[Jaya Jagannath] Battle of Kuruksetra/Ayana

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Dear Gurudeva Pt Sanjay Rath,

 

Jaya Jagannath!

 

May the blessings of Lord Jagannath be eternally with us!

 

Thank you for your questions. They inspired me to delve deeper on the

subject matter. Speeking of some psychic experiences, Lord Jagannath gave me

quite some mental foodstuffs to chew upon last week, as I was serving him

intensely 24-hours a day, while meditating on the sisumara planetary system.

 

>perhaps the refinement is gradually coming.

It is. As I wrote to Gauranga, I found the reason why Varaha Mihira

describes the ayanamsa value of 50 1/3 sec/year. The reason is in the

presence (or non-presence) of Abhijit in the zodiac. Abhijit went to the

forest to meditate after the 6 wives of the Saptarsi were involved with the

birth of Skanda and they ascended to heaven as the krittika constellation

(in the West known as the Pleiades). Then Rohini took the position of being

the starting point of the cycle of naksatras. Because the Saptarsi will

still remain connected with Abhijit (200 y per half circle of progression),

this will create the ayanamsa to progress, since the planets will be moving

further while the Saptarsi stand still so to say. This of course happens on

a subtle level and cannot be noticed by us, though it will manifest in the

fact that a full circle of the Saptarsi will be 10.400 years instead of the

10.800 years in case we had the 28 naksatras.

 

Interesting verses from Srimad-Bhagavatam in this regard:

" SB 5.21.8-9: The living entities residing on Sumeru Mountain are always

very warm, as at midday, because for them the sun is always overhead.

Although the Sun moves counterclockwise, facing the constellations, with

Sumeru Mountain on its left, it also moves clockwise and appears to have the

mountain on its right because it is influenced by the daksinavarta wind.

People living in countries at points diametrically opposite to where the sun

is first seen rising will see the sun setting, and if a straight line were

drawn from a from a point where the sun is at midday, the people in

countries at the opposite end of the line would be experiencing midnight.

Similarly, if people residing where the sun is setting were to go to

countries diametrically opposite, they would not see the sun in the same

condition.

 

SB 5.21.13-14: The chariot of the Sun-god has only one wheel, which is known

as Samvatsara. The twelve months are calculated to be its twelve spokes, the

six seasons are the sections of its rim, and the three catur-masya periods

are its three-sectioned hub. One side of the axle carrying the wheel rests

upon the summit of Mount Sumeru, and the other rests upon the Manasottara

Mountain. Affixed to the outer end of the axle, the wheel continuously

rotates on Manasottara Mountain like the wheel of an oil-pressing machine.

 

SB 5.22.11: There are many stars located 200.000 yojanas [1.600.000 miles]

above the Moon. By the Supreme Will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,

they are fixed to the wheel of time, and thus they rotate with Mount Sumeru

on their right, their motion being different from that of the Sun. There are

twenty-eight important stars, headed by Abhijit. "

 

From these verses we can see the difference in motion of the sun and the

naksatras. Around the time of Krsna the precession was falling practically

together with the Rahu-Ketu axis, which will then be diametrically opposite

to the line through Kratu-Pulaha. After about 4 cycles, they will again be

coming to the point of being diametrically opposite. In a span of 1.200

years the progression (retrograde) of the Rahu-Ketu axis comes short about 3

years, which then can be divided down to 1/3 sec per year, which is added to

the 50 sec. (200/28 = 50).

 

>One point I want to know. Do you think that this is linear i.e.

>every year the precession is exactly the same for all years in one cycle?

 

Yes, the cause for precession is not like generally accepted, the tolling of

Earth around its North-South axis, but results from the difference between

Sun and stars' movement. Thus it should be linear. Earth is stable,

Bhu-mandala is fixed to the Mount Sumeru, the sun, planets and stars rotate

around Mount Meru in a different way.

 

>You mentioned Magha in another letter. Where is Brahma in the Bha-Chakra?

 

If I know well, Brahma should be at the beginning of each trine, since he is

the creator and origin of everything in the universe. Thus he will reside in

the naksatras lorded by Ketu, Aswini in a movable sign, Magha in a fixed

sign, Moola in a dual sign. Thus Magha being the start of a fixed sign,

which is representing the mode of ignorance, is quite fit for starting the

kali-yuga. Ketu, being the North node, is also fit to represent Brahma,

since he is situated on top of the Mount Sumeru, round which all planets and

stars circumambulate. The top of the universe is represented by Dhruvaloka,

beneath which is situated Lord Brahma's city.

 

>Should not this be the Maxima or minima in case the motion is non-linear.

>Is Magha exactly perpendicular to Brahma's position?

 

Not always. However, at the start of kali-yuga it was, because it was the

beginning of a yuga. Thus, for the chart of the beginning of kali-yuga, the

nodes should be exalted in Rohini-Anuradha.

 

Regarding the actual ayanamsa at present, I have a question. For Lord

Krsna's chart, is there any indication that He was born when the nodes were

debilitated at 20 degrees Taurus-Scorpio? In other words, the Rahu-Ketu axis

should have entered into this point at that time?

 

There is more, but time is again short now, so I will leave it like this.

 

Your sishya,

Dhira Krsna dasa