KARMA

REBIRTH

in

HINDU ASTROLOGY

Explained illustratively with many

horoscopes.

In the rebirth cases the astrological

links between the horoscopes of both
births is a tentative, not conclusive,
attempt to explain the phenomenon
of rebirth —

for the very first time.

K.N. Rao
(Assisted by K. Sudev Rao)
 Karma & Rebirth io Hindu Astrology

CONTENTS

Part I

ASTROLOGY AND KARMA

Page
1. Karma - What it is 20
2. Myths-Meaning and Contents 29

3. Classification of Karmas 49
4. The Time of Birth 56
is First Lampostof Destiny
5. Birth Moon and constellation: 61
other lamposfs of destiny.

6. Happiness From Children — 66

Debt of Past Lives
7. Methodology of Asfro-Genetical Study 75
of the Birth of a Child —
The Unique Case Study
7. The Whirligig of Time 82

8. Advantages of Believing in Predestination 94

9. Conclusions 101
 Part II

Astrology and Rebirth

Page
1. Preface 116
2. Incarnations of God and Devatas 128
3. A Family Story about Rebirth 139
4. Astrological Parameters in Books 152

5. The Need for Using Certain Data 168

6. Analysis of the data 186
7. Conclusion 203

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 The Scheme of the Book

The scheme being followed here and the subjects covered will be:
(a) When Rahu creates jealousy and flopped careers.
(b) The time ot birth of an individual is the first landmark of his
orarabdha or destiny.
(c) The birth of an individual in a particulor constellation of the
Moon and the natal Moon is tfre second landmark of orarabdha.
(d) The happiness one can hope lo have from children is the result
of the spiritual merit of past lives. The types of children, good,
bad and mixed types show relations of past lives.
(ej An astrological study of a time fixed for the birth of o bright
child. Does manipulated birth tinne change destiny?
(f) The Whirligig of Time changes fates because Time is God.
(g) Then read a whole section on astrology and rebirth.
(h) Life is nota story ofa simultaneous leap into prosperity, material
gains, sex and a jump into illumination. Spiritual struggles are
spread over mony birth-times,
(i) Births and rebirths can be human, non-human also. The
propoganda of some interested fundamentalist religions that
animals have no soul has to be dismissed.

K.N, RAO
Karma & Rebirth in Hindu Astrology

About the Author

K.N, Rao (Kotamraju Narayana Rao) retired from the Indian

Audit and Accounts Service as Director General in November 1990.
He is the second of the four sons of the famous journalist of the pre-
independence era, K. Rama Rao, the founder editor of the National
Herald and editor of more than thirty journals in his long journalistic
career. Rao was initiated into astrology by his late mother, K.
Saraswani Devi, at the age of twelve in 1943. He regards her as
the best astrologer he has known in two areas, marriage and children
and prashna(horary).
Rao was a lecturer in English before joining the government
service through an all-India competition in 1957. He joined the Indian
Audit and Accounts Service from which he retired os Director General
in November 1 990. More interested in games and sports than in
astrology in his youth, Rao won brilliancy prizes in chess competitions
and two state championships in bridge competitions. He played ten
other games which is why in his astrological writings also there are
references to games often.
During his service career, he was the planner, organizer and
teacher of three international courses on Audit of Receipts as a joint
director once and director twice. His interactions with foreigners have
been both on professional and astrological levels for more than two
decades which is why he has, as an astrologer, a large international
network of friends. He went on doing all his fundamental researches
in astrology during his service career because of which, he went on
collecting horoscopes systematically, in thousands. He has in his
 Karma & Rebirth in H In eta Astrology
possession more than 50,000 horoscopes with ten important events
of each individual noted with him. It is perhaps, the largest individual
collection of horoscopes any astrologer in the world has.
The strain of doing astrology as a mission, not charging any
fee, almost made him give up astrology many times. But in December
1981, he was forced out of his shell to participate in a three-day
seminar on astrology in Delhi. After his ground breaking speech, there
has been a persistent demand for his astrological articles. From then
onwards he has been sharing with his readers his original researches
for which he has won worldwide praise.
Between 1993and 1995, Rao has visited the USA on five
lecture lours. He was the Chief Guest at the Second Conference of
the American Council of Vedic Astrology in 1993. He was
requested to be present in the Third Conference also in
1994 on the opening day because of the crowds he would
draw. His name was advertised fill November 1995 also
for the Fourth Conference though he had made it clear
that he would not be available anymore for the American
conferences.
As a result of his academic approach, he has now more than
a thousand students in India and more than two hundred in the USA.
He is the Advisor of Astrology Courses in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan,
New Delhi. The teachers on ihe teaching faculty of the astrology
course in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan have, like him, never charged
any fees for teaching which they do in an honorary capacity. What
impelled Rao to do it is well explained in his own horoscope where
the lagna and the 10ft- lords get combined in the lagna, with an
exalted Jupiter in the 10th house. All this was foreseen by his Jyotish
Guru, Yogi Bhaskarananda of Gujarat whom Rao describes as the
last of the Rishi astrologers the purest classical mould. He had tola
him thai he would have to visit many foreign countries to give to Hindu
astrology the honour, recognition and dignity which it did not have
till then. An American summed up the impact of the first ever foreign
visit of Rao to the USA in 1 993 as, " Vedic astrology before Rao and
after Rao".
What different yogis have said about astrology as a Vedanga
which he must not give up has been quoted in his book, Yogis, Destiny
and the Wheel of Time.
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Karma & Rebirth in Hindu Astrology
Astrology is ill-reputed as a profession because of
its mercenary and exploitative nature. Rao's desire never to
turn into a professional astrologer has won him thousands of admirers
and also some enemies from the community of professional
astrologers who felt threatened, when around him, there grew up a
fine learn of more than two hundred academic astrologers like him,
for whom astrology is not a source of living, but a super science to
delve into the meaning and purpose of human life, which is what
astrology, as Vedanga, should and has to be.
Both his mantra guru, Swami Paramananda Saraswati, and his
//otishguru, Yogi Bhaskarananda, taught him some secrets of spiritual
astrology which are not given usually in any book of astrology. Rao
has revealed some of these secrets in his book, Yogis, Destiny and
the Wheel of Time. Among Rao's recent fundamental and most
original researches are his two books Predicting through Jaimini's
Chora Dasha and Predicting through Karakamsha and Mandook
Dasha. It has been possible for him to produce such researches
because he was told by his Jyotish pt/ruthalwhat was in parampara
(tradition) was much more than what was contained in books of
astrology which are translated literally and are without illustrations
generally, His Owr mother, who was his first Jyotish guru, knew many
such traditional secrets, parts of which Rao has revealed in his three
books, Ups and Downs in Careers, Astrology: Destiny andthe Wheel
of Time C nd Planets and Children.
Itwasthe mantra guruot Rao,Swami Paramananda Saraswati,
who first asked Rao notto give up astrology as it had to be an integral
part of his sadhana. Later a great yogi, Swami Moorkhanandji,
prophesied in 1982 that he would be the architect of a great
astrological renaissance, Whether that is alreadyfulfilled or not can
be gauged from the impressive list of his researches published in his
writings,
Among scores of appreciations he receives every week, only
some are being produced here.
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Appreciations

555 loacRim Drive Sonoma CA pR: 707/939-1787

Fax: 707/939-9448johnsen 108 @ aol.com
October 30 , 1 996

Dear Mr. Rao,

Recently Deborah Ress sent me a copy of your latest book, Astrological

Journey through History, Mystery and Horoscopes. Thank you for the
very kind words about me. In the book you mention you are not sure
how good an astrologer I am. Let me rush to explain that I am a
beginning level student only. Even if I weren't, I could never consider
calling myself a jyotishi without a guru and without the blessings of
the tradition.
i was very disappointed to learn that you will not be visiting
the United States any time soon. However, seeing the titles of the books
you are working on (Astrology, Rebirth and Tradition, Violent Deaths:
Bhrigu Astrology etc.) I feel such anticipation I practically start to
tremble. Works like these are worth their weight in gold. I should not
complain that we may not be seeing you again soon when you are
devoting your time to such worthwhile projects.
Respectfully
Yours, Linda Johnsen

MayurD.Desai B-6 Apollo Apartments, Opp. Old Shcrdo Mandtr

B.ComLL.B Advocate Netaji Road. Nr. Lawgarden
 Ellisbridge, Ahmedabod- 6 449958
Date 19.11.1996

Respected Guruji Shri K.N. Rao,

Pranaam
I take this opportunity to myself an amateur student of astrology and
but a practising lawyer.
I have been learning astrology since 1 990 from an astrologer
friend of mine Mr. Satish Nawathe practising K.R However I was not
content with K.P and hence I started reading traditional astrology, but I
was totally disappointed, as none ofthe books could enlighten meon
the art of predicting. I have purchased the entire set of books by Dr.
B.V. Raman, Dr. Chandrasekhar Thakkar in Gujarati and some other
book books by SumeetChug, J. S. Bhasin, and even some books by
Hariharan of K.R but all these books were, according to me, simply
filled with pages of texts translated and of no use.
I have consulted even more than 100 astrologers who claimed
to be 1 00% accurate Cut in my case all of them have failed miserably,
being a lawyer it has become a habit of not accepting as truth without
cross-checking and with interest in astrology. When the predictions of
these astrologers were argued & discussed with them, none of them
was ableto explain the reason behind his prediction.
Then one fine day I was searching for some really fine book on
astrologywhen I sowyourbook entitled, "Yogis, Destiny and the Wheel
of Time" and on reading few pages ofthe book I decided to purchase
the book and when I read the entire book I was spell bound, never had
I read any book with such clarity and from this 1 contacted you sir on
telephone to get the address of Yogi Karve of Bombay and I have met
him personally and was astonished to see a living yogi.
Today I am having monyof your books on astrology available in
the city and on reading and re-reading these books I found them to be
par excellence and the only books of its types in clarity of ideas and
giving novel technique of interpretation of charts which can be fully
applied tc any horoscope with great ease. Even byan amateur student
like me.
I have with me your books, Yogis, Destiny and the Wheel of
Time, 2) Astrology, Destiny and the Wheel of Time 3) Ups and Downs
in Career 4) Jaimini's Chara Dasha 5) Yogini Dasha 6) Planets and
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Children 7} Advanced Techniques of Predictions 8) MuhurtcB) Planets
and Travel AbroadldooWs in italics have been edited by me.)
I am taking this opportunity to thank you very much from the
depth of my heart for the services you are rendering to the cause of
astrology by imparting the real techniques which no astrologer or
author has doneso far, and now I am proud tosaythat I have found a
real "Jyotish Guru" and I am seriously desiring of learning the science
of astrology in a systematic wayand I will be highlyobligedto know if
Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan offers correspondence course ir Astrology.
I once again convey my heartfelt thanks to you sir.
With Pranaam,
(Mayur D. Dave)

Esteemed Mr. Rao

My first introduction to you was throug h your book " Yogi Hans Baba"
given to me by one of my students. Coming from a backgroud of
western oriented psychotherapy, I never ever turned my attention on
to anything supernormal, and least of all to yogis and swamijis. But
your writing in the book stating facts and evidence made me question
about my own stand on these issues. Then I was introduced to your
book "Astrology without Tears" which contained so many factual
information and a scientific approach to understanding Vedic Astrology,
its methods and techniques. Though my comprehension was rather
blinded by my staunch belief in psychology, psychotherapy and the
treatment methods and my professional beliefthat every human being
can be helped to help himself to change, my mind refused to accept
astrology as a science. But the the next book that I read was "Astrology,
Destiny and the Wheel of Trme", wherein you put forward the
essential principles of Vedic Astrology and the theoretical discussion
followed by case studies which was so scientific and research oriented,
that I got interested in studying astrology as a science systematically
and joined as a student of astrology. Being totally newfo the field and
not having any background of astrology or astronomy or any Vedic
literature, it was tough understanding and getting a grasp of the
subject of astrology, Here your scientifc research oriented books,
"Astrology and Karma", " Ups and Downs in Career" and most
importantly, "P/anetsand Children", helped in my understanding the
intricacies involved in astrology. What appeals to me most is your
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research orientation in dealing with the matters concerning the life
and personality of individuals using replicable methods, techniques
and principles. Your ability to write in the most lucid manner and
rendering the most abstract subject matters lucid, interesting and
practical, has paved the way for the field of astrology to be recognised
in course of time as a science on its own merit with its own theories,
replicable techniques, methods and tools. 1 am still a student grouping
to find my way in the great ocean of astrology, but the little light and
understanding that I have gained is due to your practical, research
oriented, evidence bearing, replicable tools of astrology that you have
given repeatedly in almost all your writings and books. I consider
myself fortunate to have been introduced to your books butfor which
I would hove never thought of being a student of astrology. Thanking
you and with regards,
Yours sincerely,
VimolG Veeraraghovan Received on 12 Jan. 1997.
Professor of Psychology,
Dept. of Applied Psychology
University of Delhi, South Campus,

Sacred Images Publishing

P.O. Box 1267
Shawnee Mission, KS 66222
Jennifer Clayton, 42055 Canyon Side Ct.
Aguana, CA 92536, USA (Received on 25 February 1997)
Mr. Rao,
j am one of the blessed having you as my Jyotish Guru. Although you
are not physically here ! am able to keep learning by listening to your
tapes and reading your books, t look forward to your return.
I study with Marc Boney, who follows the K,N. Rao format. He
gave me your newest book 'Dips into Divinity Astrology and History'
which you were so kind to give to his students. As with all your books it
is divine.

Namaste

Jennifer

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 Books By K.N. Rao

1. The Science of Astrology (1989 out of print)

2. Applied Astrology (1989 out of print)
3. Ups and Downs in Careers (1993, 1995)
4. Astrology, Destiny and the Wheel of Time (1993, 1995)
5. Planets and Children (1993 and 1996)
6. The Nehru Dynasty (1993 and 1995)
7. Jyotish, Prarabdha Tafha Kaat Chakra (Hindi 994}
8. Predicting Through Jaimtni' Chara Dasha (1995, 1997)
9. Timing Events Through Vimshottarl Dosha (1995, 1996)
1 0. Predicting Through Karakamsha and Jaimim's Mandook Dasha
(1995)
1 1. Yogis, Destiny and the Wheel of Time (1995, 1996)
12. Divine Love and Miracles of Yogi Hans Baba (1994)
13. Learn Vedic Astrology Without Tears (1994)
14. Astrological Journey Through History, Mystery and Horoscopes
(1996)
15. Mandal Report X-Rayed (non-astrological, out of print)
16. Chandra Sekhar the iiuvivor (out of print)
17. Dips Into Divinity, Astrology and History (1996 December)
18. Successful Techniques of Hindu Astrology (1997)

Guide and Editor

1. Advanced Techniques of Astrological Predictions (1 991,1993)
2. Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope by Shivaraj Sharma
3. Muhurta Traditional and Modern by K.K. Joshi
4. Planets and Foreign Travel by M.S. Mehtac

Guide and Editor

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 Preface

The need to write this book on Astrology and Karma arose because
in the lectures on general astrology to batches after batches of students
in our astrology classes I have covered many areas of Astrology and
Karma. Many of them were tape-recorded but 1 have none of them
with me. To collect manyof those thoughts in one place and putthem
in a systematic way became necessary because students wanta book
which they could follow.
I was not willing to write it so soon, Yet, postponing it did not
appear wise. My Jvotisha guru. Yogi Bhaskarananda had written four
long chapters on some general subjects of astrology which contained
his distilled spiritual and astrological wisdom. I tried my best to trace
them out but failed. I have learnt from Mr. Prityush Bharatiya at whose
Jorbagh residence in Delhi my Yogi Guru used to stay, that all those
manuscripts including his small ashram near Ahmadabad were sold
off within weeks of his death. It is a symptom of Kaliyuga in which
disciples betray their gurus to whom they owe so much but whom
and whose association they exploit in so many ways.
I am not aware of any other astrologer writing on those subjects
with so much depth and understanding of the Indian system of
astrology as my Jyotisha guru. The reason was clear to me. He
practised astrology in the rishi tradition unlike other well known
astrologers of India for whom it was a source of livelihood to maintain
their families. When astrology is a chosen profession it ceases to be
divine. It gets debased. An astrologer living on the income from
fortune telling or horoscopic reading is no better than a man who
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sells shoes and maintains his family on the income so earned. These
mercenary astrologers could never have fathomed the spiritual depths
of astrology as my voai ivotish guru could.
In the west, particularly the USA which I have visited five times
by now (1997), each time for six weeks, stayed with American
families, interacted intimately with thousands of Americans, I found
that some of them were very fine spiritual practitioners and
understood the essence of sadhana very well. But they live in difficult
materialistic society which is highly permissive.
Many of them visit India also very frequently, meet yogis, saints,
goto pilgrimages and end up by developing more business links than
spiritual ones. That is a typical American attitude to spirituality. This
group which has been aware of the spiritual tradition of India gets
interested in Hindu astrology which it describes as Vedic astrology to
cast off whatever sectarian bias the word Hindu could have had. But
there is no Vedic astrology for predictive purposes. The American
coinage is what 1 myself wrongly accepted for sometime. "Vedic
astrology" is the product of immature understanding of the astrological
tradition of India, and a good marketable product. Through some of
the Vedic astrologers of the USA, I came to know many who were
interested in the sadhanas of Indio, Some of them are fine human
beings.
Neither the mercenary astrologers of India nor Vedic
astrologers of USA can ever understand that astrology is meant to
become a spiritual discipline, the finest method of developing dharana
or one pointed concentration leading to deepest meditation.
To argue with them that astrology done with mercenary motive
is invitation to greater meshes of tarrmaifruitless because they are
not spiritually sensitive.
The most confusing part of the American thought is that one
could be highly spiritual and also have sex life as one wished without
any restriction and without any inhibition. What they do rtofknow is
that it is not spiritual life butvikarma combined with what they imagine
is spiritual life. I was doing an astrological reading for an American
woman in a religious place in USA. She admitted, when 1 asked, that
she had abnormal sexual life. She told me something and persisted
with her questions about a great spiritual life. In another place, a
homosexual who tortured his wife by neglecting her told me that he
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would write a book on great spiritual experiences with KundaliniwU\&\
he alone in the world had. In such a 'culture' even spirituality can
become a saleable commodity. And it already has become so. They
in the USA know marketing as none in the world knows.
I found most of those, keenly interested in spiritual life, not
knowing the importance of karma leading to a karma which alone is
the foundation of true spiritual life. Asia and Asia alone, knows and
maintains, the tradition of combining spirituality with poverty. In the
USA they would abhor such an idea itself.
The most civilising and the only forces uplifting man have been
religions. They have also been the sources of conflict. The higher and
sublimer forces have been spiritual practices oli of which have come
only from Asia. All civilising influences have come from east of Suez
Canal, i found many Americans talking about it and saying it is the
sadhana given by the two Indian religions, Hinduism and Buddhism,
that have attracted them.
An astrologer can see spells of vikarma very clearly which
some Americans mistook for spiritual life. Some of the younger
persons, particularly the males I have met, talked of the importance
of pure celibate life for sadhana as keenly as Indians do. But they
crashland into relationships very fast.
Then, there is the materialistic culture's ego that man makes
his own destiny. If is for this reason that even one or two Vedic
astrologers of USA who can predict events prefer not to do it. If others
do not predict events it is because they have not learnt jyotisha at
all but only its jargon. Instead, they concentrate on psychological
readings like the western astrologer. May be, they realize, knowing
Ibeircountry and countrymen better, that it would not be well received.
Yet, sooner or later, they will have to concentrate on the predictive
aspects.
One nation hoting the other or one nation posing to be superior
is not unknown in international politics. The arrogance of a super-
power which USA is, gets reflected in some of the noticeable non-
«pirifual attitude of Americans which an astrologer cannot afford to
miss. Lack of honesty in money matters, and the mercenary habit of
charging from every guest, together with the unholy attitudes of
permissive societies , has made the West, particularly the USA, totally
non-spiritual. But India with her spiritual culture must become a target
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of severe attack if she becomes corrupt which is a fact we all know
to be true. But Americans need not take a patronizing stand on the
subject. They must do something to improve their sub-standard
spiritual life.
India, like Asian countries, is developing deep materialistic
traits. Part of this is the Indion habilof taking bribes which an American
criticised rather violently once in a meeting we were having very
justifiably. It was difficult to argue 1 thought and unnecessary.
So I narrated an incident. In Washington D.C., I was asked to
give consultations to an American who was unemployed. I gave him
full two hours' reading free. Then 1 presented to him books worth
eighty dollars. I told him that I wanted the horoscope of a celebrity.
He promised to get it from a friend astrologer of his. Next day, he
brought it and charged me ten dollars, five for the horoscope and
five for his transport. It surprised me that a man who had two hours
of free reading and books, all free, should charge me for it. That
is the aggressive materialistic culture of USA. Then, I had more than
one hundred experiences of similar type with those who pretended
to be spiritual or even insisted thotthey were deeply spiritual.
I had to tell that Americans who criticised Indians for their habit
of taking bribes, that Americans were no better. They indulged in most
atrocious dollar pinching. It was worse than bribe taking. This dollar
pinching was the worst spiritual obstacle. Then they charge for
everything from the guests who stay with them unlike Indians who
would feel insulted if the guest paid anything.
With aggressive dollar pinching, Americans show rare naivette
and ask questions about salvation. Indians know that a good state of
spiritual development is non-attachment to money, or giving away the
money collected for charities, most munificently. The charity raising
functionsin the USA are also port of a business scheme I discovered.
If God had a price, Americans would find it out in no time.
Yet, Americans have some thirst for spirituality, the American
brand: sex, dollars and God. But then how are we better in India
where we behave like hypocrites ? Yet, there are and will always be
great yogis in India. Indian spiritual tradition is like many vast oases
in deserts of corruption. Some Americans understand it and get
interested in India intelligently, not caring for negative elements in our

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public life. Their interest in the astrological tradition of India is what
attracted me to the USA. But now it repels me because astrology there
is very rudimentary.
Some genuine aspirants in the USA will discover in the next
decades that spiritual life is a process of reversal which is well
explained in the second chapter of the Gita (stanza 69).
W flAani rf^li wjt?) I
TFTl smrfrf Ft WTch ! I

Ya Nisha Sorva Bhoofanaam, Tasyam Jagarii Salyami,

Yosyam Jagarti Bhootani Sa Nisha Pashyato Mune
In short, the meaning is that the life of a spiritual aspirant is a total
reversal of the values a materialist cherishes. Bit by bit, the stanza
means:
"That which is night for most of the human beings"
The majority are not aware of life's higher purpose, which is
transcendental. They do not probe life deeply and seek questions to
answers like what the meaning and purpose of human life is because
for them life is only food, sex and sleep.
"The self controlled keeps awake in those hours"
The Yogi avoids those traps.
"That which is daylight for most of the human beings"
For majority of human beings all over the world, in all human
societies, the time spentin dollar earnings, material pleasures, sexual
enjoyments which they describe as 'enjoying life' is the daylight.
"For the self-controlled that is the night" The aim of
astrology is to help an astrologer achieve this yogic reversal. Fate is
inscrutable. A spiritual person suffers it willingly.

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Can Man Make His Own Pestiny Totally?

Can man make his own destiny totally? Or can he makeit partly and
also suffer his predestination partly? The western mind is. totally
confused on the issue. The spread of some of the thoughts of the
west to India has created this contagion of doubt in some minds here.
They have succeeded in cloning. Yet, when clones behave exactly
identically what it proves is that there is a predestined pattern of action,
reactions and tastes and likes and dislikes. Clones, not rishis, will
impart some wisdom to the westerner.
Enough proofs have been given in my books in which I wrote
out in advance some readings for foreigners who came to meet me.
t did it always in quick half hour. I asked them to put their remarks
on those readings. If even sixty percent of it came out correct, what
it proved was that the predestined had happened in his life.
Ifthere is an element of predestination in all our lives do we
really make our own destiny or is it already decided by God
for us?
Here is an instance of a European who came to meet me and
told me that I could use it in a book of mine without disclosing
his identity.
Recorded of Page 35 of my notebook, SEATTLE, DELHI,
BERLIN. The horoscope as passed on by you last night (August
17, 1995) on your arrival in Delhi is what I am using here.
In a nutshell the story of your life's journey from birth till now

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Karma - Whafh is9 Karmc & Rebirth in Hindu Astrology
seems to be from sickness, sports, prosperity, technical
education to spirituality.

Please Give Comments on the Following:

1. Between the 1964 and 1966 did your family move from one
place to another not in very happy circumstances? Did your
health give any serious trouble?
Ans: Yes, Breaking of bone.
2. Between 1966 and 1968 was there again some chonge for
the better with some interest in music like subject though you
were a tiny tot?
Ans: Mother and uncle playing piano.
3. For the next decade, from 1968 onwards, while there was the
persisting sickness of yours, family prosperity seems to have
increased with your father building some house or property
near some water side.
Ans: Always tonsillitis, high fever.
4. Roundabout 1971 there may have been movement or a short
•rip to a foreign country, interest in sports, particularly water
sports.
Ans: Always to Italy, every year (once or more).
5. 1972-73 seems to be a crucial year for both your mother and
father. One suffering (mother) and the other becoming
prosperous.
Ans: 1. Mother seriously ill.
2, Father becoming successful in business.
6. In 1973-74 and 1974-75 what was the distinction you had?
Ans: Finishing elementary school in 1974 and beginning high
school.
7. 1975-76 is a year of change in your education with some
achievement.
Ans: Don't remember.
8. From 1978-79family fortunes begirt to improve and from now
onwards it is the building up on this prosperity. You yourself have
an income of your own either through shares or stocks or
scholarship.
1. Father becoming more and more successful in career.
2. Got money from mother.
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 10 Jup Rahu
Moon Mer/ 8 Van
11 \ 7
Sat 9
Mars Lag Sat
sury Ketu y Mars
12 ^ Sun 13 February 1964
Jup 6 \ 05-50 C.E.T.
Ver Moon Berlin
Mer
3
1 5
Rahu
Lag
2 \ 4 Ketu

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

20*31* 00-10" 26° 02" 01-01" . 09o59"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
23035" 09-2 6" 01 °59,: 17-08" 17-08"

Between 198C and 1989 your life has moved between

spirituality, prosperity, emotional turbulence caused by unhappy
relationships. Now you seem to be a prosperous man with
spiritual quest.
Ans: 1. Yes (spirituality etc.)
2. Fooling around with relationships.
10. The interest in the religion of other countries and their
knowledge could have begun at the age of 18 (1982) and
thereafter there could have been even some spiritual initiation
or a strong attraction for some spiritual personality.
Ans: Yes. Initiation into yoga by Roy Eugene Davis, disciple of
fbromhamsa Yogananda,
11. Your educational pattern seems to be predominantly technical.
Ans: Learned to work with oircrafts (planes).
12. Your father could have had spells of mechanical, technical and
military jobs. He may have worked hard to build up family
fortunes.
Ans: Selling marbles and built a family fortune.
13. Your horoscope shows some serious accident, something like
escaping a lightning. Has it ever happened?
Ans: Breaking of bone; and escaping many accidents.
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 14. From 1989 onwards thoughts of marrying enter your mind.
Ans: Got married in 1988, January 15th.
15. In 1981 and again in 1984 such opportunities to get closer
to some woman might have proved frustrating.
Ans: Fooling around with women. Woman was conceited and
cheated me.
1-6. After 1989 you meet a tall beautiful woman with a shine on
her face who could have become your wife.
Ans: Marriage in 1988.
17. Inspite of some astrological handicap you could still have a child,
possibly a son. But for that your wife's horoscope will have to
be seen.
Ans: First child, a boy born 31-5-1988.
Second child, a girl born 4-7-1990.
18. You may be the only son of your parents or the youngest one.
Ans; I a'rr the only child.
19. The married life of your parents does not seem to be ideal.
Ans: Got divorced.
20. In 1993-94your attraction for some spiritual personality was
great. Now your visit to India may have some connection with
that.
Ans: Yes Satya Sai Baba and Maharshi Ramana.
21. Your spiritual life will become richer and richer but after eleven
years, say after 2006.
Most points accurate.
Even if sixty percent of the readings came out correct in the case
of a person whom I had not even seen, what it would prove is that
the man did not make his own destiny. It was already mode.
In my book Yogis, Destiny and the Wheel of Time, I have
referred to Nagaridas Baba who used to say that we were actors on
the stage of life who are required to act out our roles without knowing
the script of the drama.

Astrology proves it to a point, only to a point

(An English woman) Reference page 50 Utah/Delhi, 4 November
1996: To help me verify your horoscope please answer the
following:

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 1. Your could be four or five siblings, with you either the first born,
or ihe first daughter.
Ans. Eldest, brother, sister and brother.
2. From the age of 10 for three years, your studies begin to shape
well.
Ans. Good.
3. Though a child, in 1966 you could have done well in studies
and even learnt a new language.
Ans No language, good at English, Latin at 11 or 12 year.
4. In 1969-70 there could be a change and in 1975 some
distinction.
Ans. 1970 father died. 1975 big trip on my own.
5. Between 1976-81 there are many changes in your life, a
family bereavement, your own job in quite o good position,
keen interest in literature, spiritual subjects, yoga-type activities.
Ans. Lot of changes, in career, went back to school. Western
astrology, yoga.
6. During the some period, it is not marriage but a marriage like
situation that becomes visible very clearly.
Ans. Yes. Strong relationship 1977 to 1980.
7. In 1981-85 period you could evercomeintosomeinheritance.
Ans. A small inheritance, from grandparents, paternal.
8. From 1985, you seem to be moving quite a lot, changing
houses. Serious mental agony cause by series of factors, impels
you into genuine spiritual answers, and gainfully too, as
during this period your level of financial prosperity
seems to be better than before.
Ans. Left England, left relationship, joined Shivoronanda Ashram in
Bahamas and Canada.
9. 1986-87 seems to be turning point in some relationship, a
change, movement, travel.
Ans. li was in 1985 and continued.
10. 1987-88there is a major movement and change in the nature
of your work.
Ans. Left ashram, moved back. Another relationship.
11. 1988 is a good turning point with better income, misunderstanding
in a relationship.
Ans. School again. Working in a restaurant and earning also.
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 12. From 1992 you seem to have become an active spiritual
worker.
Ans. Working with small children.
. ]. The subjects you studies could range from, initially science, to
art, literature, history and finally religion.
Ans. Yes, sociology, psychology and read quite a lot.
2. It is from the age of 27, or say 1980 that the spiritual turn
that has taken in your life has become a regulor feature and
you are doing well in this path.
Ans. Yoga, hatha yoga.
3. You have either no inclination to marry or want only some
friendly relations with people and your heart is in sanyas.
Ans. Struggling, feel torn.
4. Among youraottractions are foreign religions, religious literaKjr&
and even friends to some of whom you attraction could have
bordered sometime or the other on frenzied attachment.
Ans. Yes to all
Here is another instance to prove that life along predestined
pattern and astrology does help one understand it.

Can An Astrologer Predict Everything?

Can an astrologer predict everything? The clearest answer is no.
There is an invisible part in every human being's destiny which only
a Yogi can see. The astrologer has his limitations, sometimes terrible
limitations.
Every astrologer must realize this and must never
boast that he can predict everything and that all his
predictions always come out hundred percent correct. It
can never happen.
Butthe book is aimed mainly at the Indian audiences who do
want proof of the wisdom of the Bhagvat Geeta and other scriptures
in astrology. It may, incidentally help Americans, at any rate some
of them, correct themselves and not fancy that they have spiritual
attitudes.

What Then is Karma?

Astrology and Karma are interlinked to the belief in the transmigration
of souls. It is not merely a belief but a cardinal tenet of the Hindu
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faith which gets revalidated and reinforced again and again when
we find in our own age recorded and verified evidences of
reincarnation of persons who remembered their past births.
Recently, I read somewhere that Acharya Vinoba Bhave had
asked a Christian missionary what was the meaning of the Day of
Judgementfora child who dies, say, within four seconds of its birth?
How does God punish such a child for its good or bad deeds? No
answer was given. What is the Day of Judgement for such child?
) am on much stronger grounds in this matter because I have
met people whose recollections of their past lives were well known,
could be verified and have also been matters of investigation by
intellectuals belonging to cultures which have rejected rebirth as a
tenet of their religious foith, more through compulsion than any
personal experience or evidence of it.
/ have also produced a paper on "Astrology and Reincamotion".
/om including part of a long research as a case study in this revised
edition.
This book deals mainly with the subject, Astrology and Karma.
One must learn astrology sufficiently well to experience that an
astrologer con '^ee'likea yogi. When the predicted events happens
for which there is no rational explanation available in any subject
except astrology, it must lead one on to the acceptance of cyde of
births and the results of karma spread over many births and not just
confined to one birth only.
Is there proof then of rebirth will be the question thot will
follow? There are books and books written by Indians and westerners
on the subject of rebirths which prove it to be a truth. Yet because
some religions have been opposed to the concept of rebirths, they
will be opposed always. Inspite of Dr. Ian Stevenson's series of books
on Re-incarnation Type Cases, the scientists and fundamentalists of
other religions will not accept it just as in 1 975 some scientists of the
USA, including some Nobel Prizewinners, opposed astrology on the
grounds of their religious beliefs ana not scientific investigations.
Those scientists never realized that they were being dogmatic and
irrational. They were scientists without scientific outlook.
Irrationality and fundamentalism are stronger human traits of
larger sections of mankind than openness and wisdom.

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 Yet an attempt must be made, through illustrations, to prove
that astrology and karma and astrology and rebirths are as true as
the lush green tree you can see anywhere in the world.
What is Destiny and how has it been explained will be clear
from some quotations.

That Fifth Factor of Uncertainty

(from p 27 Astrology, Destiny)
31%^ tTSTT

Adhishthanam fafho karta karanam cha prithak-vidham

Vividhah cha prithakcheshta daivam chaevaatra panchamom.
The Gi)ar XVIII - U

Interpreted in modern terms, say, in the language of management,

there are, in the implementation of any plan or project, five
components: a plan of action is the first one; a plan manager the
second one; intruments of action the third one; the act of
implementation the fourth one.
But the final outcome of these is either success or failure
because it is dependent on the fifth factor which is 'destiny'.

