Significance Of Jyotish
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Dating back to 6000 years, Vedic astrology or Jyotish Shastra was evolved as a part of Vedas or Vedic scriptures. Vedas is considered as the world's most primordial scripture which offers an intrinsic belief and study with the essence of arts, science, philosophy and religion. Jyotish Shastra was first explained in Rig Veda, the oldest one among the entire Vedas. Many researchers and enthusiasts consider Vedas as the complete wisdom defining the entire mankind and its significance in relation to cosmological force. Jyotish Shastra or Vedic astrology is an important cornerstone of Vedic Shastra as a whole. As taken from Sanskrit language, one of the most ancient languages, Jyotish means illumination or light and Shastra means study. Hence Jyotish Shastra implies a study of illumination or light. In other words, Jyotish Shastra means the study which helps in eliminating the darkness and makes a pathway to the direction of divine light or wisdom, pure, superlative, absolute and dignified. Jyotish Shastra or Vedic astrology is envisaged by great ancient Indian scholars and sages, while they were at their super-conscious state of understanding, with a through knowledge of cognizing life beyond the boundary of time and space. In their super-conscious state, they understood that the cosmological forces of the planets function like reflectors or transmitters in the form of light energy. These light energies transmit the signals in different angles, and were found to have influence over the animate and inanimate beings, both at physiological and psychological levels. It is assumed that the wise men monitored this influence and conducted experimentations on the basis of their observations with the intention of codifying into principles and standards which, in turn, turned out to be the laws depending on which Jyotish Shastra or Vedic astrology was evolved.
Since the Vedas is a set of complete knowledge and wisdom based on holistic approach to life, it integrates every constituent of this understanding on the basis of the whole. All the components of Vedic astrology deal with the knowledge of Vedic philosophy incorporating the belief of dynamism and reinforcement of artistic orientation. The integrated understanding and philosophical point of reference to life sets contrast with the long lasting well-liked scientific approach advocated by Western belief and culture, which has cataloged life in the ever-changing form or fixation with one specific section or another. This uneven and scrappy perspective of life causes several isolated understanding of knowledge, but in strong conflict with one another, where science never goes at the same plate with religion, philosophical queries can not be answered by scientific principles, and so on.
According to Vedic astrology and Vedic philosophy, individual awareness is explained as a composite form of understanding of all phenomena perceiving an individual's life in the context of great entity or understanding, influence the Karma, as explained in Vedic philosophy. According to this belief, nothing precisely can simple avoid the ultimate consequence, the inescapable integrity and justice of nature or Supreme. This phenomenon is known as Karma. In other words, Karma is an understanding of the law of cause and effect, resembling Newton's third law, "Every action has its opposite and equal reaction". This law is actually very fundamental to the philosophy of Vedic Shastra.