Guest guest Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 Resp Kaul ji and members, Namaskar, I am reading arguments and counter arguments on my blog " Astrology a science or myth " , wherein I raised some questions about the basic principles for predictive astrology. I find that discussion in many forums is diverted in various directions. Like : Wheter Manu supported predictive astrology or not. Wheter Varahmihir followed Greek system or not Wheter Rasi, planets are in Ved or not Wheter astrology is practiced in during Vedic era or not And so on…………… But main point which I want to emphasize as to how basic predictive principles like sign lord, aspect etc. were formulated, as they were formulated on primitive concept of universe, stationary earth and so on…… Thus we have to decide that what will be material change if say, manu has supported or not supported or varahmihir followed greek or not and so on. Either we must say that if it is supported by manu or supported by Ved and so on then we will not question about the foundation of the principles and blindly follow what was being followed by our ancestral. If it is so then why these supporters of ancestral knowledge following the concept of solar system, round and movable earth, galaxy, and moon is orbiting earth and it is nearer then sun and so on which is quite against with the concept of ancestral. I think we are wasting our energy in deciding as to who has borrowed the knowledge greek or our sages, whereas it makes no difference, because we have to find as to whether principles of predictive astrology is correct, useful, foolproof or not instead of who borrowed. As we continue to argue that law of motion was devised by Bhaskar or Galileo or by Newton. It makes no difference so long law of motion is correct. It has only historic or nationality importance as to who has formulated it. But so far its use is concerned we can simply use it till it is correct and amend it if there is some mistake or forget it if it is not useful. Very simple. Thus it is not going to make much difference as to whether Manu has supported predictive astrology or not and so on. Main point is this that whether principle is correct in view of modern concept of universe etc. or not, and how these principle were formulated. What was the information, which was available to the formulator (sage or some one else), what information was used for formulation, what procedure was adopted by the formulator, how result of these formulation was correct how result of these formulation was not correct, what was the necessity to amend, modify or introducing new set of rules in the form of say KP system, western system and so on, How they were able to forecast socalled correct prediction when they do not have correct longitude of the planets, concept of longitude and latitude, no system of correct assessment of time, without any concept of ayanansh and so on. Thus if we will find the answer (hint of which has already been provided in the blog and detailed in book) then only members will realize the correct status of astrology that it is bogus. I am time and again asking various similar questions and instead of direct answer, members are either silent or indulge in nationality of the principles along with blind faith. Thus now I am putting very simple thing that when our sages have the concept that Earth is stationary, Sun is near to the Earth Moon is above the Sun, Stars are below the Mercury. Narak is in patal lok below the Earth and Swarg is above the Saturn…. Dhruv. All movable objects are alive and deity, then definetly any improvement in the knowledge can only be based on best use of the then such information. If we are able to make computer then we are just using the best available information. But in future we will get some more information and accordingly we will make some other system. Thus only available information can only be used for any formulation. So far name of sign is concerned not a single member or forum has so far given any answer as to how name of sign was decided by sages or greek or some one else. So let me now be very clear that these sign were initially originated by Babylonians which were extended and modified by Greeks and adopted by our sages who were also armed with the name of 27-28 constellations during interaction with Greek civilization before 300 BC and Sikandar was attracted towards Indians knowledge and well being. Thus all signs have Greek impression otherwise members can come forward with there arguments as to why our sages have named sign on Aries (Meda), Cancer (Kenkada), Scorpio (Vrashichik, Bichhu), Sagittarious (half man half horse), Capricorn (half magar half goat). Because these symbols or noun or livingbeing has no importance or slightest mention in any scriptures relating to Ved, Puran, Boddh or Jainism (these were Indian concept or religion etc.) and our sages could have used the name of Om, Swastik, arrow, elephant, horse instead of half horse, owl, peacock, cow instead of bull, Trishul, snake, Lotus, Durga instead of virgo and so on. Thus it is clear that sign was created by Greeks and adopted by our sages for using them for predictive astrology after formulating predictive principles in the form of sign lord etc. I hope members will now come out from the tunnel of silence and come forward and centralized their discussion to find truth. Do not think that some body will come forward to teach you and do not think that businessman astrologers who are also members in the forum will come forward to destroy their business. If you are on the receiving end and being exploited by the astrologers then you have to come forward for saving your-selves. As mahajan of a village who is lending money to poor farmers is not interested that farmer may be educated otherwise his business will be destroyed. So mahajan will always try that villagers may be uneducated and may have faith on his account book so that he may continue to cheat and exploit them. Thus illiterate villagers have to think for learning to save their money and land. In the same way if members want to learn some thing then they have to come forward and learn some thing to save their money and self confidence other wise members are free to serve themselves in front of cunning astrologers with blind faith for exploitation. I hope members will share their views and I will try to answer every question. Thanks Yours truly, Sanat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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