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Dear Shri auh,
I also used to think, for quite some time, in the same way in which our Supreme Court judges now voice their judgements in cases of gender equality. But when the pollution of the Tabra-managed temple due to women coming inside the temple with menstrual pollution, was a test case for me. One of the learned astrologers who formed the panel for the Devaprasnam was my college mate and is a very well-respected astrologer. When I asked him whether menstruation of women made them "polluting" his answer was that he has no scientific proof to provide but,after many years of astrological experience, he now firmly believed that what is written down in the hoary astrological treatises are not wrong and that he has been witness to many "prasnams" in which such kind of pollution had made parihaarams of no effect.
That said, in my limited experience, Prasnam is not connected to any impartialor frenzied state of mind and all the predictions are based on clearly laid down aphorisms and, usually, there is a panel of experienced astrologers in Devaprasnams and this panel discussed each and every observation threadbare before the final comments are committed to paper by the main astrologer.
That is why I believe that "our limited human knowledge cannot be made the basis of judging some of the practices related to our religion".
Regarding your last point, is it not possible that between the Ultimate Godhead or Reality or Parabrahma and us humans, there are many levels of "godhead" each having its own circumscribed powers? Do we have any logical proof that beyond Man, it is only the Parabrahmam and nothing else?
I also used to think, for quite some time, in the same way in which our Supreme Court judges now voice their judgements in cases of gender equality. But when the pollution of the Tabra-managed temple due to women coming inside the temple with menstrual pollution, was a test case for me. One of the learned astrologers who formed the panel for the Devaprasnam was my college mate and is a very well-respected astrologer. When I asked him whether menstruation of women made them "polluting" his answer was that he has no scientific proof to provide but,after many years of astrological experience, he now firmly believed that what is written down in the hoary astrological treatises are not wrong and that he has been witness to many "prasnams" in which such kind of pollution had made parihaarams of no effect.
That said, in my limited experience, Prasnam is not connected to any impartialor frenzied state of mind and all the predictions are based on clearly laid down aphorisms and, usually, there is a panel of experienced astrologers in Devaprasnams and this panel discussed each and every observation threadbare before the final comments are committed to paper by the main astrologer.
That is why I believe that "our limited human knowledge cannot be made the basis of judging some of the practices related to our religion".
Regarding your last point, is it not possible that between the Ultimate Godhead or Reality or Parabrahma and us humans, there are many levels of "godhead" each having its own circumscribed powers? Do we have any logical proof that beyond Man, it is only the Parabrahmam and nothing else?
Thank you for your reply, but however, I am unable to agree with the view that "what is written down in the hoary astrological treatises are not wrong". Or that it could relate to some kind of divinity.
To illustrate the point, I will take the analogy of a person who has absolutely no adverse effect (as apparently noticed) when he touches a live wire (electric wire). Any other person who touches it would have been burnt to cinders. Can we say that he is some kind of godhead? This had come in the news and I remember reading it a long time ago (cannot remember now). But am sure there would be many others. People bending spoons by will power etc. Ripley's believe it or not had some bizzare sequences but am not sure if all of them are staged or real.
On a similar note, somebody in those days could have had a surge of power (ESP etc) and could predict certain things (I believe the pollution etc are actually used for things that could not be predicted or go against such predictions). It is also quite possible that people who experienced similar surges could have coined certain guidelines as to the practice. No one could really be sure of the accuracy of such predictions unless over a period of time the individual proves 100% accurate results. Again, this could be purely individual-centric. Due to our belief of lineage etc., the boys may also be believed to be endowed with degree of powers (sometimes by selection), failing which a relative could be assigned. Or perhaps some other suitable mechanism. You see, everything need not be related to anything divine and neither we need be cowed by such predictions.
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Regarding your last point, is it not possible that between the Ultimate Godhead or Reality or Parabrahma and us humans, there are many levels of "godhead" each having its own circumscribed powers? Do we have any logical proof that beyond Man, it is only the Parabrahmam and nothing else?
