Just because some thing (in this case knowledge) is old does’nt mean its useless.
Well, astrology is the study of planets and its effects on human life. And its based on a very deep understanding of astronomy Indian sages had thousands of years before most of the human civilization had an idea about the earth (being a sphere) orbiting around the sun and rotating on its own axis. Before Galileo the whole wide world though that earth was the center. Vedic astrology is based on “graha gochra” (planetary movements), where they exactly knew which planets took how much time to orbit the sun. They knew Saturn takes ~30 yrs to go around the sun & Jupiter just takes 12.
Let me consider just 1 example – Jupiter is called the “greatest benefic” of all the planets in astrology. I heard the same thing from the International scientific community when I saw Shoemaker Levy 9 comet which was on an collision course to earth changed direction because of Jupiter’s gravity and hit Jupiter. (in July 1994).The 2nd video has a NASA-JPL scientist clearly say that Jupiter has saved the earth from many such collisions.
Jupiter essentially saved the EARTH. And as you and me LIVE on EARTH it saved you and me too. So Jupiter is obviously a SUPER BENEFIC.
India sages wrote this 5000 years back. What was wrong about it.
They were not idiots to just write whatever junk that came to their mind. (Imagine writing a book even in today’s day and age with Google & WordPress & Quora and all the technology in the world to publish and distribute it – can you even pen down a book and even if you do will it survive 5 yrs without going into oblivion). And even if someone wrote why would it survive for 5000 years. Obviously there was some credibility to it.
We should not junk something because its old, in fact the 2015 Nobel prize for Medicine (Physiology) was awarded to YouYou Tou The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries for treating Malaria (which was based on ancient Chinese Medicine). There was also the news about an Indian researcher pursuing research on a well known Indian herb (Ashwagandha) to cure Alzheimers IISc research offers hope for those with Alzheimer’s – Times of India
Well, even in this day and age of greatness in science & technology, do you know why scientists are so curious about black holes ? Have you ever thought that we are taught Newton’s Laws in our primary school (Laws of motion for objects – gravity to start with), but these laws don’t hold good for tiny things such as atoms, neutrons & protons etc. So we are taught Quantum Physics in high school. But we are never taught how these 2 are related (Newton’s laws & Quantum Physics). Stephen Hawkins the greatest scientist of our time has said that it would be the greatest achievement of his life if he could do that. Ad that is why the study of Black holes are important, cause Black holes get created out of a dying star, they implode within themselves due to gravity (Newton’s Laws) and then they become a NEW STAR which fuels itself through Nuclear Fusion (Quantum Physics).
Astrology, is more like a application of how change in gravity (from the movement of planets in our solar system) effects a particular human being (who are essentially made up of of neutrons, protons and electrons) depending on their base configuration (planetary position in their birth chart – ie position of these planets during their birth time). Some one 5000 years back has already done the research and deduced the essence and passed it down the generations. Why don’t we benefit from it.
I never believed in all this till 7 years back. When my completely healthy elder brother passed away on Sunday afternoon. He was visiting me for 2 weeks to celebrate me buying my 1st car and a promotion. He was just 34. He had a heart attack, and there were no medical issues with him. It just happened. And it shocked the hell out of me. Medical science could not give me an answer. Why had it happened. And why so sudden.
So I turned to astrology, learnt it. It was a good way to distract myself out of the grief. My first prediction was for a colleague (and fried) from work. She was very good looking, but she went into serious depression (and also suffered from OCD – obsessice compulsive disorder) because she was 30 and she was not getting married. She had to get psychiatric help. And then she turned to me and asked , will I get married ? I never saw that coming. I was a complete novice in astrology then (in 2009) and with whatever basic knowledge I had I predicted the dates by which she should find a life partner, also said she would know him from before and also that she would be the same caste but a different community. She got engaged to her elder sister’s class mate (whom she knew from before), who was a tamil Iyer (she’s a Kannada Brahmin) who worked in the same company as her and just sat across the hall. And the date was 2 days before the last date I had predicted. I became the resident astrologer for the company. I myself could not believe it. I just applied the rules that I had learnt. Man this was good. Soon I started getting requests about Child Birth’s, job changes, promotions, marriages etc.
Next big prediction for me was my mother’s demise 1.5 years before it actually happened. I did’nt predict death, it was just the huge probability of a very very taxing time medically for my mother. We never told her anything and acted normally, saved money, got the best medical insurance possible to help us with the medical expenses if they went beyond our savings so that we were there to fund for any medical treatment that was required. And we lead our life normally, I tried to keep her as happy as possible, took her for a temple tour across the state, took her for movies, ate out bough her silk screes, jewelry (everything a son can do for his mother). But the inevitable happened. But this time it was not sudden, it was over 2.5 month, her health deteriorated and we got her admitted in the best hospital in Chennai (Global Hospital – where even Ex Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh also was admitted too). As her son’s (me and my elder brother) we did our best to provide her the best medical facilities, but the inevitable happened. It was just 1 month past her 65th birthday. But we were prepared for it, mentally & financially. No regrets. Thats life. Accept it and move forward.
I changed jobs at the most opportune time, got a 50% hike (have you heard of it in the IT industry) again astrology helped me here. Then I bough a house and then got married.I predicted my marriage dates and saved leaves for my honeymoon (I was 34 when I got married).
Lot of friends and family come to me advise. I have a doctor cousin who is a loyal to me cause I predicted which college would she get admission (to an MD course) to and which she would not. If my predictions would have got wrong she would have lost around INR 5 lacs.
I am a logical guy, I would not believe it all this shit. I believe in statistics. And if there’s a method to predict something and it has a high probability statistically, why not benefit from it..