In recent era, Astrology has become one of the most disputed as well as cultured subject. The word “Astrology”, in fact, does not carry the real significance of the subject. Rather, the Sanskrit word “Jyotish-Shastra” carries it which means a subject that finds “Jyoti” or “Light” in the human life awarded by the Supreme Soul for taking each individual part of “Him” back to the destiny i.e. to get unified with the Supreme Soul after series of long journies through repeated births and enjoying material lives composed of six instincts and ultimately realising the essence of God gifted life. This is reflected in the Astrological significance of the Zodiac itself divided into twelve signs composed of 27 constellations but having no planet inside this. The planets in our solar system actually signify the complexes that compel human being to be involved in earthly activities for satisfaction of various passions and desires resulting in consecutive births. And here lies the root of all disputes regarding the underlying truth of Astrology. The interest towards Astrology of the mankind as a whole probably finds its origin from the very early stage of civilisation in different countries all over the world and thenceforth the two classes have been demarcated as believers and non believers having reasonings in their favour according to their ideas. But the matter is neither of belief nor of non-belief. If the subject has really any base, non-belief of some classes of people of any category does not tell upon its base and the reverse is also true for believers. In recent times, people in general may be classified into three groups depending on their views and actions in respect of Astrology. The first group includes those who do not accept any astrological prediction without having any Sanskrit sloka in favour, but they do not realize that it may not be availble in the ancient scripts or it may be very likely that such scripts might have been destroyed under any situation whatsoever. They also think that Astrology would be degraded if raised to the status of Science while thoughts of the second group are of opposite nature inasmuch as levelling Astrology to the status of Science would degrade Science from its esteemed position. The third category consists of people who, irrespective of their views and beliefs, utilise this subject for commercial purposes with very limited and in many cases wrong conceptions only for jewellary business and in consequence misguide people.Now-a-days it has been more populer to perform some ritulas or “yagna” for minimising the malefic influence of some evil planets in their opinion and to bring the progress and all round development of the wretched client, in any sense. In addition, now-a-days another saleable material has been introduced in the market by some groups of commercial astrologers in the name of “Jantram” as the remedy for different purposes. And here lies the root of all disputes regarding this Divine subject in the present era. Let us now examine the objections put forth against this Divine subject. Consideration of Astrology as something Holy by the first group excludes everything if not supported by any “sloka” in Sanskrit and this process of elimination has ultimately resulted in the closure of doors to the light of modern scientific truth barring thereby the entrance of new ideas for development of this esteemed subject. Not only they confine themselves in the narrow sphere of conservatisim, but also include many Astrological Formulae which have no rational basis in view of fundamental principles of Astrology and also contradictory to one another. In this context, readers are requested to go through the works titled “Falit Jyotisher Mool Sutra” by the eminent researcher Jyoti Bachaspati as also a book titled “ Some Fundamentals Of Astrology” written by this humble author. The second group consists of people having pseudo-scientific outlook who exert utmost effort so that Astrology may not be considered as science as if science would be seriously degraded due to the inclution of Astrology in this realm. These people do not know what the term “SCIENCE” actually means, but take technology as synonimus with science. As the consequence, science, in the true sense of the word, is being deprived of the enoromous wealth that Astrology can furnish towards very speedy development of different branches of science. The word “Science” actually points to the fact that keen observation would reveal that there is an underlying link among all the terrestrial phenomena and it is the task of Science to find these links and to predict the existence of yet undiscovered phenomena and also to create newer phenomena in the laboratory and here lies the probability of contribution of Astrology towards the further progress of different branches of Science if accepted by the Scientists keeping aside the pseudo-scientific outlook and neglence towards this Divine subject. The third group of people can be identified with the jewel merchants for selling jewelary stones as so called remedial mesures of clients and also for conducting so called Yagnas for the same purpose without having any authority in these activities. Perhaps, this constitutes the major part of Astrological business and therefore in consequence leads to disbelief of people of all spheres in this Divine subject. Now, let us cosider the reality underlying this subject. It is based on the Zodiac