Jai Maharaj

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Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya

My dear Jyotisha,

 

Since you all are very silent let me send you one of the writings of a dear

fellow Jyotish Sri Jai Maharaj. You will find this not only informative but

will realise that there so much in the tradition that even the most modern

scientific minds fail to understand.

 

Jaya Jagannath

Sanjay

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BHARAT (India):

In Bharat records exist today which point clearly to a highly developed

knowledge of astrology as far back as about 6,500 BCE and actual manuscripts

are still extant which were written about 3,700 BCE. SOme of the originals

have been destroyed or lost but actual copies of these originals were made

by alter astrologers. these are to be found in the libraries of Maharajas

and in the libraries of certain states in Bharat. Actual, detailed records

of astrological science are continuous from about 6,500 BCE.

One of the earliest authors of Vedic astrology, copies of whose work are

still to be found, is Pita Maha who wrote a treatise on astrology called

Pita Maha Siddhant(a). He lived and wrote this book about 3,000 BCE. Five

hundred years later, another author-astrologer named Vashishtth(a) wrote

several books on astrology, astronomy and philosophy. His most important

work, and one which was used as an authority by all subsequent writers on

the subject, is Vashishtth(a) Siddhant(a), but he wrote may other equally

erudite and authoritative texts such as the Panch Siddhant(a) Kosh(a),

Soory(a) Siddhant(a), Nityanand(a), Brhat Jatak(a), Aryabhat, Mansagari,

Ranveer, and the Laghu Parashar.

 

E. M. Plunkett writes in his book Ancient Calendars and Constellations: " The

opinion of the Greek writers at the beginning of the Christian era may be

quoted as showing the high estimation in which Indian astronomy was held. In

the Life of Appollonius of Tyana, the Greek philosopher and astrologer,

written by Philostratus about 210 CE, the wisdom and learning of Appollonius

are set high above his contemporaries because he had studied astronomy and

astrology with the sages of India. "

 

In a book called You and Your Hand by the late Count Louis Hamon, known

better as Cheiro, this statement is found: " people who in their ignorance

disdain the wisdom of ancient races forget that the great past of India

contained secrets of life and philosophy that following civilizations could

not controvert, but were forced to accept. For instance, it has been

demonstrated that the ancient Hindus understood the precession of the

equinoxes and made the calculation that it [a complete cycle] took place

once in every 25,870 years. the observation and mathematical precision

necessary to establish such a theory has been the wonder and admiration of

modern astronomers. they, with their modern knowledge and up-to-date

instruments, are still quarrelling among themselves as to whether the

precession, the most important feature in astronomy, takes place every

25,870 years or every 24,500 years. The majority believe that the Hindus

made no mistakes, but how they arrived at such a calculation is as great a

mystery as the origin of life itself. "