[Rath's Rhapsody] Prathosh Followup Questions

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My dear Prathosh, no matter how much you may get angry, I will always come back to you with the same affection that I have for one who is always taking the sacred name of Sri Jagannath Krishna. I have waited for a few days for the emotion to subside so that you can see the rationale of what is stated. I will also try to answer the questions you have raised about my personal life to the best of my abilities.About my personal life1. That I had married, marriage broke and am remarried.My chart details: 7 August 1963, 9.15 PM IST, Sambalpur India.Firstly, my first marriage was done in the sly without the knowledge of my parents and family. It was a big mistake. I did not even take Gurudev into consideration nor did I inform him. If you look at my chart, just like your chart I have Venus afflicted by Saturn, Rahu and Sun constituting a *curse of Venus* which causes much suffering in married life. Venus is ALSO in Scorpio navamsa just like your chart.If only I had obeyed Gurudev and done those remedial measures prescribed...but that was not to happen as I was an obstinate, emotional fool who believed that inter-region and inter-caste marriage is good for the integration of India! Little did I realise that this has nothing to do with India and that it did not matter in the big picture of life. Yes, I do regret that I had not done the Kamalatmika sadhana and instead did the Bagalamukhi sadhana for strength.We make choises at every point of time in life and shall head towards our destinies based on these decisions.Remarriage is better than sleeping around with many and it is better for a man to marry and settle down than to roam around with multiple relationships. That is if the person does not become a sanyasi (monk). I hope you agree with this social thinking. If you don't, please do not trouble yourself with the remedial measures I have suggested and go ahead with what you are doing. That is what I believe in and hence remarried in the presence of my parents, grandmother, grand aunts, grand uncles and all family. This time it was not done in the sly/hiding.If you look at my navamsa, first marriage is seen in the 7th house - Taurus with Rahu and Mars; break of marriage is seen in the 8th house - Gemini ruled by Mercury caused break; 2nd marriage ruled by Sagittarius. Mercury and Jupiter ruling these signs form a powerful yoga.Vimsottari dasa from Moon:1st Marriage: Saturn dasa Moon antardasaBreak of Marriage: Mercury dasa Venus antardasaRemarriage (2nd): Mercury dasa Moon dasaI am born in Atri Gotra [Moon] lineage.2. Mercury and VishnuMercury is an asura graha and can only be controlled by Vishnu. It leads men into the madness of running after money and rules the north direction (dig chakra) which has Kubera, the God of Wealth as the dig-pala. Like all other Gods, Kubera also uses an animal to pull his vehicle and that animal is Human Being...manushya vahana.When the mother is kidnapped and raped and a child is begotten from the unholy union, what will you call that child? The english I know used the word *bastard* to define such a birth. If you have a better word, please help me to improve my english. Mercury or Budha graha was born when Moon kidnapped Tara, the wife of Brihaspati (Jupiter) and made her pregnant. This is explicitly mentioned in the Puranas. The greatness of Guru was that he accepted such a child, gave him intiation and taught him. By worshipping Vishnu, the negative effect of the graha that causes running after money and all related demonical values to come under check and satva increases. Therefore instead of running after money the native starts to learn under a good Guru. That is the positive change that Mercury brings about if we have the grace and blessings of Bhagavan.The worship of Krishna comes form the following combinations -(1) Mercury in some drekkana (see Prasna Marga/Harihara)(2) Moon and Jupiter (Parasara)...all this is too complicated for you for which tattva and guna need to be understood first.3. Feeling threatened about what?There is no reason for you to feel threatened. I do not do Pujas for others unless they are close friends. I do not charge for the Pujas nor do i do remedial measures for others. I am not a Pujari or such priest who does this. So why should you feel threatened? Did I ask you for giving some money for doing these pujas? No, never. Instead I advised you to do this yourself.Are you feeling threatened about life? Why? It is because you do not have sufficient faith in Bhagavan. If you do then why worry? He who has sent you to this planet will also feed you here.4. Feel like crying. We all feel like crying when we have to face our karmic realities and have to face the hard teachings of life.We all feel like crying when we feel that something which we so dearly want to possess is really not ours and is going away or being lost.So, you are no exception. The difference is that we all cry inside and you cry outside. We all drink our sorrows every day and go along with life while you make the world sorrowful by crying outside.If you do not have joys to share, you have nothing to share. So, it is high time you acquired some joys to share. These can be gems of knowledge or the ecstasy of yoga (with bhagavan) due to any of the four ayana (goals of life). The difference between a matured person and immaturity is this sharing - matured people share joys, the immature share sorrows.5. Curses are nonsense!What is written is based on Brihat Parasara Hora Shastra and time alone will tell if all the teachings in those great books are nonsense or make perfect sense. It also depends on the senses of our own self. If our senses are fully under control then all that makes perfect sense, else it is otherwise.If I have missed any points you want me to cover, please write to me personally and save the list from turmoil. -- Posted By Pt.Sanjay Rath to Rath's Rhapsody at 4/07/2007 09:04:00 AM

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Respected Sanjayji,

Although your post is meant for Pratosh, everyone can

draw pearls of wisdom from your following post. Thanks

for such a wonderful post.

