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Background and Technical Explanation of Karma Index
- by Satrajit Majumdar
Vedic Astrology has stood the test of time. The ancient Vedic Principles are now over 6,000 years old, and can be made even more relevant as we enter the new millennium in helping us empower our lives. More so today than ever, Astrology can help point the way, it can give us more awareness and a tool to make proper choices in life.

Here we demonstrate how the ancient Ashtakbarga techniques of Vedic Astrology can be used effectively for the purpose of predicting future events and also how it can be used conclusively to analyze past events in the life of an entity.

The entity could be anything- a human being, a country or a corporation, which has a natal horoscope chart. The underlying unity is that such an entity is governed by collective or individual will, and has a freedom of choice. It is of course imperative that it has a date of birth, place of birth and time of birth, based on which a natal horoscope is cast and of the natal horoscope can be computed thereafter.

Ashtakbarga is a unique tool in Vedic Astrology, which quantifies the benefic and malefic influence of each planet in precise numerical terms. It is unique in that it combines the effects of different planets and can integrate the effects of different planets with respect to each other. It is also unique that it integrates the natal effects of planets with their transit status in a very simple and elegant manner, compared to very difficult progression techniques of Western Astrology or Dasha Vichar, or Varshaphal techniques of Vedic Astrology.

Further through Astkabarga, a dynamic model for planet's effects can be built up, whereas all the other techniques mentioned above are essentially a static model which depends on the horoscope at a specific time, be it the natal chart or the yearly chart or monthly chart.

Since the planets are in perpetual motion, a dynamic model is always preferable over a static model. Further, it is a totally integrated close loop system where the effects of all the planets are simultaneously considered. It is universal and internally consistent and it also is least dependent on an individual astrologer’s judgment. This is because the parameters are very well quantified. Each planet has a universal constant of 8 dots of destiny (Benefic and Malefic combined).

A chart has universal constant of 337 or 386 or 429 dots of destiny depending on whether one includes or excludes Lagna (Ascendant) or Rahu. Probably, this is the reason why Maitreyee says to Parashar in the introduction to Ashtakbarga:

"Please teach me that shastra which even people with low intellect can understand and make use of for ascertaining happy or unhappy events also the longevity by analyzing the position of planets at the time of consideration".

(Dots of Destiny by Vinaya Aditya).

At a later stage, Ashtakbarga techniques somewhat lost its importance. The author believes that primarily due to the immense calculations that are demanded, astrologers stopped using it. Not everybody is as fluent in fast computation as Shakuntala Devi.


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