Preface

In this era, Astrology has become a much disputed subject for several reasons viz. (1) the ancient sages and scholars narrated the effects of planets and the Zodiac without furnishing the underlying reasons and in that too, there are differences in opinion among the scholars. (2) In this era of rapidly advancing discoveries, no concrete research scheme to find the scientific basis of Astrology has been undertaken except some very few personal efforts and that too in western countries of whom the most prominent are Percy Seymour and Michel Gauquelin. But due to their limitations in this discipline and particularly of Hindu Astrology, their efforts could not find the proper clues in this job. It has become a practice of very pride on the part of some scholars and intellectuals without going into the depth of this subject to underestimate it as being of without any material scientific basis. But I am sorry to comment that this outlook is only pseudo-scientific in nature because if it be unscientific to accept anything without any test, it is equally so to reject the same without test and this is more serious when it is committed by scientists. Dr. B. V. Raman, the pioneer astrologer of this era in India defined Astrology as “Mother of all sciences and essence of all philosophies”. With all my due respects for him, my humble opinion in this respect is that it would be perhaps more appropriate to define this subject as “Synthesis of all branches of science and essence of all philosophical principles” because the Zodiac in the sky is the basis of philosophical outlook of this subject while the planets, satellites, the two luminaries viz. the Sun and the Moon together with the mathematical points in the Zodiac viz. Dragon’s Head and Tail are related with the different disciplines of science. These two factors are combinedly reflected in the palm of a native the results of which have been described in different works of Palmistry which is but a translation of Applied Astrology in a different language.

In this book, I have not tried to find the scientific basis of Astrology which will be taken up in some subsequent works; but what I have tried in this book is to correlate a number of scientific research works conducted in different countries on the corresponding disciplines of science with the astrological principles. Perhaps, it will be treated as a childish adventure on my part to write a book on such a complicated and disputed subject by the respected authorities on these subjects which I will never venture to contradict, but my sole intention behind this is to draw the attention of the respective authorities in this matter so that they may be kind enough to utilize their wisdom for the progress of such a subject making the necessary corrections in my works which might have been resulted out of my limitations.

Scientific Researches in Astrological View

In Genetics, a single gene is said to be responsible for many apparently unrelated traits and also one particular trait may have its origin to a number of genes. Similarly in Astrology, planets and other stellar bodies have been described to impose their actions on physical body, mind and spirit of the native which may be seemingly unrelated and one particular characteristic of a native may develop due to the actions of a number of factors which are apparently unrelated. For example, the Sun is said to signify the father which is also signified by the 10^th house in the natal chart of a male being and the fourth house for a female being. Similarly, Mars while signifying younger brothers also signifies the military, police etc. which are not related in usual sense. But a minute scrutiny of the characteristics of the planets or the stellar bodies in general will reveal the underlying mutual relations of them. The research works which have been selected by me in this book were published in Times of India starting from November, 2007 to July, 2011 on different aspects of human being relating to the above mentioned three planes of consciousness for relating with astrological principles. Errors, if any in this effort are entirely due to my personal limitations in these ocean-like vast subjects and not due to the inaccuracy of Astrology. I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to my associates and friends who have helped me to undertake this responsibility of writing and printing the book. In spite of all my efforts to make the works free from printing mistakes and the errors originating from the limitations of my personal knowledge and conceptions on this subject, there remain ample chances for such errors which, if pointed by the learned readers with their invaluable comments, this humble author will remain ever grateful to them and their valuable suggestions will be included in the next edition of this book.