Guest guest Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 Thanks for this wonderful lesson . Regards Rakesh "Sabri" <korua on 05/27/2003 04:59:29 AM Please respond to cc: [sJC: Achyuta Gurukul] LESSON-4 To the respected Gurus and Learned Scholars of SJC. In the following is the assignments for Lesson-4, With my respects, Sabri. LESSON 4 1- The Dignity/Strength/Avasthas of Grahas. (Stha-Sthana meaning to stand or be situated) (Also please see note at the end of text on use of capital letters, and Sanskrit names) A Graha stands for or confers many different attributes. E.g. Mangal stands for strength, energy, activity, military, management, accidents, cutting, engineering etc. etc. Also for each attribute, each Graha, or in this example, Mangal may confer eighter a positive effect or a negative or not desirable effect. E.g. when Mangal is strong (eighter in Natal chart or in transit/Gochar in the skies), the native will have good strength, wheras when Mangal is weak this will lead to weak strength (since Mangal stands for strength). Another example would be; a strong Mangal would give good management ability, wheras a weak Mangal could indicate difficulty or problems in management. So we see that the same Graha according to his strength will yield different results in different natal charts, or in different positions in transit/Gochar. Although there are various ways to determine the strength of a Graha, here we will discuss the basic two. The Nine Avasthas (or dignity) of a Graha: Each graha as he revolves in orbit and passes through each of the 12 Rashis, has one specific Rashi known as the Exaltation Rashi where he will be most strong and will yield most desirable results of his attributes. Here he is called Uccha or Exalted. For Mangal the Exaltation or Uccha Rashi is Capricorn / Makara Rashi. Further in His Exaltation / Uccha Rashi a Graha will reach his most exalted position at a specific degree within the Rashi which is called the "deep exaltation point or degree". For Mangal this specific point is 28 degrees in Capricorn / Makara Rashi (one should remember that each Rashi spans over a total of 30 degrees in the Zodiac). Exactly 180 degrees away, or exactly at the opposite side of this position is found the Rashi where the same Graha is found to be the weakest. This is called the Detriment / Debility / Neecha Rashi for that specific Graha. Again the same exact degree, 180 degrees away from the deep exaltation degree will give the deep debilitation degree, where the Graha will be the weekest even in his Rashi of Debility. So for Mangal this will be; Cancer / Karka Rashi, and within this Rashi the "deep debility point" will be 28 degrees in Cancer / Karka Rashi. These two states / Avasthas; Exaltation / Uccha and Debility / Detriment / Neecha thus are the two extreme (most strong and weakest) Avasthas of a Graha out of 9 Avasthas of a Graha. Next we consider, the Rashi or Rashis that a Graha owns, for which He is the Lord. Surya and Chandra each have one such Rashi e.g. Cancer / Karka and Leo / Sinha. The remaining 7 Grahas (except Rahu and Kethu) each have two Rashis that they own. When a Graha is posited or situated in his own Rashi, he is said to have good Avastha / Strength. Symbolically we can say that when a Graha is at his own Rashi, he is as if "at home", he is confortable, stable and yields good results. This state is less strong than being Exalted and above average, above being neutral. In the case of Mangal, these Rashis are Aries / Mesha and Scorpio / Vrischik. So when Mangal is found to be eighter in Mesha or Vrischik, He is said to be in his own Rashi, thus yielding good results. In the range of Avasthas thus we have covered three States; e.g. Exaltation, Own Rashi, Debility. One further note here is about; for some specific cases and according to some authorities, e.g. especially for Shani and to a certain extent for Mangal, being in own Rashi may even be better than being exalted but this is an exception. Being first-rate malefics, Shani and Mangal may still confer not desirable results when Exalted, but when in their own Rashis, they may be considered to be more confortable and stable, e.g. cause less harm to the native. There is one further Avastha of a Graha, which is called Moolatrikoon, which occurs for a certain degree in his (one of the Rashis when the Graha owns or lord of more than one Rashi ) own Rashi (except for Chandra, where Rashi of Moolatrikoon e.g. Vrishabha, is not her own Rashi, e.g. Karka, further exceptions are Rahu and Kethu) In this Avastha, the Graha gains considerable more strength than compared to when he is in own Rashi. For example Mangal will have moolatrikoon Avastha in Mesha Rashi between 0 and 12 degrees. With this addition, our list of Avasthas from Most strong to weakest becomes; Exaltation, Moolatrikoon, Own House, Debility. There