--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: > > > > I remember Marshy saying that the best jyotishee would be a > computer because the universe worked in such a predictable > mechanical way, the less human interference in the process > the better! > > I also remember the list of jyotish predictions that they > published every year. Had a full set in my office. Ever > quizzical I used to save them up and check to see how many > predictions came true. Not many. > > I also remember the jyotish programme being suspended for > a while due to complaints about poor performance and then > re-introduced, but only for people who could provide the > birth details of both sets of grandparents! This would have > been in the late 90's. > > Anyone puzzled about how this wonder may actually work should > check out Tony Nader's book of "discoveries" where there is a > diagram of the brain and how the planets join up to different > parts of it, presumably the parts that they govern. Planets > beyond Saturn aren't included, for some reason the vedic seers > chose not to cognize them. Or kept quite about it if they did. > You'd think an alleged scientist like Nader might try and fit > them in somehow, not enough ungoverned brain regions I guess. > Or maybe he'd have to have invent some more sanskrit names for > them. But to not even notice! > > I wrote to him about this and a few other things, one of which > was how on Earth all this fitted in with evolution, but he never > wrote back. Presumably the invite to get in touch with comments > didn't extend to constructive criticism. The only comments they > published on the Marshy channel were of the "Wow, this knowledge > is the best thing ever!" variety. > > That's the trouble with thinking you have Total Knowledge, there's > no room for improvement.
Exclusively a computer? That strikes me as nonsense, the planets impel NOT compel as the saying goes. MMY probably didn't know much about astrology himself. The freewill of the soul is the unknown factor X; we can always change our destiny laid out by the stars by spiritualized will. A computer is certainly useful but also has its limits, the astrologers intuition can also play a big part in diagnosis. I like your comment about having Total Knowledge, TM isn't even being taught in the context of Yoga anyway, that eliminates an entire section of Patanjali's ashtanga (eight limbed) Yoga. TM is MMY's attempt to introduce Yoga and Vedic culture to modernity through the back door of science, TM, is *Yoga-lite* for modernity. And Yoga is the practical means to achieve the ends stated in Sanatana Dharma or the "eternal Religion represented by the Vedas" as MMY has stated, in his transcribed book, "The Vedas" 1964.
