Retrograde Jupiter in 6th House

Written by: Acharya Addittya Tamhankar • July 29, 2021

The word ‘Retrograde’ has to be first understood. Why the word ‘Retrograde’? The English dictionary defines the word ‘Retrograde’ as moving backward. In more explanatory terms – the word Retrograde means “to go back on the progress that has been made.”

A man is in a relationship. Venus matters when it comes to relationships. Venus is going retrograde – now the same man would look back on the progress that has been made in his relationship – maybe he may just sit back – maybe a certain question would arise – the woman would want to get married – the man is not ready – he wants to take his own time to make a decision – sometimes both of them – go into a retro-mood – and start analyzing – the many good and challenging points of their relationship – so you see – nothing is moving ahead – the relationship has come to a point of halt – it is going slow, backward – in rounds and rounds of thoughts – that’s retrogression – “to go back on the progress that has been made.”

Right now Planet Venus is still in the sign of Libra from last 3.5 months. When in reality Venus transits a zodiac sign in just 28 days! But this year (2018) – Venus went retrograde from October 5th to November 16th! And so imagine – how many relationships would be going through a retrogression mode? I personally have received almost over 100 cases – where either there has been a break-up, or relationship is going through certain hurdles. So you see – retrogression is ‘state’ that is neither good nor bad. It all depends on the progress you have made so far!

In reality – a planet to whom we address as a Retrograde planet is NOT going backward – let this be very clear. This is deep, and this is of significance.

In reality – such a planet has simply slowed down – somewhere the energy of the planet has slowed down – who slows down the energy – and to this – no one has found an answer – even the scientists are scratching their heads but no specific answer has been found so far! But our ancient seers and saints had. The energy to which we address as God – God-consciousness!

“THE WHOLE UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS CREATED THE INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUS OF EACH OF US, EXPERIENCING ITSELF FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES, -IN WHICH EACH OF US CREATE THE LIFE WE EXPERIENCE.”

The divine God-consciousness to which many addresses as – Krishna-Consciousness (ISKON) or Christ-Consciousness is the energy that impacts the slowing down (in our words – retrograde)of the Planet! The Planet is not moving backward – rather it has just slowed down – in life – God slows down us as well – is that bad? No, it is a blessing in disguise – because in this slowing down – in this state of retrogression – God simply wants you to sit back, introspect, meditate and understand who you are, what is it that you are doing, through this retrograde state – God is simply giving you ‘window’ of opportunity to discover your true self – a rarest of the rare opportunity to transform yourself – to make you *revisit* the matters of life so that you understand what works for you and what doesn’t! It is during the retrogression period that you come to a state where much has to be cut, much has to be dropped. Only the very essential has to be saved; the nonessential has to be completely destroyed.

And by the time you come out of retrograde state – you have got much clarity on what works for you and what isn’t – whether it is a relationship – or office matters, or family matters or even enemy matters! At the end of retrogression – you are slowly coming towards a conclusion – to where you want to head?

Mercury goes retrograde almost many times in a year. I had a friend, she was the Director of an IT company in the US. During one my trip to the US – during one conversation with her, I realized how much she gets worried when Mercury goes retrograde! And that is understandable – one certainly should not make any decisions – when Mercury goes retrograde – the period of retrogression is to analyze, look within, turn inwards – to find answers to a certain query, a certain project that you may have in your hands, it is, in fact, a great time to brainstorm on an idea – but not make a decision – it is only after the brainstorm – after the revisiting – after the retrograde state – that a good decision can be made! So – RETROGRADE PERIOD – use it for decision-making – but DECIDE only when the Planet is no more retrograde but have become Direct. Let a week pass after the retrogression period is over and then make a decision!

Now – when you have a Retrograde Planet itself in your Birth Chart – tell me – how would you look at it? It is simply a signal that this human life of yours have certain ‘matters of life’ that you got to REVISIT, RETROSPECT, REVIVE. It is a ‘left-over’ Karma of your PAST LIFE – and this human life has been bestowed upon you – so that you complete the unfinished business of your past life! Remember – everybody is born to pay for their past life karma – but in retrograde case – it is not about paying the dues – it is revisiting the unfinished Karma – and ensuring that is finished – and in reality, it does finish because of the existence – the existence ensures that the cosmic law is justified.

What is the difference – retrograde and normal state of the planet?

Retrograde example – A young man is getting ready to marry the love of his life – and suddenly he goes back on his decision – he runs away from his marriage. Now what? This man is reborn with certain retrograde planetary placement around his marriage aspects/house – where it determines – that now the unfinished business of marriage has to be addressed – the marriage has to take place for the native (soul) to move on with his cycle of birth and rebirth!

Normal example – Here the story has moved on – the young man has gone ahead, married the love of his life – now – how he lived his married life – whether he was loyal to his love, whether he was a good husband – whatever the quality of karma related to his marriage – will be seen in his next birth chart when he is reborn. Here you will see no sign of a retrograde planet in regards to his marriage. Here he is simply made to pay his dues – if he was a good husband – he will be getting a positive placement for his marriage – if not then accordingly he would be put to ‘task’! So in a normal state of planets – the story of life is moving on – progressing – but in retrograde – it has “to go back on the progress that has been made.”

A man or woman with a retrograde planet has NOT gone all the way – at some point, they have quit – and so now they have come in this human world to FINISH the unfinished business that they had quit in their last human life.

“If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.” -Chogyam Trungpa

And generally, it is found – that these retrograde community of individuals complete the unfinished business that they had left behind (past-life).

A whole birth – a whole human life is awarded to them – just so that they can address the unfinished business of their last life – and so usually they do meet success in it.

Unfinished business – but related to what aspect of life? This is understood from the planet and the house it is placed in!

In your case – the sixth house – determines many parts of human life and human affairs – but on a higher level and from a positive angle – it has more to do with SERVICE – to SERVE! Somewhere the native has quit from serving someone – now who is this someone – for that other aspects are necessary to understand. But the core point is to SERVE – to FORGIVE enemies – to either finish certain disputes by being MORE COMPASSIONATE – MORE UNDERSTANDING in your daily routine life. It is also an indication that one must demonstrate loyalty towards those who provide him with employment. Since Jupiter is a planet of compassion and love – here – the message is simple – BE MORE and MORE Kind – do not indulge in REVENGEFUL ACTS – learn to live in a LET-GO!

“Let-go is a deep understanding of the phenomenon that we are part of one existence. We cannot afford to have separate egos; we are one with all. And the all is vast, immense.” – Osho

Your understanding will help you to go with the whole, wherever it is going. You do not have a goal separate from the whole, and the whole has no goal. It is not going anywhere.

Albert Einstein is the only scientist – who had realized the true essence of the universe – of the ‘whole’!

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Albert Einstein

The understanding of let-go helps you to be here, without any goals, without any idea of achievement, without any conflict, struggle or fight, knowing that it is the fighting with yourself which is simply foolish.

