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A morally upright astrologer travels from Vedanga to Vedanta.He sees

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in astrology that truth which is discovered in yogic meditation.That leads him on to higher spiritual aspirations. That original purpose of astrology has already been defeated in our corrupt and mercenary age. If it is bad in India, I found it worse in the USA. Astrologers worshipping mammon, not God - that is the tragedy of our age. But do then astrologers believe in Karma at all?

Often, I am asked whether by producing so many well-trained astrologers through the style of teaching I have evolved and having produced astrology-teachers, has not professionalism in astrology become much before than before. It is true that it has and, we have many more professional writers than before. But they are better and superior to many quacks in the field. The other trend is hack writers of book on astrology which is a bad trend. Some cook book writers have started making fortune by taking them to the USA and selling them at exhorbitant prices. But then as I have said, do astrologers themselves believe in the /aws of karma? Do they believe in astrology themselves, their own horoscopes, their own 10th lord?

A good Jupiter, the planet for Vedanta, is necessary because it is the planet for vedanga also. An astrologer with guru chanda/a yoga is nowhere near any veneration for the sacred tradition of astrology. Then a good 10th house, a good second house and a good dasha are all necessary to be successful in astrology. Untainted Jupiter, the planet of Vedanga and Vedanta, a good 5th house, a blemishless 5th lord, happy condition of the 2nd house and the 2nd lord are necessary to single out an astrologer. Which means what? Spiritual astrologers are almost non existent.

All astrological predictions, fully successful, half successful or failed ones teach the astrologer the most important lesson: it is only God's law that must prevail. Astrology, being one of the limbs of the Vedas, is known as Vedanga. The high stage of non-duality which is reached by yogis is Vedanta. It is why without a good Jupiter one cannot be a good astrologer.

Let me conclude by saying that the debate between Destiny and Freewill is unending. See from the Mahabharata why efforts are important and also see why certain events are predestined.

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It is what happens to ambitious astrologers who want to pluck stars and make money. But do we believe in all this, claiming to be the children of rishis - we men of Kaliyuga?

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Preface

After my book on Astrology and Karma which my Indian friends described as my best book to date for reasons best known to them, this addition of Rebirth and Tradition must be treated as an expansion of the same theme. In India and some other countries of the world there is both traditional belief in rebirth and collected and tested case studies. In recent years, Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia USA, has done remarkable work in this area though many Indians who could have done far better work must have failed because of lack of resources and apathy, a common Indian failing. Stevenso n^'s work is praiseworthy as, he being a product of a different culture and rigid scientific background, did make attempts to overcome his lack of 'feel' for what is a normal and real living tradition of Hindu way of life based on thousands of family experiences.

I must also begin, necessarily, with an observation given by Lakshmana of the great epic, the Ramayana to Nishadraj, the king of a forest kingdom, during the fourteen year exile of Lord Rama to the forest.

(Adhyatma Ramayana)

"No one is the cause of any other person's happiness or unhappiness. It is the karmas of a man's past life that are its causes. There is no one else that gives happiness or unhappiness. To say so is ignorance. The very thought "l do it'; is ignorance. Everyone is in the bondage of his own karmas.

It is man himself who through his different types of behaviour creates friends, enemies, indifferent and envious persons.

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Therefore, man should remain blissful in all conditions whether he is in a happy condition or an unhappy one, accepting it all as his prarabdha As far as / am concerned / have neither the desire to have worldly enjoyments and the desire to give them up. Whether these enjoyments come into my life or not, / will not be in the grip of these. In whatever p/ace and at whatever time auspicious or inauspicious deed has been done that has to be suffered inevitably. So when auspicious or inauspicious results spring up, one should neither be elated nor lament over them because no one can violate the laws of God. Man is a/ways surrounded by happiness and unhappiness because human birth is the result of the mixture of sins and holy deeds.

Happiness follows unhappiness and unhappiness follows happiness. Inside happiness there is unhappiness and inside unhappiness there is happiness. These two are intermixed like water and mud. Therefore the wise never get elated or depressed when their desires are fulfilled and when they are not, saying 'all this is Maya

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In this cycle of births and rebirth we forget, as we must, because of the powerful Maya of the Lord, that we have friends or enemies as a result of our own karmas. Yet an astrologer should be wiser than others in this area of human knowledge. Most of them, mercenaries, earning their livelihood out of astrology, cannot and do not even do that. It is why astrology will continue to be the knowledge of ill-educated charlatans, as it must have been even in ancient times also.

