Vedic astrologers read dharmashastras upside down!

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Dear friends,

Namaskar!

A common question I am often asked

is, “Why are you against ‘Vedic astrology’ and not

against other predictive methods like palmistry, Tarot etc. etc. Do you

believe in them " ?. The answer is an emphatic no. Then why am I

against “Vedic astrology” alone?

“Vedic

astrology” and Vedic calendar have an inherent mutual conflict! As is common

knowledge by now, there is a direct conflict between Mesha, Vrisha etc.

rashi based jyotisha, whether sayana or nirayana, and the real Vedic calendar,

since there are no Mesha etc. rashis (nor Mangal, Shani etc. planets) but only

Madhu, Madhava etc. months, tithi, nakshatras and Udgayana etc. phenomena in

the Vedas, Brahnmanas and the Vedanga Jyotisha etc. whereas “Vedic

astrology” cannot survive without Rashis and Mangal, Shani etc.

planets. “Vedic astrologers” are imposing those very

imaginary rashis -–zodiac means an

imaginary “circle of animals!”---on the Hindu calendar

dictating simultaneously that even if there are no Mesha etc. Rashis in the Vedas

or the Vedanga jyotisha etc., we must celebrate all the Vedic, Pauranic and

geographic/seasonal festivals like Uttarayana, Vasanta Navratra or Sharadiya

Navratra etc. on days suggested by “Lahiri jyotishis” and not the

Vedanga Jyotisha or the Puranas or even geographical phenomena etc.!

“Vedic

astrologers” never quote the exact references in spite of repeated

reminders!

To continue their opposition to the real Vedic calendar

because of its conflict with “Vedic astrology”, these “Vedic

astrologers” are claiming that predictive gimmicks through Ashvini,

Bharni etc. nakshatras which, according to them, are subsumed in Mesha, Vrisha

etc. rashis vis-à-vis Mangal, Shani etc. planets have been

advocated/permitted/sanctioned by our dharmashastras! Some moderators/owners of astrology forums even claim

that the Atharva Veda has given results of being born in different nakshatras! Another " Vedic

astrologer " says that " the sun went to meet the Bull " means

the astrological sign Vrishaba as per the Vedas! As

they are not quoting the relevant shlokas/mantras in support of their

arguments, in spite of being asked to do so repeatedly, they are liars and are

obviously making a fool of everybody!

A “Vedic astrologer”

had even claimed " The Manu Smriti is the oldest Dharmasashtra and the fact

that it permitted astrology means that astrology was permitted from the

beginning of the Hindu civilization. " But, as is the habit of these

“Vedic astrologers”, he also has not quoted any shloka in support

of his “declaration”!

The facts of the case, however,

are:

“Nakshatra-jeevis

i.e. jyotishis must be debarred from performing any religious

rites”--Manu I request these " Vedic

astrologers " to do some introspection after reading as to what the Manu

has said actually about " nakshatra-jeevis " (jyotishis!) in shloka 162

of third adhyaya, and I quote:

" hasti go ashva ushtra damako

NAKSHATRAIR YASHCHA JEEVATI, pakshinam poshako yashchai, yudhacharyas tathaiva

chai.. "

This shloka in the

Manusmriti is actually in the context about as to which people are to be

debarred from performing diava and pitrya karyas i.e. yajnyas etc for gods and

oblations etc. for the Manes, and the Manu has said unequivocally

" Trainers of elephants, cows, horses; ANYONE WHO EARNS HIS LIVELIHOOD BY

DINT OF NAKSHATRAS and one who puts birds into cages are not allowed to perform

any daiva or pitra karya "

The Hindi translator of Kshemraj

Shri Krishendas, Bombay, edition of the Manusmriti has translated the above

shloka as follows, “haathi, bail, ghoda aur oont – in sabko sikhane wale aur JYOTISH

SE JEEVIKA KARNE-WALE—yeh sab shubha karya main varjit hain”.

Is this the permission that the Manu is supposed to have granted?

