Wedding time (to Sanjay ji)

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Pranaam Sanjay, > Dear Narasimha> 1. If Kalaabala and digbala are to be one and

the same the Rishi's would never have used different words for them.

 

NR: I wasn't thiniking. I withdraw that point. Actually, I realized my mistake

one minute after sending the mail and immediately deleted my mail from the

archives.

 

Chandrashekhar ji's logic of Digbala translating into some kind of temporal

strength (kaala bala) applies only to Sun. Thus, using it as a temporal

strength (even for Sun) is questionable.

> 2. Digbala is related to the directions of life that the planets govern as

dharma, artha , kaama and moksha. > > 3. The kendra are the houses which show

the diga for the native - fifth shows his aspiration and ninth shows the

inspiration. Take Lagna this is the dharma trikona. Here the most important is

the inspiration i.e. dharma itself in the ninth house. It is this inspiration

that motivates a person. What the person aspires for is a guru indicated by the

fifth house and the guru mantra that will fulfill the objective of this ayana.

 

NR: Why do you keep saying "diga"? The root word is "dik" (a halanta sabda -

i.e. a word ending in a consonant). When a voiced sound (like 'b') follows it,

it becomes "dig" in a sandhi (dik + bala = digbala). But it never becomes

"diga" in Sanskrit. If you want a form of "dik" that ends in an vowel, use

"disha" instead of "diga". Either say "dik" or "disha".

 

As far as possible, we should not corrupt Sanskrit terminology.

> Next consider artha. Here the aspiration of wealth being the fifth from the

tenth house is what motivates. The inspiration (ninth from 10th house is the

6th house) of hard work and labour follows. > Next consider Kaama. The ninth

house (mithuna) is the inspiration and the aspiration is friendship,

companionship etc in the 11th house in matters of the opposite sex. while for

the same sex the aspiration is what causes inspiration..a friend (11th house)

in need (parakrama 3rd house) is a friend indeed.> Next consider the fourth

house. The moksha trikona. here moksha or the 12th house (ninth from 4th) is

what inspires and the aspiration is the 8th house (5th from 4th) where we have

to suffr our past karma backlog.> > In all these cases, the houses governing

you are the four kendra houses and hence Parasara specifically calls them

Vishnu or (Narayana Nara+ayana) sthana.

 

NR: I do understand the importance of quadrants. However, planets have a digbala

assigned in all houses and not just in quadrants. There has to be some

consistent justification for the digbalas assigned in all houses. My question

is very fundamental and you haven't yet convincingly answered me.

 

You may say that Mars in the 10th house attains full digbala due to being placed

in an artha trikona, because he is a planet of action, and attains zero digbala

in the 4th house of moksha trikona, because he is for action and not for

renunciation. Then, how come Mars in the 12th house (a moksha trikona) gets

2/3rd digbala (quite high), while Mars in 6th house (an artha trikona) gets

only 1/3rd digbala (quite low)? I understand the importance of quadrants and

why Mars attains full digbala in 10th and not in 2nd/6th. I am not asking why

10th is beating 2nd/6th. I am only asking why 12th is beating 2nd/6th! Taking

just the trikona occupied and the purushartha associated with it, I cannot

convincingly explain it. I wonder if you have anything more to say.

 

Same thing holds for all planets. For example, Jupiter attains 100% digbala in

1st (dharma) and 0% in 7th (kaama). However, he attains 67% digbala in 3rd and

11th (kaama) and only 33% in 5th and 9th (dharma).

> ~ om tat sat ~> Yours truly,> Sanjay Rath

 

Your sishya,

Narasimha