and the planets of our solar system moving on the background of the Zodiac in their own orbits. The Zodiac is an eight degree belt on either side of the ecliptic and containing within the 27 constellations and divided into 12 equal parts, each being of thirty degree span and termed as sign. It is presumed that the cosmic emanations from the individual signs as well as from the planets including some mathematical points influence the human life as well as the various terresterial phenomena thereby determining the course of each individual life in the present birth and also in the subsequent births according to the Hindu philosophy. This is, in short, the reality of the Astrological predictions of the personal and terresterial phenomena. Now we shall try to realised the essence of this Divine subject. The Zodiac itself excluding the planets and the mathemetical points moving on its background is actually the course of human life that should be followed by each individual as desired by the Supreme Lord. In this connection, the readers may go through the book titled “Some Fundamentals Of Astrology” written by this humble author. But the planets moving on the background of the Zodiac in their own orbits represent in essence the various complexes that play within each individual giving birth to the earthly desires that detract the individuals from the Holly Path of God leading to series of consecutive births for suffering from the consequences thereof till the native realises that it is only God or Basudeva who is the real target of human life as spoken by Shree Basudeva Himself in the Shreemadbhagabat Gita when the native being free from all complexses is returned to the Supreme Lord for eternal rest. The mechanism of the planetary influences for controling the human lives is a subject of extensive research work in different branches of science which cannot be taken up here in this limited space and will be dealt with in some subsequent works of mine. But before that the scientific basis underlying Astrology may be considered. In Newtonin mechanics, space and time were considered to be independent of each other. But after the propagation of Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity , the concept of space-time continum was introduced. As the result, the existence of 3-Dimensional object was replaced by 4-Dimensional events. As Eddington put it in his famous works “Space, Time and Gravitation” – “Events do not happen, they are just there and we come across them.” So it is clear that events which are pre-determined appear to us as we move along the time axis and this is the basis of Astrology. And, therefore, human querries will naturally seek for the future and for this Astrology serves as the proper instrument. Although out of context, it may not be out of place to mention that Palmistry which is also considered as another instrument to foretell the individual future as also the past is actually not a separate system for this purpose, but it is appropriate to designate Palmistry as a translation of Astrology in a different language. But its limitation is that while Astrology can predict not only the individual life course of a native, but also all its relatives and friends as well as the ancestors and the future generations together with the natural phenomena and different aspects all over the world, Palmistry is restricted to the individual life course. For reference, the interested readers may go through the works titled “Some Fundamental Of Astrology” written by this humble author. The scope of Astrology is so vast that almost every sector of life and Science may be co-related with Astrology, which will be discussed in my subsequent works titled “An Integrated Theory Of Astrology”. But it may be mentioned that the Dasa system used in Hindu Astrology for predicting the time of occurrence of events in individual life should be deeply taken into account for co-relating with modern theory of Physics. And for this, what is needed is to come forward by the persons of real scientific outlook keeping aside all biased superstitions to ignore Astrology keeping in mind that if Astrology be discarded for failure of some predictions by some self-advertised astrologers, the successful predictions of many other cases should also be taken into account for understanding the underlying truth. It should also be borne in mind that in the history of Science all new and venturing ideas had to face obstructions from the prevailing conceptions of the contemporary period, but ultimately the old conceptions were but to make way for the new ideas. If this be borne in mind, the present day Scientists should take their appropriate role to discover the huge wealth stored in the mines of Astrology to enrich the human civilisation throwing of any pre-determined antagonastic views regarding Astrology and for this, they will be awarded in due course by the eternal Time undoubtedly. In this matter the different Hindu Puranas should also be taken into account for finding the predictions made by the different Deities and Rishis regarding the happenings prevailing in the present day era as a tool in support of Astrology. And for this no individual effort is capable, but a devoted team work comprised of specialists in different branches of Science and Philosophy is needed to explore the reality and essence of Astrology. And this is the humble appeal of this scribe to the Scientist Community.
