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Hindu Astrology is the traditional astrology of India and its cultural sphere, going back to the ancient Vedic culture in times, which we (at least) regard as prehistoric. It is based on the Vedas, the original scriptures of India and perhaps all the Indo-European peoples.
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Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs have all used Hindu astrology. It was practiced in the whole of India and in parts of present-day Persia, Afghanistan and Russian Central Asia. It followed Hindu and Buddhist influence into Indochina and Indonesia.
systematically, stage by stage.
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Hindu Astrology is also called "Vedic astrology" from the
culture and religion that developed along with it. Like Hinduism,
it is a pluralistic and adaptable system emphasizing many
paths and taking on ever-new incarnations. Therefore, it is
certainly useful and adaptable in the West today, along with
the yoga and meditation systems that have already come to
us from India and from which so many people have derived benefit.
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Another name for Hindu Astrology is Jyotish, which means "the science of light." Jyotish means astronomy, astrology and meteorology. As a limb of the Vedas, the very eye of the Vedas, it was called Vedanga Jyotish, "Jyotish or astrology, the limb of the Vedas," which is how it is referred to in traditional texts. |
Hindu Astrology recognizes the validity of all four aims of life and is oriented to facilitate us in the attainment of each of them. Yet the first three, enjoyment, wealth and career, are made subordinate to the last, spiritual liberation, Liberation is the primary and essential goal for all human beings, for all life. Without it the other goals have no real meaning. |
The purpose of Hindu Astrology is not to make us feel subject to external forces but to help us use our lives for greater Self-unfoldment. For this we must first understand ourselves.Without some degree of self-knowledge the astrologer, even if he can perceive subtle planetary influences, will merely impose his own judgements upon his clients. |
Hindu Astrology, like the science of yoga, arose from the vision of the ancient seers of India, the Vedic Rishis. The rishis were great beings of spiritual realization and occult perception that lived in the legendary ages of light and truth. Their knowledge was passed down through the millennia by way of oral tradition. Much of it has been lost, but the core still remains. Hindu astrology is accessible on the deeper levels of the mind as the heritage of the spiritual humanity, a heritage from which we have fallen away. If we look to the presence of the rishis as our inner spiritual progenitors, their knowledge can again return to us. |
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