Part 5 - Scope and Limitations

The Correlation depicts a time when man was closely knit with nature and he believed his welfare to be dependent on it. The religion in this period therefore bind man to natural means in the form of worship. Gods thereby resided in stars and not temples and shared a give and take with human in the form of gifts and sacrifices and were located by perceptive means of path of the light bodies. The study holds a scope in the concept of rational study of cosmic and human structure and their cocoordinative functioning. The concept of cosmic time and its relation to the biological time in accordance with the code of conduct of human need to be studied by means of inferential logic. Such efforts already appear to be generated in fields like Archaelogy working on the material remains of ancient men to excavate and erect their activities and thereby defining the terminology of culture. Also is inferential logic evident in the study of calculus by Newton or in the periodic table of elements by Mendelev in their earliest forms. Thales (620 B.C.) expressed that the answer regarding the formation of the world lies in the study of the natural laws and the concept of Daiva (divine will) in the present context has a scope of study in such a direction. By labeling Daiva as a fruit by the gods, the culture points human actions to be the cause for the formulation of his present and future status. In the present form Astrology carries pessimistic attire and is presently a subject of blind faith or superstition. Such a fate was also suffered by modern Medicine prior to Hippocratus. Diseases were believed to be originating from black magic or such other sources as punishment by the gods and it was Hippocratus who showed that diseases were the product of environmental factors, diet and living habits. More nearer to the Correlation and what can be termed as a internal evidence appears in the form of Ayurveda which project diseases as the imbalance of the three humors in the body and connect the therapeutic treatment to natural medicines. It also believes diseases to be Karmaja inclusive of bodily as well as mental factors which can be considered as a advancement over modern Medicine which generated efforts in the direction of mental disorders later to Sigmund Freud over last two hundred years after his study on the interpretation of the dreams. In the concept of mind with the operation of its three qualities leading to the variety of future there is a scope of a moral theory of Evolution or in the concept of karmāśaya erupting from an agricultural metaphor of seed lies evidently the concept of time and other contributing factors residing in man and cosmos for which the Correlation in the literature has worked on and has a scope for systematic study in many directions and could be connected to the present streams of Knowledge. Dikshit mentions the probability of many branches of material sciences existing in the Saṃhitā section and even Ptolemy (History of Dharmaśāstra,p. 553) connects factors as the country of birth, race, custom etc. important along with the horoscope in judging a man’s futures. Therefore the study of the Correlation with present references is a necessity and perhaps has an access to interdisciplinary branching on account of its mercurial tendency. Astrology with Karma in the literature is esoteric and the biological evolution adds on with psychology and philosophy. In addition to the differentiated dimensions of space, time and form occurring in the literature which are presently the basis of all empirical sciences an effort needs to be generated with the help of the Correlation for a different lookout than the present one which could throw a light on the yet undiscovered areas of human form and its future. With such a scrutiny on its scope the present study was undertaken.

The two topics and their interaction have an unlimited extent in the literature on account of their varied dimensions in the culture extended over a period of time. Thereby the present study limits it selves to the nature of the Correlation from the man cosmic aspect and the eventual mechanism at their interaction decisive of the future of man.