Category: Ketu Insights

Love happens only when you are out of the Mind. Always remember — the Mind cannot Love. The mind can LIKE someone but the Mind cannot Love. There are three mysteries – Love, Life, and Death and all these three are beyond the Mind. Ketu is also beyond the Mind. When Mind ends — Ketu begins. Mind is full of fear – whereas Ketu has absolutely no fear – because Ketu is mindless. And so as long as you are enslaved by your mind – you remain under fear – however, when you start moving beyond the mind – fear starts disappearing – because now you are moving towards Ketu. Ketu is the state of No-Mind. Being Buddha is being in a No-Mind state. Meditation is the state of no-mind and so Ketu becomes significant when it comes to meditation. Because it is only through the energy of Ketu that can you can succeed in your meditations. And so the Soulmate of Ketu also has to be someone who is deeply focused on doing meditations, someone who is set on his or her journey beyond the mind. Someone who is on the path of being a Buddha.

” Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.”
-Buddha

A soulmate is NOT just limited to a lover or partner. Any person who RESONATES with you and your sharing, your thoughts, your level of awareness is a Soulmate. So it may happen that someone in your family can be your Soulmate. It can be your Father, or your Mother or your Sister or your Brother or it can be just someone whom you never met in person but still you CONNECT with HIS or HER thoughts and share. Basically, SOULMATE is that person with whom you feel very comfortable, very relaxed, and with whom you open up completely as if you are not sharing with someone else but sharing with yourself! This is because when you connect with him or her – it is a heart-to-heart connection – there is no hesitation in sharing – in expressing yourself in totality.

If you ask Me – then the greatest SOULMATE is none other than the Guru — the benevolent master. When you CONNECT with the master — no words are needed — in Silence everything happens — everything is shared and transferred in blissful Silence. Real communication always happens in Silence, deep blissful silence. Through the silence of the Guru – the disciple is guided into his own heart, through the silence of the Guru – the disciple is able to find the source of his Ego. In the beginning, the disciple will become silent, and enter for a short in the same state in which his master permanently rests. In this state, he finally experiences his own true nature. In this silence, he starts to understand the truth. This is what is known as the Heart to Heart instruction.

“The highest instruction is transmitted in silence.”- RAMANA MAHARISHI

On one occasion – Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi mentions a great spiritual Yogi who appears very young and is instructing HIS disciples in deep silence. Bhagavan writes:

“Who is the youthful guru beneath the banyan tree?

Very old are the pupils who seek him.

The handsome teacher’s speech is silence.

Cleared are all the pupils’ doubts.

Under the wonderful banyan tree shines the youthful

guru. Aged pupils come to him. Silence is this teacher’s

speech. Gone are the doubts in the pupils’ minds.”

This youthful guru that the Bhagavan mentions in his writing resembles Mahavatar Babaji since Mahavatar Babaji appears very young though HE is thousand years old!

The state of understanding everything without the need of uttering a single word – is the state of ONENESS – and when you experience such a ONENESS with any person – then that person becomes your SOUL MATE. That is why to become a good disciple – first, you have to become a good lover – because it is only in the state of deep love that you can connect without speaking, without uttering a single word. That is why it is said that the greatest lover has become the greatest disciples – the greatest masters!

“No love as as total as the love that happens between the master and the disciple. The love that happened between John and Jesus, the love that happened between Sariputta and Buddha, Gautama and Mahavira, Arjuna and Krishna, Chang Tzu and Lao Tzu – there are the real love stories, the highest pinnacles of love.”
– Osho

The highest pinnacles of love happen only when you are able to move beyond your mind – and this ability comes only through the source and the blessings of Sri Ketu.

When it comes to KETU’s soulmate – there are only four planets that resonate with the depth of KETU. And those four planets are as follows:

1. Jupiter – Since Jupiter is the GURU of KETU. Jupiter also rules Sagittarius and as you all know – MOOLA – the fieriest and highly spiritual Nakshatra dwells in the Jupiterian sign of Sagittarius. Jupiter represents DHARMA and Ketu is a staunch follower of DHARMA.
2. Sun – Since Sun is hot by nature and also celibate by birth. Ketu loves celibacy. That is why the greatest spiritual masters have always been celibate from birth. Brahmacharya or Celibacy is very dear to Sun as well as to KETU. That is why LEO the sign of SUN contains Magha Nakshatra – the Nakshatra of KETU.
3. Mars – Since Mars is too hot by nature but at the same time – Mars is also a great warrior. Ketu loves to master the art of fighting – such as swordsmanship, archery, and so on. All great warriors had a strong Ketu – because when you fight on the battlefield – you have to keep your mind aside – you have to fight by going beyond the mind and so Ketu becomes extremally important for military officers and commanders-in-chief. The very first Nakshatra of Ketu – Ashwini dwells in the Martian sign of Aries – so the connection between Mars and Ketu is very deep – in fact Mars and Ketu – both also come under the direct influence of Lord Kartikeya and Lord Ganesha and as we all know – both were brothers. They are the sons of Shiva – the supreme consciousness.

So I have revealed the three soulmates of KETU – JUPITER, SUN, and MARS. However, who is the fourth soulmate of KETU?

And the answer is URANUS. Yes – my fellows – URANUS is the most intelligent, genius planet in our galaxy – and what CONNECTS Uranus with KETU is the ability to think beyond the mind – the ability to think out of the box. Crazy ideas come from Uranus and it is these crazy ideas that have given birth to a superpower country like America. America or the US is very much influenced by the power of URANUS. All modern technology and innovations have found their way through the land of America. Uranus rules all of these modern innovations and discoveries.

Sudden events, strange events, strange ideas, and deep thoughts and intensity is what the 8th house represents and Scorpio rules the 8th house. This Scorpio is home of Ketu and Uranus closely resonates with the matters of the 8th house and Scorpio sign. That is why Uranus is very powerful in the sign of Scorpio. If you observe closely – then you will find the facts that from 1980 to 1988 – the time when Uranus was transiting Scorpio was a time of great technological advancement and gave us new inventions like the personal computer, the artificial heart, DNA fingerprinting, and the Space Shuttle among many other things.

Genius, unconventional and unpredictable. These three words define the true essence of Uranus – the planet that I love the most. And Ketu is also a genius, but unconventional and unpredictable by nature.

The major difference between Rahu and Ketu is that Rahu traps you in the Mind while Ketu sets you free from the Mind. Uranus also operates in a crazy way that cannot be expressed within the four walls of the mind. And so this nature of operating beyond the mind – makes Uranus a soulmate of Ketu. If a person has Uranus and Ketu – together in his or her birth chart then it is a sign that the person is bound to go through many strange events that are beyond the imagination of the mind. This conjunction of Uranus and Ketu also brings certain unique talent in the native. The native can create something unique – something that would delight the whole world. Mark Zuckerberg – the man who founded Facebook has this conjunction – conjunction of Uranus and Ketu. And we all know that Facebook revolutionized the whole world. Such is the power of URANUS and KETU – because both are soulmates and when you have both together – then you have got a double-engine wheel that can get you a long way in your career.

The gemstone of Uranus is Alexandrite and the gemstone of Ketu is Alexandrite Cat’s eye. This is the higher version of the normal cat’s eyes that you get in the market. Both – Alexandrite and Alexandrite Cat’s eye are extremely rare to find gemstones and also very expensive. I will be making a detailed video on Alexandrite since this subject is very deep and extensive.

If you are KETUISH – then it is very natural for you to get attracted or pulled towards those who have more energy of Jupiter, Sun, Mars, or Uranus in their birth chart. But first, you have to find out if you are KETUISH.

How to find out if you are KETUISH?

When your Moon or Sun is in conjunction with Ketu or when you are born with Moon in Magha, Moola, or Ashwini Nakshatra then you are indeed a strong KETUISH person. And if that is the case then you will definitely find your soulmate who is KETUISH or has prominent Jupiter, Mars, Sun, or Uranus in his or her birth chart.

So how to find out the prominence of Jupiter, Mars, Sun, or Uranus in a person’s chart who can become your soulmate?

The answer is simple – the person should be born in the Nakshatra of Jupiter, Mars, Sun as well as all these three Nakshatra are placed in the Kendra house. Similarly, if Uranus is also placed in the Kendra or is in conjunction with Moon – then such a person can become your soulmate.

Basically – in nutshell – a person having the energies of Jupiter, Sun, Mars, and Uranus or either of these four can resonate with you and can become your soulmate.

As mentioned earlier soulmate is not just limited to being a lover. Any person – seen or unseen can become your soulmate – because the whole play is of the synergy between you and him or her.

When it comes specifically to finding a soulmate with whom you want to engage in a love relationship then always remember – the real soulmate always makes you feel comfortable, relaxed, and calm.

” The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soulmate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.”
-Monica Draive

The very essence of Soulmate is in sync with the essence of Ketu. Ketu, therefore, is directly connected at the SOUL LEVEL. If KETU is your ATMAKARAKA then you are a person of a certain depth. Ketu as Atmakaraka is also a sign that you are KETUISH by nature. It is always good to have ATMAKARAKA that falls in the category of KETU’s soulmates – such as KETU himself, or Jupiter or Sun or Mars or Uranus provided your birth chart has a certain depth of quality to it – provided you are an evolved or evolving soul.

Astrology is spiritual in essence. That is why from ancient times – Astrology was taught only to selective individuals who have a certain quality of understanding, who have purity of heart, and who basically are meditative by nature. Astrology was not limited only to Brahmins or Kshatriyas – it was taught to all those who have the purity of heart and depth of understanding. Sage Valmiki who scripted the Holy Ramayana was not a Brahmin and still, he was well versed in Astrology. Sage Vyasa who scripted the Mahabharata was also born to a fisherwomen Satyavati. His father – Sage Parashara was a Brahmin but his mother was a fisherwoman. So the point is that during the old ancient times – Astrology was not taught based on caste but based on your merits and your potential.

In this universe – there have always been two groups – SURA and ASURA. Positive Good People and Negative Offending People. And so the positive good heart fellow connects with another positive good heart fellow while the negative offending fellow continues to connect with another negative offending fellow. So in both groups – each one finds his or her soulmate. Duryodhana was the Soulmate of Karna while Arjuna was the Soulmate of Krishna. Karna always walked on the path of ADHARMA – he tried to learn the art of archery from Sage Parshuram by appearing as a Brahmin when in reality he was NOT a Brahmin. And Parshuram had taken a vow that he would teach only to Brahmins because of his resentment towards the arrogant Kshatriyas. And so when Sage Parshuram learned that Karna had cheated him – he cursed Karna and that curse became the primary reason of his defeat in the Mahabharata war and it also became significant since the defeat of Karna led to the victory of the Pandavas.

So positive and negative – all kind of people find their soulmates – many times you may wonder why negative exists in this world? But the answer to your question is simple – to maintain a BALANCE – the negative is also essential along with the positive. It is necessary to remember that to generate electricity – you need both – negative and positive poles – similarly to run this universe – both continue to exist – the positive as well as the negative.

Based on your level of maturity and depending on how evolved your soul is – you will choose your soulmate. If you are the utterly negative and cheap fellow who comments to hurt others and who continues to cause much harm to every person you come across then you will attract exactly similar kind of person and if you are positive and an evolving soul then you will CONNECT with similar kind of positive good heart persons. It also happens that many times these NEGATIVE fellows try to APPEAR as positive and these are typical RAHUISH fellows because RAHU loves to disguise himself as GOOD – but if you are an evolved soul then you will quickly identify this kind of fake negative person and stay away from them.

I continue to keep my filters intact so that I entertain only those few whom I identify as good heart fellows – because this human world is a mixture of SALT and SUGAR and as the divine master says – one has to be very cautious in selecting the Sugar while ignoring the SALT meaning the negative fake offending people.

Enough for now – love to all my close followers – your love is reaching to me and the more you continue to connect with my sharing the more I can say – that you are definitely on the right path – the buddha path – the path that ultimately takes you towards the eternal garden of bliss.

Meditate every day and remember to ignore the negative people and focus on the Goodheart positive people in your life. Although there are many negative people in this world still the majority consists of positive people – we have to live for these positive people – we have to be with these positive people. So do not give up – because this human world is indeed a beautiful place to be.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

If you cannot understand KETU, you cannot understand LIFE. If you cannot understand a BIRD, you cannot understand the true essence of FREEDOM. Freedom is the ultimate experience of life. There is nothing higher than that. And out of freedom many flowers blossom in you.

Life can be experienced in the true sense only when you are FREE – when you can FLY without a VISA!

Reminds me of a beautiful Hindi Song:

पंछी नदिया पवन के झोंके

कोई सरहद ना इन्हें रोके

सरहदें इन्सानों के लिए हैं

सोचो तुमने और मैने क्या पाया इन्सां हो के

पंछी नदिया पवन के झोंके

कोई सरहद ना इन्हें रोके……

The song lyric simply shares the fact that BIRDS, RIVERS, WIND – nobody can stop them, no border of any country – no boundaries can stop them – they are FREE in the true sense – no borders and no boundaries exist for them but they exist only for humans. Only humans have build walls and set borders – borders are only for humans – then tell me what have we achieved by being a human?

KETU sets your FREE. KETU knows no boundaries and no borders. Because Ketu is all about being in a NO MIND state. Only MIND goes on building walls and borders and limitations and conditions – only mind discriminates- the moment you attain the state of NO MIND – you become the river, the cool breeze, the bird who simply knows nothing of borders, and boundaries – and that is indeed the true FREEDOM. FREEDOM has to well up from within.

“Freedom can only be found within.”

 

The more you move away from your MIND – the more you would be able to sail smoothly during the KETU Mahadasha. Clinging is the nature of the MIND – and KETU wants you to LET GO!

“letting go is hard, but sometimes Holding on is harder.”

 

KETU MAHADASHA will become a HELL if and only if you continue to HOLDING ON. ATTACHMENTS is the reason – because of being attached too much to the matters of life (children, wife, husband, sex, love, power, money) – you find it difficult to LET GO – and you continue to HOLDING ON. And the more you continue to HOLDING ON – the more you yourself will invite more miseries during KETU MAHADASHA.

 ” SOME OF US THINK HOLDING ON MAKES US STRONG, BUT SOMETIMES IT IS LETTING GO.”
-Herman Hesse

 

When you are willing to LET GO – when you are willing to DROP your MIND, when you are willing to FORGIVE and FORGET – only then KETU MAHADASHA can truly become a wonderful journey that brings much wisdom to your being.

Have you ever observed the trees in the winter – how wisely they LET GO the leaves – all the leaves fall just so that the tree can give birth to absolutely BRAND NEW leaves – that is how you all should be – especially during KETU MAHADASHA – let all the leaves fall – because through this FALL – through this LOSS – a new life is soon going to be born – fresh, and alive!

During the autumn season – the trees LET GO all its leaves and looks like this – complete SHUNYA – ZERO. KETU MAHADASHA is the season of Autumn.

After the AUTUMN season is over – SPRING arrives. And it is in the season of SPRING that the trees start flowering again, giving birth to fresh new green leaves. This season of SPRING is the season when your VENUS MAHADASHA begins! It is the end of AUTUMN (KETU) and the beginning of SPRING (VENUS MAHADASHA)!

But unless all the leaves fall – unless everything is CLEANSED – how can the new leaf – the new fresh flowers arrive??? So you see – that is why KETU MAHADASHA is of immense significance. The whole CLEANSING PROCESS happens only during the AUTUMN season – during the KETU season – during KETU MAHADASHA!

Tears of suffering and struggles are a cleansing shower for the Soul.

 

Once you have been through the suffering phase during KETU MAHADASHA then the cleansing happens – but this cleansing of body, mind and soul can remain intact only if you take to meditation.

“Let prayer come after meditation. You meditate. Meditation will prepare your heart, it will cleanse you. It will cleanse you of your thoughts, it will throw out all the rubbish that you have been carrying in your head for ages, for lives; it will make space for prayer to happen. Meditation is like preparing the ground for a rosebed: prayer is like a rose. First you have to prepare the ground, you have to remove the weeds, you have to change the soil, you have to throw out all the stones.”
-Osho

 

The GROUND (FOUNDATION) of a new life – a purified life is prepared only during the KETU MAHADASHA – my fellows – only during KETU MAHADASHA or GURU MAHADASHA. KETU therefore is the RIGHT HAND of GURU – the Protector, the Provider, the Master!

It is always the Master who chooses His Disciple. The Disciple cannot choose the master – it is the master who chooses his disicple – that is how Jesus chooses his 12 Apostles (disciples). That is how Krishna chooses Arjuna. That is how Buddha chooses Mahakasyapa, Ananda, Sarriputta!

In the MAHADASHA of MERCURY you have been too logical – you have been using TOO MUCH OF YOUR HEAD – and by using your HEAD and your LOGIC – you become a ROBOT. You become MECHANICAL. And when you become like a ROBOT – you start losing an opportunity to create meaning of life.

“LIFE IN ITSELF HAS NO MEANING. LIFE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE MEANING.”
-OSHO

 

You may earn good money during MERCURY MAHADASHA but you find meaning of life only during KETU MAHADASHA. And KETU Mahadasha comes after Mercury MAHADASHA – that indeed is a beautiful way of GOD – telling you that ENOUGH is ENOUGH – now WAKE UP else it will be too late!

It is only in KETU MAHADASHA that you WAKE UP – you come back to your senses – you become AWARE! And once awareness comes – then you are no more the same – you transform, you evolve – you rise from the ashes – just the way the phoenix rises from ashes!

 

 

The phoenix is a beautiful symbolic figure that signify the KETU MAHADASHA through which you RISE – you TRANSFORM – you MATURE – you EVOLVE!

the phoenix In times of doubt and confusion, it symbolizes strength, transformation and renewal. For only from the ashes of who we were, can we rise up to become who we’re to be.

 

And that is the whole essence of this beautiful transformative period of KETU MAHADASHA my fellows! It is the time when you become what you are supposed to BE – a wise man!

“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
-Aeschylus

 

KETU may bring suffering – but this suffering is a blessing in disguise my fellows – for it is this suffering that eventually transform you into a beautiful wise person!

KETU is the process of attaining freedom – liberation – moksha! And liberation, freedom comes only through DETACHMENT. KETU is just another word for DETACHMENT. KETU is the synonym of DETACHMENT!

“The essence of the Way is detachment.”
Bodhidharma

 

When a baby is about to come out of the womb – he or she goes through tremendous pain. This phase is painful because the baby has always been clinging to his mother – but now he has to come out of her womb! KETU PERIOD is just like that – the pain is to make you free – make you independent – make you detached. And the moment the doctor CUTS the cord between the baby and the mother – the baby is BORN in the true sense. The real birth time is when the Umbilical Cord is cut and the baby becomes free – independent. The experience of BIRTH happens only when the cord is cut – when the baby is detached from the mother! KETU is DETACHMENT. Through this DETACHMENT a new life begins – and so it is natural that when the Umbilical Cord is cut – you will find it painful but remember this cutting the cord is necessary for you to REBORN!

This is how you feel when you come out of KETU MAHADASHA (the painful process of coming out of the mother’s womb) – but see now everybody is smiling – even the baby knows – he is out and he is free to take the first breath of his or her life! This is the very FIRST physical detachment through which a NEW LIFE begins!

And then comes the SECOND BIRTH – the SPIRITUAL BIRTH – the real detachment when you are chosen by the compassionate benevolent Master! The FIRST BIRTH is through the MOTHER (it is painful) – but through that pain you attain a new life – a physical form. The SECOND BIRTH is through the MASTER (it is painful) – but through that pain you are REBORN – and experience the higher realms of consciousness – the SECOND BIRTH is indeed the SPIRTUAL BIRTH!

“One birth is from mother and father, another birth is from the Guru, the Master. You are again in another womb, a spiritual womb. You have to close accounts with your physical womb completely. You have to drop all hang-overs with your physical birth so you can be totally here now with the master.” – Osho

 

That is the whole message of KETU – DROP ALL THE HANG-OVERS with your physical birth and just BE WITH THE MASTER. You can do your business or job – but ensure that you remember HIM – ensure that you meditate – ensure that you DO NOT indulge in any corrupt practices – if you follow these simple guidelines then KETU MAHADASHA will be a great transformative period of your life!

But who wants to listen?

People are shallow and they just want more sex, more woman, more money, more power – and when they continue with this way of life then it is natural that they will go through a HELL TIME during KETU MAHADASHA! So it all DEPENDS on YOU – how much evolved your soul is – how much awareness is within you.