We have enough evidences to show that astrology was condemned in all ages and in all countries always and, yet, it flourishes because it has a super scientific base. In all ages, cheats have existed as yogis and sanyasis. There have been false prophets too. There are fundamentalist religionists who would suppress any evidence which proves their religious stand to be untenable and superstitious. Then we have physical scientists, more superstitious, because like frogs in the well they do not know that boundless human knowledge exists outside the well in which they have sought their distinction. That well is their laboratory. It is precisely for this reason that the case studies I have taken up are indisputable, though very limited in number. Lot

Preface Karma & Rebirth in Hindu Astrology of friends both in India and the USA, particularly, offered to help but they were not able to assure me that their material for astrological investigation was not spurious. The material given to me in the USA was unauthenticated. By authentication what I mean is that the horoscopes of an individual of both births must be correct and someone, other than me, must certify them to be genuine and valid.

In the case studies presented in this book, I have done that.

An astrologer must know that Jupiter the planet of Vedanta governs also Vedanga (the six limbs of the Vedas of which astrology is one). at Jupiter teaches is divine wisdom. An astrologer without a good Jupiter is lost in the Maya of self-boasting, abusive writing, envious attack on those who surpass and have better ability and fame.

That is also the Maya of the Lord. Lot of ignorant articles have been written by many writers about what are astrological combinations about astrologers. Almost all of them have ignored Jupiter as the most important planet. The planet of divine knowledge, Jupiter, alene must occupy the prime position. Next must come Mercury, the planet of mathematics, astronomy and astrology. These must get connected with spiritual houses to give to astrology its original Vedanticcontent. The aspect or presence of Jupiter on the second house, the house of speech gives truthfulness and therefore

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or, that spiritual gift of prophecy which a spiritual astrologer has to have. But such a Jupiter, if in malefic association, can turn it into guru

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yoga.

But for such astrologers, this great super-science is not the path to salvation but pathway to hell. Such astrologers are not afraid of hell because their own violations of all types of moral codes is what they have to indulge in to become wealthy and famous, particularly when their astrological ability is deficient. Jyntisha, the original Indian word for astrology, means the science of light. This light emanating from the Vedas is the divine light which astrologers for whom astrology is merely fortune telling, forget. They have to forget it because astrology is a calling for them, a bread-winning branch of human knowledge, not a search for the Ultimate Truth.

I am talking of the deficient astrological ability because I have tried my best to know if it was possible to find out unfailingly through astrological techniques from which world a man had come in his present incarnation and where he would go to after death. No one could even give me a practical hint except my late jyotish guru, Yogi

Preface Karma & Rebirth in Hindu Astrology Bhaskarananda and my late mother but without any horoscope. Left to myself, I too do no know of any such technique which works. So I decided to work on the horoscopes of both births of an individual wherever such reliable data could be got. God helped. Today I am able to make a slight breakthrough astrologically to prove that some of the principles of Parashara and Varahmihira can be depended on in our investigations into rebirth. A gist of those principles is being given in a small chapter.

Rebirth is a reality not merely because it is part of the Indian tradition but because it is now well investigated by many scholars in intellectual disciplines, other than astrology.

The case studies discussed here, some, out of the five (actually ten) have been presented in the USA both in 1994 and 1995. But the first presentation was done before my own students in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan in 1994. The demand for astrological researches is great but, researchers in this century in India, have been only very few. In the recent months the tendency to steal our researches and even the title of our books has become an uglier trend. There is little hope in such an atmosphere of producing genuine and honest research in astrology. Plagiarism in astrology is as rampant as black market.

To prove rebirth as a fact of human existence and work on well known cases, but astrologically, and show the links between both births, mine, I presume, is the first attempt being made through more than one case, but not a satisfyingly substantial one, is what I must admit. Yet.it is being done to start a debate and continue astrological investigations. At some point, long after I am dead and gone. others may achieve better success. Mine is, let me re-emphasize, only a beginning in this direction. It will take decades of efforts because getting the horoscopes of both births of an individual with non-astrological investigation into the truth of it being a case of rebirth will never be an easy task.

In the next century, when man will be more holistic in his outlook, astrology will replace all other sciences as the supreme science or the science of sciences. An astrological investigation like mine will then be the guideline for deeper investigation then. At the moment I expel, as usual, either to be blamed or praised only for this effort.

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Preface Karma & Rebirth in Hindu Astrology A blemishless 5th lord, happy condition of the 2nd house and the 2nd lord are necessary to single out a good astrologer. Which means what? Spiritual astrologers are almost non existent.

All astrological predictions, fully successful, half successful or failed ones teach the astrologer the most important lesson: it is only God's law that must prevail. Astrology being one of the limbs of the Vedas is known as Vedanga. The high stage of non-duality which is reached by yogis is vedanta. It is why without a good Jupiter one cannot be a good astrologer. An astrologer must believe, first of all, in astrology. If his horoscope does not show high idealism and spirituality he can only be an abusive mercenary.

But then must we not remind ourselves that we are living in Kaliyuga?

K.N.Rao

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