Lesson 11: Planets and their Philosophical Traits...

Every human being is blessed with a divine Soul (Aatma)...

We know that we must realize our Soul as early as possible, to get rid of from the cycle of Births and Deaths...

Soul (Aatma) is eternal, is always illuminated with divine rays of 'Fire' and having Sattvic Gunaas and hence Soul is rightly indicated by the 'Sun' as per our Maharshis...

Divine rays of Sun are reflected by the 'Moon' to Earth... Hence 'Reflection' principle is the property of the Moon, which is also sattvic in nature with 'Water' tattwa which reflects...

Mind of human being is similar in nature which reflects human thoughts, which are unstable in nature... So Mind or 'Chitta' is indicated by the Moon...

The 'Strength' or 'Stamina' of human whether physical or mental is indicated by the Mars... When it is physical that human is blessed with 'Muscle Power' and when it is mental, he is blessed with 'Buddhi Balam' or Intellectual Strength...

Mercury is associated with 'Vaak' or 'Speech' of human being... Mind is constantly thinking and finally it wants to express its thoughts to another human being (Communication) and it does with the help of 'Speech' which is indicated by Mercury... So Mercury indicates Expression, Speech and Communication... In general this speech is related to materialistic matters because of its Raajas Guna...

Jupiter indicates 'Sukham' or 'Happiness' of a human being... Jupiter is Sattvic in nature as we already know... With this nature Jupiter is blessed with true knowledge and with this knowledge that human leads a Happy life, with comforts and a good social status Jupiter guides that person with its principle (Etheric) of 'Vigyanam'...

Kaama or Desire or Passion of a human being is the basic quality of Venus or Shukra... Desire of every thing .. sexual, name, fame, materialistic, money, luxury and so on ....
Desire of Materialistic comforts (Raajas Guna) is the predominant quality...

'Dukkham' or Moroseness or Sadness of a human being is represented by Saturn... Saturn is the farthest planet from the Sun and hence very little light (knowledge) is reached to Saturn, which makes Saturn ignorant, illiterate and narrow minded... and hence these qualities results in Melancholy or sad situations to that human being by Saturn...

Synopsis :

Sun --> Aatma or Soul
Moon --> Chitta or Mind
Mars --> Sattva or Strength
Mercury --> Vaak or Speech
Jupiter --> Sukham or Happiness
Venus --> Kaamam or Desire
Saturn --> Dukkham or Sadness


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Lesson 10: Planets and Thri Gunaas...

According to Ayurveda, Ahankaara(Ego) of the human being is of three kinds, known as 'Thrigunaas', they are Sattva, Raajas and Thamas respectively...

Sattva Guna :
Truthfulness, Righteousness, Belief in God and Rebirth, Knowledge, Intelligence, Sharpness of Mind, Memory, Self Control, Not to Think of defaming or blaming others etc. are some qualities of Sattva Guna...
Raajas Guna:
Instability, Lack of Self Control, Pride, Nature of telling Lies, Cruelty, Exhibition of one's own Vanity, Aspiration for self Flattering, Emotion and Excitement, Desire and Lust, Anger are some qualities of Raajas Gunaas...
Thamas Guna:
Weeping tendency and Moroseness, Naastikyam, Unlawful behavior, Suppression of knowledge by his wicked thoughts, Ignorance, Crooked mindedness, Laziness, Animal behavior, Tendency to sleep etc... Are Thamas Ahankaara...

Ahankaara of man jumps between these Gunaas like a mad monkey which is also drunken and bitten by scorpio, as per the planetary positions... Every Human being can be victim of any of the above Gunaas...

Blessed is the person, who is having Sattva Gunas...

Sun, Moon and Jupiter (Ketu sometimes) are of Sattva Gunaas...

Mercury and Venus are of Rajas Guna...

And Mars, Saturn, Rahu represents Tamas Guna...

We must able to blend the basic characteristics of the planets to know more about their nature...

For example, till now, we learn that both Sun and Mars are Fiery in nature and now we knew also that Sun is of Sattva Guna and Mars is of Tamas... So we can now differentiate their Fiery nature as 'Sattvic Fire' and 'Tamasic Fire' ...

Thus, the end of ThriGunaas and their relation to planets...

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Lesson 09: Planets and Five Elements...

This world is a composition of Five Elements... These elements are also called as 'Pancha Bhutas' or 'Pancha Tattwas' in Sanskrit Language ...

These tattwas are Akasha, Vaayu, Agni, Jala and Prithvi tattwas...
in English they are Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth elements...

Our saints recognized that Etheric element is ruled by Jupiter...

Saturn indicates Airy element...

Sun and Mars are of Fiery Nature..

Moon and Venus are indicating Watery element...

And Mercury is Earth element...

What is Etheric element?

