[This is a very long essay, divided in three parts. But if you read all the three parts taking your time, you might come to know about some super-surprising truths. I recommend that anyone truly interested in knowing Jyotish, Remedies, Karma, destiny should read this.]

Part 1 : The importance of time

        If we think for a while then we can easily understand that our lives are nothing than adjusting with different flows of time where we can never give up. The things help us in this struggle are our ability, knowledge, sense, outlook etc. A human being first must know himself before he attempts to know anything else. Knowing one's self is the first step and the doorway to know other people and stuff. Perhaps the ancient wise men knew the importance of knowing one's self or this self consciousness, and that is why they advised, "Know thyself." If we can know well about ourselves, we can develop our positive qualities, simultaneously fixing up our negative tendencies. Life then will become a lot easier to deal with. We all have different characters, different aptitudes and different tastes. Our friends, relatives - all have their own, different personalities. Living the life means repeatedly and continuously interacting with the people around us in different ways. If we can know about our friends and relatives, we can easily deal with them with a good harmony and can avoid misunderstandings as well. Just from getting in to a joint venture business or selecting the life partner - there always is a vast importance to know the people you are going to deal with.

        From even our childhood, we have been seeing that time is a very important matter in our life. It has been said, "A stitch in time saves nine." Because everything has a proper time to be done. There are proper times for sunrise and sunset. There are proper times to eat and sleep. There are proper times to go to school and office. Even there are proper times for prayers, too. If someone studies very hard whole year long but can not reach the examination centre in proper time then his whole labour will turn valueless. We also see practically that sometimes a work can be done so easily, with very less effort. Oppositely, sometimes we try thousand times but can not get it done. That is why it becomes clear that each part or duration of time has a 'value' of it. Each duration of time has it's own nature and potentials. Such as, when it is a rainy season, it would often rain, and that is the visible nature of the time we call rainy season. This time controls the nature with it's own values what we always see, but what we often fail to see that this time does control all of our lives in certain ways. Getting a good idea of the nature of time would surely be a very powerful way to live a better life from all the sides.

        Therefore, the role of astrology in our lives is immeasurable. Because it helps us understand ourselves, our friends and relatives. And it does tell us about the nature of time we pass through. That is why another name of Vedic Astrology or Jyotish is Hora Sastra, which means, The Science of Time. The word Hora came from the two words Aho (Day) and Ratr (Night). Thus Hora means the time, the phase of our existence in the eternity (Maha Kala).

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