What is Astrology?
(Srimad Bhagvatam p 162 sh.5)

Tlffcf WT JPT 3^ ^Wld^l I

That which is beyond the perception of five senses and is concealed

in the past and future can also be known practically through jyotisha.
You have created that shastra.
Sukdeva tells Mahorshi Gorgacharya

What is Destiny?
(From the ValmikiRamayana)
(It is deascribed in many places. Here we find in the Valmiki
Ramayana, Lord Rama explaining to Lakshmana when instead
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 of being crowned he was asked to go into exile into forest for
fourteen years. It is all the work of Destiny which the wise
accept. Here what is Destiny and how it works has been
explained pithily.

When we getthe results of our own karmasin the shape of happiness

or unhappiness, we then become aware of Destiny. Who can fight
Destiny

tTW 'hKIrt, I I

Happiness and unhappiness, fear and anger, gain and loss, origin
(creation) and destruction and similar happenings are the quirks of
Destiny,

Even great spiritual practitioners give up their spiritual practices when

their Destiny so will if. And actuated by lust and anger and impelled
by Destiny they fall from great ideals

That which happens suddenly and cannot be prevented even through

efforts but creates a new and inscrutable situation is the work of
Destiny.

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 Myths - Meaning & Contents

fi? |
tmrr g#T SR^ I i

Naasti chinta-saman dukkham kaayashoshana meva him,

Yastam santyajya varfeta so sukhen pramodate.
There is no grief greater than the habit of worrying because it
enervates the body. Getting out of that, he who behaves lives and
acts in a balanced way, gets spells of bliss.
Padma Purana tShoom Khond|
Every human life is the story of the suffering of the Icarmas of past
lives. No one escapes it because human life is always an admixture
of sins and holy deeds. In births after births, they give their results.
The karmas of a person chases him, says the Mahabharata, in every
birth of his. Karmas recognize its Doer just as a calf recognizes her
mother, the cow, even in a herd.

Karma Explained

t'ac4 1 !

Whatever karma a person has done in his past lives, he has to suffer
its consequences, himself alone.
faVHtftdAklA 1

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One's karmas are like treasures which are safeguarded according
to the laws of scriptures. In right time, Time draws the karma-doers
towards itself.
31Hi-lift ?I
^4 5TT 1 I

Just as fruits and flowers grow without any inspiration so too karmas
done in past lives cannot trangress the limits of Time when theirfruits
must manifest.

ftUFrrcl 4^ ^ I I

Honour and dishonour, gains and losses, rise and fall all these ore
the results of the karmas of past lives, stage by stage. After they are
enjoyed or suffered, they are exhausted.
STtcTTT filfio JtaTIrJTTr [
I I

Unhappiness is the result of one's own karmas of past lives and so

is happiness. The momenta person enters the womb of the mother,
he begins to experience the results of the karmas of his past lives.
4r i
tJPHPli i

Be he a child or an old man, whatever karma he has done in certain

conditions, he has to suffer or enjoy them in idential conditions in lives
after lives.

rttit '^4*0 i i

Just as a calf recognizes its mother, the cow, even in a herd, so do

karmas done by one in past lives recognize the doer and reach him.
In another context the Mohabharata says, only the grohos ond
nakshatras alone do not produce auspicious and inauspicious results.
All that is the result of the karmas done by oneself. They say it is
all the doing of planets.
 TF? "^F I
tfsfalcilArj rtfaxIKI W ^ I I

When is the time for some good results to happen and when the
time for bad ones is all that planets indicate.
In the classical Hindu tradition, rebirths, karma and astrology
are intertwined because that is the truth which all good astrologers
can see and yet do nothing about it. The astrologer who sees it himself
is subject to the same divine laws. He predicts well in the good periods
of his own life and fails in bad ones. The cycles of the good and bad
is what Time reveals.
The Indian astrologer sees it through the various dasha systems
which had no parallel anywhere in the world. It is likely that other
countries, Greece and Egypt learnt it from India but found it too
complex and subtle to continue with it. The meeting of the Project
Hindsight held at West Virginia in July 1 995, to which I was invited
to speak, revealed, what must have been a tradition of India borrowed
by Egyptians and Greeks half learnt, badly practised and forgotten.
The more the Project Hindsight works on it the greater, as Robert
Schmidt said, it seems to get drawn to the Hindu astrology. Robert
Hand did say in the meeting that David Pingree's thesis revealed in
the Yavana Jataka was discredited already.
Another American told me that Pingree could not even see how
in the work there could be an entire reference to the vast pantheon
of Hindu gods.
Now, as the nineties begin to come to a close, a global
astrology is emerging with its predominant and distinct base in the
astrological traditions of India. Astrology outside India is neither such
a well developed system and tradition nor a dependable method of
even psychological reading or spiritual guidance. When western
astrologers cannot predict how can they ever counsel? They have
realized that neglecting the predictive side of astrology is what makes
astrology vacuous, some vapourings well clothed in the jargon of
psychology. The laudable aim of the Project Hindsight to revive a
dasha system, though Greek or Egyptian in origin, is the first step
towards the globalization of astrology. But Project Hindsight should
have the honesty to admit, when it inevitably comes to the conclusion,

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that astrology could not have had its birth in a country which has no
elaborate belief in reincarnation.
USA is taking up the dasha system along with Vedic astrology.
The dasha system of Indian astrology along with the yogas is the
highest visible truth which an astrologer can 'see' with his naked eye,
provided he has trained himself to see it. The Yogi can see the
supernormal truth through his third eye and the sound astrologer
through the horoscope. Neither con avert the disaster. The yogi can
get it postponed to the next birth or alleviate the suffering to some
extent which the astrologer cannot do.
It is being realized that the inexplicable and the enigmatic in
human life gets explained only through Indian astrology. USA is ready
to understand and grasp and practise it.
Robert Hand and Robert Schmidt have been working hard to
rediscover the roots of the predictive western astrology which seems
to have been lost around 1 6th century or roundabout that time. Living
in USA, how much chance they have of understanding the ancient
mind whose traditions are dead is their biggest handicap. They have
formed, what they call, the Project Hindsight and have brought out
many booklets. It is a start of a venture which will take work of
decades. It would be useful if they tried to demystify the Greek
mytholody to discover some astrological truths. It will lead them,
whether they want or not, to the acceptance of Hindu beliefs.
The aim of the Project Hindsight too is to revive dasha systems
but with western astrology. This will lead the western astrologer,
meanderingly, to some pragmatic conclusions, one of which will be
not to over-depend on transits for predictions or even'psychological
readings, a type of shakiness which western astrologers have to
overcome. Every astrological renaissance must be preceded by a
process of demystification. One such process in western astrology will
have to be look into the ancient astrology of Greeks and Egyptians
with the zodiac they worked on and, without Herschel, Pluto and
Nepture. How many of them can decondition themselves now and
succeed? They have made an irrational start with the dogma that
astrology could not havehad its origin in India. An ignorantAmerican
woman produces, once in a while, some ludicrous pieces to argue
that the Vedas are not world's most ancient books. She struck me as
more neurotic than an average woman of that age. It is only a
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deconditioned mind that takes up the act of demystification. In that
sense the Project Hingsight is foredoomed to failure. May be, I will
be proven wrong because I learnt,though I do not know it personally,
many western astrologers believed in rebirths.

Demystifying Hindu Mythology

Astrologers in India who have fancifully incorporated three extra
Saturnine planets, Herschel, Pluto and Neptune without working on
the extraordinary dasha systems are imitators who are neither here
nor there. The rate of their failed predictions have been enormous
yet, their obsession has been their biggest handicap in their
astrological careers. No one, as far as I know, has produced ony
sound research to show the effects of these planets to establish that
without them a vague area of astrology was not illumined. A Poona
astrologer talked of these planets with passion, as though he had
discovered, all ultimate secrets of astrology. When asked to prove his
point in the last ten years repeatedly in all astrological conferences
he has attended, he brought out no research to prove even that his
own blind belief had any solid foundation. He died after the first
edition of this book as published.
These imitators should understand that good deal of Indian
astrology is concealed in the scriptures of the country. It needs
demystification which can be done very easily as both Indian
astrological and Sanskrit learning have been our undying and living
traditions. In the Journal of Astrology, a quarterly we are publishing
now many articles on this theme will be published. The handicaps
the Project Hindsighffaces do not exist in India. But, in India we have
neither such initiative nor the zeal to do researches. Whatever
translations the generation of older astrologers like Dr. Raman have
done with scanty illustrations and wrong avanamsha have been our
hurdles. They have to be overcome at once. For them even a wrong
translation of a classic has become a dogma. It should be
remembered that most of these translators never understood the real
meaning of what they were translating. They made available what
was not available, yet have done damage, as 1 have explained in my
book on Jaimini's Mandook Dasha.
A healthy disrespect for that generation and an energetic
demystification of the Hindu mythology alone have to be the future
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Korma & Rebirth in Hindu Astrology
basis of great research.
A research of mine named "The Prism of Prediction"
(September and October issues of the Astrological Magazine, 1984]
was based on my act of demystification of some of the stories of
the Puranas and the Mahabharata. Almost all of my researches are
based on clues I got from the holy books of India. Western scholars
like David Pingree never knew that a lot of Indian astrology was
contained in these books, and not merely in the manuscripts of
astrological literature.
Intelligent Indian intellectuals who knowthotthese books have
conceoled elements of physical sciences too are, now coming out
slowly with their own findings, but in a low key.

Here is an Instance
About the eclipse of 24 October 1995 an interesting story appeared
in the Times of India of August 16, 1 995 (page 11) written by
Sudhamahi Raghunathan reads as follows:
"Celestial events have certain mystery and power which seam
to come from the myths and legends of ancient times... In India a
common motif all over the country in folk tales as well as Puranic
accounts is the 'devouring' motif commonly associated with the
serpent The story goes that Ganesa, the elephant faced god had
Just partaken of a heavy satisfying meal when he found the sun and
the moon laughing at him. This offended the pot-bellied deity who
immediately ordered the serpents he had tied around his waist as a
belt to swallow the celestial objects. That they did and the whole earth
was plunged into darkness."
"...Dr. Nirupama Raghavan, director of the Nehru Planetarium,
says that this myth is based on actual observance. "Just a little before,
about 30 seconds before total eclipse, the sky darkens and as the
sun's light is released into the sky through a very small area now,
it Hits through the sky in the form of long wiry waves which look like
a million snakes or worms. They appear again at the end of the
total eclipse, t feel therefore that there is this association with snakes
in many of our myths related to eclipses."
Talking about Rahu and Ketu, the report goes on,.,. "This
indicates people as long back as 4000 BC knew the
alignment when an eclipse occurred. There are two planes,
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one along which the earth rotates around the sun and the
other made by the moon as it rotates around the earth.
Their points of intersection are called Rahu and Ketu. It
is only when the sun and moon are in line at the point
of intersection that an eclipse can occur," says Dr. Raghavan
relating myth and reality."
Rahu and Ketu are made use of so correctly for predictions
both according to their presence in a horoscope and according to
their dashas in the Vimshottari dasha scheme. They are not planets,
yet they are treated as ones, and their effects are shown through the
proper study of the horoscope. The ancients must have combined,
since India has always been a land of greatest yogis of the world,
their actual observation with fheiryogic insight to arrive atthe clearest
discernible results. A very simple rule may be tested. The 3rd
house is the house of younger siblings and the 1 Ifh of elder ones.
Rahu in those houses alone makes one either the youngest or the
eldest of the children of parents or the eldest or the youngest in that
sex.
Rahu who is the cause of eclipse, here does not allow the others
among the siblings to occupy the first or the last position among
siblings. Rahu the cause of eclipses, performs the same act
of eclipsing the siblings here. There are different ways to
understand when Rahu arid Ketu are beneficial in a horoscope and
when not.
Here are the instances of ancient Indians discovering what are
not planets and using them effectively for predictions which the rest
of the world had not known.
Let me give some instances to show howthe ancients quantified
even the strength of planets through a snapshot method called the
astakvarga. If used with the dasha system and the effects of Rahu
which is only an imaginary point, what information it reveals will be
seen in the horoscopes.
There are great beneficial sides of Rahu also about which a
research has been done by Shivaraj Sharma. That book, 'The Mystery
ofRahu'^as now come out with a second and enlarged edition.

Rahu & Brain Poisoning

To showhow Rahu eclipses the mental energy, creates strong negative
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tendencies and gives an undesirable direction to one's life and career
I am applying three parameters:
1. See if Rahu is positioned in the 5th house or connected with
the 5th lord.
2. Then see if the 6th lord is aspecting either the lord of that house
or is in that house itself.
3. Work out the combinations of the 5th, the 6th lords with Rahu
in any house.
If such a combination is present, the snake which Rahu represents,
seems to pour out its poison into the brain.
This can create mental aberrations, mental dementia in
extreme cases and intense jealousy. Such people need very strong
control over their negative tendencies, impulses and opinions.
Aspects of benefics, particularly Jupiter, even if with bad
ownership can save or alleviate the trouble.

See an Instance
The Stb lord Jupiter is under double affliction inspite of its exaltation.
The affliction is caused by Rahu which has eclipsed his intelligence,
sanity, good feelings and sense of balance. Then the 6th lord Mars
joins it. It is happening in the 9th house which is the house of Guru

7 Moon
\ 9 / Mer Sun Sat
to 3 Ven
6
Ketu Lag Rahu
Jup
Mars
\ 11 5 Case No. 2
Mile
2 /A Ketu
12 Sun Rahu
kip Mars
/ 1 \ ^ 3 Lag
/ Moon \
/ Mer Ven Sat

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

23=31" 00*10" 01°0r 29° 59" 09° 59"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
23=35" 09=26" 01° 59" 17=08"
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and father. It is a guru-chondalq/oga, or a combination for fault
finding and megalomania and waste of energy in negative channels.
Such a tendency is exacerbated by the presence of the 9th
lord, Moon in the 6th house. From the Moon, the 6th lord Mercury
is in the 6th house from the lagna ogain and the 5th house from
the Moon receives the aspect of Saturn.
His hatred and jealousies and inferiority complex found its
fullest manifestation in the dasha of Jupiter, the 5th lord. In the dasha
next, Saturn in the 8th house yet to come, the results of the karma
done in the dasha of Jupiter will boomerang is what can be seen.
It is the case of a very good dasha wasted under the compulsion
of Rahu who is conjoined with debilitated Mars.
See similar other instances to know that Rahu is not an
imaginary point but a great astrological truth discovered by the great
seers of India.

Flopped Career
\ 8 6 Sun
y Mars / / (Karakamshai
9
\ / Ven
7 \/ 5
Lag yd jup
/ \Ketu
Rahu Moon
/ 10 ^ A Flopped Career Mer
/ Sat(R) Moon \ Cate No. 3
Mar /3 Male
. /
/Sun Sat (R) Jup
1 Ketu
Rahu jTS. ^^Karatamtfia
y/\yen
12 \ 2 Lag Mars
\

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

20-18" 10-26" 06-15" 01-03" 04-59"
Jupiter Venus Saturn (R) Rahu Ketu
23-20" 27-43" 22-46" 06-59" 06-59"

AK AMK BK MK PK
Venus Jupiter Saturn Sun Moon
GK DK
Mercury Mars

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 lag Ven
Ketu
ven
Kelu Lag Sat

Sun Navamsha
Sat Mars Sun Moon
5 1 Mars Mer
Moon Rahu
Mer
Rahu Jup
Jup

\ 2 12 / Ven lag Moon

Moon Ven Jup Sat Mer Mars
NMars/ 1 \Jup/11 Rahu
3 Lag
Sat Mer
v Rahu /
/ 4 10 Dashamansha
/

7
5 Vf Ketu /\ 9

y/ 6 8 Ketu Sun
/ Sun

Jup
9^ 7 Sat
Moon Birth Lag
Mars Ven See the close conjunc-
tions of Sat & Jupiter
10 Moon & Mars. Rahu
Ketu Rahu
Then see how Sat, Jup
Ketu & Mars are aspecting
the 6th house
Moon Sun Birth Jup
Mars Mer Lag Sat
Ven

Lagna Sun Moon Mar: Mercury

00° 00" 24° 19" 19°50" 19° 59" 12° 31"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
13°40" 25° 54" 14° 48" ia«3i* 18°31"
se
 33 32 33 27

20 30
Sarvashtaka
of Case No. 2
25 25

31 29 25 27
J
Notice Some Features:
1. The 5th house has Rahu.
2. The 5th house receives the aspect of the 6th lord.
3. The 5th lord is retrograde.
4. From the Karakamsha in the birth horoscope, which is Mithuna,
Rahu again aspects (Joimini aspect) the 5th house.
5. In the navamsha, the Karakamsha is under the grip of Rahu
and Ketu.

Sarvashtaka Varga
Saturn 3 4 5 4 2 2 1 3 5 4 2 4
Jupiter 5 4 5 5 5 3 5 5 4 3 4 8
Mars 4 4 7 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 0 3
Sun 6 4 4 4 2 6 2 3 7 4 2 4
Venus 4 7 4 3 5 4 4 5 4 3 4 5
Mercury 6 5 4 6 4 4 6 4 3 4 4 4
Moon 4 5 3 4 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 5
Sarva 32332730252725 29 31 2520 33
The sndpshot method of quantifying the strength of houses from the
lagna is known as the sarvashtaka in Hindu astrology.
1. e 5th house is the weakest house in the sarvastaka in thi
horoscope
2. In the bhinnastaka of Mars the 5th house has zero points
The mahadasha scheme shows how the samyX-orasorthe psychological,
religious and intellectual tendencies arise. See that here.

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 He was born in the mahadasha of Saturn which ended i n April
1948 and that of Mercury, seventeen years later.
The best of the yogakaraka dashas were over soon. After that
it was a totally lack lustre careerin which he developed more jealousy
against those who had done better in life.He joined journalism where
too he was a flop and has left no mark, wrote nothing remarkable
for which he could be remembered.
His joining language journalism and becoming a sports
correspondent was the type of funny thing that happens in India. He
never played any games except cricket in kurta and oviamc in third
rate matches. He knew nothing about athletics till he had passed his
Masters. The tradition in Indian journalism is that sports correspondents
are rarely considered for the posts of assisstant editors. He
manipulated to gefthaf on caste consideration. Here, his career came
to a full stop.
The 5th house of emotions, if disturbed, leads to distorted view
of events and persons. Here, Rahu created phobias and fears.
Rahu is in the 5ft- house and Venus, the lagna lord is also the
8th lord. All his negative emotions, a man of no achievements,
created problems for him.
His Venus Rahu period was from the middle of 1979 to the
middle of 1982.
He had a serious heartattack on 10 December 1 980 in Venus
Rahu after which he losfall his confidence in life. He was always a
timid and jealous man. Now if his juniors did still better he had to
reconcile himself to his fate. He could not do it and became more
and more peevish. He learnt some astrology and gave many breezy
predictions. Then he finally misapplied that little and dangerous
knowledge to himself, developed the morbid habit of becoming
depressed about his health and children. His married life has been
very happy but professionally he flopped very badly. Those who knew
him from his childhood and had seen him doing well in his studies
wondered how he could flop so badly. It was the unhelpful dasha
scheme that destroyed all his chances of rising high in life.
The tragedy of his career started with his dangerously little
knowledge of astrology. He was employed and if he had continued
in that job as a lecturer he might have done better. But he decided
on seeing his own horoscope, that after his marriage his rise would
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Myths - Meaning S Contents Karma & Rebirth in Hindu Astrology
be spectacular. Actually, after his marriage his further progress in his
career stopped.
He married in Mercury-Jupiter which was followed by that of
the sub-period of Saturn in which he became a typical Indian
householder by becoming a father. His family burdens increased and
his initiative, which he never had in his life, got sapped even if there
ever existed any chance of it sprouting.
Which combination he saw in his horoscope which made him
feel that after his marriage his rise would be spectacular is what many
people asked him. He had no answer but never had the honesty to
admit that it was a miscalculation. He had become a total escapist
mentally, physically and emotionally. He worked in a newspaper
where life could be led parasitically.

Transits
It is only after seeing all these, that transits should be seen, 10
December 1980 when he had heart attack.
The retrograde Saturn aspecting his Moon along the 4/lCaxis
explains his terrible gloom and cynicism in his professional life.

Now see his Navamsha Horoscope

In the navamsha, Saturn, Sun and Mars opposition along the 4/10
axis made it worse.
Politically, he being a Brahmin, he had sworn a life long loyalty
to Indira Gandhi, the clever woman politician, who had forged her
vote bank politics of Brahmin-Harijan-Muslim so long as it could
succeed. My prediction about Indira Gandhi's death in 1984annoyed
him so much that he wrote a journalistic piece under a pen name
criticising astrologers who predicted the end of the Indira period.
He never overcame such cynicism. His a story of total cynicism
and rancour. He could never do anything creative anymore.
Now see the dashamansha the picture becomes clearer.
1. The 10th lord is debilitated and with Rahu and the 3rd and the
6th lord Mercury.
2. The 10th house has no planet, no aspect of any planet.
Now notice how Rahu in the 5th house in the birth horoscope and
with the 10th lord in the dashamansha who is himself debilitated
prevented the flowering of a career which could have been very
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KQrmo& Rebirth in Hindu Astrology Myths - Meaning S Contents
good. His negative tendencies, jealousies, back biting and laziness are
all well reflected by the role of Rahu in the 5th house of the birth
horoscope and with the 10th lord in the dashamansha.
I do not personally know of so great a promise in childhood
and so terrible a flop later.

Case No. 4
Half Successful Technocrat
Sometime in 1979, or earlier, t met this person who had high
technical qualifications in electronic engineering from USA in those
days, when he could not have had many competitors in the field. It

Mars Van / Sat Sun Mars

4 V Ketu / 1 Mer Ven Lag
\ 2 y Ketu
5 \/ Sun
3 Mer
Lag Jup Case No. 4
Male
/ 6 12 10 May 1938
\ Moon Sat 08.00 am
Lat: 28 N 38
9 11 long; 85 E 08
Jup
/ 10 Rahu Moon
/ 8 ^
/ Rahu

Lagno Sun Moon Mars Mercury

02o59" 25047" C^OS" IS0! 2" 03o04"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
OS-SO" l^l" !9059" 03o54"

\ Jup Sun Ven Jup y/ Mer Mars

V ® y Ven
Sat\ / 7 s
9 yf Rahu
Moon
10 ^ Ketu
4 \ Navamslia
Rahu
1\1 \ y/3
1 Mars
Moon Mer
KeiUj/ >X\ Ven
X 2 Sat Jup Lag
X 12 \ Sun

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is nowthatthere is such a flood of electronic experts in India. In other
countries also Indians have been doing very well in this field.
If he had made use of the opportunities available then he might
have ended up in some of the topmost positions in India by the end
of the eighties, Why and how did a person born in 1938, and so
well qualified in 1976, fail to make any mark so far is best explained
with the help of the dashas he had to go through. In the earlier case
Rahu in the 5th house receives the aspect of Jupiter the 6th lord.

Analysis
1. The 5th lord of the' horoscope, Venus, is under the worst
affliction. In the earlier case the 6th lord aspects the 5th house
and there is Rahu in it, which is what made him cunning but
he himself wasted lot of his energy in negative way. In this case,
again the 5th and the 6th lords, so close in degrees, are with
Ketu and are getting aspected by Saturn.
2. Unlike the earlier case, this person had with his high technical
qualifications suffered more because his Moon is in a terrible
Kemadruma yoga (there are no planets on either side of the
Moon or with it).
3. Then unlike the earlier case, where the person had his best
dashas of Saturn and Mercury and later all unfavourable ones,
he got the dasha of the 1 Oth lord after the age of 30. Bui this
Jupiter could not help him much as it is placed in the 6th house
from his Moon, causing a Shakata Yoga (literally the career
moved with the pace of a bullock cart.)

Wasted Energy
In all such cases of flopped careers if should be seen how the
Vimshottan dasha ran from the childhood. Up to the dasha of the
Sun, Moon and Mars, till the age of twenty three, he prepared himself
well for the career of a technocrat. See Mars in the 12th house. He
is a green card holder of USA.
It was from the start of the dasha of Rahu that all his pain
started. Rahu in the 6th house aspected by the 6th lord, Mars and
the 5th lord, Venus gave him health problems including heart
problem.

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\ 4 2
\ Sat y . Ketu Mer Ketu Lag
5 \ / 3
/
1
Mer
Jup Sat
6
// Moor 12 Drekkana
\ Mars
Ven /
7 /11
\ / 9 Jup
Sun
Sun Rahu Moon
/ 3 ^ ^ 10 Mars
/ Rahu Ven

In the earlier case, if was Venus Rahu one of them connected

with the 5th house that created problems. In both cases it was heart
attack.
He lost confidence in himself and his career suffered.
See the similarity between the earlier horoscope and this.

4 2 Mer Ketu Lag

\ // \Ketu , 1
3
5 Lag Mer
Jup
// 6
Moon \ 12 Chaturthansha
\ Sal
/ll Sun
7 9 Jup
/e\ Rahu Moon
/ Mars / 10 Mars Sat
/ Ven Rahu Sun Ven

The Saturn-Moon axis is along the 4/10 affecting his career

as in the earlier case. The internal gloom gets reflected in the
frustration caused by failures in career which the aspect of Saturn
on the Moon shows along the 4/10 axis.

The Navamsha
1, In the earlier case, the Moon is in the 5th house of thinking
with the 6th lord Mercury and gets aspected by Mars, the 8th
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 lord from the house. His habit of malicious gossiping was
the negative channel through which his life energy got wasted.
It made him a cynic out and out,
In the present case, also the Moon is in the 5th house with Ketu
and is aspected by Saturn. He lost confidence in himself and
developed a terrible inferiority complex.
Then the aspect of Mars on the 5th lord in the navamsha
aggravated his complexes.
2. In the earlier case, the lOlh house has only malefic influences
with no touch on the 10th or 11th houses. In this case, Jupiter
influences the 10th house in the navamsha. It was therefore
possible to persuade him to concentrate on his career. He has
been a good success in Jupiter's periodbecause ofthe excellent
exchange between the 9th and the 10th lords in the birth
horoscope.
He has improved in the present period of Saturn in the 10th
house though his inferiority complex and mental gloom
remains, as before.
3. To seek the reason for it one should see what troubled him.
Therefore see his drekkana.
1. The afflicted 4th house kept him busy in his quarrels with his
own siblings in his share of inheritable properly from his father.
2. Had he inherited it, there would have been no need for him
to take up any job was his own calculation. But the 6th lord
in the 4th aspected by Saturn, who is also the 8th lord, kept
him deprived of his share
Further explanation for it can be seen in the chaturthamsha.
Moon and Saturn in the 4th house and Rahu and Mars with
Venus in the 6th house bottled up all his energy in the property
quarrels.
Unlike the earliercase, here he gotthe dasha ofthe 10th lord
Jupiter followed by that of Saturn and made up for lost opportunity.
But in the compelelive age in which we live, the world belongs to
the youth and persons in their forties. He is getting older. Yet he is
lucky to see in his good period his children, particularly the son,
become very successful.

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 The benefit of a good dasha finally turned his story of wasted
energy into his own moderate personal success and great success for
his children. In the earlier case, bad dashas could not help his
children.
So see the dashamansha.

\ Moon Mars 2
\ Ven / Mer Jup Mer Lag
5\4 / \ Sat//1 Sat
Rahu Jup
3 Moon
Ketu Mars
y/ 6 \ Ven
12 Dashamansha

Ml Rahu
7 9 Ketu
Sun
Sun
y/ 8 \ 10

1. Jupiter in the 11 th house in the dashamansha has helped him

overcome his problem of wasted energy.
2. Saturn in the 12th house has given him his opportunities in the
USA.
3. Compare it with the dashamansha of the first case where the
10th lord is debilitated and under the RKAaxis. This is how fates
works.
Nowa final comparison between horoscopes numbers two and three.

The Importance of Rahu in a Horoscope

We started with the story of the eclipse of 24 October 1995 and the
mention of Rahu. Every planet in a horoscope is representative of
some karma of our past whose fruits, good or bad we have to have
in the present birth.
But Rahu, the cause of eclipse is the cause of some eclipse
of something in your life also.
Therefore see Rahu in every horoscope in the following ways:
1. )f Rahu is alone and not aspected by any planet it will give its
results according to its own position and the condition 'of its
dispositor.
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 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BOTH SARVASTAKAS
29
6 27 33 32 33 27
6 25
Lag 5
25 20 30
26 7
10 30 The floopped
A career's
25 Sarvastakas 25
33
20 1 27
11 3 Lag
33 33 31 29 25 27
12 2

29
4 19 31 23 19 31
27\ Lag
\ 2y 23
5 1
Lag
31 31 29
29 \ 3 /
Half successful
6 31 Technocrat's
12 Sarvastakas
31 27
29
23 9 31
7 , .11
32 v
^ 31 29 32 23 29
S 10

The 11 th House
weak compared to 31 The same as in the
10th 30 first case
the 10 th which
11th 25 shows the wasted
opportunities 23
12th 27 The 12 th house is This case is reverse.
stronger than 11th 19 Good children earn
which is why good Well and support
deal of money gels Parents
wasted because of
his children. 23
5th 20
Afficted 5 th house Same as In the first
7th 32 in S.A wife bottles 29 case
up his energy.

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 2. If Rahu is conjoined with some planets, il will eclipse them. The
lordship of that planet or planets falls under the shadow of Rahu.
3. If Rahu is aspected by some planet or planets, notice which are
they. Here the broad classification between malefics and
benefics given in classical astrology can be used effectively.
4. Aspected by malefics, Rahu allows his shadows to fall with
violence, if with Mars with violence, if with Saturn with slow
creative destructive tendencies.
5. Aspected by benefics, Rahu can turn into a benefic,
6. These results can be modified by using the principles of the
Yogakaraka of Parashara. In such cases, Rahu also acts as
yogakaraka.
To understand the scheme of the link between Karma and
Astrology the following points must be kept in mind.
1. All houses represent four purusharthas or efforts for our
understanding, dharma (religious conduct), artha (earings),
kamc (desires) and moksha (salvation).
2. The lords of those houses, planets in those houses, planets
aspecting those houses excite info action those purusharthas.
3. It happens in the dashas concerned.
This and this alone is the correct psychological reading of a
horoscope.
Rahu is the point of obsession in your horoscope which may
be a point of upliftment or downfall. Rahu must perform this act
without fail in every horoscope. A major research on this has been
produced by Shivaraj Sharma. As with Rahu so with other planets,
planets show the link between Karma and astrology.
In the USA, I was shown a book on the myths and symbols
of astrology and asked for my opinion. I said if was confused mixture
of the eastern and western symbolism and not useful of all in knowing
how and why the myths could be made use of for astrological
predictions. Merely compiling all of them together could make it
interesting reading only, not useful for astrologers.

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 Classification of Karma

Karma has been well explained in many commentaries of the Gita

and in the Mahabharata. In other scriptures too it is referred to in"
some context or the other. Here only a brief summary is being given.
There is nothing original in what 1 am presenting here. I am only
tabulating some essential points from those commentaries written by
wise men of India.
First divide Karma into three categories.

Akarma
He who has reached the stage of total God-contemplation,has no
duties to perform but his Karma remains.
He sees karma as akarma and akarma as karma.
This is the stage of akarma leading to salvation,
llis possible when karma is done with total detachment,morally,
with no desire for the fruits of such karmas. It is a high stage of Yogic
development.

Karma Vikarma

o) Sanchita or accumulated a) Anti-parental karma.

karmas of past lives.
b] Prarabdha: that portion of the b) Anti-family karma
accumulated karma which is
alloted for the present birth.
c) Krivaman is the karma we do c) Anti-society karma.
in the present life.
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d) Aagami is the karmas of future d) Inhuman karmas.
births if the present birth is
not the last one.

Results of these Karmas

a) Akarma leads to salvation.
b) Vikarma leads to divine punishment, a terrible cycle of rebirths
and endless sufferings.
c) Karma can lead towards akarma or vikorma. The akarma
element leads towards salvation and the vikarma element
towards bondage.

Elements of Karma
Karma thus has four elements as shown in the table earlier. That is
being explained here.
The Sanchita Karma or the Total Accumulated Balance of
Kg rmas
It is only man that perform karmas and not animals which
remain in what is called bhogg yoni or the form in which they have
only to suffer or enjoy and can do no karma to liquidate or create
more karmas as man can do.
Sanchita karma are karmas done by a person in his previous
births as a human being only. Such sanchita karma is divided into
two parts: the prarabdha or that part of sanchita which is alloted for
the present birth, il has both positive and negative sides. Man's
enjoyments and achievements spring from the positive part of it and
unhappiness and failures from the negative part. This is what a good
astrologer sees.
The other part of the sanchita can be called motivations created
which can enter any time in the present life. Thus when a persons
suddenly does an act which he least suspected that he could overdo,
it may be the result of such a motivation. This is the result of the
samskaras of previous lives. Human life therefore is the story of
prarobdha and motivations for which believes in the effects of
environment or heredity have no valid explanation. Human behaviour
is thus moulded by four factors: environment and heredity, and
prarabdha and motivations which have their origin in past lives.

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 Favourable Mixed Unfavourable

a) Acting according to one's own plans willingly.

b) Acting according to one's own plans unwillingly
c) Acting according to someone else's plans willingly.
d) Acting according to someone else's plans unwillingly.
In these four types of actions man has no choice. It is the compulsion
of destiny that makes him do it all.
Note: When a person does all this without any sense of
happiness he succeeds in liquidating his karma. When he grumbles
and wants to force himself out of the situation he creates further
meshes of karma for himself.
It is necessary to remember that no one can avert his
orarabdha.

Kaiyan

Aveshyameva Bhoktavyam kritam karma shubhashubham

Prarabdha has to be suffered, both the positive and the elements in
it. Without it the bondage of karmas does not get exhausted in even
thousands of births.
The Yogi accepts it as wise person and allows it to exhaust itself.
The 6/70(7/(thworldly) tries all tricks, gets trapped by astrologers,
psychics and all other types of occultists and yet does not succeed
in averting it. Some yogis who help others overcome actually postpone
it to other births. That is not the nullification of orarabdha but only
its postponement.