KETU is the greatest energy of this UNIVERSE. Enlightenment is possible only through KETU. Because KETU is all about being detached. KETU is all about being spiritual. KETU is all about turning inwards. Even when you do SEX during KETU MAHADASHA – then it is no more just a physical sex – it has more to it than just being physical – it has the purpose of attaining the experience of ONENESS – it is more TANTRA SEX then just a normal sex. TANTRA SEX is very special act. It is an act of sex – where first both partners worship each other – the man worships the woman as a GODDESS. The woman worships the man as GOD and then they make love – intense love through which they attain a prolong orgasm – and since the whole foundation this wonderful act of sex is spiritual – they experience the ONENESS. Remember – KETU NEVER denies SEX. There are millions and millions of men and women who have a strong KETU in 7th house and still they had the maximum sexual pleasures in life! So KETU never denies sex – KETU spiritualizes SEX! When you worship the woman as GODDESS and then have sex with her – when you worship the man as GOD and then have sex with him – then there is NO sexuality in it – there is only LOVE! And when sex happens out of intense LOVE – then there remains no sex but only love!

Always remember – LOVE unites. SEX divides. The word SEX comes from a root which means division. Sex is the root cause of division.

“When you make sex to a person, woman or man, you think it unites you. For a moment it gives you the illusion of unity and then a vast division suddenly comes in. That’s why, after every sex act, a frustration, a depression sets in. One feels that one is so far away from the beloved. Sex divides, and when love goes deeper and deeper and unites more and more, there is no need for sex. Your inner energies can meet without sex, and you live in such a unity.” – Osho

 

KETU MAHADASHA is the perfect time to experience the much deeper aspects of sex – if you are a married person or in a relationship!

The very myth that SEXUAL relation can unite you more with your partner – is a myth. Sex never unites – only LOVE unites. So if LOVE is there only then your marriage or relationship will last – because a relationship based on SEX always comes with an “expiry date”!

The whole beauty of KETU is that KETU spiritualizes your SEX LIFE. KETU MAHADASHA is a beautiful time to experience the spiritual side of SEX – to transform SEX into something of the BEYOND!

“Love can give a new soul to sex. Then the sex is transfigured, it becomes beautiful; it is no longer sex, it has something of the beyond in it. It has become a bridge.”
-Osho

 

So the very first lesson you should learn is that KETU during his MAHADASHA will NOT deny you the sexual pleasures you seek – only if there is the essence of LOVE in your act of sex! However if you are just being horny and trying to get in the bed for having sex – then such a sex is ugly and then KETU MAHADASHA will definitely give you much pain in the matters of sex. So it all depends – the whole essence is that KETU wants you to STOP being a ROBOT and bring more ALIVENESS to your being and one becomes ALIVE only when you start becoming SPIRITUAL!

“Spiritual awakening – is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.”
-Eckhart Tolle

 

KETU MAHADASHA therefore is a wonderful period of self-transformation for those who are becoming SPIRITUAL – who are bringing the wonderful essence of spirituality in every act of their life – from SEX to PRAYERS – from TREES to TABLES – from HEAD to HEART!

Did I say HEAD to HEART? Because nothing can explain as beautifully as this phrase – HEAD to HEART!

That is exactly what KETU wants – my fellows – to move from your LOGICAL HEAD to your LOVABLE HEART! What is meditation? It is a journey from HEAD to HEART!

Beautiful.

And so all those men and women — are idiots who defame KETU – it is not KETU who is frustrating you – it is your own idiocy – it is your utter ignorance – it is your unwillingness to listen to what LIFE has to say is what makes you frustrated during KETU MAHADASHA.

“Don`t be angry at life.
It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.”
-OSHO Touch your Life

 

Listening to life means living with ACCEPTANCE – Tathata. Someday you should read my book “Beauty of Acceptance – Tathata”. It is only when you live with Acceptance that you can find peace, and you can progress in life. The more you rebel – the more you are unwilling to ACCEPT – you will remain stuck and a man who remains stuck can NEVER move on.

During KETU MAHADASHA – you have to simply realize the fact that all the BAD KARMA that you had indulged in the past are NOW in for deep cleansing. And cleansing can cause pain – but it is worth it.

“Sometimes God allows us to cry to cleanse our eyes with tears so we can clearly see the good things coming.”

Only a man who can cry – only a woman who can cry – are the most beautiful beings on this planet. Remember – NEVER BE ASHAMED OF YOUR TEARS – because only a man of heart can cry – only his eyes can become wet – tears of self-realization, tears of joy can flow only through such a man’s eyes.

“Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.”
-Osho

 

Tears are the most valuable treasures.

Reminds me of a beautiful story that moved my heart and brought tears to my eyes – who knows, it may bring tears to your eyes as well!

Uddalak was a great sage, a learned scholar. Many Kings and Queens would send their sons and daughters to attain higher education under the able guidance of Sage Uddalaka.

But one day a very poor boy came and fell at Sage Uddalaka’s feet. He said “My name is Satyakam Jabal and I have come from faraway land just to attain education under your guidance. Please accept me as your disciple.”

Sage Uddalaka asked “Who is your Father? First I need to know your family.”

Satyakam was a simple boy. He said “Many men have used my mother because I was poor. So I don’t know who is my father. All I know is that my name is Satyakam, and my mother’s name is Jabala: so they call me Satyakam Jabal. And as far as the search for truth is concerned – it doesn’t matter who my father is.”

Sage Uddalaka stood up. Never had he seen such a student – so straight, so simple, so pure! Looking into the eyes of Satyakama – Sage Uddalaka said “I will accept you. It does not matter who your father is. What matters is that you are authentic, sincere, unafraid – capable of saying the truth without feeling embarrased. Your mother has given you the right name, Satyakam. Stayakam means one whose only desire is truth. You have beautiful mother, and you will be known as Satyakam Jabal. And the tradition is that only Brahmins can be accepted as disciples. I declare you a Brahmin – because only a Brahmin can have the courage of such truth.”

Those were the most beautiful days – when the GURU used to decide the caste based on the quality of the student!

In a way we all are Shudra – because the state of BRAHMIN comes only when you attain SELF REALIZATION.

Satyakam soon became the most favorite student of Sage Uddalaka. He deserved it – he was so pure so innocent. But after ten years when Satyakama had attained all the knowledge – Sage Uddalaka said “Satyakam – “Whatever I have been telling you is knowledge gathered from the scriptures. It is not my own. I have not experienced it; I have not lived it. I suggest that you go deeper into the forest. I know a man who has realized – he is one of the greatest enlightened master. Go to him. And come back only when you attain self realization. When you go to him – tell him that you have come to know Truth, to know LOVE, to know GOD.”

Satyakam sets out in search of the enlightened master. After many months – he finds the master. And the master is seated beneath the tree and there are many student seated before Him. Satyakam rushes towards the master – and fell upon the master’s feet. Tears of joy started flowing through his eyes – his joy knew no bound. He said to the master “I have come to know the Truth. I have come to know LOVE. I have come to know GOD….”

The master looked into Satyakam’s eyes – and Satyakam’s joy knew no bound. How deep were those eyes, how beautiful, how compassionate, and so much of love was in those eyes – Satyakam was deeply moved. The master said “It is possible, but you are asking something very difficult. There are so many disciples here – they all want more knowledge. They want to know about this and about that. But if you insist that you are not interested in information that you are ready to do anything, that your devotion to truth is total then I will find a way for you.”

Satyakam said “I am ready to sacrifice my life but I cannot go without knowing the truth. Neither can I go to my teacher nor can I go to my mother who has given me the name Satyakam. And my teacher accepted me without knowing whether I was a Brahmin or not, just on the simple grounds that I was truthful. Tell me what has to be done.”

The master said “Take all these cows that you see here, take them into the deep forest. Go as deep as possible, so you don’t come in contact again with any human being. The purpose is that you forget language, words. Live with the cows, take care of the cows, play on your flute, dance – but forget words. And when the cows have grown to the count of one thousand, come back.”

The other disciples could not believe what was happening – because there were just a dozen cows. How long is it going to take for them to become one thousand?

But Stayakam took the cows, went as deep as possible into the forest, beyond human contact, beyond human context. For a few days it was difficult but slowly slowly he got used to it. The cows were his only company. And they are very silent creatures. He played on the flute, he danced alone in the forest; he rested under the trees.

For a few years he continued to count the cows. Then by and by he dropped it, because it seemed impossible that they would become one thousand. And moreover he was forgetting how to count, language was disappearing. Words disappeared; counting could not be saved.

And the story is so enchanting that it is said that cows became worried when they became one thousand, because they wanted to go back home and this man had forgotten how to count. Finally the cows decided, “We have to speak, otherwise this lonely forest is going to become our grave.”

So one day the cows caught hold of him and told him “Listen Satyakam, we are now one thousand and it is time to go back home.”

Satyakam said “I am very grateful to you. If you had not told me…I had even forgotten about home or about returning. Each moment was so tremendously beautiful -so many blessings. In the silence, flowers went on showering. I had forgotten everything. I had no idea why I had come here, who I am. Everything had become an end in itself: playing the flute was enough, resting under the trees was enough, seeing the beautiful cows sitting silently all around was so beautiful. But if you insist, we should return.”

Satyakam embarked on his journey back home. And the disciples of the great master saw him coming with one thousand cows. They reported to the master “We have never believed that he would come back. He is coming and we have counted exactly one thousand cows. He is coming!”

And when he came, he stood there – just in the crowd of cows.

The master said to other disciples “You counted wrong, There are one thousand and one cows; you forgot to count Satyakam! He has moved beyond your world, he has entered into the innocent, the silent, the mysterious. He is not syaing anything, he is just standing there as cows are standing there.”

The great master said “Satyakam, come out. Now you have to go to your other master who sent you here. He is an old man and he must be waiting. Your mother must be waiting.”

And when Satyakam came back to Sage Uddalaka, his first teacher – Uddalaka saw him from the window again and he ran out of the back door because now Satyakam cannot be allowed to touch his feet, now Uddalaka would have to touch Satyakam’s feet. Because Uddalaka was still a scholar, and Satyakam was coming not as a scholar but as one who is awakened.

Sage Uddala escaped from the house – he said to his wife “I cannot face him. I am ashamed of myself. Just tell him that I am dead and he can go now to his mother. Tell him I died remembering him.””

Teachers during those time were of different mettle – they were simply very very beautiful beings, honest fellows.

And so Satyakam went back to his mother. The mother had become very old, but she waited and waited and waited. And when Satyakam came – she could not stop crying – those were the tears of joy – she could see the glow – she could sense the fragrance that lingered around him – she could see that her son has transformed – that he has become a BUDDHA – an enlightened being. Looking at him, she said “You have proved Satyakam, that truth is always victorious. And you have proved that a brahmin is NOT born, a brahmin is a quality to be achieved. Everybody by his birth is a SHUDRA, because everybody’s birth is the same. One has to prove by purifying himself, by crystallizing himself, by becoming centered and enlightened, that he is a brahmin. Just to be born into the family of a brahmin does not make you a brahmin.”

So deep and so true to the core!

The KETU MAHADASHA is the period when you go deep into the forest (meditation) – when you rejoice in your aloneness (detachment) – when you keep good company – SATSANG (holy cows) – when you forget all about counting and calculations and instead devote yourself at the feet of the Lord – it is a period when you become one of those 1000 cows – that is how beautifully the cleansing and the learning and the enlightening is possible during KETU MAHADASHA!

The city JABALPUR is named after SATYAKAM JABAL – a beautiful man, a great master who lived with the cows and became just like a cow – holy, innocent, beautiful, lovable!

RAHUISH men – extrovert people who are continuosly running behind power, money and sex will find KETU MAHADASHA difficult.

But KETUISH men – meditative men, men of heart will find the KETU MAHADASHA a turning point – a transformative period of their life!

It all depends on WHAT YOU ARE FROM WITHIN. The more IGNORANT you are (RAHUISH) the more you will perceive and experience KETU DASHA as some kind of punishment.

And the more AWARE you are the more you will perceive and experience self-growth, self purification, self transformation during KETU MAHADASHA!

Therefore I always say – NEVER ask anyone – “How Canada is or How Australia is?” Because the answer you will get is totally individual based. It is based on how a certain individual perceives – and perception is based on what you are from within! There are many men and women who have evolved and become wise during KETU MAHADASHA and there are many greedy idiots who keep blaming KETU for their own foolishness and ignorance.

During KETU MAHADASHA – :

1. Scale down your expectations. Frustration comes because of expectations.
2. Move towards raising the quality of your life by turning inwards. By embarking on the spiritual path.
3. Learn the lessons of your life and instead of whining and complaining and torturing GOD – be GRATEFUL to GOD – that you were cleansed and that you were the chosen one. Because GOD tests only those whom HE loves.

Remedies during KETU MAHADASHA:

1. Fasting on Wednesdays. Worshipping Lord Ganesha every Wednesday.
2. Donating plain notebooks, pen, pencil, to needy students.
3. Chanting any one of the following mantras every day:

• “Aum Gam Ganapataye Namaha”
• “Aum Namo Naryanaya”
• “Aum Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Namaha”
• “Aum Ram Krishna Hari”
• “Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram”

Never wear a CATS EYE gemstone during KETU MAHADASHA unless your KETU is in ASHWINI, MULA or MAGHA Nakshatra.

The only gemstones that you can wear during KETU MAHADASHA are:

1. Yellow Sapphire – Highly effective stone, positivity, optimism, blessing.
2. Pink Sapphire – Brings more love, more understanding, more caring to your being.
3. Pink Topaz – Keeps you going. You become more accommodating. Helps you realize the significance of ACCEPTANCE. A wonderful positive beautiful stone.
4. Yellow Topaz – Encourages you to stay optimistic, light hearted, helps you to relax and take it easy.
5. Rose Quartz – Romantic, lovable, caring, nurturing – all these qualities gets a boost when you don a Rose Quartz.
6. Real Pearl (Moti) – KETU is detachment but if the individual is less evolved soul then he may not understand the higher purpose of KETU and may just go into depression and so to keep the MIND – alive – MOTI or REAL PEARL is necessary. Wear it if you can afford it because real pearls are very expensive. The alternative affordable stone to Real Pearl is Moonstone.

A very important message especially to all my close followers – and the message is simple. Truth is always simple – the message is “During KETU MAHADASHA just focus on purifying your day to day life – by reciting the holy mantras, the shlokas and HANUMAN CHALISA. Nobody is stopping you from earning money as long as your needs are to be addressed. But if you start running behind your WANTS then KETU will take you to task. So remain humble. Remain grounded and recite HANUMAN CHALISA every morning and night before you go to sleep.”

“Every line of the Hanuman Chalisa is a Mahamantra.”
-Neem Karoli Baba

 

The many beliefs that one should not have sex or should not marry during KETU MAHADASHA is all FAKE. KETU has absolutely NO INTEREST in how many women or men you sleep with. Because the more you become IMMORAL – UNETHICAL – the more you will suffer during the period of BUDDHA (KETU). Have you ever seen a haunted man or women? What happens when you bring them in a holy place of worship – temple or church? They start getting the beating, the pain – NOT because the TEMPLE is at fault but because they are utterly corrupted within! Similarly KETU or BUDDHA MAHADASHA is like a TEMPLE or CHURCH – a holy time – but if you remain unholy and corrupt then it is natural for you to SUFFER!

Always remember – BLACK MAGIC or GHOSTS have been existing in this human world from the very beginning of time. If you want to prevent yourself from the spells of black magic – then you should FOCUS on purifying yourself from within. The more you purify – the more you can overcome black magic spells. It is so simple – but who wants to listen?

And so then comes the many fools – who simply don’t understand the simplicity of life!

I always like simple man. Simple woman. Have you been to Maharashta? Have you read about the WARKARI? WARKARI is a sect initiated by one of the greatest Saint – Sant Dyaneshwar. It is a sect of very common people – farmers, poor farmers, laborers – they are called WARKARI because every year in the month of July – they embark on a 400+ km journey — by foot. The journey begins from a place called ALANDI and ends at PANDHARPUR. These are very simple men and women – nowadays many fake people have also arrived in this sect – but still the essence of the matter is that simplicity is what GOD loves. Only a simple man is a man of heart – he may be poor or rich – but he is very much grounded – he is very much humble and he is very much aware of the truth – that life is a constant change and one should never get depressed in failures and one should never let the EGO get into his head when he is driving at the peak of his career.

GURU uses KETU to help you overcome attachments. To help you cleanse yourself – inside out. And then when you become an evolved being – a wise man – then you start doing good karma and that is how your SATURN (SHANI) starts improving – since SATURN signify the KARMA!

So you see – everything is connected my fellows – Everything is connected – the switch is plugged in – all you need is to press the button – all you need is to switch on the button and then the journey begins – the journey WITHIN.

“The only journey is the journey within.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Close your eyes. Stop worrying about this world. And turn inwards. There is a much beautiful world within you – start exploring – close your eyes, fall in love – and stay there.

The message of KETU is “Turn inwards. Let Go” If you can listen and implement this message in your life then and only then you can truly evolve during KETU MAHADASHA – only then you can transform into a beautiful butterfly – only then you can become one from those one thousand and one cows – the way Satyakam became. Then you will dance, then you will play your music, then you will not bother who says what – that is the whole message of Sri Ketu my fellows – Just BE YOURSELF.

Love – to all my readers and followers. Stay positive. Stay optimistic. And Stay blessed.

Always remember – the whole world may abandon you – but the master accepts you – HE never forgets you. You may forget Him but HE will never forget you.

“You can leave me. I won’t leave you. Once I catch hold of you, I don’t let go.” – Neem Karoli Baba

 

The love of the master is beyond the power of expression. Only those who have become disciples can relate to such a pure love – unconditional love that goes on sharing, loving and caring!

Remember – if you take one step towards the master – the master will take one thousand steps towards you. It is only your longing for the master that will drive him towards you and then you don’t have to search for Him – HE will come in search of YOU!

Buddha says “ I never plan my journeys – my legs start moving towards those who are thirsty for my words, for my love, for my blessings.”

The state of NO MIND is the state of KETU. The state of NO MIND is the state of BUDDHA. Only a Buddha can relate to the beauty of KETU – without KETU there is no enlightenment – the whole humanity owes a BIG TIME to KETU – I prostrate before Sri KETU – may HIS blessings continue to shower upon us.

Jai Sri Ganesha. Jai Guru. 🙏

For Ketu – Fame is Foolish. For Jesus – Fame is useless. For Buddha – Fame is a nuisance. But who is willing to listen to the truth? Prophet Muhammed never was interested in Fame.

The divine masters rejoice in their Aloneness. Ketu represents Aloneness. Aloneness is NOT behind FAME. It is a different story if FAME follows aloneness – but ALONENESS never is behind FAME. KETU is never behind Fame.

Only a man who can rejoice in ALONENESS can understand LOVE.

The First Lesson Of Love Is To Learn How To Be Alone.
-Osho

Only a man who find his BLISS in ALONENESS can understand LIFE.

Ketu understands Life. A Yogi understands Life – through Yogic practice – one can understand life.

The divine master – the real Yogi does Love – but their love is detached and because it is detached – it has a certain fragrance, a certain depth.

KETU represents Detachment.

“Attachment is the strongest block to realization.”
– Neem Karoli Baba

The divine masters find their bliss when there is absolute no greed no quest for money – Ketu represents absolute disinterest in Money or Sex or Fame.
KETU IS SIMPLY HAPPY TO BE – LIKE A HEALER – a REFINED KETU (YOGI) continues with his Journey from one place to the other – from one village to the other – HE moves but he moves in his own bliss, his own peace.

The place/territory that BUDDHA moved along came to be known as BIHAR. It is an outcome of two words – BUDDHA & VIHAR – VIHAR means ‘going around’ and so the territory or province in which Buddha moved around came to be known as BIHAR. All that Buddha talks about is India, and by India he meant only Bihar, because he had never gone anywhere else during his lifetime. BIHAR means TOUR – during his lifetime, BUDDHA toured only in that area – that’s why the name became BIHAR. In short – BIHAR means BUDDHA’s tour area.

