Acharya Shree, what are your comments on Astrology?
Astrology is in Indian culture.
They have different name. They say: "What says my horoscope?".
They consider it is Vedic Astrology. Vedic means like old.
It is a chart. It has 12 houses.
And there are in 12 houses there are different kind of nakshatras.
and grahas.
Planets what we call it.
Actually there are many planets but which are moving, rotating, so we consider them and they are effective because they are in the bigger shape.
Like bigger than Earth. Or bigger than Mars.
Bigger than sometimes...bigger than Jupiter. But in our solar system there are just I think Jupiter is considered very big.
So there are nine planets are main.
So astrology, it is a belief that if you are born in certain time and all these planets are affecting...your body is made about...like their effect is already in the body.
Suppose the Jupiter...Jupiter was close to you when you were born.
Or the Mars was close to you. So your body has that effect.
That is belief and it is coming since thousands of thousands of years.
And whenever those planets rotate in certain angles or moves in certain angles so it creates that kind of situation it can happen....
prosperity happen for certain country or certain area...south or north or east.
Or certain kind of person.
That's what we call them "Oh, this person is born with stars...very lucky".
Or a person is not having good luck, this person is born with bad stars.
So that is astrology.
Astrology is determined by the astrologer lot of like since thousands of years same incident happened whenever they rotate in
certain angles or certain circles.
So that's what they determine that this is going to happen. But this is not necessarily.
It is just their belief.
Like in Hindu culture Rama supposed to get the crown.
He's supposed to be a king of the Ayodhya.
But in the same day instead of he became king he was exiled.
So the astrology didn't work. And his kula guru - means the astrologer - was very well known.
And he did he fixed the time of the crown.
But he got exiled on the other hand.
So he didn't...it is not necessarily astrology will work.
But let me tell you because people have misconception about astrology.
Actually astrology means there are many stars or planets, they affect you.
Yes it is sure the energy affects us because even though Jupiter is far away from us but the energy from the Jupiter still affecting us.
Or Mars energy is still affecting us because they are big planets.
Bigger than Earth. Moon is the closest. So moon affects more.
Our emotions.
If it is the Venus, Venus is also close to us so it affects more.
The people get emotional and they get very vibrant and they get radiant
If the Venus is close to you when you are born.
Or when it will rotate again and will come to you.
Because we know the speed of every planet because they are rotating.
So that is mathematically anybody can calculate it.
And now the computer calculates very easy.
So you can make your horoscope and you can see where the Venus is, where the Jupiter is, how much I am getting affected
by them. Affected by them means affected by their energy.
That's what it means.
If you're affected by Saturn, so Saturn is usually takes you in the wrong path.
But if you're affected by Mercury it takes you in the business.
If you're affected by the Jupiter you are going to get lot of higher education.
So they have different meaning and different results of that.
But let me tell you in simple way:
Because their energy affects you, suppose...
You are in to the school and you try too hard, try...you're working hard to learn.
But you're not able to learn. So somehow Jupiter energy is missing from your body.
So what an astrologer will suggest to you get the little stone,
And if you get that stone it is yellow
It is not sapphire, it is not ruby...
It is yellow stone and it is a citrine also it is an alternative if you cannot get that...very expensive.
But citrine you can get it, it is not expensive.
So you wear in the gold and wear in this index finger
So you will begin to attract the Jupiter energy.
That becomes a channel. Actually those stones are on this Earth.
Because sometimes the pieces breaks from the every planet and they fly to the Earth.
And that if we can get original citrine or the stone for the Jupiter,
So, what will happen it becomes a channel for the Jupiter energy.
As soon as you wear, so you begin to pickup in the class.
That's what is going to happen. Basically, they are affecting us because they have a tremendous energy.
So when they have a tremendous energy and we are lacking, so
we don't, we cannot bring the whole planet here, but we can have that kind of fix - stones - for that
Like for the Sun is ruby, for the Moon is Pearl, for the Mars is Moonga...
It is called moonga (red coral). I don't know the english name, but
for the Mercury it is a green stone, it is emerald.
And for the Jupiter it is citrine or one other name ((yellow sapphire and alternative is topaz))... it is not coming to me right now.
But for the Venus it is sapphire ((white sapphire or diamond)).
For Saturn also sapphire ((blue sapphire)).
For the Venus it can also be diamond actually. Instead of sapphire it is a diamond.
And for the Saturn is a sapphire ((blue sapphire)).
So that's the way it works.
It becomes a channel so it attracts that kind of energy which is lacking in our body.
And if we can attract that kind of energy, it is going to work.
So if Saturn energy is working positively in your body, so,
you have access to getting the business.
But if it doesn't work, you have hard time to get success in business.
Same thing people think like somebody is emotional, so they get, they wear in the silver ring
a pearl. It affects them because it becomes a channel for the moon.
So moon energy is balanced. Astrology is balancing if you know the mathematically...
So, that's why bad astrologers they don't know this concept.
They consider this stone, you wear this stone, you wear that stone, you will be ok, you will be bad -- that is not the way.
You need to understand what is lacking in your body.
Then you can, then the astrology can be the way it is supposed to work.
Which is lack you can attract, find the channel.
And astrology somehow if it is calculated right it works almost 70 percent right.
But if it is not calculated right it can be fully wrong.
So I will not suggest you go to the astrologer.
Just be well-versed by yourself.