The same “Vedic

astrologer” who had said that the Manu had “permitted

astrology” had said further, " If Avtarji has not read what the Manu

Smriti says about astrology he has no right to say that astrology is not

sanctioned in the ancient past. " It means, thus, that he,

like all his counterparts, has read the Manusmriti upside down!

“One must

forget bhagya and only stick to purushartha”---ManuThe same

“Vedic astrologer” had also said that the Manu has advised that a

king must consult a jyotishi. However, again, he has not quoted any

shloka in support of his argument and it appears that he is confusing, because

of his Tamoguni budhi, the Manu with Varahamihira! It is the latter

according to whom a king must definitenly have a " samvatsarika " ! The

Manu was not a fatalist. He was a scholar extraordinary with

practical knowledge of statecraft besides the Vedas etc.

and what he has actually advised the king to do, instead of consulting

soothsayers, is:

“bakavat chinatayet arthan

simha vat chai prakramet Vrika vat cha avalumpeta shashavat

cha vinishpatet” Manusmriti 7/106

i.e. " Like a kingfisher eager

to hunt some fish in the river/sea/lake, a king must concentrate on increasing

his wealth (a kingfisher does not consult soothsayers before pecking at the

fish!). A king must jump on his enemy like a lion jumps on its prey

(lions do not consult ‘Vedic astrologers’ before jumping on their

preys). Like a wolf a king must kill his enemy even if it is hidden in a

fort (No astrologer has as yet claimed that he was consulted by some

wolf!). Like a hare, a king must know how to extricate himself from

tricky situations (Does anybody know if any rabbit has consulted some

jyotishi?) "

In 7/182-83, the Manu has

said, " A king must wage a war in the month of Margasheersha or Phalguna or

any other suitable period when he is sure of his victory by dint of the

opponent king having got addicted to some bad habits etc.”

Consulting fortune

tellers is definitely a fad, a bad habit, an

addiction and has been proscribed by shastras since it makes one very

unsure of himself/herself and leaves him/her at the mercy of soothsayers, most

of whom are liars and quite a few of whom call themselves " Vedic

astrologers " these days. Example is better than precept and that

example is: BJP was sent into wilderness as jyotishis had assured them that by

advancing the elections, Shri A B Vajapayee would be the PM, come what

may! Poor Vajpayeeji has all along been bedridden, after having lost his

throne! No jyotishi had “foreseen” that!

Regarding

" bghagya versus purusharth " , this is what the Manu has said,

Naatmanam avamanyeta parvabhir

abhisamridhibhih

Aamrityoh shriyam anvishyet nainam manyeta

durlabam,… (Manusmirit 4/137) i.e.

" If in spite of making

efforts, one is not able to earn the desired amount of wealth, one must in no

case feel himself/herself unfortunate but continue to make efforts till the end

of his/her life, since it is not that difficult to earn wealth (by making

proper efforts) "

The Manu has not advised that one

must consult soothsayers to do some remedial measures or wear some gem to

remove non-existent and imaginary kalasarpa doshas and ashtama shani and

what not to get rid of penury!

The real crux of fate versus

efforts has been described by the Manu in 7/205

Sarvam karmedam ayattam vidhane daiva manushye  tayor daivam

achintyam tu manushe vidyete kriya

" What good or bad deeds

have been done in our past births are in the hands of 'daiva'. What (good

or bad deeds) we are doing now in this birth is up to us. Since what is

past is past. It need not be pondered upon. But the present can certainly

be taken care of (and as such, we should forget the past janmas and concentrate

on good deeds in this janma---and certainly making a fool of the gullible

public by making correct predictions from incorrect data is not a good deed at

all, nor is it a “good deed” on the part of “clients”

to run after soothsayers!).

To remove any doubts further from

the minds of astro-buffs, the Manu has defined purushartha as follows:

“alabdham chaiva lipsyet

labdham rakshyet prayatnatah Rakshitam vardhayet chaiva vridham

paatreshu nikshipet

Etachchaturvidham vidyat

purushartha prayojanam  Asya nityam anushthanam samyak kuryat atandritah”

7/99-100

“One must attempt to obtain

what he/she has not obtained yet. He/she must preserve what he/she has

already earned, and keep on increasing it further. After having increased

it, he/she should utilize (invest) it properly

“These are the four

limbs/types of purushartha and one must always keep them in mind and act

accordingly (and not waste his/her time and wealth and energy by running after

nakshatra-soochis!)”.