But the greatest irony is that the people of BIHAR never accepted BUDDHA wholeheartedly – they condemned him, the Brahmins or the Pandas ridiculed his teachings – and so BUDDHA spends his whole life in the land of BIHAR – travelling to many villages and towns of BIHAR – for 40 years he walked around – shared such a wealth of wisdom – so much of love – so much affection – how beautiful this man must be – but that is how this human world is – when the MASTER is on the physical plane – the world never realize HIS worth – and then when his body dies – when he leaves this human world – people start realizing – start building statues and temples and shrines!

It is the greatest irony of this human world that the state that condemned Buddha was later named after HIM – in HIS remembrance!

“The whole of Bihar condemned him. Now the name Bihar is because of him because he walked there. Bihar means: where Buddha walks.”
– Osho

Where BUDDHA walks! Where KETU walks! And what a beautiful man – BUDDHA was.

The only beautiful man who once walked on this planet – and his name was – Gautama Buddha.

Mohan asked “ What was so significant about Gautama Buddha that makes HIM so special – so lovable – so divine – so precious than the entire divinity put together?

Looking into Mohan’s eyes – I said “ Buddha was the only one – a man after many centuries who came to help us all realize that what we seek on the outside – is WITHIN. Buddha showed us the way – he was the only one who helped us to realize that RELIGION begins only when you start TURNING INWARD.”

KETU exactly is what BUDDHA have been saying all his life – and that is – TO TURN INWARD!

And all my close followers and readers are now well aware of the fact that KETU is the WAY – that only KETU can help you to TURN INWARD – MEDITATION is possible only when you have the blessings of SHRI KETU.

And so FAME has nothing to do with KETU – because KETU is NOT interested in wasting time by focusing on the outside – KETU is deeply interested in FOCUSING WITHIN. KETU is the wise energy that helps you realize that FAME IS FOOLISH – FAME cannot help you GROW INSIDE OUT. KETU is that divine energy that lets you realize that FAME, POWER, MONEY, SEX, PLEASURES is NOT the answer that can help you attain the lasting happiness that you seek.

“I hope everybody could get rich and famous and will have everything they ever dreamed of, so they will know that it’s not the answer.”
– Jim Carrey

The questioner is looking for FAME. I hope he gets what he wishes for. In fact I hope that all of you get what you wish for. Just so that at the end of your life – IF YOU BECOME AWARE – IF by any chance you start turning inward – you start meditating – than you would realize – that Its Not the Answer.

But people don’t listen. And they will not because they are destined to go through a certain suite of experiences – until they WAKE UP – until they SELF REALIZE.

There was a young man. He must be like Mohan. Always eager to seek the master. Always in search of a master. And so one fine day – he sets out in search of a real master – a true master. Just outside his village – he find an old man sitting beneath a tree. And he comes to the old man and says “ I am looking for a real master – can you tell me to which direction should I move on? Right or Left?”

The old man was engrossed in his bliss, engrossed in his meditation – his eyes look different – there was a certain grace, and there was so much love in his whole being – looking at the young man, he smiled and said “ Beta – you go towards the right direction….and take care of yourself.”

The young man thanked the old man and set out on his journey – journey to search the master – the real master. And he spent 20 years in searching for the master – but all he found was FAKE masters – FAKE Babas – FAKE Saints – and so finally with frustration he decided to go back to his village.

On his way back – he again came across the same tree – the same old man – and the old man was in his own bliss, seated beneath the same tree – and suddenly the man’s heart moved…..his eyes started flowing with tears – he could NOW realize that – THIS OLD MAN – is my Master – the man rushed, he was running – he was crying – his whole being was shaken – he ran and ran and he came and he fell upon the old man’s feet and he said “ MASTER………….master…master…..”

And the Old man raised him up and said “ Raghu – how long you made me wait….I have been waiting 20 years for you….”

Raghu – was that young man’s name. Raghu said “ You know my name…..you know everything than why you NEVER told me when I met you for the very first time and asked you for direction to seek the master??”

The old man – the divine master smiled and said “ One has to REALIZE by HIS own awareness – it is okay that it took 20 years for you to self realize that I am your Master – I have been waiting for you – 20 years you were looking for the master – and here I was waiting for my Raghu – and see now you have arrived.”

Raghu kissed the hands of the Master and said “But all those 20 years were wasted….”

The Master said “ You are wrong. Those 20 years have not been wasted – those 20 years enabled you to realize what is FAKE – to realize how shallow this human world is – those 20 years brought you to a stage where you COULD differentiate between what is REAL and what is NOT – so how can you say that those 20 years were wasted?”

For everything there is a certain PROCESS through which each one of you has to go through. You may think that the PROCESS was useless – but GOD knows what HE is doing with your life – it is through HIS PROCESS that you evolve – you mature – you self realize – this is how it happens- this is the way of its happening!

It took 20 years for Raghu to realize – who his master is! It may take 50 years for some of you and it may take just 5 minutes for some of you – it all depends on your SELF AWARENESS – the greater the awareness – the greater is the SELF REALIZATION OF the TRUTH.

And KETU brings this SELF REALIZATION.

RAHU makes you go round and round and round – until you start coming back to the source – the master – until you realize that what you had been seeking – was always within you – and not anywhere else!

RAHU will give you FAME – and this FAME will then take away the peace, the joy, the bliss away from you.

KETU will pull you away from FAME – and then once you are in your own secluded place – you can meditate – you can focus within – there is no disturbances – there is no greed that can distract you – there are no temptation that can stop you from meditating and rejoicing in your bliss.

FAME needs extrovert nature – the very basic example of extrovert nature is that of a Journalist. Only when you are loaded with RAHU that you can become a GOOD JOURNALIST. Reporting – NEWS – MEDIA – this all is a perfect place that drives FAME – and it all comes under the influence of RAHU.

This AGE is of RAHU and so MEDIA is very powerful. JOURNALISTS are more empowered than Policemen! They can cause much more harm to you than anybody – that is how the MEDIA is powerful – the POLITICS (SATURN) of today is DRIVEN by the empowered MEDIA (RAHU).

KETU is a simple man. He is BUDDHA, He is Jesus, He is Muhammad – He is Mahavira – He is all that what MEDITATION is – He is all that what spirituality is – and HE is least interested in the affairs of RAHU – of FAME – of WEALTH – of SEX – of Pleasures.

And yet HE is always found to be happy – in his bliss – in his eternal joy, in his eternal peace.

“If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.”
– Sivananda

Ketu gives you Peace. KETU gives you Detachment. KETU ENABLES YOU TO HEAL YOURSELF.

So KETU has absolutely nothing to do when it comes to bringing Fame and Wealth to you. But KETU has a lot to do when it comes to Healing yourself – because it is only when you can heal yourself that you can heal Others! Ketu has lot do when it comes to bringing peace to your heart. Joy to your heart. So YES – KETU has absolutely no role when it comes to giving you Fame and Wealth – BUT KETU can give you those wonderful experiences and journeys that FAME AND WEALTH CANNOT GIVE YOU!

KETU is MEDITATION. And Meditation gives you NOTHING – and yet you are blessed with EVERYTHING!

Buddha was asked, “What have you gained from Meditation?” Buddha replied ” Nothing. However, let me tell you what I have lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old Age and Death.”

Unless you become EMPTY – how can you be filled with the DIVINE?
KETU enables the coming of this EMPTINESS!

The inner emptiness is the door to God. – Rajneesh

Emptiness is everything. The Ending is the beginning.

Form is Emptiness. Emptiness is Form states the Heart Sutra – one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is Emptiness – Nothingness – and KETU represents the state of Emptiness – the state of Nothingness.

“Knock. And He’ll open the door Vanish. And He’ll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens Become nothing. And He’ll turn you into everything.”
– Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi – عولوم

To meditate is to become NOTHING. It is only when you become a NOBODY that GOD can come to you – LOVE can come to you. If you remain – ‘I am SOMEBODY’ – than Love cannot be experienced in its true sense and God cannot be experienced in its true form.

It is only when you DROP your EGO – you DROP the idea and the illusions that ‘I AM SOMEBODY’ (Rahu energies) – that you can truly realize the energy of KETU – the energy of the divine source.

Evolved souls can benefit themselves through KETU. But souls who are still caught in many temptations – suffer at the hands of KETU. Because KETU wants you to SLOW DOWN, to SIT, to Meditate, to LET GO,to FORGIVE, to DETACH – but a common soul cannot understand the language of KETU. Buddha spends his whole life in helping people to REMEMBER this forgotten language – the language of meditation – the language of Ketu.

HIS last word before his DEATH was SAMMASTI – which means “REMEMBER”. Just REMEMBER your inner space – your inner peace.

“There is nothing to achieve, and there is nothing to become. You are already that which you have been seeking in all your lives in different ways, on different paths. But you have never looked inward. Look in. And whenever you have time, you know the path. Just go again and again to the inner space so that your fear of disappearing is dropped, you start enjoying being nobody, and you start REMEMBERING the forgotton language.” – Osho

But this Truth – not everyone can realize. This language – not everyone can understand. Some of my close followers can but the majority cannot. And so this answer may be collapsed but as long as it remains it can benefit a few.

There are men and women – who want to be spiritual but who also want to become a millionaire. And this is how you all mess up with your life. You either be on this Side or you either be on that Side. You either be on the side of RAHU – OR – you either be on the side of KETU. When you try to find a middle-ground – you end up with absolute disaster!

You either be CONTENT with what you have or you remain a GREEDY man.

And it is perfectly fine to be GREEDY – every man goes through this process – those who remain ‘asleep’ die in ignorance – those who ‘awake’ – become wise!

So it is OKAY if you are GREEDY – a few more hundred lives will come your way – a few million more sufferings – more miseries – more painful experiences.

It is only when are HIT HARD that you WAKE UP. It is only when you DO TOO MUCH – that you realize your foolishness – so being greedy is a process – through every man and every woman goes through – what MAKES THE DIFFERENCE though is – that NOT every man and every woman WAKE UP – they continue to live in utter ignorance – leading them to more RAHU and RAHU and RAHU – until a day comes when you realize that it is TIME to turn inwards – and that’s KETU!

Turning inwards – meditating is KETU.

So whenever someone comes to me – with a desire to become a Millionare, to rise to the TOP – to have more and more power – I wish him luck. Let him Go – Let him be Ambitious – because a DAY WILL COME when such a person will realize that AMBITION is NOT PURE NECTAR but PURE POISON.

But this REALIZATION has to come from within yourself.

It is said that Alexander, the Great was too ambitious by nature. Diogenes the divine saint had said to him “ Enough. Now come and relax with me.Just RELAX. You have conquered ENOUGH. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Now come back Alexander – come back.”

But Alexander was fired up with AMBITION – just like many of you. He said “ Master I will come – but only WHEN I WILL CONQUER the WHOLE WORLD.”

Diogenes had looked at him and said “ Nobody comes back – because this AMBITION NEVER ENDS.”

But Alexander won’t listen. Who wants to listen? Everybody comes with a face to listen – but when the TRUTH comes – they are not willing to FACE – they go back.

Alexander also had to go back to war. HIS AMBITION won’t let him REST in PEACE – until a day came when he died and his body was kept to REST in PEACE.

Neither the whole world was conquered, nor the world within was realized. And if anybody would ask me – than I would say again and again and again that Alexander died as a poor man – an utterly poor man.

AMBITION is a ‘BOTTLE’ of POSION but whose Label says “It is PURE NECTAR”.

This AMBITION won’t let you all rest in peace – you want to run and run and run behind FAME, POWER, MONEY and when Diogenes asks you to come back – you all give the same reason that Alexander had given – he had said “ I will come back – when I am done with my AMBITION – with my desires.”

But he never was able to ‘comeback’ – and that is what happens with every man and woman who is fired up with Ambition. This Ambition is RAHU. And RAHU ensures that you never settle – you continue to run and run and run – until you drop down – taken to the Graveyard and a nice label is placed on your Grave – that says “Rest in Peace.”

And this is the greatest JOKE of human life – when you are ALIVE – you are not in Peace – nobody tells you to take rest – but when you are gone – when you are dead – People place a very nicely decorated label on your grave – ‘Rest in Peace.’!

The TRUTH is – the FACT is that AMBITION never ends – DESIRES never end – after one ambition is achieved – another stands before you – after one desire is fulfilled – a new desire is born – and you are always standing in queue – the queue just never ends!

And the queue will end – only when the DESIRES will be dropped – when AMBITION will be curbed – only then peace is possible, only then joy is possible and this is what KETU is saying – but a RAHU man or woman cannot understand – they continue to ‘debate’ – and debates don’t bring forth the TRUTH. Meditations do.

So come,come you all and let us meditate. Those who are wishing for FAME – let them have it. Those who are wishing for Money – let them have it. Those who are wishing for SEXUAL PLEASURES – let them have it. Those who are wishing for POWER – let them have it – AND those who are wishing for NOTHING SPECIFIC but HIS LOVE and GRACE – only those come with me and sit down and meditate.

The world of RAHU operates at one End.

The world of KETU operates at the other End.

Life begins with RAHU – Birth comes because of RAHU (desires) and Death comes because of KETU – but THIS DEATH is NOT PHYSICAL DEATH – this DEATH is of all your illusions that RAHU creates – it is only when the MASK OF RAHU is dropped that you are REBORN – but to REBORN – DEATH is necessary – this DEATH is the bridge towards the DIVINE TRUTH – the DIVINE BLISS – and therefore Jesus says to Nicodemus that to experience TRUTH – GOD – LOVE – you have to REBORN. And so let this be very clear that ENLIGHTENMENT happens through DEATH – this DEATH is enabled by KETU and if you ask me – then I will say again and again – that such a DEATH is beautiful.

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”
-Adyashanti

Physical DEATH cannot bring transformation as much as the DEATH of all your illusions that RAHU creates – DEATH of your EGO that your MIND feeds on.

And so such a DEATH comes only to the CHOSEN ONES. Remember – it is GOD who chooses MEN – it is the MASTER who chooses the Disciple.

“GOD CHOOSES FIRST, THEN YOU START FEELING A HUNGER FOR HIM… MEN CAN NOT CHOOSE GOD, IT IS GOD WHO CHOOSES MAN.”
– OSHO

Jesus chooses Peter, the fisherman. How beautiful was Peter – an utterly illiterate man – and yet when he meets Jesus for the first time – the very first time and Jesus says “ Follow Me – I will make you the fisher of Men.” – Peter simply drops everything – everything is dropped – no intellectual questions, no logic – no head – just the heart – just the conscious decision and Peter simply decides to Follow Jesus – and whole life changes – everything around him remains the same- but Peter the fisherman is no more the same – he goes on to become one of the most revered Saints of Christian Faith. Peter, the fisherman transforms into Saint Peter – that is the beauty of FAITH, of PATIENCE, of DEVOTION,of LOVE!

But who wants to listen? Millions and millions of souls are born every moment and every moment millions of them leave the human body – this cycle of birth and rebirth continues – and it simply goes on and on and on – until someday – you develop the qualities of PETER – of ARJUNA – of ANANDA – of SARIPUTTA – then then some change is possible – then the repeating PATTERN of your lives after lives CAN change – the question is – are you WILLING TO?

But people are interested in FAME. WEALTH. SEX.MONEY.POWER. Let it be so.

KETU will never interfere. Understand this – this is significant. KETU will never interfere in your affairs – the MASTER will never interfere – the old man never interfered – he never told RAGHU – the TRUTH. HE let Raghu go his way to seek the MASTER – when in reality he himself was his Master! HE never told him the Truth – he let him self-realize the truth and just for that – he waited 20 years beneath the same tree! How beautiful – is the heart of the master – how can I express – I am speechless – I am truly speechless.

The GURU – the master always lets you have your way – that is the way of the True Master – the Real Master.

“If you come to doubt, I’ll give you every reason to doubt. If you come suspicious, I’ll give you every reason to be suspicious. But if you come seeking Love, I’ll show you more love than you’ve ever known.”
-His Holiness Mahavatar Babaji

Fame is short-lived. Wealth is short-lived. But what can be experienced for eternal is the BLISS, the JOY, the PEACE – WITHIN and yes – KETU bestows upon you all of this – that is ETERNAL in nature and NOT Short-lived.

Rahu gives all that is short-lived.
Ketu gives all that last for eternal.

Understand the difference. Savor the difference.

Life is short. Active years of life are even more short. It is for you all to decide which way you want to go. The Way of Rahu is open. The Way of Ketu is also open. What you choose is what you become. You are always free to make a CHOICE – but you are NEVER free from the consequences of the choice that you make!

My father was a famous man in the late 80s – but his fame was short lived – he died when he was 47. He must have had planned many things – but he wasn’t aware of what is to happen the next moment. Fame is NOT the answer – people think that FAME is the answer to all miseries – but let me tell you all – it is the other way round – FAME brings many miseries than otherwise – it is a HARD TRUTH – very few could resonate with, but I thought why not share the real thing!

And so REAL is what we all have to be. The society is FAKE – filled with a majority of hypocrites – and the more the REAL you will Be – the more you will be condemned, banned, ridiculed. Always remember – Jesus was crucified by this same society – Muhammed was forced to leave Mecca by this same society – Buddha was ridiculed and offended by this same society – Sai Baba was ridiculed and offended by this same society – Sant Dyaneshwar was outcasted by this same society – that’s the way of this human world – if Saints could not get away with it – what to say about you or me.

Many times it happens – people come, then they say “ I understand everything that you are saying – BUT……”

You see – this BUT never goes away – and I can understand this BUTs – the desire is there – the ambition is always there – and that is perfectly fine. After all this human birth is because of certain desires, certain ambitions – I always tell “ Do whatever your heart wish to as long as you don’t cause harm to anybody.”

Follow your Hurt – attain all the Fame and whatever you all have wished for births after births – until a days comes, until a moment comes – when there will be NO Buts – when you will simply be able to say “ I understand.”

That will be the moment of your transformation – that will be the day when you all will be REBORN – that will be the day when the flowering will happen – when the blossoming of your inner being will begin – God will wait for that day – the master will wait for that – the old man waited for 20 long years – the master can always wait – there is absolutely No rush – you all can have your RIDE – until you self-realize – what is TRULY beneficial for your GROWTH – until you all self-realize – WHAT is REAL GROWTH.

The whole story of human life is between the two ends of RAHU and KETU – the journey of birth begins from RAHU (Focusing outside) – and should move towards KETU (Focusing Within)- that is the true sign of progress – that is the true mark of REAL GROWTH.

Jesus says – Nobody is Late – even if you arrive in the ‘evening’ – you will be provided with the same wages (blessings). Even if you are too much caught into the desires (Rahu) AND you have realized lately your foolishness – and you have started turning inwards – overcoming the desires – the temptations – then you are also not late – you are welcome – you will be provided with the same Grace – the same Blessings. In the KINGDOM OF GOD – there is absolutely no discrimination between who is Early and who is Late – as long as you come – as long as you start moving towards the Direction of Ketu – turning inwards – meditating and taking efforts to realize your SELF.

“No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance”
– RAMANA MAHARSHI

KETU encourages you to keep going WITHIN – to meditate – to LOOK WITHIN.

If God comes and ASKS “What you want – RAHU or KETU? FAME or BLISS? LOGIC or LOVE? HEAD or HEART? Ignorance or Consciousness?”

Then what will be your Answer?

Your answer will define your FUTURE. And GOD has been asking you all – the same question – birth after birth….

What you are experiencing this life is based on the ANSWER that you have chosen. If you want to raise the quality of your life – then the ANSWER need to be REVISED – ask yourself and I say it to you all – ask yourself – Are you ready to revise the ANSWER?

The current course of your life can be REVISED only when you are ready to REVISE the ANSWER that you have been giving all your births after births.

The Master appears when the Student is READY says Lao Tzu – the divine master.

Your READINESS is important for you to realize the true essence of life. My sharing, my answer is simply to help you all – Find the right Answer.

Meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

KETU is ZERO. KETU is SHUNYA (शुन्य​) – Ketu is a Nobody. And yet Ketu can get you to Everbody.

“When you become SHUNYA, when you become absolutely NOTHING, a NOTHINGNESS, a NOBODY-then you have attained.”
-Buddha

And it is only when you ATTAIN – when you SELF REALIZE – when you are Enlightened that you can HEAL! And so I have been saying again and again – that at the ROOT of HEALING POWER – is the most benevolent KETU – one who has NO HEAD – and only one who has NO HEAD can JUMP – and only one who can JUMP – can ATTAIN – can experience the BEYOND.