To meditate is to LET-GO!

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

A man with a retrograde planet in the SIXTH – should learn to live in a LET-GO. Existence wants you to LET-GO of all your disputes, your misunderstanding, your unfinished grudges, and enmities – existence wants you to come out clean and the only way to come out clean – is to simply stop reacting and learn to live in total acceptance – and that is what the Buddhists call – Tathata! Tathata is to live in suchness – such are the things – such is the situation – there is simply no question of accepting or rejecting – you simply live in suchness – TATHATA! And a man who lives in suchness is called Tathagata!

To learn to live in a let-go – you have to first – find yourself and you will be able to find yourself only when you lose yourself in the service of others!

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatama Gandhi

When going through the Mahadasha of any retrograde planet – remember you have to be more understanding, more meditative and you have to learn to Let-Go – the period of a retrograde planet is your testing time – and you will pass only if you REACT LESS and RESPOND MORE! Certain unfinished matters of the retrograde planet will come to you – and so you have to be more humble, more compassionate and more serving towards others. Serving because in your case it is the sixth house!

The sixth house is the house of service! Serve more and more people – selflessly – don’t run away from the responsibility of serving and soon your next life the matters of the sixth house and the house ruled by Jupiter would be no more in the state of Retrograde – but flowing profusely – like a beautiful running river!

“RIVERS KNOW THIS: THERE IS NO HURRY. WE SHALL GET THERE SOME DAY.” A. A. MILNE

Jai Shri Ganesha! Jai Guru!

Manglik Dosha: What Are Exceptions?

Written by: Acharya Addittya Tamhankar • July 29, 2021

How can the doctor give you medicine – when you are perfectly fine? But society is fake, society wants you to be as miserable as you can – so then the society pundits can loot you – then you come under their grip – and people are innocent – they are already fighting many battles of life – who has the courage to stand up and say – that this so-called – MANGLIK-DOSH – is a loot – a straightway abusive exploitation – who has the courage – if you say so – you will be condemned as a fool – but I don’t care – and so I am standing up and saying again and again to all my followers – don’t become a victim of this crap – there is no need to fear of Mangalik Dosha – it is not a ‘disease’ – it is not something that makes you ‘untouchable’!

Calling someone ‘Mangalik’ – sounds abusive. And if you are falling for this abuse – if you are not willing to come out of the darkness (ignorance) then you better ignore me and my answer. You can continue to live with the label of being Mangalik – that is your choice, can’t help!

In reality, there is nothing called as ‘Mangalik’ – it is, in fact, a very positive sign of a person have more energy of Mars. There are millions of people who are ‘Mangalik’ – and who are doing exceptionally well – in marriages – in relationships – in jobs – in businesses – in politics – in film/entertainment industry you name it – and there are millions of examples.

FEAR is sold fast – and so a fear is created – then you will come, then you will shell out good money – it has become a business – a business of Mangalik Fear!

Beliefs come out of FEAR! And this is significant – once a fear is created – a certain belief is born out of it! Truth is not born out of FEAR – God is not born out of FEAR – God can only be known out of Love! And people waste their whole life – by living in fear – they miss the truth, they miss God, they simply miss the whole beauty – the whole happiness and joy of life! They miss life. Life never begins.

“Life begins where fear ends.”
-Osho

Mangalik is just a signal that you have more energy, more power, more courage, more bravery, more individualism than the others! And so you see great commanders, great politicians, great actors, great writers, great talented men and women with this position and look – what the ignorant men of this world have made this wonderful placement into – they have made it a cause of ‘fear’ – just for few coins, they have sold MARS – they have sold FEAR – and I appeal to all my followers and the questioner to not to buy this FEAR – to understand the positive side of the story – remember every placement irrespective of what it is – has a positive and negative side to it!

Positive. Negative. Both are required to complete you.

“I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.”
– C.G. Jung

Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be – in heaven or in hell. They both are there, absolutely balanced. It is up to you to choose. The negative is not your imagination, neither the positive is your imagination. They both are there – absolutely balanced. It is up to you to choose.

Similarly, for all kind of planetary placements – it is up to you to choose!

Mars is the planet of energy – pure energy – and Mars doesn’t distinguish the energy that it bestows upon you – it is pure energy – now what and how your direct this energy is solely the choice of the individual! Why TOO MUCH OF MARS or Mangalik as they say – is a point of sensitivity is because now you have got immense energy – more than what the other ‘common’ folks get from Mars – with too much of mars – you are blessed with too much of sexual energy – too much of courage – too much of bravery – too much of aggressiveness – too much of daring – so you see – ‘Too Much’ is the only catch!

“TOO MUCH – is the only sin.” -Lao Tzu

Learn to CURB the- TOO MUCH-ness and you will be okay – then there is an altogether different meaning to this placement – then failure becomes a success – then all that seems to be impossible becomes possible – then life is no more the same – then life is more of love and less of logic!

The marriage of a strong Martian has to be with a strong martian! And that is obvious – because when you have 2000cc of sexual power – you cannot be satisfied by someone who has just 8oocc of sexual power! A Maruti 800 won’t catch up with a BMW – to catch up with a BMW – you need a BMW only!

Using the word ‘Mangalik’ – is highly abusive – it works in India – but in the US or in any western country such an abusive word will not be tolerated – but our fellow Indians have been so much brainwashed by the religious pundits and certain astrologers that – they just don’t find anything wrong in being bullied or labeled as Mangalik – so here I am going to refer to a much victimized Mangalik individual as a strong Martian.

A strong Martian is outspoken, courageous, bold – he or she is a TIGER – and so when it comes to a relationship, a partnership, a marriage – a good match has to be there – someone who is also outspoken, someone who is also courageous, bold, large-hearted – open to ideas – now in this world – how many are true with such great qualities? And so often getting a suitable match for marriage – becomes a challenging task! Now which astrologer is going to tell you this – who wants to lose a good lucrative business of selling fear of Mars?

But I am doing it – just for the sake of my followers – just so that anybody who follows me – does not get trapped in lies and fears – I want all my followers to live a fearless life – a life that is not burdened by fear but is flying with courage, with faith, with patience!

Just a touch of guidance, a touch of love, a touch of understanding – and a cruel Saul becomes Saint Paul – an illiterate thief Ratnakar – becomes Saint Valmiki – an ignorant warrior – Arjuna becomes the greatest warrior the world had ever known! So don’t condemn anybody – only a man who has shallow understanding would condemn others – a man of awareness, a meditative man would never condemn but rather be as compassionate as possible – that is how Jesus is, that is how Krishna is, that is how Buddha is!

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
-Dalai Lama

A strong martian is very sexy, very attractive, very bold, very outspoken and very compassionate also! To find a match for such a unique individual is not going to be an easy task – and so either marriage are delayed or marriages fail when the ‘match’ is missed!

