Namaskaar Radha Kripa das ji,
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RishiRahul and vivek.

hi.
Q1...I do not know what the aim and goal of my life is,that is why i am doing jyotish,so i can try to find out some reason,amongst the unreasonable that i am conscious of.
Q2...My motivation to study astrology is my consciousness of discomfort,boredom,and to protect myself from making anymore discomfort,due to the boredom i experiance.I was introduced to jyotish,by fortune,after knowing some western astrology,and i reckon jyotish is far more accurate and helpfull.However i have along way to go,and i am not very clever.I do not think i am ever going to understand it properly,but what i do know has helped alot,to understand my somewhat challenging personality
Q3...I have some studying of both,in phases,and then i dont do any studying for months on end.At present i am trying to complete a begginers course with Sattvastha,a vedic astrologer.I reckon some interaction with other humans will encourage my understanding.
Q4...The vedas is scripture from India,which explains the human situation on different levels accordong to peoples understanding and spiritual developement.I have read lots of vedic stuff.I am however taking my spiritual nourishment from a good teacher of Jesus Christ. ,My reltionship with organized religion is very bad,and i will often go into the mystical instead of relgious,as confinement causes me stress.(see chart).

I hope to be learning  good stuff here,and look forward to corresponding with anyone who wishes to do so.........
Thanx....Cmoon

Namashkaar Cmoonji,

Good reply! We wish that you pursue your aims succesfully.

vivek and RishiRahul

Namaste to e1 and here's my answer to the questions set by rishirahul ji,

I would say I have several different goals for now.  One amongst my goals is to spread bhakti amongst people especially to the new rising generation and to those who are unaware how blissful can their lives be if they know how to harness their lives with prayers.  

Furthermore, another goal which I've set long long time back is that I want to help people to live more peacefully and with happiness - and I believe it's that astrology knowledge that gonna enable me to serve them.  In short I've been wanting to help in contributing happiness in their lives.


My other goal in life is that I've always wanted to become a software engineer one day, hopefully.  Why engineer not something else ?  Well I wanted to become an acharya, but considering my physically state, this seems difficult for me to move (I'm suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis).  Also, there seems difficult to get a good guru locally due to a lacking number of people with such knowledge here.  And I know that I was born to serve people, to give others.  This is why I always  give more than I expect to receive.  Also, considering my state, I believe this engineering field suit me.


My motivation in learning astrology is that I take this field as a science which is not only my passion but also fascinates me a lot.  Also, I was aspired not for material objectives but for the happiness, the peacefulness that one gets in helping someone else during their dark times which cannot be described in words.  

This happiness originates from me itself many years way back.  When I was small (around 2-3.5 yrs old), I was afflicted with some ailment which according to some astrologers(I later managed to meet people with astrology knowledge after some 15 years in my life), I was afflicted with some graha by that time.  Sadly, this disease even till now doesn't have any cure.  Local doctors thought I would die but I didn't when I was small.  They told my parents that there is no cure for this illness (juvenile arthritis rheumatoid).  Furthermore, there was no astrologers or learned hindu priests by that time to the place where I live (I live in Mauritius) that could guide us.

And hence, when I was around 3.5 yrs old, I lost my ability to walk.  Being from a middle class family, the hardships that I've encountered in life cannot be described with words, and this forced me to seek god's refuge and I started loving god with loads of bhakti which taught me to see life differently.  It also made me a new human being.  Therefore, I do not want anyone to face the same hardship I & my family had to face with me.  This is why I know what pain is, how painful it is... and this, amongst other factors, is what inspired me to see happiness on everyone's face everyday.

In addition to this, I have a principle to always to do good to people although I may not get any materialistic gain from that.  As long as I have helped someone and s/he is happy, I get great peace, satisfaction from me.  In short, if someone's happy, I am happy on seeing him/her happy.

Also I believe strongly, with the help of this astrology knowledge, one can surely know how to what to do and what not to do during bad times.


As I've told you up there, there was no astrologer way back here in the early 90's.  Nowadays there are astrologers, but IMO most work differently but the only common thing in them is that they are all money-minded.  I.e. It's only great shots that get this opportunity to go to an astrologer.  Most middle class families or other lower classes of family find it hard to go to a learned comtemporary astrologer because s/he is after money a lot nowadays.

There is even currently one new local hindu learned comtemporary astrologer which I know here that implements chinese technique along with vedic technique in predicting someone's horoscope.  My mother goes to his place yearly but his fees are a tad expensive.  This may be funny if someone would look how he uses chinese approach too but it does certainly works.  

To sum up, irrespective of any method astrologers may use... the output have been nearly the same to me.


My (fresh) experience with 1 astrologer lately:
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Lets take a simple e.g from my experience, some 1 month back, a man who is well known to my father came and managed to convince my parents that a learned astrologer came from India to Mauritius.  Since we never have had no experience with astrologers of India, so we decided to give a try in the hope to see a solution to my problem (read up there to know about my prob).

That man, took my mother along with him in his car to the astrologer and the astrologer said there that my mother should pay him rs. 8000 (mauritius rupees) so that he would do a 'pitra dosh' prayer for me and maybe this can help to improve both my health and life.  At first my father was reluctant to give that huge sum of money but we tried to convince him that I would be bestowed with a good health and peaceful life after that prayer.

After having paid that astrologer through that man, ever since that neither that man, nor that astrologer pick our phone calls.  It seems as if they disappeared all of a sudden after taking our money.  So this did hurt us a lot since my dad borrowed money from several people for that pooja and see what happened in returned....  Such thing is common to me in life for believing others....

RishiRahul wrote:

Q4: What are the Vedas?

Vedas are sacred scriptures which has been existed since immemorial times to us.  Actually vedas contain everything from A to Z.  This is why it is said by most that vedas are the eternal truths.  

Astrology may be defined according me, as a complexed science which has been bestowed to us by god so that we could used this technique as a torch to bring light in people's dark paths.  However, in order to be able to do this, it is our vedas that are going to help us to achieve this as the latter contains every "why", "how to" (question, answers and reasoning behind each theory and practise)to everything relating to astrology.  This is why astrology is said by most as "the eyes" of the vedas.

Astrology in a simplified term, it is a language like any other language.  Just as any other languages require some basics to learn and to deal with, the same case is with astrology.  Therefore the following things listed below are what it comprises of:

Planets
Signs
Houses
Aspects
Kala Chakra (Wheel of time with 10 hands - the 9 grahas along with lagna aka ascendants [I don't know yet what lagna is/means/does])

As far I as I know according to the research I did, astrology is divided into 6 branches, mainly:

Ganita - it involves the mathematical calculations of planetary positions
Gola - deals with astronomy
Jataka - birth horoscope
Prasana - specific answering of questions in a horoscope
Muhorta - deals with (auspicious) time timing to embark into a task
Nimita - omens (practiced our older generation)

p.s: I'm sorry for replying a bit late ever since I've been enrolled since my health is really bad nowadays.

Namaskaar amdtek ji,
This is a very good reply and also a good start from you. For a person to have undergone such suffering and still have faith in Goodness is rare. Please keep up the good work.
RishiRahul and vivek