Bhishma also has

castigated nakshatra-soochis!

Let us hear what Bhishma had to

say about “nakshatra-soochis” ,“ahvayakah devalakah

naakshatra gramayajakah,Ete brahmana chandalah maha-pathika

panchakah”….. Shanti Parva 76/6

i.e. “Court bailiffs,

pujaris of temples for the sake of money, those who study naksahtras

(jyotishis!)…are chandalas even if they are Brahmins (and must be

excluded from daiva and pitrya karya)”.

Bhishma also did

not believe in bhagya (and therefore nakshatra-soochis!) but in purushartha:

Let us now hear Bhishma’s

views about bhagya versus purushartha:

“utthanenna sada putra

prayatetha yudishthira

Na hi utthanam rite daivam rajnyam

artham prasadayet” Rajdharmanushasana parva 65/14

“Dear son Yudishthira, you

must always rely on your own efforts since without your own efforts there is no

question of any daiva (bhagya) bestowing any riches on any king”

“vipannam vai samarambhe

santapam ma sma vai krithah Ghattasvaiva sadaatmanam rajnyam

eva paro nayah” Rajadharmanushasana parva 65/16

“If you are besieged by

miseries, do not feel despondent. To struggle with adversities (without

consulting soothsayers!) is the only way out for a king to come out of those

adversities.”

Vishnugugupta

Kautileeya a.k.a. Chanakya has no good words for nakshatra-soochis and

astro-buffs!

The world famous statesman

Chanakya (4th century BCE), in his Arthashastra, has dissuaded a

king about consulting nakshatra-soochis in no uncertain terms:

“nakshatram ati

prichhantam baalo artham ati vartate, Artho hyarthasya nakshatram kim

karishyanti tarakah”

i.e. “ The objective

(artha) eludes the foolish man (baalam) who enquires too much from the

stars. The objective should be the nakshatra of the objective, of what

avail are the stars”. We must not forget that Chankya destroyed the

last king of Nanda-Vamsha, who was an astro-buff. It means thus that to destroy

a powerful enemy you have to shun and not embrace nakshatra-jeevis!

Vasishtha Muni,

the preceptor of Bhagwan Rama, also has chided astro-buffs and jyotishis:

Yoga-Vasishtha

Maharamayana has nothing but sarcasm for jyotisha, jyotishis and also their

clients in no uncertain terms when he has said:

“kaal vidbhir vinirneetaa

yasyasti chira jeevita,  sa ched jeevati sanchhin shiras

tad daivam uttamam

kaal vidbhir vinirneetam pandityam

yasya raghava

,anadyapita vidyash-ched vidvan tad daivam uttamama”

Mumukshu vyavhar prakran 8/18-19

“Destiny may be said to be

efficacious/effective, if some one for whom the jyotishis (fortune tellers) had

predicted a long life survives even after he has been beheaded.

“Destiny may be said to be

something to be reckoned with, if some one for whom jyotishis had predicted

great scholarship becomes a scholar without reading even a single alphabet

himself/herself”

It is clear that after the nakshatra

and/or utpata-soochaka

works like “Atharva-Veda Parishishta” or “Parashara

Samhita” etc. had been spawned, the real well wishers of Bharatavarsha

like the Manu, Bhishma and Vasishtha and even Vishnugupta Kautileeya etc. had

warned the Hindus in no uncertain terms about the pernicious effects of running

after “nakshatra soochis” who are actually " chandalas "

even if they are Brahmins!

