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Sri. P S Narasimhan Memorial Endowment Lecture

ELIVERING THE ANNUAL - “Sri. P S Stating that astrology has been a part of life with almost DNarasimhan Memorial Endowment Lecture,” - on all Indians, the Prof. explained how it becomes an essential the 16th October 2012 at the Institute of World Culture, factor as soon as a child is born, by making out a horoscope Basavangudi, Bangalore, the well known scholar and for the moment of birth. It is interesting to note, that is resource person, Prof. V S Kalyanraman spoke about only in , Astrology has been employed to fix even a “Indian Astrology – Facts and Fallacies” proper time for consummation of a marriage, so that only worthy progeny could be brought out to make the Making a distinction between Indian Astrology and other successive generations exemplarily civilized. As a social astrological systems of the world, he made it clear that science, Astrology has always been the guiding factor for Indian Astrology was totally interwoven with the socio- the Indian society. No planet or nakshatra has been religious stratum of the society and carried with it the branded as bad in our ancient texts contrary to the rules required to oversee the needs and necessities of the false beliefs now circulated by some half-baked society. Astrology can be broadly divided into three major astrologers. Moola Nakshatra for a girl, deemed as bad sectors – scientific; social and religious. That which is by many, is essentially a good nakshatra approved for scientific about Astrology is common for the entire world. all auspicious deeds. There are many such mistaken The Moon controlling the moods, Mars connected with notions, not supported by our ancient texts, for which no mass upsurges or diagnosis of any disease from the birth credence must be given. Many such instances were cited chart cannot be different for different nations. But when by the learned speaker. it comes to samskaara it is peculiar to the Indian society, or more specifically to certain sections. Indian Astrology Coming to the fallacies, Prof. Kalyanraman was sorry has its own rules for conducting all of them, like to note how casually and evidently erroneously the , and the like. Further when it marriage compatibility rules were interpreted and takes sides with religion, it has rules to worship various employed by psuedo professionals. Dismissing the Gods and prescribes a volley of propitiatory measures that marriage-matches purely on Kuta agreement is not only are totally absent in other systems. erroneous but also injurious because such an approach rejects most eligible ones and approves and allows the However, Indian astrological thoughts are well founded hazardous ones ultimately inviting avoidable disaster. on the astrophysical qualities of the planets and nakshatras. The speaker dealt with many such fallacies in detail. They could call Jupiter as Jeeva who is the saviour of Coming to hasty conclusions in juding a horoscope was mankind and any aspect of Jupiter is capable of cancelling very erroneous, he averred. Before pronouncing a thousands of doshas - sahasradoshahanti. verdict the astrologer may have to have to develop a Astronomically, as well, Jupiter as planet 100 times bigger lot of intuitive skills that are possible only through proper than the earth was solely responsible for saving the earth prayers and meditations. The speaker exhorted the from many celestial catastrophes, the latest to remember practicing astrologers, and especially the students being the crash of the Shoemaker comet, into it in 1964. to make it a habit to start the day with a short prayer But for Jupiter it could have hit the earth and devastated to the Navagrahas. The packed hall, with the it. Prof. Kalyanraman drew may such parallels from astrology enthusiasts that included several scholars, astronomy to corroborate with the Indian astrological heard the speaker in rapt attention. The scholarly thoughts. In short he proved that all the Indian astrological lecture ended with the speaker answering queries thoughts were the results of meticulous years of from the audience. observation and experiment.

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(This scribe would, at the outset, like to introduce himself as a mathematician and student of astronomy by training, a bureaucrat by profession and an astrologist by passion. In a converse circumstance, it was only his study of astronomy, more so of the ancient Hindu astronomical treatises, that led him slowly, to the study of Indian astrology, and then the various astrological systems over the globe. He had also the fortune of learning our traditional , under the guidance of some of the great masters of yesteryears, in . However, it was by his own desire and by a dictate from his main preceptor, God destined and designed him not to become an astrologer by profession. For that reason alone, he has always endeavoured to remain behind the curtain, than on any the stage. He is conscious of the fact that most of what he writes under this column, at the behest of his beloved Editor, Mr. Niranjan Babu, could be nothing new or novel, but only what most of our learned readers would have already been aware of. However, he deems it as a great opportunity offered to him, to share some of his thoughts with his readers, periodically, through The Astrological eMagazine that has already carved a niche for itself, in the field of the astrological journalism of India and abroad.)

Navagrahas and Life’s Journey individual horoscopes or the celestial dispensation for any yothisha is defined as a branch of learning that seeks particular moment. They work in unison, only to uphold Jto understand the movements of celestial bodies and the law of . their impact on the living beings on this earth and more so Before dwelling upon the topic of Navagrahas itself, let the humans. This scribe hails from a southwest coastal us see what our modern astronomers and ancient seers strip of this great land India, namely Kerala, where have to say about the universe that we live in. The earth astrology is rather a way of life than any sheer belief. where we live is a part of our Solar system with all the The influence of astrological literature in the language of planets circling our Sun, which by itself is only a star. It is the land, especially in Kerala, is quite startling. It is easy one among the two hundred billion stars that we have in to see how its literature itself has permeated with the spirit our galaxy, the Milky Way, a band of stars or of astrology, by freely acquiring astrological terminologies Ksheerapadam. Our solar system lies on the inner edge to enrich its idioms. Kemadruma denotes abject poverty. of the one of the spiral arms of this galaxy. Our galaxy is Ezharassani (Elaratta Sani) signifies difficult times. a giant rotating disc, two hundred thousand light years Gulikan or Gulika is an intruder or spoiler. Sukra Dasa wide. Remember, a light year is the distance travelled by means the most prosperous time and Sani Dasa the quite light in a year at a speed of nearly one lakh eighty six opposite. These words are freely used in the language to thousand miles per second. (Nearly six trillion miles – 6 convey appropriate broad ideas. Likewise Grahappizha followed by 12 zeroes) All the stars in the galaxy are would mean a tough time or a situation of bringing upon circling around its centre. Our massive and expansive oneself the wrath of one or more Graha. The word galaxy is only one among the 135 million galaxies that our Navagraha has also derived a peculiar connotation. Universe contains. No wonder our ancients called it When people at home or elsewhere do not see eye to eye ‘Ahilandakotibrahmanda!’ with each other, on any subject, we call them as behaving like Navagrahas. Literally we see them having placed Vedic cosmology them in temples, only in such a fashion. However, During the past couple of decades research scholars have astrologers know that that they grin or glower only come up with goldmine of vast scientific information that according to their relative placements with reference to remains embedded in our Vedic literature and other scriptural works. For any layman these may look like * continued from October 2012 issue of The AeM stories of gods and demons. It may not be that easy to

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