“They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!”
-Rajneesh

Such men are very few. One in a million. People want to know many things – they talk a lot – so much of “knowledge’ they exhibit – and yet when it comes to taking the ‘JUMP’ – they start shaking – they start raising many doubts – and so ARJUNA is one in a million. ANANDA is one in a million. PETER is one in a million. They JUMPED – they simply jumped WITHOUT thinking – when you THINK – the MIND is in PLAY – the HEAD is in play – and the MIND won’t let you JUMP – ARJUNA, ANANDA, PETER – these were great souls who had overcome the monkey mind – and so when KRISHNA says to ARJUNA – “SHOOT – SHOOT at that old man – BHISHMA- follow your DHARMA”

ARJUNA simply shoots – he simply shoots his ARROW at that old man who loved him the most – whom he also loves the most – BHISHMA! But when the MASTER says “SHOOT” – ARJUNA simply SHOOTS – that is the stage of NO MIND – that is the most beautiful stage of KETU!

When Jesus meets Peter, the fisherman for the VERY FIRST TIME and says “ Peter – follow me – I will make you the fisher of men.”

Peter, the fisherman simply drops everything and starts following JESUS. He is not even aware of who JESUS is! He is an illiterate man – and yet he could SEE that this man is something else – that the words of this young man are so deep – his eyes, there is so much GRACE – that Peter simply could not even THINK – he simply ‘JUMPS’ into the unknown – and that is KETU – that is COURAGE – it is only through the State of NO MIND- KETU – you can become COURAGEOUS – Peter indeed was the most COURAGEOUS man and the same PETER, the fisherman goes on the become one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus and later is revered as Saint Peter in the Christian Faith!

Ananda – what an innocent man he was. Yes – he had some ignorance – but he simply was so much devoted to BUDDHA that he followed HIM for 40 years – like a shadow – he remained with BUDDHA – Ananda becomes the Shadow of Buddha – Ananda was also a PRINCE – he belonged to a ROYAL family – he was the elder cousin brother of Buddha – and yet he JUMPED – he left everything behind and came in search of his younger brother – whom the world had been addressing as the BUDDHA! And Ananda loved Buddha – but his love had become possessive. And the moment your LOVE becomes POSSESSIVE – KETU takes a backseat – and when KETU (DETACHMENT) takes a backseat – your spiritual progress – your enlightenment is blocked!

And that is what happened with ANANDA. He spend 40 years with BUDDHA and yet he could NOT attain.

And now when BUDDHA was dying – when BUDDHA was about leave his human body – Anand started crying – he could not control himself – he broke out with such a cry that Buddha noticed it and said “ Ananda why you cry?”

Ananda says “I am not crying because you are leaving – I am crying because once you are gone – there will nobody of your caliber for centuries to come and I am still not enlightened. Those who came after me – have been enlightened with your Grace – but I…..haven’t yet been enlightened….why?”

Buddha said “Ananda – when you met me for the first time, you laid 3 conditions – those conditions became a hurdle between you and your attainment.”

Ananda remembered those 3 conditions – those 3 conditions were to help him stay with Buddha and he stayed for 40 years – but no luck, enlightenment never happened to him. Ananda asked ” Now what?” Buddha said ” Now I have to die first – only then you will be enlightened – with my death – all your conditions that I had accepted will cease – you will then attain.”

And it is said that after Buddha died, Ananda attained enlightenment.

Conditions block you – when you love – let there be NO Conditions.

“The word – PROGRESS is the basic disease of the modern age. What is the need? All that can be enjoyed is available, all that you need to be happy is here and Now. But you create CONDITIONS and you say that unless these conditions are fulfilled you cannot be happy as if by being happy you are going to oblige the whole universe.” – Osho

KETU has NO CONDITIONS. Because KETU operates WITHOUT HEAD – WITHOUT MIND.

And so a REAL DISCIPLE – a REAL FOLLOWER when follows the MASTER – he would never remember the BLOWS of the Master – because there is NO HEAD – all that there is – is the HEART and the HEART can only FEEL – the HEART cannot HOLD on to anything – in true sense – the HEART is DETACHED by nature – what makes you ATTACHED is your MIND – and therefore the MIND is always against KETU – because it knows – that the energy of KETU can eliminate all the illusions that the MIND goes on creating.

It happened once, Hassan and a few Sufi Mystics were walking through the forest and they all met Rabiya – the Great Sufi Saint. Expressing their love for the master – Hassan says “None is sincere in his claims to the Love of God unless he patiently endure the blows of His Lord.” Rabiya smiles and says ” This smells egoism.” Sakik says ” None is sincere in his claim unless he give thanks for the blows of the Lord.” Rabiya again smiles and says ” This must be still bettered. Still some ego is there.” Malik says ” None is sincere in his claim unless he delight in the blows of his Lord.” Rabiya again smiled and said “Good but still needs to be improved. A very subtle ego is still hiding like a shadow.” Then they all said ” Rabiya – you yourself say – you guide us.” And Rabiya, one of the greatest Sufi Saint – she says ” None is sincere in his claim UNLESS he FORGETS the blows in beholding his lord.” How beautiful is this. They loved the master – but they could not FORGOT the blows – here Rabiya is saying – when love is total – the blows cannot be remembered. So where is the question of being delighted to receive the Master’s blows? or thankful or tolerating the blows – the Blows simply does not exist – a devoted disciple forgets the blows in beholding his compassionate Master!

“Even when the Master hits, you feel tremendously happy. And the Master has to hit to make openings in your being. You have grown a hard crust around yourself, that was necessary for survival; otherwise you would not have survived at all. You had to protect yourself against so many dangerous situations in life. When you come to a MAster you have to drop that armor. And the aromor may have gone so deep that you cannot drop it, then the Master has to hit you, the Master has to use a sledge-hammer! He has to cut many chunks of your being because they are NOT really part of you. And when those chunks are removed and cut, it is painful, it hurts – but only then the Master can pour himself into you.” – Osho

The Master can pour himself into you – only WHEN you have NO MIND.Only when you have overcome the MIND – only when your MIND is merged into your HEART and there is NO MIND – but tremendous intelligence!

KETU therefore brings Intelligence – but this intelligence is of very deep very unique and very rebellious by nature! TRUTH has always been rebellious. JESUS was rebellious – he goes to the PAGAN TEMPLES and asks the people to stop DOING BUSINESS on the name of these PAGAN GOD IDOLS. Mohammed was rebellious – He too went against the BUSINESS OF RELIGION and the Corruption that was happening on the name of GOD and IDOLS – BUDDHA too was rebellious – he too went against the Corruption that was happening on the name of religion. INTELLIGENCE is always rebellious by nature – the SOCIETY cannot FACE the intelligent – the SOCIETY always is afraid of an intelligent Man or an intelligent Woman. The SOCIETY is always afraid of KETU – because KETU brings Intelligence and Intelligence can unmask the FAKE and bring forth the TRUTHS!

Intelligence is dangerous.
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.
-Rajneesh

Intelligence is of the heart consciousness (also addressed as God consciousness in the West or Krishna Consciousness in the East) . NEVER confuse Intelligence with Intellectualism.

Intellectualism is of the HEAD – Mercury.

Intelligence is of the Consciousness – SUN. And the way towards CONSCIOUSNESS is paved by KETU! And therefore it is the SIGN of LEO – where KETU presides like an EMPEROR – by taking the lordship of the NAKSHATRA – MAGHA!

How beautiful is all this and how beautiful it can be – there is no limit – there never was! And so LEO the sign of SUN (Consciousness) has its FIRST NAKSHATRA as MAGHA ruled by Sri KETU! And therefore SUN feels HOME in the NAKSHATRA of MAGHA – SUN is extremely comfortable in the ROYAL ABODE of KETU (MAGHA Nakshatra)!

And therefore MAGHA is called the ROYAL ABODE – ROYALITY is closely associated with KETU – but the ROYALITY – the KING – the RAJ YOG that KETU brings is something beyond this material world – you become the KING of KINGS – but you roam NAKED – and yet you become KING of KINGS – you become a Diogenes – he had NOTHING and yet he had THAT – which Emperors and Kings never had – he was one of the greatest YOGI of the WEST – a great SAINT – now tell me – when you say ‘I am KING’ – there should be absolute FREEDOM – no worries – no tensions – no obstructions – no obsessions – no possessions – such a FREEDOM – neither ALEXANDER, the GREAT had and nor any EMPERORS who have been through this human world! SUCH A FREEDOM only JESUS had,MOHAMMED had, MAHAVIRA had, KRISHNA had, BUDDHA had – only a YOGI could experience TOTAL FREEDOM and only that man or woman who can experience TOTAL FREEDOM is the REAL KING – KETU enables you to reach the state of TOTAL FREEDOM – and therefore the NAKSHATRA OF MAGHA is addressed as the ROYAL ABODE – the REAL KING’s SEAT – because it is here where you become a great YOGI – or you get the CAPACITY to become a great YOGI.

Yogi PARAMHANSA YOGANANADA had LEO Ascendant with MAGHA Nakshatra rising (KETU). And what a great Yogi he was – what a beautiful Autobiography he wrote – that it moved the hearts of millions across the globe – my salute to His Holiness Paramhansa Yogananda.

SUN feels home in the NAKSHATRA of KETU – MAGHA.

CONSCIOUSNESS feels home in the ABODE of KETU.

The Sign of LEO therefore is NOT in its entirety BENEFICIAL for the SUN. The SUN feels home – the SUN has all the abilities to expand your consciousness – ONLY as long as it is placed in the MAGHA Nakshatra of the SUN SIGN.

The moment SUN moves to PURVA PHALGUNI – it starts becoming uncomfortable – and therefore I meet many who wonder that why SUN in-spite of being in LEO sign – does NOT favor in its totality. PURVA PHALGUNI is VENUS Nakshatra and SUN energy is in contrast to VENUS. SUN wants to UPLIFT you – and VENUS wants you to remain ATTACHED to material PLEASURES – how can this MARRIAGE work?

And so SUN in LEO works beautifully – helping you to grow spiritually – as long as it is in the NAKSHATRA of MAGHA. Interestingly many ROYAL FIGURES are also born on MAGHA – LEO ASCENDANT – when KETU connects material planets – ROYALITY comes – when KETU connects with spiritual planets – SPIRITUALITY of HIGHEST NATURE comes – in both cases – you remains in the ABODE OF KETU – MAGHA – the ROYAL ABODE – that’s why the ancient seers have HIGH REGARDS for MAGHA – the nakshatra of KETU.

KETU is SHUNYA. ZERO. The WEST mentions the state of SHUNYA as EMPTINESS. NOTHING. NOBODY.

It is good to be a Nobody. Because LOVE happens only when you are in true sense a NOBODY! If you remain “I am somebody” (EGO)- Love is not possible. God is not possible. So it necessary to self realize the significance of being a nobody – the significance of NOTHINGNESS, the significance of EMPTINESS. And only that man and woman can understand this significance – who is meditating, who is coming closer and closer to the Self – the consciousness.

Such a man, such a woman can relate to KETU – can listen to what it is saying, can follow its directions.

The label on the DOOR says – To open the door – PULL. But you are Pushing and Pushing and Pushing – how will the door open? WHEN JOB is lost – you continue to hit the same spot again and again – WHEN LIFE wants you to explore other opportunities. All your life you have been PUSHING the DOOR – because you know only one way – you have never tried to explore the other way – the way to PULL open the DOOR.

And this is deep and this is something every individual should meditate upon- and this happens only when you have the support of Ketu. Only then you can turn inward – only then you can EXPLORE the many possibilities of OPENING the DOOR.

GOD has been knocking on your DOOR – many times – but what stops you from opening the door is your belief – you believe that there is only one way to open the door – it is your belief that comes in between your EXPERIENCE – and the IRONY of this human world is that people go by BELIEF and NOT by Experiences!

Whenever KETU is in a specific Planet’s nakshatra- Ketu brings NOTHINGNESS to the matters of that planet. Through this NOTHINGNESS- Ketu wants you to PULL the Door and walk out – experience the ultimate FREEDOM from those matters that are ruled by that planet. DETACHED.

One day Mohan came and said “ Addittya, how come I never had a chance to meet my mother.When I was 4, she left me – and then I just know that somewhere she is ALIVE – but neither she contacted me and nor I – so how do you see this happening. Please help me with your insights on this strange happening of my life – the absence – total absence of my MOTHER in my life?

I said “ Mohan – nowadays you have started to think a lot – that is not good. Thoughts become hurdles to your progress in meditation. So beware.”

Mohan said “ But this has been troubling me for many days and months and so your answer will help me to understand and to move on.”

Sometimes you have to answer – Mohan was a close follower – with a strong focus on meditation. Not answering him would have blocked his progress in meditation and so I said “ Mohan, look at your birth chart – open it.”

Mohan opened his birth chart and I said “ Look where your MOON is.”

Mohan said “Moon is in the SIXTH house. But I have many friends who have MOON in the sixth and still they have Mother – there is no absence of Mother in their lives.”

I smiled and said “ Look further…KETU is in which Nakshatra?”

Mohan said “ ROHINI.”

I asked “ Who is the lord of ROHINI Nakshatra?”

Mohan said “ MOON”

I said “ Moon rules the matters related to MOTHER. KETU in MOON’s Nakshatra – is bringing SHUNYATA (EMPTINESS) in the matters of MOTHER.

Further your MOON is also in conjunction with KETU – so again the EMPTINESS related to MOTHER – becomes severe. So in the dictionary of your life – the word MOTHER is absent and will remain absent. So now LET GO – do not get stuck in the matters of MOTHER because KETU wants to liberate you – it is the way of KETU telling you – that MOVE ON – just the way when the doctor pricks the ‘baby’ inside the womb of a pregnant woman – COMES OUT – LIBERATED – FREED – similarly KETU in this life want you to MOVE ON – and NOT get attached to the matter related to MOTHER. Now get on with your life and focus on your MEDITATION.

“Kabir will suggest meditation, Buddha has suggested meditation, I suggest meditation. Meditation is a different approach: it has nothing to do with God, it has something to do with you, with your mind. It has to create a silence within you, a deep utter silence. In that utter silence you will start feeling the presence of God.”

KETU is MEDITATION. And MEDITATION is a LET GO. Understand this – and I specifically appeal to all my close followers and readers – this is very deep.

KETU is Meditation. And Meditation is a LET GO – you will come to the state of SHUNYA – EMPTINESS only when you are able to LET GO – and KETU – the energy of KETU is precisely helping you to LET GO – Mohan was able to LET GO of his attachment with his MOTHER – but not everybody is like MOHAN – they come with questions – but they are NOT willing to or able to FACE the TRUTH – listen to what KETU has to say – to what LIFE has to say!

Understand the FACT – that the ABSENCE that KETU brings – the SHUNYATA (EMPTINESS) that KETU brings is simply to AWAKE you and help you to MOVE ON – it is a clear signal – that you better remain DETACHED from the matters that are connected with KETU – BECAUSE KETU – the MASTER knows that unless you become DETACHED from these matters – you will NOT evolve – you will NOT mature – you will NOT GROW in the true sense!

When KETU is in a positive nakshatra- it simply empowers KETU – and that is a progressive sign for the native. Ketu LOVES Jupiter – he understands that the Master can channelize him in the most effective way. In fact KETU is made for JUPITER – the Master. Ketu is just the way HANUMAN is – always devoted to the Master. Always!

And so when KETU is in VISHAKA NAKSHATRA which is ruled by JUPITER – KETU feels home. Feels comfortable. Had it been any other planet Nakshatra – Ketu would have simply moved its bulldozer on those planet’s and the matters they bring along. But in Vishaka Nakshatra – KETU gets a certain depth – if Jupiter is well placed than this placement can help in spiritual progress of the native.

Always realize the fact that YOU (and when I say YOU – it is meant for not just the questioner but to all my followers and readers) – always realize the fact that YOU can connect with the MASTER – only when there is NO HEAD (KETU)!

You have to ask yourself – what you are? A student or a disciple?

The relation of a Student with the Teacher is of the HEAD.

The relation of a DISCIPLE with the MASTER is of the HEART!

The Disciple can melt into the Master – only when there is NO MIND. Only when he or she has reached the state of NO MIND.

“Meditation is the state of no-mind; no society within you, no conditioning within you – just you, with your pure consciousness.”
-OSHO

In the state of NO MIND – TRUTH descends like a light unto you. Then the Master appears – then the communication between you and the Master happens – and it all happens in SILENCE – deep Silence.

REAL COMMUNICATION HAPPENS IN SILENCE

MIND makes a lot of noise. That is one reason that I stay away from the crowd. A few selective people only I choose – because they are taking efforts to move beyond mind – through meditation.

A talkative person is a headache. This ‘talk’ has led to so many miseries.

Mohan asked “ How?”

I said “ How does a relationship began?”

And Mohan said “ Talk – through talking.”

“That is right – first the man and the woman start ‘talking’ – then they talk more and more – over the phone – in person – and then this talking slowly starts transforming into the first step towards a bonding – a relationship!”

So ‘Talking’ is the first step – and this talking is all of the MIND and the MIND is monkey. The MIND goes on and on and on – and you start feeling that this woman is something – or – this man is something – the MIND is cunning – it knows how to attract through talking – you never know what lies beneath the talking – what is the REAL AGENDA!

And so a common man falls in love through the medium of TALKING – COMMUNICATING. But a YOGI will never fall in love – because a YOGI has least interest in TALKING and moreover he also can easily understand what is hidden agenda behind your talking – your communicating.

KETU dislikes Talking. Rahu likes Talking. A man ruled by RAHU talks a lot – let me tell you all that TALKING or COMMUNICATING can bring fortunes to your material life – and there is absolutely NO DOUBT about this. BUT the more you get inclined towards talking and talking – the more you go on losing your SELF – the more you move away from your SELF. So in the eyes of the world – you become RICH – but within you become poorer and more poorer.

“By talking and talking externally you may be gaining something, but WITHIN you are certainly losing contact with *Yourself*. You are getting closer to people while you are becoming further removed from yourself.
And the more adept you become at this game, the harder it will be for you to go into silence.” – Osho

With folded hands – I therefore insist everybody who want to contact me – that do NOT spend your time and my time in TALKING – just email me and if I can respond I will – because the whole purpose of my sharing with you all – is to help you all MOVE towards your SELF – to MOVE you all towards SILENCE.

“All we need to do is to KEEP QUIET. Peace is our real nature. We spoil it. All that is needed is that we cease to spoil it.”
-Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi

KETU rejoices in SILENCE. The YOGI rejoices in SILENCE. The whole journey of this human life is to move towards SILENCE – and that SILENCE has to be a BLISSFUL Silence – a meditative silence.

Those who cannot understand the TRUTH – will ask you “ Tell me the TRUTH?”

But how can you tell the TRUTH – when the one who is asking is still at the base level – is still an ignorant fellow! Jesus also remained silent – when he was asked at the very last moment when he was put on the CROSS – the Roman Prefect had asked “ What is the TRUTH?”

And Jesus remained silent. He just looked into the Prefect’s eyes – and pure SILENCE. It was Buddhist Silence – because TRUTH can be shared – can be given only if there is a certain depth of UNDERSTANDING!

KETU can help you all – to bring a certain depth of understanding because KETU can TURN you INWARDS and only that man and that woman can have a certain depth – who is turning inwards – who is meditating – who is coming closer to the SELF – the Consciousness!

People are running and running and seeking a MASTER – a real MASTER – my question to them is – Are you ready to become a true disciple?

People want to see KRISHNA – the question is ARE YOU READY TO BE ARJUNA?

Only when you have become a true disciple that you can SEE the Master – Feel his love – Feel his Grace.

The word DISCIPLE is very beautiful – it means one who is ‘Ready to learn’. Discipline means creating a Space for learning. Disciple means one who is Ready to Learn. But when can you learn? Only when you drop all your EGO, your PREJUDICES, your NOTIONS and IDEAS only when YOU BECOME TOTALLY EMPTY – SHUNYA – that you can become a true disciple!

This state of being SHUNYA – EMPTY is what KETU brings – only IF you are able to resonate with its energy – can you develp – grow – in the true sense.

The ‘cup’ is useful ONLY because it is EMPTY! Form is EMPTINESS, EMPTINESS is FORM states one of the most revered Buddhist Texts.

As long as you are PACKED with all the KNOWLEDGE that you have collected all along your life – how can the REAL – the TRUTH penetrate into your being – you are already packed – Housefull.

And so unless there is EMPTINESS – you cannot grow inside out – you may go on repeating the words of Buddha but you will not become a Buddha – to become a Buddha – you have to first become EMPTY – a NOBODY – rejoice in NOTHINGNESS.