Kriyaman Karma
Krivaman karma is the area in which man can make or mar his
destiny. In this limited area alone he enjoys freedom of action. The
karma done by him in this area either creates future karmas and a
longer cycle of births and rebirths or leads to the liquidation of his
karmas and paves the way for salvation in this or subsequent births.
It is again an area which materialistic cultures will find hard
to accept. They will make an amalgm of all this and come out with
a theory current in 1995 in the USA that each person can become

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his own guru. There is also a six course in avafarhood\t^e USA.
It is a pure materialistic reaction to make money.
What then is krivaman karma should be understood through
the table given here. The efforts put in by a person yields its results.
An astrologer can predict it. Yet a person must know that the
motivations springing from many past human births are always there
in a good or bad way with him.

Kriyaman Karma

Visible Results Motivations Invisible Results*

(a) Instantaneous (a) Pure and auspicious (a) Worldly

(b) Delayed (b) Impure and inauspicious (b) Spiritual
* It is the area of failures of astrologers. Perhaps invisible
planets will give some clue. It is why when some people
develop some pathological dependence on astrologers are
miserable beings.
Note: If is only in the kriyaman area that man enjoys freedom to
act according to his wish though the motivations of past life and
prarabdha do often create o conflict.
The best advice given by all great yogis to all is to suffer
willingly prarabdha and do good deeds and charities in the krivaman
area,They knowthal human body suffers from six vikaras or defects:
there is birth, then a form, change, growth, decay and finally
destructions. The prarabdha is what the body has to suffer. He who
has conquered his mind and has reached a high state of divine
wisdom does not look upon all these six defects as any cause for grief
at all.
In astrology, we talk of favourable periods, particularly the
yogakaraka periods, t have noticed that men have suffered badly as
soon as their yogakaraka dasha was over because in this period
instead of doing holy deeds and charities they accumulated wealth,
gained power and became arrogant. In many cases the results were
instantaneous while in others delayed.
In the good period when nothing was succeeding like success,
they look to only the gratification of their material achievements with
gusto, forsaking many scruples. When the bad period came their
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Suffering was too much for them.
What then is suffering? It is what you think it is.
The yogi too suffers from prarabdha's strokes but he remains
cheerful because he accepts prarabdha.

The Difference Between Bondage and Salvation

The cycle of births and rebirths comes lo an end only when the astral
body finally gets dissolved in some birth and salvation is attained.
Salvation is not the dissolution of the physical body but of the astral
body. We refer to three bodies:
(a) The physical body
(b) The astral body and
(c) The causal body
We are concerned here with the astral body which when dissolved
leads to that blissful state of living death which is what akarma finally
becomes.
Astral Body or Linga or Sookshma Doha

Every transmigration is the migration of the astral body from one

physical body into another, carrying with it the history of its good and
bad deeds.
It is the astral body that stands between bondage and liberation.
The scriptural literature of India is full of instances of the dissolution
of the astral body leading to salvation. In the west, particularly in the
USA which is the most open minded western society, there are great
instances like that of Edgar Cayce, who inspite of being an orthodox
Christian traced the origin of every ailment to some karmic cause
of the past life which he could see in his trances. There are said to
be ninety thousand such recorded cases in the institute named after
this great American.
The favourite instance of mine is thatof Ar|una the great hero
of the Mahabharata and companion of Lord Krishna. When Maya
enveloped him and he did not want to fight the battle at Kurukhestra,
Lord Krishna gave what is the greatest piece of divine wisdom, the
Gita. To convince Arjuna, he even let him see his Vishwaroopa' or
the grealCosmic Form. Yet, itappears that Arjuna could not overcome
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had been his Gurus, counsellors and had in his life the place of most
veneroted grand parents of their family.
On one of the eighteen days of the great battle, Arjuna was
fighting battle else where when his dear son, Abhimanyu was trapped
by the army of Duryodhana and killed. If the persons whom he had
respected could do this to his son, Arjuna had now no reason not
to fight with all his might, skill and valour. It was not the preaching
of the Gita as much as the death of his dear son that could have
been now the greatest motivation for Arjuna to fight the battle
ferociously. The picture of Arjuna now was not of a spiritually wise
man but of an aggrieved father who had to take revenge for the death
of his son.
The battle over, with his elder brother, Yuddhistara having
become the king, one day Arjuna told Lord Krishna that he had
forgotten the great lessons of the Gita preached to him on the
battlefield of Kurukhestro and wanted to hear it again him.
rT? 'H'tlrir Vlrfi TT! I
TC I I

Yat Tad BhagvatdProktam Pura Keshava Souhrfdaaf

Tat fat sorvarrpurusha-vyaghra nasfo me bhrasta chetasa
If that can be the condition of Arjuna whose moral uprightenousness
and spirituality besides the great luck of being the companion of Lord
Krishna, what should be the reactions of us the puny mortals?
Krishna chided Arjuna and gave the essence of the teachings
of the Bhagvata Gita in a different form. The lessons were repeated
through the preachings of a Brahmin which were quoted.
Did Arjuna rememberthese? Let us see the future development
of Arjuna spiritually.
Arjuna was present when Lord Krishna left his mortal frame
in what is known as Prabhas Patan, near Somnath in Gujarat. If was
an inconsolable state for him now. His dearest friend had left him.
He was now not the warrior Arjuna but the meditator who thought
only of Lord Krishna all the time. He now reached a high state of
Krishna consciousness. The memories of his past association with Lord
Krishna haunted him always now. The deep agony was the much
greater incentive for him now than the actual companionship of Lord

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Krishna earlier. It transformed him. The description given in the
Srimad Bhagvotam is:

Cee tarn Bhagvatam Gyanam fatyat sangram murghani

Kaa! Karmaatnoruddham punardhyagatam Vibhu
{Prathama Skandha, Adhyaya 1 5, Sh. 30)

The lessons of the Gita preached to him were forgotten by him

because of lapse of time, his (carmic entanglements and also
indolence.Those great moments of Krishna consciousness created a
total transformation in Arjuna's life now.

Vishoko Brahma Sampatya Sanchmna dwaita-sanshaya,

leeno prakitir nairgunyad-linga-tvad-sambhavs^p 28 Bhagvata)
Now having attained divine wisdom the veil of Maya was torn off,
his sense of duality ended. His 1inga deha'fastral body) gotdissolved.
Arjuna was now oul of the cycle of births and rebirths because
his astral body had been destroyed. That was the state of a high Yogic
achievement which he achieved while still alive. Again in the 10th
Skandha of the Bhagvatam there is a reference to the 'linga deha'.

Tbdoan usmaran - dh vasta-jee va-koshasi- madhyvgan

The Gopis, Lord Krishna's female devotees of Vrindavan and

companions were told by Him to meditate on Him. The result of it
was that their 'jeeva kosha' (the astral body) got dissolved.
That is the state of liberation, the dissolution of the astral body,
the freedom from the cycle of births. It is attained only through
detachment, wisdom which are the attainments of a spiritual
practitioner only.

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 The Time of Birth is first

Lamp-post of Destiny

A debate raging these days is that when a time for the birth of a child
could be chosen for a surgical operation and delivery of a child, the
time of birth and the planetary position is no more accidental but one
thatcan be chosen. This argument would be met later. The argument
also is that the time of birth is not predestined.
The time when a person is to be born is not of his choosing,
ll is predetermined by the great God.
Some contrasting instances will be shown.
Take the case of births on 4 February 1962 at any time in
Indie or anywhere in the world. 1 got many horoscopes of this period
when the Moon and the lagna only changed on different days. To
make predictions for them has been a challenging task for astrologers.
Invariably, in those cases when the lagna changed, the entire meaning
of the fates of the persons underwent a change. Other details had
1o be worked out before embarking on any prediction. Parashara's
divisional horoscopes, together with Jaimmi, alone could solve the
problem.
Try changing the birth time hour to hour and see how, with
no planet changing the sign,onlythe lagna keeps changing, the Moon
increases in degrees and different results come out for different
lagnas.
Tabulate all Jaimini karakas and the picture is totally confused.

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 Jup Mer Ven Sun
\Moon Ketu /
^at Mare^
11 NT
Lag
No. 5 Rahu
4 February 1962
Jup Moor 05-30 am.
Ven Sun New Delhi
Sat Mars
Mer Ketu
Lag -
Rahu

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

23*31 * 21<'21" 07o20" 08a15" 24047"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
25o03" 23° " 101J22" 24° 43" 24° 43"

Now keep changing the lagna and the fate changes. The lagna
depends on the birth time. Were those who were born on this day
onywhere in the world in any position to exercise their choice about
the day and time of their birth?
No human being can ever decide at what time he would be
born, on which day and where.
The pattern of a man's destiny is decided before he is born.
Note the following:

10 Sun Ven / Rahu Jup (R)

\x. Moon Mer
9 \®/ 7
11
y\ Lag
Sat Mars
12
/ No. 6
/ Rahu Ketu \ MALE
6
/ Moon P-66 NAT
Jup (R)
1 3 xx ®
Lag Sun
2 ^Mars x. Sat Mer Ketu
4 \ Ven

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 1. The 9th, 1 Oth and the 1 'i th lords in the 12tH had to take him
to a foreign country.
2. The 12th lord, Mars in the 8th aspecting the 8th lord in the
2nd, forming a Chandra-Manga!yogQave him obsession with
money.
3. The opposition of Saturn and Jupiter is the combination of the
lagna and the second lords, giving him more money.
He rose from an ordinary clerical position in India, went to a foreign
country on a posting and from there made fortunes. He resigned
from his job, took to some sort of a religious life but never missed
the chance of making money.
Did he do it himself? No. Those planets had to give him money.
His religiosity is the convenient garb he must wear. Shift the lagna
and the pattern of his destiny would be different.
Her dasha of Ketu started when she was one year old. Ketu
in the heavily afflicted 9th house tells its own story. The 4th lord Jupiter
in the 12th house with the Sun afflicted by Mars and Saturn revealed
the full mystery of Ketu. She was abandoned by both of her parents.

Ketu

Mars (R) Van

No. 7
A Swit* Woman
NAT P 29 Sun
Jup
Ketu -
2 Moon Lag
Sat Mer
'Rahu

Lagna Sun Moon Mars (RJ Mercury

76^V 28°59l: 24'>31" IBM 7"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
20o28" 10o42" 04o25" 08o33"
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 Mars Ketu

No. 8
Male Doctor
18 January 19S7
Lag 07.22 am. Moon
Sun Lat: 32 N 55
Long: 75 E 07

Mer Sat Jup(R)

Ven Rahu

Logna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

00<>32" 4a2 8" 00°19" 00o23" I9002"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
oe^Q" 13° 16" 17046° 03°46"

Mars Ketu

Lag
No. 9
Engineer
Sat 18 February 1957
Sun 09.35 am. Moon
Lat 32 N 55
Long: 75 E 07
Sat Jup(R)
II

Rahu

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

12M6" 04<>32" 01043" 00^26' 18"29"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
08032" IS^l" T7046" 03<'42'i 03o42"

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 Was this birth horoscope and this dasha balance her own
choice? Something was predestined. Even if she becomes sensitive
about it, she can now never discover who her parents were or are
if they are alive.
Twins: Their Differing Fates
Working on the horoscopes or on identical horoscopes is the
finest test of one's astrological ability. Here are two horoscopes of
twin brothers whose lives have been both similar and dissimilar,
This brings to the other important landmark in our
discovery of the elements of Prarabdha in a horoscope,
ll is the Moon.
The doctor died of an incurable disease after the first edition
of this book was published.

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 Birth Moon & Constellation —

Other Lamp-posts of Destiny

ir; Indian astrology the importance of the Moon is understood clearly

because along with the planets here we make use of twenty seven
constellations. The scheme to be followed in delineating the contours
of anyone's destiny is:
1. Start with the Lagna which is the physical body.
2. Then examine the Moon which is the Life-Force.
3. The Sun is the soul.
4. The other planets, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rahu
and Ketu are the flesh and blood.
5. Six divisional horoscopes: Horo is for wealth: Drekkana is for
siblings and other matters: NQvamsha is for the spouse and the
subtle and clear understanding of the pattern of
destiny: Dwadashamsha is for parents and has other uses
also: Thrimshamsha is knowing about agonies but reveals a
wealth of details about talents.
Why the Moon is so important can be understood that in the Indian
Panchangas (Almanacs) which have five elements determined by the
position of the Moon.
(a) TJfhior the lunar day, the Moon's distance from the Son is the
basis.
(b) Nakshatra or what is called the lunar mansion is the
constellation in which the Moon is positioned.
 (c) is again based on the Moon, it being the half portion
of a tithi.
(d) Yoga is again dependent on the position of the Moon.
(e) The last, Vaar or the day of birth is dependent on all other
planets.
The Sun and the Moon, the two luminaries are the main basis for
all calculations of a Panchanga on which is dependent the casting of
one's horoscope.
Therefore the position of the Moon in a horoscope shows the
static promise of good and bad events. And the Vimshotfari Dasha
being dependent on it, the predictions we make about good or bad
time for an individual is again based on it.
How and when your life force will manifest is decided by the
Moon. Since the position of the Moon at birth is not in the hands of
an individual, the Moon becomes, next to the lagna, the most
important landmark in the story of prarabdha.
Ir what we call the be I arista or child mortality (better to say
difficulties and mishaps for a child and not death) the main role is
that of the Moon.

This young Indian died of cancer in USA where no doctor could save
3
\ 1 Lag Ketu
\. Ketu /
4
\ / 12
Jup C)/\ 2
Lag No. 10 Jup (R)
5 \ Male
/ Mars Ven 11 26 August19SS
\ Sun Mer 11.50 pm. Mars
Lat; 17 N 42 Ven
8 Long: 083 E 14 Sun Mer
6 Moon 10
Rahu Moon Sat
/ 7
N ^ 9
/ Sat ftatiu

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

18-14" 09-29" 24°38" 06o20" 27t,58"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
22-46" 07o58" 22026" 00-41" OOMl"
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him. He died in Venus-Saturn-Venus on 11 June 1983.
The Moon which represents life force is between Rahu and
Saturn and is aspected by Mars. Venus as the lagna lord represents
the 61^ lord of diseases also. Saturn in the 6th house proved worse.
In the sub-period of Venus, the lagna and the 6th lord, he died.
The Moon of the youngman is 24 degrees and 38 minutes
which in the case of Jyestha nakshatra has special sinister significance
in causing pain to the entire family.
There are many fatal points associated with the Moon on which
a full book can be written. Instead of stressing that negativity, let me
clarify here that an American woman has her daughter's Moon at
3 degrees and 19 minutes in Scorpio with bad aspects, t avoided
doing reading either for the woman or her daughter. This lovely
child's parents fight most abominably. What we call balarista is not
the death of a child as most of the wooden translations or even other
books written by Indians in English but means unhappiness to the child
which can come from different sources. Children in USA who hardly
enjoy the love of both parents long, unlike in India, show the effects
of that balarista in that form.
Why the lagna and the Moon make a difference is being shown
through an interesting contrast.

7 / Ketu s1
9 v Sat Ven/
10 8 \ / 6
^Olars Mer
Lag / >£un
v Rahu No. 11
5 Male
11 Jup \ 12 October 1955
Moon y 10.15 am Jup
Lat: 26 M 51 Moon
2 Long: 080 E 55
12 Kstu /K 4
Lag Sat Mars
1 ^ 3 Rahu Van Sun
Mar'

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

IS^l" 2Aa^T 11-01" 05I156M 27058"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
01o54" OSMS" 26<i26L 26':13" 26013"
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 7 / Ketu
9 x Sat Ven/
/6
10 8 XMara Mer
Lag / \Sun
v Rahu No. 12
5 \ Male
11 Jup \ 13 October 19S5
Moon 10.1S am Jup
Lat; 29 M 10 Moon
2 Long: 75 E «
12 Ketu /X 4
Lag Sat Mars
1 3 Rahu Ven Sun
\
Met

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

tS'SO" 25^50" 24^24" 06'35" 27sl 7"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
02t'04" 06o58l 26tI33" 26',04" 261,04'

Contrast

JAIMINI'S KARAKAS

October 12 Karakas October 13

Mercury AK Mercury
Saturn AMK Saturn
Sun BK Sun
Moon MK Moon
Mars PK Venus
Venus GK Mars
Jupiter DK Jupiter

MOON'S DEGREES LAGNA'S DEGREES

October 12; 11-01 18-31 October 13: 24-24 13-50

Difference In Destiny Pattern

October 12 October 13

1. Eldest ofthe siblings witb a 1. Sister elder, then he and two

younger brother and then sisters after him.
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 a sister.
2. Is a postgraduate in history. 2. Is an engineer.
3. Is a high government official. 3. Is an industrialist.
4. Married in Nov. 1981. 4. Married in Aug. 1984
5. Has two daughters. 5. First a son then a daughter.
4. Father died in 1987. 6. Father is alive.

All these finer differences emerge out of the study of:

(a) Jaimini's Karakas.
(b) Divisional horoscopes and onlythrough Lahiri's avanamsha.
Try Raman's □vanomsha on both in a similar way

October 12 October 13
26'17" Sun 27°! 7"
12q28" Moon 25051"
07o23" Mars 08o02"
29056" Mercury 28044"
03o21" Jupiter 03o31"
07^10" Venus 08°25"
27053" Saturn 27059"
77° 39" Rahu 27°30"
27039" Ketu 27o30"
19058" Lagna 15°1 7"

The difference between scientific approach and a misleading

avanamsha will be clear to anyone who can do this exercise.

But the important points being stressed here are:

a) There is a difference exactly of one day in the birth of both.
The birth time is the same but the birth places are different.
b) The degrees of the lagna are different which makes all the
difference to the divisional charts, the limbs of a horoscope.
c) The degrees of the Moon are different with the result that the
mahadasha sequence changes.
d) Jaimini's karakas undergo a difference and here comes in a
very fine difference.

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 Happiness From Children

Debt of Past Lives

The Curse of Mother (p118)sh 4?

vhhi-u ST%ETT(rf % fojct |

■^T ^ feU I I

It is possible to counteract the consequences of anyone's

curse. But there is no hope for a person who is under the
curse of his mother.

Debts of Past Lives

The horoscope reveals the bond, linkage and its quality with the family
we are born into. We can take up bit by bit the story, starting with
the planetary linkages. Examine the 5th house and the 5th lord of
both the husband and wife to find about what they could expect from
their children. Before doing that let me quote from the Padma Purana
where the concept of Rinonu-bandhan is explained succintly.
Rinonunubandhan means the undischarged debts of past life as a
result of which we are born in a family and become relations, friends
and even have other intimate relations with all those with whom we
interact in our lives.
1, Those who have given loans in the past life become our
relations in the present birth.

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 2. Some of them can be even those extreme cases whose property
was captured illegally.
3. The spouse, the parents, siblings, relations, even servants all
are born as a result of the rinanubandhan.
4. Each one is born according to the motive dominant at the time
of death. In the present birth he gets that motive fulfilled and
after giving terrible pain, departs.
5. He who had lost his properly through deceit in the past birth
is born as a handsome and accomplished son in the present
birth and, after inflicting terrible pain, goes away.
6. He who takes loans from others and dies without discharging
it takes his birth in that family as a father, brother, wife or friend
etc. His behaviour is evil. He treats everyone badly, speaks
harshly and enjoys life at the cost of others. He fritters away
family fortunes.
7. Children
The bad one: He behaves like an enemy, hates his parents,
makes fun of them, criticizes them. After his marriage he
swindles his parents also.
The good one: He obeys his parents from his childhood.
Even aftergrowing up, he remembers to look after his parents,
talks sweetly to them and keeps them happy. After the death
of the parents, he performs all such rituals like "sraddha" to
give them happiness even in the world to which they have
departed after death.
The Indifferent one: He is neither happy nor unhappy with
his parents, neither gives them anything nor takes anything
from them.
All this can be extended to all other human relations in one's life,
Whatever is happening is the result of the deeds of past
lives.

The Moral: Do not covet others'wealthEvery karma

boomerangs.

Astrological Parameters
1. Take up any horoscope and examine the 5th house and the
5th lord.
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 2. See how they are placed, in quadrants, trines or evil houses.
3. See how they are aspected, associated, good or bad.
At a glance these three parameters will convince you whether you
as a porent can expect happiness from your children or not.
Next, take up the horoscope of the couple, husband and wife,
and make a more comprehensive examination of the horoscope by
applying the three parameters.
)n my book, "Planets and Children", I have given enough
examples of unhapiness of other types also from children.
Saturn nnahadasha began in 1979.
He has two sons and one daughter.
Towards the end of 1986, he and his wife came to me. Now
apply the three parameters (ofcourse detailed examination should be
done later).

Case No.13
1. The 5th lord is aspected by the retrograde 6th lord which is
why there is so much hostility between him and his children.
2. The 1 2th lord, Mercury is conjoined with the 5th lord. He has
spent a fortune on excellent education of his children in foreign
countries like UK and USA
3. The 2nd lord in the 10th house aspects the 5th house
aggravating the hostility of his children towards him.
For Indian society, the behaviour of his children is outrageous. The
first son is a smuggler and could be arrested at anytime and lives
with o married woman fifteen years senior to him in age. The
daughter is living together with a rich parasite of a well known family
and does not want to marry. The third son suddenly gave up an
excellent academic career and took to wild habits.
All this started happening in the dasha of the 5th lord, Saturn
and reached a climax in the sub-periods of Mars. The father himself
had to stay out of Indie because there were warrants of arrest for
him for violations of many laws of the land. Sufferings come most
in the dasha of yogakaraka, particularly the 5th lord, whose duty it
is to divert your attention from the worldly to the spiritual. But it was
too latefor him. As a fond father he had hoped fhol he would raise
wealth in illegal ways for his children who have been frittering it away.

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Happiness from Children - Debt of Pasf Lives
Case No.14
Examine the 5th house and the 5th lord. The story of his
unhapiness with his two chidren is clear. It surfaced in the dasha of
Venus.
The 8th lord, Venus is in the 5th house with Rahu aspected
by Saturn from the 8th house.

Case No.15
See the affliction to Jupiter, the natural putrokarako and
affliction to the 5th house. Ilwas the dasha of Mars, the 5th lord when
his son was born in September 1968
Re-read the Padma Puran accountof hoppinessfrom children.

6 y Rahu Jup (R)

8 v Moon /
9 N Sun j/ \Ke!u/
7
Sat Lag ^
Mar, Van
No. 13 Mars
10 Mala
4 \ 14 December 1930
Mars P Printed
1 \ y3
11 yjup (R)
12 ^ 2 Sat Sun Lag Ketu
Rahu Mer Ven Moon

Case No.16
Now see the horoscope of the son.
Now notice the following features:
1. Rahu, closest to the lagna, is aspected by Mars, the 2nd and
the 9th lord from the 6th house of debts frinanubondhonl.
2. The lagna lord is with the 2nd and the 9th lords in the 6th house
of debts again and also with Sun, the 6th lord.
3. The child was born in the dasha of Mors, the 2nd lord in the
6th house, the antardasha of Rahu in the lagna, very close,
aspected by Mars. The pratyantara dasha was of Saturn in the
2nd house of speech.

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 1 it Lag
v Mars
10
2 Ketu
12
Lag Moon
Mars Ven
3 Ho. 14 Rahu
9 Male
Ketu P27RG Mer
Moori' 6
Ven Sun 6
Rahu/ Jup
5 ^ ^ 7 Jup Sat Sun
Mer Sat

\ 10 3
\. Mer / Ketu
11 9 ' 7
\/ Lag Mars
Sat Ven/S,
Sun Jup Sat
\Rahu Ven No. 15 V
/ 12 6 Male
Dasha of Mars from
Mer 1963 to 1970 Moon
^5 Br. Sar. p3
3
1 Ketu Moon
Lag
2 4 Sun Jup Mars
Rahu

Note: Aspect of Mars on Rahu or Ketu in any horoscope is the

area of difficulties. The house involved will show where it would
manifest. Here it is in the lagna, the body.
It should be seen if this is getting repeated in the
navamsha also.
Again, here Mars does not spare the lagna and Rahu and the
2nd lord Jupiter, in turn, Mars aspects the 9th house from the 6th
house.
This is the rinanubandhana. The son was born speechless. The
father has spent very heavy amount for his treatment. There is no
relief.
I have worked on many horoscopes with many details on the
theory of rinanubandhan between children and parents as taught to
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 Lag Sat(R) Moon
Rahu
10
No. 16
12 Male
14 September
1968
06.30 pm. Mara
Lat: 23 N IS Jup
Ven Long: 87 £51 Sun
Ketu
Ven
Mer

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

15° 10" 2S°20" 24°55" 02o01" 23058"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
24° 10" 21 °39" 00o59' Id^l" la^l"

Mars Ketu
Jup Sat
10 Rahu
Lag
No. 17 Ven
Navamshi
Mer of Moon
Chart 16 Mer
12 Ketu
Jup
Sun Rahu
Lag

mte by my mother. It needs almost two days work to do it on one

horoscope. It should be done by preparing all the divisional
horoscopes. Here only an idea is being to prove whot the Padma
Purana says. Now see a joint study of the horoscopes of the wife and
husband.

Husband Wife
1. The 5th lord is Jupiter in The 5th lord is Jupiter in
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 6 Rahu Ven Mars Moon
\ 4 y' Mer Jup
7 Lag 3 Sun
5
Sat Rahu
/ 6 Moon \ No. IB
Jup / Mather of
2 eight children
\ / Ketu Lag
g Sat \/Mars
11 /ven\
/ Ketu N /MerSun^y
/ 10 12 \
Moon Mer Sat Mars(R)
Sun
Ven \ 1/
Rahu Lag
10
No. 19 Ketu
Jup Father of eight
Children and
Ven Husband of Jup
Rahu example 18
Ketu
N sat
/3 Moon Lag Sun
Mars(R) Mer

transition. affliction.
The 5th lord has no The 5th lord has no
affliction. affliction.
The Moon the 9th lord in the The 5th lord Jupiter is with
2nd house is aspected by exalted moon.
Jupiter showing the ideal
rinanubandhan with children.
In both cases, a taintless 5th lord Jupiter is in the 10th house. It was
the luck of the parents to see all eight children:
(a) Not die during their lifetime. The father died in 1961 and the
mother in 19S4. The first of the eight children died only after
1988. India, notorious for infant mortality in the period between
1 920 and 1960J had rarely a family with no infant mortality

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 or a crippled child. In this case, all children were healthy, well
educated and well-placed.
(b) All eight children served both parents to the best of their ability
with finest feelings of respect and regard.
(c) The presence of the 5th lord in the 10th helped all children
relatively well in life in a country like India where there were
not many employment opportunies in those decades.

Manipulated Birth Time

Can a great child be born to someone a woman or man after
manipulating the birth time, particularlythese days when it is possible
to fix the time of the birth of the child before its birth when planetary
positions can be manipulated as we do in Myhyrtg?Thereoretically
the answer is that it is possible. In actual practice it is a failure. Lef
that be understood because I must have worked on fifty or more
horoscopes. What I found is what I am stating first, before giving an
excellent case study.
1. As in muhurta so here. There are errors which an astrologer
cannot avoid even after fixing the best muhurta we have seen
disasters, particularly in marriages and jobs.
2. A very bright child can be born only if there is the promise of
such a child or children in the horoscopes of the parents.
3. I have given time for surgical operation (caeseran) to many for
the birth of children. Those proved only to be better than
average children over a period of ten years. I have not been
able to follow other cases as during my entire career as an
officer of the goverment of India, I was transferred from one
place to another. I neither got any feedback nor could get any
as I never was interested in the subject for many years except
now when it has become a hot controversy.
4. In many cases, the birth time fixed could not be adhered to
as there was some unavoidable delay. It made a difference of
some minutes in some cases and in hours in some others. Either
the horoscope changed or the other vital important factors
changed.
5. To do it, the horoscopes of both the parents must be examined
thoroughly. It is rarely possible to have excellent time in both
the horoscopes for the birth of the child with great promise.
Astro-genetics is an area in which doctor-astrologers should work hard
with their knowledge of medical science to establish a great research.
I have got very good and accurate results by adopting the
methodology I am outlining here. But before that it is necessary to
be reminded of a great Hindu tradition.
(a) For doing spiritual penance for a good child
(b) For having sex at astrologically auspicious time for the birth of
a child. I have not worked on it but the pre-natal horoscopy
or the aarbadhan laana is the most neglected part of Indian
astrology. An astrologer did indulge in the gimmick of giving
the birth of his own child by manipulating the child's birth data
to suit his convenience. It is the biggest fraud of recent times.
Yet other astrologers should work on it on classical lines.
(c) The result of it is that the child will be born with a fine and
promising horoscope. Those parents who have a bright child
in their families must remember that it is the spiritual merit of
their past lives 'vhtch has given them a child of whom they are
proud. Their horoscopes will always show it.

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 Methodology of Astro-

Genetical Study of

the Birth of A Child —

The Unique Case Study

In 1995, when I am writing about it, it is 22 years after what

I consider a very great prediction of mine.

The Background
In a city (Patno} where I was posted during my service career
a doctor friend of mine who knew astrology and others often
discussed astrology. That was in 1972. Once the doctor asked
me whether he would ever have a chance of going to UK to
do his higher degree. I told him that he would have it soon.
Then one day, the doctor told me that his wife was pregnant. What
would be the sex of the child? I have not been so sure in such
predictions I told him. Yet I ventured to say that a son would be born.
Then one day the doctor told me to choose a mahurata for
a caeseran operation for the child to be born should be chosen by
me. Presuming it to be a bov. as I had predicted, he wanted me to
fix a laana with favourable planetary positions.
I told him, after preparing such a horoscope, whether it was
a boy or a girl,
(a) after the birth of the child he would go outside the country with
his wife and child.

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 (b) The child will have brilliant studies but in a foreign country.
First see the doctor's horoscope.

In the birth horoscope

a) The 5th house receives the aspects of Jupiter, Venus and Mars.
b) The 5th lord, Venus is in the 1 1th house, aspecting his own
house.
(c) Jaimini's putrakaraka is Jupiter with Mercury the darakaraka
forming a rojayoga and is aspected by the Moon the
amatyakaraka who is in the 10th house.
(d) Finally see the 6th lord Mars aspecting the 5th house showing
the rinanubandhan.
Now see the Saptamsha
1. The 5th house has exalted Mars conjoined with Saturn and the
Moon and is being aspected by exalted Jupiter and Venus from
the 11 th house.
2. The sixth lord aspecting the 5th house in the birth horoscope
and also in the 5th house in the Saptamsha is the the
reconfirmation of rinanubandhana.
3. The benefic aspects with the rinanubandhan causing Mars,
joining Saturn, the rinanubandhan causing planet in the
saptamsha, shows the birth of child who would repay the
obligations towards his parents, dutifully and with spiritual zeal.
Flo was passing through the major period of Venus, the lord of the
5th house and the sub period of Jupiter aspecting the 5th house. The
sub sub period was of Ketu in the 9th house of foreign journey, Venus
as the 12th lord too was the promise of a foreign journey.
The date of operation was fixed for 14 December 1973.
It was my astrological advice. Now the time?
An astrologer must remember that as in choossing a muhurta.
so here too, the best planetary position is never available. Out of what
is available, only the best planetary combination has to be chosen.
As in the case of muhurta, so here too it is the laana which must
become the most important factor.
So I first put the planets of 14 December 1973 in the chart
without choosing the lagna. It was as follows.

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 4 2
\ Sal Moon Ven Sat Lag
Mars / 3 ^\Suny Sun Mer
5 Lag 1 Juo
Rahu Mer (R) Ven
Ketu Mars
12 No. 20
V 6 Moon S June 1942
Rahu
8 11
7
S\ Ketu
/ 8 10

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

15044" 23034" 18057u 03° 10" 00o43"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
06o24" IS-Sl" 10"49" 15-25" 15025"

Sun Ketu Mer

Jup
Case No. 21 Ven
Siptamsha
Moon
Mars
Sat
Rahu Lag

Favourable points were:

1. Three benefics, Jupiter, Venus and the Moon would be in
kendras.
2. Mercury would be vargottamo.
3. Mars would be in his own house, in Mesha, his moolatrikona
house.
4. Moon would be in the nakshatra of Mercury which was
vargottama.
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Korma & Rebirth in Hindu Astrology
Points for Consideration
1. It should help the child to untertake a foreign journey soon.
2. It should help the child to have a very good time for education.
3. It should prove lucky for father and also for his own foreign
journey.
4. It should above all be good for the health of the child.
How about Makar lagna ? And it would arise roundabout nine in the-
morning which would suit any hospital also for an operation.
What time then within the Makar lagna was the next question.
I then prepared the navamsha without the lagna and then the
dwadashamsha again without the lagna.
I decided that the navamsha lagna should be Mesha and the
dwadashamsha lagna should be Mithuna. It would be possible at
9-30 a.m.
I fixed that time and gave advance predictions before the birth
of the child which I have given before.
The child would be born in Mercury Rahu Venus.
Further considerations which weighed with me were:
a) Birth in the dasha of Mercury which was Vargottama in the 11th
house should be gainful for the father because it was the 9th
lord also besides being the sixth lord.
b) Rahu in the 12lh house ensured a foreign trrp.
c) Venus the 5th lord with the 12th lord Jupiter should ensure a
foreign journey for education.
d) The navamsha should have some good merits as well.
1. There is a good exchange of the 1st and 2nd lords here.
 2. Mercury is vargottama.
3. The 5th lord, Sun in the 12th again showed education in a
foreign country.
4. Jupiter aspected the Moon in the navamsha while in the birth
horoscope joined in the gajakesari yoga.
Then the dwadashamsha had to be:
0) The balance of unexpired portion of Mercury dasha would be
about five years and seven months.
(2) Ketu dasha would be till about 1986when the child would be
thirteen years.
(3) Then comes the career making period which for an Indian
parent with the great love he bestows on his children, is most
crucial.

What Happened ?
I had no way of getting a feed back as I was transferred out of Patna
and lost touch with him, Bull remembered himand his family as very
spiritual and traditional. Our relationship was based on mutual and
shared respect.
Sometime in 1992, the doctor had visited India, found out my
address and told me that:
1. His son was doing very well in his studies.
2. That he himself had left for UK on 9th December 1975 within
two years of the birth of the son.

