Month: November 2007

The Zodiac Software was developed according to the principles of Vedic Spherical Astronomy & Trignometry.

The longitudes measured along the Ecliptic are called true longitudes and the longitudes measured along the Vishuvat Vritta, the Celestial Equator, are known as Right Ascension.

When we say the Right Ascension of East Point, we mean the East Point along the Celestial Equator. The Right Ascension of the Meridian Cusp( RAMC ), is the longitude of the MC or Mid Heaven measured along the Celestial Equator.

The formula for computing the MC , the Madhya Lagna is as follows

tan K = tan R /cos w

where is the K is the longitude of the MC, and R, Sidereal Time converted into degrees.

180 degrees from the Madhya Lagna or the MC is the IC, the Imum Caeli or Patala Lagna.

The formula for computing the Ascendant is

Tan L = Sin E / cos E cosw – Sin w Tan A

The Ascendant is a point on the Celestial Horizon. The Eastern Celestial Horizon

First compute E, the Right Ascension of East Point, the East Point lying on the Celestial Equator and this E is subjected to the trignometric correction referred to as above.

The Celestial Horizon is known as Kshithija. w is the maximum declination of the Sun, The Soorya Parama Kranthi. A is the latitude of the place.

The Eastern Point on the Celestial Horizon is Udaya Lagna
180 degrees from it is the Astha Lagna or the Descendant

We find that all Redeemers were treated badly by the world. Jesus, Socrates, Mansoor, Bruno etc. Why is it so?

Aurobindo answers

Hard is the World Redeemer’s heavy task
The whole world becomes his adversary.
Those whom he came to save are his enemies
Those he would redeems are his adversaries

This world is in love with its own ignorance
Its darkness moves away from the Saviour Light
It gives the Cross in payment for the Crown !

( Savitri – The Book of the Redeemer)

This is a benighted humanity or an ignorant race !

A man who was about to become the Redeemer aks Heaven

Why should I throw my arms against the shut Heavens
Or struggle against a mute inevitable Fate
Or hope in vain to uplift an ignorant race
Who hugs their lot and mocks the Saviour Light ? !

“Life, not a remotely silent or highly ecstatic uplifted Beyond, life alone is the field of our Yoga “, wrote the Master. He was highlighting the fact that the solution to problems is not escapism, but meeting them squarely and overcoming them.

Our aim must be Self Actualisation and we should not be bothered about the hindrances on the path.

Says he “We have to understand that the Divine Will is leading us, through every circumstance, towards the Final Realisation”. We may be confronted by innumerable adversities, but we have to overcome them to arrive at the Goal. “This is the work of the Supramental Shakti, converting our obscure mentality into Her supramentality”.

A luminous heart of the Unknown is She
A power of Silence in the depths of God
She is the Force, the inevitable Word,
The magnet of our difficult Ascent
The Light that leans from the unrealised vasts
The Joy that beckons us from the Impossible.”

This Supramental Shakti is at work, converting the mundane into the supramundane.

Like Laplace’s Celestial Mechanics, Ganitha Nirnayam or Mathematical Formulae is a treatise on Astro Maths to compute the longitudes of planets.

This book uses the Sidereal system.

The Western method is to find the True Anomaly of the planet and then add to it The Argument of Perihelion ( a mathematical quantity ) to arrive at a planet’s longitude

Theta = v + w

The Indian method is Longitude Corrected Thrice. First the mean longitude of the planet is calculated and then three trignometric corrections are given to find the true longitude of the planet.

First the Mean longitude is reduced by a mathematical process called Manda Kriya. Mandochha refers to Aphelion. By Manda Kriya the mean longitude is reduced to Manda Sphuta, the longitude obtained after the first trignometric correction

Astral Amulets protect one from planetary afflictions. If a man is tormented by Saturn, a Saturn Astral Amulet will save him from afflictions galore

Astral Amulets protect one from planetary afflictions. If a man is tormented by Saturn, a Saturn Astral Amulet will save him from afflictions galore

Astral Amulets protect one from planetary afflictions. If a man is tormented by Saturn, a Saturn Astral Amulet will save him from afflictions galore