KETU when related to Jupiter is always beneficial for spiritual growth – the question is whether you are ready?

And so come, come you all – and realize the fact that this is the only moment – the PAST is NO more – and the FUTURE is not yet – this moment – NOW is the only moment and time is running – you have to decide which way you have to move on with your journey – RAHU or KETU?

What you choose is what you become. You are always free to choose but you are never free from the consequences of the Choice that you make!

So choose wisely – when you look around and you see people who have got exactly what they have wished for – you may get carried away by thinking that they are the ones who are LUCKY – but let me tell you all they are NOT the lucky ones – the lucky ones are those who DO what they are meant to do – who come with a mission – a purpose and work towards making that mission a success, a celebration.

“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.” – Neem Karoli Baba

An Army officer fights to save his country – he may lose his life – but he has done what he was meant to do. Such men and women who work for others – whose sole purpose is to DO what they are meant to – are the LUCKY ones and not those who get exactly what they want.

But not everybody can understand this – the majority has become slave of their MIND and the MIND ensures that you never get to the bottom of the TRUTH.

KETU helps you to overcome this Monkey Mind. Through KETU you can detach yourself -and the moment DETACHMENT starts coming over you – you can start experiencing the happiness – the love – the peace you have been seeking all your life.

The key is DETACHMENT. The way is through WITNESSING.

Witnessing is the way. Remain a witness while you do a certain action. Do it without getting attached – if you are feeding someone – feed but by being detached. If you are helping someone – healing someone – do it – but remain a witness – just the way a MILITARY DOCTOR on a battleground does.

What he does? He simply heals the wounded soldiers – one by one. He is NOT attached – he is simply devoted to his ART OF HEALING – he heals one soldier and moves on to the next – and then next and next and next – that’s all! There is absolutely no attachment – whatever he does – he does out of care, out of love – but that love is NOT attached – it moves on to the NEXT – and that’s KETU – KETU heals and HE can HEAL because there is absolute NO ATTACHMENT to what he does. There is absolute NO AGENDA to what he does – there is absolute NO expectations to what he does – he simply does what he is meant to do – and such a man is lucky man – such a man is truly a blessed man says the divine saint Neem Karoli Baba.

KETU is Emptiness. Shunya. Only when you become a Shunya can you WITNESS. Only when you start LETTING GO – can you Meditate. And only when you meditate that you can come to your own realizations – you can heal yourself – and only when you can heal yourself that you can HEAL others! The whole spiritual journey begins from KETU – for the way towards the TRUTH – is within and KETU is the only energy in this whole universe that can encourage you – empower you to look within and begin on the most wonderful journey of your life – the Journey Within.

“You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.”
~Rumi

The only journey is the JOURNEY WITHIN – and my fellows this is exactly what KETU’s message is – those who can relate to this divine message – can EVOLVE during KETU’s dasha, transits and those who cannot – will simply continue to live a miserable life.

Every Kundli is either inclined towards KETU (LET GO) or RAHU (ATTACHED/CLINGING/HOLDING). And so first comes RAHU KETU and then begins the whole story of planets – that is how critical are these two ENDS – one is HITLER (RAHU) and the other is BUDDHA (KETU) and they are two polarities that can never meet – you cannot say that “ I am a philosopher and I am spiritual” – You are either a PHILOSOPHER (RAHU) or you are pure SPIRITUAL (KETU)!

Philosopher is like a blind man. He simply goes on and on and on – apply a hell of a LOGIC – he may try to figure out how KRISHNA looks – but he has never experienced the divinity of Krishna. He may repeat the words of BUDDHA but he has NEVER EXPERIENCED the divinity the essence of BUDDHA. You see – a philosopher is all logic WITH ABSOLUTE NO REAL EXPERIENCE.

But a Spiritual person and what a beauty he is. He is so simple, so straight and he speaks so less – he is not lost in his PAST and he is NOT worried or thinking about his FUTURE – because he is absolutely aware that PAST is NO MORE and FUTURE is NOT YET – he is perfectly aware that LIFE is flowing NOW – in this PRESENT moment – and so he lives moment to moment – he has absolute NO interest in applying any logic or calculations – he is simply happy to – BE HERE NOW – Meditation happens only when you are able to BE HERE NOW – when your MIND is in your control and is concentrating on this NOW MOMENT. Such a man EXPERIENCES the TRUTH – and so whatever he shares is through HIS OWN EXPERIENCES – he is NOT imagining – he has actually experienced and so a SPIRITUALIST is NOT a philosopher. And a PHILOSOPHER is NOT a spiritualist.

TRUTH is hard – it may hurt – it may lead to collapsing this answer but as long as it remains – it can benefit a few.

You all have to decide your way – if you all ask me than I would say – live your life as an ordinary man or woman. Just be ordinary but let there be so much of Godliness – divinity – worship – selfless service to your being – to your life that you become special – a truly special CHILD OF GOD!

“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.”

RAHU has dragged you all into the many lustful temptations, greed, low desires, ambitions – you all have gone through this – many must be going through this – and many may be in the waiting list to go through all of this – this RAHU showers plenty of money – just to make you ‘blind’ (ignorant) – then you start doing many mistakes – many foolish decisions – and then when you are tithly caught in RAHU’s grip – which is your ownpast karmic creation – you start feeling utterly miserable – all the doors appear to be closed and there seem to be NO WAY OUT!

But KETU is on the other end – you miss to notice the Master – you miss to realize that while you were totally DRUNK in the abundance of money,power and fame – on the exact other end – a very old man was observing – waiting to see when you will WAKE UP – and the day you WAKE UP – you start moving towards HIS ABODE – then you are truly changing – then you are truly transforming – then there is a song to your life – then the bud starts transforming into a beautiful flower!

That old man – KETU always waits – to see when you WAKE UP. At times he makes someone as common as me – as his medium to WAKE UP some of you – the process continues – like me – the old man has many such mediums – out of million – one may WAKE UP and even that is a great development. There are souls who seek liberation and there are souls who are more interested to SERVE HIM by being HIS Servant – God’s Servant.

I am one of HIS servant. Some of you also maybe His servant. Always remember – A faithful servant never retires. You can retire from your career but you can NEVER retire from the service of GOD!

“If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.”
-Ramakrishna

Always remember – there is absolutely no reason to FEAR anybody or anything as long as you are walking on the PATH OF TRUTH . The beauty is NOT in advancing spiritually – the real beauty is to LOSE YOURSELF IN HIS LOVE – in HIS DEVOTION – in HIS SERVICE.

“The goal of Krsna Consciousness is not to be spiritually advanced; it is to be servant of Krsna.”
– Radhanath Swami

The best way to find peace, to find bliss, and to experience abundance of Joy – is by losing yourself in the service of others! KETU exactly wants this – that you have to let go all of your ‘ME- ness’ – the ‘I” should fade away.

The Holy Bible emphasis on the fact that unless ‘I’ (the EGO) becomes less – the way out is impossible. The way out is possible only when “I’ becomes lesser and HE (GOD) becomes Greater.

“Top 16 Bible Verses-Becoming more Like Jesus
He must increase, but I must decrease.”
– John

Krishna says to Arjuna – ‘You surrender to ME and I will take care of you.”

Arjuna surrenders. Only a man who is turning inwards can surrender – only a man who is detached can surrender – only a man who is selfless can surrender – only a man who has overcome the monkey mind can surrender – only a man who has become love can surrender – Arjuna surrenders – the question that you all should ask yourself is that – WHY CANNOT YOU SURRENDER?

KETU is all about Letting Go – Ketu is all about SURRENDERING – KETU is all about living your LIFE in TOTAL SURRENDER.

SURRENDER is the most miraculous word. All religions and the scriptures written under this sky simply encourages you to live your life in TOTAL SURRENDER.

“Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.”
-Osho

After surrendering yourself to existence – to God – there is nothing left to be done. You find your peace, your find your joy and then life starts transforming into a garden of bliss….this is how it happens…..this is the way of its happening.

And so come you all – let us meditate – many lives have gone-by – one more human life has come our way – and so it is for you all to decide what to do with this precious human life – spend it by focusing on the outside OR value it by turning inward and evolving to the higher realms of consciousness.

Finally it all comes down to CONSCIOUSNESS.

KETU is beautiful – KETU is immensely precious – because KETU can make you turn inward and it is only when you start turning inwards that you can come closer to your consciousness!

Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi – the divine Yogi says “ When we turn the mind inwards – God manifests as the inner consciousness.”

To all my followers, readers and fellow travelers – I appeal – everyday morning and evening – spend some quality time with yourself – turn inwards and meditate – meditate and meditate. Just REMEMBER your inner space and go back again and again – your peace is WITHIN you, your happiness is WITHIN you – all you need is to turn the mind’s concentration inward – and meditate.

“To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind’s concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.”
-Sivananda

A time should come in your life when you don’t have to meditate anymore – you become meditation! And that is the maturity state of Ketu – that is the real beginning – the ending is always the beginning!

The ‘journey’ never ends, it never can.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

The doctor is never harmful else he would not have been a doctor! The Master is never malefic – else he would never have been a Master. The Yogi is never going to cause you harm – else he would never have been a Yogi!

Understand the fact – that there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with anything – with any energy that this whole universe is made of.

There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi

Albert Einstein is probably the only scientist who has so beautifully mentioned about the significance of ENERGY.

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality.”
– Albert Einstein

The whole universe is nothing but ENERGY – and let me tell you and through you and your question – to all my readers and followers – that the ENERGY is never ever the reason for causing any damage – because understand the fact that even to generate ELECTRICITY – along with the positive – the negative is also required!

“You cannot create electricity with only the positive pole; you will need the negative pole too. Only with both the negative and the positive pole can you create electricity. Is the negative absolutely negative? It is complementary, so it is not against the positive.” – Osho

And so when people ask such questions – they are missing the whole essence of realizing the fact that it is NOT Ketu or RAHU or Saturn – that is malefic or bad – it is HOW YOU HAVE BEEN USING THE SPECIFIC ENERGY of these entities from the many past births and rebirths – if the NEGATIVE energy has been used for POSITIVE PURPOSE – constructive Purpose than even the NEGATIVE turns out as a Blessing in disguise!

For a benevolent YOGI – there is absolutely NO WORST HOUSE for ketu or NO GOOD HOUSE – you cannot make him HAPPY and you also cannot make him unhappy – he is in his own bliss – you may go on pressing all the ‘buttons’ that you have known – but he will not move – he will not be disturbed – he remains engrossed within.

Once it happened – Buddha was passing through a village of Brahmins. And the Brahmins have always been against Buddha – because Buddha objected to the Caste System – the Manu system. And that made the Brahmins very insecure – this man is a danger – he is passing knowledge to everyone – a day may come when our importance will be lost – and so he must be condemned – he must be stopped – he must be ridiculed – and so the Brahmins gathered to insult Buddha.

It happens. It has always happened – the man who is saying the truth, sharing the truth – is ridiculed – is condemned – is insulted….

Buddha was also insulted. He listened silently. They pushed and pushed on the usual buttons but nothing happened. There was absolutely NO reaction from Buddha – he continued to listen silently with absolute no expressions. Now the Brahmins became worried – restless, this man is not reacting. They said “ Are you listening? Why are you standing silently? We are insulting you and condemning you. Have you gone dumb? Have you gone deaf? Cant you speak?

Buddha said “ I can feel. I can see your worries, your embarrassment, but I am sorry. You should have come ten years ago if you wanted me to react. Now it is too late. Now these buttons don’t work. I have gone beyond.”

Read HIS words again – HE says “ It is too late – I am finished with it – I HAVE GONE BEYOND.”

You cannot disturb the BUDDHA. You cannot disturb the benevolent KETU.

The state of BUDDHA is of KNOWING. The REAL KNOWING happens when you start transforming within. Until then you only KNOW – you have been gathering knowledge from all over the world – but you missed the most important thing – and that is KNOWING YOURSELF.

“You may know everything about this world and yet IF you cannot know yourself then you remain a fool, an ignorant being.” – Osho

This KNOWING YOURSELF comes through the benevolent energy called KETU.

KETU is TURNING IN. RAHU is TURNING ON.

The real ‘journey’ begins when you are no more turn on – but you start to turn in.

Buddha’s whole message was to TURN IN. The Brahmins could not understand Buddha – they continued to condemn him.

By birth I belong to the caste of Brahmins. So if you are a Brahmin – there is no need to feel low – or to collapse this answer – because I am also a Brahmin by birth.

One has to ACCEPT the shortcoming of our community – the idiocy of our community. And so even though by birth I am a Brahmin – still I am sharing the truth – only a man of awareness – only a man who is turning inward – can openly discuss the shortcomings of his caste – his religion – his country – his state – and the state that Buddha traveled – which is now called Bihar – never accepted Buddha in totality – until he died, he left this planet – until he was no more in human form.

“The whole of Bihar condemned him. Now the name Bihar is because of him because he walked there. Bihar means: where Buddha walks.”
-Osho

The most beautiful man walked on this planet and his name was Buddha, Gautama Buddha!

“I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things that no longer serve me…”

TURN IN – is the message of the master – of the Buddha. KETU is also saying the same to each one of you – TURN IN – in whatever place/house – KETU is simply asking you to TURN IN – the matters that are related to that house, that sign, that nakshatra.

Mohan is also a Brahmin by birth. He felt sad, that men of his community condemned someone as beautiful as the Buddha. He came to me and said “ I feel low to know that the Brahmins ridiculed the Buddha.”

I said “ You come here and sit and listen….”

I shared an incident with Mohan – about a young man who was going the wrong way….and one day this young man comes to the Master and says “I have been such an IDIOT all my life.”

The master smiled.

The young man said “But now tell me when will I start walking on the right path?” .

The master again smiled and said ” Right now – the moment you SELF-realize your idiocy – you are set on the right path.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”
-Aristotle

But the majority is doing the exact opposite – they are trying to KNOW the OTHER – and in the process are losing the rarest of rare opportunity – time – to known themselves.

Shallowness has become the way of life – and so RAHU is on the rise – Ketu is ignored and then such question of what is worst house for ketu and what is not – arise – DEFAMING the REAL – the TRUTH – the DIVINE – becomes the fashion – the routine in this world of shallowness – the human world has always been condemning KETU – they have CRUCIFIED KETU – they HAVE ridiculed KETU – they have INSULTED KETU – and yet KETU remains unmoved – you can CRUCIFY JESUS – you have ridicule MAHAVIRA, you can INSULT the BUDDHA – but you cannot get rid of them – you can NEVER get rid of the TRUTH. The TRUTH remains.

And the TRUTH is that there is absolutely NO HOUSE that is WORST house for KETU.

For the simple reason – that KETU is NOT BOTHERED about the – OTHER. The OTHER is the WORLD. KETU is disinterested in the affairs of the WORLD – but KETU is extremely interested in the WORLD WITHIN. You place a YOGI in a palace or you place him in the most difficult place – the most dirtiest place and yet you will not find him disturbed. You will find him in his joy, his bliss – then you may also ask him like the Brahmins had asked Buddha “ Are you deaf, are you crazy – don’t you feel anything?”

And Ketu would reply in the same way what Buddha had said “ Now it is too late.Now these buttons don’t work. I have gone beyond.”

KETU can’t be turned on. You cannot TURN ON the BUDDHA – you cannot TURN ON the benevolent KETU – you may try to press all the ‘buttons’ that you have known – you may try to play all the moves that you have known – AND yet you cannot DEFEAT KETU – simply because KETU is not interested to WIN.

“You CANNOT defeat me simply because I am NOT interested to WIN!” – Osho

There was one great Monk – and he was also a great Astrologer – but not of the books – of the SELF! And he had a large monastery – located somewhere in the north of Japan. Many would come to become his disciple but he would let in only a few – a very very few. In fact the count of his disciples would not be more than 7. Every year – only 7 men or women were let in – while the rest of the monastery was filled with a large number of devotees.

Once it happened, a young man who lived at the far east of Japan – came to know about the great Monk and he came all the way to meet him – to become his disciple – but the Monk won’t let him in.

The young man said “ Master you tell me anything and I will do it – but don’t reject me – I have been praying all my life, all my way to become your disciple….please test me – please give me one chance…..”

The Monk said “ Fine. But you have to know the rules of the game.”

A Big Chess Board was brought before the young man. The Monk said “ In this monastery – there are only 7 disciples – one of my disciple will play CHESS with you. But remember – if you WIN – you will STAY. And my disciple will leave. If you lose – then you will LEAVE. And my disciple will stay.”

The young man agreed. He was a good chess player. In fact his whole life he had been a great chess player – nobody had ever defeated him in the Game of Chess.

And so confidently he sat before the chess board – waiting for the other player to arrive.

And the other player arrived – he was such a sweet young boy – deep eyes, calm posture, he comes – he bows before the Master and then he sits down to begin with the game.

And the game starts. The Master is watching – the devotees were watching – and the young man was playing very well. Move after moves – he was becoming more and more aggressive – more offending – and the young boy was struggling and slowly the fight began – it was becoming difficult for the young boy to stop the young man from playing his game – and the MOMENT came – the MOMENT to CHECKMATE the young boy came – and now it was just a matter of one move and the game was going to get over – the young man was going to WIN – everything was going to be AS HIS WISH – but suddenly something moved within his heart…..his heart won’t let him make the final checkmate move – somewhere his consciousness won’t let him – he said to himself “ If I WIN – i will get the place of this young boy and then the young boy would have to leave this monastery – where will he go? where will this innocent boy go? I have many bungalows and properties – but where will this young boy go – he will have no home – he will have to face depression – he will have to go through so many hardships – I CANNOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO THIS YOUNG BOY – it is better that I lose than Win…”

AND THE YOUNG MAN starts making the wrong move – letting the young boy WIN. The whole monastery was surprised – the young man was winning – then WHY DID HE LET THE YOUNG BOY WIN?

The Master got up….went to the young man….gave him a HUG and said “ NOW YOU ARE WELCOME.”

The young man started crying…..the master looked into his eyes and said “ This game was just to test your HEART. The Moment you started THINKING ABOUT OTHERS – the moment COMPASSION arose in your heart – you had started to WIN my heart – you LOST the GAME on purpose – and it is this purpose that I wanted you to make -for the life that is yet to come.”

And it is said that the young man not only became the disciple of the Master but he was the only one who cried that whole night when the Master was no more, when the Master had left his human form.

“YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME – because I am NOT interested to WIN.”

How beautiful is this – the young man must have had the same thought – when he gave up on WINNING – and chose to live to the Higher Purpose – the higher realms of consciousness!

KETU is also NOT interested in WINNING – and so you cannot defeat KETU – you cannot defeat a Yogi – you cannot defeat the Buddha.

WINNING is the game of RAHU.

LETTING GO is the way of KETU. The way of the BUDDHAS.

And so When KETU is in a specific HOUSE – he has gone beyond the matters related to that house – and so no matter what you do – the house he is placed in – brings NIL results – SHUNYATA – EMPTINESS. Whereas the house opposite to KETU – gets ACTIVATED – FIRED UP – because RAHU is on the OTHER end.

FIRST HOUSE KETU- the focus is on the OTHER (7th). Self realization becomes difficult because the whole focus – obsession is about the OTHER – it is therefore an unfortunate placement – NOT for KETU – but for the NATIVE who has never ever paid attention to channelizing the KETU energy towards self realization and he or she continues to go on and on and on….they KNOW a lot – but KNOWING is missing – they become SCHOLARS but they can never become the BUDDHA – unless they stop focusing on the OTHER and start focusing on the SELF.

SECOND HOUSE KETU- the focus is on the HIDDEN SECRETS. INLAWS. DEBTS. MAGICS.

THIRD HOUSE KETU- the focus is on RELIGION. HIGHER EDUCATION. SISTER/BROTHER IN LAW. Publications.

FOURTH HOUSE KETU – the focus is on CAREER – obsessed with CAREER. I have met many crazy men and women who would do anything to get to the top of their career.

FIFTH HOUSE KETU- the focus is on networking, social life, benefits, media, a highly extrovert person.

SIXTH HOUSE KETU- the focus is on the BEYOND – the unseen, the monastery, the actions behind the curtains, the spiritual, the Yoga, the meditations

SEVENTH HOUSE KETU- the focus is on the SELF. ‘I’ becomes greater than the OTHER. Such a man always keeps his wife on the back-seat – such a woman always is found to take the front-seat and keep her husband on the backseat.

