Karmic Astrology—a Study
by Sunita Anant Chavan | 2017 | 68,707 words
This page relates ‘Perception by Kala� of the study on Karmic Astrology and its presentation in Vedic and the later Sanskrit literature. Astrology (in Sanskrit: Jyotish-shastra) is based upon perceptive natural phenomenon of cosmic light forms while the Concept of Karman basically means “action according to Vedic injunction� such as the performance of meritorious sacrificial work.
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Part 4.3 - Perception by
[Full title: ձṅg dzپṣa and Karman (3): Perception by ]
One of the chief concern with the correlation of dzپṣa and the Karma theory is its connectivity to human future. The nature of the working of cosmic activity and time being gradual and successive, the study related to future from these two becomes an ordered process and rules out any possibility of suddenness in any event or happening. In an attempt to read future from cosmic activity, the onset of involuntary divinations mentioned as ٱٲ or Adbhuta, or the apparent motion of the Sun in the two hemispheres, count to the limitations of the human senses rather than the actual process. This was perhaps acknowledged very early since the Sun never really rises or sets is already mentioned in the Aitareya ṇa[1]. The daily occurrence of day and night too seemingly indicate a restricted point of observation. Apart from these future from long time spans or timelessness of the universe being beyond a single human life span restricted by births and deaths, or rebirths obscuring the memories of past lives the perceptive faculty of Time with cosmos as the standard means has been used to transcend the limitations of human to read the part actions and the future of man.
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[1]:
Aitareya ṇa III. 44.