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een perfected for 18 years by us. Ideally one must not write a single article before he has spent 30-35years in astro studies. A mail that came to us….Dear Saptarishis Admin,Pranam Sir(SA: some part deleted & edited)You all must write about the practice of students giving lectures and writing articles without spendingtime perfecting that technique. As a result there can be a chance that some incorrect knowledge cancome out. Some of us just use 4-5 books on transits and prepare articles.I am not trying to defame someone but wanting to improve standards in astrology, so only as anexample see what I am trying to point out in this forum message on ….. this Jaimini forum on __ Oct(SA: deleted this part of the link message since it was pointing to someone wanting to write an article onAshtakvarga in some time and asking for references on studying further on ashtakvarga, the sender of that post onthe forum has only 6 years in astrology and not even 6 years in ashtakvarga hence probably this mail to us, it wouldnot be proper to discourage that hardworking young student to write on ashtakvarga & hence this mail by thecomplainant can be interpreted as petty politics which we would like to avoid getting into and rather encouragepeople to write articles even if young but stating their number of years of experience or experience in number ofcharts with a particular technique. We are not watch dogs or an organization and request other mails that come tous about forum politics to avoid coming to us, but yes we do not prefer our writers to be of non-controversial imageso you can educate us if need be at times since we avoid articles from writers whose public image is suspect ortarnished.)Why are you not doing something about this practice, your organization has representatives all over theworld and is the largest you can set up guidelines for conduct and practices in astro writing. (SA: We arenot an organization but a business entity and refuse to become an organization or a watchdog, as the momentorganization comes in astrology it becomes more of organized politics than organized astrology). You see myfather studied astrology in his small town. In olden days student was to learn shastra for 30-40 yearsbefore Guru gave Agya (SA: agya means instruction) to write, now all are let loose it seems and no Gurusobject. Guru Sishya parampara of India no doubt is finished.RegardsSan………New Jersey2.1 Visiting Some Classics Every YearMost in modern India learn from books of modern authors and somewhere down the line someknowledge is not passed on from available classics to the books of the modern authors. This isa huge problem and after 3-5 years of the study one realizes that one should read only classics.After reading one or two classics the student who’s Saturn might not be strong will go back to modernauthors or search for Gurus on the net or classes or courses for easy learning. Unfortunately there is noeasy way out and you must develop a habit of revisiting those classics every year, reading them againand again otherwise the mistakes in ones learning that has happened in the last 100 years of astrologicalmagazines and books will happen to you and who will suffer your clients and your bad karma will onlyincrease, your remedies on yourself will not work. Coupled with this the need of the hour is to bringmore classics in English including tooth-combing each classic as we read, otherwise one’s whole life willbe a waste by not understanding the most basic fundamentals of astrology. Let’s see some verses from achapter of BPHS by going through the tooth-combing operation which has been missed by most gurusand courses offered in the world on Vedic astrology.39