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Most people I know hate losing. Unless it’s weight.
People like to lose weight. Because they think that weight loss is really a a gain of fitness and weight.
In Punjab, people spend a terrific amount of money on wedding celebrations.
In that case an expenditure/loss of money is seen as a gain in prestige/status/reputation.
People are willing to lose a lot of time waiting for a bus because they see it as a money saving.
So what is a loss?
I think we see a loss as something for which we get nothing back in return. A waste.
We had something we liked. It is now either devalued or simply no longer there.
A loss of a bad thing – an enemy or ill-health etc – is seen as a gain.
Loss is indicated by the 12th house in your jAtaka cakram.
When there are too many impulses in one’s head., it leads to inaction (akarma). You don’t know which to do and which to do first. This is not peaceful.
When each impulse is matched by an equal inhibition then also it leads to inaction. This is not also peaceful.
There are moments of joy and freedom and peace, when we have no duties and no wants. These are such wonderful moments that speaking to anyone else can only bring us down.
These are moments when neither desire nor duty impel you to move. Moments of zero impulse in your head. This matches what kRSNa labels as ‘sarva Arambha pari tyAgI’ ie ‘someone who has given up starting things’
{The prArabdha karma as indicated by jAtaka cakra phala manifests through internal impulses and external stimuli. Even external stimuli make you act by manifesting as some impulse within you. To be impulse-less is to be free of karma even for a few moments.}
For a person practicing advaita there is no individual “I”. Just the Self of All.
The body-mind is not the doer or the karta. It has no doership or kartRtvam.
In “What should I do?”. This leaves the “what” or the kriya or kArya, ie the deed.
If there is neither kartA nor kartRtva., is there a kArya or deed?
Ask any body-mind to describe an event or ‘what happened’? And you will get a different description-interpretation depending on their perspective and plane of understanding.
The deed itself is an illusion or mAya. Then what of karma-phala or the consequences of one’s actions?
So “What should I do?” becomes ”What should I do?”
A lot of us body-minds spend a lot of time on “What should I do?” but for an advaitin-mind, this question becomes meaningless.
kundA gurUji taught me that eye-exercises are good to awaken the Agnya cakra. (There are some eye exercises here:
http://eyepitstop.com/
).
The problem with wearing spectacles and more so progressive spectacles is that you limit your eye movement for all the time that you do wear the glasses.
Consider wearing your glasses for less time each day.
However, the spectacle people advise continuous use of glasses – so you have to test both and decide for your self.
We might want our benefics to be strong and our malefics to be weak. We talked about some general rules for knowing which grahas are benefics and malefics for a given horoscope here: Hindu Predictive Astrology: Lagna (janmalagna) or Ascendant – 1
grahAs are stronger when exalted or in their uccha rAs’Is. (See: Uccha, Neecha, Exaltation, Debilitation). All of us know that on a given day the sun is highest at noon. But even at noon, the sun is highest or exalted when it is in Aries. Each graha has its uccha and neeca points in different rAs’Is.
Let us say that ravi is your benefic, then it will be great if he is in mESa in your jAtaka cakra.
With regard to gem-stones: some suggest you strengthen the benefics and some suggest you appease the malefics. Some suggest wearing them and some suggest gifting them. You need to test it out for yourself and see if anything helps you.
| graha | uccha rAs’i | neeca rAs’i |
| ravi | mESa | tula |
| candra | vRSabha | vRs’cika |
| kuja | makara | karkAtaka |
| budha | kanya | meena |
| guru | karkAtaka | makara |
| s’ukra | meena | kanya |
| s’ani | tula | mESa |
| rAhu | vRSabha | vRs’cika |
| kEtu | vRs’cika | vRSabha |
The tenth house is the house of your udyOga or karma. It refers to your profession, honours, foreign travels, self-respect, knowledge, dignity and means of livelihood.
Just as the 12th house is interesting because it refers to freedom and to loss, the tenth is interesting because it refers to karma or work and to knowledge or gnyAna.
As before, we look at:
karmakAraka is held to be s’ani by some and guru by others.
The sthAndhipati in different houses connects the profession with different factors. Whether that person is lucky or unlucky in those factors depends on whether the sthAndhipati is a benefic or a malefic, whether he is strong or weak and who is influencing him.
The lord of the house in other houses indicates the following:
Similarly, based on their kArakatva, grahAs placed in the tenth will influence the profession by influencing the temperament of the person. (See previous posts for details).
Previous Posts:
There are moments of joy and freedom and peace, when I have no duties and no wants. These are such wonderful moments that speaking to anyone else – even Guruji – can only bring me down from my state of bliss.
I enjoy those moments – sitting still in the swing and doing nothing.
I call these my 7th cakra moments.
