Subha Jaya Muhurtha: Choosing an Auspicious-Victorious Moment: Dynamic Synchronization of Time and Action (Vedic Astrology)

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My good friends, the Chairperson of the British Association for Vedic Astrology, Mrs Komilla Sutton, and the president Mr. Andrew Foss, graciously invited me to give a one day workshop on MUHURTHA on the 29thApril 2001 at the Theosophical Society, Gloucester Road, London. I readily accepted the invitation. For the use of the students attending the workshop I prepared a small handout containing tables for fixing a Muhurtha. I remember, at the end of the workshop, Mr. Rowland Elliott, Membership Secretary, the quiet-strongman of the association, and an extremely lovable friend of mine, while giving the vote of thanks used the words "cook book recipe." We, speakers have a tendency of interpreting every word said in a vote of thanks as a well-deserved compliment. I presumed he was saying that my workshop on a complicated and difficult subject like Muhurtha made it as simple as preparing a delectable dish based on a recipe in a cookbook.

That was the incentive to expand my small handout of sixteen pages into a textbook on Muhurtha.

There is another interesting reason. When the first round of Elenati Sani (Saade Sathi, seven and half year transit period of Saturn) started for me, when I was eight, I fell seriously sick. I would have emigrated to an unknown world but for a strong Jupiter denying me the visas, being in its Dasa. At the commencement of the second cycle, when I was thirty-eight, I succeeded in emigrating from my native state of Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu. It was the most stressful period of my life. Once again at the start of the third cycle, at the age of sixty-eight, in 2000, under more relaxed and agreeable circumstances, I immigrated to Karnataka State.

Early in March 2000 1 fixed a general auspicious day and time to sign an agreement with a builder to buy a flat in Bangalore in Karnataka State. I planned to retire from my professional travel abroad and settle in it at the end of the year. But as destiny would have it, I did not sign the agreement on the fixed auspicious day and time and left the builder's office in a huff for certain reasons. After a few days, I came to the builder's office to return all his papers. During the conversation the builder cleared all my apprehensions and I spontaneously signed the agreement and issued the cheque. Later I worked out the astrological chart for that moment and found there could not have been a better Muhurtha. Subsequent events, after moving into the flat, practically proved the efficacy of that non-chosen Muhurtha. That experience revealed to me the true philosophy of Muhurtha.

Universal Consciousness chooses the Muhurthas. We fulfill those choices.

Though I commenced this book some time in the middle of 2001, I never completed the book but went on to write other books and got them published. Professional work, travels abroad, conferences further delayed the completion of this book. The Muhurtha for completing it fixed by the Universal consciousness eventually was Year: Khara, Masa: Magha, Paksha: Sukla, Tithi: Panchami, Nakshatra: Poorva Bhadra, Yoga: Siva and Karana: Bava Corresponding to:

Muhurtha Chintamani, Muhurtha Marthanda, Muhurtha Pradarsini, Muhurtha Darpani, Muhurtha Deepika are all classics exclusively dealing with the subject of Muhurtha, in Vedic Astrology. Brihat Samhita, Kalaprakasika are two encyclopedic works that also cover this subject. Uttara Kalamritha and Jatakadesa Marga are astrological classics, which give some rules related to Muhurtha. One has to admit that most of the information given in these classics has become irrelevant, impractical and redundant in modern social conditions.

Muhurtha Astrology is a comprehensive part of Vedic astrology. It is an astrological method of choosing the "auspicious period of time" which includes choosing the proper year, month, weekday, date and standard time to perform a reformatory ritual, or a ritual marking the commencement of a phase of life, the inauguration of a new venture or the performing of a religious ritual so as to increase the possibilities of successfully completing the ritual and securing the fruits thereof.

We commence the day with a proper prayer. The tradition is to start any new undertaking with a ritual. It could be a small prayer before commencing to read, write or start the day's work or even commencing to eat. However no Muhurtha is fixed for these rituals as they are part of regular daily activities to be done at certain times of the day. The moment is sanctified and made potent by simple prayer.

There are some important aspects of life, for example after a baby is born an individual identity has to be established for the new born.

(In some traditions the name is fixed even before the baby is born) The baby has to be named and that name would be the identifying factor for the rest of life in all civil, social, legal matters. An important ritual is performed for giving the name, known as Naamakarana. This identity is necessary not only for the society to deal with this person but also for the individual to deal with society.

We realize how important this ritual, which establishes that identity, is. Can this ritual be done at any time if there is so much significance for the entire life of the individual? Should not there be synchronization of certain dynamic universal energies when the baby (as done in this ritual) hears for the first time the sound vibrations of the name affectionately pronounced in the ear by the parent?

The Reverend Dalai Lama has defined civilization as accepting certain values in life. It is necessary to train the human being to recognize and accept certain values in life. It is also necessary to develop qualities of love and respect for others, patience, forbearance, contentment and humility, which are essential for happiness. One has also to develop courage and confidence, determination and perseverance to achieve higher objectives in life. For this purpose the individual has to go through certain Samskaras, reformatory and enlightening rituals. These rituals are only a psychological process of initiating and conditioning the mind in the right direction.

Samskara is not just a religious ritual. It has a social purpose, philosophy and a spiritual aspect beyond religious relevance. It helps to reform, mould, enlighten and energize the psyche of an individual and make him a better human being.