Category: Astrology Learning & Basics

Atmakarak is your soul-planet! And soul has no wish, no desire but only a prayer – a very small prayer and yet very significant one! How to express this prayer – how to? May be a few lines of this beautiful Hindi Song can:

“Sab rishte naate haske tod du bas tujhse dil ka rishta jod du….सब रिश्ते नाते हँसके तोड़ दूँ बस तुझसे दिल का रिश्ता जोड़ दूँ जोड़ दूँ ….”

That is how the soul-planet is – it wants NOTHING – it is willing to drop everything and leave everything just to be with GOD!

And tell me – who is this soul-planet?

The soul-planet (ATMAKARAKA) signify YOU.

No matter who is your soul-planet – every SOUL’s prayer is the SAME – every SOUL wants to go back HOME – wants to merge with the SUPREME ALL INCLUSIVE SOUL – GOD – GOD CONSCIOUSNESS!

And so every soul – and from the depth of my heart – I again REPEAT – every soul – whether it is My soul, your soul, and anybody who is reading this – his or her soul – EVERY SOUL SIMPLY WANTS TO GO BACK HOME- MERGE with the ULTIMATE CONSCIOUSNESS – GOD CONSCIOUSNESS! The WEST calls is Christ Consciousness – the EAST calls is KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS – words differ – the essence remains the same – CONSCIOUSNESS!

And so every soul – especially soul of evolved beings such as human beings is singing the same song:

“You (GOD) and I Will be together till the end of time I promise I’ll never let you go Now that I know you love me U and I Will be together till the end of time I promise I’ll never let you go….”

this is song – soul-song of every soul – though not everybody can listen to this song because the majority is driven by the MONKEY MIND and the MIND makes sure that the SOUL never merges with the UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS because that would mean – the END of MIND!

How beautiful is all this – but who can understand – very few – and who can listen – very very few!

ATMAKARAKA PLANET has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO OFFER.

Because the SOUL is so beautiful that it is NOT a BEGGAR – it is RICH and all it wants is to BE WITH GOD!

ATMAKARAKA PLANET is the KING of all planets that are present in your chart. And a KING is NOT a beggar – a KING is a KING!

That is how KETU is – the REAL KING! He may not have anything and yet he is the real KING – the SHEHENSHAH! A FAKIR by appearance but a KING in reality!

And that is why MAGHA – the NAKSHATRA of KETU – is addressed by the ancient SEER as the PLACE OF MAGNIFICENCE – the SEAT OF THE KING – that is what MAGHA means – the ROYAL SEAT on which the REAL KING sits – KETU!

Someday some of you must read my new book “Why Ketu Can Heal” to realize the true essence of KETU from spiritual perspective!

ATMAKARAK PLANET is the only planet that has the ‘potential’ to bring a certain DEPTH of understanding to your life – a certain depth to your life!

There was a beggar – and he was not an ordinary beggar, he lived in rags but he was the wisest of all! And he would roam around the narrow lanes of the town – singing his song, dancing to his tunes! And he would enjoy so much – so much was the flow of joy WITHIN his whole being – that wealthy men and rich women would wonder what brings so much of JOY and HAPPINESS to this beggar when WE ARE ROAMING AROUND IN LUXURY CARS AND LIVING IN PLUSH BUNGLOWS!

But they could not find the answer – how could they? Because the answer was never to be found on the OUTSIDE but only INSIDE!

“At the center of your being, You have the answer; You know who you are, and You know what you want.”
-Lao Tzu

The Beggar knew what he wanted – he wanted JOY – pure JOY and he was perfectly aware that JOY can be found – can be experienced only when he drops his ambition – only when he goes with the flow of life – only when he realizes the fact that the JOURNEY of to LIFE is NOT towards GOD – but WITH GOD!

The rich were still trapped in their business targets and their dreams of buying a few more BMWs and a few more private jets and a few more bungalows – they must be like ALEXANDER, the GREAT – because that is exactly what Alexander thought that after WINNING OVER THE WHOLE WORLD – he can find happiness – but that never happens – because HAPPINESS has NOTHING to do with WHAT YOU HAVE ON THE OUTSIDE – happiness has to do with WHAT YOU HAVE WITHIN!

But who wants to listen? We have more ALEXANDERS and few DIOGENES – maybe that is why we have more miseries and more noise and more sufferings in this world!

AMBITIOUS MEN AND AMBITIOUS WOMEN are the ALEXANDERS of this human world and all ALEXANDERS are foolish – utterly foolish.

“All Alexanders are foolish.” – Osho

And so the ALEXANDERs (ambitious rich men and women) of the town could not understand the BEGGAR – they thought he is mad – insane!

And this is how the world is – the real sane is called insane and those who are insane are called sane! The real sane is CONDEMNED – BANNED – BLOCKED – in fact nobody cares for the real sane — and this is the irony of this human world! That is why Jesus was crucified by the same society – that is how Prophet Muhammed was forced to go in exile to Medina – that is how Buddha was ridiculed by the upper caste community – because FAKE sells more than that which is REAL – it is a strange mathematics and yet so real – so real!

The Beggar remained in his bliss – many would throw stones at him and he would laugh – and move on……then one day something strange happened…..

There was a very wealthy merchant in the town – and he had an antique musical organ – Banjo – 18th century BANJO!

The musical organ remained in his family for several generations – one day he thought “What is the use of this Banjo?”

He had completely forgotten how to play the musical organ. Many generations came and went – and his family became so ignorant that they forgot the very existence of such a beautiful musical organ. It started gathering dust. It was a very big organ and it was taking up much space. One day the family decided to throw this nonsense. They said “This is just a nuisance. Why should we keep it?” They took the musical organ and threw it on the road.

The beggar was walking on the road, the musical organ that was thrown away – came rolling down to his feet. He looked at it, picked up the organ and started playing upon the organ. Birds started singing, the dogs started dancing, the wind started blowing, the trees started shaking, the flowers started smiling and people started gathering around the beggar – the music was a marvel, a melody, the whole town fell in love with his music….the whole environment was transformed, the whole world had come to standstill – the wealthy landlords, the rich merchants, the mayor – they all came rushing towards the beggar, they wanted to listen to his music, the whole town was mesmerized by his music – for one hour the beggar was playing on it…it was beautiful…it was enchanting, so melodious, so touching – the whole town was hypnotized. And when the music ended, the family that had thrown away the musical organ came rushing towards the beggar and said: “Give back the musical organ, it is not yours – we are the owners, the ownership of the musical organ is with us.”

The beggar looked at the family person, it was such a sharp glare, that the family man couldn’t confront, he looked down, he couldn’t resist the divine power of his glare. And then the beggar voiced his thoughts – it was the very first time, that he said something, that was the only time when the people of the town had heard his voice, and his voice was so deep, so soft and so touching – that even today the people of that town remember his words – he had said: “You are not saying the truth. And the truth is – the organ is no more yours. Because a musical instrument belongs to one who can play with it. There is no other ownership. It may have remained in your house for many years but it doesn’t belong to you. You are not worthy of it. I am the owner.”

A musical instrument belongs to one who can play with it.

And that’s how it is: life belongs to those who can go deeper and deeper and deeper into it.

ATMAKARAK PLANET is the planet that can help you to go deeper and deeper and deeper into the many layers of your life – but for that the ATMAKARAKA PLANET need to have the strength, the quality and more over the suitable ‘SOIL’ (environment) to blossom to grow to fructify.

ATMAKARAK PLANET is directly CONNECTED to the DEPTH OF YOUR UNDERSTANDING – that is why only that planet which is close to 29 degree is addressed by the seers as the ATMAKARAKA PLANET!

Planets in higher degrees (close to 29 degree) always play a vital role since they have matured enough to have a certain level of understanding.

“Understanding cannot be studied; nobody can teach it to you. You have to be a light unto yourself. You have to seek and search within your own being, you will have to learn how to dive within yourself – not in the scriptures, but within you own existence.”
-OSHO

Understanding indeed has to evolve from WITHIN and not from outside! That is how many OXFORD and HARVARD universities students also end up in DIVORCE because understanding cannot be taught – no matter what university you come from – your education status has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with your depth of understanding!

ATMAKARAKA PLANET is the PLANET that is in the HIGHEST DEGREE in your birth chart! The HIGHEST DEGREE is 29 degree. So any planet which is either in 29 degree or close to 29 degree is the ATMAKARAKA PLANET.

29 degree is in itself is a very significant degree because it is here where the ‘moon’ becomes FULL! Ascendant in 29 degree or Moon in 29 degree or Sun in 29 degree is a very significant position and such individuals certainly come with some special gifts – blessings!

As mentioned earlier – the significance of ATMAKARAKA planet is ZERO as far as material benefits are concerned – however the significance of ATMAKARAKA planet is in ABUNDANCE as far as SPIRITUAL PROGRESS is concerned!

Because SOUL has absolutely NO INTEREST in MATERIAL WORLD or MATERIAL GAINS – it is only the MIND that is running like a MONKEY behind money, power and sex. The SOUL is pure – its nature in itself is very pure and it is NIRGUN NIRAAKAR – so where is the question of finding any material significance in ATMAKARAK (SOUL-PLANET)?

But people want to make some stories out of ATMAKARAK because stories sell – facts don’t!

When observing a chart – you simply have to see in what STATE the ATMAKARAKA planet is. And this observation is simply to SEE THE SPIRITUAL PROGRESS or the potential of progressing spiritually in life.

Otherwise what else is there to this life?

Yesterday a millionaire was saying “I expect a lot from my life. I want to fly in private jets.”

I said “You already have one private jet.”

He said “You are not understanding me – I have only 1 – I want more than 1.”

This is how people continue to run and run and run – expecting a lot – that they forget to enjoy and to appreciate that what they already HAVE!

The rich man said to me “You don’t understand – I want more private jets….”

And that is how every rich man and rich women keeps arguing with God – they all speak in the same language – they all must be saying to GOD as well – “God – you don’t understand – you need to give me more money, more cars, more pleasures…..”

And GOD laughs – that is how I laugh – that is how every wise man laughs when he meets such ALEXANDERS.

Once Diogenes – the divine master had said to ALEXANDER “ Come and relax with me. You have captured enough – now leave everything and join me…”

But Alexander was fired up with AMBITION – he said “ Master – You don’t understand – I still have to capture the WHOLE WORLD – only then will I join you. Only then will I come back…”

Diogenes had laughed and said “Nobody comes back – nobody until he STOPS – until he REALIZES his STUPIDITY – until then nobody comes back….”

Alexander never came back – he died halfway – somewhere in faraway land – neither was he able to conquer the whole world nor was he able to live with joy!

“HOW TO FIND JOY? LET YOUR AMBITION DISAPPEAR; AMBITION IS THE BARRIER.”
-OSHO

AMBITION IS THE BARRIER. CURB your AMBITION – so that the ATMAKARAKA PLANET will get a way to express itself – will be able to provide you with that – which is beyond this material world!

But who wants to listen?

And so then shallow people just keep talking about ATMAKARAKA planet – giving it many meanings which are NOT the real meanings but ILLUSIONS of the MIND – and the MIND is a MONKEY and every man and every woman who is FOLLOWING the MIND is bound to find NOTHING in life – NOTHING that can be ‘CARRIED’ after death – because after death you can CARRY only the INSIDE GROWTH with you – the WISDOM with you and not your ROLLS ROYCE CARS and your BUNGLOWS and your Sexual toys!

But who wants to listen?

ATMA (SOUL) – KARAKA (SIGNIFIER) has only to do with the GROWTH OF YOUR SOUL – now the question would arise to insightful readers that what does GROWTH to SOUL means?

Growth to Soul or SOUL’s GROWTH means MATURITY OF THE SOUL. How matured is the SOUL – how many BIRTHS and REBIRTHS (Human births) does the SOUL has been through? If the SOUL has been through 3 or 4 HUMAN BIRTHS then how much GROWTH has happened to the SOUL from those births? Did the soul get a birth in which the native was able to MEDITATE? Was able to SEEK SPIRITUAL PATH? Was able to move a step ahead in his or her SPIRITUAL JOURNEY?

All of this and many such aspects of SPIRITUAL GROWTH is seen from ATMAKARAK Planet.

ATMAKARAKA has NOTHING to do with your MATERIAL GAINS – it has MORE TO DO WITH YOUR SPIRITUAL GROWTH – because through your SPIRITUAL GROWTH – a DAY MAY COME when your SOUL will finally attain LIBERATION (MOKSHA) and to all my readers and followers – let me tell you all once again that MOKSHA or LIBERATION is attained NOT AFTER DEATH but very much when you are ALIVE – because MOKSHA or LIBERATION happens ONLY when you reach the state of ENLIGHTENMENT – when you attain SELF-REALIZATION. And so please remove the MYTH that LIBERATION or MOKSHA happens after DEATH – or you become some kind of ANGEL after DEATH – nothing happens after DEATH – everything and all that you seek happens only when you are ALIVE – in this HUMAN BODY and so remember if you want to attain LIBERATION – then this PLANET – this PLACE and only through this HUMAN BODY you can attain the state of MOKSHA – LIBERATION.

“Don’t depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don’t become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.”
~PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

THIS WORLD IS THE PLACE TO DO IT – that is to attain your SELF GROWTH!

That is how important and significant is this HUMAN BIRTH – but people are busy in making money – and doing sex and hurting each other! And on top of that they come and ask “ How much more money can I make – because I am 55 and I have certain targets to achieve.”

