Saturday, July 5, 2008

Is "Astrology" sham or science?


(Throughout the centuries, people have looked to the stars to help them navigate across open oceans or featureless deserts, know when to plant or harvest, and preserve their myths and folklore. Ancient people used the appearance and disappearance of certain stars over the courses of each year to mark the changing seasons. To make it easier to “read” this celestial calendar, they grouped the brightest stars into readily available recognizable shapes, the constellations. )

There is no doubt that the ancient men were well accustomed of stargazing. The appearance and disappearance of any prominent or easily visible star must have put them into utter bewilderment and confusion. With the passage of time they became conscious about the appearance and disappearance of the bigger or prominent stars in the due course of time. Latter, they grouped the brightest stars into readily available recognizable shapes i.e. constellations. The appearance of certain star or planetary configuration with a coincidental catastrophe forced the certain ancient tribe to blame the planetary configuration for the happening of the tragedy. Soon the humanity created a mindset regarding auspiciousness or inauspiciousness occasions with regards to planetary configurations or appearance and disappearances of stars. The devastating first ancient world war during Mahabharata must have reminded the stargazers about the appearance of comet and indiscriminate meteorites during the birth of Duryodhana, the main perpetrator of the war. Many ancient draught or devastating situations must have occurred during certain solar eclipses as even today many people consider solar eclipse an indication to a forthcoming devastation. The tendency of relating planetary configuration with forthcoming events or human tragedies must have developed in the humanity in ancient time.

Diwali is an occasion of utter darkness. It is the darkest period of the year that falls on the Amavasya (new moon day) of Hindu month of Kartik. It synchronizes with the harvesting period. The people had their fruit of months long hard work to reap on the occasion. It would have been highly desirable to the people to remain awaken and entire area lighted throughout the night, as the goons would take opportunity to steal the crops in the utter darkness. Hence, the Diwali is the festival of lights and people like to remain awaken whole night. With the passage of time the festival was attributed with several other prominent incidents coincidently synchronizing with the occasion. The return of Lord Rama after the completion of the period of 14 years of exile is attributed with the occasion. Similarly, Bodh Jayanti, Gurunanak Jayanti and Maharvir Jayanti are also related with the festival. The festival seems to be dated back to pre Ramayana era.

The American Doctors in Florida have noticed that when the Moon is in its second quarter some patient bleed upto twice as much during operation. The psychologists as well as many scientists have observed that the number of suicide cases increases by many fold during/or near full moon day. The Monday is the day when the peoples are much more stressful then other days of the week. The frequency of the casualty and accidents are more on Monday than others days of the week. The Hindu Chaitra month (first month of Hindu calendar) is very important month in the whole year. Many great anniversaries and other occasions are found occurred in the month. Ram Jayanti, Mahavir Jayanti, Hanuman Jayanti, Holi, Shivaji Jayanti, Ganesh Shankat Chauth, Rang Punchami, Shitlashtami, Bhagavat Ekadashi, Ambedakar Jayanti., Parshuram Jyanti, Gangaur, Maharana Pratap ajaynti, Boddh Jayanti, Subhash Ajyanti, Shri Paunchami, vasant Panchami, Easter, Id-e-Milad, Vishu, Bihu, vaishakhi, etc all occur Falgun to Jyeshtha months, The Saturn’s certain position brings tremendous effect in the lives of human beings. The Saturn completes one revolution around the Sun once in 18 years and around all the zodiac signs in 30 years. These two years are very important years in human life for various transformational changes. It cannot be ignored that every person is born with a defined and certain planetary configuration, which makes the person unique in the world. The personality and growth of the person goes into changes with the changing positions of the configuration. There has to be certain fix relation in respect of these changes relative to these configurations. Could we ever be able to read this relationship between planetary configurations and human’s life? Every event/incidents whether decided/desired/planned or occurred accidentally or coincidently has a previous event’s effect or carry forward of the previous incident. This previous event had another previous event’s effect or every event has a pre event. Which was the first (beginning) event? Every event seems the effect of the previous cause. That’s every incident has a cause in the past. If we try to touch a hot object…there has to be a hot object…or an event which made the object hot…or a desire to make the object hot and its applications…prior to this there has to be object…prior to this there must be some one to bring the object…moreover an event to create the object…. if we say that we have done it (touching of the object) by mere a casual thought…. then prior to this there must be a cause of that particular desire i.e. the motive…. and the inspiration for the motive…and so on…if there was some cause prior to every ensuing activity then there must be some beginning which had happened when we were not even created…or we are the part of these long unending sequences…a chain of sequences are already there…we are nothing but to move forward as desired by the destiny. Or we are just here to be the next loop of the chain. The biologists believe that the attraction towards to opposite sex is utterly chemical and it’s chemistry of the body, which pursues a person to feel attraction for a certain person. Now, the question is whether the chemical play the prominent roll in pulling or moving towards an opposite sex or it’s opposite sex which stimulates or titillates the chemicals required to feel the pangs of love. What’s the root cause of this motivation of love after all? To feels a strong and intensive lust for a certain person one has to pass through a sequences of events and each event has its root of cause in the previous event and likewise. E.g. The event in which a person meets to someone accidentally at some place where he visited unexpectedly or for certain reason and feels pangs of lust for him/her has had undergone of unlimited incidents and the root of which has to be explored in the past before the big bang occurred. Hence, the theory of “at random life” falls inverted flat on the ground. Everything is certain and fixed. The root of every new event is at the previous event. It seems the genuine question that there had to be some thing that had attracted the attention of Indian (and other old civilization) seers towards planetary configuration and its relation with some one’s life…- Does the things bearing resemblance to each other cause similar effect or workable for the similar cause? “Like cures like” is the principal for primitive medication. This could have been out of natural intuition or would have been spontaneous. E.g. dhatura, Aak, Kashi fal, nandi bull, kalash with coconut and mango leaves resemble to shiva lingam or vagina and also the shankha, chakra, gada, paduma resemblece to shakti, vagina and hence these make important part of worship or ritual ceremony. In Hindu astrology the Sun represents to energy, potentiality, life and tej. It cannot be ignored mere by saying it has nothing to do with the science. Either we are unable to decipher the language fully or we could understand an aspect of the code partially. We can understand the graph of our life by comparing a great legends recorded life i.e. by observing the gap of the duration with the legend and calculating accordingly e.g. How old we were when he died? How was our condition when we were born/married or achieved any remarkable thing as par his graph of life

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