are certain other Rashis in the Zodiac, where none of the above cases already covered apply for a Graha. When a Graha is in one of these Rashis, e.g. none of the Avasthas covered above is applicable, we look at the relationship of the Graha with the lord of the Rashi he is in. Being a topic in itself (which can be found in all the introductory texts on Jyotish) there is a natural and temporary relationship between two Grahas. For example Shani and Surya are enemies. This means that when Shani and Surya interact, e.g. come together or one aspects the other the resulting indications are not favorable. Likewise when Shani is in Surya's Rashi, e.g. Sinha / Leo, this is an enmical position for Shani, since the lord of this Rashi is enmical to Shani e.g. Shani is in one of his enemies Rashi; due to the enmity, Shani will not yield good results in such a position. Furthermore there is a temporary relationship between a Graha occupying a Rashi and the lord of that Rashi, based on where the Lord himself is situated. E.g. when Sani is posited in Sinha, while Surya, the lord of Sinha himself is in the same Rashi, this further causes enmity. We call this situation for Shani as the Avastha of Great Enemy (both relationships are enemy, the topic of compound relationship between Grahas as can be found in introductory texts on Jyotish). So we have, friendship, and enmity resulting from the natural and temporary relationships between Grahas. From various combinations of the relationships (natural and temporary) between the Graha and the lord of the Rashi he is in (which we call the dispositor) we arrive at 5 more Avasthas. Namely these are; Great Friend, Friend, Neutral, Enemy, Great Enemy. These Avasthas yield results with quality between Own Rashi and Debility. Hence we arrive at the complete list of 9 Avasthas of a Graha as in the following; (The below list is from Exaltation yielding best results to Debility yielding worst results). Exaltation Moolatrikoon Own Rashi Great Friend Friend Neutral Enemy Great Enemy Debility. One thing to note here that the relationship between Grahas are only considered after checking for other Avasthas. For example Mangal is Exalted in Makar Rashi, whose lord is Shani, an enemy to Mangal. Here, being exalted rules over the enmity relationship between Mangal and Shani. One final note here would be that; there are certain Yogas or Planetary combinations that take away the effect of Debility from a Graha (e.g. Neecha Bhanga Yogas). He may even be raised to much higher levels of strength. So upon seeing a debilitaded Graha one should not jump at the conclusion that the effects will necessarily be negative. Also the placement of a debilitated Graha may be such that the results may be favorable for the native, e.g. when posited in a dusthana, an evil house. Furthermore in certain cases a debilitated Graha may lead the native to make up, spend effort, to nullify the defficiency indicated. E.g. a weak Guru does not necessarily mean that this person will totally be devoid of knowledge (an indication of Guru), other factors in the horoscope may point to the fact that the native spends great effort to acquaire knowledge, hence there is possibility that a native with debilitated Guru may have considerable knowledge which can be at least much above average. One practical way to look at the Avastha of a Graha is to see where he stands in the Zodiac in comparison to his Rashi of Exaltation and Debility. Not taking into consideration other factors (e.g. he may be in own Rashi, or in any of the other Avasthas) one can generally say that the Graha is strong the nearest he is to his Exaltation Rashi. When he moves away from his Exaltation Rashi, towards his Rashi of Debility he starts to gain strength, only to gain strength again when he starts to move away from Debility to Exaltation. The Five Avasthas (or dignity) of a Graha: There is another important factor (among further considerations like directional strength Shad-Bala) to be considered related to the strength of a Graha. And this is associated with the degree of placement of the Graha within a Rashi, which will give us a further set of Five Avasthas for the Graha. When a Graha is posited in a Rashi, he is affected by the qualities of the Rashi. It is further considered that the lord of that Rashi (known as the Dispositor of the Graha) serves as the soul Jeeva of the Graha. When a Graha is passing from one Rashi to the other in his movement following his orbit, e.g. when he has reached the end of one Rashi, his placement degree being close to 30 degrees, or when he has just entered into the next Rashi, e.g. his placement degree being close to 0 degrees, he is considered to be in transition / changing of character, and in this transition region known as the Sandhi - the gap, he is considered to be quiet weak. Following on from