Ether is said to occupy entire universe... From this Etheric element Air is evolved and from Air evolved Fire... This fire when is cooled is transformed into Water element... and when this Water is condensed, and the result is Earth element... !

Ether --> Air --> Fire --> Water --> Earth

This is a very general concept...

Both the Sun and Mars have Fiery nature... but there is difference between these fires...
Sun indicates Spiritual Fire while Mars indicates a action oriented Fire...

Moon and Venus are similarly have little difference in Watery nature... Here Water element means Liquid nature... For example, in our body Blood is indicated by the Moon, while Semen is indicated by Venus, similarly Petrol is indicated by the Moon while, Paints, Chemicals are related to Venus...

Here the point is, Venus indicates 'Refined' Liquids... The meaning of its name 'Shukra' in Sanskrit language itself is 'Refined'...

In this way planets are related to Five Elements...

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Lesson 08: Vedic Charecteristics of Planets...

Our Rishis were able to feel the basic characters of every planet...

I was thinking how should I introduce these characteristics, so that we can remember them permanently...

To understand the characteristics of 12 Signs, we have to understand the basic characteristics of Grahas of first and also about the 'Pancha Bhootas' or 'Five Elements' and Triplicities etc...

So first we start with ' Vedic Planetary Characteristics'... Which are the building blocks of the Astrology...

Planets have their intrinsic nature...
Planets can change their nature temporarily by conjoining some other planet, or by transiting from sign to sign etc...
However, their intrinsic behavior will remain same...

For Example, the basic nature of Saturn is Malefic... Sometimes it becomes benefic , however it always try to resume its basic nature of malefic as soon as possible...

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Lesson 07 : Rahu and Ketu part II...

As far as Rahu and Ketu are concerned...

Saints considered them as Grahas not planets... A lot of difference is there between the words 'Planet' and 'Graha'...

Planet means 'a heavenly physical body', which is having mass and volume...

'Graha' means 'which captures' in Sanskrit language... Graha is capturing something... Graha word is not indicating any physical meaning... in fact it is an act of capturing... !!! It should be grasped by mentally not physically means...

Each GRAHA is having this kind of capturing power... As already discussed earlier they capture the uneasy minds of all living beings on the Earth...

So Graha is defined in the sense of a quality rather than a physical means...

Rahu and Ketu are not visible physically, but they can be felt as Grahas because of their quality of capturing ability...

Pure love between mother and baby may not be visible physically but it can be felt...

Similarly saints, with their, psychic abilities can feel the basic traits of every astral body in the sky...

They feel the presence of Rahu and ketu in the similar manner...

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A journey from Vedic to Modern Astrology...

We are in the beginning of a long journey... from Vedic Astrology to Modern KP Stellar Astrology and its application to INDIAN STOCK MARKET so that we can predict Sensex and Nifty Indices movements and directions...

I am posting total theory of Stock Market Astrology from the 'Beginning of Vedic Astrology' as intermediatery level and also KP Stellar Astrology as Graduate Level...

So anybody who is intested in learning Astrology should follow from the post called...'Index of Topics'... (Published in Nov, 2009), where complete course contents are mentioned.

Regards...

Lesson 06: Grahas...

Rishis called planet as "Graha" as per Sanskrit language...

In Sanskrit Graha means 'which captures'... which indicates, Grahas are capturing something... What they are capturing?

Grahas are capturing the unstable minds of human beings on the Earth !!!

People with stable mind and with divine will power cannot be captured by the Grahas... and thus these people conquer the effects of rays of the Planets... Grahas play with the weak minds a lot, and keep those people in their grips and make them their slaves... How to conquer these Grahas is not under the scope of our discussion...

So, Rishis considered Rahu and Ketu as Grahas according to the above notion...
Rahu and Ketu are just two points physically with no mass and volume but they are capturing the minds of Human Beings... Saints considered anything which is visible or not visible, as a Graha, if it can capture the mind of a being..

Saints had every genuine reason behind their thought... So we should never underestimate them and should strictly follow their fundamental concepts as blindly as possible...

How Grahas are capturing the minds of human beings?
Grahas can effect our minds, in tune with their inner nature...

"Inner Nature"...

Yes every planet is having its inner nature and some qualities...

When the minds of the human beings are under pressure, Grahas overtake those minds and induce their inner nature into those minds accordingly...

Suppose when the mind of a person is out of control due to an event causing irritation, then the Planet Mars with its inner nature of 'Anger' try to overtake that person's mind and thus controlling that person...

Moon plays with our Emotions... Saturn with our Fears and so on...

We must learn these qualities of each planet as deep as possible...

I will discuss in depth the nature of each Graha and how it can induce the same in human beings...

Saints used their yogic powers to learn these qualities...

And we must follow them blindly...

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(Note: Dear Readers each post below this must be read in order understand current post... these posts are "sequence oriented" ... you must read one after one...)