A strong martian (or as they use the abusive word – Mangalik) – is a unique individual – and so I appeal to all my followers to look within and if you are a ‘Strong Martian’ – then realize your unique individuality – you are born not by accident – there is a reason for your existence, understand, realize that reason. Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny–he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed.

“You are not here Accidentally, you are here Meaningfully. There is a Purpose behind you. The whole Intends to do something Through You.” – Osho

A strong martian has immense energy – there is a reason for his or her existence – some work has to be finished – some questions left unanswered in the last life has to be answered – so there is much going on, the energy is overflowing – weak people, ignorant people who can’t take it – start criticizing, start condemning such beautiful strong Martians – who wants to know the truth – and truth has no agenda! Buddha has no agenda, Krishna has no agenda, Jesus has no agenda – truth is flowing – the river is flowing – whosoever comes is welcomed – and the truth is only a few come, only few could really understand – Jesus had only 12 Apostles, Krishna had only one Arjuna, Buddha had only one Sariputra – truth has always fewer followers – and yet it is truth that prevails, it is the truth that remains! One who speaks the truth is condemned – is crucified.

“ALL TRUTH PASSES THROUGH THREE STAGES:
FIRST
it is ridiculed.
SECOND
appler It is violently opposed.
THIRD
It is accepted as being self-evident.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer

I appeal to all my followers – do not fear, do not feel low, do not allow others to bully you – stand up and understand the truth – and the truth is – that you don’t become an alien just because you have a strong martian energy – just because you are more courageous, just because you are outspoken, just because you have the daring to face challenges, just because you have the guts to go against the society and stand up to the truth – no my dear Martians – you are not aliens, you are not to be sidelined or condemned but to be appreciated for your wonderful qualities that have made this world a more beautiful place, a more safe place to live!

“Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.”
-Rajneesh

There is no answer to your question because in my ‘dictionary’ – such questions don’t exist and it should not exist in your dictionary also. Your question – itself is a proof that you have been thinking a lot negative about the wonderful martian qualities – and I don’t blame you for this because that is what the society wants you to be – a fearful man!

“THE SOCIETY SUCCEEDS THE DAY YOUR CENTER GOES INTO A COMA AND YOUR CIRCUMFERENCE REMAINS FUNCTIONING. THEN YOU ARE A ROBOT, A MACHINE, NO MORE A MAN.”
-OSHO

And that’s my whole purpose for being on this forum and that is to help you and all those who are following me – to understand to realize the truth. Whatsoever the society has done to you has to be undone. Your consciousness has to be leaned, emptied so that you can become like a pure mirror reflecting reality!

Remember – we are in this beautiful world – not to condemn others – but to love others and the first step to love others starts with yourself!

“Nobody has ever said to you, “Love yourself!” The very idea seems absurd loving oneself? The very idea makes no sense loving oneself? We always think that to love one needs somebody else. But if you don’t learn it with yourself you will not be able to practise it with others.”
-Osho

And so the only answer that can truly address your question is just in two words – “Love Yourself”.

Let love be the answer to all your questions and love is born out of understanding – deep understanding! True love is born out of understanding says the Buddha!

“Let understanding be your only law.” -Osho

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness and if you grow in awareness – you will grow in love! Love blossoms through understanding. And understanding comes through deep meditation. Meditate and also help others meditate – the answer to all miseries is within you – turn inwards and meditate.

“Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative.”
-Osho

Jai Ganesha! Jai Guru!

Sun in Fifth House: No Children?

Written by: Acharya Addittya Tamhankar • July 29, 2021

There are millions of women who have Sun in 5th house and so to generalize is to commit suicide – out of ignorance!

Sun has unnecessarily being defamed by so called pundits and astrologers. And Sun is waiting to just catch these men and ask for clarification on ‘ why the heck they are defaming HIM.’ – Anyways that was on a lighter note! 🙂

Sun has nothing to do with creating problems or hurdles with progeny. A 5th house Sun is a sign of ‘intelligence’ – great intelligence! And still such people become a scapegoat of astrologers who create so much fear and negation in the mind of these people that they simply miss the truth!

And the truth is that SUN has nothing to do with progeny delays – it is the star, the house lord and the ascendant lord that creates a favorable or unfavorable situation when it comes to the event of a successful progeny!

In fact the child of such a person is also going to be an intelligent child and not just intellectual. You will become pregnant – but to ensure that the 9 months journey is safely completed – you have to take care of yourself. Modern medical solutions like IVF comes handy for such placements.

Many of my followers with such a placement have become pregnant through modern medical intervention – it is only that you need to know ‘when to do it’ and then the rest of the journey happens on its own!

There are so many factors that are responsible for delays in progeny – but people are in rush to put blame on someone – so that they feel relaxed! And in this mad crazy rush – the poor SUN is victimized and that is not good – in-fact with such a placement one should definitely worship LORD SUN with immense love and devotion. One should donate copper utensils to a good priest/pundit/brahmin.

One should perform – Surya Yagya – it is also called Aditya Yagya – since Aditya is the lord Sun! This nullifies any negative effect of Sun -if there is one.

So one should be devoted to SUN – sit in the early morning hours and pray to Lord Sun. The reason people get frustrated is they don’t know the real reason and they are just shooting in the ‘dark’!

And the day you would come out of ‘dark’ – which is your own ignorance – life will no more be a problem, a misery – but a beautiful garden of bliss!

God is Kind – but people are in rush! And that is how you get depressed, then you start looking for a scapegoat and once you have found it – you put the whole blame on it and that is all you do – there is no further going, you trap yourself through your own ignorance!

So, stop hating, blaming SUN in 5th house for denial of motherhood – and start loving, devoting to the greatest Lord of the whole universe – Lord Sun. Sun will never deny you the most wonderful experience of motherhood – to become a mother is indeed the most divine experience that a woman can have in her life!

Always remember this – no matter how many astrologers tell you – but this God’s fool is telling you again and again – do not blame Lord Sun – for SUN in 5th is certainly not the reason for denial of motherhood!

Astu.Aum.Amen. Let the light shine. Let the light within show us the way…

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Do Exalted Planets Always Benefit?

Written by: Acharya Addittya Tamhankar • July 29, 2021

This idea of ‘exalted’ planets creates an illusion among many. Do you know – that the most popular personalities – across all walks of life – don’t have much or any exalted planets? Do you know that the wealthy people have no exalted planets in their charts? Do you know that there are millions of people living in slum areas – and yet the *have* exalted planets in their charts? And this is the greatest tragedy of Astrology in today’s time! It has become a ‘toy’ – and ‘toy’ cannot help you find your answers – you have to come to the real master – the real thing – but who wants to listen to truth?