this analogy, we divide the 30 degree span of a Rashi into five equal parts, each one being 6 degrees. The Graha or rather his character in this Rashi as he travels through these portions is as if, he is born to start with upon entering the Rashi, and at the end he is dead, to repeat, the character he gains in this Rashi is extinct. For odd numbered Rashis, the qualities or 5 Avasthas a Graha will gain will be; infant, young, adolescent, old and dead. (the succession in even numbered Rashis is just the opposite as will be seen in the table below). One should further note that upon leaving an odd numbered Rashi, a Graha will be weak having dead avastha, and upon entering the next even numbered Rashi, the Graha will still be in dead Avastha, hence the type of weakness associated with being dead will continue in the next Rashi, the similar argument holds for leaving an even numbered Rashi and entering an odd numbered Rashi where the Graha's Avastha will continue to be infant. Avastha in Avastha in Odd Numbered Even numbered Degree Rashi Rashi 0-6 Infant Dead 6-12 Young Old 12-18 Adolescent Adolescent 18-24 Old Young 24-30 Dead Infant The Sanskrit names for these Avasthas are in the following; Infant- Baala, Baalavastha Young- Kumaara, Kumaaravastha Adolescent- Yuva, Yuvavastha Old- Vriddha, Vriddhavastha Dead- Mrit, Mritavastha When a Grahas Avastha is infant, the results he will confer will be weak just like an infant human being. He may attempt to do things, he may promise some results, but due to the fact that his strength is weak, these will not fully manifest. When the Avastha is dead, the situation is the same, but the results are more bitter associated with being dead, or about to pass-on or be dead. >From this point of view, and not taking into account other factors, the best placement for a Graha is in the middle of a Rashi, having adolescent Avastha. A parallel analogy and consideration applies to the degree of the rising sign for a native. If the rising degree is very small or near 30 degrees, generally it will be seen that the native can not fully project his full character and potential to the outside world, his character is found to be weak. Another way to look at this phenomenan is based on what Maharishi Parashara says about the lagna; "The lagna is the first and everything for the native". The lagna (Rashi) plays a major role on the native, shapes his character and gives him many attributes. But if the rising degree of the lagna is weak, then he falls in between two Rashis, he can neighter project the qualities of one Rashi fully nor the other. So according to the above discussion, in the following is a list of the Rashis and Avasthas of Grahas in a chart (I chose another persons chart instead of mine for better practice, since I am quite familiar with my own). Graha/Rashi/Degree/9/5 Avastha (Lagna)/Mithune/00:04 Surya/Meena/8:25/G.Friend/Old Chandra/Makar/5:38/Friend/Dead Mangal/Makar/28:17/Exalted/Infant Buddha/Kumbha/18:59/Friend/Old (Retrograde) Guru/Dhanu/9:02/Moolatrikoon/Young Shukra/Kumbha/14:25/G.Friend/Adolescent Shani/Dhanu/24:04/Enemy/Dead Rahu/Kanya/1:20/Own/Dead Kethu/Meena/1:20/Own/Dead In the above the Graha that is most strong is Mangal, one should further note that here Mangal is very close tho his deep degree of exaltation. Also Rahu is seen to own Kanya and Kethu, Meena. (On the matter about which Rashis, Rahu and Kethu own, there is some discrepancy between different authorities on Jyotish). 2- How Grahas influence the native according to their attributes. For this assignment also I use the above given example, since I know the person (a lady) in question quite well. Surya: Surya for this native is in Meena (G.Friend/Old) which is the 10th. house of father and activities. Surya signifies the ego and the self, hence the native likes to be number one and leader and to be the very best among others in activity, but this has not been realized, e.g. has been left as the desire of the native, due to the effect of Kethu with dead Avastha posited in the same Rashi/House. Kethu signifying inward energy, and with dead Avastha greatly overshadows the native in activity, with the result that the lady is quite timid in new ventures. Surya stands for Pitta Dosha, and being natural significator (Karakatwa) of father his placement in 10th. house of father is not considered to be very favorable. Her father has had severe Pitta problems, healthwise. Also Surya signifies the government authorities, and again together with the influence of Kethu, her father has had some serious problems with the government. Surya signifying the self and ego, as noted in the above, further yields the result that her father is actually a prominent character, his ego is quite strong or overly strong in the negative sense that he does not like to listen to the advise of other people and tends to go his own way and tends to be selfish. Chandra: Chandra for the native is in Makar Rashi (Friend/Dead) and 8th. house, together with Mangal. 