[Jaya Jagannath] Lahiri/ayanamsa puzzle - BV Raman IS right

[Guest guest]

Hi Jaan,

 

Hare Rama Krsna.

 

>are you saying that the real precessional movement is 40 seconds a

>year roughly, instead of the current adopted 50 seconds?

>

>even though there is disagreement about the actual value of the

>ayanasma, practically everyone has agreed that it is roughly 50

>seconds a year

 

yes, I'm saying that the precessional movement is exactly 40 seconds a year,

not roughly, but precisely. The question may be raised what do they actually

base their calculations on to state that the yearly ayanamsa is " roughly " 50

seconds a year. Why it would fluctuate from year to year? Does the Earth

turn quicker one year than the other? That would be ridiculous to presume,

just like saying: oh, this year the days are longer, it's 24 hours and 10

minutes this year and next year it will be 24 hours and 5 minutes. No, in

this cosmic clockwork created by God not a millisecond will change from year

to year. Maybe our man-made measurement equipment may be fluctuating,

because after all, it has imperfections, but never the cosmic creation. Even

our atomic clocks, who are the most precise, sometimes may need adjustment

for a millisecond, but the time never will fluctuate, do you agree?

Let's take into consideration the difference between a day experienced on

Earth and the sidereal day. The day is exactly 24 hours, the sidereal day is

23 hours 56 minutes. In the same way, the diameter of the precession has

it's middlepoint 23 degrees 56 minutes from the poles. There is a difference

of 4 minutes (day by day the lagna moves 4 minutes). And at the end of the

year there will be a difference of 40 seconds in ayanamsa also.

 

There are different ways to gain knowledge: (1) anumana: logic reasoning

(2) pratyaksa: direct perception (3) sabda-pramana: accepting the statements

from the revealed scriptures; among others, these are the most important

ones. The most perfect of all is not to examine and experiment with our

imperfect senses, but to accept the statements from holy scriptures, esp.

the Vedic literature. We cannot call ourselves Vedic astrologers if we do

not study first the Vedic scriptures, of which Bhagavad-gita and

Srimad-Bhagavatam are the foremost to study in relation to jyotish. Tomorrow

I'll give some more quotes from the 5th canto of the Srimad-Bhagavatam

related to this subject which clears up all doubts. The 5th canto gives a

detailed description of the structure of the universe, the movements of Sun

and other planets (even the naksatras are moving, which is caused by eternal

time). E.g. the Sun moves counterclockwise in the universe, which is it's

daily movement around Mount Meru, but clockwise as well, which is the yearly

movement through the signs of the zodiac and here there is the ayanamsa,

because the Sun moves influenced by a universal wind which goes

counterclockwise and which moves all other stars and planets as well.

 

You may tend to accept the theories which modern scientists have invented

out of their creative minds, that the precession is the movement of Earth

around it's axis, but Srimad-Bhagavatam gives a complete different picture.

 

Your sishya,

Dhira Krsna dasa