What a sad state of human life is in! And – at times I feel sorry for such ‘ordinary’ people who own millions of rupees and yet are found in utter misery and trapped in the valley of utter dissatisfaction.

“THE ORDINARY MAN
is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one’s own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.”
-Osho

Always remember – you can listen to the voice of the SOUL – MUCH HAS TO BE CUT – only the ESSENTIALS need to be KEPT!

“Much has to be cut. Much has to be dropped. Only the very essential has to be saved. The non-essential has to be completely destroyed.”
-Osho

It is interesting to know that whether you are in love with a woman or whether you are in love with God – your Love will blossom, will fructify – only when you DROP EVERYTHING – when you LEAVE all those who come between YOU and your LOVER. Much has to be CUT – much has to be dropped…..only then can you attain – then it doesn’t matter whether you want to attain the woman you love or GOD you love!

That is why – I always say that a man who can fall in love with a woman – can someday also fall in love with GOD! Because NOBODY else can understand what it takes to LOVE than someone who has been through the dangerous path of LOVE!

Always remember – Love is dangerous; sex is not dangerous – sex can be manipulated but Love cannot. You can have sex with a woman – but that doesn’t imply that she loves you! People are not afraid of sex – but people are afraid of falling in love – because SEX DOES NOT CREATE ANY BONDING – but LOVE has the power to CREATE A BONDING which many don’t want – they are happy with a ONE NIGHT STAND – but WHOLE LIFE STAND – that is too much – people are afraid of commitments – and LOVE brings the sense of COMMITMENT!

“Love is dangerous because it makes you an individual. And the state and the church … they don’t want individuals, not at all. They don’t want human beings, they want sheep. They want people who only look like human beings but whose souls have been crushed so utterly, damaged so deeply, that it seems almost irreparable.” – Osho

ATMAKARAKA PLANET is a planet that has the potential to BRING FORTH YOUR INDIVIDUALITY – a person who has a strong ATMAKARAKA PLANET is an INDIVIDUAL – he will NEVER COMPROMISE – he would rather prefer to DIE than to compromise on his VALUES, ETHICS and IDEOLOGY.

From the very beginning the society compels you to BRING FORTH YOUR PERSONALITY – but PERSONALITY is NOT THE REAL YOU – PERSONALITY is just a MASK – you will find many men and women – even in restaurants and hotels and all over the places having a GREAT PERSONALITY – but remember it is a MASK – the word PERSONALITY has come from the word PERSONA which means MASK.

Human world is shallow – it is driven to PERSONALITIES. And that is how people are fooled and cheated because PERSONALITY is a MASK – it is an illusion and not a reality.

REALITY is your INDIVIDUALITY. Individuals live their life by being themselves. They don’t care what others think about them or talk about them – they are engrossed in their mission – their ‘journey’ – their ‘joy’! They are INDIVIDUALS and NOT persona (masks- personalities) and so they simply ACCEPT themselves as they are and that makes them BEAUTIFUL!

I have always found a MAN or a WOMAN who lives naturally look more beautiful and more appealing than those who FAKE.

People are so much trapped in their MIND – that they hardly are able to differentiate between PERSONALITY and INDIVIDUALITY.

“The mind has been filled with all kinds of unnecessary luggage. No space is left in the mind for the realities that you have to live. So even your greatest theologian is as foolish about love as you are, has no understanding of freedom, has never enquired into the distinction between personality and individuality.” – OSHO

Only a man who has a strong ATMAKARAKA PLANET lives his life by being an INDIVIDUAL – he is a man of awareness – he may stand against the whole society – but he would NEVER SUCCUMB to the pressure of the society and its hypocrisy.

ATMAKARAKA PLANET as mentioned earlier has more to do with YOU and YOUR INNER GROWTH – because TRANSFORMATION is always INSIDE-OUT.

ATMAKARAK PLANET has to do with YOUR INNER GROWTH!

How can you strengthen your ATMAKARAK GRAH or Planet?

By donating the food that comes under its influence and by FASTING on the day that relates with your ATMAKARAKA PLANET!

But who wants to listen? People are just running all over – finding short cuts – 99% people are always asking one QUESTION – “KITNA DETI HAI?” HOW MUCH MONEY CAN A PLANET IN MY CHART GIVE?”

Who is bothered about REAL GROWTH? Majority is only bothered about which BRAND I can buy and how much pleasures I can seek and how much POWER I can attain! And then when they come they start relating ATMAKARAKA PLANET also with their GREED OF MONEY AND POWER AND SEX! Poor Atmakaraka planet – he must be feeling so sorry!

Anyways that is how this human world is – you cannot change it. The wise never tries to change the world but himself!

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself”
– Rumi

ATMAKARAKA PLANET is deeply related with WISDOM. The greater the placement of ATMAKARAKA PLANET the higher is the degree of WISDOM!

We all have to focus on our ATMAKARAKA PLANET – but ironically people are focused on RAJ YOGA and this YOGA and that YOGA – yesterday early morning one woman called and said “ I think I have MAHAPURUSH YOGA” – I said “ That must be right because who can call so early morning to discuss as TRIVIAL a subject as that of RAJ YOGA or MAHA PURUSH YOGA.”

In fact nowadays every body has become a MAHPURUSH – and so MAHAPURUSH has become common and common PURUSH – ordinary MAN has become RARE – become SPECIAL!

And that is exactly what ATMAKARAK planet would love to see – that you live your life being ORDINARY and while you do so – you continue with your journey WITH God – because let me tell you all – and to my close followers that NOTHING in this world – is as JOYFUL and as BEAUTIFUL and as LASTING as the JOURNEY WITH GOD!

The message of ATMAKARAKA PLANET is very simple and yet very significant –

“Introduce God into your ordinary life.”

“Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special-and then you will be special.”
-OSHO

The ‘Eagle’ becomes special because it is the VEHICLE of Lord Vishnu.

The ‘CROW’ becomes special because it is the VEHICLE of Lord Saturn.

The ‘BULL’ becomes special because it is the VEHICLE of Lord SHIVA!

You see – that is the beauty of being a VEHICLE of GOD – and that is the whole message of ATMA (SOUL) KARAKA (SIGNIFIER) – that just BECOME the VEHICLE of GOD and then life will be no more a problem but a garden of bliss – then there will be a song to your life – a dance – only if you are willing to become the VEHICLE (medium) of GOD and you can become the VEHICLE of GOD only when you SURRENDER – only when you are willing to live your life by surrendering yourself at the FEET OF THE MASTER – the LORD!

Always remember – in Hindi we say “only NAR can become NARAYAN’ – meaning only an ORDINARY MAN has the potential to Become GODLY.

Only if he is able to transform the ordinary mundane things into spiritual things and that is possible when he starts living his life by giving all the ‘driving controls’ to GOD.

“Transform the ordinary mundane things into extraordinary, spiritual things. The whole of life has to be your temple; work has to be your worship; love has to be your prayer. This very body the Buddha, this very Earth has to become the Lotus Paradise.” – Osho

SOUL’s message is simple – live in surrender to Lord because unless your surrender – unless you LET GOD DRIVE YOUR LIFE – you cannot find lasting happiness – you cannot mature – you cannot LET GO and unless you evolve – the way towards LIBERATION – MOKSHA is not possible – so your SELF GROWTH is necessary and the ATMAKARAKA is the planet that can help you to GROW only if you start focusing on enhancing the strength and quality of your ATMAKARAKA planet!

Donating to the poor, the needy, HELPING those who deserve your help, Fasting on the day of your ATMAKARAKA planet – and MEDITATING every day helps to strengthen the ATMA (SOUL) KARAKA (SIGNIFIER) Planet.

After all – all these planets and stars are NOT on the OUTSIDE but WITHIN you. The Upanishad specifically mentions – AHAM BRAMHASMI – meaning ‘I AM THE UNIVERSE’. The ancient seers simply MAPPED the ‘PLANETS’ and ‘STARS’ within the human beings with the PLANETS AND STARS in the GALAXY!

What are planets and stars and signs? They are our NATURE (Planet) – QUALITIES (SIGNS) and KARMIC SYMBOLS (STARS). Since KARMA matters that is why STARS – NAKSHATRAS matters a lot when it comes to the actual RESULTS!

Nothing is on the outside – everything is within – the more you come closer to your ATMA (Soul) – the more you would self-realize this ancient eternal TRUTH that Jesus, Muhammed, Mahavira, Buddha, Krishna and all the divine masters have been sharing all along – that all that you SEEK is WITHIN YOU – that you are not a drop in an ocean but an entire ocean in a drop.

“You are not a drop in the ocean.
You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”
-Rumi 

In a world of billions of people – you will find the state of ATMAKARAKA in many stages from totally ‘asleep’ to totally ‘awakened’! Many of them are totally ASLEEP – and have become PLASTIC ROSES – while there are a few – very few – who go through many upheavals and sufferings – they don’t look PERFECT – they don’t appear appealing and yet they are the ONES – they are the REAL ROSES WITH THORNS – they are the CHOSEN ONES!

“God chooses first, then you start feeling a hunger for him… men can not choose God, it is God who chooses man.” – Osho

Only a man – only a woman whose ATMAKARAKA planet is strong and well-placed – is chosen – is initiated – becomes a part of the GURU-SHISHYA (Master-Disciple) Parampara (tradition)!

And that is very understandable because it shows your ‘journey’ of births and rebirths till date – it shows that you have taken the ‘EFFORTS’ to look within – to turn inwards – to meditate and to break your heart until you FIND the FIRST GLIMPSE of GOD within!

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it
opens”
-Rumi

By constant meditation – by constant chanting the name of the Holy Lord – a day comes when the HEART breaks and OPEN to the LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS – and then there is no looking back – then the sky is clear and you are ready to fly…..

And that is the whole purpose of ATMAKARAKA PLANET – to help you spread the wings – so that you can take off – and experience the kingdom of GOD through your own ‘eyes’ – your own ‘experiences’!

Lastly – always remember your spiritual progress is based on how deeply you connect with your SOUL (ATMA) and NOT your religion!

Focus on your SELF GROWTH – focus on quieting the chattering mind – because it is only when the mind become quiet – your SOUL (ATMA- Self) starts speaking and when the SOUL starts speaking – the whole universe becomes available to you – then though you may ‘appear’ as alone to others – still the whole universe is with you – then there is a song to it, a poem – then you are no more the dancer (doer) – you become the dance!

“Only in Dance does the moment of Grace arrive when you are NOT and Godliness is.”
Osho

Become the dance – and drop the dancer (your EGO) – and then you will connect with your Atmakaraka planet – then you will connect with your SELF.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

The English word – Dejected is defined as someone who is very unhappy because of a certain disappointment. In life – there are moments of unhappiness – moments of disappointments. Failure in business, failure in relationships, failure in family relations, failure in career – the source of feeling unhappy or dejected is Failure.

Mohan asked “Which astrological planet or entity is responsible for feeling dejected in life?”

I smiled and said “Mohan – you have asked a beautiful question – I will answer.”

We are born again in this human world because of our desires. Depending on the quality of our desires – our birth happens. After we take birth – it is our desires that continue to drive us. The whole story of human life is the story of desires – desires are many and when one desire is fulfilled – a new desire is born! First you desire to find a beautiful woman – then you desire to marry her – then once married – you desire to have children – then once you have children – you desire to attain certain things for your children – once you attain those things – you desire to see your children attain success – then you desire for their marriage – then you desire to see your grand children – then you desire to spend time with your grand children – then you desire that all your children take care of you when you become very old – and then when you are dying – you desire to have a successor who would carry forward your lineage – so the cycle of desires continues – after you are dead – you still have many new or old unfinished desires that drive you towards a new birth cycle!

So at the very root of human birth and rebirth is Desire. And since life never comes with a promise of fulfilling all your desires – you are bound to face disappointments whenever your desire remains unfulfilled! And these disappointments eventually makes you feel dejected! So you see – Desire is the cause of our pain, suffering and disappointments that makes us feel dejected.

“In astrology – which entity signify desire?”

Rahu. Rahu is what drives you crazy – the other name for Desire is Rahu! And why Rahu is the other name for desire? Because Rahu or Desire is born out of ignorance!

The very idea that if I become a rich man then I will be happy is the outcome of your ignorance. The very idea that if I find a beautiful woman then I will be the most luckiest person is the outcome of your ignorance. There are millions of men who have found beautiful women – ask them and they will share their miserable stories with you. The very idea that if I become immortal is the outcome of your ignorance. Reminds me of Alexandra the Great. There is a story about Alexander the Great, that he was in search to find something which can make him immortal. Everybody is in search of something like that, and when Alexander is in search, he will find it — he was such a powerful man. He searched and searched, and once he reached to the cave where some wise man has told him that, “If you drink the water of that cave — there is a stream in the cave — you will become immortal.” Alexander must have been foolish. All Alexanders are foolish, otherwise he should have asked the wise man whether he had drunk from that stream or not. He didn’t ask; he was in such a hurry. And who knows? — he may not be able to reach the cave, and before he dies… so he rushed.

He reached to the cave. Inside it, he was very happy: crystal clear the water was there; he had never seen such a water. And he was going to drink the water… suddenly a crow who was sitting in the cave said, “Stop! Don’t do it. I have done and I am suffering.” Alexander looked at the crow and said, “What are you saying? You have drunk, and what is the suffering?” He said, “Now I cannot die and I want to die. Everything is finished. I have known everything that life can give. I have known love and I have grown out of it. And I have known success; I was a king of crows, and now I am fed up, and I have known everything that can be known. And everybody I knew has died; they have gone back to rest, and I cannot rest. I have tried all efforts to commit suicide, but everything fails. I cannot die because I have drunk from this condemned cave. It is better that nobody knows about it. Before you drink, you meditate on my condition — and then you can drink.” It is said Alexander for the first time thought about it, and came back without drinking from that cave and that stream.

