Disputes related to Astrology are mostly due to:-
1. Failure to predict exactly the results of the planetary combinations in individual natal charts.
2. Some orthodox ideas of the veterinarian groups that Astrology should not be regarded as a branch of science as it appears now a days because in their conservative ideas, Astrology would be degraded if classified as a branch of science.
3. Contrarily, according to a large group of so called modern scientist, astrology, if considered as a member of material science, would seriously degrade science as a whole.
4. And a major part of dispute related to Astrology is played by the jewel merchants who in their business interest exploit astrology without considering the probable impact on the gradation and esteemed crown of astrology.
1. Failure to predict exactly the results of the planetary combinations in individual natal charts.
2. Some orthodox ideas of the veterinarian groups that Astrology should not be regarded as a branch of science as it appears now a days because in their conservative ideas, Astrology would be degraded if classified as a branch of science.
3. Contrarily, according to a large group of so called modern scientist, astrology, if considered as a member of material science, would seriously degrade science as a whole.
4. And a major part of dispute related to Astrology is played by the jewel merchants who in their business interest exploit astrology without considering the probable impact on the gradation and esteemed crown of astrology.
Now let us analyse the above mentioned reasons in details....
1- While predicting the events in any individual natal chart, the practitioner in most cases rely on either classical works in verbatim without having any idea of the underlying essence behind each Astrological Sutra and having no idea to co-relate the said Sutras with the running Time and the circumstances of the place concerned and the characteristics of the individual i.e. without having any reference to the Desha-Kala-Patra which determine the exact shape of the event that would be assumed by the impact of the planetary combinations at the moment of birth. let us take for an example, a particular case for illustrating the above analysis. In 1970, one most respected educationist was appearing in an examination of Calcutta University. he was a Capricornian with Jupiter posted in the ascendant, Rahu in Aquarious and Mars together with Mercury in the 10th house. He was then passing through the sub-period of Mercury in the major period of Rahu. During the exam, the planetary transits of the particular day were very adverse for good performance and many astrologers who were consulted by him for day-to-day performance predicted that his performance on that date would not be up to the mark. But, a student of astrology predicted that the examination on that particular date would be postponed and would be scheduled one and half month later and in fact this prediction came true. While, questioned for such a peculiar prediction, the student explained that at that time the transit of Mars, the 4th and 11th for the ascendant was so adverse that had the examination been conducted on that date, performance of the educationist would have been really unsatisfactory if the transitory results would be sole factor. But, the exact event in a native's life is the outcome of the mixed results of running Dasha period and the contemporary planetary transits. In this case, the running Dasha of the native being very helpful for the academic performance, nothing adverse could have happened due to the transit alone and the only way to by-pass it was the adjournment of the examination on that date and the same could not happen till the next Martial transit which took some one and half month since then. And during that period the political situation of the state was such that adjournment of the examination was a very normal matter and on that particular date such a situation actually developed. Taking all these probabilities in to account i,e, the contemporary situation of place and time the student of astrology made such venturous prediction which actually came true. So this is an example of how to predict the exact event in a native life from his birth chart and failure to take this factor in this account lead to erroneous prediction which degrade astrology to the public. The renowned astrologer Dr. B. V. Raman of Bangalore, used to make a comment " None but the Creator Brahma can only predict what will exactly happen" but this scribe humbly submits with full regards to Dr. B. V. Raman, the modern pioneer of Indian Astrology, that the exact event may be predicted if the contemporary situations of the place be taken in to account.
Let us take a hypothetical case for illustrating this principle. Suppose in an individual chart, Venus is posted with weak Sun in the 10th house. We know that every planetary combination affects an individual in three levels viz. physical, social and mental-cum-spiritual. Let us suppose that this chart is related to a number of individuals born in different societies of radically different characters. The combination of Venus with weak and afflicted Sun in the 10th house will impact on the health related to Venetian nature, social defamation and spiritual derailment. But in a society where polygamy is allowed, this combination will not tell upon the social fame contrast to those who are born in societies where this results in social defamation. So this also explains that while predicting the exact event originated from a particular planetary combination the character of the related society and time should be taken into account, otherwise the predictions would prove itself a laughing stock only.
2. We shall now take the 4th factor before discussing the 2nd and the 3rd ones. Now, it is common and highly propagated fact that the jewel merchants exploit the weakness of the public for getting rid of their misfortunes to take recourse to jewels and in many cases now-a-days of so-called "Jantrams, Yagnas, etc. resulting in huge expenses of the individuals and consequent financial gains of the jewelers and so-called astrologers etc. While these prove utter failure to recover the wretched fellow from his ill-fate, they lose their fate in astrology in stead of the commercial personalities.
3. Let us now analyse the 2nd and the 3rd arguments against astrology. Before coming to the arguments we have to know what the term "Science" exactly means.
