03 Jun 2021
[Ms. Thrylokya asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmi, You taught us that the result of every action depends upon the effort of soul and the grace of the God. So, can we assume that the time of action doesn't affect the result? If so, then what is the importance of following muhūrtam given by Jyotiṣa Śāstra? People from other religions do not follow Astrology and doesn't even know it. Are they incurring any loss? What is the material benefit and spiritual benefit of following Muhūrtam? Should we see good Muhūrtam even before donating money to Sadguru? Kindly enlighten us. - At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Thrylokya]
Swāmi Replied:- Good time or Muhūrtam is a part of the wheel of Astrology involving the deities of planets, which are the divine powers of the ultimate God. Certainly, there are good times and bad times. But, these good and bad times are correlated with the good and bad deeds of souls respectively. What I mean is that a good time will be available to a good soul and a bad time will be available to a bad soul. The mystic play of the Divine wheel of power of God is like that. Deity of any planet becomes good for good soul and becomes bad for a bad soul. A bad soul generating some hope of reformation in the mind of God may create a favourable atmosphere in the mind of the deity of any planet by the grace of God. Devotion to God will also help in this line because devotion is linked to reformation of the soul. Any bad soul developing devotion to God will have a good future of reformation in due course of time (Api cet sa durācāro…, kṣipraṃ bhavati dharmātmā…- Gītā). A bad soul having no hope of reformation may approach a good astrologer, but, even such good astrologer makes wrong calculations recommending bad time only to the bad soul. A good soul or a bad soul having hope of reformation, may approach a bad astrologer, but, even such bad astrologer makes wrong calculations recommending good time only to both these types of souls.
There are so many parameters interacting with each other as a three-dimensional network in the cycle of deeds or Karma cakra and God told that the analysis of qualities-deeds-fruits is very very deep and complicated (Gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ…-Gītā). The perfect analysis of all these factors is possible only for the omniscient and omnipotent brain of God! Even if God explains to you directly, your brain is not capable of understanding the deep analysis twisting in several directions. Hence, the wisest scholar will simply accept the final judgement of God as the ultimate perfect word without going into the actual process of analysis done by God! Another complicated aspect is that these parameters differ from one soul to the other in their qualitative and quantitative angles of mutual supporting interactions and mutual cancelling contradictions. Every soul will have a specific and special output judgement and generalisations are really impossible.
One thing I can say as the ultimate point is that God is the ultimate authority and even any slightest modification in the cycle of deeds can be done by the planets and other controlling authorities of Divine administration as per the signals given by the movements of eyebrows of God Datta only. Hence, My advice is that one shall totally surrender to God from all angles and one shall remember that God can do any modification or adjustment provided there is a trace of hope of reformation of the soul that helps the soul to progress in the Spiritual path. If such hope is absent, one will get the silence only from the side of God.
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