EIGHTH HOUSE KETU – the focus is on FAMILY, MONEY, POSESSIONS, BANK BALANCE, and building fortunes.

NINTH HOUSE KETU – the focus is on ‘doing something’, communicating, expressing, siblings – such a person is always restless – this restlessness if gets a positive support than they really do something unique – is a good placement for entrepreneurship.

TENTH HOUSE KETU – the focus is on the HOME, the mother, the properties, the urge to be the center of attraction. Material happiness is the focus – no matter how much this person gets – he or she always feels that it is NOT enough.

ELEVENTH HOUSE KETU – the focus is on LEARNING. Such women and men are passionate about LEARNING. And they are also passionate in ROMANCING! LEARNING and ROMANCING – without these two aspects – they feel lifeless. They can become doctors and engineers because learning is more. They also can become good artists – because art and romance and love and poetry and painting and dancing is what is their passion.

TWELFTH HOUSE KETU – the focus is on the daily routine life – service. Such people are passionate about job, they also do well in politics, generally are liked by the society – they also are fitness freaks – many fitness professionals do well with this placement. Because the focus is always on who is my enemy and how I can defeat him or her – they generally defeat their opponents.

Have you seen a see-saw? The one that you see in children play park. If you sit on one end and a child on the other – what will happen? You will be down and the child will rise up. Ketu always remains on the ground – down – a nobody – while on the other side – Rahu fuels in – and blooms up the matters related to the house in which Rahu is placed in.

So as you see – KETU is SHUNYA – and no matter where you place the SHUNYA – the EMPTY – the RESULT is always remains the same…

1+ 0 = 1.

1 – 0 = 1.

ZERO is KETU. The RESULT remains the same – whether you ADD or Subtract ZERO.

BEST and WORST is for someone who is going to GIVE you – PROVIDE you with something.

BEST and WORST is NOT for someone who has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to GIVE – to PROVIDE – there is absolute NOTHINGNESS. And so how can you expect KETU to give WORST or to give BEST – when there is absolute NO GIVING – to the nature of KETU – the very essence of KETU is SHUNYA – there is NO GIVING and there is NO TAKING – absolute NOTHINGNESS.

“In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.”
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

One day a young man came and said “ I have lost my home,my job, my wife,my daughter,my son – NOW WHAT TO DO?”

The master smiled and said “ Now you have to RESTART AGAIN with strong BELIEF that everything is going to be just fine!”

The young man said “ BUT…..”

The master said “ As long as there are BUTs and IFs -you will remain stuck. What has happened has happened – it was your PAST – NOW is your PRESENT and life is flowing NOW -life is neither in the PAST and nor in the FUTURE – LIFE IS NOW – and so get back to work – always remember – IT IS NEVER TOO LATE.”

KETU may bring EMPTINESS – KETU may clear the ‘ground’ – just so that you move to the next level. Many times it happens – you become a loser – just so that you GROW double in the years to come! And this is the way of GOD – the benevolent Master – Shri KETU. You may not realize HIS WAY at the moment – but ONE DAY – YOU WILL!

“Jesus replied “You don’t understand now what I am doing, but one day you will.” -John 

A RAHU-ish man or a RAHU-ish woman cannot understand the language of KETU. They are the ones who will condemn KETU – who will condemn me. And I can understand their problem – they just can’t get away from the – OTHER. They are SO MUCH focused on the outside – that they just cannot understand the language of BUDDHA – the language of MEDITATIVE YOGI – the language of KETU.

Buddha therefore says that – Remember the FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE.

Mohan asked “ What is this Forgotten language?”

It is the Language of Silence. Unless there is SILENCE – TRUTH cannot be realized. GOD cannot be experienced. LOVE cannot be experienced in the true sense.

“Real communication happens in silence”

Knowledge is noisy. And TRUTH can be found only in Silence. When you meditate – you become SILENT. In that silence – the SELF speaks – the HEART moves, vibrates – and then there is a song to it, a dance!

“Expect, and you bound to feel frustrated.
Cut yourself off from the past and the future live in present, and your life becomes a song a dance.”
-OSHO

KETU is innocent. He has absolutely nothing to harm – because he simply has NO AGENDA. You become frustrated with KETU – only when you are deep into SEX,MONEY, POWER, LUST, GREED – when you obsessed (RAHU) with all of these – you will definitely resent KETU. It is YOUR IGNORANCE that becomes the HURDLE – that becomes the CAUSE of the WORST OUTCOMES -when KETU DASHA BEGINS – or when KETU TRANSITS over your SUN or MOON.

Then your mind starts boggling – then you start wondering why everything is losing out from your tight GRIP (RAHU) – then the CLINGING nature is challenged by the LET GO nature of KETU and because you have been habitual of CLINGING – of ATTACHMENTS – you find the KETU period as the most difficult period of your life.

So understand this – for ARJUNA – the years of EXILE was not at all an issue. His nature was NOT OF CLINGING. Krishna would command and Arjuna would simply follow and that was the beauty of their relation – the relation between the Master and the disciple is the greatest love relation – the master stepping towards the disciple – the disciple stepping towards the master – how to express such a divine pure love – ONENESS…..I am speechless.

“NO love is so total as the love that happens between the master and the disciple. The love that happened between John and Jesus, the love that happened between Sariputta and Buddha, Gautama and Mahavira, Arjuna and Krishna, Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu these are the real love stories, the highest pinnacles of love.” – Osho

You can become a disciple only when you can resonate with the energy of KETU. Because the very first step that KETU wants you to take – is to DROP YOUR INTELLECTUALISM – drop your EGO – drop your LEARNING – and become a ‘NOBODY’.

People don’t understand. The majority is running behind all that Shines – whereas the real remains away from the limelight – because the moment the limelight comes – the danger of getting dragged into the never ending glamorous distracting world of RAHU is always there – the real Yogis therefore remain away from the People – though they continue to share their message – their direction through someone who is a ‘NOBODY’!

And this NOBODY is KETU – and so how can a NOBODY cause harm to someone!

If you place a holy divine Idol on your ‘DISCO FLOOR’ – it is obvious that you will start going through hardships – the fault is NOT of the IDOL – the fault is in your IGNORANCE – you are so much ignorant that you DON’T KNOW WHERE TO PLACE WHAT – it is like a BLIND MAN who just plays with the REAL DIAMOND – and then SHOUTS TO THE WHOLE WORLD that ‘I AM STRUGGLING _ I AM POOR’!

And so – to all my fellow travelers, followers and readers – FIRST you have to UNDERSTAND KETU – and to understand KETU – you have to FIRST VISIT HIS WAY – and HIS WAY is INWARD – TURNING INWARD!

And so come you all – let us meditate – let us go again and again to that inner space and experience the PEACE, the JOY, the ABUNDANCE of LOVE within. Always remember – you can love others only WHEN YOU CAN LOVE YOURSELF! The first ripple of love has to be around yourself – only then can the love reach the farthest shores, only then can your love heal those who are suffering, only then can you comfort those who are in trouble. But it all has to first start from YOURSELF.

“You must love yourself first, then you create a ripple of love that will touch everyone’s lives. You have the power within you. Make a start and heal yourself first.”
– Leon Brown

KETU is the KEY to HEAL yourself first! And you all can do it. Those who have been following me -must be something because following me and reading my sharing, my answers is not everybody’s potential – very few, the chosen ones can only relate to my sharing – in fact it is HIS sharing, I am just a medium, just a servant.

Mohan always asks “ When will my master find me – should I go in search of my master.”

The answer is – NO.

“You need not go in search of him He will come in search of you.”
-OSHO

The child seeks the mother. But the child miss to realize that the mother too is waiting to meet her child! Your first birth is through the mother – your second birth is through the Master. The Master is equal to your mother – HE surrounds you like a Mother. The Master is your spiritual mother. The Master is more like a mother than the father. The Mother can understand you more than your father.

Always remember – what you seek, is also seeking you! There is absolutely no need to go anywhere – just be where you are and focus WITHIN, turn inwards, and move towards total SURRENDER and then when your SURRENDER is TOTAL – when you are a NOBODY (KETU) -when you have dropped everything that no longer serves the higher purpose of your life – then ONLY then the Master will come – only when you 100% Ready.

When the disciple is ready – the master appears, says the divine master Lao Tzu!

And when the disciple is really ready – the master disappears – says Lao Tzu. Because a true master would never want his disciple to remain dependent on HIM – he would never want his disciple to remain attached – because the very essence of spiritual life is to become detached – more and more detached!

KETU is the very source of DETACHMENT. KETU enables you to CUT all those things that have become useless to your REAL GROWTH – the SPIRITUAL GROWTH!

And so KETU is beautiful. KETU can HEAL. KETU is NOT for those who have lost their ‘eyes’ (Awareness) – they can never relate to KETU and in the process will continue to live in the ‘ILLUSION’ that KETU is causing them hardships. Let them live in those illusions – while you all – my fellows – you all continue to focus WITHIN – take a deep breath – and MEDITATE. Morning and evening – whenever you have time – MEDITATE. I have seen many people living in riches and yet in the end what comes to their share is – MISERY and just MISERY.

BUT YOU ALL – you all can turn the tables – you all have still got time to turn inward – while the majority of this human world is concerned with TURNING ON – you all can focus more and more and more on TURNING IN!

The whole essence of this human life is to TURN IN. And that’s KETU. That’s Meditation. And that is the surest way to eternal happiness.

“When you give up thinking of outward objects and prevent your mind from going outwards and turn it inward and fix it in the Self,
the Self alone will remain.”
-Sri Ramana Maharshi

To realize the SELF – you have to reach the state of NO MIND – and the way towards NO MIND goes through KETU – if you cannot walk the KETU WAY – you really cannot attain -you remain in the grip of Rahu – you remain in the grip of miseries.

You have to make a choice – you have to begin with meditation – this can be your last chance – this can be your first chance – you don’t know, I don’t know, nobody knows – what is going to happen after this human birth – all you have got is this moment – the NOW moment and the more you can BE HERE NOW – the more you can progress spiritually. The key is to BE HERE NOW – to live without regretting your PAST and without worrying about your FUTURE – PAST is gone, FUTURE is not yet – NOW is the moment – BE HERE NOW. Meditation happens only when you are able to BE HERE NOW.

A young man had once asked – what is the easiest way to BE HERE NOW?

The master had smiled and said “ LOVE”

When you are in LOVE – you are 100% able to BE HERE NOW! And this is the beauty of LOVE – so let there be LOVE within you – no matter how many times you have been ditched or missed on LOVE – always remember LOVERS fail – LOVE never fails – LOVE remains and it remains forever – you are born out of LOVE – we all are born out of love – LOVE is our mother says the divine Sufi Saint Rumi!

And so when you meditate – meditate with love – with devotion – with your whole being surrendered to HIS love – God’s Love and then you can see the miracle happening -it happens – it always happens – this is the way of its happening – the larger question that you all should ask yourself is that – Are you ready for it?

Love brings you HERE and NOW and then there is no looking back – the sky is clear and you are ready to fly.

“When you are here and now… not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.”
-Osho

Learn to BE HERE NOW – and only then you can appreciate KETU – only then you can realize the essence of meditation – only then you can experience the greatest miracle of your life – the miracle of transforming your life from the inside-out.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Lord Ganesha is the only God that has NO HUMAN HEAD.

Lord Ketu is the only entity in the whole gamut of astrology that has NO HUMAN HEAD.

The divine message that they share with us is to – TURN IN.

But the majority is always concerned with TURNING ON. (RAHU)

It is not a fact that Lord Ganesha’s human head was cut by Shiva. It is just a symbolic representation – a divine message that human beings should think less and feel more. That human beings should start moving beyond mind.

Thinking helps to solve problems/puzzles that are created by thinking – by the mind.

Whatever problems are created by the mind – you can solve it by using the same mind – the thinking pattern. Mind is mathematics – so you can solve mathematics by thinking because it is created by the Mind. The trees that you count – 1 2 3 – this is the mathematics of your mind – the trees has nothing to do with it. It is a creation of your mind – whatever is the creation of the mind can be solved by the mind – by thinking.

BUT – what is NOT of the mind – but of the HEART or of the NATURE – of the COSMOS- cannot be solved by the MIND – then you are trapped – then you all cannot find the answer – that is how the so called intellectuals then start struggling – they become impotent in solving the case – because they miss to realize that the problem is existential.

Love is also an existential problem. You cannot solve love problems by thinking – you may go on thinking and thinking and thinking but you will come back to where you had started – you will find yourself trapped in a circle that just never ends and still you go on thinking…..with no absolute solution!

Thinking won’t help in such situations. Only when you stop thinking – only when there is NO HEAD – NO MIND – that you can FEEL and it is only when you FEEL that you can find the way – the solution – the answer to your problem.

There are many such existential problems – DEATH. BIRTH. LOVE. These all are existential problems – they are beyond mind and when you try to solve them by using your Mind – you fail, you fail miserably because you miss to understand that these existential problems cannot be solved by thinking – but only when you stop thinking and start feeling – thinking won’t let you ‘vibrate’ with the existence – it is only when you start feeling that you can vibrate and it is only when you vibrate that you start coming close to the source of the problem.

When there is TOO MUCH OF THINKING (HEAD) – you are simply missing to identify the source of the problem.

When there is absolutely NO THINKING, NO MIND – TRUTH appears before you – you find the source of the problem and when the source is found – the solution comes on its own!

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light.
-Osho

 

Meditation is the state of NO MIND. When there is absolutely NO THINKING – meditation happens. When there are ‘thoughts’ – it is a distraction and when there are NO THOUGHTS – it is Meditation.

Lord Ganesha is Meditation.
Lord Ketu is Meditation.

The idol of Lord Ganesha simply reflects HIS state of Meditation. There is absolutely NO HEAD,NO MIND – Ganesha is deeply engrossed WITHIN – what a beautiful representation is this – one of the greatest wonders with such a great message – that IF YOU REALLY WANT TO EXPERIENCE JOY, HAPPINESS, PEACE than – look at me, says Ganesha – I have NO HEAD – NO MIND – I am deeply engrossed within by TURNING INWARDS.

Mohan asked “ Then how come the Elephant face?”

The HEAD or FACE of Elephant is just a representation of HIS deep wisdom. Elephants are the wisest animals and so the ancient Seers and Sages – instilled the idol of Ganesha with an Elephant Face or Head – when in reality this deity has NO HEAD, NO MIND and that is what MAKES HIM one of the GREATEST LORDS – without taking the name of Lord Ganesha – NO SCRIPTURE begins – it only begins and completes when one says:

|| “ Shri Ganeshaya Namaha ||

One of the most striking similarity between Ketu and Ganesha – is the quality of BEING DETACHED!

How? asked Mohan.

I asked him “ What do you do after worshiping the idol of Lord Ganesha for 10 days during Ganesha festival?”

“I disperse the idol in a clean flowing water – river or sea.” said Mohan.

So you understand. And I appeal to all my close followers, fellow travelers and readers – understand the fact that the action of dispersing the idol in itself is a message – that you should live with DETACHMENT! For 10 days you worship the HIS idol – but in the end – what is he asking to do? To NOT to remain ATTACHED but to detach yourself and disperse (LET GO) HIS idol by dropping it in the flowing water!

Understand this and this is very significant – the whole message of the VISARJAN process (dispersing the Ganesha idol) is to help you realize the fact that LIFE SHOULD BE LIVED WITH DETACHMENT.

And that is EXACTLY the divine message of Lord KETU – DETACHMENT!

Real success in life comes only through DETACHMENT – one who self-realizes this truth goes a long way….

“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort:
these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”
-Rabindranath Tagore

 

India is the only country and Hindu is the only religion – a unique religion where people make the mud idol and then the same people disperse the mud idol! And it is a very deep message from the Hindu civilization that – NOTHING is permanent and nothing can be permanent, even your image of God!

To throw away the idol of Ganesha – to disperse the idol of Ganesha – a great courage is required – and this is deep, very deep. You have put everything that you had in your Father – to nurture Him, to comfort Him – for many days you have loved Him, worshiped Him and now you have to LET HIM GO – how difficult it is going to be….how much courage is required to let him go….and you don’t know next year if you would be there again to bring him back! But it has to be done – the message of Ganesha is simple – ‘LOVE ME – but Let that LOVE be detached!’

“The Indian civilization says ‘Nothing is permanent and nothing can be permanent, even your image of God.
Because you have created it, it cannot be permanent thing. Don’t befool yourself. When the time is over, go and disolve (Visarjan) the God idol. Your God cannot be permanent. Go on disolving your Gods – create them and disolve them. Worship them and disolve them. Only then can you reach that GOD which is NOT your creation.”
-Osho

 

Detachment is being lovable – but without being possessive.

Detachment means not that you should not own bungalows and cars and beautiful things in life – YOU CAN HAVE ALL OF THEM – BUT you should not be attached to those things. Even if you have 10 bungalows and a dozen cars – still you SHOULD NOT GET ATTACHED to them. But unfortunately that is what happens! The things in your life possess you – you think you possess them but you becomes so attached to them that they start possessing you and then you are trapped – you are deeply trapped!

“Detachment is not that you should own nothing.
But that nothing should own you.”
-Ali ibn abi Talib

 

Look at the beautiful lotus flower – it is rooted in the water – but it is always found – above the water!

The real Yogi is like a lotus flower – HE is very much with us but not attached. His whole being is LOVE – if you come, he will offer you as much love as you can receive – and if you leave, he will not be disturbed – because HIS love is not dependent on the outside factor – he is no more falling in love – he has become LOVE – whoever comes to HIM – will be touched and blessed by the fragrance of his detached love.

“Love is always an attachment to you; the deeper the attachment the more you think – it is love! But the MASTER’S love is utterly detached. He loves, yet he is NOT bound by it. He loves, but he is NOT binding on you. You know a love which creates excitement. The master’s love is utterly peaceful; there is no excitement. It is nothing to do with romance.” – Osho

 

The Master is contented man. He has absolutely NO expectations. HE asks for NOTHING. So then it becomes difficult to understand HIM – especially those who are always HUNGRY! Buddha calls those people HUNGRY who always want more and more and more – this MORE is RAHU. And NO MORE is KETU!

Lord Ganesha wants nothing – has HAS no expectations – HE is in his peace and so whenever anybody is suffering because of RAHU – I ask him or her to visit Lord Ganesha temple, to worship HIM, to read His Shlokas – His Stotras.

It is NOT that Ganesha and KETU are the same. Whenever I mention in my answers – and I have been mentioning many times – that when I say Ketu is Sri Ganesha – I mean when you worship GANESHA – the QUALITIES of KETU will start enhancing within your being. Then you will understand KETU – then you will RESONATE with HIS energy – then you will start TURNING INWARD!

And this is significant – this is very significant for you ALL to understand that the more you WORSHIP GANESHA – the more you would NURTURE the KETU QUALITIES within YOU and that will be a great blow to RAHU! That will be a great danger to RAHU – because NOW you are becoming intelligent – now you are TURNING INWARD – now you are becoming WISE – now you are NO MORE interested on the outside – now you are slowly steadily getting ROOTED WITHIN YOURSELF – and that is indeed a great transformation – a great transformation in the making.

“Once you are rooted in your own center, nothing from outside can move you.”
-OSHO

 

The more you go deep within your being – the more you meditate by focusing on your breath – breath in – breath out – between these two actions the whole story of your life is scripted. AND the more your meditation improves the more you – yourself will be able to READ the SCRIPT of your life – then NO astrologer will be required and no Pundit – but then these men will be in trouble because then how will their business run! And that is exactly what this SOCIETY wants – the SOCIETY NEVER wants you to become WISE because then you will become INDEPENDENT – then you cannot be exploited – then the SOCIETY will be in trouble – whereas the SOCIETY always wants you to be in TROUBLE so that the ‘meter’ of money continues – uninterrupted!

“No society wants you to become wise. It is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced in a mechanical life, to live like robots….they will have the fragrance of rebellion around them.” – Osho

 

A wise man is an ‘Individual’ – he is not behind personalities – he thrown away the ‘mask’ of personality and lives his life by being himself. A wise man is ALIVE – is AFIRE – he is COURAGEOUS – he would rather die than to be enslaved!

Lord Ganesha represents the wisdom of such a wise man. It is through LORD GANESHA – that you realize the beauty of KETU.

By and by – whatever DEITY you worship – certain QUALITIES of a planet or an entity such as KETU develops within you!