Life will be simply unbearable if there is no death. Love will be unbearable if there is no opposite to it. If you cannot separate from your beloved it will be unbearable; the whole thing will become so monotonous, it will create boredom. Life exists with the opposites — that’s why it is so interesting.

But people continue to live in ignorance and it is this ignorance that makes them believe that if they become immortal – they will find eternal happiness but look what the crow says to Alexander – “Stop – don’t drink the water – because I drank and now I am suffering – I will now never die and I am suffering.”

This is what happens my fellows – all that you desire for – becomes the cause of your misery. You desired for a beautiful woman – you got her – and then what happened – you start suffering because of her. You wanted to earn millions of dollars – you earned and then what happened – you got more enemies, more jealousies, more backstabbing, more fears and more insecurities! Always remember – a man who has got a very fat bank balance and many properties is more insecure than a man sleeping on the street – because he has nothing to lose – he is a Fakir!

So now – Mohan, I will share certain placements in chart that bring disappointments and the feeling of being dejected in life.

Rahu in 4th house, Rahu in 1st house, Rahu in 7th house, Rahu in 10th house – these are the most significant placements of Rahu that can bring certain failures in life – disappointments that would make you feel totally dejected in life. Additionally when Moon is with Rahu in the center houses of 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th – then definitely – the person experiences certain mental issues and at some stage of life may need some medical help. Rahu in center houses makes you a pucca Rahuish person. And when you are driven by Rahu – then you tend to become more and more restless because there are so many desires – so many illusions that you have nourished within you that these illusions and desires eventually lead you to disappointments and disappointments brings on the feeling of being dejected in life.

The only savior to such difficult placements of Rahu is Shri Guru – Jupiter. If Jupiter is exalted in your chart then you may find some spiritual guru to guide you and to help you overcome the many miseries that Rahu – meaning your desires bring in your life.

Always remember – whenever your desire is fulfilled – you start suffering. That is why the divine master says – “Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then you will suffer.” That’s what happens to a rich man: he was poor, then he desired riches, and desire and desired and now it is fulfilled. Now he has become a millionaire. But now he is unhappy, now he is crying and weeping and he says, “My whole life has gone accumulating worthless things and I am unhappy.!” But this was his desire. If you desire knowledge, it will be fulfilled; your head will become a great library, many scriptures. But then in the end you will weep and cry and scream, “Only words and words and words, and nothing substantial. And I have wasted my whole life.”

There was one famous Godman – he was very famous in India and he preached for 32 years – and then one day he realized that instead of spending 32 years in preaching people – if he would have spend those 32 years for his own spiritual growth then he may have attained Nirvana – spiritual enlightenment. Remember – you cannot transform people into Buddhas – many have tried and all have failed miserably. Because the truth is that you can transform yourself and nobody else. You can dive within your being and attain self-realization. You can bring transformation within you. However you cannot transform others. You can become an inspiration for others to transform – but you cannot transform others. That’s why the great Sufi Saint Rumi says – When I was clever I was trying to change others. When I became wise – I started to change myself.

In your path and in your spiritual journey – many of them – especially our family members – especially the elder family members will try to ridicule you – they will try to belittle you – they will insult you – they will try to pull you back by referring to your past life mistakes – but let me tell you – all of these instances and pains are the test of your life. Always remember God tests those whom he loves the most. So all the insults and offending comments that you receive from your family members is to test your strength, test your faith in God. Always remember when you start transforming – when start progressing on your spiritual path – many people will try to pull you back – many people will try to cause much disturbance in your life – many people will try to ridicule and demotivate you – this is how God works – God will put you on more difficult tests as you move closer to God – this is how it happens my fellows – this is the way of its happening. And when you don’t give up – when you continue to walk on the path of devotion, path of love – that is when a day comes when God comes in search of you – when the Guru comes in search of you – and that is the most beautiful moment of your life – that is when the melting happens – then is when you experience ONENESS and then there is no looking back – the road is clear and you are ready to walk!

Always remember – whenever you start doing something good for yourself as well as for the society – you will have to face many negative men and women who will try to stop you – but it all depends on how strong is your faith – it all depends on how deeply you believe in yourself – it all depends on how much inner growth has happened within you – it all depends on how much efforts you have been taking towards your inner growth.

From the very beginning of time – goodness had to face many obstacles and sufferings from cheap ignorant fellows. Sai Baba was harassed by some local villagers of Shirdi. Akalkot Swami Samarth was harassed, Jesus was crucified, Prophet was forced to leave Mecca, Lord Rama was forced to prove his wife’s purity, Lord Krishna has to face insults from the Kauravas and the list in unending – the essence of the matter is that whenever you start transforming for good – whenever you start doing good for the society – you will have to face many oppositions and hurdles but you must never give up – you should continue with your mission – you should remain focused on your goal. Neem Karoli Baba used to say – that there are people who get exactly what they want . You think they are the lucky ones but they are NOT. The lucky ones are those who do what they are meant to.

And so if you are a goodhearted fellow – if you are walking on the path of goodness, path of devotion, path of love then please continue walking – because that’s why you are born – to do what you are meant to.

Love to all my close followers. Stay blessed and continue to meditate and chant every day. “Aum Ram Krishna Hari.”

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

First house, Fourth house, Seventh house and Tenth house are known as Kendra ( Center) houses in Vedic Astrology. First, Fifth and Ninth house are known as Trikona ( Triangular) houses.

In reality every Kendra house is also a part of Trikona!

1st house ( Kendra) is part of the 5th and 9th house ( Trikona). This Trikona formed by 1st, 5th, 9th house is the DHARMA TRIKONA ( Righteousness Triangle).

10th house ( Kendra) is part of the 2nd and 6th house ( Trikona). This Trikona formed by 10th, 2nd and 6th house is ARTHA TRIKONA ( Money/Wealth Triangle).

7th house ( Kendra) is part of the 3rd and 11th house (Trikona). This Trikona formed by 7th house, 11th house, 3rd house is the KAMA TRIKONA ( Sexual/physical pleasures/desires fulfillment Triangle).

4th house ( Kendra) is part of 8th, and 12th house ( Trikona). This Trikona formed by 4th, 8th, 12th is the MOKSHA TRIKONA ( Liberation/Nirvana Triangle).

So you see the KENDRA AND TRIKONA comprises all the aspects of human life — ARTHA, KAMA, DHARMA AND MOKSHA.

Hindu religion or to be precise – the SANATAN DHARMA of ancient India has been so perfectly based on these four walls of human life – ARTHA (MONEY), KAMA (SEX), DHARMA (RIGHTEOUSNESS) and MOKSHA (Nirvana, Liberation of the soul).

“Human being, the period of whose life is one hundred years, should practise Dharma , Artha, and Kama at different times and in such a manner that they may harmonize, and not clash in any way. He should acquire learning in his childhood; in his youth and middle age he should attend to Artha and Kama, and in his old age he should perform Dharma, and thus seek to gain Moksha , that is, release from further transmigration.” – Sanatan Dharma

The secret therefore is that — that for every aspect of life — the whole Trikona becomes instrumental. Meaning — for marriage, along with 7th house, 3rd and 11th house also becomes instrumental in signifying marriage and happiness from marriage! The same is the case with money/income, along with 2nd house, 6th and 10th house also becomes instrumental. The same is the case with spiritual journey or progress on spiritual path, along with 12th house, 4th and 8th house also becomes instrumental.

Life is multi dimensional similarly Astrology is also multi dimensional. Just one house cannot decide the outcome of a certain aspect of human life.

Human beings are also multi-dimensional. SEX cannot engulf your whole – if it is doing so then you are simply being one-dimensional. Money cannot engulf your whole life – if that is the case then you are simply being one-dimensional. Dharma – also cannot engulf your life – else you will become a hard core religious activist who shows no humanity – no feelings! Spirituality also cannot engulf your life – else you will miss to take care of the basic needs of your life – such as food, hospital bills, shelter and clothing! So you see – everything is needed – and one who is able to BALANCE all of these aspects of human life – becomes a real Master – a real Yogi!

“There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion.”
-Dalai Lama

BALANCE is the key. And therefore a good horoscope is always balanced – meaning it has planets in the Kendra (1,4,7,10) as well as in the Trikona houses (2,3,5,6,8,9,11,12).

Kendra houses is like the playground where the player comes to play and exhibit his or her PERFORMANCE.

WHEREAS Trikona houses are the ‘engine’ – the source from where the talent comes.

So now tell me — and I ask this to all my close followers, what drives your performance?

And the answer is – Talent. Intelligence. Wisdom. All of these comes from the abode of the Trikona houses — (2,3,5,6,8,9,11,12).

Now a question may arise — that what if there are no planets in the Kendra houses (1.4.7.10)?

The answer is simple. Then you may NOT get the platform to perform! It is like you are a good batsman but you never got the opportunity to come on the ground and perform — your turn never came!

And so in such scenarios — we find men and women who are talented but they never get the chance to perform! They always remain in the waiting list – waiting for an opportunity! Many times they also tend to miss opportunity.

“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”
-H. Jackson Brown

In certain cases such fellows – even if they get opportunity they are not able to perform well – since there is no planet in the Kendra or the Lord of Kendra (1,4,7,10) is not having the strength!

Mohan asked “And what when there are absolutely no planets in the Trikona?”

Then the native lacks talent or the required skill to make an impact in this world. Through certain ‘connections’ he or she may get many opportunities but because they simply don’t have the necessary talent – they face failures after failures in life! A good example is of Star Kids – these kids get movies or television serials – but they simply cannot make an impact – they lack the basic acting skills!

I generally don’t get much time to watch television serials – but I remember watching a few television serials on Star Plus channel – and the kind of acting talent that I observed in some of the television actors – be it “Niara” or “Kartic” in the television serial Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. This is the only serial that has always maintained a decent plot that is not too negative and yet has managed to become the most popular television show! Similarly there are certain great acting talents who act in movies – such kind of talent is missing when you don’t have any planet in Trikona houses or the Lord of the Trikona houses is weak!

Now the most interesting question – how this KENDRA and TRIKONA house Lords impact during their Mahadasha period?

And the answer is simple:

To perform – you need the perfect opportunity which only the KENDRA HOUSE lord can offer you. And so – it is necessary that you get to experience the MAHADASHA of KENDRA HOUSE LORD!

Now let us see, based on ASCENDANT, which KENDRA PLANET offers the much required opportunity?

1. ARIES ASCENDANT: MARS, MOON, VENUS, SATURN MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.
2. TAURUS ASCENDANT: VENUS, SUN, MARS, SATURN MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.
3. GEMINI ASCENDANT: MERCURY, JUPITER MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.
4. CANCER ASCENDANT: MOON, VENUS, SATURN, MARS MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.
5. LEO ASCENDANT: SUN, MARS, SATURN, VENUS MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.
6. VIRGO ASCENDANT: MERCURY, JUPITER MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.
7. LIBRA ASCENDANT: VENUS, SATURN, MARS, MOON, MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.
8. SCORPIO ASCENDANT: MARS, SATURN, VENUS, SUN MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.
9. SAGITARIUS ASCENDANT: JUPITER, MERCURY MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.
10. CAPRICORN ASCENDANT: SATURN, MARS, MOON, VENUS MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.
11. AQUARIUS ASCENDANT: SATURN, VENUS, SUN, MARS MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.
12. PISCES ASCENDANT: JUPITER, MERCURY MAHADASHA can give you the opportunity.

So you – out of all the 12 Ascendants – only 4 Ascendants remain unfortunate in the matters of OPPORTUNITY – and those 4 are:

1. GEMINI ASCENDANT
2. VIRGO ASCENDANT
3. SAGGITARIUS ASCENDANT
4. PISCES ASCENDANT

Simply because these 4 Ascendants get only two planets – JUPITER and MERCURY as KENDRADHIPATI (Lord of KENDRA houses 1.4.7.10). And so the SCOPE of getting opportunity is lesser than the rest 8 Ascendants!

Millions of men and women are born – but NOT everybody gets the opportunity (meaning the MAHADASHA OF KENDRA HOUSE LORD) – it may be the case that you are talented – but if you don’t get the opportunity – the platform then how are you going to make an impact – and attain success in your career?

Reminds me of my meeting with a great Saint.

It happened so that I had met an eminent Doctor in Mumbai. He had become very old. He shared one incident with me – he was close to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He used to live with Panditji – in Delhi. One day he visited a temple in Varanasi – and he heard a musician playing shehnai, a reeded woodwind instrument. The musician was a very common man – he used to sit next to the Shiva Ling and play his shehnai. The Doctor loved his art – his way of playing the shehnai. The next day – he shared this incident with Pandit Nehru – and insisted that this man should be invited to play before Nehruji. Nehru agreed – the man was invited – and he played his heart out – he played the shehnai so well – that along with Nehru – the whole gathering was mesmerized. In the days to come – this young man became one of the greatest Shehnai player – he came to be known as Ustad Bismillah Khan!

So you see – this is what one needs – this is what real talent needs – OPPORTUNITY – the RIGHT OPPORTUNITY – which the Kendra Lord provides!

“Opportunities
are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
-WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

At least ONE planet should be in the KENDRA house (1/4/7/10th house).