Gautama the Budha

also has warned about omen-mongers in no uncertain terms:

“Some brahmanas and

shramanas earn their livelihood by taking to beastly professions and eating

food brought to them out of fear; the say, ‘there will be a solar

eclipse, a lunar eclipse, occultation of the stars, the sun and the moon will

move in the correct direction, the nakshatras will move in the correct path, in

the incorrect path, there will be precipitation of meteors, burning of

the cardinal direction, earthquakes, roar of heavenly war drums, the sun, the

moon and the stars will rise and set wrongly producing wide distress among all

beings etc. (Just do not be taken in by their

pranks!)”

Digha nikaya, Vol I, p 68, Pali Text Book Society

All the

dharmashastras are against nakshtra-schoochis/jeevis:

It is not only the Manusmriti and

the Mbh or Yogavasishtha but every dharmashastra has castigated vociferously

such “brahaman chandalas”

Let us see what Atri Samhita

383-385 has to say “jyotirvido hyatharvanah keerah pauran-pathakah

Shradhe yajnye mahadane na

varneeyah kadachanai  Shradancha pitaram gauram danam chaiva tu nishphalam Yajnye cha

parihanih syat tasmat tan parivarjayet , Aavkashchitrakarashchai vaidyo

nakshatra pathakah Chatur vipra na pujyante brihaspati samah yadi

“A JYOTISHI, AN ATHARVANA,

ONE WHO NARRATES PURANAS FOR A LIVELIHOOD, ALL THESE ARE TO BE AVOIDED IN A

SHRADHA AS WELL AS A YAJNYA AT ALL COSTS. IF THESE PEOPLE DO PARTICIPATE

IN SHRADHAS ETC. ALL SUCH SHRADAS AND ANY CHARITIES TO THEM WILL BE NISHPHALA

I.E. FRUITLESS. THEY WILL DO MAXIM HARM TO ANY YAJNYA IN WHICH THEY

PARTICIPATE. THEY MUST THEREFORE BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS……A

BRAHMIN WHO IS A NAKSHATRA PATHAKA I.E. ONE WHO READS NAKSHATRAS OF HIS CLIENTS

HAS TO BE SHUNNED AND AVOIDED EVEN IF HE IS AS LEARNED AS BRIHASPATI, THE

PRECEPTOR OF GODS ”.

It is worthwhile to note that the

“Atharva Veda Parishishita” has advised to utilize the services of

an Atharvana without fail whereas Atri Rishi has advised that an Atharvana,

even if he is as well-read and intelligent as Brihaspati, has to be shunned

like a “chandala”

I wonder if there can be anything more damaging/castigating

for

nakshatra-soochis---who call themselves “Vedic astrologers” these

days---than Atri’s admonishments!

Vridha vasishtha

has called nakshtra soochis as papamoortih i.e. sin personified:

Nakshatra soochee kila papa-roopo,

heyah sada sudharma kritye……. Vridha-Vasishta, A nakshatra

soochi is sin personified and must be avoided at all costs in any good

deed.

Was Varahamihira

really a well-wisher of the Hindus or of the Greeks/Ionians, since he called

the latter “mlechhas” but wanted the Hindus to worship them as

Rishis because they knew astrolatory?

As everybody knows, Varahamihira,

whom some “Vedic astrologers” address as “Parama

pujya”---i.e. the “Most worshipful one”, has said in his

Brihat Samhita 2/15

Mlechhah hi yavanas teshu

samyak shastram idam sthitam, Rishi vat te-api pujyante, kim

punar daiva-vid dvijah

”Yavanas (Greeks and/or

Ionians) are certainly mlechhas actually but as they know the shastra of

astrology (predictive gimmicks!) they are worshipped like Rishis…”.

However, all our shastras, as seen above, advise that even if a highly well

read Brahmin like Brihaspati is a nakshatra-soochi/jeevi i.e. a jyotishi, he

must be shunned like a chandala from all the religious functions!

Since it is those very

“doctrines” that have been castigated by our Rishis that were later

propagated/advocated by Varahimihira on the shoulders of Sphujidwaja’s

Yavana Jatakam and Maya the mlechha’s Surya Sidhanta etc., we have to be

extremely wary about the intentions of that Varahamihira and today’s

“Vamadevas” and “Parasharas” who tell us that

predictive gimmicks are “Vedic astrology” and who call those

gimmicks as “Vedanga Jyotisha” which actually is a mathematical

work for calculating tithi etc.

