Question: Archaeology says modern humans have only been around for about 200 thousand years. Just one yuga is longer than this. Does it mean that all previous yugas were much shorter? it appears that they were even longer than kali yuga, which makes it impossible to fit in those 200000 years of human evoution span. [...]
This is an excerpt from the draft chapter on Ardra, the sixth star of the Vedic sidereal zodiac, from my forthcoming book. Protector of the Divine Beauty of Rasa Residents of the holy city of Vṛṇdāvana is tell a sacred legend of Śiva as “Gopeśvara Mahādeva.” This tale beautifully illustrates how Ārdrā forms a wall [...]
Can we Change our Karma / Fate? Think of it like this: If there is a ball in your hand, you can choose where to throw it. If you throw it through your window, you will come to regret it. Once you have thrown the ball, you’ve thrown it. There is nothing else you can [...]
Astronomical calculations of stellar influences upon a living being are not suppositions, but are factual, as confirmed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Every living being is controlled by the laws of nature at every minute, just as a citizen is controlled by the influence of the state. The state laws are grossly observed, but the laws of material [...]
Well, the truth is that the term “Vedic Astrology” was invented in the early 1980s, amidst the popularity of ’70s India-movements like ISKCON (“Hare Krishna”) and TM (“Transcendental Meditation”) and their love for using the word Vedic in an alluring, attractive manner – referring loosely to just about anything that could be written in Sanskrit [...]
In the Mahābhārata (Virata Parva, Section 44) Arjuna explains his many names to his daughter in law, Uttarā. In text 14 he explains why he has the name Phālguna. उत्तराभ्यं च पूर्वाभ्यं फल्गुनीभ्याम् अहम् दिवा जातो हिमवतः प्रेस्ष्ठ तेन माम् फल्गुनं विधुः uttarābhyaṁ ca pūrvābhyaṁ phalgunībhyām aham divā jāto himavataḥ presṣṭha tena mām phalgunaṁ vidhuḥ [...]
does lord krishna have control over the planets in astrology? The us Government makes laws. In that sense they have control over US law. The police and courts enforce the laws, invested with the power of the US Government. Still it is the citizens who either break or obey the laws. The Government or police [...]
If there is anything I really want you to learn from this article knowing, it’s this: time is a circle, not a line. Clocks are round. The Earth is round. It spins around to create days. Orbits are round, too. The Moon’s circular orbit creates Months, and the Sun’s (or Earth’s depending on your point [...]
Śrī Caitanya, the world-famous saint and avatar of divine love, was born February 27th 1486 at 17:55 in Mayapur, India. He is an excellent subject to illustrate the nature of the Moon in Leo because the Moon in Leo was rising as a full moon during an eclipse when he was born. There are several [...]
Habit vs Freewill nānyaḿ guṇebhyaḥ kartāraḿ yadā draṣṭānupaśyati guṇebhyaś ca paraḿ vetti mad-bhāvaḿ so ‘dhigacchati Gita 14.19 The performer of actions is none other than the three modes of nature. See this through the eyes of those who can see, And come to understand something above and beyond these three modes: My spiritual nature… and [...]
