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Once you install Kundalee and start using it seriously for checking horoscopes according to well known ancient methods of BPHS without any bias, all your doubts about Suryasiddhanta will vanish. Suryasiddhanta is not a work of physical astronomy, it is a sacred and secret text of astronomy of Bhuvaloka which cannot be perceived sensorily, and its only proof is astrological verification by means of mundane and individual horoscopes, which western "experts" never attempted. As long as Suryasiddhanta is tested with reference to physical astronomy, it will appear to be wrong, and any discussion will lead to useless controversy. Suryasiddhanta is an astrological text, not a physical or chemical or biological one, and it must be tested astrologically. The materialistic attitude which rejects the existence of bhuvaloka is the reason behind prejudices against Suryasiddhanta. Gita says that those who do not accept any reality beyond the sensory world are destined to hell.
Scientific ( Objective ) Method of Comparing Astrological SoftwaresI want to address to those persons who are seriously worried about real problem astrology is facing today : its questionable credibility as a reliable tool of prediction. There are large regions in the world where astrology is banned. In India. there are sections of society and there are institutions where one cannot talk about astrology positively. I devoted my life to find some means which I believe can restore this falling credibility of astrology.
Now I am outlining the basic guidelines of "scientific method" which should be applied for evaluating an astrological software.
(1) Astrological softwares must be evaluated solely on the basis of their astrological applicability ( and not on the basis of mathematical or theoretical concepts, which may be clarified later ), esp on the basis of "predictive astrology" (Phalita). If Phalita is wrong consistently for a sufficiently large number of cases, whatever be the mathematical or theoretical soundness of the software, it is rubbish. Conversely, if Phalita is reliable consistently for a sufficiently large number of cases, whatever be the mathematical or theoretical oddity of the software, it is valuable. An astrological software must be evaluated on the basis of its astrological performance and not on the basis of one's concepts about astronomy or mathematics.
(2) The aim should be clear from the start : if software based on physical astronomy is to be compared with Suryasiddhantic software, other things must not be allowed to creep in, and both types of softwares must be compared with comparable parameters. For instance, I have fine tuned Kundalee software on the basis of BPHS (Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, and Laghu Parashari, and related texts).
(3) The method of evaluation must be objective and never subjective. A blind quiz is a subjective method, and only the questioner knows true answers. How it can be established whether the questioner is a liar or not ? In a scientific method, everything must be clear and verifiable by everyone on the Earth for all time to come.
(4) The data which is to be tested must be universally acceptable and easily accessible to everyone in the world. Hence, I propose horoscopes of such figures like Napoleon, Nehru, Hitler, etc ought to be used for testing softwares and not of those persons whose data is not easlily verifiable by everyone. Birthdata and events must be verifiable from independent and reliable sources. Those persons must not be used whose birthdata are doubtful, eg of Obama, Osama, etc.
(5) Only very important good or bad events should be selected for testing softwares, because strong events are easily identifiable by means of two or three components of a Vedic horoscope : Vimshottari chart and D1, plus relevant divisional chart pertinent to the problem. Such strong events are death, some highly fortunate event like victory on war or bad event like a defeat or a serious accident. Less strong events are influenced by so many factors that analysis is time consuming and often uncertain.
(6) There should be no hurry. Verification of data, analysis of horoscope, counter-views, etc need some time, eg a week or two.
Let us start with death of Napoleon, Hitler, Nehru, etc. The list may grow later and may include other topics. See the page Prediction of Death, for instance.
Subjective Method of Comparing Astrological Software :
As someone put it, "software has got nothing to do with predictions. It is ultimately the human brain that is involved in predicting the events."
Those who really want to test the software are welcome, because such a test will serve the cause of astrology. But it must be borne in mind that no software in the world can predict an event. A good astrologer makes good forecasts from a somewhat bad software, and a bad astrologer makes bad forecasts from a good software. Moreover, if some persons approve a software by means of blind quiz, how many persons in the world will value their verdict ? A blind quiz project is a good exercise for sharpening one's own astrological wits and nothing more, its results about any software will not be valued by others, who will try their own blind quizes. Those who do not value the certificates or verification reports issued by NASA, IISc, many universities, &c will not value any test reports of such subjective (or perhaps even objective ?)tests.
-VJ
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
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