Your Friendly Philosopher & Guide

I have referred many books written on astrology, and in most of them I have noticed that the author struggles to refer to many scientists who believed in astrology. They do it may be to convince the readers about the greatness of astrology and to increase the credibility of their approach towards astrology. They also mention how scientific astrology is – right from the placement of planets in the horoscope to how mind influences the lines on our palms – and how scientifically it is used for predicting human lives.

It is very true that the present generation of pseudo intellects expects some strong scientific base to accept any subject, which doesn’t have clear-cut logic. But I strongly feel that the very effort to combine sciences and arts together is wrong. They exit on different planes where science can take you till the door, while Arts can take you beyond.

Take a rose to a scientist and peep into his eyes – and he will say calyx, corolla, androecium & gynaecium. And take the same rose to your beloved and peep into his/her eyes – you will see only love!

Adobe Photoshop is a scientific tool, which is used for designing purposes. Anyone can learn the usage of this particular software with in 2 days. You can explore the menu, and study what result each function can produce. But then only a creative person can produce something worthy out of this scientific tool, and this creativity isn’t science – it is an art. And give any tool to this creative person – he will come out with a beautiful design. Creativity doesn’t come out of a science lab - it comes out of the heart! The same holds true with any musicians, singers, moviemakers, writers, and astrologers.

Go to a psychiatrist if someone ditches you in love. All that he can do is give you sleeping doses. He neither can make you feel better nor could he help you come out of it. But psychologists can bring you out of your emotional pain in a couple of sittings – and psychology is again arts and no science. Man is an emotional animal, and for him to live a better life it is art that can help him more than science.

Nitrogen Dioxide can make you laugh for a while, but there is no scientific medicine to make you happy, content and blissful. Hence Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s meditation course is known as Art of Living and not Science of Living. (I neither have attended the course, nor am I marketing his course – it is just an example).

There are many things in life, which we need to believe and trust with closed eyes, or I should say just for the heck of it. There need not be any strong logic or scientific evidences behind them. That simply doesn’t mean they don’t exist - existence of God is one among them and working of astrology is another.