When you worship:

Lord GANESHA: KETU qualities develop within you.

Lord DATTATREYA: JUPITER qualities develop within you.

Lord VISHNU: JUPITER qualities develop within you.

Lord KRISHNA: JUPITER and MERCURY qualities develop within you.

Lord SHIVA: SUN MOON KETU qualities develop within you.

Lord HANUMAN – MARS QUALITIES

Lord MHASOBA (a well known deity of Maharashtra) – MARS QUALITIES

GODDESS LAKSHMI – VENUS and MERCURY

GODDESS DURGA – MARS and VENUS

RAHU Qualities are developed when you worship TANTRIK GODS – or GODS that rule the UNDERWORLD – meaning the PATAL LOK. Generally the Reptile Snake Gods represent the qualities of RAHU. Some Tantrik Goddess or Goddess of Tantra also represent RAHU qualities.

So every DIETY is in a way – a BRIDGE between YOU and the concerned PLANET energy.

While if you ask me – then to me the GREATEST BRIDGE is the MASTER – the GURU! Through the benevolent master – you experience GOD. And Sant Kabir beautifully mentions the significance of the GURU through his divine words and those words should be inscribed in GOLD:

“If here before me stand both – my Guru (master) and Govind (the almighty), I would first prostrate before my Guru. Because – it is HE who revealed to me the Govind.” – Saint Kabir

 

Beautiful. Kabir goes deep into our heart – one of the greatest saint that the world had ever know! I humbly prostrate before His Holiness – Sant Kabir.

All the divine saints would not have become saints – had it not been the grace of Lord Ganesha and the matured state of KETU within them!

WITHOUT KETU – there is absolutely no enlightenment. KETU therefore is one of the greatest ‘tool’ of the benevolent GURU – because KETU is DETACHMENT and unless you start becoming DETACHED there is absolutely no way for you to PROGRESS in the true sense!

You have asked a very beautiful question – and it has many dimensions to it. The last dimension is of Mecury!

One has to understand that Mercury is your INTELLECT.

But Intellect is a very poor substitute for Intelligence!

So when you come in contact with Lord Ganesha – when you start worshiping HIM with pure heart, unwavering faith and devotion – the INTELLECT within you starts TUNING with your HEART and when INTELLECT tunes with your HEART – INTELLIGENCE is born – Intelligence therefore is of the HEART and NOT of the HEAD.

“Intelligence is intellect in tune with your heart.” -OSHO

 

Intellect is of the MIND. Everyday I receive all kinds of emails, hundreds of emails from ‘intellectual’ men and women – and all they do is that they write long emails asking about this house and that house and that yoga and this yoga. But one in a million comes and asks ONLY that which can help him realize the real thing! And because he or she knows what is the REAL thing – that they can ask some real good questions – the rest are yet to realize what is the REAL THING and so the question they ask are also not real – just a lot of noise, and nothing else!

Mercury therefore is disliked by the master – Jupiter! Because the master is all for the heart – and mercury is all in the HEAD! Through the HEAD you can travel from A to Z – but beyond Z the doors closed – there is no further going, you are trapped – you are utterly trapped in your intellectualism.

This intellectualism is TRANSFORMED into intelligence only when you worship Lord Ganesha – the more your SEVA (service) towards HIM grows – the more the ‘PLASTIC ROSE’ starts transforming into a ‘REAL ROSE’!

And REAL ROSE is beautiful -yes it has many imperfections and yet it is BEAUTIFUL because now it has a certain FRAGRANCE to it , a certain LIFE to it!

A REAL MAN, A REAL WOMAN – I like them, in fact I love them. But let me tell you they are in minority – in fact one in a million. In this KALI YUG, men and woman also disguise themselves as REAL – when they are just FAKING it – so one has to be really cautious before opening the doors of your heart.

Such fake men and women – then come up with the idea of non-attachment – but that is again an escape route – they are AFRAID that if they get into a relationship then they may get attached and then the pain.

Non-attachment is NOT detachment.

Non-attachment is a makeup from those fake men and fake women who are afraid of getting attached and so they keep running away from any relationships.

Detachment – a detached man or woman is NOT AFRAID of getting attached. The ‘Inner Engineering’ is so strongly developed through meditations that nobody can move him or disturb him – such a man is a man of awareness, he lives, laughs with you but he is absolutely detached – if you take him to your Palace – he will come, if you ask him to stay beneath a tree – he will stay – for him PALACE or TREE doesn’t make a difference – he may sleep on the Royal Bed and he is also happy to sleep on the hard ground – for him there is NO attachment – he can come anytime and he can also leave anytime – nobody can bond him – he remains detached but with abundance of LOVE in HIS heart.

There is a very deep connection between detachment and intelligence! An intellectual man can never live a detached life. He may live a non-attached life – but for him living a detached life is next to impossible!

Such an intellectual man goes on living his life by believing that – SHE is MY WIFE. SHE is MY DAUGHTER. THAT is MY Bungalow. THAT is MY CAR. THAT IS MY DESK. THAT IS MY COMPANY. THAT IS MY…..MY and MY and MY and this MY never gets him out of the CAGE. He himself prepares a nice CAGE around him and then starts feeling suffocated and then comes and asks “ Why my life is so miserable?”

Now what to tell him. And first of all is he going to ever understand a single word that I may share with him?

People are running all over the world in search of the Master – in search of a Guide – the question is – even by luck you found one – how is it going to help you – if YOU are yet NOT READY to understand his words, his language?

Therefore I say – read, read some of my books and then come to me – then there is a possibility that you may relate to what I saying to you – you may understand what I am trying to tell you. I already have ENOUGH – so by buying my books you are not going to make me rich. But by reading my books you can certainly become rich – WITHIN.

And a man who is becoming RICH from WITHIN is a man of worth. It is worth helping such a man – because the THIRST in him is now for that – which is beyond – the divine – the unseen….

“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”
-Matthew 

 

The real blessing is when you start turning inward. Lord Ganesha is the most significant deity whose message for all HIS devotees is to turn inwards. Through HIS appearance – the message is loud and clear – HE is saying – ‘look I have NO head, No mind – I am deeply engrossed within…..and so why can’t you do so?”

Through the ritual of immersing HIS idol on the tenth day of Ganesha festival – the Sages are simply conveying the message that DO NOT GET ATTACHED TO EVEN THE IDOL GOD – TIME comes and YOU HAVE TO LET GO – YOU HAVE TO IMMERSE by becoming DETACHED!

“The dispersion of Lord Ganesha idol (Visarjan) is a very deep transformative process, because to throw a God needs courage, to throw a God needs DETACHMENT – to throw a God you wre just worshipping for 10 long days! You were falling at the feet of the God, crying, weeping, dancing, singing and NOW you yourself Go and throw it into the sea. So it was just a device to make you realize that NOTHING IS PERMANENT and you should learn to live a detached life.” – Osho

 

KETU’s message is also the same. Live a detached life. You are married – then do not become POSSESSIVE. The moment you become possessive – love ceases to exist! Love feels suffocated when there is NO FREEDOM! Why you become POSSESSIVE? Because of your fear of losing! When I say – you – it is for all readers and followers. You fear of losing and so you want to possess. In this madness, you go on missing love – the more you become possessive the more you are moving away from love – then your wife starts feeling suffocated – the children, the mother, the father – everybody feel suffocated when somebody tries to POSSESS them – love ends and what remains is POSSESSION – what is the point in living such a life?

“Why be possessive? The possessiveness shows simply one thing – that you cannot trust existence. Non-possessiveness is basically trust in existence. There is no need to possess, because the whole is already ours.” – Osho

 

When you LOVE – you simply LOVE. When you love – let there be no doubt – let there be no fear of losing – REMEMBER that is the message of KETU – that is what DETACHMENT is – you love – you simply love!

An innocent man goes on loving – people may cheat him, he may be cheated by his lover – he may be cheated by his wife – but his INNOCENCE remains. Those who cheated him – those lovers and partners who left him must be utterly ‘POOR’ – but he remains RICH and his RICHNESS is in his INNOCENCE – he may go on experiencing cheaters but HIS innocence always remains and it is this INNOCENCE that eventually moves him to the HIGHER ALTITUDES – then one day the benevolent master comes and says “ You idiot – do you still want to remain in this mud – or now you want to come with me?”

The heart of an innocent man, women is like butter. Then the man starts crying then he goes in deep meditations – then he starts self-realizing that what an idiot he has been his whole life – running behind fake gold,fake beauties, fake world – then a great transformation starts happening – then the qualities of KETU start developing – then he starts TURNING INWARD….then he starts realizing the many treasures of the higher altitudes – then there is no looking back – the sky (consciousness) is clear and he is ready to fly!

It happens, it always happens that a man who is transforming is CRITICIZED by those ‘plastic’ men and women who don’t know themselves!

Once it happened – a young man and he was changing for good. He was taking efforts to rise above the Mind. He was meditating. He was coming closer to the realms of consciousness…..but the society won’t let him GROW so easily! You see – that is how this fake society is – then some so called intellectuals and moralists started saying “ Look…look at him….all his life he was such a womanizer and was such a drunkard and look look now how he is acting out as a virtuous man – as a prayerful man…..”

You see – those who have been ‘acting out’ their whole life by wearing ‘masks’ – will only find the other also as ‘acting out’ – whatever is within you is what you will see on the outside!

They all were making fun of him – talking about his shady pasts – they forgot the fact that every SAINT has a PAST and every SINNER has a FUTURE!

Whenever the young man would walk to the temple – they would gossip between themselves “ Look look how is being saintly – taking Lord’s name…”

But they were unaware that Kabir was walking around. And Saint Kabir heard them gossiping – he looked at them and said “ He has got up from his SLEEP – but what about you all?”

And this is a very significant question that EACH ONE OF YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU POINT YOUR FINGER ON ANYBODY WHO IS TRYING TO TRANSFORM – to CHANGE HIMSELF FOR GOOD.

At least he has got up from HIS ‘SLEEP’ – it doesn’t matter what he had been doing while he was SLEEPING – what matters is that HE HAS GOT UP FROM HIS SLEEP – he is no more ASLEEP.

But those who are gossiping – those who are JUDGING him – are still living a plastic life – they themselves are fast asleep – how can they realize the beauty of a person who has AWAKENED from his sleep?

A person who awakened – has self-realized the futility of SEX, of MONEY, of WEALTH, of POWER, of STATUS – he had enough of it – and because he had it – he has come to the point of awakening where he has realized that all of this – is NOT THE ANSWER.

“I hope everybody could get rich and famous and will have everything they ever dreamed of, so they will know that it’s not the answer.”
-JIM CARREY

 

This realization has to be EARNED through your own experiences and awareness.

That is why it is necessary that one goes through the experiences of sex, experiences of power, experiences of status building, experiences of love, experiences of relationships – all these stages enrich him and help him to come to the SELF-REALIZATION that – it’s NOT the ANSWER.

Monks and priests, celibates and nuns – who suppress their sexuality – their greed – their lust – their attractions to power, status and money – simply end up in disastrous situations!

3 priests were travelling – and they had to get their tickets at the Airport. One was a young priest – the other two were elder men. They told the young priest to go and get the tickets from the ticket counter. The priest goes – stands in a queue. After a while his turn comes to collect the tickets but he is totally taken aback, his hand start shaking, he goes weak on his knees because the lady sitting at the ticket counter is extremely sexy – her whole attire is so attractive that he can’t get his eyes off from her – she says “Sir, tell me what you want?”

And the priest quickly responds – a slip of tongue – “ YOU”!

Then knowing that he has committed a SIN – he runs back to the elderly priests!

So you see – what happens when you go on suppressing your sexual needs? Suppression is NOT the answer. You have to EXPERIENCE sex – only then can you realize that it is ENOUGH. Only then can you realize that it cannot last for longer – someday the body is going to give up – someday the bed is no more going to shake – because by then you would have started shaking….

Sex makes a man fool. But unless he becomes a fool – he cannot realize the beauty of being wise! Unless you experience darkness – you cannot appreciate the sunlight – the sunrise!

In the West – sex has become a boring thing – too much of it has been done and experienced – now they don’t find it interesting. You see – when you have it beyond limit – it goes on making your life a hell.

SEX is your bondage. It keeps you unconscious. It does not allow you to see what you are doing. You are possessed by it. SEX possess you – and you remain ignorant – this ignorance than goes on making your life a hell – more hell and more and more hell.

“I don’t call sex a sin, I simply call it STUPID. I am not saying that you will suffer hell – what more hell do you need to suffer? You are already suffering in it. And what does it go on giving to you? It just keeps you engaged – engaged in the other so that you can avoid yourself. That’s its basic stupidity: it keeps you ignorant because it keeps you ignoring yourself.”
-Osho

 

But one should go through THIS HELL – THIS PLEASURES OF SEX – only then can you WAKE UP – that too if that much awareness is there – that much consciousness is there – that much blessings are there – in store for you!

People come and ask “ Is there a place called – hell?”

The master laughs – a loud belly laugh and says “ Are you crazy? You are living in HELL and asking if there is a place called Hell?”

IGNORANCE is your HELL. The more one gets driven by SEX, by MONEY, by POWER, by FAME, by WEALTH, by STATUS – he gets deeply into the clutches of IGNORANCE (RAHU).

And KETU is the KEY that gets you all out of this HELL (IGNORANCE). WHY KETU?

KETU is the source the energy that help you to TURN IN. Whole life you have been engaged in TURNING ON – the whole essence of your life have been to TURN ON – now KETU is helping you to TURN IN – Lord Ganesha is showing through HIS appearance – that I AM TURNED IN – I AM MEDITATION – you can also do it – you can also make something out of your human life that you can carry forward after you DIE – after this human body is DEAD.

The question is – how many are willing to listen? How many are willing to TURN INWARD? how many are willing to RISE ABOVE SEX – only a man who can rise above SEX can experience the beyond – to rise above the sex – first he has to go through the experiences of sex – and so you will find many men who were married – had children – but later rose to greatest heights of spiritualism – because they SELF_REALIZED the futility of SEX by EXPERIENCING IT – they realized that there is something much beautiful – much lasting – much higher than SEX – their EVOLUTION to the HIGHER ALTITUDES has been through their journey from SEX to SUPER CONSCIOUSNESS!

“The higher you rise, the more you can see. And when you reach the ultimate height, Buddhahood, you can see everything. Then there is no past and no future; then there is only present. And in that clarity, sex is the most stupid thing because it keeps you in bondage the longest.” – Osho

 

RAHU is highly sexual. Ketu is highly asexual. Ketu is disinterested in SEX – he had it ENOUGH in the PAST – now he is interested to TURN INWARD – to look within – to meditate!

The very appearance of Lord Ganesha is of meditation – there is NO MIND, NO HEAD – but there is immense TRUST – immense FAITH in oneself – deeply engrossed WITHIN….

TRUST is very important. In fact LOVE is impossible without TRUST. Relationships break – when TRUST starts evaporating – first TRUST evaporates – then LOVE evaporates – the basis is always TRUST.

TRUST can get you everywhere – but first TRUST has to be there.

Once a young man came and said ” People worship Buddha – but Buddha is not alive …..”

The master smiled and said ” No Master Ever Dies For Those Who Can Trust.” Your Trust matters! But the reality of this human world is – people cannot trust those who are living – so how can they trust those who are dead! Your TRUST can change your perception towards life. Then even if the master is dead – you can connect. Then even if the master has dropped his physical body – you can connect. The key is – TRUST. When you trust Buddha – then no matter even if there is distance of centuries between you and HIM – still you can connect. Distance doesn’t matter – when TRUST happens – time and space doesn’t matter – you stay ‘connected’….

“TRUST is the miracle. You can be in closeness with Mohammed or Jesus or Buddha right now if trust is there. But it is difficult! It is difficult because you don’t know how? You cannot trust a living person, how can you trust a dead? If trust happens then you are close to Buddha right now. And for persons who have faith, BUDDHA is ALIVE – very much ALIVE.”
-Osho

 

You can appreciate the qualities of Lord Ketu only when you self-realize the significance of Lord Ganesha! It is all connected – linked-in!

MOON dislikes KETU – the MIND is always against KETU – because it is the power and strength of Sri KETU that destroys the MIND – and it is only when there is NO MIND – that meditation can happen – that the TRUTH can be revealed.

Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you. -Kabir

 

It is only when the MIND is QUIET that the SOUL can speak! The SELF can be realized.

But how to Quiet the MIND? Yesterday my family doctor asked me the same question – How to Quiet the MIND? And the answer is simple and it has been given to the whole mankind – again and again and again through many divine men and women – the answer is in one word – NAAM.

And Sant Kabir reveals the answer in the most beautiful way…..

“Says Kabeer, he alone is poor who does not have the Naam, the Name of the Lord, in his heart. “
– Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji

 

A whole book of over 300 pages “ NO MIND” is what I have written just to help those who are willing to be helped! And in that book – I have again and again mentioned that unless you move beyond MIND – there is no coming to the TRUTH – and the way to move beyond MIND is through CHANTING THE NAME OF THE LORD – there is absolutely no other miraculous key to your transformation than the chanting the Lord’s holy name!

But who wants to listen? Shallow people and the their shallowness is so much that they will run behind everything – do everything – churn out thousands of rupees to a magician – to a tantrik – but will never listen to the most simple and most effective means that the benevolent masters have so compassionately shared with mankind – chanting the Lord’s holy name!

“To chant the holy name and dance in ecstasy is so easy and sublime that one can achieve all the benefits of spiritual life simply by following this process”. – Srimad Bhagavatam

“What cannot be achieved through the performance of Vedic rituals can be easily achieved through the chanting of the Lord’s holy name.”
-Srimad-Bhagavatam , Srila Prabhupada

 

People want everything ‘ready-made’ – but one must understand that HAPPINESS is NOT ready-made – it comes only through your OWN actions.

The joy of meeting the TRUTH – the GURU – the MASTER is beyond the expression of words. Language is really poor – but Sant Kabir reveals it in the most beautiful way…..

“When you meet the true Guru, He will awaken your heart; He will tell you the secret of love and detachment, and then you will know indeed that He transcends this universe.”
-(Kabir)

 

There is absolutely no better way than to realize the depth and beauty of the GURU through the ‘eyes’ of KETU! Ketu has absolutely NO HEAD – no intellectualism – HE is like Peter, the fisherman who starts following Jesus without thinking – without bringing any doubts any intellectualism in between! Jesus says “ Follow ME – I will make you the fisher of Men” And Peter is like our KETU – a man of heart with NO HEAD – he simply ‘jumps’ into the unknown – he is so much moved by the presence of Jesus – HIS aura, HIS bliss – HIS Peace – that even though he is meeting Jesus for the very first time in his life – still without giving any second thought he starts following Jesus and then the rest is history!

Arjuna is like our KETU – Krishna tells him “ SHOOT – shoot your arrow on that old man….”

That old man is Arjuna’s great grandfather – BHISHMA. Whole life he has loved that old man and that old man has loved him immensely – and now the master is telling him to shoot and kill that old man…..

How difficult it would have been for a common man – for a man who is ATTACHED – for a man who is yet sleeping – but ARJUNA is an awakened man – without wasting a second – he shoots and the old man is dead. BHISHMA is dead – at the point itself the victory is guaranteed – not because BHISHMA was dead – but BECAUSE ARJUNA PROVED HIS ABILITY TO LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF THE MASTER – WITHOUT BRINGING THE MIND IN BETWEEN – without BRINGING the so called intellectualism in between – HE just followed Krishna’s word and the rest is history.

That is KETU – listening to the WORDS of the MASTER and letting those WORDS penetrate into your being – and then a day comes when those words – those golden words start transforming you inside out – that is the day of your life – that is the REAL TURNING POINT!

But who wants to LISTEN? People have many fantasies of having a turning point and those are so shallow – so material that the less said the better.

Sant Kabir says – that when you LISTEN to the words of the master – DO NOT AGREE and DO NOT DISAGREE – just LISTEN because when you get into AGREEING AND DISAGREEING – you bring the MIND in between and the MIND is a monkey – it won’t let the words of the master penetrate into your being – because it is very much aware that if those words get into your being – its existence will be in danger – and so the MIND obstructs you – you remain with the master – but no change – no transformation is seen within you – because you have never LISTENED in reality – you have just been lost into the madness of agreeing and disagreeing.

