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of severe yoga, are points on which we can only make guesses but
we cannot say definitely that they have done so and so.
They say that the Sun in 10th house is good, Jupiter in the 2nd gives
wealth, that Saturn in the 1st produces nervous complaints, that Ketu
in the 2nd produces short temper, that Mercury in the 5th gives high
order of intelligence, that Venus in the 7th causes great sexual
passions and so forth. How did they know it and what reasons or
knowledge enabled them to say so? These are difficult questions to
answer. From the most perfect astronomical instruments we have
now, not one scientist is able to say why wheat has been ascribed to
the Sun, rice to the Moon, dall to Mars, Bengal-gram to Jupiter and so
forth. Are they able to say why these different planets govern the
different organs of the body, different temperaments, different
professions, different branches of arts and sciences, etc.
I make a challenge to them and they must ignobly say that they
cannot give me a proper answer or they must seek shelter under their
usual mean and shameless, bulwark of calling all these productions
arising from superstition and ignorance. They will not have the nobility
to say that they have not studied this branch of knowledge and that
they are therefore unable to speak on a subject in which they are
utterly ignorant. Can superstition and ignorance produce a huge
literature of 4 lacs of sutras or 16 lacs of stanzas, and go into the
minute details of human conduct, characteristics and its future and
past experiences. If they can do so, then those superstitions and
ignorances must indeed be very grand and colossal in themselves.
Why talk nonsense, when you are yourself, ignorant, and prejudiced?
It is indeed a grand phenomenon which changes the whole nature
and career of the girl. Whatever may be the subtle causes which
produce the phenomenon of Menses; the event shows great physical
and mental changes. The spiritual changes are natural consequences
of mental alterations. The minuteness with which they have gone into
the details of the appearance of the first Menses in a girl are indeed
very surprising. The must either be prodigal fictions of great brains or
facts which have been carefully ascertained by their expanded and
Divine Vision. I leave the readers to draw their own inferences on the
facts I have adduced and the arguments I have given. A handful of
experience is worth ten cart-loads of theories. The modern scientists