Vinay Jha wrote:Rohiniranjan wrote:Maybe my earlier posting got scythed too by REFRESH! Which is not very refreshing to know, but I now understand the SYSTEM better!
I was just agreeing with Vinay_ji's posting about the importance of reading old texts like of Ptolemy etc which might have incorporated some observations etc of other cultures and while the books of those cultures might have dropped off some of those facts from their currently available versions of the text (Indian in this instance), the lost gems might be recovered from a reading of such 'foreign' literature.
Yes Dada, this is exactly what I mean. Rev E. Burgess, the commentator of Suryasiddhanta, wrote that the Greeks have never made any original contribution to astronomy (and astrology), they got everything from the East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, etc). I do not care for who borrowed or stole from whom, what I know for certain is the proven fact that Astrology has a common source and available data convinces me that this source was India, or to be more exact Vedic Culture which was spread in a vast belt in the so-called pre-historic times. Bulk of Egyptian and Sumerian gems in astrology lies unattended because all the experts hate astrology, like the so-called Indologists who cannot digest Indian astrology. These evolutionists cannot imagine anything intelligent in ancient civilizations.
-VJ
I have a naive, some would say irrational, belief that certain things in the creation are indeed special and preserved by the Divine Intelligence. It may get shattered, lie dormant, but somewhere, somehow it appears and arises again to the surface. It does take a long long time though. I feel (no objective evidence or one I looked for, really!) that astrology falls in that category, as does 'democracy'!
Lot of people hold a lot of anxiousness about astrology falling in the hands of Kupatras and so on and being misused, or stolen. But sometimes such an act of stealing (borrowing without permission or knowledge of the owner!) turns out to be what preserved that particular stolen segment, over time. Now, the stolen object may be a trinket or a big diamond, is not the point...
The Ways of The Divine are Mysterious, and Mystical, as is the entire field of DIVINATION!
Regards as always,