Since all the sages like the Manu,

Vasishtha, Chanakya and even Gautama the Budha were of a pre-Varahamihira

era, who was around in about 6th century AD, it means Varahamihira

had either not read any of those admonishments---nay even our

dharma-shastras---or ignored them deliberately. Most probably, it

must be the latter, since that is what today’s “Vedic

astrologers” are doing! It could also be that he read dharmashastras

upside down, exactly like today’s “Vedic astrologers” who

claim that the Manu had permitted astrology. It is, therefore, extremely

doubtful that Varahamihira was a well-wisher of the Hindus, as he appears

to have misguided them about his prowess of predictive gimmicks on the basis of

a monstrous astronomical work viz. the Surya Sidhanta and advised them to treat

even mlechhas as Rishis if they knew astrolatory!

It is worthwhile to note that the

same “Vedic astrologer” who says that the Manu has “permitted

astrology” goes on parroting that Varahamihira belonged to an era of 6th

century BCE instead of 6th century AD, but, as is the habit of

“Vedic astrologers”, he is not advancing any proofs for the same

either!

Actually, some good for nothing

Greek astronomer masqueraded as Maya, the father-in-law of famous Rakshasa king

Ravana, at the fag end of Satya-yuga (sic!) and some “mlechhas” are

masquerading today as “Vamadevas”, all teaching us “Vedic

astrology” (sic!). You can draw your own conclusions about Varahamihira

as well as today’s “Vamadevas” and “Parasharas”

whose only aim is thus to derail the real Vedic calendar through “Vedic

astrology”! That also reminds me that some jyotishis are sort of

worshipping even Ravana for the astrological knowledge he is supposed to have

bequeathed through his Ravana Samhita etc. works! I have seen that work

also, and like Brihat Parashari, is the worst possible figment of imagination!

Common-sense also

demands to shun being a “kapurusha” (a fatalist eunuch!)

I remember having read, several

decades back, a dialogue---perhaps--in Panchatantra. A shishya, after

having met with failures in spite of his efforts, was disappointed and said to

his Guru, “bhagyam phalati sarvatra, na vidya na chai

paurusham” i.e. “It is only fate and neither efforts nor

education etc., that work/frucitfy everywhere in case of a human

being”. The Guru, however, retorted,

“udyoginam purusha simham

upaiti lakshmi, daivena deyam iti kapurusha vadanti”---

“Only someone who acts like

a lion i.e. one who makes Herculean efforts in spite of having met with

failures, deserves the blessings of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. On

the other hand, ‘bhagya will do everything’ is a pet dialogue of

eunuchs”. That is also what Bhagwan Krishna advised Arjuna in the

Gita:

“klaibyam ma sma gamah

parthai naitat tvayi upapadyete ,Kshyudram hridaya daurbalyam

tektvotishtha parantapai”

“O Arjuna, don’t act

like a eunuch! It does not behove you! Shake off your sloth and

weak heartedness and get up and fight – act” Bhagwan Krishna

did not ask Arjuna to consult any soothsayer nor did He advise Arjuna to

“leave everything to your fate”. We also must, therefore, wake up and make every effort ourselves to

save the Vedic calendar from the clutches of “Vedic astrologers”,

instead of expecting some miracles!

“Try, try

again”

I also remember having read in my school days a REAL STORY

of some king, perhaps Rana Sanga of Rajasthan—I am not sure, that

after fleeing from his opponents, he was hiding in a dilapidated house in

ruins and was in utter frustration. There he saw a spider crawling

towards its web but the ‘thread’ through which it was crawling

snapped and it fell to the ground. The spider kept on trying again

and again and it is said that it succeeded in going into its web after an

eighth attempt. The king was amazed on the tenacity of the spider and got

an inspiration, ‘Try, try again’ from that creature! Instead

of running to some jyotishi, like today’s politicians, he made several

attempts and ultimately succeeded in vanquishing his enemy. So if we

really want to succeed in our efforts to streamline the Vedic calendar, the

first thing we have to do is to shun “brrahmana-chandalas”.