Mars Ketu
Sat

Caw No. 23 Moon

14 December 19T3
9-30 am. —
Lag 25 N 36
Jup 85 E 08
Van
Rahu Sun
Mer

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Kormc & Rebirth in Hindu Astrology Methodology of Astro - Ganeficot Case Study
Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury
12034' 28e3r 25036" OS'ST1
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
17,,19" 10°50" OS'SO" 05^21" 05o21"

3. He had, as predicted by me, done his Fellow of Royal College

of Surgeon's Course in 1990.
4. He had done another higher degree as on eye specialist called
F.C Opthamology.
He visited me one year later and told me that his son had stood
first class first in a combined examination in England and had
been offered admission by five universities. He was not only
the most meritorious student of the year but had also broken
many old academic record.

2 12
Rahu y Sun Lag Mars Jup
\ Sun Ven Rahu
3 \MBlg 11
Jup 1 Moon
Lag
S. Ven / Moon
4 Case No. 24
10 Navamsha of
Cat* No. 23
7 o
5 Sat
/ * Sat Mer
6 ^ Mer Ketu
Ketu

Prediction given in 1973 before the birth and in

1993, twenty years later, when ( got a feed-back,
made me immensely happy.
This is the only case where I have been able to watch the results over
a period of over twenty years. I am aware that mine is:
1. The only case study in which I could get all details.
2. This is the only published asfro-genetical case of a birth time
chosen but, after examining the horoscope of the father, in
which the promise of the birth of a bright child had already
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 4 Moon Mara / Moon
Jup . \ Ven / Mer Mars Lag
5 \2/ M1 r Ven
Ketu 3 'X' 6
lag
Rahu Jup
6 Ctu No. 25
12 Dwadaahamsha
Sat X
of Case No. 23
Ketu
7 9 \X 11
Sun Rahu
8 ^ 10 Sun Sat
/

existed. It means that even if I had not chosen such a time, the
son would have been what he is.
3. In some other cases, where the birth time was determined by
doctors and approved by astrologers, the results have not been
spectacular. The horoscopes of the parents there were not of
much help. There was no promise of a very bright child. All
that the time chosen could have done was to contain the evil
promises in the horoscopes of the parents.
My uneqivocal answer then to the question: whether
by surgical manipulation of the time of birth, the fate
changed, is: not at all. All that happens is there is
slight modification. That falls in the area of krivaman
karma.

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 The Whirligig of Time

"Disaster is not disaster. Good fortune is not good fortune. Disaster is

to forget the Lord, Vishnu. Great sanity is to remember Lord
Narovana".
Thtt Vishnu Purana

What is good time or bad time? The definition is yours and

personal. The drama of Karma keeps unfolding: tragi-comic
scenes keep flitting across. Time, like a mirror, holds before
your eyes the results of your deeds and misdeeds.
Not to be elated when you have achieved something, not to
be depressed when you have failed is the sign of spiritual
equipoise.
Yet, astrology shows through rts mahodasha scheme how one evolves
psychologically and spiritually. The emphasis should be on the spiritual
progress, having been bom as o human being, and not on the
material and crazy achievements, particularly when the hi- tech era
can give you lot of irrational ideas of becoming a celebrity.
Who is a balanced person? The Gita is full of many many
descriptions of stage of spiritual development.
See one of them here.
fafar\ I
srfTTKt; foft TT. I I

Tulsaninda stufirmouni satusfayena kenachifa

Aniketah sthiramatirbhakfimaarfne priyonarah (Gita 12 ch. 19)

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 He for whom praise and criticism is the some (equal), is
contented, has no house of his own to live in (lack of material
desires) has a stable mind, such a devotee is dear to Me.
It is a rare state of development. Either one reaches it through
intelligent self-introspedion or through the company of people with
divine wisdom but mainly through spiritual practices.
Time is God, appearing sometimes as inscrutably cruel and
sometimes over-kind. That Time is, in Hindu astrology, the dasha
systems, which are many.

The Background Information

He had heard about me and wanted to meet me through a lawyer
friend of mine. After our meeting was fixed, he came to my place,.
The only background information I had was that he had retired
from the high post of a judge of the Supreme Court of India.
He showed me two horoscopes one with Vrisha lagna
and the other with Mithuna. Since 1 had known that he had retired
from the post of a Supreme Court Judge I had no hesitation in telling
thaf it had to be Vrisha with all those planets in the ninth house which
represents judiciary.

No. 26
3
\ 1 Lag MaifR)
\Mara (R)>
\ 12 Sat
2
Lag A Ralirtd Judga of
.Sat (R)> Rahu tha Supramo court
/ 5 of India
/ Kelu 11 \ 25 Jan 1914
Rahu / Sun Mar 01.43 ptn.
Jup Van Lat 33 N 11 Ketu
8 N. yWer Sun Moon Long: 073 E 46
e yC y\Jup Van
/ NMoon
/ 7 ^ ^ 9 X

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

11 "SS" 00o57" 15" 18" 11052"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
08° 13" 07d40" 10o50" 2 2051" 22<'51"
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 But then made some corrections and finally the horoscope
on the basis of which I had given him predictions is given below. Those
predictions came out correct. But the subject under discussion here
is the whirligig of time, not those predictions.
To do it, I had to ask him some questions about his past periods,
particularly, the crucial Rahu Dasha.
Notice all the negative features first:
a) Mercury is totally combust
b) Jupiter and Venus, so close, are also combust
c) ll is the birth of an amavasya.
d) Mars in the 2nd house aspects the 22nd drekkana absolutely
and then all those planets in the 9th house.
e) Rahu in the 10th is being aspected by Saturn. Career first as
a lawyer and later, as a judge seemed to be likely.
He confirmed what I had seen about his career.
Then I cametothe mostcrucial question. Concentrate on Rahu
Venus period. Now see the Chaturfhamsha.

Sun Mer Ketu

Mars Jup Ven
10 Lag
Moon Sat Rahu

Gate No. 27
Chaturthamsha
Moon

Ketu Sat
Sun Jup Mars Ratiu
Mer Ven . Lag

The dosha of Rahu was from 20 February 1935 to 20

February 1953. From 1945 to 1949 the sub period of Venus ran
in the mahadasha of Rahu.
The 9th house receiving the aspect of Mars had to have sinister
significance. I knew that he came from a region which had witnessed
the worst types of blood bath during the communal riots of 1947.
He and his family must have tried to flee the place. But it was the
period of Rahu-Venus. And then the 9th lord is retrograde in the
lagno too.
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 In the chaturthamsha, Rahu in the lagna, Mars in the 2nd house
and Venus in the 6th house had to have a very complex meaning.
1 worked on other vargas also and then tried Jaimini dashas too.
A very bloody period? Much bloodier than what others had
witnessed? 1 asked him.
Roundabout October 1947, both of his parents and all his
brothers and sisters were butchered by a frenzied mob of Muslims.
He escaped, he survived after witnessing it all.
I remembered the meaning of an amavasva birth and the
combustion of planets, planetary wars. Ofcourse, he was born when
the world itself was plunged, soon after his birth in the first world war.
Ail this happened in the most unfavourable period.
Then in the Saturn period, the most favourable one he rose
to the highest judicial post available in India.
The 5th and the 9lh and the 10th lords together in the 9th
house forming so many rajoyogas had also to give their excellent
result in the yogakaraka dasha of Saturn.
The exchange of the 5th and the 9th lords too had to give him
its results.
There was time when Destiny appeared so cruel and then
came a time when he rose to highest judicial post in India.
Fate Lifts And...?
12
10
Sal.
Lag Alto i judge of the
Rahu Suprene court of
India
Mer Oct 24,1933
Mars Sat 2-50 P.M. Ketu
Ven Let: 19 N 48
long: S5 E 51
Ketu Mer
vSun Moon Mars Sun Jup
Ven
Jup
Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury
21 05 6" 07o32" 17012" 1704:7" OIW
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
16032" 22° 10" i6o5r 03° 16" 03'16"
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He had met me in 1985, showed his horoscope and asked me
whether he could ever expect to be a judge of the Supreme Court
of India.
I verified some past events. The most material one is that in
1981 he had become a High Court Judge in the period of Rahu
Venus. See the contrast that is clear from the previous case. Venus
as the 9th lord gave him what he wanted.
In the mahadasha of Jupiter, the 1 ItH lord of honour and
recognition he could expect it. There was the Moon in the 1 ItH house
forming a good goiokesori yoga with Jupiter. In 1 991, sometime his
name was floated and in December 1991, he became a judge of
the Supreme Court.
He was in Delhi and wanted to meet me. There was no
immediate need. Yet, he perhaps felt that he should. That meeting
never took place.
Then I read in the newspapers thot on 29 May 1992 he had-
met with a fatal accident and died. I searched his horoscope and made
a post mortem study thus:

Analysis of the Horoscope

1. The lagna lord is in the 12th house aspected by Jupiter.
2. Rahu in lagna aspected by Mars. (Note it again.)
3. It was the mahadasha of Jupiter in the 8th house.
4. It was the antardasha of Saturn in the 12tri house.
5. Hwas the protyontora dasha of Mercury, the 8th lord, with Mars
aspecting the 4th house of vehicles.
Mars has directional strength in the 1 Oth house. But Mars is
also aspecting Rahu in the lagna. Mars must perform both
functions, elevate and Ihen...?

Shodoshomsha
1. Jupiter is the 6th lord aspected by Mars.
2. Saturn is in the 6th house aspected by Mars.
3. Mercury is the 3rd lord of journeys with the 6th lord aspected
by Mars.

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\jjyjup5Sun / 3 Mars
Moon NT/ \ /2
Rahu 4 X' Mars
Kety/ X Lag
1 sVen y Ven
S Cut No. 29 Lag
1 \
Shoduhamtha
Sun
Mer
10 Juo
8 /\ 12
Moon
11 Sat Rahu
/ 9 N Ketu
/ Sat

10 Ven Ketu
Mars Mars Moon Mer
Sat (R) Sun
Rahu
Moon 11 Birth
Birth Lag oon Birth Caaa No. 30
van Lag Planetary Poaitlon
Mer of Transit
Sun Sat (R) 29 May 1992 Jup

Jup Rahu
Ketu Birth
Moon

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

18°14" 14o30" 09o02" 24o06" 11 MO"
Jupiter Venus Saturn (R) Rahu Ketu
12O05" lO^l" 24<,44" 07-04" 07-04"

Analysis
1. Mars in the second house aspected the 22nd drekkana.
2. Saturn was causing a sadhe sat/.
It is the reverse of the earlier cose. The first one suffered and later,
rose as high as this person and lived very long to enjoy lot of wealth
and further assignments as the chairman of so many inquiry
commisions. The second one enjoyed life thoroughly, rarely suffered,
had on expensive foreig car which he drove very fast.
I do not congratulate anyone. When caught in a situation in
which t have to do it, I do it with opprehension in my heart, t remember
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Komrai RabirlMn Hindu Astrology
the Gita lessons.
ONE MAN'S LOVE IS ANOTHER MAN'S LUCK
How Time, the God, changes fate! How an unfancied person
became the king of England and what he faced, what
happened to his kingdom is best revealed in the horoscope of
King George VI of England.

Notice
1. The vargottama Rahu and Ketu.

\ Sun Moon e
\Mar$ Mer>
\. 8 /
9 7 5
Lag Ketu
Sal Van y No. 31
Rahu King Gaorge VI Jup
/ 10 4 14 December 1895
Jup 03.05 am.
Long; 000 E 30.00
1 Ketu
11
3
Rahu/ Sun Yen
yK 12 \ 2 Moon Sat
Mars Lag
Mer

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

04°24" 29o30H 02o26" 08D26" 25°50"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
i6on" 13021" 22o2r 1403r 14031"

AK AMK BK MK PK GK DK
Sun Mercury Saturn Jupiter Venus Mors Moon

2. The Moon reaching its extreme point of debilitation end is the

tenth lord.
3. Saturn exalted in the birth horoscope getting debilitated in the
navamsha.
The birth data is taken from Notable Horoscope of Raman but 1 am
using the Lahiri's (Chitrapaksha) avanamsha.
Dr. Raman's explanation how he got the kingdom from his
brother and not father is: The political planet who happens to be
in the IQfrom Chandra lagna, is with Mars, Bhatrukarqko while the
10 lord Moon is aspected by exalted Jupiter lord of 3rd and in
association with Mars."
Raman's logic, based on only the birth horoscope, is in itself
not very satisfactory in analysing this major event. Yet what he says
means.
(a) The 10th lord from the Moon is the Sun, who is with Mars
representing brother.
(b) The 1 Oth lordfromthe Moon is the Moon itself who is aspected
by Jupiter who is the third lord from the lagna.
(c) This Moon is again with Mars, the significator of brother.
Note 1: According to Raman Avanamsha the Sun should be in
Sagittarius at 00-57 degrees. So the main argument of the
Sun being with Mars fails particularly when the distance
between Mars and the Sun is more than 20 degrees and, when
thev are in two different rashis.
Note 2: It is the eleventh lord, not the third lord, that should be
discussed here because it was the elder brother from whom
he got the kingdom.
Note 3: See the the 9fh. lOth and the 11 lords combining with the
2nd lord in the second house, showing gains from an elder
brother, a vital point which Dr. Raman missed.
The explanation is so circumlocutory. A straight and easy one must
be seen. It cannot be done unless divisional horoscopes are used
which Raman has never done all his life. Here many varga charts

7 Sun Sat
9 y

to 8 6
Lag Mars Mer No, 32 Moon
Jup Ven Navamsha
y/ 11 ^ Hole tha dahilitoted
/ Mer S Rahu
\ Ven Rahu Ketu of both tha bidh
horoscope and the Ketu
navomsha.
12 2 4
Sun /\ Moon
y i \ ^ 3 Lag Mara
/ Sat _ Jup

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are being used.
Note the positions of Ketu-Rohu-Mors (explained under Events)
1. Here the 11th lord, Sun, is with Mercury, the 12th lord in the
10th house, showing loss to elder brother.
2. The 8th lord, Venus, is aspecting the 11th house again.
3. Saturn aspects the 11th house.
4. Yet because Venus aspects the 11th house and Jupiter aspects
the 11th lord. Sun in the 10th house, the Duke did become
the King of England. Only after that, because of his love for
a commoner, he had to relinquish his throne,
In the dosha of Mercury, in the lagna, and Rahu in 1/7 axis his

vMoon Mars. Sat

. Jup Rahu
9
Ketu. Ven Sun
Mer
10
Sun No. 33
Mer Drekkana

11
Van Moon
12 Ketu Mars Lag
Jup

9 7 Sat Jup Moon

Rahu
8
10 Lag 6
Ven. Sun Mer Mars
\ Ketu /
11 5 No. 34
Siptamshi
Ven
/ 2 \
12 Moon ' 4
Sat Rahu Mars Lag
1 3 Sun Mer
Jup Ketu

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daughter, the present Queen of England was born.
The dashamansha shows the entire event very clearly.
1. The 6th lord, Mars goes into the 11th house.
2. The 11th lord. Mercury is debilitated in the 5th house and is
being aspected by Mars.
3. The 5th lord, Jupiter (emotions) aspects Venus the 7th lord of
marriage along the 4/10 axis which is why his elder brother's
love became a public controversy.
4. Ketu and Rahu occupy 2/8 axis and, Ketu is being aspected
by Mars. Two malefics in the second house or one malefic in

Mer Sun Sat Rahu

10
Ven Moon

No. 35
Daihamaniht
Jup

Ketu Lag Mars

\ 4 Moon Lag
Rahu / v 2 Jup Mars Sat
5 y/ 3 1
Lag Mars
.Sat Mer No. 36 Rahu
/ s 12 Shashtyamsha
Moon 1/60
Jup Division
9 ^11 Ketu
7
Sun Ven Mer
y/ 8 ^ ^ 10 Ven Sun
Ketu

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 the 2nd house aspected by another is the well known
combination for loss of wealth.
The British royal births are recorded very meticulously according to
a tradition of British monarchy. It would be risky to work on
shastyamsha on any horoscope. Yet it can be done here because of
the accuracy of the recorded birth time.

Notice two features here

1. An excellent gajakesari yoga in the 10th house.
2. Exchange between the lagna and the ninth lords.

Events
1. He was born in Jupiter Rahu-Mercury-Jupiter is exalted in lOfh
house, the sub-period of Rahu in the fifth house and the sub-
sub period of Mercury the birth itself shows the royal
surroundings he was destined to have.
2. For Tula Lagna two great periods, Saturn and Mercury came
but nothing very remarkable seemed to have happened. The
Saturn period ended in January 191 6, and Mercury in 1933.
The period of Mercury gave him his marriage in the sub-period
of Mars.
3. The present Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II was born
in Mercury Rahu Venus (PK of Jaimini is Venus). Besides in the
saptamsha Mercury is in the lagna and Rahu in the 7th house.
4. The Jupiter of Elizabeth is in Acquarius, the 5th house of the
king. Saturn(R) in Scorpio is acting from the Libra and was on
the 5th lord, Saturn, of the king.
5. H is the period of Ketu, in the 1 ItH house, that had to be
significant for him. Note the following features:
a) Ketu, the mahadasha lord, is vargottama in the 11th house of
elder brother. Ketu-Rahu-Mors period is significant for him.
b) Rahu in the 5th house is in the house of dignity.
c) Jupiter in the 10th house in the birth horoscope is in the 10th
house of the dashamansha.
d) In the 60th division, there is an excellent gajakesari yoga in
the 10 th house.

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 e) In the chaturthamsa ( D-4), Jupiter and Venus in the 4th house
gave him the throne he was not entitled to get.
f) It being the dasha of Ketu-Rahu-Mars, the drekkana becomes
important, as he got the throne suddenly. Ketu is in the 3rd
house, Sagittarius aspected by the 5th lord Saturn with Rahu.
Mars in Scorpio aspects Saturn in the 9th house. The relation
between the 5th and the 7th lords with Rahu explains the elder
brother's infatuation for a commoner with whom he was in love.
He lost his position as the king, and George VI became the
king suddenly in December 1936. The excellent Jupiter and
vargottama Ketu and Rahu had to give him the kingdom.

Venus Mahadasha
Venus Rahu periods always need cautious approach. In this period
the King had the misfortune of seeing the liquidation of the British
Empire when India got her freedom on 15 August 1947,
In the birth horoscope Rahu is in the 5th house of padachvuti
as Parashara says, or loss of position. Venus is also the 8th lord here.
The loss of position for the king was the loss of being called the King
Emperor of India,
The effects of the debilitated Moon became evident, since May
1944, when the sub-period of the Moon in Rahu began. See the
Chaturthamsa where as the tenth lord the Moon is again debilitated.
In the Venus-Jupiter period, one the 8th lord and the other
6th lord, the king fell ill and died.
That is how Time shapes fates. He became king when he was
not the rightful successor. He had the misfortune to witness the
liquidation of the Briths Empire, an Empire on which the Sun was
never said to set. When the Sun rises over England, fog and mist
dim his brilliance to give to London the gloomy atmosphere of a
funeral.

Time is God

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 Advantages of Believing

In Predestination

The Positive Side The Negative Side

1. Absolute acceptance of if like 1. They fear that if everything is
a wise man yet continuing to preordained there is no need
one's preordained duties. Yogis for human action,**
Yuddhisthira, Mahabharata's
scene before gambling.*
2. Accepting thai gunas have to 2. They do not know that gunas
still will do their work. do their own work,
(the Gita.)***
3. Their inner cheer intact, one 3. They lose their inner cheer
argues oneself out of a develop depressions and
gloomy situation. chronic fatigue syndrome.
4. They do not need astrology as 4. They need sound astrological
they accept whatever happens counselling.
as God's will.

Notes
Prarabdha And Wise Men
*Everywise man accepts prarobdha. In my book, Yogis, Destiny and
the Wheel ofTrme, I have referred to Rokadiya Hanuman Baba whom
I used to meet ot Rajkot in Gujarat. He once fell and had a deep
wound on his thigh. He never took any medicine but covered it up
with a dirty cloth. Inspite of our protesting and cajoling him, he got

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his wound dressed up by a doctor only once,
"Let me suffer my prarabdha". was all that he had said.
I have seen a more painful (to me) instance of Nagaridas Baba
iuHering for over one year physically and taking no medicine. An
other human being would have died in that condition
In the Mahabharata we have the extraordinary portrait of
Yuddhisthira, an epitome of moral excellence, but with a fatal flaw
which was his tendency to gamble. His cousin, Duryodhana, took
advantage of this weakness and hatched a conspiracy with his wicked
unde, Shakuni. Yuddhisthira who obeyed his uncle, Dhritarastra
dutifully was asked to participate in the gambling bout. Between the
morality of staking his entire kingdom and brothers and their common
wife, Draupadi, and obeying his uncle which was also a tenet of his
moral code, he was caught in a dilemma. Yet he gambled and lost
but the kingdom was given back by Dhritarastra who was ver^
rightfully warned of the consequences of all this by his younger
brother, Vidura, another epitome of morality. But the evil and
obdurate son of Dhritarastra, the embodiment of all evils, Duryodhana,
threatened to commit suicide if he did not order Yuddhisthira to
gamble again. On hearing of the order, Yuddhisthira remarked that
his prarabdha was dragging him into it. The truth was: the great rishis.
Narada and later Veda Vyas had already foretold that for twelve years
therewould have to be unavoidable turbulence in which the Pandavas
would suffer. Yuddhisthira was prepared to face that prarabdha,
tr the Valmiki Ramayana we have the best definition of Daiva
which is the synonym for that element of prarabdha which seems to
spring up from nowhere and upset all plans. Lord Rama accepts to
go to the forest instead of becoming the king. His younger brother,
Lakshmana gets annoyed and threatens to fight his own father,
Dasaratha and brother, Bharata. But Lord Rama speaks of the wisdom
of accepting the situation.
Both Lord Rama and Yuddhisthira suffered cheerfully without
ever violating the moral conductof their tradition. Theygot back their
lost kingdoms and became immortal heroes remembered as noble
kings.
This has been discussed in the earlier part of the book.

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Karma Si Rebirth in Hindu Astrology Advantages of Believing in Predestination
"PredesTination And Inaction
No human being can ever become inactive even offer accepting
predestination. The aunas inside him, sattwg. raia and fomc will
always impel him into action. This argument that by accepting
predestination one becomes inactive was the one used for nefarious
purposes by British imperialists against India. Itspread like contagion.
There are many irrational people even now who think that acceptance
of predestination leads to inaction.
How these aunos impel man into action is well explained in
the Gita. See the note below

***Gunas And Human Action

In the fifth shloka of the fifth chapter of the Gita it has been explained
that no human being can ever remain without a karma. The reason
is that he is shackled by Nature, the nature within and the nature
without. Nature is a three-layered compulsion of three gunas: famas.
raias ond sattwa. In sleep, dream, in waking state and even all other
conditions every human being is performing karmas. There is not a
single moment in the life of man when he is not doing karma. The
dull-headed who cannot distinguish between the different levels or
the performance of karma mistake a person seen doing some work
physically as the only one performing karma.
The performance of Karma is ai ail levels. Whatever a man
does through body, speech and mind, whether moral or immoral is
defined as karma in the 15 shloka of the Gita.

The types of Karmas are five:

1. Nitva The pooja and religious karmas which uplift man
spiritually.
2. Naimittika karmas are linked to Hindu's tradition of shodhas
samskaras like performing birth, marriage and funeral
ceremonies etc
3. Kamva Karma are those karmas which a man does to earn
name fame, money, overcoming his monetary and physical
obstacles etc.
4. Pravaschifq Karma are those karmas which are done to do
penances to wash off sins committed.

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 5. Kartawa-Karma are those which a man must perform to make
a living.
These five types of karmas are of three types, sattwick, rajasic and
tamasic. This can be explained in a table thus:

TABLE I (Supplementary)
Performance Of Karma
Types Quality Performed State in Whic
of Karma How (through) Performed

.1. NITYA (a) Sattwa (a) Body (a) Waking

(b) Raja (b) Speech (b) Sleeping
(c) Tama (c) Mind (c) Dreaming
2. NAIMITTIKA (a) Scttwa (a) Body (a) Waking
(b) Rojo (b) Speech (b) Sleeping
(c) Tama (c) Mind (c) Dreaming
3. KAMYA (a) Sattwa (a) Body (a) Waking
(b) Raja (b) Speech (b) Sleeping
(c) Tama (c) Mind (c) Dreaming
4. PRAYASCHITA (a) Satrwa (a) Body (a) Waking
(b) Raja (b) Speech (b) Sleeping
(c) Tama (c) Mind (c) Dreaming
5. KARTAVYA (a) Sattwa (a) Body (a) Waking
(b) Raja (b) Speech (b) Sleeping
(c) Tama (c) Mind (c) Dreaming

From this it should be clear that there can be no state in which a

man is not peforming Karma.
A labourer who is digging up a road is performing a karma.
A yogi who is meditating is also performing a kama.
A bhoai who is indulging in sex is also performing a karma.
A rogi who is taking medicine is also performing a karma.
(Bhogi enjoys life on the physical plane: Rogi is a sick man.)

Astrological Clarity
A person with Pisces lagna with Jupiter in the 6th house and Mars
in the 10th house is performing a karma related to those houses in

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the mahadasha of Jupiter and antardasha of Mars.
The Yogi is preparing to go into deep dhyana.
The Bhogi is involved in a monetary litigtion.
The Rogi is battling with an ailment.
The quality of happiness which sattwa gives is described as
sattwick. It puts an end to unhappiness. It is difficult to practice in the
beginning but is nectar like ultimately.
That which gives happiness in the beginning but creates a lethal
poison like condition finally, is raj a sic.
That which is born of sleep, laziness and negligence of moral
conduct gives happiness in the beginning but creates deeper meshes
of involvements and attachments is tomosic.

Oscillating Between Belief And Disbelief

Positive Side Negative Side

1. Will study Vedic astrology 1 . Wil'toke to drugs, drinks
and see that there is only one and other escapist routes to
law that operates - the Law of drown their unknown fears.
Almighty.
2. Will recollect and remember 2. Will forget a good and
instances of correct predictions correct astrological prediction
and prophecies and restore their and remember only the failed
shaky mental equilibrium. predictions of astrologers.
3. Will read scriptures: 3. Will become body conscious
remembers the betrayal of more and more and allow the
Christ as prophesized by him, remnants of their wisdom to
Yuddhisthiro's wisdom.**** get destroyed.

Notes

****When Christ told his disciple that he shall betray him "before the
cock crows thrice" he was talking of predestination which he had
accepted as a Mahavogi, which he was.
In the Hindu scriptures there are hundreds of such instances.
I have already referred to Yuddhisthira and Lord Rama. In my Yogis,
Destiny and the Wheel of Time, I have given many true incidents of
this nature to which I have been a first hand witness.
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Qualified Acceptance of Fate
Positive Side Negative Side
1. Seeks astrological guidance 1 , Becomes gloomy and it never
but not fully. Sometimes it is occurs to him that the astrolo-
a wise decision because there ger may be working on wrong
can be the misjudgement of an birth time or even misjudging.
astrologer. It is a wise course.

Plans intelligently re- 2. Lapses into inaction,

membering the astrological or makes half hearted
advice. Yet is not soley attempts.
dependent on it.

Notes
*****An intelligent man knows that astrologers commit mistakes
because either they have wrong birth time or they fall into mistakes
of ommission and commission in their judgement.
On the negative side, a person who does not know this
limitation of an astrologer takes him too seriously and takes a bad
astrological prediction as the crack of the doom for himself.

Rejection of Predestination
When Wisdom When Ignorance
Springs Thickens
When the unexpected happens!. He seeks faults in others,
he tries to seek answer to it like searches a scapegoat and
wise man. Seeds of holism and becomes vengeful and mean.
undiscovered spirituality of Self
become his pursuit.*****
Seeks spiritual remedies very 2 His behaviour becomes
intelligently. irrational and neurotic.
Learns the art of self-analysis 3 Clings to his irrationality
through detachment. ferociously.
His life becomes sublime. 4 Invites his doom invariably.

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Notes
"""""Instances have been given of Lord Rama and Yuddhisthira who
being enlightened persons knew that Higher Laws always operate.
A wise man discovers these Higher Laws when the unexpected
happens in his life. Slowly, he discovers thatthe only law that prevails
in the world is the law of God. He still accepts life as it is, on the
mundane plane. An easy and harmonious combination of the natural
and supernatural laws becomes the philosophy of his life. That is true
holistic attitude.

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 Conclusions

Astrology — Bondage Or Salvation?

HrTtT I
<•"^4 I I

Tasmaadasaktah Satatam Karya Karma Samachar

Asakto Hyacharan Karma fbramapnotihPoorushah
The Gita 19 Sh.3 C

Therefore do your karfawa karma constantly without any attachment

to them: work done without such attachments leads to merging into
the Great Being.

Kartavya Karma of an Astrologer

I have written at many places that I wanted to give up astrobgy many
times but my Guruji, Swami Paramananda Saraswati never allowed
me to do it. Lofer, Swami Moorkhanandji told me more clearly that
I should continue doing astrology. Both my Jyotish Guru and Mantra
Guru and later, Moorkhanandji, told me about the international
mission which I had to fulfil. That is the prarabdha I have to liquidate.
Let me give two horoscopes without any comment. It highlights
the importance of liquidating prarabdha.
A great Guru understands the mystery of Karma. Swami
Onkarnath Sitaram whom some people regard as the reincarnation
of Swami Ramakrishna Paramhansa wrote Ihe bestbookon mystical

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experiences, "NaadLeelomrif'ai^BenQaW. A disciple of his was sent
back by him to exhaust his karmaas a house holder first. See the
horoscope of the Guru first.

Yogi Sitaram Omkarnath

Nowsee the horoscope of the disdple.

Unliquidated Karma
TookSanyas, was sent back to liquidate his karma. Became a house-
holder. Then in the dasha of Mercury became a sanyasi.
He was given initiation into sanvoa by some other guru. When he
told about it to his own guru, he was told that unless the burden of
karma was liquidated, sadhana could not be done properly. Some
worldly wishes and desires would haunt him and ruin him both
materially and spiritually. One must accept the challenges of life ,
face them, succeed or fail. During this period he must begin to get
detached from the fruits of his actions. That and that alone was the
foundation of true sanyns.JUe great Guru proved right. This good
disciple, who has the bondage of karma present in his horoscope,
through the dhona vooas earned well.
After some years, when his Mercury dasha started, he became
a sublime sanyasi.
The great guru had to liquidate his own karma in a similar
way in the early days of his own sadhana. Salvation is not got in a
short quick leap in one birth time. All the sanchita karmas must get
reduced to zero, the astral body must die, while the physical body
is still alive. A physical death is only the end of one of the many
Sub-chapters of many long chapters in the history of an individual's
liberation from the tangles of rebirths. Here only the horoscopes of
the Guru and the disciple have been given to show that both of them
did what a true sadhak does.
Astrology done without attachments, Inishkamck:,an be the
door to enlightenment, was what my mantra Guru said repeatedly.
! have done astrology free for over three decades for
thousands in India, for Indians and foreigners. In the USA, they forced
me to charge because they had to meet my expenses and also, collect
funds. I made use of the money for various charities in India and

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welcomed it. Money grabbed creates bondage. Money given away
destroys it.

No. 37
\ 1 Lag
11 Ven Rahu
Rahu Sun
10 Jup
12
2 y<f Lag Mer
No. 37
v Ver Jup Sun Yogi Sitaram
/ 3 Onkarnathji
9 17 February 1892
08.01 am
Mer Lat; 22 N 84
6 8 Long: 88 E 24
4 yc Moon Mars
Sat(R) X 7 Mars Ketu Moon
/ 5 Ketu Sat{R)

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

03o22" 05a34" 22-54" 22-06" 21-43"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
00M5" i ris" 06°32" 28-13" 28-13"

No. 38
4 /
\ 6 \Moon Mer/ Ketu
><

\jupX 3
5 yC Ketu
Moon
Lag Sat Mer
/ 8 No. 38 Jup
2 \
s. Sun Nivamiha
Mars Lag

9 \X 11 1
Rahu Sat yC
Rahu Sun Ven
/ 10 ^ / 12 \.
/ Mars

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Konrw & Rebirth in Hindu Astrology
Dollaritis
In the USA they charge you for everything unlike in India, where
the concept of daan (charity in English is the world used though it
does not appear to convey the same meaning) does not exist in a

S Moon Mars /
Jup Ven \>Cflra rarcte/
7 \6 / 5
9 Lag Rahu
Sun Mer No. 39
VSat y Ketu
7 November 1923
10 4 > 05.36 am.
Eat: 22 N 10 Rahu
Long; 09 E 13
11 1 3
Ketu Lag Moon
2 Jup Sun Mer Mars
12 ^
Ven Sat Kara-
kamxha

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

16°52" 20o45" 27°! 8" 19a52"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
03° 17" 05°4r 02c'44" 16037" 16037"

No. 40

11
1 v Mer Ketu / Lag Sun Mars
\Sun Z
2 12 /\ 10
Lag
Mer
/ 3 Ketu No. 40 Jup
9 \
\ Mars Nawameha
Ven
Ketu
4 6
8
jup Moon
7
Sat Moon
/ 5 \ \
Ven Ketu Sat \

spiritual sense. 1 have seen, as in India, many Americans practising

astrology even with their rudimentary knowledge and charging
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dollars, say forty dollars, for half hour minimum.
These astrologers get enmeshed in the tangles of Karma and
they claim that they give spiritual guidance to their clients.
The Indian version of American "dollarities" is: charge a fixed
fee, and then also prescribe costly remedies in the shape of gems
and stones. There is an understanding with jewellers that certain
percentage of commission would be paid for prescribing stones and
gems. These mercenary astrologers speak of the high ideals of Indian
astrology and even write on spiritual subjects.

The Academic Group

In the meantime there grew up around me the biggest academic
group of astrologers with whom we could start astrology classes, again
the largest in the world. A very well known astrologer tried to destroy
it first in 1989 and later in 1994. I had to take hard decisions. If
I could persuade the Bharatiya Vidya Bhowan to take over these
classes, India's finest educational institution whose mission has been
to spread the Bharatiya Vidvas. Then it would be possible for me to
gei unattached to my own creation. The ultimate advantage would
be that the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan would run it with its efficiency
having all the infra structure that was needed to run this prestigious
course. Now with the newer group it has also been possible to start
The Journal of Astrology.
Some older associates who were producing no research, but
wanted to remain in high positions, left and formed a different
organization. They wanted to satisfy their ego by pretending to be
promoters of astrology, i wanted a prestigious institute like the
Bharatiya Vidya Bhawn, recognized by the government of India, to
look after what is hundred percent my creation. It would help me
detach myself from my own creation anytime 1 liked. It resulted in
a big clash and they all indulged in a vicious campaign of calumny
against me. The bigger tragedy I noticed is that technical men who
have not done well in their own specializations have been becoming
professional astrologers or hack writers of books on astrology.

