Krishnamurti Paddhati: A New Light on Jyotisha (KP)

This is an of explorations. All the realms of science are being explored. Space has been conquered and nuclear energy harnessed to man’s advantage. The divine stellar region, too, has been explored, thanks to the late Prof. K.S. Krishnamurti who has bequethed to us a priceless gem -KRISHNAMURTI PADHDHATI – the complete and foolproof system of scientific, stellar astrology.

Prior to the advent of the late Prof. Krishnamurti on the scene, the learning and practice of Astrology was confined to a few select men who based their knowledge entirely on the little number of classical treatises supposed to have descended to us from venerable sages of old. The late Krishnamurti started to study these texts assiduously and began to apply them for predictive purposes but, as time passed on, he noted many pitfalls in the rules laid down. This greatly discouraged him and he even began to doubt the validity of astrology. This led him to probe further.

There can be no two opinions that astrology was placed in a high pedestal in ages of old and its practitioners were divine men endowed with great knowledge, but later the science came into the hands of psychophants and mediocre men who did not preserve the knowledge and allowed the science to stagnate and suffer. In fact, what is in our possession today as classical astrological texts is not perhaps even a fraction of what the ancients had known as knowledge, in times of old, passed on by word of mouth from the guru to the sishya and all this was not preserved in writing. No wonder, the original works have almost been lost or have come to us in greatly mutilated form. This supported by the very little value we derive out of these texts when we enter the field of prediction and witness a large number of failures. The knowledge one gains from all the available classical texts cannot help an astrologer in predicting the nature of an event and its timing accurately even in 1 percent of the cases because the rules are general, cumbersome, contradictory and lack applicability in a univer-sal sense. This is the conclusion the late Sothida Mannan Jyothish Marthand Prof. K. S. Krishnamurti was also driven to after applying the principles contained in the available texts for a decade or so.

The late Prof. Krishnamurti did not despise tradition but only sought to show that true astrological knowledge which the ancient men possessed had not really been passed on to us, and that the limited texts that are in circulation are not as pristinely pure as those who swear by them would have us believe. His advice, rightly, was that having lost precious literature un the subject of nakshatra influence in antiquity it is entirely for us to resurrect the lofty science by fruitful research and fresh approaches as he did. This was his cardinal message.