“Society considers honesty as virtue – but nobody wants to listen to the truth”

I have personally read charts of people in slum areas – they have exalted planets – I have personally read charts of celebrities – they don’t have exalted planets – neither the wealthy people – neither the politicians! So you see – just having ‘exalted’ planets doesn’t change your situation. Exalted planets simply specify the ‘exalted qualities’ of a person. A man may be living in the slum area – but if he has exalted planets – he is a man of ‘value’ – you see – the word is ‘value’ – the exalt position makes you a good person – such a person ‘exalts’ in certain skill – certain art! So when you say that you have exalted planet in 3rd – you definitely have a certain skill – that you would excel as you grow – step by step – you will achieve excellence in a specific skill! And ninth house exalt point – provides you with the necessary quality of achieving higher education – such a man or woman is deeply devoted to a certain deity – is generally very faithful – also signifies a good caring father or parent. Overall, to have an exalted planet is not enough – placements – aspects and the D9 chart matters a lot – if the exalted planet debilitates in D9 – then much of the quality is lost! However, my suggestion to all my followers is :

“Get out of your head and get it your heart – celebrate life – sing, dance and let LOVE be the only religion of your life.”

Life is a celebration of moments – astrology can only be of use – if you look at it from a casual way – natural way – astrology prediction is not an ‘Akashwani’ – GOD has been kind enough to provide human beings with the WILL to change their future for better – and to that you simply have to ‘Surrender’ to the almighty – when you let GOD drive your life – you are always sure that you are going to taken care of! Astu. Aum. Amen. Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Born on Full Moon: Meaning

Written by: Acharya Addittya Tamhankar • July 29, 2021

Gautama Buddha was born on a FULL moon day and Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment on a FULL moon day! The significance of FULL moon is immense.

Gautama Buddha’s whole life is connected with the full moon: HE was born on full moon, he became enlightened on the full moon night, he died on the full moon night. This cannot be just coincidence!

And now physiologists have been studying the effects of the full moon on the human psyche – and the results are staggering. On Full moon day – you become more spirited – full moon night does something to the human psyche.

Since the very beginning it has been affecting the poets, the painters, the sculptors, the musicians, the dancers, the actors – and the spiritualists! There is something different under the full moon; that perhaps the rays of the full moon are hand in hand! – The distance is far – but the closeness – the intimacy is still felt!

In Zen Buddhism – the full moon has become something special – because everything that happened to Buddha happened on the full moon night! So in every Zen monastery – on the full moon night people just sit under their trees and watch the full moon. The full moon has become symbolically connected with Gautama Buddha. And just watching and witnessing the full moon, they enter into deep meditation.

Among all the Enlightened Ones, Gautama the Buddha is very special to me. Gautama Buddha is the most beautiful man who has walked on this planet!

H.G. Wells, in his world history, has written one sentence which should be written in gold. Writing about Gautama Buddha he writes, “Gautama Buddha is perhaps the only godless man, and yet so godly!”

Capricorn moon is by birth spiritual – provided Sun, Moon and Mars – are well connected to spiritual points in the birth chart. And – make it a Full Moon – and you have an ‘icing on the cake’! But the story is not yet over – the whole story of spirituality can be missed – when RAHU – the demonic energy comes in between – so one has to see – if teh horoscope in inclined towards RAHU-ish trend or KETU-ish trend. The latter is good for spiritual progress.

KETU is not seeking. Remember this, realize this. Shri Ketu is not searching, not desiring – not looking for anything – it simply is relaxing – and it is only when you RELAX – that it comes, that the divine flows through you – that is the only moment when you truly experience GOD.

Buddha does not give you any religious education. He wants you simply to be yourself, whatever it is. That is your religion – to be yourself. No man has loved freedom so much. No man has loved mankind so much. He would not accept followers for the simple reason that to accept a follower is to destroy his dignity. He accepted only fellow travelers. His last statement before dying was, “If I ever come back, I will come as your friend.”

And so my word to all my fellow travelers is this – do not try to become – just be yourself – just relax – just accept yourself in totality – you don’t have to go anywhere, you don’t have to seek anything – just be rooted within – for God is not up in the sky – God dwells within you – turn inwards – meditate – and live in total acceptance.

Love and compassion are the natural expression of our inner transformation. We can meditate with Buddha, dance with Krishna and celebrate our love with Sufis.

You don’t have to become a Buddhist to understand Buddha – you don’t have to become a christian to understand Jesus – you don’t have to become a Hindu to understand Krishna and you don’t have to become a Muslim to understand the Prophet – just let ‘understanding’ be your only law.

Buddha is not a name, it is a title. It is a state of enlightenment – anyone – irrespective of your religion – can be a Buddha – to attain Buddhahood – you need not be a Buddhist – you just have to understand your ‘self’ – you just have to understand Gautama Buddha.

I am a Hindu and still I have immense respect, love for Gautama Buddha – I just love this man who walked on this planet. And so here I share a beautiful quote that I very deeply resonate with:

“I love Gautama the Buddha because he represents to me the essential core of religion. He is the beginner of a totally different kind of religion in the world. He has propounded not religion but religiousness. And this is a great radical change in the history of human consciousness.” – Osho

Full moon is Buddha. Buddha is the Full moon – and therefore the full moon has become synonymous with the essence of spiritualism and hence your question of full moon has also the fragrance of spiritualism!

Beautiful.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Being Manglik in D9 Chart

Written by: Acharya Addittya Tamhankar • July 29, 2021

What is Manglik? It is being courageous – so courageous that they can take risks to save somebody’s life! What is Manglik? – It is basically being sexually more active – so much active – that only another Manglik can sustain the solid sexual power of a Manglik man or woman! What is Manglik? It is being straight – to the point – they are not hypocrites – they say it as it is!

But no one is going to tell you this – because people are afraid – what will he say – what will she say – what will they say? – And so people cover up such a great strength of a MANGLIK – they create fear within them – by saying things that are not true in any sense! They say this and they say that – and they make a ‘Mangalik’ person feel as if he or she has done a SIN – as if he or she is an ALIEN! Because society is fake – society never wants the real to come out – and a Mangalik is a courageous man or woman. They stand up to the call of the situation – they are ones who will not wait and watch but take ACTION. In today’s corporate world – they are the true ACTION LEADERS – they are the ones who have projected ACTION LEADERSHIP!

Navamsha or D9 chart is more spiritual – astral – than physical! And since Manglik has more to do with Physicality – action – energy – sex – power – material – your question gets a NO answer.

You see – I can make out that people have made you believe that MANGLIK is like being a criminal, as if you are an alien – as if you are condemned from the moment you are born! But dear – that is not the case – many great warriors, officers, politicians, movie celebrities are born with the stamp of MANGLIK!

And so I ask all of my followers to spread the word – that to be MANGLIK is not a SIN – is not a SHAME – is not a drawback – but a strength – an unusual power that is ready to face and overcome as many challenges – like a brave soldier!

