many articles, many people expressed their protest to me as below. Now it is but natural for many astrologers to think that “every person coming to us asks futuristic questions only like ‘when will it happen, when will that happen’ etc. Then if we have to tell them that future can’t be told then they will have to wind up our papers and sit idle at home. You have told the reason for this but who is to tell the people? Even if it is so, predictions of many people come to be totally true. Further many astrolo- gers claim that their predictions are 110% true. How is that?”
My Answer:- Out of 100 predictions made by one astrologer not even 10% are correct. If we take predictions made by 100 astrologers, then also situation is like above only. Astrology is not personal property of someone; it is a thought for all people. Therefore according to scientific method, it is not proper to accept the opinion of a single person.
Our research based answer is as follows: Most of the questions are of the type- (1) when my daughter will get married? (2) will my son become a doctor or engineer? (3) What shall I beget, son or daughter? (4) Will I be able to have my own house? In fact the answers of such questions are in destiny only. Every second a child is born on this earth and each ascendant is approximately for two hours. This means that out of 86400 children born, 7200 are going to have the same ascendant. In these two hours positions of planets except Moon are same. Therefore the birth charts of all these children are going to be same. The events like career, marriage, life span, begetting children, diseases etc. or whole life of all of them are never going to be same; but their horoscopes are going to be same. Those having the same horoscopes have a different destiny; and the destiny is not known to any- body. How will the common people who do not perform the highest type of Sadhana (it does not mean daily worship) be able to find the answers for such questions? You only see by thinking in your mind. Out of above questions, some are of us astrologers only. What are the answers that you have found for yourself? And how many of those are accurate? This is not just for your self satisfaction.
I will quote one example but don’t misunderstand. I too like the Krishnamurthy method, it is also good, and there is no doubt about it. Please remember that I am not criticizing K.P., without doing a complete study of K.P., I have no authority to criticize it. I want only to prove here that the future can not be told. I have got four issues of “Nakshatrache Dene” with me. I quote here an example from them as a written proof to show that future can not be told. To encourage new students, in these issues a very good experiment is being handled as a competition. In one issue the readers are given a question for solution, in the next issue the results are given with rewards and answer. These were as follows:-
Issue Page No. of Correct % No. Participants Answers
1) Wasantik issue 2001 71 23 4 17 2) Wasantik issue 2001 91 25 0 0 3) Diwali issue 2002 117 15 5 33 4) Diwali issue 2002 118 21 1 5 5) Wasantik issue 2003 69 13 1 8 6) Wasantik issue 2003 71 26 1 4 7) Wasantik issue 2004 38 19 1 5 8) Wasantik issue 2004 45 22 1 4
Total issues= 8, Total competitors= 164, Correct Answers = 14 , Correctness % = 8.54% only.
The declared result of these 8 competitions, tells that out of 164 competitors only 14 could answer correctly and the percentage is only 8.5.
In followers of both traditional and K.P., we meet many persons making false verbal statements, “I am 100 % correct, I am 110% correct”. But how these persons keep mum and fall in the group of 90% consisting of those who could not predict accurately only is seen from the results. If the political prediction is correct, a great drum beating is done. But if it goes wrong you have to keep mum. By the meager proof of 8.5% accuracy is it proved that ‘the future can be told by astrol- ogy’? Think over and decide.
A matter more serious is worth noting. If we presume three thousand copies of this periodical are published per year, then by simple arithmetic, there are ap- proximately 12000 readers of issues in 4 years. Let us presume all of them must have read it. Then only 164 persons have dared to answer, means those were even less than 1.5% only. If we exclude the students, why did 90% not participate in this competition?
The plain meaning of this is that, and this proves that, 90% students are sure that their answer will not be correct. Now should not the experts who claim that ‘we come correct 100%’ stand first every time? Why should they just brag like this? I can not say that this is happening only in K.P because in the traditional also the condition is the same.
We astrologers do not know for certain when our own son or daughter will be married. Even then we keep on giving the answers of same questions of others. The fortune tellers have neglected one important thing i.e. even if one or two mar- riages have been settled during the periods challengingly predicted by the astrolo- ger; still the aim of social welfare of astrology can’t be achieved. If that girl was happy throughout her married life, then only it will have to be agreed that it is the decision of Shastra. By telling the future they make their collar tight, but nobody cares to find whether that couple got happiness in their married life. In our graphic system we have taken that part and proved it. Our opinion that “we can’t tell the future, as per rules of Hora Shastra we can only give guidance beneficial to the society” is proved here.