The Amoral Group

I am referring to it because the mercenary astrologers and the ego-
satisfying chieftains have never been interested in astrology as a
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source of illumination. They have not been interested in the subject
even in any academic manner. Some of them are prolific but muddled
headed writers. One of them writes in a very circumlocutory style
on what he thinks are esoteric subjects and symbols of astrology. The
other produces some researches on rainfall. He never takes core to
check even the events and history properly. Once he described a
village poet astrologer, Bhaddari (17th century) as an illegitimate son
of Varaharrtihira (5th century AD or even six hundred years earlier).
He took years of well known drought and proved them to be
years of fine rainfall. It is not moral to mislead readers of astrology
books or articles. It is immoral to exploit clients. But what can anyone
do with this amoral group which causes mesmeric confusion without
any research?
Since we are talking of Astrology and Karma lot of moral
questions arise.
1. Can an astrologer who is charging a fee for giving consultations
ever call himsel' spiritual? This question arises mainly in the
spiritual context The Gita again clarifies it.
^TT "TFI ^TTPn 1
^ 2<£sfdl: I I

Yes ham Tvantagatam fbpamJononaam Punyakarmanaam

Te Dwandamoha Nirmukfoh Bhajante Maam Dridavrata
The Gita 7 ch. 28 sh

a. He whose accumulated sins of all past lives have been

destroyed,
b. Such holy persons alone,
c. With their attachments to life's dualities having been destroyed,
d. Worship Me with unflinching determintion.
Is not the astrologer, charging a fee, getting attached to the fruits of
his actions? Astrology can be done best only by either the spiritual
group or the academic group. Others in the field are ill-trained,
greedy, fraudulent exploiters.
The great ancient tradition was never to ask for any fee for
consultation. Whatever any person brought with him, a flower, a fruit
or money was his own willing gift to the astrologer.

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Classification of Astrologers
In the change context of our mercenary age, astrologers get classified
easily as:
a) The Spiritual Group: it can be now called the vanishing species.
b) The Academic Group: who may collect money occasionally to
finance their own research projects, individually. In this area
i got collected lot of money to finance the publication of others'
books. This group is growing very fast in our classes in the
Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan. The great astrologers of the future will
grow out from it because these students have a background of
academic excellence already. They being technocrats, engineers,
chartered accountants, MBA's have a disciplined and sharp
mind and keenness to do research. They can destroy many
dogmas of astrology which pass tor correct textual meaning of
our astrological classics. Yet, I noticed that for many of thenn
in this group, astrology will not be that divine source of
illumination which it should be. Some have already become
ugly professionals.
c) The Mercenary Group: Thev fall into clear sub-cateaories. the
first the tradionallv trained ones whose quality of predictions are
better; the ill-trained and highly publicised astrologer, the typical
astrologer of the modern era who is a menace; the less
publicised and most boorish ones are the most dangerous
corruptors of India's great astrological tradition.
d) The amoral group which has found running of astrological
institutes are ego-satisfying and clients-enticing. This includes
writers well known for the mesmeric confusion they cause.

The Lessons An Astrologer Learns

It is the moral duty of o succesful and conscientious astrologer not
to turn his client into a fatalist. More often than not, when astrological
predictions are fulfilled, people begin to develop a blind faith in
astrology. It is bad both for the growth of astrology as a super science
and for the astrologer himself who may be sapping someone's
initiative through over-emphasis on a prediction of his, The final
outcome of every prediction of an astrologer teaches him some
lessons.

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 The lessons I have learnt is what I want to narrate briefly here.
Those who seek astrological guidance fall into certain well defined
classes.

1.The Tolerant
I gave a very important prediction to an Indian that he would get a
very high position which hegot. Being an overambitious man, he later
asked mete predict aboutthe results of two elections he was fighting,
one in the country and, one outside the country. I predicted failure
in the national elections and victory in the international one. I went
wrong. He won in the national election and lost in the international
one. Being an intelligent mon, he appreciated my astrology still and
said that I might have misjudged the results of a particular sub-sub-
period. He was right. If 1 had been careful I would have avoided this
mistake but it was my prarabdha.

2. The intolerant
In the cose of a political figure, told his wife who knows' some
astrology that in the sub period of the Sun once, and in the
sub-sub-period again, her husband would have a set back. When it
happened both times, she lost her temper with me. After that she tried
her best to win me over to do astrology for her family which I have
not done since.

3. Underplaying the Negative

I warned a person about an ailment but predicted a good period
professionally. After he got a very good job, he had a heart attack.
He and his wife blamed me. i told them, when f had asked him to
be careful about his health / had told him about the ailment which
/hadseen. I was not in the habit of frightening persons by insisting
on such negative predictions. They told me that I should have
emphasized the ailment part of my prediction. I asked them not to
come to me again for astrology.
In Ketu-Saturn increase in income through employment and
other investments was predicted and it happened. The next sub period
would be that of Mercury, the 8th lord with two malefics. In 1986
his sadhe-sati would also be continuing. So I gave both predictios:

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increased income and health problem. He got a job in early part of
1985. After that I was not in touch with him. In the second half of
1986 he had a heart attack. The prediction was obvious. Yet the
expectation of a client that only good things should happen is to give
a false hope. To emphasize the ailment part of the prediction would
be to sap his initiative. A mild warning or hint is enough.

4. The Wise
! told a person that the unpleasant that was happening in his life was
what he should accept as hi's prarabdha as no one could help him.
Later it would become a mere episode of his past years.
He did as I advised him. Now when he meets me once in a
while he never asks any astrological questions. His standard answer
is that he had learnt the finest lesson of his life. Accept things as they
happen and vet continue doing your karma efficiently as stated in the
Gita. After that astrology had no more meaning for him. There could
be nothing superior to the lessons of the Gita he says and teils others.

5. Amorous Expectations
A woman was told by me that she would meet a person who would
attract her. Somedoys later she came and told me that a handsome

\ 12 10 Rahu Jup
\. Rahu / 3
/
1 Sun
11 Sat
Lag \Mer Lag Case No. 41 Mars
Male
/ 2 6 13 January 1931
Ven 08.37 am.
Lat: 25 N 36
5 7 long: 85 E 08
3 XX
Jup / N. Moon
/
Sun
6 Sat Ven Moon Ketu
// 4 ^
Mars Ketu Mer

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

01o20' 29" 14" 22058', 19*41' 15*13"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
21 °46" 13°39" 22°11" 2 6° 10" 26*10"
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doctor she was chasing spurned her away. I told her that my prediction
was not that the handsome doctor she was chasing would be her
successful catch.
This is the most persistent question women ask and the most
nagging one also.

6. Low Bred Astrologer

Astrologers with low breeding as can be seen in Delhi, someof them
even editing astrological journals, find it easy to be vituperative than
intellectually honest and technical. They have had a very low level
of education. Without a background of very good education,
astrologers can be only charltans. Yet it is such astrologers that
dominate the scene because they steal limelight. The biggest damage
these astrologers do is to makebold and loud political predictions on
wrong horoscopes. I have given enough instances of this type in my
book, The Nehru Dynasty. When some important man gets trapped
by them they give them predictions which generally go wrong. But
they will never admit that they had committed such a mistake. Let
me give a very good example.
On the above horoscope till May 1984, he was running the major
period of Mercury and Ketu sub-period.
I knew that he had taken a historically unconstitutional decision
in that period which cost him his political career. I asked him how
could he ever do that. He told methat he was running Mercury Venus
according to his astrologer which had to be a great period for him.
I told him that the calculations of his astrologer of the dasha was
different.
Few days later, he came to me with a written letter from his
astrologer that the horoscope I was using was wrong in two ways:
first, Mercury had to be in Vrisha and, not Mesha, as I had shown
and that in April 1 984, it was the sub-period of Venus that was
running. I rang up an astrologer and requested him to do manual
calculation and tell me. The answer of the astrologer was that Mercury
had to be in Mesha as I had shown and, that in April 1984, it was
the sub-period of Ketu.
But the argumentative astrologer used some vituperative words
for me and did not change the horoscope of his very important client
to whom t had given a prediction that by September 1993 in Mercury
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Jupiter he would have a better change in his political career. His
astrologer again abused me and insisted that it would be a disastrous
period. Exactly in September 1993, the change predicted by me
happened.
An astrological prediction is not o matter of self prestige. We
all commit mistakes. Is there anything wrong in admitting it? Let
anyone calculate the horoscope on the basis of the data given and
use Chitmnokshn Avanamsha and see the whether the calculations
t had were right or not,

7. Which is the correct AYonamsha?

In the casting of a horoscope the avanamsha chosen must be the one
which can be tested very minutely. Here, if Raman avanamsha is used,
the lagna changes into Karka and, the degrees of the Moon^will pe

Ven Mer Sun Rahu

Mars Cats. No. 42

Mala 24 May 1926
06.36.08 pm.
Lat: 31 N 06
Long: 77 E 10
P 63 RED PL 2
Ketu Lag Sat(R)
Moon

Lag na Sun Moon Mars Mercury

02o47" 09o06" 03°40" 22=07" 26052"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
03a32u 26044u 29° 12" 24o08" 24o08"

14052".
Use the Chitrapaksha Avanamsha and see that the lagna is
Mithuna and the Moon is in mritvubhaaa. I saw disaster in the
educational career of the youngman. It was quite hurtful because his
father had a super-brilliant academic career and had risen very high
in his service career. This youngman was a disaster for everyone.
Ill
He took to drugs and stopped his education totally which hurts a Hindu
father always deeply.
There were arguments oboutthe lagna because some of them
had dabbled in astrology.
a. I told the father that the gajakesariyoganVne 9th house showed
his own rise.
b. The 5th lord in the 6th house aspected by retrograde Mars was
the ruination of his education. But, some Indians took the 4th
house for education was the argument. I asked him to prove
it statistically. We had tested it on hundreds of horoscopes.
Jaimini astrology also took the 5th house for education.
c. Then came the crucial question why should the boy have spoiled
his education in Jupiter- Moon which should have been an
excellent period. The Moon was in mritvubhaaa if you used the
chitrapaksha avonamsha, not Raman's, as they had done.
An avanamsha that collapses both in the divisional horoscopes and
in Jaimini astrology must be rejected as unscientific. In this case the
Moon itself made the difference in the birth horoscope itself,
A conscientious astrologer, with a spiritual background, must
not use an ayanamsha which can lead to wrong casting of horoscopes.
II does tremendous damage to lovers of astrology and those millions
of men consulting astrologers for guidance. Inherent in their obstinate
attitude is their lack of spirituality and avarice. A wrong panchanga
(we have more than 600 in India), and books based on wrong
ayanamsha, which cannot be established, scientifically through
predictive uses in subtle use of divisional horoscopes and Jaimini
astrology has ruined the science of astrology. The enigma of those
promoting astrology and also damaging is a bitter truth of Hindu
astrology of our decades.
Truth should be sacred in astrology. This truth has many facets,
one of which is the correct avanamsha.

The Appearance and Behaviour of the Astrologer

The appearance of an astrologer is sometimes very tamosic. In India
we have many astrologers with even cruel appearance, ill-tempered
talk and poor astrological knowledge publicising themselves almost
in the American style, and succeeding. This trend has been increasing.
Many of them go to the so called astrological coferences as they do
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 Lag
Rah

Mars No. 43
Lag Jup Rahu
Moon 31 December 1962
06.30 pm.
Sat Let: 28 N 39 Mars
Ketu Long: 77 E 31
Mer p 66 BMP
Jup
Sun Moon Sun Ven
Sat Ketu
van Mer

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

29°09' 16o02,; 13°24" Ol'l6" 04o45"
Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
01'33" 16°35" 06= 16" 06° 16"

in the USA and create a market for themselves. None of fhem has
had the courage to write out predictions in advance on a given
horoscope for a newspaper. A lady journalist who was doing it was
surprised. Why, she had asked me were they afraid if they knew
astrology, i asked her why did she presume that they knew astrology.
Many of them have established themselves by publishing some sort
of an astrological journal or even cook books on astrology. Their
markettig strategy paid them well. Linked to this is the law and lack
of morality of many publishers and distributors in the book trade. The
law of the market have their inexorable laws and writers cannot save
themselves from being exploited by publishers and distributors. Who
believes in right karma?
It is these mercenary astrologers that deserve to be punished
through law. It is true that some of the professional astrologers do
have some moderate percentage of success. Yet, it has been seen
that once they become greedy, which they must since that is wha
money must do, their behaviour begins to become more and mor
tamasic.

Belief in God's Law

A morally upright astrologer travels from Vsdanga to Vedanta.He sees
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in astrology that truth which is discovered in yogic meditation .Thai
leads him on to higher spiritual aspirations. That original purpose of
astrology has already been defeated in our corrupt and mercenary
age. If it is bad in India, I found it worse in the USA. Astrologers
worshipping mammon, not God -that is the tragedy of our age. But
do then astrologers believe in Karma at all?
Often, I am asked whether by producing so many well-trained
astrologers through the style of teaching I have evolved and having
produced astrology-teachers, has not professionalism in astrology
become much before than before. It is true that it has and, we have
many more professional writers than before. But they are better and
superior to many quacks in the field. The other trend is hack writers
of book on astrology which is a bad trend. Some cook book writers
have started making fortune by taking them to the USA and selling
them at exhorbitant prices. But then as I have said, do astrologers
themselves believe in the laws of karma ? Do they believe in astrology
themselves, their own horoscopes, their own 1 Ofh lord?
A good Jupiter, the planet for Vedanta, is necessary because
it is the planet for vedanaa also. An astrologer with guru chandah
yoga is nowhere near any veneration for the sacred tradition of
astrology. Then a good 1 Oth house, a good second house and a good
dasha are all necessary to be successful in astrology. Untainted Jupiter,
the planet of Vedangaand Vedanta, a good 5th house, a blemishless
5th lord, happy condition of the 2nd house and the 2nd lord are
necessary to single out an astrologer. Which means what? Spiritual
astrologers are almost non existent.
All astrological predictions, fully successful, half successful or
failed ones teach the astrologer the most important lesson: it is only
God's law that must prevail. Astrology, being one of the limbs of the
Vedas, is known as Vedanga. The high stage of non-duality which is
reached by yogis is Vedanta. It is why without a good Jupiter one
cannot be a good astrologer.
Let me conclude by saying that the debate between Destiny
and Freewill is unending. See from the Mahabharata why efforts are
important and also see why certain events are predestined.
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This world is dependent on efforts and Destiny. The predestined results
become available only when efforts are put in right time.
5s w

When the Ashwamedha yagna is performed it creates a situation

which becomes instrumental for the destruction of the world through
a deadly war. It becomes the reason for the destruction of Khsatriyas
and of the world.
(Rishi Noroda sxpbins to Yuddishira)

(Then when Shishupal was killed by Lord Krishna, Yuddhistira

asked sage Vyas whether the predicted evil results were over, his
answer was.)

The results of these great disturbances will be experienced for 13

years. It will destroy Khastriyas.
cFTTT I

You will be the chosen instrument of Destiny which will lead to the
destruction of the kings of the world at right time. The cause of this
will be the offence of Duryodhana and Arjuna and Bheema will
complete the task of destruction.

How Time Saves

diioiw

TIME not keep vigil with a baton or a sword. All that TIME does is
to make one's mind pervert.
It is what happens to ambitious astrologers who want
to pluck stars and make money. But do we believe in all this
claiming to be the children of rishis - we men of Kaliyuga

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 Preface

After my book on Astrology and Karma which my Indian friends

described as my best book to date for reasons best known to them,
this addition of Rebirth and Tradition must be treated as an expansion
of the same theme. In India and some other countries of the world
there is both traditional belief in rebirth and collected and tested case
studies. In recent years, Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia
USA, has done remarkable work in this area though many Indians
who could have done far better work must have failed because of
lack of resources and apathy, a common Indian failing. Stevenson's
work is praiseworthy as, he being a product of a different culture and
rigid scientific background, did make attempts to overcome his lack
of 'feel' for what is a normal and real living tradition of Hindu way
of life based on thousands of family experiences.
I must also begin, necessarily, with an observation given by
Lakshmana of the great epic, the Ramayana to Nishadraj, the
king of a forest kingdom, during the fourteen year exile of Lord
Rama to the forest,
(Adhyatma Ramayana)

"No one is the cause of any other person's happiness or

unhappiness. It is the karmas of a man's past life that are its
causes. There is no one else that gives happiness or
unhappiness. To say so is ignorance. The very thought "t do
it", is ignorance. Everyone is in the bondage of his own karmas.
If is man himself who through his different types of behaviour
creates friends, enemies, indifferent and envious persons.
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 Therefore, man should remain blissful in all conditions whether
he is in a happy condition or an unhappy one, accepting if at!
as his prarabdha As far as ! am concerned t have neither the
desire to have worldly enjoyments and the desire to give them
up. Whether these enjoyments come into my life or not, / will
not be in the grip of these. In whatever place and at whatever
time auspicious or inauspicious deed has been done that has
to be suffered inevitably. So when auspicious or inauspicious
results spring up, one should neither be elated nor lament over
them because no one can violate the laws of Cod. Man is
always surrounded by happiness and unhappiness because
human birth is the result of the mixture of sins and holy deeds.
Happiness follows unhappiness and unhappiness follows
happiness. Inside happiness there is unhappiness and inside
unhappiness there is happiness. These two are intermixed like
water and mud. Therefore the wise never get elated or
depressed when their desires are fulfilled and when they are
not, saying 'all this is Mayo'.
(Free translation, page 67)

In this cycle of births and rebirth we forget, as we must, because of

the powerful Maya of the Lord, that we have friends or enemies as
a result of our own karmas. Yet an astrologer should be wiser than
others in this area of human knowledge. Moslof them, mercenaries,
earning their livelihood out of astrology, cannot and do not even do
that. It is why astrology will continue to be the knowledge of ill-
educated charlatans, as it must have been even in ancient times also.
We have enough evidences to show that astrology was condemned
in all ages and in all countries always and, yet, it flourishes because
it has a super scientific base. In all ages, cheats have existed as yogis
and sanyasis. There have been false prophets too. There are
fundamentalist religionists who would suppress any evidence which
proves their religious stand to be untenable and superstitious. Then
we have physical scientists, more superstitious, because like frogs in
the well they do not know that boundless human knowledge exists
outside the well in which they have sought their distinction. Thai well
is their laboratory. It is precisely for this reason that the case studies
I have taken up are indisputable, though very limited in number. Lot
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of friends both in India and the USA, particularly, offered to help
but they were not able to assure me that their material for astrological
investigation was not spurious. The material given to me in the USA
was unauthenticated. By authentication what I mean is that the
horoscopes of an individual of both births must be correct and
someone, other than me, must certify them to be genuine and valid.
In the case studies presented in this book, I have done that.
An astrologer must know that Jupiter the planet of Vedanta
governs also Vedanga (the six limbs of the Vedas of which astrology
is one). Whot Jupiterteaches is divine wisdom. An astrologer without
a good Jupiter is lost in the Maya of self-boasting, abusive writing,
envious attack on those who surpass and have betterability and fame.
That is also the Maya of the Lord. Lot of ignorant articles have been
written by many writers about what are astrological combinations
about astrologers. Almost all of them have ignored Jupiter as the most
important planet. The planet of divine knowledge, Jupiter, alone must
occupy the prime position. Next must come Mercury, the planet of
mathemotics, astronomy and astrology. These must get connected with
spiritual houses to give to astrology its original iWonfrccontent.The
aspect or presence of Jupiter on the second house, the house of
speech gives truthfulness and therefore Vak-siddht or,that spiritual gift
of prophecy which a spiritual astrologer has to have. But such a
Jupiter, if in malefic association, can turn it into guruchandalq/oga.
But for such astrologers, this great super-science is not the path to
salvation but pathway to hell. Such astrologers are not afraid of hell
because their own violations of all types of moral codes is what they
have to indulge in to become wealthy and famous, particularly when
their astrological ability is deficient. Jyof/sha, the original Indian word
for astrology, means the science of light. This light emanating fro
the Vedas is the divine light which astrologers for whom astrology i
merely fortune telling, forget. They have to forget it because astrology
is a calling forthem, a bread-winning branch of human knowledge
not a search for the Ultimate Truth
I am talking of the deficient astrological ability because I have
tried my best to know if it was possible to find out unfailingly through
astrological techniques from which world a man had come in his
present incarnation and where he would goto after death. No one
could even give me a practical hint except my late jyotish guru, Yogi
na
Konme & Rebirth in Hindis Astro logy
Bhaskaranonda and my late mother but without any horoscope. Left
to myself, I too do no know of any such technique which works. So
I decided to work on the horoscopes of both births of an individual
wherever such reliable data could be got. God helped. Today I am
able to make a slight breakthrough astrologically to prove that some
of the principles of Parashara and Varahmihira can be depended on
in our investigations into rebirth. A gist of those principles is being
given in a small chapter.
Rebirth is a reality not merely because it is part of the Indian
tradition but because it is now well investigated by many scholars in
intellectual disciplines, other than astrology.
The case studies discussed here, some, out of the five (actually
ten) have been presented in the USA both in 1994 and 1995. But
•he first presentation was done before my own students in the
Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan in 1994. The demand for astrological
researches is great but, researchers in this century in India, have been
only very few. In the recent months the tendency to steal our
researches and even the title of our books has become an uglier
trend. There is littfe hope in such an atmosphere of producing genuine
and honest research in astrology. Plagiarism in astrology is as
rampant as black market.
To prove rebirth as a fact of human existence and work on
well known cases, but astrologically, and showthe links between both
births, mine, I presume, isthe first attempt being made through more
than one case, but not a satisfyingly substantial one, is what I
must admit. Yet it is being done to start a debate and continue
astrological investiaotions. At some point, long after I am dead and
gone, others mov achieve better success. Mine is. let me
re-emphasize, only a beginning in this direction. It will take decades
of efforts because getting the horoscopes of both births of an individual
with non-astrological investigation into the truth of it being a case of
rebirth will never be an easy task.
In the next century, when man will be more holistic in his
outlook, astrology will replace all other sciences as the supreme
science or the science of sciences. An astrological investigation like
mine will then be the guideline for deeper investigation then. At the
moment I expect, as usual, either to be blamed or praised only for
•his effort.
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Preface Karma S. Rebirth in Hindu Astrology
A blemishless 5th lord, happy condition of the 2nd house and
•he 2nd lord are necessary to single out a good astrologer. Which
means what? Spiritual astrologers are almost non existent.
All astrological predictions, fully successful, half successful or
failed ones teach the astrologer the most important lesson: it is only
God's law that must prevail. Astrology being one of the limbs of the
Vedas is known as Vedanga. The high stage of non-duality which is
reached by yogis is vedanta. It is why without a good Jupiter one
cannot be a good astrologer. An astrologer must believe, first of all,
in astrology. If his horoscope does not show high idealism and
spirituality he can only be an abusive mercenary.
But then must we not remind ourselves that we are living in
Kaliyjga?

K.N.Rao

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 Scriptural Tradition

and

Rebirth

Gila's Sublimes! Lessons: Gita and Rebirths

The theme of the Gita is the shining light of divinity. The preaching
here is most optimistic showing that Divine Illumination alone leads
to liberation and freedom from the cycle of births. It is why Gita is,
and will always be, the greatest book on this earth,
The message of the Gita is clear: Salvation is the birth right
of every being if he devotes himself to Him.
The theme of the Gita revolves round the problem of getting
out of the cycle of births and rebirths. That hope exists for everyone
becomes clear in the Gita, unlike the fear of eternal damnation or
hell fire, preached by fear inducing fundamentalist religions. There
is as much hope for those whom we call sinners and the downtrodden
as for others. The path of illumination is devotion to Him and
surrendering the fruits of actions to Him. It never is stopping the doing
one's karma. After reading the Gita every wise man decides - start
doing your karma properly but stop desiring.
A brief summary of what the Gita says about rebirths is given
here.
Chapter 2
To help Arjuna overcome histerrible mental confusion created bythe
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to fight against his own cousins, uncles, gurus and respected elders,
Lord Krishna started his preaching, the greatest ever done for man,
by explaining three essential points first.

What is Life and what is Death ?

1. It must be known what is death before knowing what is life. It
must be known because the delusion caused by the grief of
death must be overcome. Boyhood, youth and old age are the
stages of life one has to pass through.
2. It is certain thatthose whoare born will die and will be reborn.
One should not grieve over these inevitable events.
3. An equanimous man renounces the fruits of his actions, frees
himself from the shackles of birth and attains supreme bliss.
(Shlokas 13,27,43,47,50,51)

Chapter 4
Lives Before Lives: The Lord tells Arjuna that both He and Arjuna had
passed through many lives which were known only to the Lord while
Aquna did not know.
The Lord is Unborn but manifests Himself through his
YoQonioyof (divine energy creating illusion) but keeps His own Prakriti
(nature) under control. The purpose of this manifestation or
incarnation is to protect the virtuous and destroy evil-doers. All this
has to be done to establish Dharma (righteousness). It is for this that
the Lord incarnates from age to age. God's incarnation and activities
are divine. He who knows it gets liberated from the cycle of births.
In such a state all attachments of the devotee vanish. Divine
Knowledge is what he has now. He gets liberated.
(Shlokos 5, 6, 7, 8, 23)

Chapter 6
Results of steadiness or vacillations in spiritual practice
Arjuna asks a very pertinent questlonrdoes not a person,
swinging like a pendulum between the worldly andthe spiritual
gel himself torn within?
The Lord clarifies it step by step:
He who follows the spiritual path does not meet with an evil
destiny
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 If for some reason he is not able to complete his spiritual
sadhana he does not get final liberation yet he attains to one
of the higher worlds where lives happily as a result of his
meritorious deeds. Then he has to descend to the earth where
he gets his birth in the house of pious and well-off persons
(where he would get a favourable atmosphere for resuming
his uncompleted sadhana).
Orsuch a person maytake birth in the family of an enlightened
Yogi though it is generally rare,
Having got such a birth and finding the atmosphere suitable
for the pursuit of his sadhana, he now impelled by the spiritual
practices of previous birth, becomes equanimous, overcomes
the desire to achieve the fruits of his actions because the lessons
learnt are really spiritual.
[Shlokcs 38, 40.41,42, 43, 44, 45)

Thoughts at the Time of Death

The thoughts that are in the mind of the dying man decide the nature
of his next birth. If he is contemplating on God, he gets liberation.
Whatever object one is thinking about at the time of death is
what he attains after death. It is that predominant thought that
determines his destiny of future life.
Therefore all the time one's karma must be done and thoughts
must be fixed on the Cosmic.
He whose mind is so fixed gets liberation.
Therefore a yogic practice which is done through the breath
control, concentrates on the spot between the eyebrows at the time
of death and devotes himself to God with unwavering mind, leads
one to liberation.
Great persons who reach that high stage of liberation are not
reborn in this world which after all is full of sorrow and is only
transitory.
11 must be remembered that even the Higher Worlds spoken
of appear and disappear. But for him who concentrates on Him there
is no rebirth.
The Path of a Yogi and time of his departure from this world
are two important factors to be known. In uttara/ana (when the Sun
moves between Capricorn and Cancer, January to July) during day
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time and in the bright lunar half if the yogi leaves his body in a yogic
state, he attains. The opposite of this is when a Yogi leaves his body
in a yogic state in the dakshinayana (when the Sun travels from
Cancer to Capricorn) in the dark lunar fortnight, he takes a rebirth.
{This is only a symbolic explanation. Yogis interpret it differently.)
(Shlolcas 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 23, 24, 25)

See a similar Instance from the Vaimiki Ramayana. In all scriptures,

these thoughts are repeated, with sublimity.
Bharotc^the noble younger brother of Lord Rama, had come
to persuade him to come back and accept the kingdom of Ayodhya
and become the king. During his conversation with Rama he
remarked.
Antakale hi bhootani muhyanfeeftpura shrutih
Ragnaiva kurvata foke pratyakshcso shrutih kritah
It is said that when nearing death, men get deluded, they lose their
intelligence. By taking such a harsh decision (asking Roma to forsake
the kingdom and go to the forest) King Dasharatha has proven the
truth of this.
"You are yourself in d miserable condition. Why are you pitying
another person in a miserable condition. Living in a human frame
which is like a bubble of water how miserable one is in his judgement
of another person?"
(p 730)

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Yafbo kastham cha kasfham cha samayetam maharnave,

Sametya tu vyapeyaatam kaatmasadhya kanchan
Evam Bharyaschpufrascb gyaatayascha vasuunicha
Sametya vya vac/ho van fidh ru vo hyesham vinabhava

(p459 VaimikiRomzyandj

Wife, son, family and wealth are gof and lost, just as two logs flowing
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in an ocean join together and then drift apart, because such
separation is inevitable.

Quotations from the Mahabhorata

1. The person who grieves for the dead can neither die nor join
the dead. When such is the natural condition of the world, why
grieve at all? The Lord of Time drags everyone to such an end.
TIME has no favourites nor does He hale anyone.
(P 4377)

2. We have been born a thousand times and have experienced

the love of thousands of parents, women and children. But to
whom do they belong now and to which of them we belong?
. 3. Worry springs from thousands of places. Fear too have
hundreds of reasons. They influence the dull-witfed, nolthe wise
one.
4. Man should overcome his mental worries through his own
intelligence and physical ailments through medicines... this is
the power of science. How can man do it?

The answer given by Vidura is:

A wise person should practise only what frees him from the duality
of happiness and unhappiness... what difference can you see in terms
of greatness, fame or achievements when you see dead bodies all
of which look alike? The body is compared to a house which gets
destroyed. What is immortal is the soul... Man lives and does not live
in this world according to the karmas of his past life. When such is
the natural condition of the world, why worry?
The wise who becomes saftwick, wishes well of others,
understands the arrival and departure of mortals as being regulated
by the laws of Karma, attains to the state of liberation.

Nature of the World

Therefore to understand who alone can attain to the state of liberation,
Vidura explains to Dhristratra, the nature of the world we live by
narrating first a story and its symbolism.

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The Story
A Brahmin was travelling through a vast forest full of carnivorous and
violent animals. The roaring lions, ferocious wolves, hugeelephants
and bears had turned the forest into a place full of terror. Carnivorous
birds flew from place to place. Terribly disturbed, the Brahmin
developed all types of fears. He tried to run away from them all but
they would not stop chasing him. In the meantime he found himself
being hugged and trapped by a ferocious woman There was a well
in the forest covered with grass and twigs of trees. He fell into it but
the vines and creepers in the well prevented him from falling into
the pit of the well. He fell upside down, with his legs upwards and
the mouth downward. There he noticed another big danger. Down
below in the pit was a huge cobra. Outside along the boundary
of the well, he saw a huge elephant with six mouths. The
elephant was white and walked with twelve feet. The creepers
in which the Brahmin had got entangled was full of honey bees
who were drinking the honey oozing from beehives.
Hanging upside down, the Brahmin started tasting that honey
even in that condition. So agonized though he was, yet his appetite
for the oozing honey was no' getting whetted. He had no sense of
detachment even from his pitiable and fear producing condition. The
keen desire to be alive and continue drinking that honey had become
an obsession with him.
The creepers by which he was hanging was being gnawed by
mice, yet his desire lo enjoy drinking honey was not leaving him. The
fears which were haunting him were six:
First, the fear of dangerous snakes in that forest: second, the
terrible woman waiting for him in the boundary of the forest: third,
the dangerous cobra down below in the pit of the forest: fourth, the
huge elephant along the boundary wall of the well: fifth, the fear of
the creepers by which he was hanging being torn asunder by the mice
cutting it off which could have made him fall down and finally, the
sixth fear was, the honey bees could have stung him.
Vidura explains the symbolism to Dhritharastra first by telling
him that it was only an instance to show that without a sense of
detachment one could not attain liberation.

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Kormc^. Rebirth in HirvJu Astrology
Symbols Meaning

FOREST: The huge forest is the world we are born into and ifl
which we live.
SNAKES: The snakes ore the various ailments we get.
WOMAN: The woman represents all that enervates our energy
and brings us nearer to senility ond a step nearer to
death.
WELL: The well is the human body.
CREEPER: The creepers in the well are the desires and hopes man
clings all through his life.
COBRA: The cobra down below is Time representing the end of
life's journey.
ELEPHANT: The elephant with six mouths is the year which has six
seasons. His twelve legs ore the twelve months.
MICE: The mice cutting off the creepers are day and night
which reduce the span of our lives and drag us nearer
to the point of our physical end.
SEES: The bees are mon'e manifold desires.
HONEY: The honey oozing from the beehive is the nest of
human desires.
The wise who know this to be the world and its ways, develops
detachment and develops a keen desire to attain salvation.
Note: In the Gita such a man is described as one with thousand fold
bondages of desires. In the Adhyatma Ramayana it is described
graphically as the hopes of a frog rnthe mouth of a cobra, with death
looming before it, to catch some mosquitoes.