In worst scenario – it is okay if you don’t have any planet in the TRIKONA houses which provides TALENT – but you need an opportunity which only the KENDRA house provides.

“All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.”
-John F. Kennedy

Opportunity to develop talent is what one needs – and so Kendra house LORD and KENDRA HOUSE becomes extremely important in the affairs of human life.

Almost every famous person in this human world has very strong KENDRA HOUSE (1.4.7.10) and strong KENDRADHIPATI (Lord of KENDRA).

In simple words – for MATERIAL WORLD (worldly matters) – KENDRA HOUSE is very important considering OPPORTUNITIES comes through the KENDRA.

Whereas for SPIRITUAL WORLD (spiritual progress/ascetic life) – TRIKONA HOUSE is very important (2.3.6.5.9.8.12) considering WISDOM comes through the TRIKONA HOUSE.

A wise person is a man of awareness – he remains happy because he has the “skills” to find the positive in the negative!

“Always rely on just a happy frame of mind. Let it become one of the fundamental rules of your life. Even if you come across a negative, find something positive in it. You will always be able to find something. And the day you become skillful at finding the positive in the negative, you will dance with joy.”
– Osho

A Yogi may do well even through he doesn’t get any opportunities in life. So for a Yogi – a spiritual being, a Buddha – it is perfectly fine if there are no planets in the KENDRA or very few planet in the KENDRA. For he is happy in his own bliss – he has tasted that which your money, your status and your power cannot! He is no more trapped in his MIND – he has gone beyond the MIND – he has reached the state of Buddha – the state of NO MIND.

Spiritual journey begins when you start going beyond mind.

“First go beyond mind. Then go beyond enlightenment too.
“Don’t get stuck anywhere until you are simply an ordinary part of the existence, with the trees, with the birds, with the animals, with the rivers, with the mountains.
“You feel a deep harmony – no superiority, no inferiority.” -Osho

Such is the state of a real spiritual being – he is no more of this world – he has gone beyond the world – because the world itself is nothing but an extension of your MIND!

“The world is nothing but your own magnified mind. “-OSHO

Your MIND is YOUR WORLD. For a villager – all that happens in his village is his world. For a man living in a city – all that happens in the city is his world. In today’s online world – the scope of the MIND has expanded to all corners of the globe – and so the WORLD has become more larger than it used to be in the ancient times. The bottom line is that your WORLD is simply your own magnified MIND.

One day Mohan asked – “In the birth chart – which house you consider as the most significant house?”

I said to Mohan – “Your question is like asking which organ of your body is significant? In reality every organ of the body is significant – each organ functions by the support of other organ – similarly each house in the birth chart is significant – since each house operates based on the SUPPORT of other houses.”

The 1st house is your SVABHAV – your self-nature.

The 2nd house is your VALUES – only when you have VALUES that the MONEY you earn is used for a good cause.

The 3rd house is your EFFORTS – only through efforts you can do something GREAT.

The 4th house is your INNER MOST BEING – only when the inner being is purified – that you can find PEACE, HAPPINESS in life. 4th house therefore signify happiness.

The 5th house is your INTELLIGENCE. And Intelligence is gained through GOOD KARMA – through MEDITATION – through CHANTING the name of the holy LORD – 5th house therefore is connected with SADHANA, PENANCE, WORSHIP, LOVE!

The 6th house is your strength to FIGHT BACK – and defeat the temptations. Always remember the ENEMY on the outside is less dangerous than the your TEMPTATIONS! Mars, Ketu and Sun therefore do well in the 6th house because to FIGHT LIKE A WARRIOR you need MALE DOMINANCE – which MARS and SUN provides as well as you need to have a certain madness – because only then you can fight like a true warrior – this madness – this going beyond the mind comes through KETU and so 6th house is significant considering the fact that only a FIGHTER WINS – it is not important whether you WIN or LOSE – what is important that you FIGHT till the last breath of your LIFE!

The 7th house is your DEALINGS with OTHERS. And the most significant OTHER person in your life is your PARTNER (Marriage partner or sexual partner). The 7th is how WORLD (others) perceive you? There are men and women who ATTRACT others very easily – this power of attraction is in the 7th house. Whenever a person has MOON in the 7th house – he or she definitely ATTRACTS the opposite sex – they often enjoy many relationships – sexual, love affairs. Whenever RAHU is in the 7th house – the person is very easily distracted towards OTHERS – they are the ones who love to gossip about OTHERS. The marriage partner or sexual partner is RAHUISH by nature – and it is very obvious that these men and women are always in the tight grip of their marriage partner.

The 8th house is the DARK WORLD within you. Each one of us carry a dark world within us – which we are not fully aware of! The secret of our existence, the root of our birth, the purpose of our life is what the 8th house stands for. It is the most significant house in ASTROLOGY – since it holds much depth and many secrets within its abode. GUPT DHAN or SECRET TREASURE is always found through the 8th house. Now it is a different subject that what seems to be a treasure for you – may not be a treasure for me! Money/Gold may be your idea of ‘treasure’ whereas for an evolved soul – Wisdom/Self-Realization is what ‘treasure’ is! So it all depends on the level of the soul – and the level of the soul is based on its level of consciousness!

The 9th house is the house where you exhibit wisdom. 8th house is the source of wisdom – 9th house is where your wisdom is showcased. It is just the way a raw diamond is mined from the mines (8th house) and then the same raw diamond is polished, treated and then displayed in a nice showroom (9th house). People then start believing that diamond is available only in air conditioned showrooms – they miss to realize the FACT that the real source of this diamond is the mines (8th house)!

Reminds me of a wonderful incident. And this is very close to my heart. And this sharing is only for my few close followers – once it happened, the great Hindi poet, Sumitranandan Pant, once asked Osho: who in the vast sky of Indian religion are the twelve people, who in your opinion are the brightest shining stars?

Osho noted the following 12 names:

1. Krishna
2. Patanjali
3. Buddha
4. Mahavira
5. Nagarjuna
6. Shankara
7. Gorakh
8. Kabir
9. Nanak
10. Meera
11. Ramakrishna
12. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pant said to Osho: “You have excluded Lord Rama!”

Osho said: “If I am allowed to choose only twelve; many names will have to be cut. So I have chosen those twelve people who have made some original contribution. Rama has made no original contribution, Krishna has. This is why Hindus call Krishna a complete incarnation, but not Rama.”

Pant asked further, “Next, could you give me seven names?”

Now the question had become more difficult!

Osho gave him seven names:

1. Krishna
2. Patanjali
3. Buddha
4. Mahavira
5. Shankara
6. Gorakh
7. Kabir

Pant said: “The five that you have deleted, on what basis did you drop them?”

Osho said: “Nagarjuna is contained in Buddha. That which was a seed in Buddha, manifested itself in Nagarjuna. Nagarjuna can be dropped when it is a question of saving, trees can be dropped, but not seeds, because seeds will again become trees. They will become new trees. When Buddha is born, hundreds of Nagarjunas will soon be born, but no Nagarjuna can give birth to Buddha. Buddha is the headwater of the Ganges. Nagarjuna is just a place of pilgrimage that appears along the course of the Ganges. Lovely, but if cutting is needed, then the place of pilgrimage can be dropped, not the source of the Ganges.

“Similarly Krishnamurti is included in Buddha. Krishnamurti is Buddha’s newest edition — the freshest; in today’s language. But the difference is only of language. Krishnamurti is just an elaboration of Buddha’s final sutra ‘appa dipo bhau’ — be a light unto yourself.’ A commentary on one sutra — deep, profound, tremendously vast, immensely significant! But he’s just a commentary on ‘Be a light unto yourself: appa dipo bhau’. These were Buddha’s last words on this earth. Before leaving his body, he had given this essential sutra… As if the treasure of his whole life, his whole life’s experience was concentrated into this small sutra.

“Ramakrishna can easily be included in Krishna. Meera and Nanak can be dissolved into Kabir. They are like branches of Kabir. As if half of what came together in Kabir has manifested in Nanak and half has manifested in Meera. In Nanak the male aspect of Kabir has manifested, so it is not surprising that Sikhism became a warrior’s religion, a religion of the soldier. In Meera, Kabir’s feminine aspect is manifested — hence his entire sweetness, his entire fragrance, his entire music resound from the bells on Meera’s ankles. The woman in Kabir has sung on the one string of Meera’s ektara. In Nanak the man in Kabir has spoken. Both are contained in Kabir.

“This is how” Osho said, “I made the list of seven.”

Now Pant’s curiosity was tremendously aroused. He said, “And if you had to make a list of five?”

Osho said, “Then it will be even more difficult for me.”

Osho gave him this list:

1. Krishna
2. Patanjali
3. Buddha
4. Mahavira
5. Gorakh

Because Kabir is merged into Gorakh. Gorakh is the root. Gorakh cannot be left out. And Shankara easily merges into Krishna. He is the exposition of one part of Krishna, the philosophic interpretation of just one aspect of Krishna.

Pant said: “One more time… if only four are to be kept?”

Then Osho listed for him:

1. Krishna
2. Patanjali
3. Buddha
4. Gorakh…

Because Mahavira is not very different from Buddha. Just a tiny difference and that too only a difference in expression. Mahavira’s greatness can be encompassed in the greatness of Buddha.

Pant said: “Just one more time… please choose three persons.”

Osho said: “Now it is impossible. I can not drop any of these four.”

Then Osho further explained: “These four individualities are like the four directions. These four dimensions are like the four dimensions of time and space. These four arms are like the four armed conception of god. In fact there is only one, but that one has four arms. To leave out any one would be like cutting off an arm. I cannot do that. Until now I’ve been going along with you. I was continuing to decrease the number, because until now the one’s that had to be put aside were clothes. Now limbs would have to be broken, I cannot fracture limbs. Please don’t insist on such violence.”

Pant said: “Some questions have arisen, one is: you can drop Mahavira, but not Gorakh?”

Osho said “Gorakh cannot be dropped, because Gorakh became a new beginning for this country. No new beginning came from Mahavira. He was a rare man; but for centuries the first twenty three Jaina tirthankaras had already said what he was saying. He was just their repetition. He is not the beginning of a new journey. He is not the first link in a new chain, rather the last link. Gorakh is the first link of a chain. Through him a new type of religion was born. Without Gorakh, there could be no Kabir, no Nanak, no Dadu, no Vajid, no Farid, no Meera — without Gorakh none of these are possible. The basic root of all of them is in Gorakh. Since then the temple has been built high. On this temple many golden spires have been raised… but the foundation stone is the foundation stone. Though the golden spires may be seen from afar, they cannot be more important than the foundation stone. And the foundation is not visible to anyone, but on this very stone stands the whole structure, all the walls, all the high peaks… The peaks are worshipped. People simply forget about the foundation. Gorakh has been similarly forgotten.”

That is how the significance of the 8th house is simply forgotten.

I loved Osho the day I read this excerpt – where he talks about Gorakh – my beloved master – one of the greatest of greatest masters – Gorakhnath!

“The whole palace of India’s literature of the Sant tradition rests on this stone; everything is based on this one individual – Gorakh. He has said it all, and slowly, slowly all he has said will go on becoming more beautiful, a many-colored splendor over time. People will meditate and base their spiritual practice on it for centuries to come. Who knows how many enlightened beings shall be born through Him.” – Osho

Co-incidentally today is THURSDAY – GURUVAR – and what a beautiful moment it is that this beautiful revelation and sharing of HIS greatness has happened today – on THURSDAY itself! That is HIS blessing. Without HIM – I am lifeless – WITH HIM – I am ALIVE.

Jai Gorakhnath! Jai Guru!

The 10th house signify the height – the status that you may attain in your life! 10th house is the sum of your 2nd and 6th house!

Mohan asked “How?”

Because 2nd house is your VALUES, ETHICS, PRINCIPLES and 6th house is your quality of SERVICE – how devoted you are to SERVE – when both 2nd and 6th house qualities are in harmony – the 10th is bound to pass with good marks! That is why your STATUS and your STANDING in the society is purely based on your VALUES (2nd) and your SERVICE (6th) to the society or people in general.

The 11th house is culmination point of your desires. It is here that your desires are fulfilled. But how desires are fulfilled? Only when you take efforts (3rd house) and you network with more people, you communicate effectively and establish good relations with people (7th house)! So you see – 11th house gets good marks only when your 3rd and 7th house is strong and supportive!

The 12th house is the BEYOND. It is the Abode of Shive – the place of Buddha. Now if you are an utterly disgusting individual – many of them that I come across – who simply comment to hurt me – such disgusting individuals will only find the 12th house the most painful house! And many also get imprisoned – but those beautiful souls – those beautiful individuals who are meditative – who are turning inwards – who are taking efforts towards their self-growth – to such individuals the 12th house becomes a great rejuvenating place to be! 12th house gets its marks based on the state of your 4th house and 8th house. For spiritual progress – the 4th.8th.12th is of immense significance.

So this is how the whole story of KENDRA and TRIKONA house is. It is a deep subject – may be it is so deep and so interesting that a whole book can be written or a whole series of episodes can be made sitting before a camera!

For now – this is enough. May be someday I will elaborate more on this wonderful subject.

In this October – my new book “Saturn Demystified Spiritually” is coming – I have mentioned many remedies in this brand new book for the larger interest of all my followers and readers – I am certain that this book will benefit my readers – just the way my previous published books have.

Love to all my readers – and always remember – negative people are many, but among these negative idiotic people – we must find the good ones – the beautiful souls. One day – Yukteshwar Giri (the Guru of Paramhansa Yogananda) said to Mahavatar Babaji – “There are many FAKE people in this KUMBH MELA – and so I hestitate to visit the KUMBH MELA.”

