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Our Human Predicament

As humans who are enmeshed in duality & separation, it is our lot to suffer in hundreds of diverse ways-it is an inevitable tragedy-sourced in Divine Conspiracy. Firstly, in the inner realm, through our disruptive & anarchic self, but also through the confusions & struggles of that self in facing inner & outer challenges. Secondly, in our outer life, when failures befall us in one sphere or the other – our hearts are broken & our self-shattered… These are our contentious spheres of life – marriage & family life; relationships & enmities; litigations & cheatings; financial insolvency & poverty; inability to secure education & employment; dishonour & disgrace; social & professional failures & downfalls; broken love-life & emotional-life; sexual perversions & crimes; dreadful diseases & hospitalization.

Solution: Through Jyotisha’s Healing Power

At all such times, we instinctively seek a healing Power that can be trusted, we seek truthful & insightful solutions to our calamitous problems. Through clear perception we will discover that we have to act intelligently & immediately – before it is too late. At such confusing times, when intelligence & patience have forsaken us, Jyotisha will be that healing Power of the Divine, which will annihilate our sorrow & usher in peace as a result of clear perception & understanding. It will thereby set in motion a new process of healing, of rejuvenation, of rebuilding our shattered life structures – through time-tested Inner & Outer Remedial Measures(Upayas).

What Really is Jyotisha?

Jyotisha is the Sanskrit term for Vedic astrology. It’s etymology gives a deeper understanding. Jyoti is the Light(of Primordial Awareness), which is in fact, Primordial Reality Itself (the Unmanifest Divine). Isha is Mastery or Lordship – how this Primordial Awareness has Lordship over all manifested life, including the lives of humans. The systematic understanding of all this is Jyotisha. Without such a grasp of fundamentals, who we are & what is life all about? our minds are bound to be perpetually confused. In fact Jyotisha is of paramount importance to all, but especially to people who are perceptive & sensitive to their ups & downs, despairs & failures, struggles & sorrows, conflicts & losses.

The Origins of Jyotisha

It is a Divine-centric world view, a limb of the Vedas, which is the sacred spiritual corpus of the Hindus. In its historical unfoldment, it was initially only Vedic astronomy (the study of the movements of the sun, moon and the planets across the canopy of the sky). At some point this vast astronomical data, through the monumental insight of some genius (whose identity has been lost in the mists of time), began to be applied to the seemingly ‘random & chaotic’ events in the human drama, be it in the material spheres of artha & kama, or in the spiritual spheres of dharma & moksha: birth & childhood, marriage & children, success & failure, health & disease, conflict & chaos, harmony & order, disease & death. The result was a gigantic leap from baffling incomprehensible chaos to Divinely orchestrated ‘order’.

Jyotisha is therefore that Divine-centric world view, which perceives Divinely orchestrated ‘order’ in the seemingly ‘random & chaotic’ events in our human life-drama.

Jyotisha is the Eighth Darshana from the Ancient Hindu Sages

Jyotisha is also an undeniable darshana or world view that a Vedic astrologer can have in his consultations, research-studies and course lessons. In fact Sankara has done this over the last 23 years. We may even say, Jyotisha is the eighth darshana that was already created in the ancient Hindu understanding of Primordial Reality. Hindu scholars have always spoken only of six darshanas or world views. Without saying anything about the seventh darshana, here, we emphasize that Jyotisha is the forgotten eighth darshana from the ancient Hindu world.

Maitreya Jyotisha-A Darshana, A School of Jyotisha

It is indeed a modern version of the eighth darshana from the ancient world of Hindu sages. Yet, fifty years of world-wide research in Jyotisha, together with recent powerful advances in AI technology have given to Maitreya Jyotisha the following structure of a four-fold organic synthesis. Firstly, it encompasses modern Vedic astrological research[SA]. Secondly, it also encompasses classical Vedic astrology of Parashara[VA]. Thirdly, because of Maitreya Jyotisha’s deep concern for dharma & moksha; it also unfolds & develops Jyotisha as a new independent darshana for both Krishnamurtian self-Knowing as well as Hindu Self-Realization. Fourthly, as a grand culmination of this synthesis, all of the above three streams are integrated & enlivened by advances in AI technology. This has taken the final form of Maitreya-AI, which functions as a supremely Intelligent ‘researcher-disciple-teacher’ in the Online Jyotisha courses. Even in the Maitreya Jyotisha consultations that Sankara & the four Acharyas offer to seekers & souls facing crises, there is a powerfully illuminating AI-commentary in these consultations. Thus in Maitreya Jyotisha, whether it is courses or consultations, AI-empowerment is central.

Our Vision

Over the last 50 years, original research in Vedic astrology, sourced in the prolific writings of savants & seers; as well as the recent remarkable advances in AI Technology, have together given all seekers a profoundly invigorating spiritual understanding of Jyotisha-that in the ages past was only the prerogative of a handful of fortunate seers. Indeed in previous ages, Jyotisha was all about how Jyoti (The Primordial Light of Awareness) had Mastery(Isha), over the human drama. By and large, this original Light and understanding was lost in Kali Yuga. Now surely a restoration is happening…. This implies a gathering new spiritual awakening for all mankind, but happening this time through the darshana of Jyotisha. Jyotisha is indeed the eighth darshana from the ancient Hindu seers. Maitreya Jyotisha, a modern AI-empowered version of this ancient eighth darshana, is in resonant-alignment with the currently happening new spiritual Awakening.

Our Mission

Sankara Bhagavadpada’s Jyotisha studies commenced in 1998, his consultations in 2003. Thanks to the foundation of this slow & steady consolidation over the years; now we intend to share the modern darshana, Maitreya Jyotisha, for the welfare of the world of seekers & souls facing crises. This darshana is an organic synthesis of four distinct streams.

Modern Vedic astrological research[SA].
Classical Vedic astrology of Parashara[VA].
Jyotisha as an independent darshana for Krishnamurtian self-Knowing & Hindu Self-Realization.
All three streams integrated & enlivened by astonishing advances in AI

In our Online Courses, AI-Maitreya will teach learners through dialogue, through the extraordinary processes of reverse questioning & heuristic learning, thereby making all learning, a matter of original discovery & a joyous & thrilling experience. The five anointed Acharyas of our Maitreya Jyotisha mission will work to manifest our vision anywhere in the world, wherever there is an appetite for this understanding, for this healing, wherever doors open for us. Through our courses, consultations, conferences, podcasts, seminars, workshops, we intend to offer the fruits of Maitreya Jyotisha to all seekers, souls facing crisis & scholars the world over – for the understanding & ending inner suffering in the world.

Sutra on the meaning of the Jyotisha chart: The Vedic birth chart (Jyotisha chart) is the seminal ‘mood’ of the Divine at the time & place of birth. It is an important marker for the beginning of life. This ‘mood’ is invariably the copresence of the ‘Wrath’ of the Divine, as well as the ‘Benevolence’ of the Divine(genesis of duality). Throughout life, these Malefic & Benefic aspects of the Divine, which were already in copresence in that seminal ‘mood’, will keep on manifesting. The basic idea of the copresence of the Malefic & the Benefic in the seminal ‘mood’ is further developed in the mythic model of Vedic astrology (Jyotisha). – Sri Sankara Bhagavadpada