“You don’t know what you don’t know,” the saying goes. But once you know, you cannot un-know. That is the nature of knowledge—like life itself, it moves only in one direction, always forward, always expanding. With new understanding comes new awareness, and with that, a new way of living: new values, new priorities, new decisions… in many ways, a new life. Although my formal Jyotish studies began over a decade ago, it wasn’t until I entered a traditional paramparā —a living l