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 Incarnations of

God & Devatas

The Hindu belief in rebirths has its origin even in the incarnations
of devafas-
it has been discussed why God incarnates Himself in our world
of mortals to restore the disturbed equilibrium when the weight of sins
becomes unbearable. God's incarnation is to be distinguished from
man's miseries when he is caught in the cycle of births. When He
incarnates as human being, he behaves mostly like a human being yet
glimpses of his Omnipotence get revealed.
The stories of God's incarnations make the Indian religion,
the Sanatana Dharma, better known as Hinduism, the most optimistic
and most colourful, singsong, joyful, festivities-filled multl coloured
splendour. Every religion leads one on to spirituality, each in its own
way. Hindus have many such Paths and many of them ore very
colourful. The Hindu Paths are all - embracing which is why Hindus
have never found anything new in any religion which they did not
know already.
There be a reason for God to incarnate himself. This reason
changes from one Mahakaipa (call it the Cosmic great epoch of
billions of human years) to another. In themselves, those stories make
interesting reading and inspire devotion. You then love God as one
of your own family circle yet know him to be greot, peerlessly great.
For instance see the differing versions about the birth of Lord
Rama.
(From the Vaimiki Ftamayana p.56 Gita Press Gorokhpur)

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Incarnation of Lord Vishnu
Rishi Rishyashringa1 said after he had completed the putresthi yagna
for the birth of the children of King Dasharatha, "You will have four
sons." Just -hen 'he gods were telling Lord Brahma that the demon
King, Ravana, had become too powerful and was devastating the
world with all his immoral actions. Brahma said that in asking for the
boon from Him, the demon King, Ravana had requested that his death
should not be ot 'he hands of gandharva, yaksho, rakshasha or
devata. This boon was granted to Ravana who remained under the
mistaken belief that no human being could kill him because human
beings were too weak to do him any damage. To maintain the sanctity
of his boon and also get Ravana killed, Lord Brahma requested Lord
Vishnu to be bom in four forms, as the four sons of King Doshoratha.
These would be human form in which, if the Lord killed Ravana, the
sanctity of Brahma's boon to Ravana would remain unviolated.
Then Lord Vishnu assured the assembled gods and Lord
Brahma thathe would be born in the family of King Dasharatha, would
destroy 'he family of Ravana and rule -he world of men for eleven
thousand years. To be of assistance to Lord Vishnu, who had now
decided to be born as the sons (in four forms) of King Dasharatha,
other minor gods too gave birth to brave and heroic children in form
of monkeys and bears. The parentage of some famous warriors who
fought from the side of Lord Rama in 'he battle of Lanka was as
follows.

Father Son

1. Lord Brahma Jambavaan (bear)

2. Lord Indra Bali (monkey)

3. Lord Sun Sugreeva (monkey)

4. Lord Brihaspoti Taar (monkey)

5. Lord Kuber Gondhamaodan (monkey)

6. Lord Vishwkarma Nal (monkey)

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7. Lord Agni (Fire) Neela (monkey)

8. Lords Ashwini Kumars Mainda and Dwivid (monkeys)

9. Lord Varun Susheno (monkey)

And the greatest and bravest of them was Lord Hanuman, son of the
Cod Pa wan.
God incarnated himself along with many of his divine
companions, mostly in non human form.
The Hindu belief in the divinity of all creatures flows from such
stories of incarnations.

Why had Vishnu to Incarnate as Lord Rama?

Behind every story of the incarnation of God in the world of mortals
there is an interesting story. In ancient times, in a fight between gods
and demons, the wife of moAo/^/j/Bhrigiwas kidnapped by demons.
The wife of the r/s/r/adualligave refuge to demons which enraged
Lord Vishnu who cut off her heod with his weapon, Sudarshan chakra.
This enraged Bhrigu who cursed Vishnu that he would have to be
born as a human being in the world of mortals where he would have
to suffer separation from his wife for many years. Lord Vishnu
accepted the curse cheerfully. He was born as Lord Rama and had
to suffer the pangs of separation from his wife, Sita twice, first time
when Rovana kidnapped her ond, the second time when he himself
osked her to leave his palace. All this was told to King Dasharatha
long before the events took place by Maharshi Durvasa.
Even God will not violate his laws regulating predestination.
(From Adbyotma Ramayana)

Lord Vishnu assured Lord Brahma lhat pleased with the tapasya
of rishi Kashyap, He had decided to be born in his family. Kashyap
was then ruling as a King by the name of King Dasharatha. He would
be born as four sons from the three wives of the King. (p27)
Then Lord Brahma asked gods to be born in monkey families.
From the Valmiki Ramayana

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Who Was Sita In Her Previous Birth?
Once Ravana, the demon King, saw a very beautiful woman doing
hard spiritual penance. Seeing her extraordinary beauty he offered
to take her as wife. But the maiden, whose name was Vedavati,
refused the offer. She explained that her father war Kushadhwaja,
son of Brihaspati (Jupiter). Since her father recited the Vedas
everyday when she was born, she knew the Vedas and was named
Vedavati. When she had become youthful many offers came from
the high and the mighty for marriage with her. But it was the desire
of her father that she should be the wife of only Lord Vishnu. This
annoyed a demon King who murdered her father one night. Then
her mother too decided to leave her body and entered the funeral
fire along with the dead body of her husband. Since then, Vedavati
decided to get Lord Vishnu as her husband.
This did not appeal to Ravana who caught the tuft of hair of
Vedavati, She immediately cut offthe halrwhich Ravana had touched
and entered fire to give up her body. Before dying, she said that:
1. She would be reborn and would become the cause for his
death.
7. Awoman cannot kill a mdewith her physical strength. She also
did not want to curse him and waste her accumulated spiritual
merit.
3. She would be born as an ayonija (immaculate conception)
daughter of a holy father.
4. In the next birth, she was born out of a lotas and soon Ravana
recognized her and took her to his palace. There a wise minister
saw the baby and told Ravana that the girl carried with her all
the signs of the destruction of his kingdom. Ravana immediately
threw her into water and from there her floating body reached
the kingdom of Raja Janak and landed on a field. While tilling
•he land, she was discovered and she became the daughter of
Raja Janak. In satyayuga she was Vedavati and, in Treto, she
became Sita. The line that gets drawn on the field while tilling
with a furrow is known as Sita. Some people describe the front
part of the furrow as Sita. It is how Vedavati became famous
in her next birth and became the cause of the destruction of
Ravana and his kingdom.
(From the Adhyutma Ramayana)
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Once the astrologer-rishi, Narada visited King Janak and told him
thatthe Lord had decided to incarnate himself to kill the demon King
Ravana as the four sons of King Dasharatha. Goddess Yogamaya ha
taken birth in the house of King Janak as Sita whose marriage wit
Rama is what he has to perform

King Dasharatha on his Death Bed:

Why Did he go to a higher world?
(Ayodbyakand p 357)

Lord Rama had to go -he to forest instead of becoming the successor

to his father, King Dasaratha. It was in deep agony that Dasharatha
lying on his bed, remembered the sins committed by him. 'His
condition was like that of the Sun covered by Rahu', is the description
given by Valmiki. The King tells his wife, Kaushalya:

Yadaacharafl Kalyaanl Shubham Va Yadi Voshubham,

Tadeva Lobhate Bhadre Karta Karmaj-atmanah
(ib 6, p 357 Ayodhyokondo)

Whatever auspicious or inasupiclous deeds man does, he gets

happiness or agonies accordingly.
The King recalled a sin he had committed in his youth when
hisfatherwas alive. He could hit a target blind-fold on merely hearing
a sound... Once, while going in a forest in the pitch darkness of the
night during the rainyjseason. King Dasharatha had heard the sound
of gurgling water which was like a pitcher being filled at a pond.
Unable to see it in the night he thought that an elephant was drinking
water in a pond. Then, a human voice was heard: "I am a tapasvi
(a spiritual person) I had come here to fetch water". He served his
old parents who were entirely dependent on him. By killing him the
King had killed three persons in a way, the great son after whose
death his two old parents would die in agony. He asked the King why
had he done that, since he was helpless and could not reach his parent
and quench their thirst now. His father too could do nothing now to
save just as 'a tree cannot prevent a gust of wind from snapping the
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branch of another tree'. He told the King to go convey this tragic news
to his old, emaciated and blind parents, which would save him from
being charred to death through their curses. Then, the injured tapasvi
told the King that he did not want to leave his body in the agony of
•he pain being caused physically. If the arrow was drawn from out
of his body he would die instantaneously, if not, his physical suffering
would become unbearable. He told the King that he wanted to do
dhyana (stabilize his mind) to prepare to leave the body in a happy
frame of mind. He was not a Brahmin. "I am born of a Vaishya father
and Shudra mother." Therefore the sin of killing a Brahmin had not
been committed by the King. So the King should free his mind from
the fear of Brahma-hatya (the killing of a Brahmin). The King drew
out that arrow his which had entered the heart of the tapasvi, who
now in his exalted and divine state of mind, went to heaven.
Nervously, the King went to the ashram where the parents of
•he tapasvi awaited the arrival of their son with water. Then the great
spiritual person that the father of the tapasvi was, he said that if the
King had not admitted the sin committed by him, he would have
cursed him and his body would have been torn into thousand pieces.
Then they asked King Dasharatha to take them to the pond where
•heir son's dead body was lying. The father blessed his sinless son
•hat he would attain to a higher world. The son then appeared in a
divine form before them and said that as a result of his sincere service
to his parents he had attained a high divine status and that, his parents,
too should join him soon. The old to/oosv/lhertold the King that just
as a charity giver gets the results according to -he nature of the charity
given, he too would die in a miserable condition when his
son would leave him and go away. Then the old couple departed
for the divine abode.
Remembering that tragic incident, King Dasharatha died in
agony.
But because his son lord Rama did great virtuous deeds,
Dasharatha went to Indraloka (a higher world). At the end of -he battle
of Lanka, one of fhe many persons who had descended from the
higher worlds was Dasharatha himself. I(was only now that Dasaratha
came to know 'hat Lord Himself had incarnated as his son.
Moral: The moral and spiritual deeds of children become the causes
of the liberation of their ancestors.
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The Divine End of Sharbhang Rishi
There is the story of Sharbhang Rishi in the Ramayana who Lord Rama
saw during the years he had to spend in the forest. The rishi, full
of divine splendour, was awaiting the arrival of Rama just when he
through the great spiritual merit he had accumulated, was preparing
to leave his body and go to Brahmaloka, the higher world. In the
presence of Roma whom he had requested to stay for a while, he
burntfire, recited mantras and left his body in the presence of God.
His bodyturned into thotof a youthful divine being and he ascended
to Brahmaloka.
Moral: Those who lead spiritually flawless life know of their coming
end and prepare for it with their minds absorbed in God
contemplation.
Note: See the instances I have recorded of yogis I have met in my
book " Yogis, Destiny and the Wheel of Time ".

The Divine End of Jatayu, the Bird

Jatayu the valiant eagle had found Ravana when he was kidnapping
Goddess Sita. Lord Rama reached the injured Jatayu and told him,
those who perform agnihotrayagndight in a battle like heroes and
do not run away, gift away land, go to higher worlds. If the Lord
performed his last funeral rites, he would go to the highest world.
Moral: Towards the end of a honestly dutiful and spiritual life
someone who can perform funeral rites properly reaches near that
person and performs funeral rites. Funeral rites performed by a right
and spiritual person has its own spiritua/slgnificance.

The Divine End of Kabandh, the Monster

Kabandh, the monster, was very hungry when both Rama and
Lakshmana during their wanderings in the jungle encountered. He
was huge and his arms had illimitable strength, Rama cut off the right
arm of fhe monster and Lakshamana the left one. Falling on the
ground, the monster realized that he had met some extraordinary
persons and asked who they were. Then he told his own story.

His strong arms were his real curse —

like handicaps in spiritual life
He was a very splendrous and powerful person in his previous life
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but took to the evil habit of frightening fhe rishis in fhe forest after
assuming the guise and form of a monster. One day, he tried the
same trick on a great rishi, Sthoolashira, who cursed him that he
should remain in that terrible and horrid form of a monster. The
frightened monster requested the rishito tell him how he could
overcome this curse. The r/s/?/saidthat when Rama and Lakshomano
would cut off his arms, he would get back his former form. The
monster then told them that in his previous life he had done strong
spiritual penances and had obtained a boon from Lord Brahma who
granted him a long life. Now in sheer haughtiness, he once attacked
Lord Indira who injured him badly, without killing him because of the
boon of Lord Brahma. Now he requested Lord Indra to help him
become fit enough to be able lo eat food. Otherwise, he would starve.
He was then given strong and long arms with which he could eat
animals in the forests by catching them with his hands. Lord Indra
had also assured him that when his arms would be cut off by Rama
and Lakshamana, he would go to the higher world.
Then Kabandha said (hal if the Lord performed his funeral rites
he would give him introduction to a good friend and also some clues
about where his kidnapped wife, Sita was. Kabandha saldfhafin his
present horrible state his divine powers could not function.
Only after his body was put in a pit and cremated according
to the scripturally sanctioned methods he would get back his divine
powers and would be of help. When Kabandha was cremated as he
had desired, he got his divine form and said:

Kings have six approaches to good administration

1. Sanc/h/; Treaty of friendship with enemies.

2. Vigroha/Vo wage a war on the enemy.

3. Yaan: Attacking the enemy.

4. Asan. Waiting for the right opportunity to take action

5. Dwa/dhibhavDvpWaty.

6. 5amoi<7s/TO,/o.-Takingefuge under a King who is more powerful.

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 Rama should therefore strike friendship with a person in a similar
plight who then was Sugreeva, the monkey King, whom his brother,
Bali, had turned oulof his house. He was a good and moral person
with lot of personal heroism. He would help Rama. Then Kabandha
got back his former beautiful and powerful form.
Moral: This is a case of no death but the death of an evil state in
which one may live. When divine blessings are showered on him he
overcomes if. Good spiritual conduct followed by a monster like life
but reversion into spiritual discipline, before one meets one's physical
\endcan pave the way to salvation.

Divine end of
the Untouchable Woman, Shabri
■As directed by Kabandha, Rama and Lakshamana reached the
beautiful Pampa Lake where they met an outcaste woman, Shabri,
whose spiritual practice had reached its most beautiful climax. After
serving the Lord she sought His permission to give up her physical
body and go to the higher worlds where the great rishis she had
served awaited her arrival.
Shabri then prepared sacred fire, self-cremated herself with
the Lord watching it. She goto divine form and ascended to the higher
worlds.
Moral: God and spirituality is not the monopoly of the high castes.
He who follows the true spiritual path attains salvation.

Magical Revival of Lord Hanutnon

When it was being debated who would jump over the vast sea that
separated Lanka from the continent of Aryavarta (India's ancient
name), Jambvaan reminded Hanuman the story of his birth.
There was a famous fairy by the name Punjakisthala. Under
a curse she had to assume the form of a monkey. Her name was
Anjana and her husband's Kesari. The lord of winds, Vayu once got
enthralled by her beauty and gave birth mentally (through Sankalpa)
to Hanuman who had boundless strength. Once, the child Hanuma
was very hungry and his mother had gone somewhere. To appeas
his appetite, he thought of eating something. He saw the shining Su
and mistook the Sun for an eatable and went to that world; there h
saw Rahu. Mistaking him to be an eatable he rushed towards him
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Outof fright, Rahu ran to Lord Indra and narrated the incident and
reminded him the right to gobble the Sun on certain lunar days was
his which was now challenged by a young child.
Lard Indra got annoyed with the child Hanuman and broke his
chin (/Vont/in Sanskrit) with his weapon, vajra. This annoyed Lord
Vayu who stopped all winds which created panic in the world.
Then gods amended their mistake and bestowed on him all
types of knowledge and wisdom. Since then, Hanuman became his
name, meaning one who had his hanu, broken and repaired.
Hanuman is known for extraordinary qualities which, though
not directly relevant to the topic under discussion, should be given
here for its extraordinary illumination.
But he had .forgotten his boundless powers which gods had
bestowed. When the child Hanuman was revived he had acquired
immortality as a boon of all gods and Brahma. Being uncontrollably
mischievous by nature, he disturbed rishis doing their spiritual
practices. The rishis however could do nothing because they were
aware that the child Hanuman had been given a great boon by almost
all gods, including Brahma. Then the rishis got annoyed with the boy
and laid a curse on him that for a very long time he would not be
even aware of his illimitable strength. For many years, Hanuman
forgot his power and wandered in the ashram like a gentle and
ordinary boy. His mischiefs stopped. He had forgotten that he was
without a peer in sheer strength. Blessed by Lord Sun, he had become
a scholar too, without a peer as he could learn any subject in the
shortest possible time. He had divine wisdom which is why he is also
referred as Cnaninaam Agraganyam (the first and foremost
among wise men). Then after the lapse of a long time, when the right
time would come, he would be reminded of it to fulfil his great mission
of doing a great work for Lord Rama. On the eve of the battle of
Lanka, he was reminded of his great powers by Jambovaan. Now,
assuming his huge form, Hanuman fulfilled the task of finding out
the whereabouts of Sita by leaping over the seas with ease.
Moral: A reminder of the divinity in you works wonder. But a curse
hid on you can cover it under a cloud for sometime till an opportunity
to rediscover it comes.
Note: Hanuman is known by many other names, Anjani-putra (son
of Anjana) and Kesari-nandan (son of Kesari).
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Immortal Presence of
Hanuman and others
Before leaving for his original abode, Lord Rama told Hanuman to
stay in the world of mortals and spread Rama's Name. Along with
Hanuman the others who were asked to stay till the end of Kaliyuga
were, Jambavaan, Vibhishana, Mainda and Dvivida who all help
devotees, particularly in the divine guidance they give, which leads
therr on to salvation
These five immortals have with them three others, Ashwathama,
Bali and Vyas.
Rishi Rishyoshringo, the purest of celibates, was the son of rishi Vrbhond who got
sexually excited when the great fairy, Urvoshi, passed once near his ashram, and
Vibhond's semen fell into a river in the mouth of a deer. Born of a deer Rishyoshringo
had two horns like his mother.

(p 28 Adh Ramayana)

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 A Family Story

about Rebirth

Cow as Woman:
Who was She in her Previous Two Lives

A very personal introduction is necessary in this case, without any

astrological investigation, which is not possible, os the horoscopes of
previous lives are not available. I am doing it with a feeling of
personal warmth and appreciation because it comes from a very
intimate friend, S. C. Anand I.A.A.S.', the same service from which
! retired in November, 1990. I and Anand have been friends since
1959. He has been coming to me for astrological predictions for
many years, t have predicted for him, his two sons and his both
daughters- in- law. When I was working on astrology and rebirth,
Anand offered to help me with the horoscope of an immediately
elder sister of his together with her horoscope.2 I asked him to give
me a written account of it all in his own way and give me permission
to use it in the book I am writing.

Given below first, is the account he has given me and later

•he horoscope of his sister (now dead) without any comment.4 Her
name was Ratan Anand and she remembered two of her previous
lives. The account given by her brother is given below. The
horoscope is not being discussed as there is no astrological
investigation in this case.

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A Family Story about Rebirth
The Incident
"Dr. Kushal Chand Anand, 3rd brother out of the four sons born to
Shri Harnam Dass Anand and Sml ftirvati Anand of Lahore, was a
a doctor: the eldest, one Giridhari Lai, practised law at Gaziabad in
western Uttar Pradesh: Prltam Das Anand was a teacher in western
UP, remaining most of the time at Meerutand the 4th - Basheswhwar
Das Anand, the brightest of all the four, unfortunately contacted T.B.
at a very early age, at Lahore.5 With the death of Harnam Dass
Anand at an early age in 1903, when plague broke out in Lahore,
the family had to face a lotof problems. Dr. Khushal Chand Anand
the 3rd one being in medical line, opposed tae marriage of Mr
Basheshwar Dass but, was over-ruled by the mother, who accordin
to the social custom prevalent at ttrcrt time in Punjab wanted to fulfi
her commitment of getting all her sons married on time
Consequently, Basheshwar Dass was married to Saraswati Suri o
Lahore who was hardly 15 years old at that time. Basheshwar die
one year and 3 months after his marriage in July 1918. Saraswat
was expecting a baby and gave birth to a posthumous child on 18th
September 1918
At the time of his death, during the afternoon, Basheshwar
Dass, who was comatose regained consciousness and said, "Mytime
has come now and t am going. This will be a beginning of hard times
for the family, but everything will settle down and / will come back,
os our relationship has continued from eternity and shall continue till
eternity."6
Seeing some disbelief in the eyes of his brothers, he said,
"Please don't think that /am talking in delirium, /am in my full senses.
Just note down the time of my death. After 12 hour of my death,
there shall be an earthquake at Lahore".
After saying this he breathed his last few minutes past two in
the afternoon and, exactly 12 hours later, there was an earthquak
at Lahore.7 Dr. Khushal Chand Anand, a Peshawari Khatri, belongin
to Lahore, and his wife Ram Pyari Anand of Wazirabad (both i
Pakistan now), settled at Hapurin 1914,when he finished his medica
education at Calcutta, and set up his practice after his marriage wit
Ram Pyari. They had six daughters followed by two sons during thei
married life of 52 years. Dr. K.C. Anand ultimately settled down a

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Meerul in 1922. One daughter, namely, the third one died in her
infancy and the second son grew up to adulthood.

The Central Figure of the Story

The sixth daughter (i.e. the 5th one to grow up), Ratan Rani Anand,
was born on the night of 29th September at 1:30 am at Meerur9.
She was a bright child right from the beginning and started talking
very early in her life.
She used to say that she was a cow in her previous life.9 All
efforts to stop her from sucking her thumb failed. She kept sucking
her thumb till the age of 45 plus, 'c when she died of heart failure
on 1st February 1976, survived by her husband, one daughter and
3 sons.

The Previous Life

She used to go on describing her previous birth in the house of Pandit
Bohk Ram who lived in a village called Chaundha in erstwhile Patiala
State near Amargarh. She used to describe the number of calves she
delivered in her previous life. She used to describe fhe family details
of Pandit Balak Ram. When she wps about to die in her previous
incarnation as a cow, Balak Ram prayed before Cod saying, "You are
taking her away also. Please give her next birth in the family of a
good man". She asked Dr. Khushal Chand Anand, "Babuji, are you
a good man?""
Another significant event in her life was fhotonce Saraswati,
widow of Basheshwar Dass, was at Meerut, at Dr. Khushal Chand's
residence having come on a visitand, her son Balkrishan'^pet name
Gopol Das) had stayed back at Lahore with his maternal grandparents
to appear at his examination. This young baby suddenly wen) into a
trance, got into the lap of Saraswati and started kissing her an
saying, "You are my wife and I am your husband. My so
Gopal is coming". Everybody laughed at her and said how coul
Gopal come. But after sometime, when Dr. Khushal Chand went t
his clinic, he found Balkrishan suddenly appearing and touching hi
feet. When he asked him how he had come, he said there were riot
and other disturbances at Lahore and, -he examination had bee
postponed.'3 So he decided to visit his uncle and be with his mother

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 Dr. Khushal Chand Anand jocularly told him to go home and
meet his fother who was waiting for him. When Balkrishan reached
his uncle's house, Rattan again went into a trance and started telling
him, "You are my son. t am your father - Basheshwar Dass". This
condition lasted for a few minutes after which she relapsed into her
normal activities as a child.

Memory of Past Life

The eldest daughter of Dr. Khushal Chand, Sushila Devi, was married
in 1933to one Shri Pooran Chand Batta, a building contractor hailing
from Patiala state.When the Baraat'* came at her wedding, Rattan
Rani was less than 3 years old. She immediately recognized Pandit
Balak Ram in the baraat and jumped into his lap and reminded
him that she was his cow. Pandit Balak Ram confirmed all the
facts. Pooran Chand, the bridegroom, hailed from village Chaundha
and Balak Ram was his boyhood friend. When Rattan Rani wasTaken
to Conthi, she embraced the family members of Pandit Bala Ram
and pointed the place where she used to be tied when she was a
a cow in her previous birth.

Supernormal Gift of Palm Reading

Another strange event pertains to the period when she was in school.
She never knew palmistry, but once in a whiie, she would display
strange behavior and sucking her thumb, deep in concentration she
would see someone's palm and predict some event.15 She told one
RD. Kohli, Manager Central Bankof India, Meerut, "BhaiSahebyou
will suffer from loose motions and dysentery. Your condition will go
so bad thai once everybody will give you up. But you will not die.
You will live longer with the ailment which will never leave you for
the rest of your life". This prediction came absolutely true. Shri Kohli
suffered from amoebiosis and once, his condition became extremely
critical in 1944. But he survived and lived upto late sixties. Similarly,
when she was a school student at Raghunath Girls High School (now
a post graduate college for girls at Meerut) her Principal, Mrs.
Lakshmi Sharma's daughter, who was Rattan Anand's class fellow,
started pestering Rattan to read her palm. Rattan initially refused,
but on being continuously pestered by the Sharma girl she gave a
cursory look at her palm'* "Whatprediction?You will die day after
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tomorrow. Exactly after 48 hours, the girl who was absolutely hale
and hearty, suddenly died". This created some problems with the
principal of the school who blamed Rattan Anand for her daughter's
death. She17 always used to say that she will not live for long and
she died very early due to an enlarged heart. The story of her being
a cow in her previous birth was known far and wide and all her
maternal relations still refer to her as the cow and ask, "How are
the cow's children!"

Critical Appraisal
There is no doubt about the authenticity of the astrological data, like
in others cases discussed, it has been given by a very old friend whose
family history and family members are very well known to me. The
incidents given in the narration of S.C. Anand have been known to-
many. I decided to include it here with only one clear reason.
Someday, when we may succeed in arriving at a defined and
developed methodology of analysing the horoscope of the present
birth of an individual, we could make use of such material. Till then
it has to be only kept as authentic data which we cannot make use
of as the horoscopes of the previous births or births cannot be got
here. The horoscope of the previous incarnation as a cow, and before
•hat of a male, gives us an interesting, authentic insight into some
questions connected with some rebirths. Can soul incarnate in both
and human and non human forms in two different births. As Hindus
we are familiar with many such stories from the Puranas which get
corroborated by such first hand account as given here. The question
believers in reincarnation belonging to other religions will ask is
whether they could accept such cases as authentic. They have no
choiceas even in their literatures, particularly the Buddhisticand Jain
ones, many such and similar instances have been given which ore
part of an unbroken religious tradition. The quarrel is with those
religions which not merely discourage their adherents not to accept
•he theory of rebirths, as it will defeat and destroy good deal of the
preachings of theirs, put them helplessly in an indefensible position
and make their own religion look twisted and lopsided. It is for this
reason that even the best of researches done on rebirths have been
never talked of by them, ever, from their religious platform. They
want their followers to remain in dark and, accept whatever they tell,
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as gospel and unalterable and unquestionable truths. It is not spread
of divine knowledge but dictatorship which is better described as
fundamentalism,' But most of religions, the one-book-one-prophet
ones, have been that only. The Scientific Establishment must ignore
and disdain if all, particularly the allopathic doctors who cannot accept
that any and every disease is the result of some karma of past and
•his life of a person.

End Notes
The Indian Audit and Accounts Service to which recruitment is made on the basis
of an all India competitive examination, along with other services. Few hundreds,
out of many thousands are selected, on merit. R-4/7 Rajnagar, Gaziabad 201-002
I have given to Kim and his family some of my best predictions. Anand helps me
with books and financial information about Ihe market which helps me guide
people astrologicaily, though rather imperfectly, as that has never been a strong
area of my astrology.
I have not changed Kis language or the narration but have broken it into different
paragraphs, italicizing and highlighting some parts, with suitable sub headings.
I have over twenty horoscopes of the family of S.C. Anand but this is the most
valuable from the point of view of the present book.
Remember the family tree: Harnam Dass Anand and fhrvafr Anand had four sons:
GiridKar La Anand was a lawyer, the second son, Pritorn Das Anand, was a teacher:
the third, Dr. Khushal Chand Anand was a doctor and father of my
friend S.C.Anand. The fourth son, was Bosheshwar Das Anand, who died
young. The incident being narrated here centres round sixth daughter of Dr. Khushal
Chand Anand.
That was a generation of great Indians who led vary honest and spiritual lives.
They had their visions and previsions in their lives like yogis.
See instances of this type in my book Yogis, Destiny and tha Wbnaf of Ttma where
I have referred to the daughter of a milkman warning me about earthquake in
Shillong in 1 962-63

The horoscope is given at the end of this chapter.

It has suited some Christian missionaries, including Mother Teresa to say that only
human beings have souls and,animals do not have. Without such ignorance, which
moy even be deliberate, they cannot justify slaughter of animals and eating of non-
vegetarian food,
ic
It was the habit of her previous incarnation as a cow.
God has to fulfil the prayer of a honest devotee even when it is about the next
birth of an animal.
Became a very famous doctor in later life and headed India's biggest medical
institutions. He has consulted ma oflsn and taken predictions: birth details are 19
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Dwadashamsha

Lag Ketu Van

Born in Venus-Venus-Mercury.

September, 1917 ot 2-30 a.m. Lahore (now in Pakistan). He was bom as a posthumous
child. Here Rotton Anand is clearly telling that she was the father ol doctor Balkrlshna
Anand In her previous to previous life. Female In this Incarnation, she was a male
in her another Incarnation, later a cow, and now a female.
Dr, Anand was medical student In 1940-43 when Lahore was the centre of riots
between Hindus and Muslims, as a result of the British policy of divide and rule, h
led to the partition of India In 1947 and Lahore Is In Pakistan now.

The wedding party. In Hindu marriages there Is always a big crowd of all friends
ond relations, tl creates a sense of community bondage and keeps the marriage
from breoking up Insplte of some tensions In married life. Yet, Hindu marriages are
happy and successful because the social control along with family controls have not
broken down. Then children keep the families together.
No knowledge, particularly divine or occult knowledge, Is learnt only in one
birth. Astrologers who are In their fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties and are big
failures, Insplte of the big publicity they manage to get, should know that the years
spent learning astrology by some may be many years because the counting of the
years spent In learning astrology Is spread over many years of many births.
She must have known intuitively already what was In store for the Sharma girl
because of which she refused to read her palm and predict. This Is how gifts and
knowledge of previous lives create the samskaras In this life.

Rattan Anand herself knew how long she would live. Her granddaughter
now 10 years In 1997 resembles her a hundred percent.
 Another Family Story

A family believes that the girl who is now well settled in her life was
her own elder brother in her previous life.

Mer Moon Jup (R) Rahu

9 > ven
Lag
Ketu
Sat

Mars Previous Life

Sat when she was a
mate Mars

Rahu
Mer Lag
Moon Ven
Jup R Ketu

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Rahu
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Moon Mer
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Mer / Sun
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 The family story is: The boy born on 5 December, 1964 fell
from a balcony and was seriously injured. He was conscious when
his mother rushed to see him. He told her nofto worry as he was
going to be born again as her daughter. It is said that he even told
her that he would be born in 1967. On 28 July, 1967 the mother
of the deceased boy gave birth to a daughter.
Horoscopes of both births on which I have not done any
research is being given here only for academic purpose.
The remarkable fact in this case is that the mother of the boy/
girl had, got many astrological consultations. Being a strong believer
in astrology she got cast many horoscopes of her family members,
including the garbhadan lagna in some cases.
I have not been able to meet her. I do hope some day I will
have a detailed first hand version of this remarkable family story.

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 The Third Family Story

Rahu tag Rahu

Lag
A young boy
who vaguely
remembere his
past two births
IS Nov.1982
Van
Ketu Sat Mer
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This case is different from the two previous one because many
supernormal and abnormal manifestations in his life about which his
father and a neighbour, a woman officer in the Indian railway
narrated to me on 6 June, 1997, along with the boy at my place.
The details are yet to be verified.

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 Astrological Parameters

in Books

In many astrological books many hints have been given about the
world one has come from in this life and the world one would go
to after death. Some writers have discussed some cases of rebirths
applying some astrological principles. Most of them took up a single
case of two births and tried to argue that they did succeed in proving
their points. No astrologer can hope to make a break-through unless
at least ten cases of both births, which means twenty accurate
horoscopes are collected. Case histories of both births should also be
accurate.
1. The validity of the astrological parameters given by Parasharo
and Varahamihira.
2. The karmaphala (results of the karmas).
3. The karma-sanjskorax>r the psychological tendencies created
by the deeds of past lives can be traced.

Sun or Moon?
The Previous life
One of the theories is that the Sun in a male horoscope and
the Moon in a female horoscope are the central and most
significant influences. From this flow some parameters:
t. d out which of the Sun and the Moon is stronger in
horoscope
2. e in whose dreskona they are placed

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 3. If they are in the dreshkona of the following the person in his
past life was in that particular world which the planet represents.
Jupiter: Divine world.
Venus or the Moon: Pitriloka or the lunar world which is the next
best.
Sun or Mars: The world of mortals.
Mercury or Saturn: From lower worlds.
Even within this there are gradations, depending on the strength or
the weakness of the planets like good, better or the best. In this
scheme, Rahu and Ketu are excluded.

The Next Life

The world one would go to after death is again decided according
to the dreshkona position of planets in the 6th, 7th or 8th houses.
If there are no planets the strongest of the rising dreshkonas of these
houses will decide it.
Note: How these dreshkonas ore to be used and which of the types
of dreshkonas is not clear.

Special Importance of Jupiter

Jupiter has been given a special place in man's aspiration for
salvation. Exalted Jupiter is said to be helpful for spiritual life, if he
is in kendras (1, 4, 7, 10) or the the 6th or the 8th houses.
Note: tr this scheme 2, 3, 5, 9, 11 and 12th houses have been
excluded.
A strong Jupiter with three or four planets in kendras is most
helpful for spiritual life.

The Horoscope at the time of death

There is a special importance given to the lagna and the planetary
position at the time of death.
Therefore two horoscopes are to be examined together: the
birth horoscope and the death horoscope. A good promise may be
ruined or a bad promise may get nullified if both horoscopes are
seen together.

Some other Combinations

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 1. If there are exalted benefics in a horoscope, it indicates that
the person has come from a good world after a life of
enjoyment in a higher world. Two, three or four planets, if
exalted or, in their own rashis, show this clearly.
2. Jupiter in Karka is always the best.

The Importance of
the 5th & 12th Lords and Houses
The 5th house is to be seen for mantra, yantra, education, children
(disciples) and fall from power (being the 8th from the 10th house)
and from the 12th house, expenditure, behaviour of enemies,
salvation and the previous life are to be seen.
In examining the horoscopes, we have of rebirths some of
these parameters can be applied and additional research can be
done.

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 Who Remembers

Past Life or Lives?

The question often asked is

who remembers past life ?
Clearly they fall into two categories: fhe spiritual and the worldly who
died a non-normal death. All the cases reported of people who
remembered their past life are of the second category.
Spiritual persons rarely discuss their past lives. They acquire
this stage through hard and very enviable spiritual discipline. Such
people are called Jaatismara.
How o person becomes a Jaatismara through a pure life of
inner and outer purity, tapasya Qr\do\a\ lack of feeling of enmity
towards anyone (Manusmriti).
Those who at the time of their death are in pure and high
state of saffwa gwna and, immersed in God-consciousness, are in
a state of perfect mental equipoise, remember their past lives. It
creates a state of complete detachment and leads to salvation,
srftofwt wp TTT:
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(p430 Yagyavatka Smriti)

Through yogic sadhana a person who sees his own samskaras

totally remembers his past lives.
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 If a state of perfect aparigraha (giving up all material
possessions and accumulating nothing) is attained one knows past
lives.

