SARAL JYOTISH PART 1

अनभ्यासे विष विद्या अजीर्णे भोजन विषम्। विष सभा दरिद्रस्य वृद्धस्य तरुणी विषम्।। When not practiced, knowledge is poison;

in indigestion, food is poison I poison is gathering/festivities of poor; old man's young wife is poison ||

This Shloka very elegantly explores the idea that anything done half way is not just benign, but harmful. Half knowledge is dangerous. And knowledge that is not practiced or used accurately decays like radioactive material, reaching its half-life in just a few years. In the same way, food that is not broken down and digested properly becomes poison for the body. A gathering of resource less people does not accomplish much. Lastly in the same way, a young wife for an old man is poison.

A simple Google search reveals that Vedic or Hindu Astrology is practiced by 20 lakh people in India. This goes to show the popularity of this Divine science. I have been a worshipper of this Divine Science for the last 40 years, and a teacher for the last 18 years. And even now, I have still only touched the tip of the ice berg. It is my belief, that the vast treasures of deep secrets that this science holds are yet to be discovered.

We are surrounded by multiple opinions on each aspect of Astrology, and this can cause confusion. There are different books with different ways of predicting the same things. Concepts that on the face of it, seem to contradict each other.