The Indian tradition of knowledge is like an ocean, so vast and encompassing, so encyclopaedic in its range, that like mercury it is not graspable in its entirety. Sourced in "Shrutis" and "Smritis", it has been difficult to put it in script or language. This knowledge is not a product of the mind but owes itself to divinity and even the Vedant is like the tip of the iceberg, to the extent it has been transcribed in intelligible words in the form of thousands of Sanskrit scriptures whose origins are obscure and cannot be reduced to historical chronology nor into a logical sequence.

Astrology is one of the most important 'Vedaanga' (part of Vedas) and India has rocked it's cradle. This great heritage of the past is being slowly re-discovered through the efforts of research scholars. It is a pity that we are living in an age of astonishing contradiction. The contrast between our expanding historical horizon and our contracting historical vision is something characteristic of our age of civilization. The Egyptians, Chaldeans, Chinese, Greeks, Hindus has all been endeavouring, with more or less success, to predict the destiny of men and matter by the position of planets.

Indian philosophy has given second rank to "Artha (The money)" after "Dharma (The sacred duties)" in the four "Purushartha". Therefore, it is not amazing that Vedic Astrology has a separate division in it termed as "Argha-Prakaran" or "Argha-Kaanda", which deals exclusively with money and business matters. The learned Seers and their ancient followers has told us the methods to foresee market trends of various commodities to enable man to earn 'Artha' for upkeep of his family properly.

The very essence of economics is that it is a study of human behaviour, of the life of man, and basically of the 'mental' life of man. It takes cognizance of facts in the external world, not for their own sakes, but only because of their relations to the mind of man. It is a study of some of the 'causes' and 'effects' of those conscious or unconscious decisions that men inevitably make in their rational or instinctive struggle "to earn a living" and to satisfy at least some of their desires by adjusting the external world to themselves and-perhaps-thereby securing happiness and well-being. It will not be exaggeration to say that recessions begin and end in the 'minds of men'. Carl G.Jung of Zurich, one of the world's greatest psychologist has stated "Astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of Antiquity".

W.D.Gann of Texas (USA), the market legend, mesmerized the trading world of the early 1900s with his amazing techniques of measuring price and time. He spent several years in India, studying our style of astrology. Gann could pick market bottoms and tops with uncanny accuracy. Gann's repeated answer to all the queries was that he had discovered what he termed as "The Law of Vibrations" which, he said, was subject to natural forces. If Gann's statement is correct, "Ashtakvarga" and "Sarvatobhadra-chakra" are the best tool available in astrology to understand his 'Law of Vibrations'.

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