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Title: Light on Life by Hart Defouw, Hart de Fouw, Robert Edwin Svoboda ISBN: 0-14-019507-6 Publisher: South Asia Books Pub. Date: March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: From darkness to partial light - with help from this book
Comment: I bought this book in India having pored over several good, but hard to read Indian books on Jyotish ( Vedic Astrology). Defouw and Svoboda have put much effort into making this book read well for the serious enquirer into this ancient art.
It certainly helped me gain a greater understanding of the subject while sitting on a South Indian beach, and even after my return home I find it useful and informative.
Highly recommended if you want to learn the subject properly.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Book on Vedic Astrology -- One Of The Very Best
Comment: The book is highly useful and informative.A beginners book to learn & understand Vedic astrology in clear and concise way.
The boook is well researched with references to the ancient texts like Saravali, Brihat Jataka,other old classical Vedic (Hindu)astrology books .The authors have explained in clear details the core basic facts of Vedic Astrology such as :Nakshatras,Yogas,Almacs,Dasha,Karma,Agnichayana(Vedic Fire Sacrifice)Ashtaka Varga,Arudha Lagna.+ the book also has astronomy required for Jyotish (Astrology),which is ignored by modern day authors of Astrological books.The book can be understood by those with no,or very little knowledge of Vedic Astrology.The book will certainly help one gain a greater understanding of the subject.Highly recommended.(Dr.Parihar,Vedic Medical Astrologer)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Definitive Resource on Jyotish in English
Comment: This is a book I use daily in my study of Jyotish (the astrology of India), as well as in more clearly discerning my clients' evident and also more hidden talents, possibilities and challenges in my work as a life coach. Firmly established within the growing collection of erudite and excellent books on Indian astrology and other Vedic vidyas (traditional sciences) by Robert E. Svoboda and Hart deFouw, this volume sets the benchmark for the kind of resource one will want to use over a lifetime.
_Light on Life_ is the original kind of "hypertext" book - not in a literal sense, but because its thousands of key insights perpetually inform one another as the attentive reader is guided in his or her ability to stitch concepts like threads back and forth across distinct but interrelated themes. For this reason, the contents of the book become nearly endless in their immediate richness, and yet the *implications* of the astrological concepts the book proffers and demonstrates for all facets of experience, secular and spiritual, simply *are* endless.
There will indeed be some percentage of readers for whom this is a good place to begin Vedic astrological studies. But I think generally if one carefully reserves this volume as one's second or third book on Jyotish, the educational dividends will be far greater. The Jyotish worldview will change your life, doubtless, and some will advocate simply diving in, in which case if you make this book the equivalent of your Bible or overall intellectual and spiritual companion -- and also treat it as the textbook for a class you have to pass -- over the course of, say, the span of a semester, it will likely bear fruit. However, there are alternate paths that include the same long-term relationship without that immediate commitment! I feel odd writing these words because I in no way want to diminish my praise. deFouw and Svoboda are among my favorite authors, period. (By the way, please note that Svoboda is a full co-author and not merely a contributor.) Nonetheless, since this book is for me unequivocally a powerful dose or very rich meal, to invoke just a couple of images, I do not think all will benefit from simply a sample from its pages. It somehow does not encourage such sampling for the really raw beginner-- and yet other *equally valuable* primers indeed do permit such sampling, toe-dipping, etc. with no loss to the full experience. I say all this simply based on my own experience and that of many friends and associates in the Vedic astrological community. There is no hierarchy here, no affront to either _Light on Life_ or its alternatives as choices for first books. The choices are just elementally different, different kinds of entities or beings.
_Light on Life_'s sections on nakshatras (lunar mansions); bhava (house), graha (planet) and rashi (constellation or "sign") significations; numerous and thorough traditional taxonomies that group many sectors of phenomena and experience in categories according to the authority of nakshatra, rashi, graha, etc.; and absorbing and instructive case studies of well-known subjects comprise some of the best pages you will read on Jyotish anywhere. **This material will enrich and deftly partner with any other superb books and articles you may possess on Vedic Astrology (e.g., the contemporary writings of Sanjay Rath, Sat Siri Khalsa, Ernst Wilhelm and William Levacy to name just a few; older modern standards by, say, B.V. Raman and K.S. Krishnamurti; and naturally classics such as the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, the Brihat Jataka, etc.)**
In few words, this is one you should get your hands on -- it has gone out of print in the past, so snatch it up now -- even if you heed my advice and get to it after building a simple foundation elsewhere.
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Title: Light on Relationships: The Synatry of Indian Astrology by Hart Defouw, Hart de Fouw, Robert Edwin Svoboda ISBN: 1578631483 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Nakshatras by Dennis M. Harness Ph.D., David, Dr Frawley ISBN: 0914955837 Publisher: Lotus Press Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Elements of Vedic Astrology (2 Volume Set) by Dr. K S Charak ISBN: 8190100807 Publisher: Institute of Vedic Astrology Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Astrology of the Seers by David Frawley ISBN: 0914955896 Publisher: National Book Network Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Greatness of Saturn: A Therapeutic Myth by Robert, Dr. Svoboda, Robert E. Svoboda, Dr Robert Svoboda ISBN: 1571780327 Publisher: Lotus Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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