and philosopher, Pico, who lived in the fifteenth

> century, was a carping critic of astrology. But his astrologers

> predicted that he would not survive to see his thirty-third

birthday. He

> died on the 17th November 1494, when he was only thirty-two, unable

to

> see the fulfillment of the astounding astrological prediction.

> The French psychologist Michel Gauquelin, set out to disprove

> astrological theory and in the process, between 1956 and 1961, along

> with his wife he analyzed 25000 dates and times from the official

> registers in France, Germany, Italy and Holland. They found out that

> more scientists were born under the influence of Saturn and Mars,

> athletes under Mars, soldiers under Mars or Jupiter and writers

under

> Venus or Moon. This theory calls Mars effect was accepted by

researchers

> in North America and Britain. No scientist was seen born with the

> influence of Jupiter. His efforts to disprove astrology landed him

in

> providing irrefutable proof of planetary influence over humans.

> (From the article " Epilogue " present in the book " Indian

Astrology -

> an Appraisal " by VS Kalyana Raman)

> <==

> Hope you all enjoyed the extract.

> Love and regards,

> Sreenadh

>