Karma & Rebirth in Hindu Asfrology

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Preface

The need to write this book on Astrology and Karma arose because
in the lectures on general astrology to batches after batches of studentS
in our astrology classes I have covered many areas of Astrology and
Karma. Many of them were tape-recorded but I have none of them
with me. To collect many olthose thoughts in one place and put them
in a systematic way became necessary because students want a book
which they could follow.
I was not willing to write it so soon, Yet, postponing it did not
app~ar wise. My Jyotisha guru. Yogi Bhaskarananda had written four
long chapters on some general subjects of astrology which contained
his distilled spiritual and astrological wisdom. I tried my best to trace
them out but failed. I have learnt from Mr. Prityush Bharatiya at whose
Jorbagh residence in Delhi my Yogi Guru used to stay, that all those
manuscripts including his small ashram near Ahmadabad were sold
off within weeks of his death. It is a symptom of Kaliyuga in which
disciples betray their gurus to whom they owe so much but whom
and whose association they exploit in so many ways.
'I am not aware of any other astrologer writing on those subjects
with so much depth and understanding of the Indian system of
astrology as my Jyotisha guru, The reason was clear to me. He
practised astrology in the rishi tradition unlike other well known
astrologers of India for whom it was a source of livelihood to maintain
their families. When astrology is a chosen profession it ceases to be
divine. It gets debased. An astrologer living an the income from
fortune telling or horoscopic reading is no better than a man who
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