Are our

dharmacharyas aware of the damage that is being done to the nation by

“Vedic jyotish”? In a

nutshell, all our shastras and common sense are against any sort of indulging

in “bhavishya-darshan” especially as it is the greatest obstacle in

streamlining the Hindu calendar. It is only “Vedic

astrologers” who are putting the cart before the horse by trying to

convey that our shastras have “permitted astrology” from the

“beginning of Hindu civilization”!

Since these “Vedic

astrologers” are not quoting any exact references in support of their

arguments, it appears that they are completely enveloped in Tamoguni budhi

and therefore interpreting every shastra in quite an opposite

manner!

What is all the more surprising is

that our dharmacharyas and jagadgurus and “his holiness of art of one

thing or the other” etc. etc. are encouraging these “brahmana

chandalas” in their anti-Vedic activities in the name of “Vedic

astrology”!

May be even those dharmacharyas

etc. etc. are reading all the shastras upside down, since the Manu has advised

especially Vanaprasthis, which naturally includes Sanyasis and

dharmacharyas and jagadgurus etc. etc., to desist from being nakshatra soochis,

in no uncertain terms:

“na chaa utpata nimitabyam

na nakshatranga vidyaya, Na anushasana vadabyam bikshyam

lipset karhichit Manusmriti 6/50

“A Vanaprasthi should never

earn his ‘biksha’ (a mendicant’s livelihood) either by

declaring the results of utpatas i.e. omens like falling of meteors or

flying of swallows etc. etc.; face reading etc. nor by nakshatra vidya i.e. by

checking the horoscopes of others…..”

I, therefore, request these

dharmacharyas and “his holinesses” and yogis and tantriks galore to

wake up to such travesty of dharmashastras and instead of reading them upside

down, they must streamline the real Vedic calendar in accordance with the Vedic

lore and not “Lahiri-lore” or “Ramana-lore” or

“Chandra-Hair-lore” etc.

A friendly advice

to all the “nakshatra-soochis” and “nakshatra-jeevis”

who call themselves Vedic astrologers these days: Since most of

the “Vedic astrologers” and their “acharyas” are

prospering by leaps and bounds at the cost of the real Vedic calendar by such

anti-Vedic activities as “Vedic astrology” they feel that they are

doing the right thing and they must continue to do so, as instead of losing

anything, they are gaining name and fame and of course, wealth! But this

is what Bhishma has said about such nouveau riche people.

Na adharmash-charito rajan sadyah

phalati gaurivaa, Moolani chai prashakhaschai dahan samdhigachhati

Papena karmana vittam labdva papah

prahrishyeti

,Sa vardamanah steyena papah pape prasajyete

Na dharmo asteetimanvanah shucheen

avahasan iva, Ashradhadanashchai bhavet vinasham upagachhati….

….Mahabharata Shanti parva 102/17-20

“O Yudishthira, adhrma does

not fructify immediately just as a seed sown in the earth would do!

However, it burns the roots (parents!) as well as the branches (kith and kin,

including offspring!) ultimately. A sinner, by amassing wealth by dint of

his sinful activities feels overjoyed and commits more sinful activities (to

earn more wealth)! On prospering thus through his adharma he thinks that

nothing like dharma exists at all and even makes a fun of pious people, who are poor

because of their piety. However, the sinner gets destroyed ultimately

(together with his parents and offspring)”.

I do not think anything more

pertinent and relevant could have been said by anybody else for these

naksahtra-scoohis and naakshtraas and nakshatra jeevis and their dharmacharyas!

