What is astrology?

Since childhood, I remember people visiting my greatly revered father Late Sh. Raja Ram Shastri and believing each and every word of his. When I was in the 9th standard in 1974, my father started teaching me astrology a little and then one day our family doctor Sh. Gupta gave father his horoscope and asked about himself and his wife and father told them that after six months he will start the period of Mars and then his wife will have to suffer blood related problems. So he should wear a red coral. About nine months after this incident Dr. Gupta again met my father and said that his wife has developed red sores all over her body which is not responding to any medical treatment then again father suggested him wearing a red coral and when he did wear it he was left stunned because his wife recovered from the problem. Then he asked my father that how is it possible whole I took the treatment she was remedied, father explained to him that, “ according to your horoscope, your wife had to be diseased hence as you were married with her so she had to undergo illness and that is precisely why while you took the treatment she was remedied.” I witnessed this incident and hence I felt that astrology is not only a science but it is way ahead of even medical science. That is when my interest in astrology was still more accentuated.

When I took up astrology in 1990 after completing my education, M.A. (Sanskrit) & M.A. (Political Science) from Delhi University, then first of all I experimented with my university friends and also worked on some professors who are even today my followers and consult me on a regular basis.

1. Telling details about a person without even seeing or knowing him. What can it be called?
2. Diagnosing disease and suggesting treatment to a patient without any kind of checkup?
3. Helping a person or treating someone who is mentally disturbed?
4. Successful operation of a person for whom doctors have given up all hope?

What is all this?
The greatest example of the failure of science today is meteorological or weather department, which can only give an idea.

Whereas many people consider it is superstition and others continuously believe in it devoutly. On the surface, no matter how much people may harp on their disbelief but is the shining of the Sun and the hiding of the Moon on amavasya a play or mathematics that is already worked out in our panchangas.

Nowadays some charlatans have also entered the field of astrology whereas astrology in itself is a complete science, medical science, Para Vidya and psychology. It is considered to be a holistic science.

In my view astrology has such a place that all sciences can become a part of it.

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