Insight to Astrology

Astro Guide Mysore

The way our life is moulded is directly related to how we think.  Life is directed in one direction or the other depending on how we think, what we desire, how we pursue, how we react/reciprocate and respond. How we understand society and control our emotions, etc.,

On the other hand the Image we create for ourselves keeps goading us to maintain itself for its positive outlook from the Society’s perspective.

This concept came to me when I was thinking on the relation between desire and the mind.

For example let us study the behavioral pattern of an Ant.

“Every day when it first comes out of its burrow, it scans for food and starts strolling in the field.  The pattern it follows each day is very complicated and fascinating, because it registers in its mind the path traversed for the past few days and its result. It finally starts to choose a particular route and repeats the trip. This shows that the desire for a particular food made the ant to repeat its route”.

Here the subject is very simple because the desire is singular and the ant is not confused. This is not in the case of human beings.  The desires are multifold and complex. The route is not definite, since one does not choose to fix to a singular desire. 

The path traversed is somewhat explainable as trial and error.  One gets fixed to some of the earlier traversed paths wherein one feels he is in-sync.  This also depends on the individual and the way he thinks. 

The hypothesis is that man thinks and then goes ahead in the path he likes or feels he finds happiness in it.  Does this mean that some part of our fate is also decided by the way we think? 

It surely does. The link between our urge to realize worldly matters and the pattern of our life is very much interdependent.

Can we control our desires, our thoughts; know our inner innate personalities and our Subconscious wants?

We surely can, this is where Astrology plays an important role in providing an insight into ones life pattern and the way one thinks.  The scientific analysis of a person will open-up the realities of one’s capabilities and will make him aware of his strengths and how to manage one’s short comings.

Astrology is a very deep rooted science in India and defaced due to petty astrologers who do not have the in-depth knowledge and are greedy to make money by suggesting remedies like performing poojas / homas and what not. If pooja’s and homa’s could have solved all our problems then there should have been lasting peace throughout India since centuries. With all regard to other religions, don’t people belonging to other religions have problems in their life? And when they go to an astologer, can he suggest pooja’s and homa’s as remedies?

The bigger picture is that everything is controlled by COSMOS and the vibrations coming from the constellations above us. Once we synchronize our physical, intellectual and psychological selves with the supreme power, we will be able to handle ourselves in a well orderly manner and our purpose of this birth will manifest.

A scientific approach is required to understand this beautiful phenomenon of the Cosmos and to know how it is related to what happens down here.

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Author:

Sheshachalam Iyengar
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Vision

Astro Guide Mysore

The spirit of living in the present is well understood only when an individual has a clear vision.  The vision of the farthest aim his conscious self can perceive.  All this is possible if he trains his faculties to work in cohesion.  The alignment of the subtle mind, the intellect and the conscious self makes one foresee the purpose of this birth.

This being the hardest of all phenomena, tests the strength of the native.  The experience of failures in the process of synchronization of faculties may hinder the progress but the journey towards solidifying one’s self gives tremendous satisfaction.  It will open our vision and broaden our purpose.

 Being born as simple human beings we get to know the world in one particular way.  This restricts our understanding towards creation. The thought that the whole setup is geocentric was rubbished a couple of centuries ago, but, the idea that has crawled into us which makes us think that we rule the world and control everything that encompasses us -- is dangerous.

The fact that we have such limited vision is very evident in our actions.  We study every situation by isolating it from others.  This method of understanding a situation by isolating it actually worsens the situation.

We should think responsibly by giving equal importance to all thoughts, the ones that are represented and the ones that are not represented but seem so relevant that they cannot be left out.

The biggest lacuna in our race is the unwanted prejudice which each one of us carry as though it is innate.  Prejudice grows into the system like unwanted weeds on a field of good crop.  It overshadows the purpose and sees that every individual succumbs to its will.

We should train ourselves in such a way that we do not succumb to our ego and suffer from prejudice, but, learn the art of sacrifice, togetherness and belongingness.

It’s only when we lose our self that we can be selfless.  All selfless actions are accounted into Gods Ledger.  That’s where the final accounts are kept and will be shown to every one of us when we report back after this birth is over. 

Opening one’s self and tearing apart from the clutches of ego gives one a vision that reaches far beyond one’s imagination.  It makes this birth and this life which we give such great importance, much smaller and trivial. We grow beyond to see our purpose of this birth with more clarity and make our life more meaningful.

Once the purpose of this birth has become evident, there is nothing that we have to fear or there is no agony.  Everything is just as planned and is going as perceived by the Will of God. It’s only our efforts that are required to lose our identity (ego) and merge into this beautiful creation of God. 