8th. house is not an auspicious house, and together with the 6th. house signifies dis-ease and disconforts. Since Chandra signifies the mind, the native has had some mild psychological problems in the form of mild phobias. Rahu's 5th. house aspect on the same, adds up to this result. Chandra further signifies, healing, and 8th. house, transformations with the result that both the native has transformed through psychological treatments, and also she is interested in psychology herself. Alhough she has not taken psychology as a career, she has had extensive courses in psychology. Mangal: Mangal for the native is in Makar Rashi (Exalted/infant, and very close to deep exaltation degree), in the 8th. house together with Chandra. Mangal signifies aggression, and violence, hence she tends to be angry towards her mother signified by Chandra. But the anger expressed is not severe, since Mangal is exalted, hence not yielding very detrimental effect. Also mangal is in his infancy, so the anger expressed by the native is childishlike, comes up due to not so serious things, and suddenly due to the 5th. aspect of Rahu on the same, and goes away quickly. It can be further noted that the native does not carry deep seated, long-term anger and enmity. Mangal further signifies, irritations, inflamations etc., 8th. house being the genital region, she is bothered by chronic irritations of this region of the body. Again the disconfort has not been severe, but mild disconfort from time to time. Mangal from this house, aspects 2nd. house of face, with the result that she often has skin rashes and boils in the eyelids and the lips. This has also been a mild disconfort for her especially when Mangal is in such a transit / Gochar to affect the 2nd. house. Also 2nd. house is the house of speech, and the way she speaks sometimes is quite sharp. Buddha: Buddha for the native is in Kumbha Rashi (Friend/Old) in 9th. house. together with Shukra. Buddha for the native is further the lord of Lagna. We should further note that Buddha in this case is Retrograde (e.g. in backward motion). Budha being Lagna lord, and a young Graha results in childish behaviour for the native. Budha signifies speech, communication and friendship and also changing nature and behaviour. She is seen to change moods quite frequently and unexpectedly, likes to have friends and communicate a lot. Buddha being in the 9th. house of Dharma, spirituality and religion, she tends to have spiritual friends especially ladies since Shukra is also in the same Rashi. Buddha being Retrograde, we can predict that Buddha has effect on the Rashi one before, e.g. Makar/8th. house. This is further supporting evidence that she communicates for transformation (psychology) and tends to have psychologists as friends. Furthermore with lagna lord being in 9th. house, the best Dharma house, and the house of God's Grace, she is seen to be a lucky person always having support this way or the other, with no really serious problems in her life up to the present. Guru: Guru for the native is in Dhanu Rashi (Moolatrikoon/Young) in the 7th. house. Guru signifies, luck, fortune, knowledge and spiritual tendencies. Guru for the native has especially good Avastha (Moolatrikoon). From 7th. house, Guru is also aspecting the first house of the natives self, hence directly affecting the native. The native as noted above is seen to be generally lucky and does not have any financial problems. She is lucky in the way that she does not have to work to earn a living. Since Guru is in 7th. house of spouse, her husband has a good financial situation, so financial support is coming to her from her husband, with no effort from her side. Both her husband and herself are persons with good intentions, e.g. resolved to act and to do good. We can further say that her husband is a spiritual person who has aspired to seek the light of God. Shukra: Shukra for the native is in Kumbha Rashi (G.Friend/Adolescent) in the 9th. house, as noted above together with Buddha, lord of Lagna. Sukra signifies conforts and conveyances, beauty, love of art, ladies. Since Shukra for the native has good Avastha, and since Shukra is together with lord of Lagna, she has had a confortable life with conforts and conveyances. Since Shukra and Buddha are together, she tends to have lady friends mostly. She likes and pays attention to host her friends at home in an elegant way. Shukra is aspecting the 3rd. house of self-effort and younger siblings from 9th. house. As a result, she has interest in arts; painting and dancing, and especially for painting she has spent considerable effort, but these has not turned to be a professional activity for her, e.g. she is not a professional