When You Mourn, You Mourn For Yourself

Q: The question I have is about the past and the future. This has to do with astrologers and palmists who tell us our past and future. Some of them are correct and some of them are wrong. Does astrology have validity?

See, if you are sitting in a low point or a valley, can you see what there is at a distance? You cannot. That is how it is when your thoughts crowd your mind and the TPS (thoughts per second) is high. If you sit higher or

closer you can see a little more clearly. Closer still, with fewer thoughts, you can see still more clearly. From up close, you can see like your own personal computer.

A person with a low TPS can see very clearly. He can see through time. He can predict your past and future properly and clearly. If the person's TPS is high, he cannot predict at all because his mind is constantly moving between past and future. A person who has established himself in the nithya atman or eternal consciousness can not only predict but also change the future!

There is a beautiful verse in the Vedic scriptures that says that all the letters so painstakingly written by Brahma – the Lord of Creation - on your forehead can simply be erased by the Guru's left toe when the Guru casually walks past! The man who is established in the eternal consciousness can recreate the future.

Astrology, Jyotisha in Sanskrit, and any form of prediction, whether palmistry or tarot cards, is not so much about the science as it is about what state the individual who predicts is in. Yes, astrology is a science and it is based on valid principles of how the universal energy field affects individuals. In the Vedic culture, astrology was rarely used beyond adolescence and even then only as a guidance to evaluate the aptitude of a student. A guru at the Gurukul - Vedic school, used astrology to determine the aptitude and potential of a young student, much as you would use SAT tests today, the student aptitude tests.

Using astrology to decide what you have to do day after day is a misuse of that knowledge. When you understand that you are part of the flow of the cosmic energy, which is what astrology teaches, you need to have the intelligence to flow with that energy and allow what happens to happen.