Best Regards

Manoj Sharma

--- " Pt.Sanjay Rath " <sanjayrath wrote:

 

> My dear Prathosh, no matter how much you may get

> angry, I will always

> come back to you with the same affection that I have

> for one who is

> always taking the sacred name of Sri Jagannath

> Krishna. I have waited

> for a few days for the emotion to subside so that

> you can see the

> rationale of what is stated. I will also try to

> answer the questions

> you have raised about my personal life to the best

> of my

> abilities.About my personal life1. That I had

> married, marriage broke

> and am remarried.My chart details: 7 August 1963,

> 9.15 PM IST,

> Sambalpur India.Firstly, my first marriage was done

> in the sly without

> the knowledge of my parents and family. It was a big

> mistake. I did not

> even take Gurudev into consideration nor did I

> inform him. If you look

> at my chart, just like your chart I have Venus

> afflicted by Saturn,

> Rahu and Sun constituting a *curse of Venus* which

> causes much

> suffering in married life. Venus is ALSO in Scorpio

> navamsa just like

> your chart.If only I had obeyed Gurudev and done

> those remedial

> measures prescribed...but that was not to happen as

> I was an obstinate,

> emotional fool who believed that inter-region and

> inter-caste marriage

> is good for the integration of India! Little did I

> realise that this

> has nothing to do with India and that it did not

> matter in the big

> picture of life. Yes, I do regret that I had not

> done the Kamalatmika

> sadhana and instead did the Bagalamukhi sadhana for

> strength.We make

> choises at every point of time in life and shall

> head towards our

> destinies based on these decisions.Remarriage is

> better than sleeping

> around with many and it is better for a man to marry

> and settle down

> than to roam around with multiple relationships.

> That is if the person

> does not become a sanyasi (monk). I hope you agree

> with this social

> thinking. If you don't, please do not trouble

> yourself with the

> remedial measures I have suggested and go ahead with

> what you are

> doing. That is what I believe in and hence remarried

> in the presence of

> my parents, grandmother, grand aunts, grand uncles

> and all family. This

> time it was not done in the sly/hiding.If you look

> at my navamsa, first

> marriage is seen in the 7th house - Taurus with Rahu

> and Mars; break of

> marriage is seen in the 8th house - Gemini ruled by

> Mercury caused

> break; 2nd marriage ruled by Sagittarius. Mercury

> and Jupiter ruling

> these signs form a powerful yoga.Vimsottari dasa

> from Moon:1st

> Marriage: Saturn dasa Moon antardasaBreak of

> Marriage: Mercury dasa

> Venus antardasaRemarriage (2nd): Mercury dasa Moon

> dasaI am born in

> Atri Gotra [Moon] lineage.2. Mercury and

> VishnuMercury is an asura

> graha and can only be controlled by Vishnu. It leads

> men into the

> madness of running after money and rules the north

> direction (dig

> chakra) which has Kubera, the God of Wealth as the

> dig-pala. Like all

> other Gods, Kubera also uses an animal to pull his

> vehicle and that

> animal is Human Being...manushya vahana.When the

> mother is kidnapped

> and raped and a child is begotten from the unholy

> union, what will you

> call that child? The english I know used the word

> *bastard* to define

> such a birth. If you have a better word, please help

> me to improve my

> english. Mercury or Budha graha was born when Moon

> kidnapped Tara, the

> wife of Brihaspati (Jupiter) and made her pregnant.

> This is explicitly

> mentioned in the Puranas. The greatness of Guru was

> that he accepted

> such a child, gave him intiation and taught him. By

> worshipping Vishnu,

> the negative effect of the graha that causes running

> after money and

> all related demonical values to come under check and

> satva increases.

> Therefore instead of running after money the native

> starts to learn

> under a good Guru. That is the positive change that

> Mercury brings

> about if we have the grace and blessings of

> Bhagavan.The worship of

> Krishna comes form the following combinations -(1)

> Mercury in some

> drekkana (see Prasna Marga/Harihara)(2) Moon and

> Jupiter

> (Parasara)...all this is too complicated for you for

> which tattva and

> guna need to be understood first.3. Feeling

> threatened about what?There

> is no reason for you to feel threatened. I do not do

> Pujas for others

> unless they are close friends. I do not charge for

> the Pujas nor do i

> do remedial measures for others. I am not a Pujari

> or such priest who

> does this. So why should you feel threatened? Did I

> ask you for giving

> some money for doing these pujas? No, never. Instead

> I advised you to

> do this yourself.Are you feeling threatened about

> life? Why? It is

> because you do not have sufficient faith in

> Bhagavan. If you do then

> why worry? He who has sent you to this planet will

> also feed you

> here.4. Feel like crying. We all feel like crying

> when we have to face

> our karmic realities and have to face the hard

> teachings of life.We all

> feel like crying when we feel that something which

> we so dearly want to

> possess is really not ours and is going away or

> being lost.So, you are

> no exception. The difference is that we all cry

> inside and you cry

> outside. We all drink our sorrows every day and go

> along with life

> while you make the world sorrowful by crying

> outside.If you do not have

> joys to share, you have nothing to share. So, it is

> high time you

> acquired some joys to share. These can be gems of

> knowledge or the

> ecstasy of yoga (with bhagavan) due to any of the

> four ayana (goals of

> life). The difference between a matured person and

> immaturity is this

> sharing - matured people share joys, the immature

> share sorrows.5.

> Curses are nonsense!What is written is based on

> Brihat Parasara Hora

> Shastra and time alone will tell if all the

> teachings in those great

> books are nonsense or make perfect sense. It also

> depends on the senses

> of our own self. If our senses are fully under

> control then all that

> makes perfect sense, else it is otherwise.If I have

> missed any points

> you want me to cover, please write to me personally

> and save the list

> from turmoil.

>

> --

> Posted By Pt.Sanjay Rath to Rath's Rhapsody at

> 4/07/2007 09:04:00 AM