journey towards stars-5

Now it is clear from the previous episode that the comparison of geocentric and heliocentric planetary movements is unjustified. Both are significant and both have been accepted and adopted in Indian astrology and Hindu heritage. Now it is also clear that the geocentric system has been adopted to ascertain the objects as listed in the previous episode. Now in this episode let us discuss the significance of the geocentric version of the movement.
The ability of the naked eye is limited. Naked eye covers a fixed space around the earth and it is equal in all sides. Naked eye observes all celestial bodies at the end of the covered space around earth irrespective of their distance from the earth and from themselves also. The celestial bodies move in their own orbits and they are directly or indirectly not monitored by the earth. The end of the observed space in the space around the earth forms a circle due to the equidistance of all points of that from the naked eye. That imaginary circle is called the Kaksha Vritta or Drig Vritta or Rashichakra (zodiac). This simple logic laid way to adopt the geocentric theory which ultimately paved way to the discovery of spherical geometry etc.
Assume that a light moves around an object in a non-circular path. The impact of the light on the object is very similar to the impact of a light moving in a circular path. Though the impact seems similar it has some difference also. The concentration of the rays or the effect of the rays on the body is different when the light is nearer to the object and farer to the object. But to a person or a living being situated on the object the light seems to be in equidistance from the object all around it although he experiences the different effects of the light. So naturally that living being tries to differentiate the difference of the effect and not the distance of the light. The same logic paved way for the geocentric imagination of the celestial bodies which bestow the different effects on the objects on the earth.

The distance covered by a planet in its orbit in a day could not be measured some thousand years ago with the help of a shadow or with the help of any instrument used to to ascertain the position of the celestial bodies in those days. Satellites ushered the human history some decades back. The dissimilar tracks of the celestial bodies make no sense also of measuring the same. One requires to have a unique method to measure the movements and that method should give accurate positions of the celestial bodies when observed and require to show the same effect on living beings in the course of time. Undoubtedly these guidelines or requirements gave birth to a unique and unquestionable system on this land. Though we strongly feel that the subject dates back to the Veda and Veda is immortal we repeatedly utter possibilities of the origin of the ideas just to make it better understandable to the present day intellectuals to whom all these subjects look nothing other than the mess.

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