Conclusions (Introduction)

Astrology has played an important role in the history of man directing his mental impulses on the conceptualization of future. It is prevalent even today and is looked upon as an intimate subject in the life of man.

As of most of the ancient cultures Indian Astrology (Jyotiḥśāstra) dealt with the study of the cosmic light forms and their activity for the understanding of human future. What bifurcate it from the other cultures was its profuse interaction with the doctrine of Karman in the culture. It is on this account that it signified the adjective Kārmic associating itself with the physical as well as the moral actions of man and their outcome allowing an extension to the theory of transmigration and rebirth of human.

In the Vedic times it carried a practical significance so as to provide specific times for the ritual activities designed by the culture for the fulfillment of the ideology related to the future. Along with its utility in the religion of the Veda it played a significant role in the representation of the Ethics and Eschatology of the early man advancing for an interdisciplinary connection with the Philosophy of the culture. In the later times it appeared in connection with actions of various sorts inclusive of the Śānti rites and Muhūrtas for the Saṃskāras retaining its importance in the day to day life of man.

In the recent ages the daiva counterpart of the correlation of Jyotiṣa and Karma came forth which is connected to the reading of the past actions of man and thereby his probable future in the current life. Apart from an underestimation of the subject proper the practice has spread an attitude of pessimism in the society affecting human life and its values. The subject thereby awaited a research. It also demanded an extraction of the nature of the correlation in its original and complete form.

A glance in the literature revealed that the topic existed in a conglomerate spread and was in need of a proper compilation. An autopsy also divulged that no individual work bringing forth the variance of the correlation of the earlier times presently exist. Sparingly conducted researches in the modern times and scarcity of modern texts on the above matter also pointed to the requirement of a research. Apart from the above factors the investigation on the subject chiefly demanded a focus on the intentional application of specific time for actions by means of the correlation of Jyotiṣa and the concept of Karman by the Vedic man as a practically working device for the vision and the making of the future of man from the man cosmic interaction.

With such purposes a scrutiny of the elemental form of the correlation in the original texts was undertaken.

The study identified the following research problem. Though the culture claimed the making of future of man by the utility of time for actions from the man cosmic interaction by means of the correlation the eventual mechanism involved in the making is nowhere deciphered in the literature. The interaction evidently presupposed an activity leading to the motion (gati) of man directing him towards future. On an exploratory survey on the nature of the activity in the above matter the hypothesis formulated as under

The activity underlying the event can be coined as the derivation of knowledge (light) by means of perception from the interaction.

As of the role of Jyotiṣa and Karma in the phenomenon it practically worked for the change or transformation of man.

As a concluding part of the studies, the following factors demand a final discussion on account of their role in bringing forth the Correlation as also they carry a Prognostic Value for the future of the studies.