Guest guest Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 Dear members, Namaste. As several of you enquired about the proceedings of the SJC Hyderabad conference, I thought to share with you some impressions as one of the participants. The SJC Hyderabad conference was held in Hotel Raj Classic Inn in Hyderabad, between 2nd and 10th of December, 2002. It was titled SRI VYANKATESHA SHARMA VARGA WORKSHOP and the main topic of the conference was divisional charts and their application in different branches of Jyotish. A book was published simultaneously with the conference by Sagar Publications, titled Varga Cakra. This book contains most of the papers presented on the conference with the exclusion of a few talks, which were all recorded and I think will be available soon in CD fromaf from SJC Hyderabad. For further information on the recordings please contact Shailesh C. Chadha, president of SJC-East (scchadha). The speakers included first of all Sri Sanjay Rath, who gave very interesting talks on Hora, Dasamsa, Navamsa, Shastyamsa, chart rectification and chart analysis at a glance. Then we had Andrew Foss, who was speaking about Dreskana and Siddhamsa. Ohter speakers included Shiv Pujan, G.K. Goel, Phyllis Chubb, Sat Shiri Khalsa, Visti Larsen, Dr. Satya Prakash and myself. We had about 30 full time participants from abroad and local as well. We had three 2-hour sessions daily, and talks or chart analysis continued in the afternoons, sometimes till early morning. Every morning we had a meditation session with Purushottamanji and myself. After the workshop was over, most of the participants joined us in the pilgrimage to Tirumalla, to take Darshan of Sri Vyenkateshwara Balaji on the Thursday morning of Mrigashira Maasa. We went there by bus, visited first Sri Varaha-Nrisimha Swami, then Balaji, and on the way back we took darshan of Sri Padmavati, Vyenkatehsvara's consort. Most participants had their hair shaved, in this way praying to the Lord to free them from the influence of Rahu. The queue to stand is usually very long, but thanks to the arrangements made by Mr and Mrs Lakshmi ramesh, who are regular visitors to the shrine, everything went very smoothly and quickly. Although usually foreigners have to sign a declaration that they accept the Hindu faith before they are allowed to enter the temple, the foreign members of our party were accepted as authentic Hinduse without having to make a declaration. As you may know no foreigners are allowed to enter the Jagannatha temple at Puri, but Sanjayji said that he was working on changing this rule. We hope for the best. We have also decided that next year's conference would be held in Puri in mid January 2004, although the topic is not yet finalised. In m name and in the name of my shishya Swee Chan, who was also very happy to tkae part in this conference I would loke to thank once more very much to Sanjayji, the other speakers and the organizers for their efforts and contribution and we are looking forward to be able to tkae part in more such conferences in the future, where the exchange of knowledge becomes a very enlivening experience. I hope to see all of you again on the next year's conference, and perhaps see all those as well who were unable to participate. As for my self, I have presented two papers. One was on Suryamsa (D-12) and the other one on the Deities or amsa lords of the D-charts. The second paper comes to about 50 pages, and the material is not finalised yet. Despite this, I am willing to send these papers to anyone interested as email attachments just please lte me know. I would also like to have your feedback on the Varga Deities material as there is much more matter to research and experimet with. Eventually it may grow into a book analysing these finer aspects of construction and analysis of D-charts. I hope other participants of the conference would also share their ideas. Me and Swee are prepairing notes that we made on the conference in electronic form, so once ready this will also be available from our website and maybe in the list's library as well. Yours, Gauranga Das Vedic Astrologer gauranga Jyotish Remedies: WWW.BRIHASPATI.NET Phone:+36-309-140-839 Gauranga Das Vedic Astrologer gauranga Jyotish Remedies: WWW.BRIHASPATI.NET Phone:+36-309-140-839 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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