painter, but paints as a hoby. She also has a younger sister, in parallel to the fact that there is Shukra's aspect on third house. Shani: Shani for the native is in Dhanu Rashi (Enemy/Dead) in the 7th. house together with Guru. Shani is signifying problems, delays, sorrow and grief, also spirituality. Shani is together with Guru and Guru signifies the husband for a lady. Furthermore Guru stands for children. So we can see that the significations of Guru has been overshadowed by the presence of Shani. The result has been that she has married rather late in life (in Guru Mahadasa) and has not yet had the happiness of having children. Shani further signifies distance, and since for the native Shani is aspecting 4th. house of home, she tends to be away from home during the day, visiting friends. Also she has been since childhood physically away from home and mother due to the fact that she had to have education abroad, the conditions in her hometown were not favorable for education. Shani's 3rd. house aspect on the 9th. house further supports the fact that she has spiritual friends. Also this same aspect is affecting her friendships with people, since the aspect is also on Buddha. As a result of which, we can see that she has many friends, but except for the select few, these are not close or real friends. So we can say that the native has many friends, with whom on the surface she is having good friendship and communication, but in reality these are on the surface and weak relationships (also with the affect of Rahu on the same). Only with a couple of spiritual people she has strong and heart to heart close friendship. Rahu: Rahu for the native is in Kanya Rashi (Own/Dead) in the 4th. house. Although Rahu has strong Avastha (Own house) his degree is small (dead) hence has given rise to some problems. 4th. house is signifying mother, conveyances and home. Rahu signifying, restlessness, fears, anxieties and outward energy, has given the native, restlessness in the house, she does not like to stay in the house, rather spends her day mostly outside. Also when left alone in the house, she tends to get anxious for no apparent reason especially during the night. Rahu being an outcast is also affecting the mother of the native, in that the mother is not a typical lady conforming easily to the social environment, furthermore the mother also has some considerable phobias and anxieties. Together with Shani's 10th. house aspect, the mother is restless to serve visitors at home (Shani also signifies serving and service), e.g. she feels she should over serve, and do much for visitors. The native also has had some anxieties while travelling in a vehicle or herself driving. Rahu acts like Shani (according to some authorities on Jyotish) which further has contributed to the natives seperation from home, both during childhood, e.g. during education, and also during her adult life as noted above. Kethu: Kethu for the native is in Meena Rashi (Own/Dead) in the 10th. house. Kethu signifies inward energy and secretiveness among other things, and 10th. house again stands for father and activity in the outside world. Kethu's influence has resulted for the native to not be able to project herself fully in activity. Although she is active in the outside world, she has no occupation, and does not lead an organized, programmed activity. She rather goes visit friends, engage in different activities for self-development etc., but in all these activities she is not playing a prominent and dominating role. Kethu being secretive has influence on the father, the father being very secretive, almost never talks about his inner world, likes to make fun of his friends, what he says is generally not the same as what he thinks or feels or knows. He is rather acting all the time, and as if carrying a mask on the face, hiding his inner world. Kethu also is an outcast, the parallel is also found in the father in that, the father was born and has lived his whole life as a minority in an enmical society to that minority. He should always be careful about how he acts and about what he says, since otherwise he can easily get into trouble with the society where his family is living. Kethu acts like Mangal (according to some authorities on Jyotish) which further has contributed to Pitta related problems for the father. The above significations has been given based mainly on house placements for ease of expression and demonstration. If the life of the native is analysed closely taking into account the dasas she has run through, it will be apparent that the effects mentioned will be prominent in the dasas and antardasas of the mentioned Grahas. Furthermore only some Graha significations has been used and corelated to findings about the natives life. A close and more detailed analysis will show that these significations only manifest due