To this the great benevolent compassionate divine master – Mahavatar Babaji (Gorakhnath) said “ This human world is a mixture of salt and sugar – one must pick the sugar and leave the salt aside.”

The message was very clear – that though there are many FAKE Saints in the Kumbh Mela or in this human world – still you should consciously share and help those who are worthy of your sharing – who are sugar and NOT salt!

In this vast human world of fake fellows – there are few good authentic beings in this human world and they are thirsty – they are longing – they are waiting – they are the seekers and they must not be ignored – they should be nurtured.

My sharing is only for those who have a certain depth of understanding. My videos or my posts are only for them – the rest can ignore – I have never asked anybody to read or watch my videos – for I am perfectly aware that only those will come who are true to themselves – who are the future Buddhas!

“There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.”
-Buddha

Stay blessed and remember to meditate every day.

Love.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

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Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Swaroop.

D9 chart is your real self. It is your Swa-roop (Swa – self. Roop ‘THE Real YOU’)

The whole world may condemn you – because they can only see your physical state – they cannot see the ‘Real You’ – the one that is hidden – the one that is real you! For that they first have to reach the stage of realizing their ‘self’!

There was a young man. And soon he lost his wife, his daughter, and son. Then a day came when he also lost his home. The landlord threw him out on the streets with his luggage. It was a small village. The man took to drinking. Soon he became a drunkard. Whenever he would pass the narrow lanes of the village with a ‘bottle’ in his hand, people would move aside – as if he was untouchable – they would keep distance – they would make fun of him. They condemned him. They hated him. And the man would simply keep walking with a bottle in hand. His clothes were dirty, for many days he may not even have had a good bath, he just used his small amount of saved money for drinking alcohol and he drank to his heart…..and life continued. The villagers had plans to throw him out of the village but they could not – who wants trouble? Law of the land would not let them do so. So they simply continued to make fun, ridicule this man, often they would beat him, the man would bleed…..but nobody would care to come closer to him, they would just leave him bleeding, and the young man with his tearful eyes would see all that was happening to him, smile and would simply continue to live his life……without any complaints, without any resentment.

Then one day something strange happened, it was monsoon season and rains started and it rained so heavily and it just continued – the rains would not stop, the village was flooded with water…..the women, the children, the cattle – they all were trapped…and many were dying, many were about to die……the whole village was in havoc…..but the rains won’t stop.

And it rained heavily continuously for 5 days….and the villagers started praying, the head of the village arranged for prayers…the whole village gathered to offer prayers, for the mercy of God – but still the rains won’t stop…..the voice of crying, the yelling, the screaming was unbearable…..the young man who was always beaten, ridiculed, was, as usual, walking through the muddy lanes of the village and the screaming the crying the voice of suffering reached his heart and for that moment his heart moved….something happened within his being and for the first time his eyes were filled with tears…..unable to bear the suffering of his villagers….he looked up in the sky and with folded hands he prayed, he said: “God I beg you – please stop the rains…..I will give up drinking if you listen to my prayers……”

And it is said …….God listened to this man’s prayers. God said that if something good is going to happen, and if this man is promising to give up on drinking alcohol then let me listen to his prayers and that very moment the rains stopped!

Just one word from your heart just one word that comes from your SWAROOP – real self – and the word is heard, the prayers are answered!

If you take one step towards God then God will take one hundred steps towards you!

With one call from the very inner core of your being can move God than your 1000 words prayers!

This inner core is your D9 chart. Your Swaroop – the real you! Whenever anything that comes, springs from your inner being – it always vibrates with the universe, with the outside world!

The young man gave up on drinking alcohol. And soon he became the greatest lover of God that the world had ever known!

The villagers realized their mistake. They all came to say sorry and also to thank the young man to whom they had been condemning for so many months….they said “It was you who prayed for us and God listened to your prayers. We mistreated you, condemned you and did so many terrible things on you and yet your heart moved for our daughters and mothers, for our sisters and our wives…you saved us….from now onwards we will not trouble you anymore…we will offer you a new house…a job and anything that you would wish for and we can provide you…..”

The young man smiled and said “Now these four walls that you are offering me cannot contain me anymore…..now I am set on the greatest journey of my life…and the journey is with God…I cannot stay in this village anymore. The call from the heavens have come and I should follow HIS footsteps….”

And the young man set out on his spiritual journey……whenever he would meet people he would always share his own life story that – “If with just one word that comes from your heart – God can do this miracle than imagine how much God can do – if you give your whole life to HIM! If you surrender to HIS WILL in totality?”

But people are shallow. They say many things but they do exactly the opposite of what they say! There is absolutely no sync in what people think, say and do – and therefore miseries are more and happiness is less.

The young man in his prayers would always say:

“In the ‘pursuit of desire,’ people become drunkards. But in your ‘Love’ I have become a prayerful man.”

A totally condemned man, a totally rejected man – is accepted, is loved in the Kingdom of God – by God – simply because he has it – that the others don’t!

What does he have? And that is what is his D9 chart – his real self – his SWAROOP!

The water of the flowing river is sweet and pure. What you see is the DUST layer on it because it is ‘raining’ (karmic dues). You SEE the Layer of dust, the pattern of dust ( Ascendant chart) but to see the real pure water…..to see the true self of the flowing river…you have to go to its depth and that is where is your D9 chart or Navamsha chart!

Whether the water beneath the layer of dust is sweet or sour. Is poison or nectar, is good or bad is found only through the D9 chart.

There was one beautiful girl. And a young man fell in love with her. Somehow he found her birth details and requested for my guidance.

I said to him “ This girl will make your life miserable. Drop the idea of getting yourself involved with her and find someone else.”

But beauty is very distracting. The girl was so beautiful that the young lad could not help himself…he went ahead and then began the sweet story of “I love you” and “ You love me”…and after many days, one night I received a call from this young lad…and he said, “ Help me….”

I said what happened…and the boy said “ The girl has abandoned me – cheated me and now I am all stuck….don’t know what to do…don’t know where to go….”

This Girl had the worst D9 chart….with major planets falling in debilitated placements and Venus with Rahu in D9 chart! Moon with Mars, Shani and Sun – horrible mentality. And many such aspects where the “ water” (D9) beneath the layer (Ascendant) is not nectar but pure poison!

Then the next day the young lad came. He looked so weak, so pale. When I had met him, he was so fresh, lively and flowing like a river! But now he was all fade out. He said “ I should have listened to your advice. But I became blind in her beauty and the result you see what has happened to me.”

I said “ Mohan, in life never fall what appears to your eyes. When you SEE…you SEE through the Mind and the Mind cannot ‘see’ what lies beneath the appearance which your self can see.”

The young lad – Mohan said “I want to come out of this mess….please help. I can follow your advice. Please help me…”

I said “ Do one thing. Every day you write to me about what you did from morning to evening. All your daily activities- just draft it down and email me every night before the day ends. And be sure it should be in details.”

Mohan agreed.

Then for the next 10 days, Mohan would write a detailed mail of all his activities and send it to me.

“ Today I got up at 6 Am. Then I did this and that and then I went to college then I did this and then I had a new classmate and so on and on….”

And everyday details of his routine would come to me through his own expressions….

And on the eleventh day, I called him and asked:

“ How are you doing now…”

And his lost voice was back! The old depressed Mohan was gone and a new Mohan was born. He said “ I am feeling so good….. every day I am focused on what I am doing NOW…and it is so good…so beautiful to be in this NOW moment and because I have to write to you about my daily routine– I remain more conscious of every activity that I am doing….I am living now…..and I am so thankful to you.”

Life is all about ‘ING’….PRESENT TENSE!

Mohan found his life back. In the pursuit to share his daily activity with me….slowly he became focused on the NOW moment…..and when you are able to BE HERE NOW – then where is the question of any misery or any worry or any sadness? You are simply happy to BE – yourself and to BE – in this Now moment!

I was happy to see a young talented lad like Mohan getting back to his real self. Laughing…singing..dancing to his heart!

After many years, one day I received a call and it was Mohan. And Mohan said, “ I have got married and now a father of two kids.”

A young lad who was all pale and sad for being ditched by a beautiful girl was now living a happy married life – what else more is required! It just made my day!

The key is NOT to fall for APPEARANCE but to realize what lies beneath. And the way to get hold of this Key is to move beyond your mind and come closer to your self by trying to BE HERE NOW.

Life is flowing at this moment – if you miss the moment – you go on missing life…the height of your success depends on how much you are able to BE HERE NOW.

Meditation is possible only when you are living your life by focusing 100% on the present moment…the NOW MOMENT! When your MIND is able to BE HERE NOW….meditation is possible.

The water beneath the layer is always active. You cannot say that the water is not active and it will become active at a certain stage. The water beneath the layer of dust is always active – right from its point of evolution.

Similarly, the D9 chart (water) is active right from the beginning of your birth stage to your death stage. And also beyond that!

D9 is the blueprint of the quality of your self. To raise the quality of the self – a balance of good karma and the effort to realize your ‘self’ by being more and more meditative is necessary!

Based on your present life karma, the D9 chart does not change in your next birth. Because the D9 chart is of the higher realms. And so unless you put efforts to explore the higher realms of your Consciousness – the D9 chart and its nature remain as is.

The core ‘PATTERN’ is in the D9. The ‘DESIGN’ may keep changing every birth after birth – but as long as the PATTERN remains as is – how can you say that growth has happened, or progress of your ‘self’ has happened?

And it is only the divine intervention of the compassionate master that can help you all to change the repeating pattern of your life afterlife!

But the master comes – only when you are ‘ready’!

This readiness is your ability to surrender yourself in totality to HIS will.

People do everything, they will run from this temple to that temple, from this pundit to that pundit, but when it comes to surrendering – a very few can do so in reality!

Maybe that is one reason why Krishna loved Arjuna! And he loved him so much that it is beyond the power of expression! And why he would not love him – Arjuna had truly surrendered to his master – Krishna, in totality!

On the battlefield of Mahabharat war – Krishna says to Arjuna “Get up and shoot your arrow on that old man standing before you – shoot him, he is standing against TRUTH”

And the old man was Pitashree Bhishma – the man who loved Arjuna. And Arjuna too loved Bhishma – but with just one word of the master – Arjuna gets up and shoots Bhishma with his arrow – only a man who has surrendered in totality to his master can do such a thing – great courage is required and it comes only when you TRUST the word of your master – when you have totally surrendered to your master!

Throughout this human life, I have met people from all walks of life – and I have absolutely no hesitation to say that it is the most common man, the poor who is able to surrender much easily, much faster than your so-called white-collar man.

The poor have more of heart and less of the head. Your so-called rich men are trapped in their heads/logic – intellectuality, too much of learning. It is difficult for them to jump…..into the unknown….they will ask questions, raise doubts, debate but someone like Peter, the fisherman, an illiterate poor man can jump and he does jumps – leaves everything, drops everything with just one call from Jesus “Follow Me”!

And it is this Peter who goes on to become the greatest Saint of Christian Faith that the world had ever known!

Peter, the fisherman was poor – but in Jesus’s dictionary – Peter was the richest man that the world would have ever known!

The definition of the word POOR is very different in what you see in your dictionary and what is in God’s dictionary!

God calls a man rich who has become absolutely frustrated with the world, who has known all that it can give and has come to know that it is illusory. He has become aware of his ‘inner poverty’. Such a man says “No richness of the world can fulfill my hungry heart; nothing that I can possess can ever bring contentment to me. My poverty remains untouched by my riches.”

God calls such a man – a rich man. It has nothing to do with his money – it has more to do with the ‘SELF-REALIZATION of his inner poverty’! Such a man than whether he has millions in his bank account or he has just a penny in his bank account – such a man is RICH in God’s dictionary! Someone who has self-realized that Money, Wealth, Property, Fame is NOT the answer to the real question – the question of finding eternal joy, peace, and bliss!

Understand the fact that when Jesus says “Blessed are the poor because theirs is the kingdom of God.” – Jesus is referring to those who have self-realized their ‘inner poverty’ – it has nothing to do with the bank balance – it has more to do with the realization of your ‘inner poverty’ – a stage in your life when you realize that all of these cars, bungalows, properties – all of these pleasures of SEX, glory of fame, and power of money is NOT helping – and you have come to the point of cul-de-sac – where you have finally realized that in spite of having all of these – you cannot experience *that* happiness, joy, and bliss! Such a man is ‘poor’ and yet rich in Jesus’s dictionary, in God’s dictionary!

And then there are those who label themselves as RICH and yet they are the poorest fellows. These so-called RICH fellows exist in two types. The first – who has a lot of money and yet they want more and more and more. GREED never stops. And the second type is someone who is yet to taste the luster of money, cars, bungalows, sexual pleasures and so on.

Similarly, there are two types of poor men – one who has absolutely nothing and yet with his own self-realization – his own intelligence – he has become aware of the futility of this material world. And there is the other type of poor man – who has millions of dollars or rupees in his bank account and yet have realized that this all of the money, fame, and pleasures of this material world cannot help in true sense – it may serve the purpose of existing – but does not serve the higher purpose of life.

When Jesus says the “Blessed are the poor” – He is referring to those who have realized their ‘inner poverty’ – understand this, this is of great significance!

