SAVol7Dec09WesternCo.. - Saptarishis Astrology

predictions after the event has happened and show it as if he predicted it before hand, a practicefollowed nowadays.1.2 Minds Don’t Want Knowledge To Come OutThe process of knowledge dissemination is the most difficult in astrology not because it is acomplex subject but due to the mentality of those associated with astrology. Famous astrologerstry their level best not to allow knowledge to come out, this is most unfortunate yet true parteven among the legends of astrology whom we students have idolized and when we come to know thereal truth about these Legends we feel ashamed that we idolized them since these were the ones whohoarded good quality knowledge and manuscripts and only wanted to become the Modern Fathers ofAstrology to achieve fame. Whereas in the West it is far easier for knowledge to come out, if you haveastro knowledge in the west, you sell it via classes, lectures, teach per hour or through books and youcharge fees towards it but atleast the knowledge and experience of the astrologers goes out to the world.Most western students of this science hence stick to teachers from their continent due to this and ease ofaccent and non-judgmental nature of their western teachers. Over here in India the mentality of thosewho hoard knowledge is to make students their slaves and still not give out the full knowledge unlessthe student is a celeb or a Richie-rich guy or a woman, preferably a beautiful woman. For generations oftraditions in astrology grew with certain norms and rules to safe guard their knowledge and thus theirinterests to not allow their neighbor astrologer to earn more claiming that it is to be given to only thedeserving. But now a new trend has arisen in India, to give out tradition secrets when only invitedabroad & minor ones in India or give those traditional big secrets when one can charge hugedollars in courses to their Pets (chamchas in Indian language). They swear by traditional secrecy but itcomes out when $ is flashed or when a woman student comes in. All of us have seen so many teachersfalter to this problem and it is natural, as at the end of the day all of us are humans and who doesn’t like$. None of us are holier than thou.1.3 Availability of KnowledgeMost of the astrological knowledge is held in manuscripts which are either in Latin, Greek,Sanskrit and likewise other ancient texts. The need of the hour since last 100 years of dyingexperts in these languages is to translate them into English the most universal language andthen to test that knowledge on hundreds of charts and then find out what is our lacking inunderstanding that verse or aphorism. Let us give an example there was one of the most brilliant ofastrologers in India somewhere in the 6 th century called Varahamihira who wrote a monumental piece ofwork called Brihat Jataka but at the end he wrote that he has coded all the verses in that text. From thenon till now millions of Indian astrologers have studied his work and 100’s have translated this samework but it was only one man in the early 20 th century who gave a new meaning to one of the versesfrom the said work on which we wrote an article called ‘The 19 th Verse’ in the 2 nd issue (volume 2). Itwas ignored and left out by scholars in the 20 th century due to rivalry. But that verse has so much ofhidden knowledge that we ourselves have been able to write on it only on one part and it reveals a newsystem of timing events but still there are more than 10 articles and techniques that can be derived fromit, admin work takes up our time and the pain of not writing on those hidden methods in that 19 th verse.So you see what the original writer wrote in the 6 th century, his work easily available but the truemeaning of the verse took around 1500 years to come by and then the process will start of aggressivelytesting it and then after some 40-50 years it will either be accepted as a dictum or rejected, which meanseven we can be wrong. This is the case of where the manuscript was available. What about thetechniques where the manuscript is not available at all.1.4 Non-Availability of KnowledgeHere comes the part where a lot of knowledge is available in manuscripts but no one takes theeffort to bring it out. If you bring it out no one will appreciate it and infact will see to it thatyou don’t bring it out. The way they go about discouraging you cannot even be mentioned inthis space. The astrologers in India are one of the poorest; few lots lack funds but most lack theinspiration on their own and the willingness to give out those manuscripts. With millions of31