“All the answers are within us, but such is our tendency toward forgetting that we sometimes need to venture to a faraway land to tap our own memory-Heinrich Zimmer”
I recently had the good fortune to go on a pilgrimage to visit Mount Kailash in Tibet. Considered one of the most sacred places in the world. The experience has filled me with a new restless energy. A successful pilgrimage is supposed to renew and change us in some fundamental way and this place has the ability to do that.
If you are thinking what does it have to do with Astrology, i’d say everything. Astrology/Jyotisha stops becoming logic based at some point after all the basic principles and calculations have been applied. The ability to look into the “Adrishta” (that which cannot be seen) comes from an intuition based state called “Jna” (Pronounced-Nya). This state of knowingness beyond logic and academic principles is the realm where we are tapping into the super consciousness or an all pervading consciousness.
The visit and contact with places like Mount Kailash (which is an extremely high spiritual energy point) under the right conditions and at the right time, gets us closer to the understanding of the true underlying universal consciousness. The developing of the “Jna” which is a spiritual state takes “Jyotisha” from the mundane to the higher echelons of spirituality.