Theistic Vedanta by Gaurahari Dasanudas Babaji

A deeper study of Jyotish can reveal the spiritual dynamics of a person’s life: Character traits, the previous and next birth, karmic credits and debts, periods of spiritual opportunity and challenge, and much more. It is no exaggeration to say that the study of Jyotish from a spiritual point of view opens up one’s spiritual vision through the eye of intelligence, and one can see things that are normally obscure and invisible - such as a person’s inner character and motivation - or hidden by time, either future or past. Jyotish is meant to be understood in the theistic context of Vedic knowledge, especially the cosmological understanding of creation, maintenance and destruction of the manifest universe as acts of God. When we see everything in its proper spiritual value and relationship with God, we see correctly. If we lose this context or situational awareness, then no matter how much knowledge we possess, we are in illusion because we will falsely ascribe these phenomena to some material cause. Therefore, if we try to apply Jyotish to making predictions about a person’s material life, we are misusing this knowledge and it will backfire on us. Helping a person to understand their life from a material perspective is not helping them at all, because it simply reinforces the illusion of false identification of the self with the material body. Therefore Jyotish is not a material system of knowledge for the purpose of commercial exploitation. That is a degenerate understanding, and will lead both practitioner and clients to disaster.