Astrology - a $40b industry
Astrology has been misunderstood and polluted by people with selfish interests. Many people who started astrology as profession are misusing the science by exploiting people from all walks of life. The refusal by elite to go for astrological prediction has become a fashion; however, most of them rely on it and take steps only after predictions in secrecy. Astrology or Jyotisha has entered into modern life because of meeting aspirations, cravings, and desires in personal, professional, social and spiritual lives. There are astrologers present who guide, misguide, inspire and help people at every 5 kms in India. Perhaps there is hardly any country where astrology in one or the other form is not practiced. There are thousands of web sites on astrology on the web world. Every tenth spam mail is astrology mail that enters into emails of people around the world. Astrology has entered into every activity of life i.e. medical astrology, future astrology, professional astrology, home astrology, etc. people are using this ancient science in almost all possible ways in the world. There are experts appearing in different TV channels, clippings shown there and people are taking keen interest while viewing them at home. According to one conservative estimate, astrology is $40 billion industry and increasing at a rate of 10% every year. Astrology will continue to flourish, strengthen its base in the psyche of man as long as modern man is in hurry, worry and curry. Modern man craves for material possessions, success and positions with blink of eyelids that demands urgent need to predict future events according to one dream, cravings and desires.
There is a need to understand astrology through reasoning, relationships between human life, events, personality, attitudes and traits and planets and positions and their influences. If astrology as a science and art is organized in order to relate to life and events of human life that may even point towards future, past and present in relation to personal, professional, social lives, peace a, prosperity and success, man would start incorporating it into ones life.
PIYAS aims at presenting astrology:
- As a science that will calculate mathematically the events of life based upon ancient methods supported by modern astronomy.
- As an art to make man more creative, intuitive for achieving excellence in their chosen field of endevaour.
- As a methods for improving life by prevention, forecasting problems and diseases and other maladjustment problems.
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