Karma and astrology
[2nd President and Spiritual Head: the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa]
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
792
Swamiji: Before, by using [eastern] astrology, these karmic things were predicted in order to know where the pitfalls lay.
Then when the time came they used to fast and do a lot of charity [good deeds]. They strengthened their good things so that when a knock [negative event] came it wouldn't drop [damage] them altogether. The knock will be there, the sickness will be there, but they will survive to become stronger. Supposing you know later today there is going to be a flood of rain, so you put a bucket under the leak. But if you did not know you wouldn't have put a bucket – so it would wet the carpets etc. That's what the idea was. But today we are trying to do it for different uses.
What did Swami Nisreyasananda [head the the Ramakrishna Mission in Zimbabwe] say? [Refer reading 791 for discussion]
Swami S [young Swami]: He gave the same answer as you. He said the prince will grow up to be a king and the sudra [working/serving-class person] will grow up to be a leader in his own community; like a trade union leader or something.
Swamiji: But truly I can't see any variant from this God-realisation. Get going then.
People are using artificial aids for birth control. This is not for the Divine purpose but for the purpose of increasing wealth or money. It is greed. We disagree with that kind of thing.
The doctors prescribing unnatural birth control, in a way, are murderers [abortions etc.]. The doctors and the scientists don't know that while they may be doing a little good, a lot of bad is coming out of it. There are natural ways of controlling these things.
Yes, in spiritual life we also control nature. But when nature is interfered with [control of senses], to realise God, it is called forced evolution. The idea is to control nature in such a way that we become super-natural – God Himself.
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