Good heavens, UGC trusts Astrology!

Given the present-day life fraught with uncertainties, all-round pulls and pushes, and human limitations to see the tomorrow, it is only natural that people nurse a desire to know what lies ahead for them. And this is true of one and all, without any exception, with only a difference of intensity to unravel the future.

Although the ‘science’ of astrology, or the art of looking beyond the astrological data have been severely abused at the hands of ill-informed soothsayers, the authenticity of astro-predictions has been proven time and again.

In this backdrop, the UGC approving the certificate diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D study programmes in Jyotish Vigyan is a welcome move. Once part of academia, this Vedic knowledge will get the right platform to prove the veracity of its claims and assertions.

Let’s not forget that Ayurveda – the Vedic science of medicine – was also subjected to similar scepticism by vested quarters. But with the passage of time, the world itself acknowledges it as a stream of medicine rooted in science.

And who can forget the art of yoga, which originated in ancient India and went on to become virtually a global fad to keep body and mind fit amid the modern-day stresses and strains, and soul purged.

With more and more scientific interpretations of ancient knowledge and information surfacing everyday, it looks only a matter of time when astrology will gets due recognition in the academic circles and silence its critics, once and for all.

And the UGC move is only going to expedite that process.