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*Question: Is astrology applied anywhere in treating the diseases?*
*Answer: Some branches of astrology are applied in India, whereas the other branches remain there in the books not applied. Similarly, some other branches are applied in the Chinese tradition and a third method of application is done in the Occident. But basically, there are no fundamental differences in the science of astrology. The differences exist only in certain details. As far as ancient Indian astrology is concerned for Ayurveda, is concerned exactly the same as we do in the Occident now except one branch which is not popular in the Occident. That is the knowledge of the fixed stars. The influence of certain fixed stars is there in Indian astrology which is to be supplemented to the modern Occidental astrology. But for this, there is no actual difference in the basic astrological procedures of ancient India and modern Occident.*
*If we make a comparative study of the astrology of ancient India, modern Occident and China and make a study of the common base of the three branches, you will find it is exactly identical. See the astrology of the fixed stars is much vast than any branch of astrology known today in any country. Even in India, it is not popular now a days. But there are people who have studied it and you can know something about it in the book 'Esoteric Astrology' of Alice A. Bailey and my book Spiritual Astrology.*
*The basis of the astrology of the stars is like this. Each star we see is a solar system in its own term and each solar system is in its own plane of evolution comparatively. There are some solar systems far much evolved than our solar system in which we live and these are called the sacred stars in the scriptures. You find the same sanctity given to the stars in the scriptures of all ancient nations. Especially in the ancient Indian astrology, you will find the science of the tortoise. That is starting from above the pole star, taking it as the tail of the tortoise, coming down to the seven stars of the bear, taking them as the hinged portion of the tortoise. Like that, there is the location of all the stars that are visible to our solar system, dividing the various zones into the various limbs of the tortoise. For example, the Sun of our present solar system in the right shoulder of the tortoise. And then, each star is given its own study differently and its own significance is given differently.*
*When the important degrees of a horoscope fall on any one of these stars, you will find the birth of the great peace makers and the great prophets of the world. How the wrong degrees coincide with one of these stars at birth cause diseases like cancer and incurable diseases. How blindness and other things are caused due to our wrong routine when the important degrees fall upon certain fixed stars. So, a combined study of these stars by the various nations in the modern age makes us understand the common secrets of the ancient astrologers.*
*How they are used in medical astrology, we will come to know. He need not live according to his horoscope because instinctively he lives according to his horoscope because he does what is to be done. He does not do what is not to be. So, he need not verify his living according to his horoscope. His horoscope only shows his way of living, because he never transgresses the law.*
*Only one technique which I have given in an independent lecture and today's lecture included three different subjects. So, I could not go into the detail of it. It is said in the science of karma that the past karma was done by us and the good karma can be done by us. The good karma we do, neutralizes the past karma we have done provided if it is not too late.* *It is like cooking. The same fire can be used to burn a house or to cook our food. When we have an eye upon the contents of the cooking food, while it is being cooked, nothing can be too late. When we know our duties for today, and when we know our weaknesses of yesterday, we can make good of our weaknesses by making an offering of what we have to do more than what we are expected to do. So, the results of karma are contrived by ourselves. In the same way we can do it at the present also to neutralize the results of the past karma, provided the results of the past karma are not yet achieved. Anything is possible. If the past karma has reached a stage of its results in the present, nothing can be done against it except enduring. We can take care of something, some karma whose results have not yet been stimulated in the present. That is what the karma theory says.* 🪶 *Master E.K.*
