I will answer this by way of 2 personal examples.
1. My late father
My late beloved father Shri Madan Mohan Suri, who was a brilliant engineer from one of the first batches of IIT – Kharagpur and then unlike most of his batchmates or college mates decided not to go and settle in the US, despite having an invitation to join MIT -BOSTON; as he said his mother stated crying. He spent his life in the development of this country building yeast plants first in West Bengal and then in Western UP. Fearless, uncorruptable and undaunted by the powerful communist unions in Bengal, who used to threaten him when he took disciplinary action against non performers from 1961 till 1982; was given the ultimate respect by the union bosses and its members when he decided to move to Delhi in 1982 with a card written in blood saying “ We have nothing to offer you but love”. Then he built and worked at the Western UP yeast plant from 1982 till 2004 and that time there were dangerous gangs operating there who used to threaten him but he remain unfazed to the extent that UP Police gave him protection as soon as his car entered Ghaziabad. Finally they gangs were killed by UP Police in shoot outs etc. So he lived an honorable life. The way he left at the age of 90 years without ever having been to a doctor, lawyer all his life and passing away in his sleep without any age related issues in his 10th house Ketu Mahadasha and looking forward to his next 29 years of 11th house Venus mahadasha tells me that he has gone and become one with God.
Not to mention the hardships he had to face being uncorrupted and fearless as he had to raise a family of four also.
So Vedic astrology is a very minor subset of our Vedic or Sanatan religion whose prime driver are your karmas of the past births which decide your present birth. And if you have been given human birth. And you live an honorable life in your present birth then you will attain moksha.
I am 100% sure that he attained moksha as he died in his sleep of a cardiac arrest but woke up for a minute before the collapse to gesture with folded hands and then fall back on the pillow and went away. So when he was having the arrest, and he could not speak or breathe, still he could fold his hands. He knew he was going just a minute before and he remembered God.
So astrology cannot predict the next birth or moksha. The chart ceases to operate as soon as you have taken the last breath but if one follows someone’s life then there are strong indications about the soul attaining moksha based on his karmas and moreso how the soul departed the body.
2. My Guru ji H.H Swami Yogavedanta ji Maharaj
In 2009 -2010, I was confused and living in Canada. Earning a lot in dollars for a longtime and materially having everything I could dream of and moreso via my government job guaranteed of even more of it till I am alive. Logically one could say what more could one ask for and materially I was the most successful and educated person in my family. But I had become dull, bored and even depressed. Then going with the flow of destined plans (my 12th house Mercury mahadasha going on since 2006); I fought, rebelled, and ultimately left everything material in Canada and come back to India in 2010. It was not a logical, practical or thought out decision at all. My loved ones who were of practical mindset were against it and even aghast and thought I had ruined my life. They told me so, and I said so what? Its my life, let ruin it properly now and enjoy the ride. I broke society’s expectations of me and double standards and rules without a care. I did not know what was going to happen the next day, when I spent the first 2 years wandering the country and spent time at holy cities including many “Yoga Shops” in Rishikesh, where I got even more agitated. All I was looking for was to do some seva at a genuine ashram. Durga Ma intervened; listened to me. She made me meet my real life Guru (Swamiji); who was the purest man I have ever met. He was God but in Human Form. When I first met him in early 2012; while wandering one night in Rishikesh inside a big ashram complex. He seemed to be a humble, polite and aged Hindu monk. I asked him if I could do some seva at the ashram. He said this was the Divine Life Society or Sivananda Ashram and their condition for doing seva was completing a 3 month residential Yoga Vedanta Course as a Brahmachari. I asked him the cost of the course and he said its free and strictly for male Indian nationals and at NRI’s like me. If I passed the course then I could be associated with the Aashram and do seva. I showed interest and he told me come the next morning at the said time to the “Office of the Registrar of the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy”, within the ashram complex collect the forms and fill it and return it and wait for a decision as the next course was starting in 10 days. I went next morning and pleasantly found out he was the Registrar. I took the forms and returned it and he asked my address, I told him the name of the “Ashram” where I was staying and in 2 days I got a call from his office asking me to collect my acceptance to the course letter. Thus began the best time in my life where sitting at the feet of realized and noble souls, I learnt about Yoga-Vedanta (Hinduism texts and philosophies of eastern and western thinkers and about other religions the world). It was deep dive into Hinduism texts along with Yoga practice for the next 3 months – waking up at 4AM with a dip in the Ganga and to bed by 8PM, including doing yoga 2 times a day. By the time the course ended, I had lost 23 Kgs, was physically and mentally as fit as I have ever been and my thinking has changed. It was as if my operating system had been rebooted. I felt I had found my purpose in life and requested Swamiji to let me continue to stay at the ashram premises as a Brahmachari and serve. He blessed me but told me to “Get Out” (Hinduism is a very strict monastic religion) and complete my worldly duties and come back after that to the ashram with my wife. He told me to visit the ashram once a year and keep in touch, which i did. Now he was a very strict no nonsense Hindu Monk, talked less and he never asked me about my personal life. I wondered how Swamiji knows about me, as he is not an astrologer but as soon as I left the ashram, good things started happening to me and I later realized that in that one sentence he had not only accurately predicted my future but given me blessings for my life to unfold that way. The vibrations of his pure love I could feel even after I left. And I returned every year to seek his blessings and my path became more and more clear and his blessings have done wonders for me. On a subsequent visit to the Aashram, it all happened without my asking – Guru mantra was given to me.
Swamiji was around 95 years old and he attained Moksha or liberation in 2023 and was given a “Jal samadhi” in the Ganga. I was lucky to have met him in real flesh and blood and taken his blessings. He was pure as God but in human form.
Ever since he blessed me, I now bubble with enthusiasm. Swamiji used to always tell me “being dull is not good, one should be happy and enthusiastic and that can happen only if you are connected with ones inside; hence that whatever happens in the outside world does not impact you. You become detached.
So in Summary
At the end of the day, it is your belief as no death certificate or government authority can verify that one has attained moksha. All this is beyond science and beyond Vedic astrology or palmistry. It is guaranteed by the Hindu faith or by the leading the Hindu way of life as per scriptures. Also in the eastern philosophies and religions, a lot of things have to be felt; based on ones spiritual and religions leanings; they cannot be logically explained.
India is a holy land and it is my firm belief that whoever works genuinely to uplift the lives of people of this holy land will get moksha. This holy land is the only place on this planet from where one can attain moksha after a human birth, if ones karma is good. This is regardless of your religion – For example Mother Teresa also attend Moksha; even though she was a Catholic Monk.
Hari Om Tat Sat
