

Jyotiṣa is the safest path through the terrible darkness in this age of ignorance (Kali Yuga). This choice is yours – and this is really the freewill you can exercise.

It will take you as much time and you can choose to start today, or maybe in ten years, or maybe in the next life. It has taken me more than three decades of sincere study every day to fathom some of the depths of this ocean. By accepting that you can read this huge secret vedic science in just about six months is a sign that your ahaṁkāra has definitely got the better of you. Ādi Śaṅkara called jyotiṣa the ocean of vedic sciences and refused to debate on this topic as one lifetime is not sufficient to finish the debate. Hurting your intelligence is the surest way to hurt yourself. I was so small that I could not even pronounce the holy name ‘विष्णु’ (viṣṇu) and would say biṣṭu-biṣṭu-biṣṭu …ĭon’t look for short-cuts as that is the surest way to delude yourself. I was too small to understand the value f such an important lesson, a lesson that would change the course of my life, a lesson that would bring the wealth of knowledge to my head. Then to touch the book and say ‘विष्णु’ (viṣṇu), to touch my head and say ‘विष्णु’ (viṣṇu) again and finally a third time, to touch my heart and say ‘विष्णु’ (viṣṇu). When I was four, I dropped a book on the floor and my mother taught me to pick it up and place it back. I studied Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ for my 10 th Grade and am pretty sure that the Masters level students in English Literature who study the same book would be doing more justice to it. BPHS takes 5 months to read, max! why does this course need 5 years? Mukteswara Tenple, Bhubaneswar, OdishaEvery subject has levels of knowledge and the same book can be taught at different levels.