We have a LIVING EXAMPLE OF “the greatest Vedic astrologer”

of the previous century, who had literally built a huge empire through

“Vedic astrology” (nakshatra-soochi!) profession, books and magazines

but died himself a miserable death; his wife became a pauper who had to beg

from her offspring for her hand to mouth living (in spite of the fact that the

“greatest Vedic astrologer of the twentieth century” had foreseen

“Rajya yogas” and “dhana yogas” in her horoscope and

that is why he had married her)! All those “Vedic astrology” books

and “magazines” are now being sold as waste paper and his offspring

are fighting among themselves like Kilkenny cats for the spoils! Ill

gotten is ill spent! And as per our shastras, there is nothing more ill

gotten than what is “gotten” through being a

”brahmana-chandala” i.e. a “nakshatra-scoohi”, as has

been proved above.

No Rashi has been

mentioned at all in the Manusmriti or the Mbh or Arthashastra or Atri Samhita

etc.: Absence

of Mesha etc. rashis at the time of the Manu is

evident from the following shlokas about creation:

”kalam kala vibhakteeshchai

nakshatrani grahas tatha, Saritah sagaran shailan samani

vishamani chai” 1/24

“The creator created

Time, kal, nakshatras, grahas, oceans and mountains etc...(but not Mesha

etc. rashis!)”.

“Daive ratri ahanee varsham

pravibhagastayoh punah, Ahas tatra udagayanam ratrih syat dakshinayanam”

1/67

“A year has two ayanas,

Uttarayana is the day of gods and dakshinayana their night”. It means

the Creator had not created any Mesha etc. rashis by the time of the Manu though He had

created naksahtras and grahas! Dimensions of Time also were in Ayanas and

days etc. sans Mesha etc. Rashis.

Similarly, we do not find Mesha

etc. rashis in the Mbh. nor in the Arthashastra of Chanakya but only

nakshatras!

What is also noteworthy is that in

all the admonishments of the Manu, the Atri Samhita and the Mbh or Gautama the

Budha, “Vedic astrologers” have been addresses as

“nakshatra-soochis” or “nakshatra jeevis” or

“shamanas” or even “naakshatras”. It confirms the

fact that prior to the advent of Surya Sidhanta by Maya the mlechha,

predictions in India were made on the basis of nakshatras (and not Mesha etc.

Rashis!) vis-à-vis planets, as advocated by “Atharva Veda

Parishishta” etc.---–but not any Veda or Vedanga Jyotisha

etc.! Such “jyotishis” whom the AVP calls Atharvanas etc.

were called nakshatra-jeevis by our shastras. And those very naakshatra-jeeevis

have been castigated by all the shastras as “brahmana-chandalas”

etc.!

A nod to wise

and….

I could quote hundreds of “pramanas” from the

Vedas, Brahmanas, Upanishadas, Itihasas and Puranas and other shastras

where the Hindus have been advised to believe in their efforts (and not in

soothsayers!) for chaturvarga

i.e. dharma, artha, kama and moksha. But I think

that is belabouring the issue, and “Vedic astrologers” like the one

who said that the Manusmriti permitted astrology, would say that my posts are

“verbose”! Thus if these jyotishis are really wise, they

will take this hint as more than sufficient and stop making fools in the name

of Vedic astrology and also creating obstacles in streamlining the Vedic

calendar!

Celebrating

festivals/muhurtas on wrong days is literally killing our dharma ourselves!

“Darhma eva hato hantih

dharmo rakshayati rakshitah, Tasmad dharmo na hantavyo, maa no dharmo hato

avadheet” Manusmriti 8/15

“If you kill your dharma, it

will kill you and if you protect it, it will protect you. As such, dharma has

to be protected at all costs lest it kills us if we betray it for selfish

motives”. And there is no better or worse way of killing/betraying

one’s own dharma than by celebrating festivals on wrong days!

The net result of this mess known

as Vedic astrology is that we are celebrating all our festivals etc. on wrong

days like marriages in shdardapaksha and Pitra amavasya on the day of actual

Dipavali and so on!

All I can do is to pray to God to

save Hindu dhamra from ‘brahmana-chandalas” and their dharmacharyas

and yogis and tantriks so that Hindus can start celebrating festivals and

muhurtas on correct days!

With regards,

A K Kaul

Om Tat Sat Brahmarpanam Astu