The words of VS Kalayana Raman

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Dear All, The following is an extract from an article by VS Kalyana Raman. ==> To Mr. Patric Moore, the astronomer, astrology is rubbish. But all he wrote about Venus became rubbish consequent upon the revelations brought out by the space probes during the past two decades. Venus probes revealed that its axial rotation was slower. Its day was longer than its year. Further it was revolving from the east to west. Like that with newer discoveries many of the earlier astronomical assumptions had to be reviewed and rewritten. According to Mr.Martin Gardener, the theory of sunspot cycles is the last respectable survivor of the ancient view, that human affairs are linked with astronomical phenomena. But since then, i.e. 1957, far more impressive correlations than sunspots have been firmly established. Brihat Samhita, written centuries before, gives valuable information about the sunspots and how they influence the earth. To Dr. Harold Spencer Jones, "Astrology is a queen of sciences and astrology is the queen of humbug." When asked about the possibility of space travel by the journalist in the 1957, Dr. Jones, well known for his prophetic views on space research explained, "Space travel is bunk." Alas! Two weeks later the first sputnik went into space. Orator, poet and philosopher, Pico, who lived in the fifteenth century, was a carping critic of astrology. But his astrologers predicted that he would not survive to see his thirty-third birthday. He died on the 17th November 1494, when he was only thirty-two, unable to see the fulfillment of the astounding astrological prediction. The French psychologist Michel Gauquelin, set out to disprove astrological theory and in the process, between 1956 and 1961, along with his wife he analyzed 25000 dates and times from the official registers in France, Germany, Italy and Holland. They found out that more scientists were born under the influence of Saturn and Mars, athletes under Mars, soldiers under Mars or Jupiter and writers under Venus or Moon. This theory calls Mars effect was accepted by researchers in North America and Britain. No scientist was seen born with the influence of Jupiter. His efforts to disprove astrology landed him in providing irrefutable proof of planetary influence over humans. (From the article "Epilogue" present in the book "Indian Astrology - an Appraisal" by VS Kalyana Raman)<== Hope you all enjoyed the extract. :)Love and regards,Sreenadh