Lal Kitab : a paddhati of vedic astrology

Pt Bhooshan Priya
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lalkitab_remedies/

In his life time Pt Roopchand ji never claimed that Lal Kitab is a different system of astrology. He never claimed to have invented a new system. He never claimed that Lal Kitab is not a part of traditional Vedic astrology. He never intended the Lal Kitab to be treated as different from Vedic astrology. After all, the book was meant for the astrologers of the day and common men alike. In the early 40s every astrologer who might have read these books would have belonged to the traditional Vedic astrology; other paddhatis like KP, SA, Krushna Ashtakvarg etc had not existed then. It is after the death of Pt. Roopchand ji, some people, in their effort to project the book as something divine, some thing miraculous, some thing out of this world, intentionally propagated that the Lal Kitab is a system apart, different from Vedic astrology. They intentionally wove myths around the book shrouding it into secrecy. This misplaced enthusiasm did the greatest damage to the book because the book got reduced to a compilation of toona-totkas. To make things even worse the then Lalkitabists used the book like a ready reckoner of totkas. Gullible simple village folks believed these stories to be true. We can not blame the people because they found the Lal Kitab upaya very effective. In our culture and our psyche any effective traditional upaya soon gets accepted as a powerful totka. We are making every effort to clear away the misconceptions, whims, and myths associated with the Lal Kitab. Our effort is to establish the Lal Kitab as a precious [ not pious ] book on traditional Vedic astrology. Through this discussion group and the lalkitab_remedies group of our guru Pt. Bhooshan Priya ji , we have been very successful to carry our message across to thousands of people both within India and abroad. After all the common reader is intelligent enough and he knows who all are analyzing the Lal Kitab concepts and principles logically and scientifically. People listen to those who they see as sincere contributors to the system. The common reader also knows that we are a group of non-professional astrologers and have no personal commercial angle to what we say. Our crusade to enrich the Vedic astrology experience by incorporating the Lal Kitab knowledge will continue as enthusiastically as ever.