Sattvam and Mars

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Namaste Chandrashekhar ji,

 

You are absolutely right. Mars is not the planet of sattwa guna. He

represents tamas among the three gunas. There is no doubt regarding

that.

 

The meaning of "sattva" in the quoted verse is different. It is not

one of the three gunas. Sattva also means strength and firmness. It

is from this root word that the Hindi word "satta" came (which is

today used in the context of political power). Mars is a tamasik

planet who stands for the strength.

 

May Jupiter's light shine on us,

Narasimha

 

> Dear Prabodh,

> If I may interfere, do you mean Parashara did not know what he was

> talking about when he called Kuja as a Tamasik planet? Satva in

the

> shloka you refer to relates to strength, as does Veerya to semen,

these

> are not mental attributes of those planets.

>

> Chandrashekhar.

>

> amolmandar wrote:

>

> > Dear Noname Namste

> >

> > Going to Basics....

> >

> > Parashara in the begining of Grahaswaroopadhya says that "satvam

> > kujo" and "Bhrugu veerya pradayak" in the shloka 13 and 14. So

karak

> > for satva is Kuja. Parashara as well attributies karakatva

> > of "Sheel"(aachar) and "Brahma" with Kuja. So Brahmachari(Brahma

> > aacharti eeti Brahmachari) is Brahmasheel. This means that

> > Brahmachaya attributed to Kuja is correct as far as BPHS is

> > concerned. SO when you say that basic requirement for

brahmachari is

> > satvaguna, you should take into consideration karatava for stava

and

> > not the grahas with satvaguna as Kuja is tamogunik but satva

karak

> > where as Guru is satvaguna but putra karak and as well Niyog

karak.

> >

> > Moroeover Satva means naturalness or swabhavadharma. To retain

that

> > one has to exert and kuja provides that required courage and

> > strength. True Brahmachari will have lot of Teja which is again

> > attributed to Kuja. So I think Brhanacharya should be attributed

to

> > Kuja.