“Society slanders and condemns the free individual, who is the only alive person – but this is not the whole story. The free individual is condemned in the beginning and worshipped in the end. It has always been the case. If a fully alive man remains alive to the end, he is destined to be condemned first and worshipped and adored later. And a real free person is not afraid of condemnation, ostracism, even crucifixion.” – Osho

A Mangalik is such a man – he is a real free person – who is NOT afraid of condemnation, for freedom – for the truth – for the divine – he is ready to get crucified – A Mangalik is the most fearless man – and certainly can become a great boon to this fake society – if other aspects support!

For more spiritual motivation- you all can avail my published books – ‘How to overcome Rahu’ & ‘ Gift of Consciousness’ on Amazon. Print book copies are shipped across all geographies.

Jai Shri Ganesha! Jai Guru!

Which Number is Luckier: 5 or 7?

Written by: Acharya Addittya Tamhankar • July 29, 2021

Which drink is good – tea or coffee?

You see – the answer is going to come – as per the user’s requirement. Some find tea unfit for their health, some find coffee unfit for their health – and some find coffee perfectly fit for their health!

Similarly, the applicability of number 7 or number 5 – depends on who the user is – what is his or her ‘internal system’ (Read-planetary positions)!

For a person who is spiritual by nature – who is speculative – who has the courage to JUMP and take risks – number 7 is suitable. Spirituality comes only to that man or woman – who has the courage to JUMP! Peter – the fisherman was such a man – he meets Jesus for the first time and Jesus looks into his eyes and says “Follow me, I will make you a fisher of men -”

And Peter – drops everything – and starts following Jesus Christ! He is not intellectual, he is not literate, the world must have called him a fool – but the same ‘fool’ – becomes one of the greatest saints – Saint Peter!

That is the power of faith – but for that one has to be courageous, faithful and consistent. One has to have to courage to JUMP – Peter doesn’t think – doesn’t ask any questions – the moment he sees this divine man – he could see the light – he could sense HIS Aura – there was no way he could deny – he simply – Jumped! – and that is how the number 7 is – only that man can find it luckier who has the daring to risk everything and JUMP!

They say – think first and then Jump, I say first Jump and then think as much as you want. – Osho

And number 5 – that is a perfect contrast to number 7! That is not Peter – that is Judas – that is communist – that is first ‘brains’. Once it happened – that Mary Magdalene – a devotee of Jesus – comes to meet Jesus and as soon as she comes – she pours a very expensive perfume on Jesus’s feet.

Judas is watching, he is also one follower of Jesus – he says to Jesus “ Why you did not stopped her from doing this – so many people would have been fed from the price of the perfume that she poured on your feet.?”

You see – that is number 5 – Logic, Logic and Logic!

To that Jesus smiles and says “ She has poured it out of her love – I could not stop her – unable to express her feelings, she has done it to express her deep love for me – how can I stop her – I cannot stop her.”

Mary Magdalene is one of the greatest lover of Jesus – and that’s number 7 – it has no calculations, it has no logic, it simply flows to those with whom its heart vibrates! That is how the number 7 is far superior to number 5 – number 7 is spiritual, number 5 is material – but then the question remains – Which drink is good for you – tea or coffee?

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Sun in 8th House (D9 Chart)

Written by: Acharya Addittya Tamhankar • July 29, 2021

Rashi Chart is the physical body – yes everything looks good – but whether the body will operate with full potential is something only the D9 chart can foretell.

D9 – helps you to find the real story. The real face! The ‘story’ or the ‘face’ that you see through the Rashi Chart is not the truth – it is just a mask – and masks are not real!

Whole life you are being told to shape your personality – what is personality? It is a mask. And the world wants you to have a strong mask (personality) – nobody wants you to be real – nobody wants you to be yourself! And that is the greatest irony of this fake society – a society who simply want you to ‘fake’ – and not to be REAL!

Nobody wants to be REAL – because REAL has less like than the FAKE. And so everybody is spending thousands just to sharpen the ‘mask’ (personality).

Be aware – Personality can mislead you – and that is what is happening – you fall for the personality and NOT the individuality!

The society fears ‘individuality’ – the society would always want you to be ‘personas’ – because personas are fake and society is all but fake!

Individual intelligence is a danger to society. And so the society would never want you to be an individual – the society is happy as long as you remain a ‘personality’!

The society exists through lies. Personality is fake and it pays by being a fake, it is a good policy. If you are true, you will be in danger. Society exists through lies. Here truth is not respected, here truth is killed. And lies are enthroned. Jesus is crucified, Mohammed is forced to exile from Mecca, Buddha is ridiculed, Mahavira is offended – you see – the truth, the reality is not accepted – the more you are a persona – the more you would be accepted by this fake society. And the more you are an individual – the more you would be rejected.

To be a persona – a personality – it pays, it is economical, it is safe. It is a mask that protects you – otherwise, people will be against you – they cannot tolerate the truth and the D9 chart or the Navamsa is the truth.

Your Rashi Chart or Ascendant Birth Chart is your MASK (Personality) – your D9 Chart is your INDIVIDUALITY! How you look is your Ascendant chart – WHAT YOU ARE? – is your D9 chart and this is of great significance. To all my followers and readers – I insist – study the D9 chart – and you will be able to do so effectively only when you are an INDIVIDUAL and not just a personality!

You are born not to become – let this be very clear. You are born to BE yourself! And this is very deep and this is of great significance. Once there was a Buddhist priest – whole life he spends in becoming Gautama Buddha! And when he is laid on his deathbed – at the very last moment – he starts crying – nobody is able to understand why he is crying? His disciples are taken aback. Somebody steps ahead and asks “Why are you crying, what is it that you miss?”

And the Buddhist priest said “ I missed – I simply missed my whole life. When I will face God – and if he asks “ What have you been?” – I would have no answer. Because my whole life I have tried to become like someone – I never focused on being myself – and when God will say “ I send you to be yourself – if I wanted to have more Gautama Buddhas – I would have created – if I wanted to have more Krishnas – if I wanted to have more Jesus Christs – I would have created – but I created only ONE Gautama Buddha, only ONE Krishna only ONE Jesus Christ, only ONE Muhammed – and only ONE – YOU. – then why you missed to be yourself?” – and then I would have no answer – what a fool I have been – I cannot face God – I cannot face HIM, and so I am crying, I have missed my whole life in becoming and missed to BE.”

And this is what happens with you – when you spend your whole life in trying to become – you become a slave of respectability – you run behind people just to become somebody – and in this mad rush – you simply ignore your ‘individuality’ – you simply miss to be yourself and that is the greatest tragedy of ignorant human life!

“Respectability is slavery. Individuality is dignity.” – Osho

Dignity is self-respect. A man of dignity will walk like a lion and roar like a lion. And that is not ego, it is his intrinsic energy, his intrinsic power.

Navamsa Chart is your INDIVIDUALITY. And your DIGNITY is based on the DEPTH of your INDIVIDUALITY!