“Kabir says: Please don’t agree and disagree with me. Just listen. Listen attentively, totally. Kabir says: Please don’t be in a hurry to decide and conclude. I am not preaching anything here. I am simply saying something that has happened to me, that has grown in me, that I have experienced, I am simply singing my own song.
All agreement, disgareement, is foolish, stupid. When truth knocks at your door you will simply be suddenely silent, unmoving. And that is real agreement which is not of the intellect, not of the mind. That is not from you; that is from such a depth in your being that you can almost say it is from God.”
– Osho

 

Many times it has happened – that those who were CLOSE have never realized and those who have been at far distances – have realized! It is therefore not necessary to be with the Master – it is necessary to LISTEN and ACT by following the words of the Master.

Judas always remained close to Jesus. Like a shadow he would be Jesus – but it is Judas who sold Jesus to the Romans for a few silver coins! Being CLOSE is useless if you CANNOT RELATE to the MASTER’s words – HIS message – HIS LOVE!

And when Judas came to know that the Romans have nailed – crucified Jesus – he could not control himself – he started crying – a few moments of IGNORANCE had made JUDAS a man of betrayal! Unable to control himself – he HANGS himself – commits suicide!

Being close is not important – resonating with words of the master without bringing you intellectualism in between is important – and that comes when you start turning inwards – the way of KETU is turning inwards because it is only when start turning inwards that you can RELATE with Jesus – than you will no more remain a Judas – you will become JOHN who loved JESUS – the love between John and Jesus is beyond the power of words – the disciple moving towards the master – the master moving towards the disciple – ONENESS -how to express such a pure love – language is really poor.

Only a man who is turning inward – who is chanting the name of the Lord can realize – can identify with the awakened – the enlightened being. He can ‘see’ such an enlightened being – he can find the whole universe in HIM.

“A drop, melting into the sea, Everyone can see. But the sea, absorped in a drop Only a rare one can follow!”
-Kabir

 

Lord Ganesha is the bridge that helps you to gain the strength of Lord Ketu and it is through Lord Ketu that you can transform the Intellectualism (Mercury) into intelligence – and so you have come up with a real good question – it is all inter-connected, it is all LinkedIn.

When intelligence comes – you stop seeking God in temples – you stop doing all the unwanted rituals and ceremonies and all those poojas and havans.

Then you realize that GOD is not on the outside – HE is not in the TEMPLE – TEMPLES are build just to ENCOURAGE the common man towards RIGHTEOUSNESS – towards having more FAITH in GOD – it is a MOTIVATIONAL SPOT but it certainly NOT GOD’s HOME!

God’s home is in your heart. Is in every human being’s heart. God dwells within and not without.

“I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.”
-Kabir

 

If you are going on pilgrimage to meet GOD – to experience GOD than you have got the wrong address – the right address goes through your heart – the dwelling of GOD is within you.

” The first glimpse of God has to be in the innermost shrine of your heart. If you have not seen Him there, you can go on talking about Him, but you will not ever be able to see Him anywhere.”
-Osho

 

KETU and LORD Ganesha simply are encouraging you to LOOK WITHIN and SELF-REALIZE the GOD that is within you – and let me tell you and to all my readers and followers that there is absolutely NOTHING as GREAT than to experience the state of your own self-realization.

Ketu is meditation. Ganesha is meditation and the whole essence of meditation is to bring you to the PRESENT MOMENT. The whole essence is to help you realize that GOD is NOT in the heaven. GOD is in the PRESENT moment – when you are able to BE HERE NOW – you have Entered the Temple – the joy – the bliss – the peace – the dance has begin…..

Then life is no more the same – everything around you is the same but you are no more the same – then there is a song to it, a poem, a dance – and it all comes when you turn inward – when you become more and more DETACHED!

Ketu is detachment. Ganesha is detachment. Their message is simple – DETACH YOURSELF. And if you miss to listen to their message – then you miss, you simply miss this life – and this is how you all go on missing – you remain on the surface – flaunting your intellectualism (mercury) – and in this futile process you miss – you simply miss to self-realize that ‘intellectualism’ is very poor substitute to INTELLIGENCE.

Be Intelligent and NOT intellectual.

And the way towards intelligence goes through your HEART and NOT the HEAD.

Get out of your HEAD and get into your HEART – that is the message of KETU, that is the whole essence of Lord Ganesha!

Meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Ketu is no nonsense. Ketu is pure consciousness. Ketu is being ‘still’ – Ketu is the source of meditation – Ketu is not meditative – Ketu is meditation!

“Meditation is not doing something, Just Being”

 

There was a King and he would care for his people, and so every night he would disguise himself as a common soldier and roam around his capital. And every night – he would see a young man sitting under a huge banyan tree. And he would be in deep meditation, there was a certain Aura around him, His peace, His bliss…the King became very curious, one night the King stepped down and walked towards the young man, as he came closer, he was touched by the fragrance that lingered around the young man. The young man was in deep meditation, his eyes were closed, but the King couldn’t control himself, he said “ Master…..” And the young man opened his eyes…the King looked into HIS eyes, and he was touched by HIS divinity – the King said “ I am very sorry for disturbing you, you were meditating…..”

And the young man smiled and said “I am not meditating, I am meditation.”

You see that is how Ketu is! Ketu is meditation. A Buddha lives in the orgasmic state for twenty-four hours, day in, day out. That is how Shri Ketu is!

And the 10th house is totally opposite to the nature of Shri Ketu! And so Ketu in 10th house – does the exact opposite of what Rahu does in 10th house! If Rahu in 10th makes you too much obsessed with your career – Shri Ketu simply makes the individual withdraw – and so individual is not too obsessed with career growth, he or she *is* okay with whatever work or career path they are currently in. So in a way you don’t see an Ambitious Alexander, the Great – and from the real growth perspective, true happiness perspective – this is a positive placement. Here – God simply wants you to enjoy – be at ease, relax while you attend to your daily chores. Here the person is not hypnotized to run and run and run for his or her career growth – until one day he drops dead – here person becomes less ambitious and that brings a certain element of joy in his or her life!

“How to find joy?” – And the answer is:

“Let your ambition disappear. Ambition is the barrier!” – Osho

“When ambition enters, creativity disappears -because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake.”
-Osho

 

Ambition never brings peace to you. Diogenes the great divine master was asking Alexander, the Great to rest for a while. HE said “ Come, join me, relax with me….” But Alexander was fired up with ambition, he said “ Master, I will come back and join you – but only after I conquer the whole world.”

Diogenes smiled. And Alexander left. He never was able to come back. He died – neither the whole world was conquered – nor the world *within* was realized! And this is what happens with every ambitious man or woman – they go on and on and on – just to drop some day – without ever experiencing the joy of life!

And so Ketu in 10th – becomes a positive placement, when the individual is spiritual by nature – then the 10th Ketu is a blessing in disguise! So to make the best of the Ketu in 10th placement – turn inwards, be more and more meditative – attend to prayers – and then this placement will altogether bring a totally new perspective towards life! And when Venus is also placed well – then it is an icing on the cake!

“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 only to be happy with Ketu in 10th – is to realize that you are not in this world for the purpose of running behind your career – rather you are more blessed to spend some quality time in nurturing your ‘self’ – and experience more joy, more peace!

“When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary.”

So just be yourself – just by being with yourself you would find immense joy – meditate, pray, love – and just go with the flow of life – that is the message of Ketu in 10th!

“BE
DON’T TRY O
BECOME”

 

Just BE Yourself – don’t try to Become! By being in your self – you are always in peace, in bliss, in joy! And that is what Ketu in 10th is encouraging you to BE and not become!

“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
-Julius Charles Hare”

 

Individuality is dignity, respectability is slavery. Let the mask of personality drop – and let the individuality within you come out – for the individuality of every person is far more beautiful than his or her personality – personality is not real – it is just a mask – individuality is real – and Shri Ketu is the perfect source to identify your true ‘self’ – your individuality. The positive indication of the 10th Ketu is simply based on what kind of person you are – extrovert or introvert – the greater the introvert – the greater is the possibility of experiencing many wonderful realizations through this placement!

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

KETU is Shri Ganesha! And so SUN KETU – is simply an indication from Lord Ganesha to drop your EGO – and to realize your ‘self’!

But this is possible for a man of awareness. For a meditative man – this conjunction is a blessing in disguise! Why I used the word ‘disguise’ – because this conjunction takes a man through certain sufferings – leading finally to the ‘light’ of consciousness!

“Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness” – Fyoder Dostoevsky

Suffering has a noble purpose – the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of EGO!

So this conjunction can raise a man to higher level of consciousness. Yes – he has to die first – just to REBORN!

Nicodemus was a great scholar of Jerusalem – he was the wealthiest man of the town – he was 70 yrs old and he would often hear about this young man called Jesus – many people were cured by this strange man who would just move around the town – an intense curiosity arose within him – but how can he go and meet Jesus! What will the people of the town say – that a great scholar is going to seek truth from a carpenter’s son? That would not look good. So on a dark night – when the whole town has gone asleep – Nicodemus sets out to meet Jesus – he finds Jesus sitting under a tree – deeply absorbed i meditation – Nicodemus comes and bows before Jesus – Jesus says “ Why have you come? What is it that you want from me?

And Nicodemus says “ I have come to seek Truth, to find from you – on how to seek God – how to experience God?”

And Jesus says “Nicodemus – even to meet ME – you have chosen a dark night – how would you face God? To experience God – you have to reborn!”

Nicodemus says “ What does Reborn means?”

And Jesus says “ You have to drop all your EGO, your Learning, your preconceived notions – you have to let go all that you have accumulated – you have to Reborn!”

Your first birth is physical – your second birth is spiritual – to Reborn means the death of your material world and the birth of your spiritual world!

Of course the transition is not easy. And so for an EVOLVED SOUL – the SUN+KETU conjunction in 7th house becomes a blessing – it has the strength to transform Nicodemus into Saint Nicodemus – it has the strength to transform the thief RATNAKAR into SAINT VALMIKI – it has the strength to transform the arrogant SAUL into SAINT PAUL!

You see – it is not at all a bad conjunction it can lead an EVOLVED SOUL to many wonderful spiritual experiences – wonderful meditative experiences!

BUT problems come to a soul that is still not evolved – and is operating on the BASE level – here it leads to miseries, insults, setbacks – and the person gets frustrated often!

So to experience the positive results of this divine conjunction – one has to be more meditative, more introspective – and then there is a song to it!

So understand the depth of this placement – it *turns* positive based on your receptive strength!

Now coming to your question – you have to set your expectation in regards to marriage – at a very basic level. Don’t expect much happiness or much glory through marriage – once you limit your expectations in regards to marriage – you will not be disturbed by this conjunction – else you will suffer!

“It is expectation that keeps your mind continuously spinning thoughts. It is expectation that keeps you tense. It is expectation, when not fulfilled, that makes you feel frustrated, miserable. Drop expectation and meditation will flower, but it can flower only when you are not expecting.” – Osho

So you see – this conjunction is simply an indication to set your expectation regarding marriage or relationship to a certain limit.

If you know that the ‘water-supply’ is going to be for few hours only – then you don’t make face or suffer. You *know* – you are ‘alerted’ and so you are now mentally ready!

And so—my answer is simply to ‘alert’ you!

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

This is a good question. I liked it. And I also like Ketu. Only a man of awareness can like Ketu, can love Ketu. And this is of significance, but only to a meditative man, only to a man who is turning inwards!

“I want the world to realize that turning inward is the greatest joy. In comparison, any other pleasure is a regressive step.”
– SADHGARU 

Before we understand what is Ketu 7 – let us first understand the difference between a mad man and an awakened man. Unless you understand this – you cannot understand Ketu in seventh house – you would miss, simply miss the whole beauty of it.

Have you seen a mad man? A mad man looks at you – but his look is totally empty look. A madman looks at your face, but you can see he is not looking at you. He just looks through you as if you are a glass thing, transparent; you are just in the way, he is not looking at you. And you are transparent for him: he looks beyond you, through you. He looks without looking at you; the “at” is not present, he simply looks.

Have you ever seen a Yogi – a great Yogi? A Yogi also looks at you – but his look is totally empty look. He looks beyond you – as if your whole being is being scanned – but this time – it is a conscious look, it is a look of awareness, it is an observation with consciousness!

A mad man has jumped – beyond. A Yogi has also jumped – beyond. The only difference is the former has done it out of ignorance – the later has done it out of consciousness! The similarity is the courage to ‘Jump’! And only that man can experience God, who has the daring to ‘Jump’!

Now imagine – when a mad man is guided by the enlightened Yogi – how easy it would be transform a mad man into the Buddha, the enlightened! And that is what Meher Baba – the greatest divine master did.

Nobody has tried to see the great experiment that Meher Baba did.

Baba traveled all over the country to catch hold of all kinds of madmen, because they are just very close to God. Only one thing is needed: somebody is needed who can shake them back to their sanity. Then they can become great Masters. Just a little sanity will be needed; then their madness will have a method in it.

The madman, if in the hands of enlightened people, can achieve enlightenment faster than your so-called sane people.

In this century one man revived it again – his name was Meher Baba. He went all over India seeking and searching for mad people. In all the madhouses, anywhere that he heard there was a madman, he would go. He traveled all over India his whole life, searching for mad people.

His disciples asked him, “Why are you wasting your time with mad people when sane people are available to work upon, and they want your time?”

Meher Baba said, “You don’t understand. To bring a sane person out of his sanity is very difficult. But to bring out a madman is very easy because in a way he is already out, but from the back door. He has tasted something of the outside; we have only to show him the right door and say, “Please don’t go out from the wrong door, go from the right door. Being out is perfectly right, but choose the right door.”

And Meher Baba turned many mad people into enlightened people.

“”It is a strange world. Here, really great things are never rewarded. Nobody has bothered about Meher Baba. Mother Teresa will get a Nobel prize because she looks after poor orphan children, and nobody thought of giving a Nobel prize to Meher Baba who really did a miraculous job-and he was the only man, after centuries.”
– Osho”

And great people also never expect any rewards, but this quote is just a way of the master to express the great work done by the divine master Meher Baba!

So one has to understand that a KETU 7 person is just like a mad man – as far as relationship/marriage is concerned! Just a change from ignorance to consciousness – and you see the same mad man transforming into a greatest ascetic – that the world had ever known!

You see – that is the whole beauty of KETU 7- just a shift from ignorance to consciousness – and you see a mad man who otherwise would jump into relationships/marriages without thinking – without putting his consciousness into action – without being bothered of consequences – is now SUDDENLY transforming into an ascetic – who no more is interested in sex, in relationships, in marriage – he has been there, done that – he have had so much of sexual relationships in the past life – that as soon as someone as divine as Meher Baba comes to his life – he is quick to drop everything and just start following HIM – the master – experiencing a total transformation – inside out!

Peter, the fisherman was such a man – for the first time – he meets Jesus Christ. And Jesus says to him “Look into my eyes, follow me and I will make you the fisher of men.” And Peter, the fisherman could sense something in this young man – His Aura, His voice, His glow – and Peter drops everything and starts following Jesus – no questions are asked, no doubts are raised – Peter simply starts following Jesus – and this illiterate fisherman goes on to become the greatest saint that the Christians had ever known – Peter, the fisherman becomes Saint Peter. Today, the city of Saint Petersburg which is Russia’s second-largest city after Moscow, is named after this illiterate fisherman – Peter!

KETU 7 – can either lead the native into many wrong relationships/marriage(s) – because he or she ‘Jumps’ out of ignorance and not consciousness. Peter, the fisherman jumps – but NOT out of ignorance, but out of consciousness – his understanding is so deep – he is such a beautiful man who listens to his heart – that he simply ‘Jumps’ in the unknown – but with consciousness and NOT ignorance.

KETU 7 man or women suffer in legalized relationship to which the human world calls ‘marriage’! However as long as the relationship is not legalized, they remain happy as a couple – or as lovers.

KETU 7 are submissive to their partner/s. Simply because they are not much bothered of the intentions of the ‘other’ person – namely husband or lover. So if other aspects are not good then such a person also becomes a victim in relationships or marriage(s). In contrast a much highly evolved soul – simply drops the idea of marriage or even sexual relationships and heads towards the beyond – he simply accepts asceticism – not by chance but by choice! And so you see many Sadhus, Sanyasi or even great Yogis with Ketu 7 – provided other aspects also support their asceticism!

One has to see – one has to examine whether the chart is inclined towards extrovert mind (RAHU) or introvert mind (KETU). If the inclination is more towards RAHU – then KETU 7 leads the individual to many miseries – and that is obvious! Whenever you follow RAHU – KETU makes sure that your life becomes more miserable – in fact the native does become miserable. So it depends on whether you are RAHU-ish or KETU-ish!

Sexual satisfaction is not derived in totality through KETU 7 – because KETU – at the very high moment of sexual union – gives up and so the partner of KETU 7 – often is denied the sexual pleasure. Erection lasts for short time – and so sex often becomes a fairy tale that is only imagined but never practiced in reality! If it is a woman – then interest in sex less, and so the husband is often denied sexual satisfaction. And so – many times separation or extra-marital affairs happen. So KETU 7 creates many marriage problems for souls who are not much evolved. A KETU 7 should never marry a RAHU 7. The honeymoon simply flops – Rahu wants more sex and Ketu is not interested in having more sex – so the combination of RAHU 7 and KETU 7 is disastrous – unless other aspects rush to help!

However KETU 7 is not the only deciding factor – since the sub-lord or the lordship of KETU 7 also are the most influencing energies – D9 chart and moreover the Chalit Chart is also of great significance before you come to the final conclusion.

The only positive sign for KETU 7 is when KETU is in Pisces – here Ketu feels relaxed – safe and secured – it is its home sign and so here KETU is bit soft than otherwise. But still as they say – you may apply as much salt to Karela ( Bitter -Gourd ) – still the taste remains bitter.

But the question is not what happens with KETU 7 – the real question is WHY KETU 7!

Existence wants KETU 7 individual to payback for the many sexual relationships he or she had in the past life. Now the existence is simply denying the sexual happiness to the native – it is simply stating that “You had enough in the past – now pay attention to your ‘self’ – focus on your self- growth.”

But ignorant men don’t get it and so they continue to stand in the queue of that window – where the ‘tickets’ have exhausted. There is no ticket left and yet these ignorant beings stand in the queue – even though the window is closed – they keep standing – expecting that someday the window will open and they would get the ticket to a happy satisfying sexual union or marriage!

The conscious man simply is never found at the window stand – he is perfectly aware – he is no more interested for any ‘ticket’ – he is on his way to the greatest ticket of the universe – the ‘ticket’ of meditation!

The man who desires is an escapist. Now, it is very strange that a man who meditates is thought to be an escapist. That is utter nonsense. Only the man who meditates is NOT an escapist – everybody else is.

“Meditation means getting out of desire, getting out of thoughts, getting out of mind.
Meditation means relaxing in the moment, in the present. Meditation is the only thing in the world which is not escapist, although it is thought to be the most escapist thing.” 
-OSHO

KETU 7 – is a ‘blessing in disguise’ – but only for a man who meditates, only for a man who is living with consciousness, only for a man who understands the true essence of what love is!

“Love should be like breathing. It should be just a quality in you – wherever you are, with whomsoever you are, or even if you are alone, love goes on overflowing from you. It is not a question of being in love with someone, it is a question of being love.”
-Osho

Then KETU 7 brings a totally new dimension to your life – then KETU 7 is no more a problem but a source that leads you to many wonderful spiritual experiences – then KETU 7 is no more a weakness – but the greatest strength that the man of this world had ever known! Only an evolved soul with KETU 7 can truly understand the essence of love – and that makes this placement – a placement of celebration – celebration of the divine, of the unseen, of the… beyond!

KETU is a LET-GO. And Meditation is also a LET-GO! And a KETU 7 finds it easy to LET-GO all those relationships/marriage(s) – and simply surrender to the existence and it is only when you are able to live in total surrender to the existence – to God – that a beautiful life awaits you – the ‘key’ is to ‘Let-Go’!

“DON’T TRY TO FORCE ANYTHING. LET LIFE BE A DEEP LET-GO. GOD OPENS MILLIONS OF FLOWERS EVERY DAY WITHOUT FORCING THEIR BUDS.
-OSHO”

When you Let-Go – you create space for something….better! Learn to Let-Go.

” When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
-Lao Tzu

For KETU 7 – the answer to all your miseries related to marriage, relationships, past relationship grudges – is in just two words – Let Go.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.