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Sri B. Surya Prakash final fruits of life, as ripened by its cosmic background HIS ISSUE OF THE ASTROLOGICAL EMAGAZINE is and past karma in previous incarnations. dedicated to the sad memory of Sri B. Surya Prakash T The genius is he who thinks with the entirety of the cosmic whose promising sareer as one of the foremost background impinging on his subject, while concentrating practitioners and theoreticians of astrology as an art and on the immediate focus of his thought. He realises that science, was so untimely cut off by the cruel hand of the cosmic structure combines in a mysterious way both death at the age of 27. the infinitely little and the infinitely great: anoraniaan, Son of Prof. B. V. Raman and great-grandson of the late mahato mahiaan. Prof. B. Suryanarain Rao who secured for astrology its In addition to this intellectual heritage and high level of natural great place in the republic of science or sastras in actual achievement, young Sri Surya Prakash was recent times and whose work distinguished by a personality of is being carried on by Prof. great charm. He combined a Raman on the same scientific simple disposition with an level, Sri Surya Prakash had ingrained aristocratic tempera- already shown in his writings ment in the sense of having a and readings that he had amply high sense of values and inherited the great qualities of appreciation of excellence. His his great-grandfather and extraordinary endowments and father. His work even in so achievements did not breed the short a time shows that he usual defects of modernism. He possessed a high level of retained the old world respect intelligence and profound for age and parents and elders. insight into the world of Above all, for one of his age, astronomy and astrology and he showed a remarkable the secrets of the formative detachment in life, looking at all factors that govern human things from a broad impersonal destiny. He had mastered the point of view, free from art of scientifically interpreting narrowness and prejudice. He astrology in terms of the had naturally a great respect for consequences and tendencies and love of Indian culture. of their subjects with uncanny insight. In harmony with these high intellectual gifts, young Surya There is no doubt whatever that Prakash naturally displayed if he had lived to the full term of normal existence he ethical dispositions and virtues like generosity, freedom would have attained to unprecedented heights in his from jealousy, hatred or vindictiveness. He was a highly chosen line. Heredity and genius combined to produce a evolved soul in a young body, carrying trails of high personality that was sure in the normal course of life to samskara from previous embodiments. May his soul rest develop into one of the greatest and most creative in peace and carry on his mission in other incarnations! practitioners of the ancient sastra, which deals with the (FOR)
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... Jyothisha Chinta Nidhi p³eesefle YAJNAVALKYA Time goes, you say? have made them see the universe as eternal, but changing Ah no! Alas, in somewhat a regular rhythm. This will be applicable to Time stays. We go. even those who believe in the theory of rebirth. - Austin Dobson The recurring natural phenomena like daylight, night with (The Paradox of Time) darkness at most of the times and with light for sometime For some time we were having a ‘good time’ in understating caused by the phases of the Moon and recurring seasons, the nuances of the ‘kalagjnana’ of our ancients in have in fact, compelled mankind to measure time, from understanding the importance of ‘Kala’ or ‘Time’ and how time to time. This process must have begun even from they succeeded in structuring it in a peculiar scale of five the prehistoric times. Practically, even at the earliest days main constituents that perhaps be called the foundation of the life of humans on earth, one would not have required of ‘time’, by defining any day by its ‘Tithi-Vaara- any appreciable knowledge of the orbit of the earth around Nakshatra-Yoga-Karana’ components. Shall we now the Sun, to understand that the autumn invariably followed allow some ‘time’ just to contemplate on ‘time’ itself? the summer, which was preceded by spring, the successor of winter. This order of unfailing phenomenon was easily Though every one of us is much concerned about ‘time’ discernible to the naked eyes for the early man or even in our day-to-day work, only a few have the patience and for those without sight. time to think about time or try to know what ‘Time’ is all about. It is more so with the astrologers, though they are Several millennia before Christ humans started organized the people who contemplate and calculate the ‘time’, all social life on the valleys of the Ganges and the Indus, in the time. Therefore will it not be useful to spend some India, on the banks of the Nile in Egypt, by the side of nice time in knowing something about Time? Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia and near Huang— Ho in China. For them, these natural phenomena must Plato declared, “The Sun, the Moon and planets were have appeared strange and of great importance, because made for defining and preserving the numbers of time.” for these early societies, agriculture was the main As Paul Halpern observes “The essence of time lies avocation. Agriculturists depended totally on the weather precisely in the fact that it transcends, yet defines, the conditions because they had to plan their sowing, reaping realms of the mundane.” In a broader sense of the term, and other operations at right and proper occasions. This ‘Time’ can perhaps be defined as a specific part of duration must have compelled them to explore the cause of the allotted to the present order of things in the universe. Then variations of the seasons and further into the contents naturally, a question will arise as to when actually the ‘time’ and concept of ‘Time’ itself. With the growth of social began. life and civilization, at a later stage, it is apparent that man has become more and more time-conscious. For almost all, the question may not have much of any implication. The flux of time, which we are all conscious, In ancient times, the duration of daylight from sunrise to is in fact, without any beginning or end or in short it is sunset, called the day and of the darkness from sunset to timeless. Though it is so, for the varied civilizations of sunrise called the night, were measured separately. Mostly the world, even from pre-historic days, it could be easily this was done with the aid of water clocks. Our ancients, recognized that their views were quite diverse. Perhaps, however, were more painstaking to understand and classify only the cycles of births and deaths, apart from the ‘Time’ into certain coherent constituents. They evolved changing cycles of climate and seasons, seen and an identical division system for both time and space which experienced by those early inhabitants of the earth, would has come into existence from the Vedaanga Jyothisha THE ASTROLOGICAL eMAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2012 5