On minute observations it will be revealed that all events and phenomena in this world are inter-related with one another. To discover these inter-relating links, to predict the existence of hitherto unknown phenomena and to create the same constitute what is termed "Science". Different disciplines of modern science are gradually revealing many unknown principles which are gradually leading to this inevitable conclusions. The consequent task of science is to take every group of events and phenomena into consideration to find a common link without any prejudice and biasness. If acceptance of any thing without test is unscientific, rejection without test is also no less unscientific and this is more so when it comes from personalities who claim themselves to be scientists. This attitude may better be termed as superstitions of scientists and it is rather pseudo-scientific in essence. The basic task of astrology is to predict the future events of a native based on his/her natal chart. although there are other windows also to view the same, but the most cultured one is the traditional astrological principles based on the natal chart. therefore, the inevitable question arises whether it at all possible to predict the future events of a native life. Now, in Newtonian mechanics Object related to space and Time were considered independent of each other. but in terms of Einstein's theory of Relativity, Space and Time are not independent of each other, instead, these are related to each other. so intimately that the conception of independent space and time in three dimension world vanishes giving room for the idea of four dimensional world constituted of events and events only. According to Arthur Eddington "Events do not happen, they are already there and we come across them". this means that all events are located in four dimensional world, both in a human life as also in the other terrestorial matters. so if events are pre-determined then human being by virtue of natural queries will try to explore the future events by any means whatsoever and astrology provides with a relible instrument for this purpose. this constitutes the basic argument for taking astrology into account as a speacial branch of physical sciences and it will be taken up in my future works to find a probable mechanism of this process comprising of a number of different disciplines of material science and Hindu Philosophy and for this reason, the pioneer astrologer of present day in India viz. Late Dr. B.V. Raman of Bangalore rightly observed astrology as a synthesis of all sciences and mother of all philosopies. In the next few paragraph I shall try to add a few lines on this. to understand astrology, the disciplines of science which taken into account are theoritical physics including theory of relativity , quantum of mechanics, web mechanics, theory of genetics, psychology and evidently astronomy.And Hindu philosophy particularly the teaching of Upanishads and there essence contained in ShreeModbhagad Geeta are to be taken into account for understanding the essence of astrology. the details of these will be discussed in my subsequent works.
Let us take a hypothetical case for illustrating this principle. Suppose in an individual chart, Venus is posted with weak Sun in the 10th house. We know that every planetary combination affects an individual in three levels viz. physical, social and mental-cum-spiritual. Let us suppose that this chart is related to a number of individuals born in different societies of radically different characters. The combination of Venus with weak and afflicted Sun in the 10th house will impact on the health related to Venetian nature, social defamation and spiritual derailment. But in a society where polygamy is allowed, this combination will not tell upon the social fame contrast to those who are born in societies where this results in social defamation. So this also explains that while predicting the exact event originated from a particular planetary combination the character of the related society and time should be taken into account, otherwise the predictions would prove itself a laughing stock only.
2. We shall now take the 4th factor before discussing the 2nd and the 3rd ones. Now, it is common and highly propagated fact that the jewel merchants exploit the weakness of the public for getting rid of their misfortunes to take recourse to jewels and in many cases now-a-days of so-called "Jantrams, Yagnas, etc. resulting in huge expenses of the individuals and consequent financial gains of the jewelers and so-called astrologers etc. While these prove utter failure to recover the wretched fellow from his ill-fate, they lose their fate in astrology in stead of the commercial personalities.
3. Let us now analyse the 2nd and the 3rd arguments against astrology. Before coming to the arguments we have to know what the term "Science" exactly means.
On minute observations it will be revealed that all events and phenomena in this world are inter-related with one another. To discover these inter-relating links, to predict the existence of hitherto unknown phenomena and to create the same constitute what is termed "Science". Different disciplines of modern science are gradually revealing many unknown principles which are gradually leading to this inevitable conclusions. The consequent task of science is to take every group of events and phenomena into consideration to find a common link without any prejudice and biasness. If acceptance of any thing without test is unscientific, rejection without test is also no less unscientific and this is more so when it comes from personalities who claim themselves to be scientists. This attitude may better be termed as superstitions of scientists and it is rather pseudo-scientific in essence. The basic task of astrology is to predict the future events of a native based on his/her natal chart. although there are other windows also to view the same, but the most cultured one is the traditional astrological principles based on the natal chart. therefore, the inevitable question arises whether it at all possible to predict the future events of a native life. Now, in Newtonian mechanics Object related to space and Time were considered independent of each other. but in terms of Einstein's theory of Relativity, Space and Time are not independent of each other, instead, these are related to each other. so intimately that the conception of independent space and time in three dimension world vanishes giving room for the idea of four dimensional world constituted of events and events only. According to Arthur Eddington "Events do not happen, they are already there and we come across them". this means that all events are located in four dimensional world, both in a human life as also in the other terrestorial matters. so if events are pre-determined then human being by virtue of natural queries will try to explore the future events by any means whatsoever and astrology provides with a relible instrument for this purpose. this constitutes the basic argument for taking astrology into account as a speacial branch of physical sciences and it will be taken up in my future works to find a probable mechanism of this process comprising of a number of different disciplines of material science and Hindu Philosophy and for this reason, the pioneer astrologer of present day in India viz. Late Dr. B.V. Raman of Bangalore rightly observed astrology as a synthesis of all sciences and mother of all philosopies. In the next few paragraph I shall try to add a few lines on this. to understand astrology, the disciplines of science which taken into account are theoritical physics including theory of relativity , quantum of mechanics, web mechanics, theory of genetics, psychology and evidently astronomy.And Hindu philosophy particularly the teaching of Upanishads and there essence contained in ShreeModbhagad Geeta are to be taken into account for understanding the essence of astrology. the details of these will be discussed in my subsequent works.
