The Misperceptions of The Rationalists

“There are no longer any gods whom we can invoke to help us. The great religions of the world suffer from increasing anemia,… …. Our present lives are dominated by the goddess Reason, who is our greatest and most tragic illusion. By the aid of reason, so we assure ourselves, we have “conquered nature.”

-C.G.Jung[15]

In the wake of the Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] coming to power in India, in the early part of 2001, there raged an almost one-sided debate between the Indian scientists on the one hand and the community of savants of Hindu learning and Vedic astrologers on the other. This was in many ways a one-sided battle, for the wisdom of the Indian Vedic astrologers, did not prompt them to enter into a warfare of words with people on the other side, whose minds were closed to the truth of Vedic astrology, from the very beginning.

Coming to think of it, the rationalists’ attack on Vedic astrology is itself irrational to an extreme degree! Before rejecting any discipline of knowledge as unsound, one has to first of all undertake a laborious study of the same, in order to ascertain for oneself, what its various merits and demerits are. Moreover, as astrology has millions of votaries world-wide and has survived the rise and fall of many an ancient civilization; a humanity, which is intuitively spiritually-oriented will certainly not accept that astrology deserves to be banished from this Earth! Yet, this is the irrational dream of the ‘rationalists’! It is only on the basis of such a fundamental enquiry that one may accept or reject any given discipline of learning.

It is irrational and absurd to offer ‘reasons’ for the rejection of a discipline, when one has not even taken the pains and devoted the necessary time, in order to thoroughly acquaint oneself with all the subtler tenets of that discipline. Yet, this is exactly where the ‘rationalists’ have erred. They have rejected Vedic astrology, without ever having studied and examined the same….., but have advanced a number of ‘reasons’, why it is unworthy of their scientific admiration! [See also Sec.2 of Part VII, which is an allied section.]