Astrology for Beginners by B. V. Raman is an essential guide for those intrigued by astrology or exploring the subject out of curiosity. Now in its 26th edition, the book begins with a foreword and is organized into sequential chapters that gradually introduce the reader to the world of astrology.
The first chapter discusses the requisites of astrology, while the second explains the creation of a horoscope. Subsequent chapters delve into understanding the duration of life and the timing of potential death, as revealed through astrological insights. The book also provides practical tips for identifying personality traits, mental states, physical health, and illnesses using astrology.
Later chapters guide readers on predicting aspects of their academic, financial, and personal lives, as well as uncovering the influence of relationships, financial responsibilities, marital prospects, and circumstantial outcomes. The book even explains hourly predictions and the significance of transitory periods. In the appendix, readers will find methods for calculating Ayanamsa and Bhavas.
DR. BANGALORE VENKATA RAMAN was a pioneering astrologer and author credited with popularizing Hindu astrology on a global scale. Among his numerous works are Three Hundred Important Combinations, Astrology for Beginners, A Manual of Hindu Astrology, Graha and Bhava Balas, and Studies in Jaimini Astrology.
Dr. Raman founded the Raman & Rajeswari Research Foundation to promote astrology and Vastu Shastra. He earned honorary degrees, including Doctor of Literature and Doctor of Letters, from the Akhila Bharateeya Samskrita Sammelana and Kumaon University.
The sale of twenty-five editions of a book during the lifetime of the author is a somewhat rare phenomenon in Indian conditions. This bears testimony to the large demand the books on Astrology have when the subject is presented clearly in an easy and intelligible language by experts in the line.
The present edition has been elaborated further and contains two appendices, dealing with Ayanamsa Determination and Determination of ascendant and longitudes of Bhavas according to my "Nirayana Tables of Houses", thus dispensing with the need for Raphael's Tables.
I am indeed grateful to the public for the extremely cordial and encouraging reception given to this book as also my other books on Astrology.
I am thankful to UBS Publishers' Distributors Ltd., New Delhi for having brought out this edition in an attractive manner.
In this book Astrology for Beginners I wish to say something by way of introduction, about Astrology a subject to confess to an interest in which is to evoke smiles of condescension from otherwise intelligent people and run the risk of being considered an eccentric. The reader is requested to go through this introduction carefully as it enables him to appreciate what Astrology is and how it is different from the so-called occultism so often mixed up with the science of divination. Is Astrology a science? Does it deserve to be ranked among other subjects which have received the stamp of the modern scientist? Many causes have contributed to the degeneration of Astrology. Firstly, there is the impenetrable prejudice which characterises the majority of the educated public who sneer at Astrology as mere superstition and excuse themselves from any investigation of its claims on the ground that some modern scientists reject it; secondly, the springing up and rise of a large number of quacks charging rupee one per horoscope and playing on the credulity of the masses; and thirdly, the narrow-mindedness of many of the scientists which has been greatly responsible for the present degradation of Astrology. No man is entitled to pronounce an opinion on the merits of any science unless he has devoted much time to its study and investigation.
What is science? It is knowledge coordinated, arranged and synthesised. No science is perfect and no science can be called a chimerical branch before one can claim considerable proficiency in it. Take, for instance, any science and see if it is successful cent per cent or even seventy-five per cent in its experiments. Take the percentage of cures and kills effected by doctors. A learned doctor once observed that if all the Materia Medica is thrown into the sea so much the worse for the fishes and so much the better for man. There is a long list of incurable diseases and the medical fraternity blinks before the fury of these diseases. Jurisprudence is a grand science. What do the bright limbs of law mean when they speak about the uncertainties of law? If law is a science, where is the room for failure of justice and prevalence of injustice? Yet some of the lawyers and doctors have the impunity to classify astrologers along with quacks, gypsies, charlatans and swindlers. When vast sums of money are spent on such chimerial subjects as meteorology, what justification can the cultured public claim for rejecting Astrology and other sciences propounded by ancient Maharshis? Astrology holds its head so proudly under the greatest disadvantages and neglect which are extended for its vilification and it is high time that sufficient patronage is extended for its revival.
Let us examine the claims of Astrology to be ranked amongst sciences. It investigates into the influences of Time. Astrology is derived from the word Aster-star and Logos-reason or logic. It is called in Sanskrit Jyotisha or the science of light.
It throws light on the dark recesses of the gloomy future. It attempts to foretell the future history of man, the fates of nations, empires, kingdoms, wars, revolutions and other terrestrial phenomena. It tells us all these things not by vague guesses or gesticulations but on the adamantine basis of pure mathematical calculations. By observation, by deduction and most important of all by induction, the astrologer has actually found a correspondence between the movements of planets and events in the life of each individual and this assertion can be tested or assessed in a comparatively brief investigation by any intelligent person.
Ancient Maharshis were past masters in every branch of knowledge. Ethnology and esoteric science were for the first time promulgated in the world by the savants of India. Messmer, Swedenburg, Havelock. Darwin, Leslie Stephen and Spencer have caught glimpses of the heights of knowledge attained by Patanjali, Sankara, Vatsayana and Siddhas. The Rishis had solved all problems of life which modern science with the help of its limited knowledge has endeavoured to solve.
Horoscopes (198)
Medical Astrology (51)
Nadi (38)
Numerology (59)
Original Texts (254)
Palmistry (53)
Planets (264)
Romance (35)
Vastu (130)
Vedic Astrology (105)
हिन्दी (266)
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