Jesus, therefore, had 12 Apostles whose financial state varied – Peter, the fisherman was financially poor – but Mathew, the TAX Collecter was financially rich – and yet if you ask Jesus – both were POOR – because when Jesus says POOR – it has less to do with the money factor – it has more to do with the self-realization of your ‘inner poverty’! And Mathew, the tax collector realized this inner poverty the moment he met Jesus – and Jesus just says two words – FOLLOW ME….and something moves within Mathew’s heart – his consciousness is called for and Mathew drops everything and starts following the richest man – Jesus Christ – a man who had no possessions, absolutely nothing! And yet there was nobody as RICH as JESUS – Mathew self-realized it at the very first glimpse of Jesus and then no questions were asked, no doubts were raised – no intellectuality was showcased – no debate – but total SURRENDER!

And that is why – in the very beginning I mentioned that only a POOR can SURRENDER. This poverty has nothing do with the status of your bank account – it has more to do with the status of your self-realization! The higher the self-realization, the poorer you would feel within – and then the journey begins – the journey beyond! And therefore Jesus says “Blessed are the POOR”!

Only a POOR can surrender. And Surrender is the GATE! It is the only GATE that can help you trespass the many miseries of your life – the question is are you willing to surrender in totality to your Lord?

Then no matter how your D9 chart is – you always can raise the bar of your D9 chart – only if you are willing to take that one courageous step – the step to surrender in totality!

The question should not be – when the D9 chart is activated because it is activated right from your birth time, the real question should be how to raise the quality of your D9 chart – and so in the larger interest of my followers and readers, this answer has come!

Only a man – only a woman who is following the heart – can surrender! The Heart can surrender – the MIND cannot.

The MIND is the hurdle between YOU and all that is DIVINE, BEAUTIFUL and JOYFUL!

The whole purpose of meditation is to overcome this monkey mind. But to do so – first you have to catch hold of your MIND and bring it to the present moment and then let it settle down – while you focus on your breathing – breath in, breath out – let the thoughts come and go – treat these thoughts as visitors – and don’t serve them tea! Don’t entertain the thoughts, just remain focused on one thought – the thought of your Lord – the holy name of your Lord!

“Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare.”

Just one name – one thought of the Lord – then whether that name is of Krishna, Rama, Ganesha, Vishnu, Shankar – that does not matter as long as you remain focused and meditate on anyone name – it is fine. The success of your meditation and when I say ‘your’ – it is meant for all my followers and readers – the success of your meditation is solely based on how much you focus on one thought (the holy name of your Lord)!

Ananda was very close to Gautama Buddha. He followed Buddha for almost 20 years! And yet Ananda had one problem – he could not meditate – whenever he would sit to meditate – many thoughts would come to his mind and then there would be havoc and meditation would become impossible! For many days he had been trying to find an answer to this problem….

One day they were walking through the forest. Ananda was following Buddha and after a while, Buddha turned around and said: “ I am very thirsty – could you please fetch me some water?”

Ananda said, “ Master, you rest under this tree, I will go back and get some water from the river.”

The river was a few miles away. By the time Ananda reached, it started raining heavily – the river was flooded with dust on its surface – Ananda thought that it would not be good to get water from the river as there was a thick layer of dust on its surface – and so he goes back to Buddha and says “ Master – the river is dusty – there is a layer of dust on its surface, how can I fetch you water…..”

Buddha says “ Doesn’t matter. You please go back and wait until you get clean water for me.”

Ananda goes back to the same river, it is still raining, there is a thick layer of dust on the river surface – but ANANDA is a devoted disciple – he loves Buddha, he cannot see his master in this state – he is determined to collect clean water and satisfy his master’s thirst. And so he waits, and he waits and he waits and after a long time – the rains stop, the thick layer of dust starts settling down……and soon he could see the pure clean water flowing through the river…..

Ananda takes the clean water of the river to his master – Gautama Buddha.

And the moment he offers water to Buddha, Ananda starts crying, tears start flowing through his eyes…..looking into the master’s eyes – Ananda says “ How can I thank you – even if I pour out my whole heart to you – still how can I thank you….you have given me the answer that I have been seeking my whole life. I now understand that this request to bring water for you was just an excuse – to help me find my answer. I have got my answer – just the way I witnessed without involving myself in removing or touching the layer of dust – without giving much importance to the layer of that dust – similarly – when I sit for meditation – I should simply WITNESS the layer of thoughts and not entertain them – with time – these layer of thoughts will settle down on its own and then I can experience the ‘Self’ – just the way I experienced the flowing clean water of that river!”

Buddha said “Ananda, today you have realized the significance of WITNESSING – just witness, and all the ‘dust’ – all that is irrelevant will settle down on its own! You just be a witness and that’s all.”

Stay at the seashore – and just ‘witness’ the many high tides and low tides of the ocean (life). Do not go an jump in the ocean – that is how you get drowned, that is how you make your life miserable by getting entangled with all that is happening in and around your life!

So just stay on the seashore and WITNESS. This one small word – if you all can understand – and relate and make the center point of your existence then and only then you can rise above all your miseries – then only you can go beyond all your problems!

Problems exist as long as the mind exists – as long as you remain trapped in the prison of your mind! The moment you move beyond Mind – witnessing becomes possible – then you can meditate, then you can experience a glimpse of the beyond – in that state of NO MIND – you can experience the divine.

Your D9 can only upscale in its entirety when you rise above your mind! And nobody is going to tell you all this – because no books have it – it is not written in any scriptures and yet I am telling you all – if you can relate, you can progress, you can experience something that is far beautiful than what you have been trapped into!

The higher realms of life, the real you, the SWAROOP is only to be found through the state of your D9!

Since the subject is of SWAROOP (D9) – how can I miss to mention the divine Saint – Swami Swaroopanand of Pawas!

A beautiful real picture of Swami in a deep meditative state.

The story of this great Saint is truly fascinating. He was born in a very rich family. They were landlords. And he grew up just like any other boy would. He went to Mumbai for his higher studies and then joined the freedom struggle movement against the Britishers. He was the hero of those times, and life was going on….when one fine day – he fell sick – and it was so severe that he had to return back to his village – Pawas. And it is here that a new story began – the story of transformation, the stage to which Jesus addresses as ‘Reborn’!

After going through many months and years of severe sickness – the young man took to meditation – and he dedicated his whole life to this one purpose – the purpose to know your ‘self’ – self-realization!

And a day came in his life – when the moon became full when meditation came to its ultimate state! When the enlightenment, the ultimate state of consciousness was experienced – and from that day onwards – a new man was born – a new Saint was born – the enlightened Swami Swaroopanand!

People experienced many miracles through his divine blessings. He wrote one of the most beautiful books on Bhagavad Geeta. Today, a beautiful SAMADHI TEMPLE of HIS stands tall in the beautiful village of Pawas! Swamiji took SAMADHI in his village itself, today the whole village is known for his Samadhi Temple!

A beautiful real picture of Swami Swaroopananda Samadhi.

The Government of India recently released a postage stamp ticket in his remembrance:

Swamiji spent his whole life in emphasizing on the significance of meditating on the Lord’s holy name.

The first thing that should be as a foundation for your whole life is – the Art of Meditation.

Meditation is the only science that can transform you into a new person! Then you can understand D9, then you can understand and vibrate with all charts – why just D9!

So come, come you all – let us spend some time in deep meditation. The karmic cycle always remains – as long as this physical body exists – the shadow of our KARMA is always going to be there! So don’t get lost in this shadow (Rahu) – come out of this shadow – by getting to the stage of WITNESSING! The more you detach yourself, the more you can be a Witness. Buddha through his deep compassion share with Ananda – the beauty of witnessing.

A real-life can be built only on the eternal rock of WITNESSING!

Sometimes, marriage is not happening, sometimes, a good job is not coming on your way, sometimes, the marriage is not working out well and there are many such instances that almost everybody have experienced in this life or the lives before this life! Buddha is encouraging us all to remain rooted within and simply WITNESS all that is happening before your eyes – without getting entangled, without getting attached – life is like a flowing river – always REMEMBER – nothing lasts forever – not good times and not even bad times!

Change is constant. Except for Change, everything else changes! My heart moves when I read the many emails that you all send me with all your pain and sufferings, but you all have to be patient, you all have to be faithful.

PATIENCE and Being FAITHFUL are the two greatest qualities that can help you overcome the greatest hurdle of your life – and I say it without any doubt, without absolute NO DOUBT!

Sai Baba wants only these two things from you – and if you can give it – then let me tell you – there is nobody as beautiful, as courageous and as intelligent as you!

Tomorrow – Navratri begins! The Nine days of fasting begins. The singing, the dancing, the celebration of love begins. Without the presence of the woman – this material world would not have evolved! The woman is at the very core of this human world. She is the Provider! A woman is a provider – nobody can understand love as much as a woman can! A man may say “I think, I love you” but a woman will simply say “ I love you”!

The core of existence is a woman. Even to our planet – we address as Mother Earth!

The universe is Mother. Feminine. It is never closed. The universe is never closed. It is always open – the door is not locked. All you have to do is ‘knock’ and the door will open…all you have to do is take that first step towards love – and the universe will take one thousand step towards you! A woman waits, she is never going to step ahead and say “I love you.” – She will wait, her love is expressed through her unconditional waiting. She will wait and wait and wait – and the moment you step ahead with love, with devotion – you will realize that your love is nothing – before her infinite love! The universe responds the deity responds, the Goddess responds – but understand that she responds – she never initiates!

It is YOU all – who have to initiate – and then you will be showered with her infinite love and blessings.

Prosperity comes only when you learn to respect the woman. Love is not ready-made, it comes only through your own action, your own initiative.

As we all begin with the celebrations of the Navratri festival, let us offer unconditional love at Her holy feet and let us all celebrate the divinity in feminity with utmost love and devotion.

Always remember – no matter how difficult is your life, no matter how many challenges you may be facing, no matter how many hurdles are on your way – always celebrate life – because life is all about moments – if you are not here – at this moment – and if you are thinking about the future or the past – then you simply go on missing life – missing all the celebrations that life is made of!

And so celebrate life – and you will be able to celebrate life only when you are able to BE HERE NOW – only when you have realized the higher realms of life which in turn is your D9 chart – it is there, it is always there – there is absolutely no need to wait for its activation – because it is always in active mode – the real question is – whether you are able to consciously relate to your ‘self’ which is your D9 chart – and the way to do so – to relate is only through meditation, deep meditation.

Once you get into the cycle of daily meditation, once you start turning inwards, once you are on the journey towards the beyond – then the celebration begins. Then every moment is a celebration, then life is no more just lived, but also celebrated!

Come, you all, the beautiful moment has once again arrived – the Navratri festival! Come and rejoice in HER love, in HER devotion – dance to your heart, sing to your heart – let there be no suppression of your feeling. Suppression is suicide, Expression is life! Let there be more expression to your life.

Life is for those – who know how to celebrate.

Let there be more ‘life’ to your existence. Let there be a dance, a song, music to your life. On the beautiful occasion of Navratri festival – keep all your worries aside and rejoice in HER omnipresence. The way to live a stress-free life is to celebrate life with all its shades and colors! And you will be able to do so when you learn to live your life in total Acceptance.

Celebrate life. Let the celebrations begin.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

The ancient Indian food was, in reality, a reflection of our galaxy! The ‘thali’ or ‘Indian Lunch-Plate’ was filled in such a way that it represents all the planets and the SUN of our galaxy! That is how advanced and rich our ancient culture was – it respected each and every planet of our galaxy. There was no discrimination – the ancient seers were perfectly aware that it *is* not the ‘planets’ that are good or bad – it is the ‘receptive’ power of individuals that decide what is good and what is bad for him or her.

If your ‘antenna’ is not receptive to a certain channel (planet) – or is not able to smoothly display the ‘signal’ of the channel (planet) – your television screen (life) would mess with the display (effect) of the channel (planet).

Who is to blame? the channel (planet) or the ‘antenna’ (you)?

Sugar is sweet. But for a diabetic person, it is a sweet ‘poison’! Who is to blame – who is bad and who is good in this case – Sugar or the diabetic person?

Bitter gourd or Karela is extremely bitter in taste. Commonly not many can eat it – for many, it is not a much-desired vegetable – but for a diabetic person – the same much hated bitter gourd is a life-saver! Who is bad and who is good here?

No planet in any birth chart is malefic or benefic – it is human beings who have the habit of discriminating – in reality, every planet in your birth chart has come with a ‘message’ – because you fall short of ‘receiving’ and ‘understanding’ the ‘message’ – you end up asking which planet is causing your trouble and which planet is rewarding you with goodies!

In reality – the trouble is not caused by any planet – and this is of great significance. The trouble is caused because from many past lives – you have been messing up with the ‘energy’ of that planet – and due to over-messing – now in this life – you aren’t able to receive the ‘energy’ of the same planet in harmony, in full form.

So the planet has nothing to do with your good or bad – it all has to do with how you have ‘evolved’ as an individual – how fine-tuned your ‘antenna’ is!

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too. – Osho

But people don’t get it. How can they? When the astrologers itself have been categorizing planets and stars in the good and bad list. When ‘ignorance’ becomes your guiding force – you would find yourself in utter darkness – and the height is – when you start believing this darkness as the truth!

And that is what is happening. Astrology has become a Business of FEAR. Create fear, and then start looting. Fear sells faster than FAITH! This is the outcome of this Kali Yug (Dark Age) – Age of Ignorance!

Everything is perfect in God’s creation. Ignorance and suffering exist only in the minds of people. – Ramana Maharshi

One who speaks the truth is violently opposed, ridiculed, offended. Truth is very hard to digest. Millions of them who want to hear the false will oppose you-you will be labeled as a fool – but don’t get lost, don’t give up.

