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We find that all Redeemers were treated badly by the world. Jesus, Socrates, Mansoor, Bruno etc. Why is it so?

Aurobindo answers

Hard is the World Redeemer’s heavy task
The whole world becomes his adversary.
Those whom he came to save are his enemies
Those he would redeems are his adversaries

This world is in love with its own ignorance
Its darkness moves away from the Saviour Light
It gives the Cross in payment for the Crown !

( Savitri – The Book of the Redeemer)

This is a benighted humanity or an ignorant race !

A man who was about to become the Redeemer aks Heaven

Why should I throw my arms against the shut Heavens
Or struggle against a mute inevitable Fate
Or hope in vain to uplift an ignorant race
Who hugs their lot and mocks the Saviour Light ? !

“Life, not a remotely silent or highly ecstatic uplifted Beyond, life alone is the field of our Yoga “, wrote the Master. He was highlighting the fact that the solution to problems is not escapism, but meeting them squarely and overcoming them.

Our aim must be Self Actualisation and we should not be bothered about the hindrances on the path.

Says he “We have to understand that the Divine Will is leading us, through every circumstance, towards the Final Realisation”. We may be confronted by innumerable adversities, but we have to overcome them to arrive at the Goal. “This is the work of the Supramental Shakti, converting our obscure mentality into Her supramentality”.

A luminous heart of the Unknown is She
A power of Silence in the depths of God
She is the Force, the inevitable Word,
The magnet of our difficult Ascent
The Light that leans from the unrealised vasts
The Joy that beckons us from the Impossible.”

This Supramental Shakti is at work, converting the mundane into the supramundane.

Like Laplace’s Celestial Mechanics, Ganitha Nirnayam or Mathematical Formulae is a treatise on Astro Maths to compute the longitudes of planets.

This book uses the Sidereal system.

The Western method is to find the True Anomaly of the planet and then add to it The Argument of Perihelion ( a mathematical quantity ) to arrive at a planet’s longitude

Theta = v + w

The Indian method is Longitude Corrected Thrice. First the mean longitude of the planet is calculated and then three trignometric corrections are given to find the true longitude of the planet.

First the Mean longitude is reduced by a mathematical process called Manda Kriya. Mandochha refers to Aphelion. By Manda Kriya the mean longitude is reduced to Manda Sphuta, the longitude obtained after the first trignometric correction

Astral Amulets protect one from planetary afflictions. If a man is tormented by Saturn, a Saturn Astral Amulet will save him from afflictions galore

Astral Amulets protect one from planetary afflictions. If a man is tormented by Saturn, a Saturn Astral Amulet will save him from afflictions galore

Astral Amulets protect one from planetary afflictions. If a man is tormented by Saturn, a Saturn Astral Amulet will save him from afflictions galore

The Ascensional Difference is the difference between Oblique Ascension and Right Ascension.

The formula for computing the Ascensional Difference

Sin C = Tan Phi Tan Delta

where C is the Asc difference Phi is the Latitude of the place and Delta the Sun’s declination

The Sun’s declination can be found out by the formula

Sin J = Sin L Sin w

where J is the Sun’s declination, L the mean longitude of the Sun and w Sun’s maximum declination

In order to develop the software, I had to research on a lot of books. They are

Celestial Mechanics by Laplace
Astronomia Nova – Kepler
Bryon’s Astronomy

the Encyclopaedia Brittanica Astronomical tables by Newcombe

and Indian Books

Siddhanta Sekhara by Sripathi
Ganitha Nirnayam by Puliyur

To study Astronomy was difficult and later to implement the formulae was also difficult. But then I persevered and developed the Vedic Astrology software

Shankara was an Illusionist; Aurobindo was a Realist ( “Maya is real, because it is the Self’s experience of the Self” )

The term assigned by Sankara to the whole process of creation was Maya. Aurobindo, on the other hand, called it Leela or the play of the Divine. Leela includes the idea of Maya and exceeds it !

” This is our Eternal Lover luring us to Himself, through all these flashy masks of Himself, through all this shimmering blazes of His eternal and ineffugable Self-Existence ” said the Master !