When Navamsa chart is strong and well-placed – the native is definitely an ‘individual’ – and is dignified. You are then meeting a man or a woman who has certain higher values – a beautiful person who has the strength of character!

I met a woman. And she was a beautiful woman. And not only beautiful but she talked about so many good things, I almost felt as if she is that classic woman – a woman of values! Then when she shared her birth chart – I could see her D9 chart all messing up – and it turned out to be that this woman had faked many things to people with whom I had certain connections! You see – when the birth chart is perfect – you meet a perfect looking, behaving (outwardly) woman or man – but when you open their D9 chart – you get know what lies behind that beautiful -plastic mask!

And a man or a woman with a weak D9 chart often find many miseries in their life. Because what they show is not what they are! They say something, they do something exactly opposite to what they say – and to be with such a man or woman is certainly dangerous – because often you will be cheated – you will be back-stabbed!

Sun or any planet going in the 8th house of Navamsa is simply a sign of trouble for all matters that are represented by the Sun in your birth chart. It is certainly not a positive sign but since it is in its own sign – it becomes neutral. 8th house is allergic to Sun – and when Sun is in eighth – you generally suffer due to EGOIST nature – you have an inflated EGO – you want to know many things about the occult world, the strange, the unknown – the mystic – here SUN activates the many dark sciences of life – black magic, voodoo, supernatural elements – superstition and so on – whatever house the SUN represents in your birth chart – has some secret elements – some darkness – some tragedy attached to it. But overall any planet going in the 8th Navamasa house is a sensitive placement. It is a myth that Navamasa or the D9 chart is only limited to examining only marriage prospects – the D9 chart has much bigger canvas – a canvas that helps you to discover your true self – the whole world recognizes you as ‘Somebody’ – but what you are beneath this ‘Somebody’ – the question ‘Who am I’ can only be found through deep study of your D9 chart – for that is where the real thing is found. Tune in to the REAL. Tune in to your individuality.

Nobody is superior and nobody is inferior. But nobody is equal either. Every person is unique. You have to find your uniqueness – you have to find the answer to the question ‘Who am I?’

“Who am I?” – No book, no master, no scholar can give you the answer. This is the only answer that you – yourself have to find by *turning inwards* – meditate. And the day you start realizing your ‘self’ – then you don’t have to depend on others opinion about yourself.

“Discover yourself, otherwise, you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.” – Osho

Unless you drop your personality – you won’t be able to find your individuality! Learn to be yourself – a man who focuses on the ‘self’ – sooner or later finds his individuality and then there is no looking back – he sets himself towards a great transformation – a transformation that changes him inside-out!

If you start working towards bringing your individuality to the surface – then no matter how weak is your D9 chart, maybe not this life, but for the many coming lives – your D9 chart would continue to progress – becoming more stronger, positive and powerful. And let me tell – when D9 improves, your birth chart also improves – it is a connection that goes hand in hand – when the energy within you finds harmony – your health also improves – D9 is that energy and Birth chart is your human body – to bring harmony to the energy within you – meditate, look within, turn inwards – for the way towards happiness is only by realizing your ‘self’ – meditate.

No meditation. No Life. Know meditation. Know life.

Meditation is your intrinsic nature. It is you, it is your being, it has nothing to do with your doings. You cannot have it. It cannot be possessed, it is not a thing. It is you. It is your being. AND that is what exactly – Navamsa is! It is your being.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Retrograde Ascendant Lord Results

Written by: Acharya Addittya Tamhankar • July 29, 2021

The word ‘Vakri’ simply means ‘crooked’. When the ascendant lord is ‘Vakri’ (Crooked) – the person in question is a crooked person. He is a crook. Now if you have any good yogakaraka planet’s drishti on the crooked planet – then there is some nullification of the crookedness – else the person is 100% crooked by nature. Also ‘crooked’ or ‘Vakri’ – means the planet is not in its normal course of action – it is not normal – and so whatever house it represent – it will 100% give abnormal results. I have seen multiple horoscopes in my 15 yrs study and practice ( I am still a learner- till the very last day of my life) I have seen that the house represented by a crooked (vakri) graha – brings some kind of abnormality to the results of that house. Example – seventh house lord Jupiter is Vakri and placed in seventh house – now some bookish astrologer will say this is good – benefic jupiter is in the house of marriage – so good – but the truth is something else. Jupiter in 7th house of marriage is not a good placement for marriage and also when the same Jupiter is Vakri (crooked) – it simply conveys one truth – the husband or wife is going to be a crooked person by nature (political/hawkish/not trustworthy) by nature. Also it depicts a broken marriage or a very unhappy marriage life. Many things are there – you cannot just come up with one rule of set – that all Vakri Planets are bad – they become bad or good – based on were they are placed. For example Saturn is good in 3, 7, 11 – so if it is Vakri – it may not give great results, but its crookedness will not be too harsh than otherwise.

Vakri Planet brings abnormality, crookedness in the matters of the house that it rules. There is no such thing as Benefic or Malefic planets – crookedness means crookedness – that’s it.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Shatabhisha in Aquarius Sign

Written by: Acharya Addittya Tamhankar • July 29, 2021

Long back during the good old days of Indian Television – an Advertisement of a Tomato Ketchup brand used to run – and their punch line was – “Its different.”

Shatabhisha Nakshatra also can be expressed in just two words – “Its different.”

Shatabisha falls in Aquarius sign and in the Western Astrology it is addressed as the ‘Gamma Aquarii’ binary star.

People of this Nakshatra are different and they also like everything that is different. Who knows – that the man who created the punch line “ Its different” – may also have been of Shatabhisha Nakshatra!

RAHU loves all that is DIFFERENT. And SHATABHISHA is the permanent home of RAHU.

RAHU also has other TWO HOMES – SWATI NAKSHATRA & ARDRA NAKSHATRA!

And interestingly – all the 3 NAKSHATRAS of RAHU fall in INTELLECTUAL SIGNS (Airy Signs)

SHATABHISHA NAKSHATRA – AQUARIUS

SWATI NAKSHATRA – LIBRA

ARDRA NAKSHATRA – GEMINI

RAHU simply LOVES Intellectualism. Debates, Competitions related to Knowledge – all of it is what RAHU loves!

An INTELLECTUAL person is definately a RAHU-ish man – and you will often find him or her – in abundance of MONEY, POWER, STATUS – and therefore generally RAHU-ish men and women have SO MUCH – SO MUCH – that it just becomes TOO MUCH!

And Lao Tzu says – TOO MUCH is the only SIN.

RAHU = TOO MUCH.

Money – HE becomes just ‘money’.

SEX – He becomes just so much sexual that it starts making his own life miserable – too many sexual affairs finally leads to nowhere!

POWER – He becomes TOO MUCH hungry for POWER – and in this hunger he commits many mistakes and mistakes repeated transform into SINS.

