Is moon a heavenly planet

[Guest guest]

Is moon a heavenly planet according to Srimad Bhagavatam? What have the Acaryas said about this?

 

I thought you couldn't just go to heavenly planets using space ships. But it was done. How?

[krishnadasa]

yes! sort of ; probably fit for americans he he

[theist]

If ever and where ever they went it certainly wasn't heaven. One can easily see that the ancient view of the Moon as the second most luminous body in the sky would be considered a heavenly planet.

 

What we see of the moon even from ordinary telescopes shows it is not a heaven unless if one were a dust mite or something. Some reply to this that the actual Moon is subtle in nature and we don't have the eyes to see the truth of it.

 

To me it is another 'Who Cares?'

 

Devotees of Krsna will not be disturbed with this either way as they are not interested in material heaven anyway.

 

Sure is beautiful though as it reflects Krsna in His light manifestation.

[astrobhadauria]

(1) Intelligence (2) flower (3) good perfume (4) going to a fortress (5) disease (6) Brahmin (7) idleness (8) Phlegmatic humor (9) epilepsy (10) enlargement of the spleen (11) mental disposition (12) heart (13) woman (14) virtue or vice (15) sourness (16) sleep (17) happiness (18) anything like water (19) silver (20) thick sugarcane (21) typhoid (22) travel (23) well (24) tank (25) mother (26) impartiality (27) mid-day (28) pearls (29) consumption (30) whiteness (31) waistband (32) bell-metal (33) salt (34) short stature (35) mind (36) ability (37) pond (38) diamond (39) winter season (40) white color (43) belly (44) worshipping Goddess Gauri (45) honey (46) joking (47) nourishment (48) wheat (49) pleasure (50) splendor (51) face (52) sharp in thought (53) love of curd (54) mendicant (55) fame (56) learned (6) beauty (57) strength at night (58) facing westward (59) learned (60) saline (61) getting a job (62) love for west (63) the middle world (64) nine gems (65) middle age (66) life (67) eating (68) going to far off countries (69) ailment of the shoulders (70) Umbrella or any other royal insignia (71) good fruits (72) blood purity and vitality (73) fish and other water creatures (74) serpent (75) silk garments (76) good budding (77) brilliant things (78) clean crystal and (79) soft and velvety clothes all these belong to the Moon.

[Jataka Parijata] Significations: the mind, royal,a youth with a white body, benefic if waxing or with benefics, a person of 70 years, the color white, gems, a pure spotless pearl, North-West, a shore or river-bund, saltish. The Moon has phlegm and wind in his composition, and is given to rambling. His speech is soft, and he is discriminating. He has fine eyes, his limbs are firm and exceedingly lovely. He is always sensible, with a figure slim, but round. It is the Moon that determines the character of one's heart, understanding, royal favor, mother and affluence. The Moon, when malefic, causes trouble by means of diseases generally brought on by venereal indulgence, such as pallor, catarrh, jaundice and inflammation of the nose, and also with the aid of numerous female goblins and demonesse. The Moon has strength in Cancer, Taurus, his week day, his Drekkana, his Hora, his Navamsa, the end of a sign, when aspected by benefic planets, at night, in the 4th house, in his passage to the south of the Equator. The Moon with all the digits complete is strong in all positions except the Riksha Sandhis (i.e. the last quarters of Aslesha, Jyeshta and Revati). The same with aspect by all the planets bring to men a royal destiny. The Moon is the Karaka(significator) of the 4th house. The Moon's friends are the Sun and Mercury. Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Saturn, are neutral.