posted March 16, 2013 01:58 AM            

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Originally posted by Mandy pie:
Agreed. A lot of those remedies are so weird. They are thousands of years old. Milk is involved in a lot of them, because it was such a food staple in Vedic Times. Probably just used as a method to make people feel better about their plight.

There may be something to the remedies in the way that there may be something to some common religious techniques... like how Christians who go to church believe that if they light a candle there for the dead the lighting of it actually does something for the dead person. (I haven't been to a church in ages but I remember that). It probably doesn't do anything at all, but it makes the person lighting the candle feel better. The vedic remedies probably are the same way. I follow some vedic remedies... for example I wear a pearl ring for my malefic moon period. I was having a really bad time during the start of my moon dasa and Vedic recommended I wear such a ring. Since pearls are cheap I went ahead and bought one. My time did get better after I started wearing it, but I realized full-well that it probably works in the same way that Dumbo's feather "worked". Meaning probably just a placebo affect- The ring makes me feel better/safer so as a result things in my life start getting better. But my thinking always was- Placebo or not-whether the affect is all in my mind or not, as long as it's working a bit I don't really care. Like the placebo in those blind studies- if the people unknowingly taking the sugar pill still end up losing symptoms then who cares if it was just a fake pill. If it works it works. Tomato/Tamahto. The worst thing that would happen is I'd have a really pretty pearl ring to look at all day that didn't change my life at all, so I had nothing to lose.

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No, I didn't mean THAT part LOL

I meant the part of Vedic that involve shunning away people for instance "stay away from people with one eye and disabled people." or stay away from widows, anything to do with this kind pf prejudice really ticks me off because that's how the supposedly pure caste exerted control on the masses.

Wearing a pearl for the Moon during her dasa is not a remedy per se, it's more like you are honoring her by wearing her gem on yourself during her dasa, so that she goes easy of you lol. I have a 9 carat blue sapphire and a emerald that I usually wear on my index and little finger. respectively.It's part of the Hindu religion to worship the planets, to request forgiveness for our sins, I say request because they don't have to forgive. So the worshiping part is part of my life which I totally believe in.Yes am a devout Hindu but I don't like doing things that I don't understand so I will search for the answers to my questions, will reject those practices/rituals that don't convince me.