So – Shatabhisha man or woman may have it all – but they remain far away from the REALITY – the REAL – the TRUTH.

They generally are those INTELLECTUAL BEINGS who find pleasure in DEBATING, ABUSING,OFFENDING others – and in the process empowering their EGO – that says ‘I AM SOMEBODY’!

That is the nature of RAHU – and that is how all RAHU’s NAKSHATRAs has it – you cannot change the NATURE!

So if you love DEBATES, if you love to watch those DEBATE SHOWS on news channels – if you like to compete than you are a perfect RAHU-ish person!

A KETU-ish person is least interested in any debates or any competitions. He is a Yogi – and Yogi is least interested in winning.

KETU is disinterested in WINNING – because HE has gone beyond the state of winning and losing – HE is simply HAPPY TO BE!

RAHU is very much interested in WINNING – HE just loves the RAT RACE – and so he makes you run and run and run – so much that he simply never lets you REST IN PEACE – until a DAY COMES when you are DEAD and on your GRAVEYARD – People instill a nicely inscribed plate that reads “Rest In Peace.”

Shatabhisha Nakshatra – a brilliant glowing Nakshatra – Intellectual – Extrovert and all those qualities that has the potential to shape you into a scholarly person.

Scholar. – Yes the people of SHATABISHA nakshatra like this word a lot. Why?

Because – Its different! Anything that makes you different from the others is instantly liked by the men and women of Shatabhisha Nakshatra. Rahu always likes that – which is different.

So always remember – whenever anybody feels to have something different “it is Rahu calling”!

Mohan asked “ Rahu has THREE NAKSHATRAS that HE OWNS. But then among all the THREE NAKSHATRAS – SWATI, ARDRA, SHATABHISHA – why is it that RAHU LOVES SHATABHISHA more – why SHATABHISA is HIS favorite – why SHATABHISHA makes HIM feel Home?

“The answer is simple. But before that you answer my question.” I said.

“If there are 3 Wings in a Society – A wing, B wing, C wing – and if in the C wing – lives your best friend – then which wing you would love to visit?”

Mohan said “ C wing – because my best friend lives in that WING.”

Similarly RAHU loves to live in Aquarius (C WING) more because His best friend SATURN lives in AQUARIUS too! And since SHATABHISA NAKSHATRA falls in AQUARIUS – RAHU is very comfortable – empowered in AQUARIUS SIGN – especially in SHATABHISA Nakshatra!

And that is the reason why RAHU loves SHATABHISA more than the other two Nakshatras (Swati and Ardra).

INTELLECTUALISM belongs to all these 3 SIGNS – LIBRA, AQUARIUS and GEMINI.

RAHU is BOSS in these 3 SIGNS. In fact in GEMINI – Rahu EXALTS – because that is not his FRIEND (STAURN’s sign) but that is the SIGN OF HIS MASTER – MERCURY!

So when in Friend’s domain (SATURN – AQUARIUS) Rahu feels Home. And when in HIS MASTER’s domain (MERCURY – GEMINI) Rahu feels ecstatic – RAHU is HIGH (exalted) when in GEMINI!

See how beautiful all this can be – Astrology indeed is ALIVE – only if you are ALIVE.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. – Osho

3.7.11 – All these 3 intellectual signs are also highly SEXUAL SIGNS!

RAHU – who rules 3 Nakshtras in these 3 Signs is also highly SEXUAL by nature.

In short – whoever is born on ARDRA (Gemini – 3) SWATI (LIBRA – 7) and SHATABHISHA (AQUARIUS -11) by nature is highly sexual – these men and women excel in the art of mating, love making and romance.

SEX is interesting as long as there is ROMANCE. You remove the romance and SEX will look ugly – utterly ugly!

Imagine you are making love without romance, without poetry – just a biological action and it will be so difficult – and so man has created a smoke around sex – that smoke is called ‘Love’ – ‘Romance’ – because he cannot ‘do it’ without having the ‘smoke’ around….the smoke need to be there!

Now how does these three signs – Gemini. Libra. Aquarius create the ‘smoke’ to initiate sex – to enjoy sex?

Gemini – Talk. They talk and they talk – and have you seen a certain Gemini women or men – how they talk? They talk so impressively – that they can simply seduce you through their TALK. To Gemini – TALK is the ‘smoke’.

Libra – Romance. They are so romantic – they know exactly how to pose – how to wear appealing dresses – how to ATTRACT – the Venusian Libra is perfectly aware of their strength to ATTRACT through their body language. To Libra – Body Language is the ‘smoke’.

Aquarius – Intellect. They try to be DIFFERENT. This ‘being different’ appearance – then it may be in their OUTLOOK towards life – their REBELLION attitude – their STAND against the old TRADITIONS and CUSTOMS – but all of these – goes on creating an AURA of ‘Being Different’ – and this attracts those who also like to have something DIFFERENT! To Aquarius – Being Different, Intellectualism is the ‘smoke’.

So you see every SIGN has a ‘SMOKE’ – without ‘Smoke’ – without some ‘romance’ – without some ‘spice’ – sex is boring – union of two bodies is boring!

One of the most oldest ‘spice’ that brings LIFE to your love story is the game of ‘HIDE and SEEK’!

And it is played across the world – no matter what religion – what caste – what color you are – the game of HIDE and SEEK is played in every relationship – every love story!

How it happens?

If you will observe closely – than it is WOMAN who always HIDE and it is the MAN who always SEEK.

HIDE & SEEK.

The more the woman HIDES – the more the MAN is excited to SEEK. And the more the WOMAN says ‘NO’ – the more he is eager to hear ‘YES’!

In fact whenever a WOMAN says ‘NO’ – it means a ‘YES’ – otherwise she would not even bother to say ‘NO’! She goes on saying – NO – and that NO is her HIDING and the man becomes more excited – this excitement goes on shaping their relationship – adding spice to their relationship and that is how the love story blossoms on the basis of this age old game – the game of HIDE & SEEK!

3.7.11 – these signs understand very well the game of Hide & Seek! Their love life is generally filled up with a lot of ‘smoke’ – that goes on making their relationship – a spicy relationship. And because there is spice – they love it – you remove the spice and their relationship is over!

To make the relationship hot – you have to bring the opposite in; then fighting and quarreling and arguing gives a certain excitement to your energies. And when tired of fighting and arguing, you again move – the pendulum goes on moving between love and hate. When your pendulum moves towards love, you feel strong love because of the CONTRAST. It depends on your likings: people like hot- dogs! Dogs are enough, but they want hot dogs! – Osho

In common relationships – the ‘smoke’ is required – without the ‘smoke’ – without the ‘fights’ – without the ‘arguments’ – you will feel lost – the relationship starts fading out.

But that is not how it is – when it comes to the love of the BUDDHA – the Master!

BUDDHA’s love is beyond the power of expression.