Once, the divine master said to the young man ” You will be rejected several times, but don’t give up.”

The young man bowed before the master and said: ” Why more rejections and less acceptance?”

And the master smiled – looked up and showed him the highest mountain – then he said: “How many would accept the challenge to reach the peak of that mountain?”

And the young man said: “Very few.”

Then the master asked, “How many would reject the challenge to reach the ‘peak’.?”

The young man said ” Many.”

The master smiled, raised him up, he looked into the eyes of the young man and said ” You are that ‘peak’. – and so you would face more rejections and less acceptance.”

The more you move towards the ‘peak’ (truth) – the more you would be facing more rejections and less acceptance. More dislikes and fewer likes. Sounds hard? But that is how the truth is – very very hard. The truth isn’t always beautiful and beautiful words aren’t always the truth.

Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe. – Walter Darby Bannard

The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need. – Bill Gates

And the TRUTH is – that no planet is good or bad. You will find millions of books on how to find malefic or benefic planets – but no one is going to tell you why they ‘become’ malefic and how to transform these so-called malefic into a benefic!

I don’t believe in ‘parrot-talk’ – I believe in ‘self-talk’. By reading the books, you will talk like a parrot – you become a ‘limited version’ – someone who can travel from A to Z – then the doors close – then there is no further going! And that is how the majority of astrologers have become – ‘limited versions’!

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein

But I would want all my followers to become – ‘UN-limited versions’ – someone who can go beyond the set boundaries – someone who would follow his or her heart, someone who has a certain depth of understanding!

A certain quality of understanding has to be there. Only then the truths can be given. – Osho

People approach me with questions like “What is the purpose of my life?” – They want me to read their birth charts to find the purpose of THEIR life! And this the height of IGNORANCE! No astrologer or no man can TELL you the purpose of YOUR life – you have to find the purpose of your life – through your own ‘self’ – meditate, introspect – look within, turn inwards – but nobody wants to do the real thing – they want everything – READYMADE – and so I ignore such men, what else can be done! It is sad to see the current state of things.

People have fancy ideas about finding the purpose of life! I have met people across the world and they all have different ideas – but my answer to all my followers who are unnecessarily putting a lot of stress on finding the so-called purpose of life is in the following quote of His Holiness – The Dalai Lama.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. – Dalai Lama

Further to get a deeper understanding of the purpose of human life – the following quote of the Dalai Lama, throws more light:

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. – Dalai Lama

But common men are not bothered to go deeper. They are happy to live a shallow life – happy to derive some shallow meanings – something that they can digest. And so the categorization of planets, stars – continues…..when in reality – neither RAHU is bad, neither KETU is bad, neither SUN is bad, neither MOON is bad – no planets are bad or good – they are simply here – in a certain ‘situation’ (placement) because of your PAST KARMA. Improvise, focus on raising the quality of your KARMA and then you would never have to face with a question of how to find malefic or benefic planets – even if you find – what are going to do? The only answer is in focusing on your ACTIONS (KARMA) – but people are not comfortable with the truth – that makes them uncomfortable – they are happy when someone gives them something that they can digest, that they can play around with!

But I am here not to entertain you and make you comfortable – for TRUTH is never going to make you ‘comfortable’ – TRUTH is here to make you uncomfortable – because it only when you become uncomfortable that you wake up – you become aware – and it is only through more and more awareness – that you can progress in life – that you can experience the ‘real growth’ – astrology is not a parrot talk – it is to ‘move’ you from inside-out – so that you come face to face with reality – so that you grow – inside out.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect. – Gary Zukav

I encourage all my followers and readers to focus on your spiritual growth – I would want you all to become more and more meditative.

Meditation: There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man. – Osho

Real transformation is your inner transformation. Focus on your ‘self’ – meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

The word ‘Vakri’ simply means ‘crooked’. When the ascendant lord is ‘Vakri’ (Crooked) – the person in question is a crooked person. He is a crook. Now if you have any good yogakaraka planet’s drishti on the crooked planet – then there is some nullification of the crookedness – else the person is 100% crooked by nature. Also ‘crooked’ or ‘Vakri’ – means the planet is not in its normal course of action – it is not normal – and so whatever house it represent – it will 100% give abnormal results. I have seen multiple horoscopes in my 15 yrs study and practice ( I am still a learner- till the very last day of my life) I have seen that the house represented by a crooked (vakri) graha – brings some kind of abnormality to the results of that house. Example – seventh house lord Jupiter is Vakri and placed in seventh house – now some bookish astrologer will say this is good – benefic jupiter is in the house of marriage – so good – but the truth is something else. Jupiter in 7th house of marriage is not a good placement for marriage and also when the same Jupiter is Vakri (crooked) – it simply conveys one truth – the husband or wife is going to be a crooked person by nature (political/hawkish/not trustworthy) by nature. Also it depicts a broken marriage or a very unhappy marriage life. Many things are there – you cannot just come up with one rule of set – that all Vakri Planets are bad – they become bad or good – based on were they are placed. For example Saturn is good in 3, 7, 11 – so if it is Vakri – it may not give great results, but its crookedness will not be too harsh than otherwise.

Vakri Planet brings abnormality, crookedness in the matters of the house that it rules. There is no such thing as Benefic or Malefic planets – crookedness means crookedness – that’s it.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

This idea of ‘exalted’ planets creates an illusion among many. Do you know – that the most popular personalities – across all walks of life – don’t have much or any exalted planets? Do you know that the wealthy people have no exalted planets in their charts? Do you know that there are millions of people living in slum areas – and yet the *have* exalted planets in their charts?
And this is the greatest tragedy of Astrology in today’s time! It has become a ‘toy’ – and ‘toy’ cannot help you find your answers – you have to come to the real master – the real thing – but who wants to listen to truth?

“Society considers honesty as virtue – but nobody wants to listen to the truth”

I have personally read charts of people in slum areas – they have exalted planets – I have personally read charts of celebrities – they don’t have exalted planets – neither the wealthy people – neither the politicians! So you see – just having ‘exalted’ planets doesn’t change your situation.
Exalted planets simply specify the ‘exalted qualities’ of a person. A man may be living in the slum area – but if he has exalted planets – he is a man of ‘value’ – you see – the word is ‘value’ – the exalt position makes you a good person – such a person ‘exalts’ in certain skill – certain art!
So when you say that you have exalted planet in 3rd – you definitely have a certain skill – that you would excel as you grow – step by step – you will achieve excellence in a specific skill!
And ninth house exalt point – provides you with the necessary quality of achieving higher education – such a man or woman is deeply devoted to a certain deity – is generally very faithful – also signifies a good caring father or parent.
Overall, to have an exalted planet is not enough – placements – aspects and the D9 chart matters a lot – if the exalted planet debilitates in D9 – then much of the quality is lost!
However, my suggestion to all my followers is :

“Get out of your head and get it your heart – celebrate life – sing, dance and let LOVE be the only religion of your life.”

Life is a celebration of moments – astrology can only be of use – if you look at it from a casual way – natural way – astrology prediction is not an ‘Akashwani’ – GOD has been kind enough to provide human beings with the WILL to change their future for better – and to that you simply have to ‘Surrender’ to the almighty – when you let GOD drive your life – you are always sure that you are going to taken care of!
Astu. Aum. Amen.
Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Raman Ayanamsha is far better than Lahiri. Lahiri Aynamsa is a make-believe – a compromised solution – born out of compulsion – it was the Nehru Government that asked NC Lahiri – a scientist by profession to come up with an AYANAMSHA that would help the Government to align Government holidays across India – on a specific day. Earlier to LAHIRI AYANAMSHA – the majority of astrologers were following REVATI PAKSHA Ayanamsha.

The great divine master – Sri Yukteshwar Giri ( The Guru of the much famed Yogi Paramhansa Yogananada) also emphasized on REVATI PAKSHA!

A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. – Sri Yukteswar Giri

A beautiful quote of the great divine master – Sri Yukteshwar Giri – the man who provided a rare glimpse of the TRUTH by pointing to the most accurate Aynamsha – which later came to be known as Yukteshwar Ayanamsha!

In his beautiful enlightening book “The Holy Science” – Sri Yukteshwar Giri gives a perfect pointer towards the TRUTH – by refering to the REVATI STAR and encouraging to follow the REVATI PAKSHA AYANAMSHA!

A Teacher Is Never A Giver Of Truth; He Is A Guide, A Pointer To The Truth That Each Student Must Find For Himself. –  Bruce Lee

RAMAN AYANAMSHA is close to YUKTESHWAR AYANAMSHA – so we can say that RAMANA AYANAMSHA is also based on the REVATI AYANAMSHA!

And BV Ramana indeed was a great genius. Those who criticize him – are still to know themselves!

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves. – Rajneesh

Although the majority is following the Lahiri Ayanamsha – one has to understand that TRUTH never happens to CROWD – TRUTH happens only to an individual!

Beware of the majority. If so many people are following, that is enough a proof that something is wrong. Truth happens to individuals, not to crowds. – Osho

BV Raman was indeed an ‘individual’ – and let me tell you all – it takes GREAT COURAGE to introduce a NEW AYANAMSHA – and Raman did it – he was not a part of the CROWD – he indeed was an ‘individual’ who seek TRUTH!

Once a man asked Buddha ” Is there a God?

Buddha answered ” NO – there is no God.”

Another man came and asked Buddha “What do you think of God? Is there any God?

Buddha answered “YES – there is GOD.”

Late evening an old man came and said “There are people who believe in God and people who don’t, I myself need to know if God exists, please help me.”

Buddha did not speak – instead he gave the answer through his actions. He sat beneath the tree, closed his eyes and went into deep meditation. The old man thought that this must be the answer – so he too sat down, closed his eyes and started meditating. After a while the old man opened his eyes, touched the feet of Buddha and said “Your compassion is great. You have given me the answer. I will always remain obliged to you.” Happily he left.

Ananda asked Buddha ” To the first man you answered – God doesn’t exist. To the second man you answered “God exists.” And to the last man – you said nothing but just went into meditation. I don’t understand your answers – please help me understand.”

Buddha smiled and said ” The first and the second man just wanted an answer – they were not seekers. The last man was a seeker – he wanted to ‘experience’ God and not just ‘know’. He was able to ‘relate’ – he was a seeker.

BV Raman was a SEEKER – and TRUTH is realized only by a SEEKER and not a believer.

Buddha says – ‘Truth is not transferable. I cannot give you the truth; nobody else can give it to you. But you can attain it on your own.” You have to seek, Buddha wants seekers and the seeker is a totally different phenomenon. The believer is not a seeker. The believer wants to avoid everything, that’s why he believes. The believer is always in search of a messiah, somebody who can chew for him. But if I eat, your hunger is not going to be satisfied. Nobody can save you except yourself. You have to be a seeker and not a believer. – Osho

Only a seeker can find the truth – because he fired up – the desire to attain the TRUTH is INTENSE and only a man who has the INTENSITY within – can experience the beyond – the miracle – the unknown!

But this human world is filled with more shallow people, with RAHUISH men and women and so they cannot understand RAMAN, they cannot understand YUKTESHWAR – they cannot understand the TRUTH – and they will never understand because – TRUTH happens only when you you stop understanding – because TRUTH can never be understood – it can only be realized!

Truth can only be realized. It cannot be explained or understood. – Osho

Only a man who can JUMP into the unknown – only a man who can move away from the CROWD and explore – experience – experiment with his own ‘self’ – can realize the TRUTH!

I have not known much about this man – BV RAMAN – but I can say – that this man was a very different man!

RAMAN AYANAMSHA is something that only an evolved soul can understand, can relate and can study in depth!

Yukteshwar Aynamsha and Ramana Aynamsha – both are like TWINS! Since most astrology software companies have sidelined Yukteshwar Ayanamsha (one of the saddest part of this human world) – the insightful students of Astrology are left with only one option – the RAMANA AYANAMSHA (The Twin brother of Yukteshwar Ayanamsha)!

It happens – it always happens that those – who are in demand are considered to be the best! HOWEVER – one need to know – and I would like to remind my genuine followers and readers that the real BEST had only a few followers!

The BEST – never had millions and thousands of followers – JESUS had only 12 Apostles (disciples)!

THE TWELVE APOSTLES:

1. Andrew – crucified
2. Bartholomew – beaten then crucified
3. James, son of Alphaeus – stoned to death
4. James, son of Zebedee – beheaded
5. John – exiled for his faith; died of old age
6. Judas (not scariot) – stoned to death
7. Matthew – speared to death
8. Peter – crucifed upside down
9. Philip – crucified
10. Simon – crucified
11. Thomas – speared to death
12. Matthias – stoned to death (source: Fox’s Book of Martyrs)
    

Just 12 Apostles! The TRUTH always has very few followers – and so if you are thinking that RAMANA or YUKTESHWAR AYANAMSHA has very few followers than you must think again!

Buddha had only one close disciple – Ananda! And Ananda followed Buddha for forty years!

Krishna had only one close disciple – Arjuna! Nobody could match the love that Arjuna had for Krishna – ‘killing your own brothers and grandfathers’ – just at the instructution of the master – is not something that anybody could do! But Arjuna did it – Krishna said “This is war – and this war is not between you and your family – this war is between the RIGHT and the WRONG – and so SHOOT ARJUNA – just SHOOT your arrow and defeat and kill all those who are STANDING AGAINST THE TRUTH – the DHARMA!” and Arjuna – what a great man he must be – ARJUNA shoots – and follows the word of his MASTER – Lord Krishna!

