Predictive Ability of Vedic Astrology

Vedic Astrology can actually predict ! It can actually help us foresee events that are likely to take place in our life. And that proves that fact that our life, to great extent, is driven by our destiny, inside which we are also given some amount of free will to optimize our life ( if we have that will power ! ) within the ambit of the destiny.The basis of Vedic or Hindu Astrology is the Karma Theory of Hindu philosophy.

In Hindu astrology,  based on the birth date, time and place of a person we prepare the Birth Horoscope of the person. This horoscope shows the positions acquired by various planets in the zodiac at the time of the birth of the person. It also shows the sign that was rising in the eastern horizon of the location of his birth at the the time when he was born.There are twelve houses in the Hindu-Astrological-Horoscope corresponding to the 12 zodiacal signs. First house is always occupied by the sign rising at the time/place of his birth ( the rising sign is often called Ascendant or Lagna ). We should try to understand that planets moving in the sky are hands of a cosmic clock that is running in the nature. And the nature causes a person to born under a particular planetary configuration ( meaning, at a particular time as measured by the cosmic clock ! )  and at a particular place to make him suffer or enjoy the fruits of his prarabdha along with other people whose prarabdhas are interlinked with his. Thus we see, in the planetary configuration present at the time of birth of a person ( along with the rising ascendant at the place of his birth when he was born) the indications about the prarabdha ( destiny, life pattern.. etc ) of that person are present. And the job of an astrologer is to read those indications from the birth horoscope of the person. The rules of reading indications about a person's life in Hindu Astrology have been developed by ancient hindu sages like Parashara, Jamini, Satyacharya, Varahmihira... etc

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Basis Of The Vedic Astrology

THE KARMA THEORY

The basis of The Hindu/Vedic Astrology is The Karma Theory of Hinduism. According to this karma theory every soul goes through a cycle of births and deaths till the time it attains salvation. In every birth, the soul gets a body to carry itself through the journey of the life of that birth. The body that the soul gets in any birth, is temporary ( exists for that one birth only, decays with time also) but the soul itself is eternal. There is an energy called Maya that binds the soul with the body to such an extent that it does not recognise its identity separate from the body . That is why, propelled by Maya, the soul spends all its energy in attaining comforts and pleasure for the body that it gets in any birth, instead of striving to attain the salvation which is its actual final destination. The Soul is energy and the body  a vehicle that it can propell. Without a body the soul is in a kind of hybernation mode, and it needs a body to manifest its activity or presence. So the soul needs to get a body ( i.e. take birth ) to strive ( to do actions ) to attain the salvation. Similarly without the soul a body is dead.

Karma means any action that the body (whose energy is the soul ) does or any thought that the soul of the body may entertain inside the mind. The responsibility of all the actions as well as all the thoughts lies in the soul that drives the body with its energy and that is the consciousness behind every thought arising inside the mind . The karma can be good or bad. And the Karma Theory says that for every karma done by the body/soul in any birth the soul has to suffer or enjoy a reaction to that karma ( karma phala , in sanskrit ). It is like - "For every Action there is a Reaction" kind of thing. And the reaction may not come instantly. Because the reaction can be delivered when the situation and circumstances permit. Because in any birth a person ( I mean the Soul ) is part of a group of persons whose lives are interlinked. So the reaction of an action done by a person may not come to him in the same birth if that will obstruct others from enjoying/suffering the reactions of their karmas that they are destined to enjoy/suffer in that birth. So the phala of a particular karma ( let us call it A)  done in one birth by the soul may be delivered to the soul in some other birth when he is born among a group of people whose karma-phala-delivery interlinks in someway with that soul receiving the karma phala of that one particular karma A. So the undelivered Karma Phala of all the karmas that a soul keeps doing in various births keeps getting accumulated. This accumulated mass of yet-undelivered-karma-phalas is called a soul's SANCHIT KARMA ( sanchit is the sanskrit word for "accumulated"). The SANCHIT KARMA is a huge stock of yet-to-be-experienced-Karmas.

WHY one can't experience all the Sanchit Karmas in one life ?

In any one birth one can't experience all of the sanchit karma - why ? - because a person (soul ) is born to live among a group of people with whom he shares his life. Experiencing the phala of a past karma ( as well as doing any new karma ) involves interacting with other people that a person meets in this life. That way both the persons experience the phala of their past karmas. Thus, interlinking of karmas of people who meet in this world  requires that a set of people whose past karmas complement each other should be found and clubbed to share their life together. Obviously, all past karmas of a person can't be accommodated in one birth because finding a group of people who share their life togther such that all their past karmas compliment each other is not easy. That is why, depending upon the kind of group that is formed for a person to share his life with, NATURE forms a suitable collection of his past karmas from his stock of entire sanchit karma at the time of his birth, which is allotted to him to experience in that birth. This collection of karmas ( created by selecting a fraction of his total sanchit karmas ) that the person is to experience in this birth is called his PRARABDH.

The Hindu Astrology believes that the planetary arrangement at the time of a person's birth indicates his PRARABDH. This planetary arrangement ( at the time of birth of the person ) is recorded in the form of his Horoscope. And when a hindu/vedic astrologer reads the horoscope, he actually tries to figure out that person's PRARABDH. This prarabdh is the person's destiny of this life which the person will have to enjoy/suffer in this birth. Astrology can not change the destiny. Astrology can only read it. And that way, through astrology, a person may be guided to make his life compatible with his destiny [ using his free will, (see below )] so that his travel through this life be as smooth as may be possible.

A person is born to experience his PRARABDH  and to strive to attain salvation. Thus he is also given some free will to act - to do new karmas. Prarabdh he can't avoid - that is his destiny. But the free will given to him, he can utilize, to do meaningful karmas that enables his soul to exhaust all his karmas fast and pave the way for its salvation.

Astrology can thus  either be used as a practical guide ( guiding you, that how you can make material gains in  life ) or it can also be used as a spiritual guide to guide you towards attaining the lasting peace. 



J.P.Sinha (Jyoti Prakash), a trained Hindu/Vedic Astrologer and
a teacher of maths and physics



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