to the fact that for each signification there can be found a number of supporting factors in the natives chart(s), not that a single attribute cited herein is enough for the manifestation of the said signification. In fact some contradictory issues can be found; as per example, Kethu stands for mathematics, being posited in 10th. house of father, one may be lead to think that the father should have something to do with mathematics which is not really the case, except for the fact that he uses simple calculations at the office for trade. This is due to the fact that this simple indication is not supported by other findings in the horoscope. Note: In this text, Graha and Rashi names are written in Sanskrit and starting with capital letters. The Sanskrit names are emphasised since these are the true and original names in the Vedic literature, carrying more deeper significance and effect on the human mind than the English translations to the names. Furthermore the names are written with capital first letters; this is due to the fact that Jyotish is a Divine science meaning that, what we are dealing with actually are not only physical bodies revolving around the Sun (e.g. planets) but they are most important, Divine Beings, manifestation and represantatives of God Himself. We should be fully aware in dealing with Jyotish that we are actually interacting with God, and it is His Ultimate Will that will decide on what will happen and when and if ever. Likewise, astrological remedies and precautions will only work and will yield good results if only God decides to bless the native. In this regard I have come across a lady who has told me an interesting first-hand experience of her which I would like to cite here for illustration; The said lady consults a Jyotishee, and she is told that during a certain Pratyantardasa (3rd. level dasa) it is very likely that she has an accident in a vehicle. She lives and works in a health institution and hence has chosen not to go out at all during this period to avert any possible danger. After this period is over and some days pass, she thinks that the danger is over and she feels free to go out and take her car to go to the nearby town which is only 2-3 kilometers away. She is driving rather carefully and slowly on an open road with no traffic, but all of a sudden in her own words; "I could not understand how it happened, but all of a sudden the car drove out of the road and turned over, there was no reason for this, nor any other car in sight, it just happened all of a sudden". The car was totally destroyed, useless, and interestingly and fortunately no harm has come to her. Apparently God decided for her, that she had to go through such an experience for some good reason only understandable on the side of God. So staying in the building for the indicated period did not avert the danger, and it was delivered the moment she took her first ride with her car. Of course this does not mean that astrological remedies and precautions do not have much value, on the contrary, they do have immense value, equal of which is not available in any other endeavour of mankind other than Jyotish (except in another context and direction in Ayur-Veda), that is to avert the danger before it comes. We should only be aware in this regard that, on our side we should do our best to please God to receive His blessings, one form of which is astrological remedies and precautions. But we should not think that this is an automatic process, and once done the result is guaranteed. The gurantee is only in the hands of God, He will decide in His all- merciful nature, whether the karma should be lifted or not, and whether this will be good for the native or not. In practice also we see this Divine principle coming into effect. Sometimes we see some simple remedies are applied with love of God in the heart of a true devotee and significant good results are obtained, wheras sometimes we see extensive remedies, rituals and the like are not enough to ward of the karma totally, indicating in most probability that the native should still have to have the lesson for his own betterement. To cite an illustration; When the mother is wiping the dirt off the face of the child, the child feels the hurt and is unhappy, but the mother knows that this is for the childs own good. So we never consider things as unfortunate and unlucky, we do our best on our side to resolve a situation, we do our best in terms of devotion and surrender to God, and leave the rest to Him, whom in His all-merciful ways will choose and do the best for us. With my deep respects to the excellent Gurus and learned scholars of SJC. Sabri. Sponsor [iMAGE] [iMAGE] [Om Kleem Krishnaaya Jagannathaaya namah] Send a blank mail To : - To : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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