(p43 ffbtonjali Yogas Sutra)

Some holy persons become Jatismara when they do

pilgrimages in the truest spirit observing all spiritual rules, /know of
some great gurus who instructed some disciples not to visit a
particular pilgrimage. When I asked them, they said that the
memories of their past lives would get awakened there and they
would develop a death-wish. They should first exhaust their karmas
and complete their sadhana in this life itself instead of having to
be born again. A spiritual experience, which is untimely, can be very
damaging.
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Lord Shiva explains to Goddess Parvati who are the people

who remember their past lives. When a person who dies suddenly
somewhere and is born again suddenly, his old habits and
^o/nsAcrasremain for some time.

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(p 5977 Mahabhora! - Shastha Khandha)

It is why they are born with the memory of past life and are
known as Jatismara . But as they grow up, their old memories
disappear like dreams. Such incidents help in offering proofs to the
wooden headed to believe in the other world and life after life.

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Howto knowwho has come
from Lower World?
(p 614 Kalyan PhHok our Punarjanmo Ank)

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lr the Markendeya Parana some charateristics of men who

have come from the lower world or hell are described thus:
1. Indulging in malicious criticism.
2. Lacking a sense of gratitude.
3. Disclosing others' secrets.
4. Cruelty and harshness.
5. Adultery and extra-marital tendencies.
6. Depriving others through fraudulent practices
7. Remaining unclean,
8. Condemning divine and spiritual life.
9. Cheating others through guiles.
10. Miserliness.
11. Murderering.

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 Case Histories

Histories of the cases discussed here are being given very briefly.
They are persons known to me, and may feel hurt if many details,
particularly the unpleasant ones, are revealed.
What is certain, in fact, absolutely certain is that no one
escapes his karma. I have benefitted a lot in coming to the following
conclusions.
1. Whatever is happening in this life can be traced to some extent
from the horoscope of the past life.
2. Some of the samskaras of this life are clearly traceable to the
past life. It became so clear to me that I found GorucPurana
to be accurate. Again, it being sensitive material, it is only being
hinted at and not discussed in detail, though I could have done
it. I found a more detailed and new meaning in use of the
horoscope of the present birth. Now I feel that what we call
the psychological understanding of a horoscope, particularly in
the west, in the USA mainly, is a bluff, pure and simple.
3. The meaning of exaltation and debilitation of certain lords of
some houses and malefic aspects on retrograde benefics needs
an in-depth understanding. I found it very illuminating. All that
I want to stress here is that those who have their 5th, 10th and
3rd lords debilitated should improve their korwa-pattem
themselves.

1. Case of Shanti Devi

This is an authentic case study being presented, though I am aware

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a similar attempt having been made by my friend Umc Shankar
Dube of Kanpursome years ago. I got the horoscope from Mr. K.
S. Rawat of the Rebirth Research Foundation in Ghaziabad near
Delhi, who in his researches into rebirths from a non-astrological
angle collected it and gave it to me. I did very detailed work on the
horoscopes of both births in this case and came out with some very
revealing links between both births. I had the horoscope of this
birth because this woman, Shantidevi, used to take predictions from
me. More about it later.
The story begins with the city of Mafhura the great
pilgrimage associated with Lord Krishna where the great influence
of tradition makes most of the citizens of that city good theists.
They worship Lord Krishna of the famous Dwarakadheesh temple.
In the beginning of the century the now famous temple at the birth
place of Lord Krishna, known as the Krishnajanma Bhoomi temple,
had not existed.
We have no details in this case except the horoscope and
some events of the life of the woman whose horoscope is the starting
point of my astrological investigation. I presented this case first
before my students of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan and later, in the
USA twice. It was described as a very uplifting night when I
presented in the temple of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam at
Pennsylvania in USA in November 1995.

The Background
Every horoscope, it is well known, should be analyzed against the
personal and social background of the person concerned. We must
remember, though we know no detail and, have only an accurate
horoscope, that this woman was born in 1902 in the most
conservative pilgrim town of Mathura. One can imagine that she
had led her life as women did in that extremely conservative
decade, with the British as the rulers of India then.
The first point that must be remembered is that in 1901 the
female literacy, according to the Census Report of India, was 00.50
percent (half percent) and male literacy was 10 percent.
We were then a nation of illiterates, but the fine cultural and
education men and women had through verbal tradition, made them
wise and spiritual persons. They were sublime persons, totally
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 unwesternized, and totally orthodox in all matters. This woman must
have been more so because of two additional reasons: first she was
a woman and of that era, and she belonged to the pilgrim town of
Mathura, which has been one of the most conservative and
traditional cities of northern India always.
How and what must have been the aims of her life? They
must have been only two, cooking in the kitchen and looking after
her family. Those days, they were married very eorly. The Sharada
Act passed by the English rulers in the thirties banning legally child
marriages (not before the age of eighteen) did not exist. Though the
Sharada Act has been on the statute book of India ever since, we
still have, even now, many child marriages in the rural India. One
may sumrise that this woman whom we know as Ludgi, must have
got married. Then in accordance with the Hindu tradition, must
have got married at the earliest. Her parents must have arranged
a conservative marriage within her caste, whatever it may have
been.
It can be seen, when we discuss the case astrologically, that
she must have got married quite early. The vital information we
have is that soon after her marriage she became a mother. What
happened after that should first be seen astrologically.
Since it has been stated that she was a conservative woman
of that era, she must have become pregnant at regular intervals of
two or more year. During her pregnancies, she must have prayed
to God for safe delivery of her babies and the safety of her own life.
Those were the days of colonial rule in which the British were never
interested in providing dependable medical services as we have in
India today when the mortality rate of pregnant mothers and
children has been reduced spectacularly to the lowest now. But we
must always keep in the mind that she lived in India of 1902, 1920
etc, when the infant mortality was the highest in India and pregnant
women delivering babies, with the help of experienced ayahs
(uncertified but experienced traditional nurses of those years), died
if there was slight negligence. No antibiotics, no strong medicines for
safe delivery of children were available.
Most important is to see that it was the period of Moon
mahadasha and the antar dasha of Rahu aspected by Mars in the
saptamsha. Then Rahu is placed in the 8th house from the Moon.
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 In the birth
horoscope, the Moon is the 6th lord, afflicted by being under the
Rahu-Ketu axis and, becoming worse, because of the aspect of
Mars. There should be no doubt that she had run into a very bad
period for the delivery of a child. All the fatality inherent in
becoming a mother again now, after her first child (which is all
that we know) can be seen astrologically. She was due to have a
child in October 1925, at the age of twenty three, a second or third
child. The planetary position of October 1924 clearly show that she
had already become pregnant and was going to become a mother
again. Was the planetary position with a bad mahadasha of the
afflicted 6th lord, the Moon and Rahu sub-period safe, particularly
in India of those years?
Let us look at the transit of planets on 4 October 1925 from
her lagna, which is Kumbha (Aquarius).
1. Jupiter was aspecting the 5th house.
2. Saturn had aspected the 5th house in a retrograde motion from
Tula (see my Planets and Children).
3. That she was pregnant is what we know but then notice the fatal
points in the transit.
a) The natal Moon was on the birth Moon, which is a death
inflicting transit when the span of life comes to an end.
b) The 5th lord, Mercury was in the 8th house from Kumbha
and afflicted by the Sun and Mars.
c) Saturn was afflicting the birth Moon along with Mars.
It was a classical death inflicting transit. She died on this
day. In Vimshottari it was the mahadasha of the Moon, the
antardasha of Rahu, the pratyantara dasha of Ketu.

The State of HerMind

The state of mind which is most necessary for getting out of the cycle
of rebirths is a well-known Hindu belief based on experiences of
centuries. Could Ludgi have even thought of God or rested her mind
on something spritual when the pangs of pregnancy seem to give
her such a terrible torture? From the pieces picked up, it is clear.
In all the recorded cases where a person remembered his
past life, there have been invariably violent deaths. May
be, the intensity of pain at the time of death lingers on to the next
life for some initial years. Then it is forgotten or, it becomes so dim
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Karma & in Hindu Astrology Astrological Parameters in Books
that a person does not live in the past. In the USA the psychiatrists
who dig out a case of childhood abuse and keep harping make both
money and spread hatred for all family relations. Any system of
psychiatric analysis, diagnosis or treatment depends on the discovery
of child abuse. Even, if true, how does it help a patient recover and
become normal?
Astrology is a far superior branch of knowledge. All what are
called repressions could be dug out, with the astrologer taking the
lead in 60% cases and the client only volunteering and clarifying the
question of the astrologer. It is what a psychiatrist con never do
unless he learns astrology and makes use of it effectively. I have
come across the most obnoxious and stereotyped methods of
diagnosis done by psychiatrist which bordered on the absurd and
concealed the clearest intentions to exploit their clients.
I advised some of them to stop going to their psychiatrists and
they would be cured. In three cases in the USA, particularly on the
East Coast my success was spectacular. The reason was simple:
before the client poured out his troubles [ took the lead and put
stunningly correct questions. 1 will not quote many cases, which I can
do in thousands now, but will refer to the case of a lawyer in
Chicago. I saw the horoscope and told him, myself, his profesion,
should be legal. He confirmed it. I then told him that he himself was
facing a court case, which in the USA, is termed as unethical
practice. He put his hands on his head and told me that it was clear
that the astrology could find out the problem, while the psychologist,
planted it in the mind of his client and got a semi-permanent
customer who had to pay one hundred dollars per hour, minimum
without really helping his client.
So Ludgi died in 1925, in sheer agony, after delivering two
children. She died during the delivery of the third child.
Now analyse the condition of her mind at the time of death.
1. In the birth horoscope, Saturn aspects the 5th house and the
5th lord, in the 12th, is between Mars and.Sun.
2. Jupiter, the natural significator of children, is both debilitated
and combust.
3. The 5th lord from Jupiter is Venus, which is well-placed.
4. In the saptamsha Saturn is aspecting the 5th house while the
5th lord Jupiter is ill-placed in the 12th house.
 5. In the Moon mahadasha it was the Rahu antardasha which is
in the 7th house of the saptamsha and is aspected by Mars.
6. The 8th house which has the 22nd dreshkona was under
heaviest affliction in October 1925.
7. It was the 3rd dasha which is bad for short span of life.
8. It was a von/ painful pregnancy as is clear from all this.
She died in pregnancy, as is clear with all such fears as pregnancy
in those days when we had very little medical attention given to
pregnant mothers and, when we had a very high mortality rate and
a much higher child mortality rate than can be imagined in fhe far
better India of late nineties and the closing decade of this century.
This leads to the significance of the samskaras that must get
formed for her next birth, which, among others, are two mainly two:
the first is fear of marriage and pregnancy.
Against this background, the life of a girl born in a Kayastha
family in Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi needs to be understod. Here
horoscope is as follows.
This girl become o sensation at the age of four or five when
she had declared that she was Lugdi of Mathura in her past life. It
became the most discussed case of rebirth of this century because
Mahatma Gandhi took an interest in the case,
See how bad the horoscope is for marriage.
1. Mars is in the 2nd house.
2. The 7th lord from the navamsha lagna, the Moon is heavily
afflicted.
The memory of the pangs of pregnancy stuck in her sub-conscious
mind.
1. See the heavily afflicted 5th house and the 5th lord.
2. From Jupiter, the 5th lord Venus goes into the 12th house from
Jupiter and is again afflicted.
The thoughts at the time of her death in her previous life had
created a fear of marriage and delivery of children in her mind. It
is what is described as purva janmasamskaras. She refused to
marry in her next birth when she was known as Shanti Devi and
suffer the pains of pregnancy.
The trauma of previous life lingered on into her next birth. It
is why astrology should be used as the main tool of psycho-analytical
diagnosis. Now, see again the horoscope of the previous life.
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 1. Notice the concentration of planets in the 12th house.
2. The 5th lord, Mercury is also in the 12th between Mars and
the Sun.
3. Jupiter is both combust and debilitated.
4. There is no benefic in kendra except Jupiter.
In her next birth, when she became world famous as Shanti Devi she
used to live in Chandni Chowk in old Delhi from where he shifted
her residence to, perhaps, Greater Kailash in New Delhi.
I did not have the benefit of having the horoscope of her
previous life then. Now, looking at the saptamsha of her previous
life, when she was known as Lugdi, I could see why she reacted
emotionally to marriage and motherhood.
She had come to me many times to take predictions. She was
unmarried.I had asked her once why she had not married. With
good deal of emotion in her, her eyes almost becoming moist, she
said that marriage would be all right if the fedr of pregnancy and
its pains were bearable.
In her past life, she had terrible labour pains in her delivery.
Everytime she became pregnant, she had felt intuitively, that it was
a messenger of death.
She knew some astrology and also predicted.
1. See the birth Moon and death Moon and their degrees.
2. See planets in the 8th house at +he time of death along with
the 5th lord of the birth horoscope.
3. Moon's was the 3rd dasha which is bad for short ayu.
4. There are no benefics in kendras in the birth horoscope.
5. She died in Moon-Rahu, In the 7th house of the Saptamsha,
may be indicating death during pregnancy.
6. The Moon, the 6th lord is afflicted in the birth horoscope.
7. Ketu and Rahu gripped the 5th lord of the birth horoscope,
Mercury which is afflicted.
8. Finally, Jupiter, the natural pufrakaraka, is combust in the birth
horoscope.
Therefore the horoscope should be seen from the narrow angles of
marriage and child birth. We must therefore see the Vimshoftari
dasha she had after her birth. With her Moon at sixteen degrees and
twenty six minutes, she was born in the mahadasha of Venus which
was over in 1917. Then came, with her reaching the age of fifteen,
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 the dasKa of the Sun, her seventh lord of marriage. In Jaimini Chara
dasha her marriage could have taken place in the rashi dasha of
Vrisha (Taurus) and the sub-period of Makar (Capricorn) which she
would get at the age of sixteen. If delayed, it could not have gone
beyond the age of eighteen, say by 1920 she must have been a
married woman. Then in the period of the Sun and the sub period
of Saturn (aspects the 5th house of the Soptamsha) she may have
become a mother and before the sub-period of Mercury, (the 5th
. lord of the birth horoscope) she could have become a mother again.
In the next period of the Moon, it is now known to us that in
the sub period of Rahu in the 9th house in the birth horoscope and
along the 1/7 axis in the saptamsha, she was pregnant.

How good is the horoscope

from the point of view of delivery of children?
1. In the birth horoscope see the 5th lord. Mercury badly placed
in the 12th house.
2. In the navamsha the 5th house has Ketu aspected by Saturn
from the 8th house.
3. In the dashamansha the 5th lord is in the 12 under the Rahu-
Ketu axis and gets the aspects of Mars from the 6th house.
4. In the saptamsha, the 5th lord again goes into the 12th house
and the 5th house gets aspected by Saturn. The fifth lord exalted
in the 12th house with the Moon here is a good point of fertility.
But the afflicted 5th house and ill placed 5th lord is a clear
danger signal.

2. Case of Pooran Singh

While I was working on astrology and rebirths, a Colombian who has
been a friend of Sumif Bali, my friend who runs a tourist business
came one day. Then he came to know during our conversation that
I was interested in collecting the horoscopes of both births of an
individual who remembered his past life and which the family he
belonged lo, knew to be true. In India one of the reasons we do not
discuss these cases too much is that we are familiar with such
incidents. Some people do not want the past life memories of a
person to create problems. For instance, a Hindu girl of two years
started reciting the Koran and the nervous parents suppressed it.
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Muslims are taught not to believe in reincarnation. The young girl
had also told about her past life in a Muslim area and described the
details of the family she belonged to. But, it was not allowed to be
known to others as could have created Hindu-Muslim clashes even.
The Colombian told me that his own Sikh wife had a younger
brother who was her uncle, Pooran Singh in his past life. Then the
wife of the Colombian came to me herself and gave me the birth
details of her younger brother, Davinderjit Singh (described as
Pooran Singh 2 in the horoscope here). Few days later, Davinderjit
Singh himself came to me and told me that he had only very dim
recollections of his past life in Burma from where he had come to
India, on a holiday, and died in an accident. As in the case of
Lugdi-Shanti Devi, here too those who have memories of
their past lives are mostly those who died a violent or
non-normal death in the past life. Davinderjit Singh-Pooran
Singh case is similar.
The Colombian was very helpful and gave me the following
details about Pooran Singh who is Davinderjit Singh in his present
birth.
He was a bad student but a very irritable person who
committed a murder in 1943 when a bad character in his village
started chasing village girls. Pooran Singh asked him to stop it but
when the ruffian did not listen to him, he murdered him. (It may
have been the period of Rahu-Mars), To escape being caught by
police, he was advised by his family members to join the army.
World War Second was at its height then and the British wanted
more Indian recruits. Mars aspecting the 10th house of his
horoscope confirms this event. In the dashamansha Mars in the 3rd
house and Rahu-Ketu occupying the 4/10 axis gave him a posting
to Burma where he served in the army till the war was over. Then
he settled down there and also married in 1947 a half-literate but
wealthy and only daughter of a rich Sikh in 1947. It must have been
the period of Jupiter-Saturn. In the navamsha Saturn is the 7th lord.
He had eight children which is clear from the saptamsho. Sometime
after 1952 he left the arm/.
He had a farm and had grown prosperous. He had a red
colour motor cycle and a big overcoat of fur which he liked and had
kept in his cupboard very carefully.
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 He could not come to India to attend his sister's marriage
which always made him feel sentimental. She was younger to him
and he always sent to her a lot of presents from Burma. He came
to India in 1 966. Driving o motor cycle with his usual rashness, he
met with ar accident and died on 19 May 1966 at about 11:40
a.m. according to family accounts,

3. The Jaipur Case

The Jaipur Experience

Sometime in 1 995, during my visit to Jaipur, when an astrology
lover came to know that I was interested in collecting the birth
horoscopes of persons who remembered their past lives, preferably
of both births, gave to me two horoscopes. The information given
was:
1. The person died in a road accident on 27 July 1994,
2. My two year old son twice hinted when my wife was pregnant
that his paternal uncle was going to take birth as her son.
3. Many people had predicted that my dead younger brother
would be born as my son.
4. A Tantrik of Jaipur announced that the dead person would be
born as my son.
5. We prayed to Lord Soorya."
6. In his childhood stared at his grandfather for one minute very
intently soon after his birth.

4. H.R Singh's Case

In his book Karma and Reincarnation, Professor Bolbir Singh has
referred to a case of rebirth in his own family, (pi 16)
His own younger son, Ram Pratap Singh who did not want lo
pursue his medical career, left Delhi to do business in Assam. He
died of a fatal accident there on 6 February 1983.
Professor Balbir Singh who contacts spirits and gets messages
was invited by the Edgar Cayce Institute i n the USA to undertake a
research. He retired as a professor of philosophy from the University
of Delhi and has written as many as nine books on spiritual and
philosophical subjects.

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 Professor Balbir Singh records how his own family members
distrusted him when he said that his son RPS was present and could
be talked to also. lr seanses, once RPS said that he was coming into
professor's family. The last seance in which RPS was contacted is
recorded thus:
RPS "Daddy I am extremely happy today. I don't know how to
express myself, i am really rejoicing."
Q. 'What is the cause of all this?"
Ans. "Daddy I have been asked to return. I am reincarnating in the
family. I was your brother in my incarnation that ended in
1953 when I suddenly died in the hospital. I was your son
born in 1958. And now I shall be your grandson, born to my
brother, Krishan."
Q. "When are you returning here?"
Ans. "On 7th January 1984,'
Professor Balbir Singh records that actually RPS was born on
10 January, instead of the 7th.
I got the birth details of RPS of both births through the help
of my friend, K. Bhushan. I met Professor Balbir Singh once and
have also talked to him sometimes. He presented his book in which
he records that for two years the child RPS remembered the terrible
truck accident of his past life. "The dreadful scene of the accident
was so fresh in his subconscious mind that after his rebirth he could
not enjoy an undisturbed steep for over two years."
V have been closely observing the behaviour-traits in his
present incarnation and comparing them with his previous birth. In
brood outline they happen to be similar".
Professor Balbir Singh makes a very good observation is his
beautiful book. "But one thing has been very clear to me -
that prayers give immense peace both to the grief-stricken
and the deceased on the other side."

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 The Need for Using

Certain Data

The data used in the book of persons whose horoscopes of both

births could be got and given here have been arranged
systematically. The division done for all horoscopes are:
1. Birth Horoscope: for primary analysis to know if the
horoscope being used is correct.
2. Navamsha: should be examined for further verification of the
horoscope. It is after this that the analysis of the horoscope for
linkages, astrologically should be done.
3. Dreshkona: as both Parashora and Varahamihira refer to the
use of dreshkona for predictions about the past and future lives
on the basis of the Sun and the Moon for past life and the 6th
and the 8th lords for the next life.
4. Dwadashamsha: Then, I found the use of the dwadashamsha
most useful. I got a clue from the principles on nashtajatakam
very useful in certain ways.
These four horoscopes have been made use of in all case of both
births.

Additional Horoscopes
5. Death time horoscope: In the case of the first (past) life the
death time horoscopes have been used though they cannot
be very accurate ever, as no one can ever note the exact time
of death. Yet, even if the lagna is correct, it is very helpful.The
Moon of the death time horoscope has always helped me even
in other cases.
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 6. Saptamsha: In the case of Lugdi (Shantidevi in her next life)
saptamsha has been used to trace the samskaras carried to
the next life because in this case, I have found it very useful
to discuss Shantidevi's fears and phobias she had got from
the death time agony of her past life, when she was pregnant.
7. Transit of planets: If the transit of planets as seen in the death
time horoscope is made use of on the birth horoscope it may
give very valuable clues.
8. Death time dasha (Vimshottari)The dasha at the time of
death must be used invariably for the past life.
9. The birth time dasha (Vimshottari) of the next life must
be made use of also invariably.
Some other data which could have been used are the Vimsham^ha
and other finer divisional horoscopes but it has not been used here
as the cases we have are of those who were reborn and were not
liberated.
Many westerners, particularly the people in the New Age
Movement in the USA ask whether they would have illumination
and salvation in this incarnation of theirs. It is a common question
of many naive people of the western world who do not want to give
up their sexual and material lives and yet, hope that through what
they call 'mec//faf/on'(which is a physical exercise for them with their
eyes closed), they would have both illumination and salvation. They
do not know what spiritual life is nor do they have such attitudes.
(Read the 12th chapter of the Gita always).
It is, however, clear that many of the westerners who put these
questions either fancifully or because of their naivette will improve
in their next births because they have made some sort of the beginning
of a spiritual life, without understanding whet spiritual life is. Some
other data which could have been used are the Vimshamsha and
other finer divisional horoscopes but it has not been used here as
the cases we have are of those who were reborn and were not
liberated.

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 Lugdi who became Shanti Devi in her next birth

Jup Sun Lagna 28°42

Mer Mans
Sun 04004
Moon Lao Moon 16003
Ketu Van Sat
Mars 20° 15
Mercury 14054
Jupiter 0 2026
Venus 0 9055

Rahu Saturn 27014

Rahu 17044
Ketu 17044

Moon Death took place on

Ketu
4 October 1925 in
Moon-Rahu-Venus
Lag Female
Van Born in the next life
LUGDI
18 January 1902 in
10.00.00. am.
Jup Sun Mathura Rahu-Mercury
Mer Mare

Sat Rahu

4 2 X Rahu Mer
N. Mars/ s Mer Lag
5 3 . .
Moon Lag XX 1
Sun Mars
/ 6 12 X.
v Ketu Rahu y Navamsha
Jup Moon
9 XX 11
Sat yX^ Sun
Ven X to X^^ Sat
yX 8 Ven Ketu
Jup
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 6 /
Mars /g
V/ Moon
/X Ketu
XSat
Dreshkana

1P
Rahu
Ven

Jup Sun Rahu Mer

11 . Ven

Dwadashamsha

Mars
Moon

5
X Jup Moon s
\ 4 y
Lag \/ 3
Sun X sat
Ketu X X
9
Mars Saptamsha
11
Rahu
Mars Mer

Birth
Lagna Death on
4 October 1925
about 10 am.?
7
Xx Sat
X Mars
XeXVen Sat Mer
Mars X^ Ven Sun
Mer Sun \
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 yMoon Lagna Shonti Devi
\ of previous /
\sX
Lagna 22044"
Sun 25042"
Moon 13023"
9 Mars 1 1048"
Van Kefu
Mercury 04054"
Jupiter 29039"
' 8
Mer Sat Venus 00032"
Sun Saturn 08D09"
Rahu 14027"
Ketu 1402 7»

Dasha
Sequence

Moon Born in
tra Lugdi born as Rahu-Mercury-
Lagna of Shanti Devi
previous life 11 December, 1926 Moon-Jupiter
01:47:53 PM
Delhi Died in
Moon- Ra hu-Venus
in her previous
life.

Moon Rahu / >

\ Sun /
\lf/ 10
12
Lag

Navamsha

4
Mars
' 5 ^
Ketu Mer
 Dreshkona

Ven Mer Rahu Jup

Sat

12 Mer
Ketu Moon Sat
Mars

2 Saptamsha
Moon
3
Mer
Sat
Man 6 Sun Rahu
Rahu

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Pooran Singh!

Died on 1 y May 1966 in Saturn-Mercury

Born in Saturn-Mercury in the next life.

\ 3 1 Lag Moon
Moon > Rahu Rahu
2 Jup (R)
*■ Lag 12
Jup (R)
Birth Horoscope
Pooran Singhl
/ 5 11 19 November 1929
18:26
Moga
e \w/ 8
Sun 10
III

7 Mars Sun
/ X s/ yQ Sat Mars
-/ Ven Sat
/ Mer Kelu

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

20°0r OS-'SO" OS^S" 07=49" 29=14"
Jupiter (R) Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
20022" 14°51" OS-'SZ" 19" 16" 19,'l 6"

5 3 Sat
Mer Ketu Mer
6\ Sun / 4 \
Mars Lag 2
Rahu Jup (R) Sat
Ven Lag
Jup (R)
1 Havamsha
7
Sun
8 10 x
Ketu
/ 11 Moon Mars
9 Rahu
Moon Ven

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 */6n Ketu Sat Moon
\l1 y 9 Mer
10 /B
12 Ny/ Lag Sun
Jup (R) Mars
Ven
Ketu
7 Oreshkona
/ 1
Lag Rahu
Jup (R)
2 4 6
'
3 /5 Sal Sun
N Mars
Mer Moon Rahu

\ Mars Sat 9 Kelu

Sun Ven
\ 11 / 10
12 e
Ven Lag Rahu
Jup (R) Mars
Sat
7
/ 1 Dwadashatnsha
Lag
Jup (R)
4 / 5
2 \/ Moon
Ketu x Mer
Sun Rahu Moon
y/ 3 / 5 Mer

1966 and died In the dasha of

Salurn-Mercury-Rahu

Sun Rahu Moon Sun

2 ^1 Ven Lag
Sat Mars Rahu
Mer Jup
Moon
Lag Mer
Jup Mars
12 19 May 196«
Ven Sat when he died in
an accident

Ketu
Ketu

Degrees of death time Saturn 04D02" in Meena

Degrees of death time Moon 20035" in Mesha (?)
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Pooran Singh2

Born in Saturn Mercury

Born in the next life in Saturn Mercury

Sun Mer Jup Wars / Sat (R)

\ Ketu yZ Rahu
9 \ / 7 \y s
Lag 8irth Horoscope
Pooran Singh 2 Moon
4 Reborn
/ 10 Moon y 9 December 1968
\ Ven ,
Ven 04:10
Kapurthala
11 1 \Z 3
Sun Jup
12
yZ 2 N. Lag Mars
/ \ Mer Kelu
Sat (R) Rahu"

Logna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

13°25" 23o30" 06°53" 24023" 24031,,
Jupiter Venus Saturn (R) Rahu Ketu
09o54" 05°23" 25025" 13°09" 13o09"

12 10 X Jup
Jup / Ketu
11 \
1 Lag \X 9
Ketu Sun Mer Ven Lag Sun
\ Sat (R) Z Mer Ven
8 Sat (R)
2 Navamsha
Mars
5 K/Z 7
3
Mars Rahu
4N
6 \ Rahu Moon
Moon

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 \ 12 Ven Kelu / Mars
10
\ /
1 9
\/ 11 \r
Lag Sun Mer
Lag Moon
Rahu
/ 2 ® \ Drashkona
\ Mars Sat (R)
Ven
7 Ketti
3 XX 5 X. y/
/ 4\
y/ Sun Mer \ 6 Sat (R) Jup
/ Moon Rahu '/ Jup XN,

X i. Ketu / Lag
11 Mars
/ Ven
2 Xy^ 12
Lag X/ 10
/Xsat(R)
Ven y
Ketu
9 X. Dwadashamsha
( 3
Mars Jup / Sun
Sat(R) Mer
6 Rahu
4 XyX \s 8
Moon
5 7
^\ X. Jup Moon
/ Sun \
/ Mer Rahu \/

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Rampratap Singh 1
Logna 29013'
5
Moon Sun

Rahu Moon
Lag
Mars 23u56'
Mercury 22050,
Mars
Jupiter 00026l
Venus 27003
Jup
Mer Ketu Saturn
9 ■
Sal Rahu 25009,
Sun Vep
Ketu 25009'

Ketu Mars
Died on
6 February 1983 in
Lag Sun/Mars or Rahu
Rampratap Singh
30 December 1958 Born in
08:55 pm.
Delhi Moon the next life in
Saturn-Mars

Sat Jup
Sun Mer Rahu
Ven

\ 1 > 11 Lag Sat

V Ketu Moon
2 12 10
Sat >< Lag Mer
Ketu Jup
/ 3 9 Navamsha
\ Moon Ven
Mer Sun
4\ Rahu
8
Jup yc 6 Mars
5 Ven Mars
// Sun Rahu 7

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 Rahu
5
Mer

12 Dwadashamsha

11
Sal
Jup van
' 10 \ Moon
Jup Moon Ketu Mars

Lag Sun Rahu

Sun
12 10
Lag
Mer
Sal Dreshkona
Mars Ven
Moon
8
Kelu
Jup Mars Ketu
Sat Jupiter
Ven Moon

\ 2
/\ 12 Lagna Rahu
3 \/
N.y/ Ven
Rahu yC Lag
>< VMars Ven
/ Mars Accident
/ 4 10 2 February, 1983
Sun 11 AM
Sun Ludhiana
X\ ,
5 Sat
9
Ketu
Ketu
6
/ Moon \ / 8 \Mer Mer Jupiter Sat Moon
/ Jup
\/ \
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\ 12 10 Died on
\ Moon y
9 6 February 1983 in
11
1 Lag Jup Sun/Mars or Rahu
/\ Mer (R)
V Sun
Born in the next life
8
S/ 2
Rahu Ven
in Saturn-Mars
Ke(u

' 1
3 5 Mars
/X Sal
/ 4 \ 6

Lagna 73°45
Moon Rahu
Sun 25030l
Moon 12013

Lag Mars 05053

10 January, 1984 Mercury (R) 06047
10:30 am.
Delhi Jupiter O4020
Venus 17023
Saturn 21002
Jup
Sun Ven Mars Rahu 21042
Mer (R) Ketu Sat
Ketu 2^042,

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 1 Lag
\\ Mer/
3 Sa! Sat Jup Mer
4
2
\/ Lag 12
Ra1iu/\ Jup
Rahu
/ 5 11 Navamsha
Kelu
8
6 \X Mars 10
Sun Ketu
7 / 9^ Ven Mars Moon
N Ven Sun
/ Moon

8 . 6 Ven Sat -
9 s 7
Jup Lag 5
Mer Mars Sun
Ketu
10 4 Moon
Rahu Ketu Dreshkona
Mo Rahu Sun
11 1 3
Sat
12 ^2 Jup Lag
\ Met Mars
Ven

Mars Sun Ven Sat

10
Jup
Rahu Moon
Mer Ketu
Mer Dwadadashameha
Jup
Rahu
ven Moon
Ketu
Mars Lag Sun
Sat

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Jaipur 1

5
\ 3
Ven Sun Kelu Sun
4 X
6 Lag 2
Rahu N/ Moon Mer Lag
Mars y Jaipur 1 Moon
Male Mer Mars
/ 7 1 7 July 1959
\ Jup (R) 07:41i20
Churu Ven
B X/ 10 12
Ketu
/ 9 ^ 11 Sat Jup (R) Rahu
/ Sat

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury

16*,20' 20°56" 02D32', 28028" 17° 05"
Jupiter (R) Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu
29^05' 05o32" 09o40,: 14°77' ]4a77"

Died in Mercury-Saturn

Born in Saturn-Mercury in next life

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 9 7 Ven
Mer > Mars Sun Jup (R)
8 Rahu Sat (R)
10 Lag
Ketu Moon
11 5 p Navamsha

2
12 Ven Nw/ 4
Mars/ Moon Lag
Rahu /Jup(RK Mer
1 Ketu
Sun Sat(R) \

\ 9 7
6 Mars Jup (R)
Rahu /K Lag 6
Mer Moon
Sun
11 5 Ketu *
v Sun Ven Dreshkona
Rahu Ven
'i
2 Moon
Mars/N^
// 3 s- Ketu Sat (R) Lag
// 1 Jup (R) Mer

Sun Rahu 9
\ 11 X 10 \ Sat (R) Ven
12 8
Sat (Rl/\ Lag / XKetu
Mer Sun
7 Rahu
v 1
Ven Dwadashamsha
Lag Moon
Mer Ketu
4 6
2
/\ yXjup (R)
y/ 3 ^ 5
X. Ven Jup (R)
,/ Mars Moon Ketu xs

Sat(R)
11 10 Moon Ketu Mars Mer
12 Lag
Moon Moon Sat (R) Sun
1 7 Death on
Ketu Rahu 27 July 1994
Jup Lagna 8 pm. Ven
2 4
Mars. Sun Jup
Rahu

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Jaipur 2

1 11
\ /
\ KetU y v Sat iR}/ Lag Ketu
i \y 12 \/ 10
Lag
Sat (R) Jaipur 2 Moon
23 August 1995
/ 3 9 \ 20:50
Jaipur Sun
Page 38 Ven
4 6 Mer
Moon x/ Mars \/ 8
Xiup (R)
/
Sun \ 7 Jup Rahu Mars
/ Van Mer \
Rahu

Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercu ry

16° 19" 06° 13" 06M6" 26M0" 28032"
Jupiter Venus Saturn (R) Rahu Ketu
12°23" 06o57" 29°09" 04°30" 04°30"

9 7
Mer y Sun Ven
\Jup . Ketu Sat (R)
S 6
■ 10 Lag Mars
Rahu Moon

11 5 Navamsha

12 2 4
Sun
Ketu / 3\ Lag Mars
1 > Ven Mer Jup Moon
Rahu
Sat (R)

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 Sun Ven 5
\ 7 / Jup Ketu
8 \/ 6 / 4
Rahu /S. Lag Mars
Moon \Mer Mars
Mer
8 Dwadashamsha
9
\
Sal (R)
10
\/ 12 2
Sat (R) X. Jup Ketu
Rahu Sun Lag
/ 11
\ ^ 1 Ven Moon

Jup (R) Ketu Mars -

Mer
Lag 2
Moon Mars
Lag
Moon
Sat (R) Ketu Drethkom
Mer
Sun
Ven
12
Jup (R)
Sat (R)
Rahu

iss
 Analysis of The Data

First Case
We will take up the case of Shantidevi first.
1 . Lugdi's Dreshkona: The only planet in the 6th, 7th or 8th
houses is Mercury which shows rebirth.
2. Shantidevi's Dreshicona: The Moon which is stronger in the
house of Mercury and we know it as a fact that she was Lugdi
in her previous birth.
3. Death-time Horoscope: No comment can be made as the
time of death is not known. Yet all that we know is that she was
born as Shantidevi and did not get salvation.