NEVER judge a MAN – on how many followers HE or SHE has – chances are that you may miss to understand the real thing – you may simply miss!

The closer you get to the TRUTH – the smaller will be the following!

Jesus fed 5000, but only 500 followed him after lunch. He had 12 disciples, but only 3 went further in the garden, and only I stood with HiM at the foot of the cross. The closer you get to the cross, the smaller the crowd becomes. – T. F. Tenant

There are many ways to study astrology and every way brings something new – something enlightening something insightful to your life!

Ramana Ayanamsha or Yukteshwar Aynamsha also brings something special to your study – only if you can relate, only if you have a certain level of understanding!

A certain level of understanding has to be there only then the TRUTHS can be given.” – Osho

Although my father was a very famous journalist during the early 90s – he was also a great astrologer! And he always remained OPEN to ideas – to new ways of exploring this beautiful science of astrology – and in his quest – he also experienced many miracles of his life – one of the miraculous moment was when when he met Osho and stayed with him for a while!

My father lived a very short life, before 50, he was gone, but in his short span of life, he practiced astrology – with true passion and intensity! Just a few months ago – I received a call – the call was specific to my ‘answer’ on Quora – an old man had called, he was thankful, he was also an editor of an astrology magazine and he was calling me for the first time – and just as I was talking with him – I mentioned my father’s name – and the old man was taken aback – he said “ I knew your father, when I was young I had met him and he was a very good astrologer.”

My eyes became wet – 22 years of distance – 22 years ago when I was 15 – my father had left this world and still this man remembered my father!

It happens it always happens because my father was indeed a very fine person – a great journalist and a very good astrologer.

The point is that – instead of focusing too much on which Ayanamsha is good – we all should EXPLORE the TRUTH -FIND the TRUTH through our own efforts and experiments!

Remember – ASTROLOGY IS NOT PERFECT. HAD IT BEEN PERFECT – IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD BY NOW!

And because ASTROLOGY IS NOT PERFECT – there have been many sages who from the very beginning of time – have been contributing to this vast cosmic subject of ASTROLOGY! You all know only the famed names – BHRIGU, PARASHARA, JAMINI – BUT in reality there have been millions and millions of sages and seers and scholars who have been contributing to this cosmic subject of astrology from the very beginning of time – though their ‘names’ always remained unknown to the masses – the ‘polished diamond’ is always visible because it is ‘showcased’ – the raw diamonds remain in the closet – unknown, unseen!

KP AYANAMSA, LAHIRI AYANAMSHA, RAMAN AYANAMSHA, YUKTESHWAR AYANAMSHA, SAYAN AYANAMSHA (tropical) – there are many ayanamsha – you have to see which suits your horoscope – look at the MAHADASHA – look at the RASHI CHART (Ascendant chart) – look at the NAVAMSHA CHART (D9 Chart) – and study – observe and observe what goes well with your chart!

The way towards the TRUTH – is never a ONE WAY!

It is only when you try all ways – that someday, sometime – the door will open – and you – yourself will come face to face with the TRUTH.

RAMAN comes closer to the TRUTH – that is my own experience. Yukteshwar comes closer to the TRUTH – that is my own experience.

Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience. – Osho

Instead of relying on OTHERS to find the answers to our questions – we should EXPERIENCE LIFE IN ALL WAYS POSSIBLE – because it is only your OWN EXPERIENCE that can HELP you in the true sense.

Experience life in all possible ways – good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become. – Osho

Real TRUTH only comes from your own experience. Twenty five centuries ago a man who was seeking TRUTH – fell at the feet of Buddha, beseeching his guidance, “How do you see truth?” he asked.

Buddha replied “What I have seen – will not help you much. Your sight is not developed enough to see the truth. Whatsoever I say you will misunderstand, because you cannot realize the reality of what you have NOT YET experienced.”

Every person based on his level of understanding, his level of depth – his depth of intensity – DIVES WITHIN and finds the TRUTH – through his or her own experience!

And so see – finally we have come to the same source from where we all started with – CONSCIOUSNESS!

And to come back to the source – you have to turn inwards – you have to meditate – you have to be a prayerful man.

There are women who come and say “You don’t tell us about meditation – you just tell us about the planets – the stars – the aspects!”

Now what to say? Here I am giving the REAL THING – the nectar and people want to remain trapped in the four walls of astrology!

This world is a strange place – this human world is a mixture of SALT and SUGAR. The master says “That is how this human world has been from the very beginning of time! – You have to be selective – you have to find who is ‘sugar’ and who is ‘salt’ and you will be able to do so when you – yourself turn inwards and realize yourself!”

This human world has many beautiful men and women – many many men and women of heart – goodness prevails over the evil – and because of such men of heart this world is still a better place to LIVE!

We all should find such good men and women of heart – and help each other to be more and more meditative!

There are men and women who spend their whole life in causing harm to others and there are men and women who spend their whole life in helping, healing others!

It is your level of consciousness that helps you to choose the path – work on raising the level of your consciousness – and you will find the answer – through your own experiences.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. – Albert Einstein

Astrology CANNOT be revealed through a RATIONAL MIND – it is NOT a MATHEMATICS. Astrology begins when all your calculations end – it is a cosmic spiritual study – where your rationalism – your logic cannot help you. Logic can take you from A to Z – beyond Z – the doors closed – you are locked, you are packed – there is no further going – you suffocate!

It is only when you go beyond LOGIC – it is only when you go beyond the RATIONAL MIND that – the first ray of truth – of light is seen….

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. – Albert Einstein

A strange society – where the ‘servant’ (rational mind) is regarded highly whereas the intuitive mind is ignored! But there are a few – very few ‘individuals’ – who can understand – who can relate – who can receive the ‘message’ – my answer is for these ‘individuals’ – because the rest has always been condemning me – TRUTH is always condemned – can’t help!

Once Buddha said “I was invited in a village – and they brought a blind man before me – and then the villagers insisted “Show him the light.”

Buddha said “ This man is BLIND – he will never understand – never ‘see’ the light because he is BLIND. He needs a doctor – take him first to a doctor – and when he has got his ‘sight’ back – I will show him the TRUTH – I will show him the LIGHT.”

How beautiful are the words of Buddha – FIRST – you have to get your ‘SIGHT’ back – FIRST you have to be able to ‘SEE’ – only then you can relate to the words of the master – only then you can resonate – only then you can feel!

The whole purpose of this human life is to get back our ‘SIGHT’ – get back our ‘EYES’ so that we can ‘SEE’ – and the way to get back your ‘VISION’ is through MEDITATION!

So come – come you all and meditate. Spend every day – few minutes in meditation – morning and evening – you may spend thousands of rupees on remedies – but I am simply encouraging you all to spend a few minutes on meditation – what your ‘millions of rupees’ cannot do – a few minutes of deep meditation can do!

But who wants to listen? The rush is for FAST REMEDIES – Life is not a FAST FOOD CENTER – if you all want remedies – then the very first REMEDY is to ‘CHANGE YOURSELF’.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. – Rumi

And you can change yourself – only when you introspect – only when you turn inwards – only when you come back ‘home’!

Meditation is coming home. Meditation is awareness. Meditation is paradise. Meditation is rest. – Osho

Always remember – there is NO HOME outside you – if there is a HOME – where you can truly RELAX – which is your OWN TERRITORY – than that HOME is only to be found within.

There is no home, unless we find it in ourselves. – Osho

Turn within – come back ‘home’ – for that is where the real TRUTH is to be found – and nowhere else.

Meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

When making a cup of tea, between Sugar, Milk, Tea powder- who is powerful or useful?

I can see that your question has come out of innocence. And that is perfectly fine. Innocence is beautiful. Even though the question may sound naïve – still it remains a good question simply because it has come out of innocence!

Let it be clear that there is no specific answer to such kind of questions. But your question is appreciated.

To have a nice cup of hot tea- all the three ingredients are required in their best possible measurements!

Similarly to have a beautiful life – a life that is well balanced between the duties and responsibilities towards the family and devotion towards the Guru – all the three ‘ingredients’ – Rashi (Moon Sign), Lagna Lord (Ascendant Lord) and (Ascendant Lord’s Nakshatra) should be in the right place and in the right degrees.

Yesterday I visited my family doctor. She is a known celebrity doctor. It was a quiet afternoon, so she asked: “ What are the planets and nakashatra and do you think that with a distance that is millions of miles – they can affect human beings?”

I said “ Doctor you are perfectly right. These planets that you are talking of – certainly cannot affect us.”

She smiled. But I said, “ My answer is not yet complete.”

She said, “ Please continue…”

“ Doctor you are right when you talked about the planets that are in the space. But….I am talking about planets and stars that are NOT OUT IN THE SPACE….but planets and stars that are WITHIN us.”

“ The planets and stars that we talk about are the “QUALITIES” (GUNA) that we have attained through many births and rebirths. If I am a good dancer then you will see the quality of Venus and Mars exalted or these two planets will be in the state of a positive placement in my birth chart. Dance needs a lot of energy (mars). But along with energy – dance also needs a certain art of moving around, certain grace, certain style – that is Venus! It is the QUALITY that every planet through the energy of the Nakshatra provides.”

The doctor said “ Tell me more…now I am curious..”

“ Our Vedas have always mentioned that whatever is in the universe- is also within us. The Sanskrit verse says “ AHAM BRAMHASMI” – meaning “ I am the Universe.”

So, in reality, there is absolutely nothing on the outside that impacts us but it all that is WITHIN that impact us. All the rituals and all the puja that we do are simply to encourage the positive qualities within us. The planets dwell within us in the form of QUALITIES.

Being Romantic, being lovable is the QUALITY of Venus.

Being Sexy, Being sexual, Being energetic, Being warlike Being fighter Being bossy is the QUALITY of Mars.

Being too talkative, too curious, too intellectual, too logical being fearful, being a coward is all but the QUALITY of Mercury.

Being too outward – too extrovert, being hungry for fame, hungry for SEX, hungry for power – being always unsettled, being Ignorant is the QUALITY of RAHU. RAHU is always HUNGRY FOR MORE.

Being Responsible, Being cautious, Being hardworking, Being just, Being disciplined is the QUALITY of Saturn.

Being disinterested, being carefree, being detached, being a let go, being like a monk is a QUALITY of Ketu

Being Conscious, being studious, being a good student or disciple, be forgiving, being compassionate, being benevolent, being large-hearted is the QUALITY of Jupiter

Being disruptive being strange being unique is the quality of Uranus

Being imaginative being dreaming person, being a good cinematic talent being secretive is the QUALITY of Neptune

Uranus and Neptune are the higher realms of energies – all the innovations that you see happening today – is a direct blessing of souls that have exalted the qualities of these two rebellious innovative planets!

And so every planet is within us because every planet through its nakshatra represents the ‘degree’ of a certain quality within us!”

The doctor said, “ That is something enlightening, we should talk more…”

So it is necessary and I mention it specifically in the larger interest of all my followers and readers – that all you have been seeking on the outside is ONLY to be found within!

The way towards God – is not up in the sky – but way down within you!

And what a beautiful day to share this when most of us are deeply engrossed in the auspicious arrival of Shri Ganesha! The Lord who has NO HEAD – because the Lord is a symbolic representation of being engrossed WITHIN! And the elephant face that the ancient seers have instilled is a pure representation of WISDOM – that is only found when you turn inwards and live your life by being deeply engrossed within! See – how beautiful Lord Ganesha is – such a deep message just through his beautiful appearance!

And therefore Lord Ganesha is a pure representation of Shri Ketu. Ketu also has no head and yet it is SHRI KETU who is the epitome of wisdom- a diety that is deeply engrossed within!

And what is the nature of Shri Ketu? To ABSORB…! Like absorbing cotton cloth- Ketu absorbs.

The tradition of bringing Lord Ganesha idol in your home is simply to worship Shri Ketu and it is Shri Ketu that absorbs all the NEGATIVE ENERGY WITHIN YOUR LIFE and therefore when you do VISARJAN – Shri Ketu in the form of Shri Ganesha takes away all your troubles and negativity and thereby makes your ‘road’ clean and brings along peace and prosperity to your life!

Today – let us all bow before the most gracious and large-hearted Shri Ganesha and at his gracious feet – I pray that all the troubles and difficulties that you all are facing in your life, may it all evaporate and may you all experience peace and prosperity in your life.

A beautiful picture quote with Sanskrit Shloka and its meaning…..where you simply surrender to Lord Ganesha – by being totally engrossed in His Holy Name!

Blessings to all my dear followers and readers. Life indeed is not an easy journey but when you have unwavering faith and patience in your heart – life does transform into the most beautiful journey that you would ever be on. The journey towards the beyond – the journey within!

||Aum Gam Ganapataye Namaha || – a beautiful effective mahamantra that can help you all walk through all difficult situations…..and experience bliss and peace within.

Wishing all my followers and readers – a very happy Ganesha Festival! Let us celebrate life – irrespective of all our difficulties and challenges – let us move on with faith and love, the greater we focus on being POSITIVE – the greater we would experience POSITIVE results. Always remember – what you FOCUS on – GROWS!

On this beautiful occasion of Ganesha Festival – let us strengthen ourselves inside out – by being more positive, optimistic and compassionate….

Let there be a song, a dance. For life should not only be lived, but life should also be celebrated!

Let the celebrations begin……

Ganapati Bappa Morya! Morya! Morya! Morya!

Love & light to all.

Jai Shri Ganesha! Jai Guru.