Now about our method we can say this. Basically, had there been no accu- racy in our ancient traditional system of astrology, I would not have been able to
prove that we get 90% accurate guidance through our scientific method. In many examples this accuracy has been proved. The accuracy of astrology is very good, but the garb of futurology and the system of using it have defects. The most impor- tant part is that, when the answers are correct then in those cases the rules of astrology are used accurately in totality that is all. The reason that every time and by everybody, the Shastra is not followed ditto is of limitations of human memory as given above. Without the use of thousands of rules, hundreds of systems, math- ematically cleared arrangement of the Shastra, and without the happened incidents and their relation with destiny is before us, the accuracy is impossible. If nobody is thinking about all these rules, systems, the complexity of their use, the impossibility to keep all these in human memory, then how can we expect the accuracy? Inaccu- racy is the effect of this main deficiency. Apart from this, the inclusion of out-of Shastra unwanted rules or systems while using the system of the Shastra, the pro- portion of accuracy has been reduced.
Apart from this one more important point has already appeared elsewhere. While giving the fruits of any yoga, the destiny gives the fruits by making the incidents to happen only in accordance with the situation around the Jataka at that time. Even if there are same Yogas in the birth charts of innumerable persons, even then while giving the fruits, the condition of everyone and the surroundings is never possible to be the same. Further, the un-favorable period (of the graph) according to birth chart of every person is going to be definitely different. Due to these rea- sons definitive fruits of Yogas will nowhere be the same. The fruits will be received but at different times and by different sequence of incidents. If astrologer predict- ing definitive fruits of Yogas has no awareness of this, then not only the decisions will go wrong, but the Shastra too will suffer harm. Therefore while telling, instead of using incident based, futuristic or definitive words, the “Guidance” type telling will be convenient . And according to the Shastra that only is appropriate.
Article 32
Excellent Life Guidance is received Through the Astrology.
Astrology being a golden treasure of our ancient culture, then why its deci-
sions are going wrong is what we started to investigate. We came to realize that it was due to incapability of human memory of to memories countless rules & sys- tems of Shastra, some short cuts inserted and the deficiencies due to these and other reasons in the method of using the Shastra etc. After the research of many years, we have removed the deficiencies which we found in the method of using, and we have proved, or at least have tried to prove, that this Shastra really gives very good guidance.
The reasoning of why the decisions go wrong in current practice of using the Shastra and the explanation for it is as follows:—
1) 1) For guiding others by means of horoscope alone there are 1100 rules of astrology. The multiplication of these rules with 12 houses, 12 signs and 7 plan- ets of ancient Shastra results in fruit indicating sentences over 1.1 million. Even after we drop the part of relatively similar sentences, still there remain 300-350 thousand fruit indicating sentences on hand. The gist is if we prepare a collection of one line sentences on the basis of these rules, it will have least 300 to 350 thousand sentences! To predict the fruits the astrologer must know and have these on his tip of tongue. How far is it possible?
2) Such a large collection of rules and fruit indicating lines can never re- main in human memory. Even then we make a pathetic effort to predict accurate, futuristic, challenging fruits from Shastra.
2) Whatever is taught in school is mostly approved by society. Let us now take an example of regular experience: - The tables of numbers are taught in the school. From that let us call 100 boys after 5th standard one by one in a room and ask them “16 x 6 is how many?” According to opinion of all 99% will certainly give ‘96’ as the answer. Now let us turn to the school of astrology. Out of them let us call 10 students along with the teacher. And let us ask them about the chart of some third person and his only one question separately to each of them. Here the Shastra which they are learning is only one. If it is so then answer also should only be one. But misfortune is that all 10 persons give ten different answers. This is a factual position, but the society accepts the same opinions.
The reason for this is deficiency no.1 above. In this matter the astrologer can’t be held responsible so much. Because of the limitations of the human memory, it is impossible for such a large store of the rules and fruits to remain in the memory and to make use of it. Then should we shut down the Shastra and keep it aside? Some efforts have got to be done, therefore this matter is essential to be studied. But this much is true that if somebody, by neglecting this deficiency, is doing futuristic, challenging and decisive predictions, it is a mistake on his part. The prediction of one in one thousand to be correct is not a suitable proof for saying that ‘the astrology as true Shastra’ is what I want to state here. If 99 out of 100 students give correct answer, then it becomes the honor of the Shastra. Astrology is
a very useful Shastra, but due to defects in the use of system by some reasons and some people, the Jyotish Shastra i.e. Astrology is definitely being defamed and in addition good students of astrology also are being defamed.
3) In spite of many deficiencies mentioned above, some people ask futuris- tic questions. For the last innumerable years, it has been custom to predict the future on the basis of this Hora Shastra. The questions which are asked by many people are mostly the questions of the astrologers themselves in their personal life. What is the state of affair of them? What is the fact?
