Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Buddh - Few Questions and Partial Answers

Am jumping with joy. Few of my question nagging me from last weekend have been answered that I can’t sleep now. I was doing a pattern analysis on 83 kundlis over the weekend.

Background

My colleague’s father died this evening. I read Deccan Herald’s center page article on the young Railway engineer being charred to death and his old father searching for him without knowing that (after being separated due to son's out of caste girl's choice). In spite of my sister asking me to watch Talaash over the weekend, especially, since I had not been sleeping since Friday, I watched the movie till 12 am. Admire the levels of human perception, discernment that a Piscean can portray. Thanks to him in 3 idiots, I learnt to really let go of CGPA and learn instead and only when I did that, my CGPAs astonished me. Wish Aamir shot his movie in the campus in the 1st year itself. And to join the dots, I listened to katha Upanishad on Dharma Chariot.

My questions

Out of 12 houses available, why does mercury stick around sun? Why does mercury’s mentalizing  domain be only in the 3rd house from its position? Like in the dystopian 1984, what lessons do these repeating thought patterns intend to teach us?

What causes birth and death at specific timings? When does the soul decide to be born and when does it decide to leave? What causes birth and death? Ok am not talking about the soul in gita of chapter 2, which says, souls have no death or birth; my question is about births and deaths in family, all around us.

Why does Buddh get exalted in the 6th house? What is the relation between  our repetitive thoughts (buddhi) and the 6th house of debt, enemies and diseases and that of 8th house of death?  Is soul one or many? Why does the son of a religious father who goes beyond the family to help the society have rahu in his 7th house? Why is Ram, Dasharath’s son? Why is a teacher’s son a fool and a police’s son a thief? Of course, the opposite holds true as well. In some cases, traditions get passed on to progenies, in others it gets grossly violated.

If people around, all relations, mirror our own thoughts – how much is the 23 year old girl who got gang-raped in a moving bus, or the wife whose husband threw acid on her face, responsible for the trauma inflicted on her? Since thoughts turn into words which in turn become deeds - is there something,  that could have been done at the thought level by the women to stop such acts? To stop attracting lust, to stop attracting violence and all the vices that plague humanity? I have experienced the power of positive thoughts – call it prayers or petitions above– they do work. The key is in sustaining the positive momentum.

 My Partial Answers

As to why Mercury- (thoughts) is so closely associated with Sun or just before or after. Answer was in Katha Upanishad.
ātmānaṁ rathinaṁ viddhi śarīraṁ rathameva tu |
buddhiṁ tu sārathiṁ viddhi manaḥ pragrahameva ca || 3||
 Know the Atman as the Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot; know the intellect as the charioteer and the mind again as the reins. (I.3.3)

indriyāṇi hayānāhurviṣayāṁ steṣu gocarān |
ātmendriyamanoyuktaṁ bhoktetyāhurmanīṣiṇaḥ || 4||
They say, the senses are the horses and their objects are the roads; the Atman, the senses and the mind united, the wise call the enjoyer.(I.3.4)

2 souls made 2 exits and 1 entry within a short span of 2-3 months, which still haunts me even after 3 years. It appears in my dreams so vividly – in various states, and as my mind would choose it, the gory details replay time and again even during my waking hours. Why do some people pour out thus to me – the answer was re-found in Talaash. Wandering souls with similar mindset associating themselves with the human pain.  Birds of a feather flock together.

Elders say, you should not cry in bed, yet I could not help crying, thinking, I was not there for any of those souls when they died. I never did proper shraadh for any of them at an individual level, I just let the family take care of it. They don’t disturb the family folks, but I even got slapped by my dead grandmom in my dream , these souls haunt my dreams.  The answer is in our thoughts.

Afterthought
 
View 1
But you see, there is nothing about you that you can get rid of. The energy that you expend to ‘get rid of’ something actually draws it to you. That is what occurs when you are afraid of something. There is so much energy expended in the fear that the universe says, “Oh, good…this is lots of energy here…we’ll push some more this way.”  You see how it works?  - Ptaah

View 2

It is an unlimited force; your power to think is inexhaustible, yet there is not one in a thousand who may be fully aware of the possibilities of his thought power. We are mere babes in handling it. As we grow in understanding and in the right use of thought, we will learn to banish our ills, to establish good in every form we may desire. It is our power to think that determines our state of living. As one is able to think, he generates a power that travels far and near, and this power sets up a radiation which becomes individual as he determines it. Our thoughts affect our welfare, and often affect others we think of. The kind of thoughts we register on our memories or habitually think attracts the same kind of conditions. - source

Hope to internalize these 2 verses to get the remaining answers. Sarvam SriKrishnaarpanamasthu

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