Second Case: Pooran Singh

1. Pooran Singh's Dreshkona: Moon and Mercury in fhe
dreshkona of Mercury do not promise salvation or journey
to the higher world after death.
2. Davinder's Dreshkona: Sun and Moon in the house of the
Moon clearly show that he came from the world of mortals
which we know to be a fact.
3. Death-time Horoscope: The time given was so conflicting
that it is difficult to comment on it. Itcould be even Simha lagna
as the accident took place earlier and death some hours later.

Third Case: Jaipur

Jaipur 1 who was born, after his accident, as Jaipur 2 (23 August

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1995)
Our examination must start with the dreshkonas of both births
as usual.
1. Jaipur Ts Dreshkona: Afflicted and retrograde Jupiter in
the dreshkona of Mercury does not promise salvation or
journey to the higher world after death.
2. Jaipur 2's Dreshkona: Moon in the house of the Moon and
the Sun in the house of Sun clearly show that he came from
tfie world of mortals which we know to be a fact.
3. Death-time Horoscope: The time given was so conflicting
that it is difficult to comment on it. It could be even Simha lagna
as the accident took place earlier and death some hours later.

Examination of Some Theories: FIRST

Let the astrological parameters given earlier be reproduced here for
ready reference,

Sun or Moon? The Previous Life

One of the theories is that the Sun in a male horoscope and the
Moon in a female horoscope are the central and most significant
influences. From this flow some parameters:
1. Find out which out of the Sun and the Moon is stronger in a
horoscope.
2. See in whose dreskona they are placed.
3. If they are in the dreshkona of the following the person in his
pastlife was in that particularworld which the planet represents.
Jupiter: Divine world.
Venus or the Moon: Pitriloka or the lunar world.
Sun or Mars: The world of mortals.
Mercury or Saturn: From lower worlds.
Even within this there are gradations depending on the strength or
the weakness of the planets like good, better or the best. In (his
scheme, Rahu and Ketu are excluded.

The Next Life

The world one would go to after death is again decided according
to the dreshkona position of planets in the 6th, 7th or 8th houses.

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 If there are no planets the strongest of the rising dreshkonas of
these houses will decide it.

My Observation
I know three methods of dreshkona. I have given here the
most popular method. I tried the other two methods but
never felt confident about the results because one can
never verify all facts of past and future lives of anyone.
Yet an attempt is being made first before I give my
own observations based on my research.
Note: It is not clear how these dreshkonas are to be used and which
of the types of dreshkonas. ft is said to be helpful for spiritual life
if Jupiter is in kendras (1,4, 7,10) orthe the 6th or the 8th houses.

Special Importance of Jupiter

Jupiter has been given a special place in man's aspiration for
salvation. Exalted Jupiter is said to be helpful for spiritual life if he
is in kendras (1,4, 7,10) or the 6th or the 8th houses.
Note: In this scheme 2, 3, 5, 9,11 and 12th houses have been
excluded.
A strong Jupiter with three or four planets in kendras is most
helpful for spiritual life.

Fourth Case: Rampratap Singh

1. RAMPRATAP SINGH l^s Dreshkona: The aspect of the
Sun in the 8th house does not hold any promise.
2. RAMPRATAP SINGH 7' Dreshkona: Moon in his own house
and Sun also in his own house shows that he came from the
world of mortals.
3. Death-time Horoscope: I was told that this was based on
very doubtful information.

Examination if Some Theories: Second

Placement of Saturn in the lagnas of both lives
There is a theory that Saturn of previous life is invariably in the
house previous to Saturn in the present life which does not appear
to be correct.

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 Name Previous Birth Next Birth
Lugdi/Shontidevi Dhanu Vrischika
Jaipur Case Dhanu Kumbha
Pooran Singh Dhanu Meena
Ram Pratap Singh Dhanu Tula

Placement of Jupiter in the lagnas of both lives

There is a theory that Jupiter of previous life is invariably in the
house previous to Jupiter or near it in the present life may appear
to be correct.
Name Previous Birth Next Birth

Lugdi/Shantidevi Makar Makar

Jaipur Case Tula Vrischika
Pooran Singh Vrisha Kanya
Ram Pratap Singh Vrischika Dhanu

My Observation
/ tried it and found it very unsatisfactory though a famous astrologer
ofMaharastro, Katwe, recommended it for readings about past life
by placing Saturn or Jupiter in the house previously occupied by
them in the lagna of the present life. Some astrologers prefer Jupiter
only for this.

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 HOWTO KNOWWHOHAS COME FROM LOWER WORLD?

Some hints given in Hindu scriptures as to who has come

from the lower world. Use the following as a tool for self-
analysis.

a1 I I
l
KWFIFi I I I
?3f^Fr ^rr wW ^ ^nr TO; i I
Tirf^r ^ ^TcTcTT I
^IrtCTTpT II

(P614 Katyon Fbrioic our Punoqanma Ank)

In the Markendeya Parana some choroteristics of men who

have come from the lower world or hell are described thus:
1. Indulging in malicious criticism.
2. Lacking a sense of gratitude.
3. Disclosing others' secrets.
4. Cruelty and harshness.
5. Adultery and extra-marital tendencies.
6. Depriving others through fraudulent practices.
7. Remaining unclean.
8. Condemning divine and spiritual life.
9. Cheating others through guiles.
10. Miserliness.
11. Murderering.

HOWTO KNOWWHOHAS COME FROM THE HIGHER

WORLD?
Garga Samhito (p 544 Gilo Press edition) gives the following
symptons of men who have come from the higher world.
1. Does charities.
2. Speaks in a cultured and sweet manner.
3. Does poo/as.
4. Respects and serves Brahmins, meaning the spiritual and
sattwick persons.
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importance of Poorvajanma Karma
In some cases which have been recorded, the karmas of past life
giving their results in this life have been traced. The Puranas, the
Valmiki Ramayana are full of such incidents some of which have
been quoted in the beginning. In two cases of rebirths where I have
the horoscopes of both births, I could trace the poorva-janma karma
well. From there some clear inferences drawable are:

Prarabdha
1. The yogas in a horoscope are the clearest indicators of
prarabdha along with the time of birth, the birth Moon and
the birth constellation. An in-depth study of a horoscope shows
how one would plunge headlong into hectic activities, sin
intensely, show ingratitude and get trapped in sinister karmas.
Astrology was studied only for this purpose and counselling
given was based on the one central aim of improving one's
spiritual life. There are many secrets of yyof/sha which are not
given in books. R/shi-/i/ce astrologers f\rs\ examine this aspect
of a horoscope.
2. A very simple principle to be seen is to first examine a
debilitated planet in a horoscope, see its ownership and its
position. It is the meanness (neecha)oiyne lord ofa house which
is carrying its low morality into another house. How to advise
such persons having this combination that it is what they are
and what they must do to lessen its evil effects is what many
astrologers do not even understand.
3. Most important is the condition of the 5th house and the 5th
lord. If "attached" meaning aspected by benefics or malefics
or retrograde and also aspected, it is prarabdhav/hichas to
be suffered and there is no mitigation.
4. The presence ofa debilitated 10th lord and an ill-aspected 9th
lord will show continuation of the evil karmas of post life in the
present birth also. The praise of exalted benefics is from the
spiritual angle only because it is a benefic in a spiritual sense
only. If such a benefic is retrograde and aspected by a malefic,
the seed of a split personality becomes visible here.
5. For instance when malefics are predominantly influencing the
2nd house, rt is a cheat who has cheated many in the past life
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 and will continue to cheat and lie in this life also.
6. The whole pattern of a horoscope shows the unavoidable
prarabdha which must be suffered. It is through suffering only
that prarabdha\sxhaus\e6. Nothing works.
7. Prowbc/Acr fructifies during a dasha. It can be good luck suddenly
or upsets.
8. The transit of planets or gochara only reveals to what extent a
person can do his present life's knyaman ^rorTnotoincrease his
fortune or lessen his miseries.
9. The most significant part of this kriyaman karma are stotra-
recitation as prescribed by Parashara. Western astrologers who
give all predictions on the basis of transits only are only entering
the fringe of the vast knowledge called jyotisha.
10. It is totally unscientific and primitive not to examine the yogas
and the dashas. Yogas are most intricate patterns of destiny
which has not been explained in any book. It Is learnt through
paramparaf'tradition) Ifhasseveral layers of meaningwhich is
why all the books on Yogas are primitive, elementary and
damaging. No bookon yogas can even deal with the thousands
of variations and inner meanings.
11. To give prediction only on the basis of transits is not astrology but
an expensive superstition which is being attacked by America's
astrologers who have been doing Hindu astrology. In this battle it
is Hindu astrology only which will win because it is astrology and
notpsycholgical bluff.
12. Jyotisha was done by rishis, sanyasis and brahmacharis. Not
being done by house-holders in India and dollars-greedy
Americans, it has reached its worstlevel ofmaterialisticcorruption
deporting from its intended aim of leading man towards liberation.
What then is the message of /yof/sha? First
pseudo-spirituality has to be avoided. In India, among the
pseudo-religious, be he a businessmen who has amassed
a fortune through wrong ways but got built temples or, the
Americans in the New Age Movement of the USA, the
essence of spiritual attitudes are missing.
The message of all studies of scriptures, Jyotisha and rebirth
are two: do charities and believe in kindness unselfishly.
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 TABULATED RESULTS
OF
ASTROLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS

1. Birth horoscope and birth Moon.

2. Dasha at the time of death in the previous life and

the opening dasha at the beginning of the next
birth.

3. Navamsha of the next life shows inherited

samskaras.

4. My own observations based on the dwadashamsha

position of Saturn.

5. My own observations based on the dwadashamsha

position of Jupiter.

6. The importance of 5th lord and the 12th house.

7. The importance of the opening dasha of this birth.

8. The importance of Rahu seen together with 9th lord

of the previous life.

9. The meaning of the 64 Navamsha in Rebirth.

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 MY OWN OBSERVATIONS

TABLE ONE; Birth Horoscope: Birth Moon

Name Lagna/Moon of Lagna/Moon of Comments

Previous Birth Previous Birth
Lugdi/Shantidevi Kumbha/Mesha Meena/Kumbha
Jaipur Case Karka/Karka Meena/Karka
Pooran Singh Vrisha/Mithuna Tulo/Karko
Rampratap Singh Karka//Simha Kumbha/Meena

TABLE TWO: Dasha at the time of death/Opening dasha in next birth

Name Dashes at death and next birth. Comments

Lugdi/Shantidevi Died in Moon-Rahu/Born in Rahu-Mercury Invariably in some other cases

Jaipur Case Died in Mercury-Saturn/Born in Saturn-Mercury not included in this paper there is
Pooran Singh Died in Saturn-Mercury/Born in Saturn-Mercury some connection between the
Rampratap Singh Died in Sun-Mars or Rahu/Born in Saturn-Mars mahadasha or antardasha of both lives
 TABLE THREE: Navamsha of both lives shows inherited samskaras

Name Comments
Lugdi/Shantidevi The navamsha clearly shows fear of marriage and the saptamsha, as already discussed, fear of
child-birth.
Jaipur Case The 5th house in both cases shows the influence of Saturn and Mars, showing rashness. In both
cases the navamsha is Vrischika and Saturn is the 3rd lord of travel.
Pooran Singh Ketu in the 3rd house aspect and Mars the 3rd in the 7th house receive the aspect of Saturn.
Rampratap Singh Saturn-Mars opposition involving the 3rd house in the previous life and the 3rd lord in the 6th
house of accident in the next life show the inherited samskaras.
 MY OWN OBSERVATION ONE

USING THE DWADASHAMSHA

Position of Saturn in the horoscopes of both lives : a study
Name Previous Life Name Next Life Previous Life Next Life

Lugdi/ Shanti Devi Tula Kumbha (dwadashamsha of previous life)

Jaipur I Jaipur 2 Meeno Makar (dwadashamsha of previous life)

Pooran Singh Davinderfif Kumbha Makar (dwadashamsha of previous life)

Ram Pratap Ram Pratap Kumbha Mithuna (dwadashamsha of previous life)

 MY OWN OBSERVATION TWO
USING THE DWADASHAMSHA
Position of Jupiter in the horoscopes of both lives: a study

Name Previous Ufe Name Next Life Previous Life Next Ufe
Lugdi/ Shanti Devi Kumbha (Moon of next life) Dhanu (aspecting Moon of
previous life (birth horoscope)

Jaipur Jaipur 2 Kanya (Lagna and Moon) Meena (aspecting Moon and
lagna of (birth horoscope
of next life)

Pooron Singh Davinderjit Makar Dhanu

aspecting Moon of the
previous life in the birth
horoscope

Rampratap Rampratap Vrischika Makar (aspecting Lagna of

previous life (birth horoscope)
 MY OWN SPECIAL OBERVATION: THREE

Importance of
the 5th lord and the 12th house

1. The fifth lord represents the poorvapunyilpr the spiritual merit

or merits of past life) Let us examine the 5th lord of the next
life of each of the four cases we have,
2. Shanti Devi's 5th lord is Moon which never retrogrades but
is in the 12th house of her horoscope showing the connection
of the memory of past life which the 1 2th house represents.
3. Jaipur 2 has his Moon in Karka in the 5h house at 06,>46l in
the nakshatra of Saturn which is retrograde in the 12th house.
There is again a connection with the 12th house.
4. Davinderjit Singh (Pooran Singh in his earlier birth) has his 5th
lord Saturn retrograde in the 6th house from where he aspects
the 12th house.
5. Rampratap 2 has his 5th lord Mercury retrograde in Dhanu and
is aspected by the 12fh lord, Saturn.
Note 1; In many spiritual horoscopes where great yogis saw their past
births through their sadhana the 5-12 connection exists in some
way or the other. I have many such cases which I am not
discussing here.
Note 2: In the case of those who remembered their past lives in which
they had non-normal death, the 5th lord is retrograde and also
establishes some connection with the 12th house or its lord.
Note 3 : As it is, a retrograde 5th lord gives a non-normal behavior
pattern and if aspected by a malefic schizophrenic tendencies
and lack of gratitute.

MY OWN SPECIAL OBERVATION: FOUR

Importance of
the opening dasha of this birth
The 9th lord or the 9th house represents the punya (or the spiritual
merit or demerits) of the present life. That the 12th house is the
connection with the past life is a popular theory. Now see it in the

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cases discussed.
1. Shanti Devi's : The opening dasha was Rahu-Mercury. Here
Mercury is in the 9th house with the 1 2th lord, Saturn also is
in the 9th house.
2. Jaipur 2: The opening dasha was Saturn-Mercury. Here Saturn
is the 12th lord and Mercury aspects it is in the 12th house
from the 6th house. There is no connection with the 9th house
or the 9th lord in this case.
3. Davinderjit Singh (Pooran Singh): The opening dasha was
Saturn in the 6th house aspecting the 12th house and Mercury
is both the 9th and the 12th lord.
4. Rampratap 2: The opening dasha was Saturn- Mars. The 12th
lord here is Saturn in the 9th house while Mars is in the 9th
house.

MY OWN SPECIAL OBERVATION: FIVE

Importance of Rahu seen together

with 9th lord of the previous life
Rahu is said to represent the shadow of some undecipherable karma
and the 9th lord is the poonya (or the spifitual merit or demerits of
this life). Then how does the 9th lord of the previous life get
connected with Rahu in the horoscope of the next life?
1. Lugdi's 9th lord is Venus and there is Rahu in the 9th house.
In her next life when she became Shanti Devi Venus fell under
Rahu-Ketu axis.
2. Jaipur 1 's 9th lord is Jupiter and th 9th house is covered by
Ketu-Rahu axis. In his next life as Jaipur 2 Jupiter has Rahu-Ketu
axis falling behind it and, in addition, a retrograde Saturn
aspects it from the 12th house.
3. Pooran Singh's 9th lord is Saturn in the 8th house, in Dhanu.
Ir his next birth as Davinderjit Singh Saturn is in the grip of
Rahu-Ketu.
4. Rampratap 1 's 9th lord is Jupiter while the 9th house has Rahu.

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Meaning of the 64 Navamsha in Rebirth

Can the 64th navamsha have any meaning: This worth exploring.
Case by case it can be seen:
1. Lugdi's 64th navamsha falls in Vrischika 16031"in the nakshatra
of Saturn and the navamsha of Mars. In her next birth she as
Shanti Devi was born with her.Moon in the rashi of Saturn which
is Kumbha. Shanti Devi's Saturn is in Vrischika.
2. Pooran Singh's 64th navamsha falls in Saturn's rashi, Makar,
with in the nakshatra of the Sun and the navamsha of
Jupiter. In his next birth as Davinderjit Singh was born with his
Moon in the nakshatra of Saturn in Karka with 06o53".
3. In Jaipur I's Case 64th navamsha falls in Kumbha belonging
to Saturn with 02<'32" in the navamsha of Venus and the
nakshatra of Mors. in his next birth Jaipur 2 was born in the
nakashatra of Saturn with his Moon in Karka at 06o46".
4. In the case of Rampratap Singhl his 64th navamsha falls in
Meena at 09o23" in the nakshatra of Saturn, navamsha of
Mars.
In his next birth as Rampratap Singh 2 he was born with his
Moon in Meena at degrees in the nakshatra of Saturn.
( have not come to very definite conclusions yet. All that t
know is that I have gained immense confidence now that I have
worked on nearly 25 cases of rebirth, though four authenticated
cases of both births only.
From this is confirmed another fact. Most of those who die
and do not get salvation are reborn in the same family.
The only exception in the four cases discussed is that of Lugdi
who was born as Shanti Devi in a kayastha family, with an entirely
different background.
In the other three cases, all were born in the same family.
t. Pooran Singh was bom as the son of this own younger sister.
2. Rampratap Singhl was bom as the grandson of his father.
3. Jaipur ^ was born as his own son of his own brother.
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ceremonies in many Indian families, particularly in south India in
general and, Andhra Pradesh in particular.
Let me cite my own case:
1. My paternal grandfather's name was K.N.Rao.
2. My father's name was K.Rama Rao.
3. My name is K.N.Rao..
When I got my voting right, I filled up the electoral form for
myself and my father thus:
K. Rama Rao, S/o K.N. Rao.
K.N. Rao, S/o K. Rama Rao.
The election officer struck off the name of my father first
time and after my correcting him, struck off my name. I then had
to explain the Andhra tradition of naamkarana (naming traditions)
to the election officer.
Let me quote from the first half of the book.

Debts of Past Lives

The horoscope reveals the bond, linkage and its quality with the
family we are born into. Let me quote from th e Padma purana
where the concept of Rinanu-bandhana is explained succintly.
Rinanunu-bandhana means the undischarged debts of past life as
a result of which we are born in a family become relation, friends
and even have other intimate relations with all those with whom we
interact in our lives.
1. Those who have given loans in the past life become our
relations in the present Birth.
2. Some of them can be even those extreme cases whose
property was captured illegally.
3. The spouse, the parents, siblings, relations, even servants all
are born as a result of the rinanu-bandhana.
A. Each one is born according to the motive dominant at the time
of death. In the present birth, he gets that motive fulfilled and
after giving terribe pain, departs.
5. He who had lost his property through deceit in the past birth
born as a handsome and accomplished son in the present birth
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6. He who takes loans from others and dies without discharging
it takes his birth in that family as a father, brother, wife or friend
etc. His behaviour is evil. He treats everyone badly, speaks
harshly and enjoys life at the cost of others. He fritters away
family fortunes.

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 Conclusion

Punarapi Jananam Punarapi Maranam

Punarapi Janani Jathare Shayanam
tho samsare khalu dus fa re
kripayapare paahi Murare
Ad Shonkoracharya

Meaning
Taking birth again and again, dying again and again, sleeping again
and again in the womb of the mother, the world is so difficult a
place. Lord ! rescue me from all this and give salvation.
The Sikh Scnoture. the Granth Saheb has a hymn (shabadl
which is of Bhoaot Sodhna for Sadanl.
In the hymn the prayer to God is to free him from the results
of the karmas of past lives.

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RTTf TTT^T Ititi

jt; fhd ^rfcTT
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MM ti) K fo - MM ^
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 y^TTT - til"*! t HlRl "TT rtl<

The Story of Sedan

He was a butcher and used to slaughter goats every day. One day,
late in the evening a customer and asked him for some soft meat.
To please the customer, Sadan went near a goat and was about to
cut its testicles. The goat started laughing in a human voice and said,
"Oh! Sadan, dont'do this. Why don't you stop this cycle. We have
been slaughtering each other for so many births. In the last birth t
was the butcher and you were the goat and vice versa." Dumb-
founded, Sadana did not use his butcher's knife to cut the goat's
testicles.This incident changed his mind and he became an ardent
devotee of God. In folk stories, in legends and also in the Guru
Granth Saheb he finds an immortal place.
(Sent on 25 May 1997 from Chadigarh by a relation of Ninia of Delhi)
{House No. 1321, Sector 34 D, Chandigarh)

A very popular bhajan sung in the last century and the beginning of
this century was:
Han selaagi raho re bhai, ten banat banat ban jaayi,
Anaka taare, Banka taara, taare Sadan kasai

Meaning
Remain steadfast in your devotion to God. The devotees, Anka and
Banka got salvation. God gave salvation to Sadan, the butcher.
There exists no evidence in human history or any instance
outside India of Hindus to understand life totally and completly. The
racist westerner has always been an aggressive extrovert. Product of
fundamentalist Semitic religions have suppressed evidences that did
not suit their zeal for conversions and cruel proselytization. With time
that has now changed and become the aggressive, insane and cruel
marketting strategies of the economic imperialism of multi-national
companies.
To understand life only physically, to reject outright the other
view has been the style and outlook of the Semitic religions and of
the materialistic west which continues to assemble even now all the
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ugly by-products of its history of slave trade and imperialism in its
technology and industry. Some decades ago, tobacco and cancer
had no relation according to those multi-nationals which felt
threatened that they would suffer huge economic losses. It was not
an attempt to understand life but to block it, for economic reasons.
In an ancient history book prescribed for graduate course in the
University of Washington, DC, which I happened to glance through
in 1993, there was no mention of India, the Vedas, the Valmiki
Ramayana, the Upanishods or even the mention of the fact that in
any reference to ancient civilizations India and China must figure
first and foremost. USA which describes itself as a developed country
will remain underdeveloped in many ways always. It will not listen
to the other view at all. In the Indian Express of 25 May 1997, a
news-item reads thus.

'HINDU LECTURE'
WASHINGTON: A lecture by Mo to Amritanandamayi, a religious
personality from Kerala at a Theological seminar at Philadelphia has
been cancelled by the officials of the school saying that the speaker
"is representing Hinduism."
In short, suppression of truth and distortion of facts of history
to suit its neo-imperial needs in the garb of marketting and
management is oil that was and is 'civilization' as they call and
understand it in the west. Privately, a joke narrated in India attributes
to Mahatma Gandhi a remark that civilization never had a chance
of reaching the west.
Suppression of the other view based on a fact discovered in
a supernormal yogic way but demonstrable in physical terms
through a scientific methodology but, only to those who understand
the subject is astrology. It is a glaring instance. In the case of rebirth,
the narration of a person who remembers his past birth and
verification of that past life has been done by many in many
countries now. Why should Semitic religions still reject it? It is
because it will go against their idea of the Day of Judgement.
Vinobha Bhave had asked once that if a child dies some seconds
after its birth, how will God reward or punish it for good or bad
deeds. What is the Day of Judgement for it.

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 Not to believe in rebirth inspite of massive evidence well
recorded and known and discussed is to perpetuate a superstition.
To believe in it is to believe in karma. To believe in karma is to
believe in rewards and punishments in one's present life for the
deeds done in past lives. To believe in that continuing scheme of
punishment is to believe in God's laws which makes God do justice
based on our karmas. There can be no ideal or perfect society
anywhere. There can be no perfect ashram of a guru. There can
be no ideal religious community.

Table One
Self-analyse yourself. If you know astrology use the table given here
which is a combination of what has already been discussed in earlier
chapters.

Importance of Poorvajanma Samskaras

tl is heartening to read in the accounts of those who had 'out of
body' experience that they discovered that kindness was all that was
valued most in life after life. Belief in ^ar/nocreating a stronger
belief in rebirth alone can lead to the improvement in the quality of
life. The term quality of life too has a western definition, confining
itself to physical and mental comforts. The true meaning of the
term, quality of life, has to be only spiritual. Physical and
material comforts can help only to a limited extent. That limit is that
dim border where a luxury does not become a necessity as in the
consumer culture of the age we live in.
As an astrologer, seeing thousands of horoscopes when t am
required to answer questions relating to man's unhappiness, and the
method of getting out it, if i were to tell them that none was visible,
they would be frustrated: if I were to tell them to do mantras some
Hindus feel that I am acting like a preacher not a counsellor
because, they do not know anything about the efficacy of mantras.
Non-Hindus may feel that I was like the Christian missionary trying
to rescue others' souls. The Christian missionary is not trained to
think about his own soul first and is taught that spiritual qualify of
life cannot improve without any conversion. He is not intelligent
enough to know that it is a dogma and superstition.

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 But then astrology done as part of sadhana does immense
good to the astrologer himself. He sees God's laws working through
the planets in a horoscope, in the dashas and yogas. In turn, the
astrologer knows and shows the quirks and twists of destiny and the
Wheel of Time.
Karmas keep chasing you, they rise to meet you, they walk
in front of you and behind you all the twenty four hours of the day.
A good astrologer can see it through his super-science. He should
improve his own karma first and not become a dollar-pinching
consumerist of our age. Then he should explain to an intelligent
consulter that karmas chase you always, birth after birth.

Inherited Samskaras
The stories we hear and narrate about child prodigies are stories of
inherited samskaras: the fears, phobias too have their origin in
them. Man is moulded by four factors clearly:
J. The environment of the family he is born in, which is external
to him, but influences him to a very large extent. For instance,
when in my early youth when I was showing more interest in
academic pursuits my Marwari friends always told me disdainfully
that it would lead me nowhere. Over a period of some decades
they took to their family business and became very rich. Others,
like me, sought the comfort and security of a paid government
job with a pension atthe end of the career which would mostly
have been humdrum had it not been for other pursuits like
sports, love of literature and astrology.
2. Samskaras which the society gives are very powerful and no
one can resist it. The peculiar and odd combination of love for
the Gayatri Mantra, and some bitof India's eternal culture and
western pop music in the younger generation is a new craze
which cannot be resisted. In the USA, the innate love for the
lucre and sex, which the dollar-hunting and permissive society
treals as life's greatest needs, and Indian or Buddhist gurus with
whom American women have even sex, are the samskaras
which do not appear enigmatic.
3, One is born with ones own samskaras which are of two types:
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 the other which he has brought from the past life. Sr; Aurobindo
has said that it is not all the talents and all the samskaras of
past life that one brings in his present life. For instance in the
past life he may have had a great love for music while in the
present life there may be no attraction for music at all.
4. The one samskara that seem to continue life after life seems
to be the spiritual samskara. It is for this reason that in the four
ashram-system of the Hindus, Brahmacharya comes first in
which training in spiritual and worldly disciplines is given
simultaneously. It is in late adulthood or old age that the spiritual
training of early childhood leads to a life of detachment and,
if one is lucky, to death with the mind attuned to the Divine.
It leads to liberation otherwise, to rebirth.
5. It is clear from thousands of Hindu devotees we see in India
that they are born with a good balance of spiritual merit of past
lives which is why they are able to do their sadhana with all
the difficulties which life in India, particularly the house-holder's
life has, The stories of rebirth in the Puranas contain the
essential truth that the spiritual merit is the only imperishable
merit one can have while all other "balances", of money, fame
and other worldly distinction perish easily.
In the case studies of the horoscopes, the samskaras clearly
visible from the known histories of past life, though very scanty, are:
Shanti Devi: She was afraid of marriage and pregnancy.
Pooran Singh: He had a desire in his past life to go to Burma and
earn a fortune. In the present life, he, as Davinderjit Singh, is
again doing international business with Colombia after neglecting
his studies, as in the past life.
Rcmprafao Singh: "The dreadful scene of the accident was so fresh
in his subconscious mind that after his rebirth he could not enjoy
an undisturbed sleep for over two years", is what has been
quoted earlier.
Jaipur Case: I could not collect any details.
In all cases of a psycho-analytical study of a person all the four
layers of a personality have to be understood: the two external
influences, of the family and the society und the two internal
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Importance of Poorvajanma Karma
In some cases, which have been recorded, the karmas of past life
giving their results in this life have been traced. The Puranas, the
Valmiki Ramayana are full of such incidents some of which have
been quoted in the beginning. Ir two cases of rebirths where I have
the horoscopes of both births, I could trace the poorya-janmckarma
well. From there, some dear inferences drowoble are:

Table Two
Importance of Poorvajanma Karma
In some coses which have been recorded, the karmas of past life
giving their results in this life have been traced. The Puranas, the
Valmiki Ramayana are full of such incidents some of which have
been quoted in the beginning. In two cases of rebirths where I have •
the horoscopes of both births, I could trace the poorva-janma karma
well. From there some dear inferences drawable are:

Prarabdha
1. The yogas in a horoscope are the clearest indicators of
prarabdha along with the time of birth, the birth Moon and
the birth constellation. An in-depth study of a horoscope shows
how one would plunge headlong into hectic activities, sin
intensely, show ingratitude and get trapped in sinister karmas.
Astrology was studied only for this purpose and, counselling
given was based on the one central aim of improving one's
spiritual life. There are many secrets of jyotisha which are not
given in books. Afe/j/'-Z/iteasfrotogers first examine this aspect
of a horoscope.
2. A very simple principle to be seen is to first examine a
debilitated planet in o horoscope, sea its ownership and its
position. It isthe meanness {neecholoihe lord of a house which
is carrying its low morality into another house. Flow to advise
such persons having this combination that it is what they are
and what they must do to lessen its evil effects is what many
astrologers do not even understand.
3. Most important is the condition of the 5th house and the 5th
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 or retrograde and also aspected, it is prarabc/rtawhich has to
be suffered and there is no mitigation.
4. The presence of a debilitated 1 Oth lord and an ill-ospecfed 9th
lord will show continuation of the evil karmas of past life in the
present birth also. The praise of exalted benefics is from the
spiritual angle only because it is a benefic in a spiritual sense.
If such a benefic is retrograde and aspected by a malefic, the
seed of a split personality becomes visible here.
5. For instance, when malefics are predominantly influencing the
2nd house, it is a cheat who has cheated many in the past life
and will continue to cheat and lie in this life also.
6. The whole pattern of a horoscope shows the unavoidable
prarabdibowhic.h must be suffered. It is through suffering only
that prarabc/hds exhausted. Nothing works.
7. Prarabdha fructifies during a dasha. It can be good luck
suddenly or upsets.
8. The transit of planets or gochara only reveals to what extent
a person can do his present life's kriyaman karma to increase
his fortune or lessen his miseries.
9. The most significant part of this khvaman karma are stotrc-
recitation as prescribed by Fbrashora. Western astrologers who
give all predictions on the basis oftransits only are only entering
the fringe of the vast knowledge called jyotisha.
10, It is totally unscientific and primitive not to examine the yogas
and the dashas. Yogas are most intricate patterns of destiny
which has not been explained in any book. It is learnt through
parampara (tradition) It has several layers of meaning which
is why all the books on Yogas are primitive, elementary and
damaging. No book on yogas can even deal with the thousands
of variations and inner meanings.
IT. To give prediction only on the basis of transits is not astrology
but an expensive superstition which is being attacked by
America's astrologers who have been doing Hindu astrology.
In this battle it is Hindu astrology only which will win because
it is astrology and, not a psycholgical bluff.
12. Jyotisha was done by rishis. sanvasis andbrahmacharis. Not
being done by house-holders in India and dollars-greedy

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Americans, it has reached its worst level of materialistic corruption
departing from its intended aim of leading man towards liberation.
Belief in karma is an evolutionary stage in spiritual life leading
towards enlightenment. True liberation is based on two truths:
kindness is spirituality and cruelty is not. Let me quote from my book
Dips Into Divinity, History and Astrology.
" This vastest treasure of scriptural literature baffled Indians themselves
so much that finally the essence of spiritual life had to be summed
up in two lines thus:
Ashtadasha Puraneshu Vyasasya Vachanam Dwayam,
Paropkarah Punyaya Papaya Parapeedanaya
Only two words of Vyas are significant among all the eighteen
Puranas, punya (spiritual merit) is to do good to others and papa
(sins) is to torment others. "

What then Is the message of /yotishd? First pseudo

spirituality has to be avoided. In India, among the
pseudo-religious, be he a businessman who has
amassed a fortune through wrong ways but got built
temples or, the Americans in the New Age Movement
of the USA, the essence of spiritual attitudes are
missing.
The message of all studies of scriptures, jyotisha and rebirth
are two: do charities and believe in kindness, unselfishly.

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