If we see any ancient Shastra, these are written keeping the aim of social welfare only. So there is no reason for Astrology being different. Basically it is a Hora Shastra, how did it turn into a “Phal Jyotish Shastra” (future predicting science)? Nobody knows. Because of the above mentioned deficiencies, nobody can give accurate, futuristic and definitive answers. Who should tell the future? Answer is only Rishi, Muni and Ishwar. Those knowledgeable will never commit a mistake of creating such a Shastra for knowing the future by common man from the astrology because they knew that without doing a great Sadhana anybody can not become eligible to understand the destiny of anybody. Then how can the same can be told by reading the hunches from some ordinary books? According to our research, only guidance can be given from this Shastra. We astrologers do not know the answers of the questions like “when my daughter will get married? Exactly which branch of education will my son adopt? Shall I be able to get the lottery prize?” ; then how should we be able to give answers to similar questions of others? When one or two answers come correct then we get elated; but we don’t look at many wrong ones. Whatever be, it is definite that Jyotish Shastra is a Shastra giving good, accurate guidance in life; we have tried to prove it by scientific research and we have succeeded in it.
4) The Sun is in some degree or other. During one rotation of the earth in 24 hours, Sun travels only one degree approx. while the Moon travels about 13 to 15 degrees. (Let us suppose that it is in first 10 degrees of some sign). Mercury and Venus are generally with the Sun so their speed is similar to that of sun. The rest Mars, Jupiter and Saturn remain in one degree for many days. As reported, at present one child is born in the world every second. If we follow these factual rules, the Sun remains in one sign for one month and the same sign appears on the ascendant at the time of Sunrise. The Sun appears to be rotating through 360 Deg. in 24 hours (=86400 seconds). That means it is going to remain in ascendant in some region of the earth. During these 86400 seconds minimum 86400 children are going to be born. But it can’t be presumed that every child will be born at the sunrise only. So the Sun being in one sign out of the 12 signs, let us take the 1/12th
part of it. It means about 7200 children are born on one ascendant. Now in the horoscope of these 7200 children, the ascendant being the same and planets are for one day only, so except the moon the degrees of other planets will be with a difference of only few minutes and seconds only here or there. In fact we keep telling others by keeping the horoscope before us without considering the sec- onds, minutes or even degrees of the planets. To conclude, the 7200 horoscopes
are the same only. Whatever is to be told about these 7200 horoscopes that will be the same for everybody. According to the rules of Shastra it is going to be the same. This is going to happen every day.
Now the horoscopes of all these 7200 children are same. This means, ac- cording to the current understanding of astrology “will the whole life of all of them will be the same?” is a big question that arises. All the students are going to use the same rules for all these horoscopes. The incidents taking place in their lives such as service, marriage, children- are these all going to be the same? There is no other alternative than to say ‘NO’. When the life of even the twins is not the same, how can it be same for all of these? To summarize- From all these thoughts above, if some people think that I want to prove astrology to be ‘a baseless and useless science’ then it is wrong. One thing is true that after knowing these defi- ciencies, the science minded and intellectuals might have a negative view about the astrology. But it is also true unless an explanation of this is given and unless this Shastra is put before the society in a scientific way, this would have continued to be like this only.
Now the analysis that I am going to do is going to be about ‘what I have done’ for which there is no alternative because this part is to show the research done by me to prove the greatness of this Shastra.
1) To put it briefly, I have taken the support of scientific method to remove the deficiency no-1. By studying this Shastra deeply for many years, to remove these deficiencies, I have prepared a computer program, with the support of spirituality and the scientific methods of computation.
2) Regarding the deficiency No-2- Instead of horoscope prepared as per custom of the Shastra, uniformity is achieved by the Graphic method and thus this deficiency has been removed. This is quite a new approach and no body has invented this so far. By this system the answers are obtained with 90% accuracy and further no other expert is needed to work upon it. Because all the rules are followed with the help of computer in few sec- onds, so it has been possible.
3) The part of the third deficiency does not at all come in the purview of this system. Instead of future telling, a life-guidance is done. It is important to note here that, basically what is seen on the computer is not only under- stood by the operator of computer but the questioner also can know it easily. Therefore the question of giving personal opinion does not arise at all. Similarly we have not accepted any of the unscientific remedies. 4) Till today nowhere we have observed anybody taking destiny in consider-
ation for horoscope, in this system we have adopted the thought of the destiny. Though the horoscopes are same, the destiny of everyone is different and therefore the life is also different. This symptom of destiny is known by this Graphics Method, thus this deficiency is also removed. In this way, the deficiencies arising have been removed by making the use of scientific method, .
portant things in our research:-