A frequent mistake which is often made in Jyotisha thought is to consider events in Vedic astrology charts as complete or absolute or all encompassing . These words and phrases may not accurately capture the essence of what is being communicated, and so illustrations follow. The first and foremost mistake is to consider the horoscope as containing everything . One has an erroneous conviction that everything that happens in life must show up in some way in the horoscope, and even more acutely, something that appears to be indicated in the horoscope must happen, otherwise something is wrong. In the Ramayana, why was the Vanavasa or Agyatavasa not predicted by the great astrologers of the time, especially in the incarnation of Sri Rama Avatara. It could not have been that it was not known. One may conjecture but it is certain that there was no prediction. Still, Moola Dasha system which is used to time curses in the charts, effectively indicates the 14 ye...
One of the entities one encounters in spirituality a lot is the soul. On the rare occasion, one would encounter the funny man, invariably in western philosophy who would scoff at the notion of the soul. And why not- if you are going to go primarily by empiricism and so on, then where is the proof of the soul in thought systems across the world. These disciplines are founded on the belief that all knowledge is sensory. We are not really on these systems, but we are brushing past them merely to found this discussion regarding testing the reality of the existence of the soul on the seeming solidity of this plain jane proposition. While the soul is beyond the Manas or the mind and the Tanu or the body and its senses, in Vedic astrology the existence of the soul is proved as being self-evident because of the measurable performance of the Atmakaraka, the significator of the soul in Jyotisha; measurable, as in capable of being directly perceived by the mind and the senses, since...