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Grooming one's Intellect

Astro Guide Mysore

It’s innate that everyone loves his face.  In fact loves himself.  He grooms himself to put up a good appearance in the world of perceptions.  In social gatherings most of the conversations start with “Oh, look at you, you look stunning” or “Have you gained weight recently?” or “You look out of place, you require having dressing sense”.  These opinions make a person unknowingly concentrate more on his looks and appearance. Since, this is more in women folk generally they get immersed into it so deep that, they become specialists in appearance counseling.

Men get into body building, show off, buying extravagant gadgets, etc., which they hope will upkeep their status of youth in their circles. 

This, since has a very big impact on an individual from the date of his birth, he really thinks that the appearance or looks of a person is the utmost important factor.

Generally, we stick to our routine every morning.  We brush our teeth, take  bath, scrub our bodies clean using our favorite soap, comb our hair, get dressed up, a minimal makeup in case of women, have a sumptuous breakfast, put on our best shoes and off we go to our offices.

All this time we were in the process of grooming our physical self and have forgotten the intellectual self which is really who we are. The importance given to this physical self over shadows the intellectual self.

It will be apt at this juncture for me to give a small example: -

This is a well known story of a shepherd who went on to marry a princess, who was deceived by the minister, who made the shepherd dress like a Sanskrit Scholar.  That night, the princess comes to know about the shepherd when he spills the beans by talking to her. The princess feels deceived.  She in her anger tells her newly married husband to sit in front of the idol of Goddess Kali and ask her for knowledge.  Innocently the shepherd does what is told. I hope everyone knows the later part of the story.  The shepherd is non-other than the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa.  Once he gained the knowledge or Jnana, he was recognized as a great scholar.  No one gave any importance to what he wore or how he lived. 

It will be the best day in a person’s life when he is recognized for what he intellectually is, rather to what he looks like.

So it is our responsibility to groom our intellectual self thrice every day.  This in our olden days was performed as sandhyavandana. It was done three times a day to cleanse ourselves from any ill/evil thoughts. Let’s now start this practice of grooming our intellectual self and start talking to ourselves. 

Do we want an external life where we will only perceive things through our five senses or do we prefer our mind, intellect and consciousness to get involved in the process of perception? 

Now it will be easy for us to understand why, we give importance to taste, colours & design, music, feeling of touch and fragrance.

Lingering towards all these physical entities becomes lesser if the intellectual self starts to blossom.  The perception of food as a required source of energy and not a medium to enjoy the sense of taste will set into our mind.

Likewise all the other four senses will come under the control of our intellect and our consciousness, making us more oriented towards bigger goals.

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Conscious of our Actions

Astro Guide Mysore

We had been on a three day trip to Nagarahole, Brahmagiri and Aralam Wild Life Sanctuary. That’s me, my cousin brother Raju and a reptile specialist Sunil.  We had a very nice time for all those three days.  On the way back we took the route from Mananthavady to Bangalore via Sulthan Bathery and Gundlepet. When we were passing through a beautiful stretch of road in the midst of Moole Hole Wild Life Sanctuary, Raju who was driving his Safari Dicor, started to speed.  The road was very good and had been maintained to the best.  He started to over speed, for which I objected and said that he should not cross a limit.  The reply he gave me was very casual but stirred me for a while.  He said “My Safari is an extension of me”.  He meant that he was in full control. But the thought of it being an extension of him was an extraordinary statement to me. 

We are all born with this body which as time goes grows and reaches the form of an adult.  But the process is too slow to notice.

As a baby, which is born into this world, does not know how to use the physical form (its body).  Slowly the brain with the help of neurons, the motor nerves, muscle contractions and many more functions tries to perform a particular act it desires.  This moment of success makes it confident to try other things.  This after a period of time and with a lot of practice after a million failures makes the child perfect.  It now knows how to hold, grip, clasp, pluck, break, push, stand, walk, hop, run, climb, etc.

As this is a phenomenon which is not a substantial one to remember we all forget it easily.

The hypothesis is that when any form of life is born, it is new in its physical body and does not know how to use it or control its movements.  This can be seen when a baby elephant plays around with its trunk thinking it’s a toy. 

As Raju said that after some thousands of kilometers of driving, he feels every sound the car makes and he knows how to control it.  We also have achieved the same thing with our body which is nothing but a physical entity which has to be controlled from inside. 

Then what is inside this physical body, which we now call a mechanism?  It is YOU who is inside, that is, you sit inside your body and try to control its actions to your requirement.  It’s beautiful when both the inner self and the physical self are in unison. 

The problem starts when the physical self starts to control you.  This is because the inner self cannot experience any feeling without the body and hence has to rely on the communicative factors of the sensory organs.  But due to uncontrolled usage of our sensory organs, we fall prey to its control and hence fall into the trap of being controlled by our senses.  This destroys the identity of a person and dissolves his individuality. 

We should recognize this phenomenon as early as possible in our lives.  We should take command and control of our actions by taking the reins from our physical self and securing it with our inner self. 

Let our Conscious Self take the decision and not our senses. 

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