BUDDHA’s love has no SPICE to it. In HIS LOVE – there is absolutely no shade of HATE – and so you will find Buddha’s love boring – because there is no HATE to it – it is pure love – unconditional – flowing like a river – if you come – you are welcome – if you leave – HE will still BLESS you! There is no HATE to HIS LOVE – and so such a love is of the HIGHER LEVEL.

BUDDHA’s love is the love of KETU – there is absolutely NO HEAD – only the HEAD needs the ‘smoke’ – there is absolutely NO MIND – only the MIND needs the ‘smoke’ – and BUDDHA has gone beyond MIND, beyond HEAD – now HE is no more falling in LOVE – HE is LOVE!

Buddha is LOVE. Jesus is LOVE. Mahavira is LOVE!

When you are in LOVE – you are falling for the ‘other’ person in your life.

When you are in MEDITATION – you are falling in your OWN BEING.

Understand that in both situations – you are GETTING OUT OF YOUR HEAD.

Trouble starts only when you AGAIN START MOVING BACK TO YOUR HEAD – then everything starts falling apart.

As long as you remain OUT OF YOUR HEAD – you remain engaged.

In love you fall into somebody else being, in meditation you fall into your own being. They are very alike, the fall is the same just the direction is different: love is other directed, meditation is self directed. The process is the same, that you fall from the head. – Osho

The message for SHATABISHA NAKSHTRA – is to NOT to remain too much into their HEAD – their INTELLECT – else they will go on missing LOVE – they will simply miss.

At one end – in the SIGN of AQUARIUS is SHATABISHA– NAKSHATRA OF RAHU.

At the exact OPPOSITE end – in the SIGN of LEO is MAGHA – NAKSHATRA OF KETU.

SHATBHISHA is the peak of DESIRES – RAHU

MAGHA is the peak of DESIRELESSNESS – KETU

At the SHATABISHA end – is the MATERIAL WORLD – FULL OF DESIRES. FULL OF INTELLECTUALISM

And SO – many scientists, doctors are born with this nakshatra as well as many HI-TECH innovations and inventions and discoveries happen on SHATABHISHA NAKSHTRA – because the desire to find something new – something better is very intense – RAHU.

And so RAHU has in a way helped this WORLD to PROGRESS TECHNOLOGICALLY – but along with this PROGRESS – the same RAHU has also stolen – taken away the much peace – the much joy – the much happiness that one seeks.

MAGHA – the Nakshatra that stands exactly OPPOSITE to SHATABISHA – is the NAKSHTRA of KETU. KETU is MEDITATION. MEDITATION IS A LET GO!

KETU is DESIRELESS. RAHU is overflowing with DESIRES.

Desires are ugly. Needs are beautiful.

Once it happened – a young man went to a Doctor. He knocked at the door – the Doctor said “ YOU – again! Now what has happened?”

The young man came inside, sat on the chair and said “ Doctor – I am not able to sleep. For last 2 weeks I have been having a NIGHTMARE.”

The Doctor observed closely. Yes- the young man indeed looked very tired. His eyes were red – soared eyes. He looked weak. The Doctor became concerned – looking at the young man – the Doctor said “What is the NIGHTMARE – tell me about it.”

The young man said “Every night I am having a horrible dream…..I am alone – in isolation and there are 16 beautiful women – all around me…..”

The Doctor laughed and said “ Then what is wrong with it – what is so horrible about it?

The young man looked into the eyes of the Doctor and said “Have you ever tried making love to 16 women who are standing in a queue??”

And this is what happens with DESIRES. MANY MANY DESIRES are born and then you get TIRED – then you don’t know what to do – YES – you had DESIRED for many beautiful women – and now there are over SIXTEEN beautiful woman all over you – how are you going to manage them all – it is but obvious that it will BECOME a NIGHTMARE!

And that is what happens – YOUR DESIRES become your NIGHTMARE and THEN you are not able to SLEEP – then you have to find ways to SLEEP and this is how you – yourself become the greatest obstacle to the PEACE that you seek.

RAHU therefore becomes the greatest hurdle to your PEACE. This RAHU is your DESIRE – it is BORN from you – and if you want to get rid of RAHU – then you have to KILL your desires – you have to simply KILL your desires!

How to kill the desires?

Neem Karoli Baba – (the divine master to whom Steve Jobs had come all the way from America to seek His blessings) shares the answer in the most beautiful way:-

Needs come from the BODY. DESIRES come from the MIND.

When you meditate – when you all meditate – you all have to move beyond the MIND – meditation happens only when there is NO MIND.

Yesterday – Mohan said “Birds, Animals – they have no desires.”

That is TRUE. That is indeed the greatest TRUTH that if one can realize – he can realize the many dimensions of this human life.

Birds, Animals hunt when they NEED. The NEED is met – then they will not keep running. But Human beings keep running – BECAUSE they are not focused on the NEED – they are focused on fulfilling the DESIRES. And DESIRES never END – after one DESIRE is fulfilled – the other is standing to be fulfilled – the QUEUE of DESIRES never end – MAN is always found engaged in the unending QUEUE OF DESIRES and that is how HE makes his life miserable by HIS OWN IGNORANCE.

Birds are happy. Animals are happy. The fishes in the water are happy. There is NO TENSION – because TENSION comes out of DESIRES – and not NEEDS.

TENSION comes when the DESIRE is to BECOME and when you are not happy to be yourself!

What I AM. And WHAT I want to BECOME. The more you try to connect the PRESENT with the FUTURE – the more TENSION will come.

And the MORE you REMAIN in the PRESENT – the more PEACE will come your way!

MEDITATION is simply to help you all to BE HERE NOW.

Once it happened – the master was having a cup of tea. And it was a beautiful evening – birds were singing their song, flowers were dancing in the breeze and the whole world seem to have come to a certain peak of joy! Amidst this – came a stranger – and he bowed before the Master and the master asked “ Do I know you?”

The stranger says “ No master. I have come for the first time.”

The master smiled and said “ Have a cup of tea.”

After a while a very close disciple comes – Master is in his own bliss – engrossed within – looking at the disciple the masters asks “Do I Know you”

The disciple is confused. He says ” I have been with you for last 10 years….”

Master smiles and says ” Then have a cup of tea.”

Now the Manager was standing near by. Managers are very logical beings – too much into the Head. So the Manager steps ahead and asks ” Master – how come your response to the stranger and the disciple is – same?”

The master loudly calls out – “MANAGER – ARE YOU HERE?”

The call out was so spontaneous that the Manager’s whole being is moved – suddenly his awareness brings him to the present moment – looking at the master – he says “Yes Master – I am here.”

The master smiles and says ” Then have a cup of tea.”

The whole message is simply to BE HERE NOW – no past, no future – life is NOW – just to BE HERE NOW.

Intelligence is the capacity to be reborn again and again. To die to the past is intelligence, and to live in the present is intelligence. – Osho

One who is able to BE HERE NOW – can meditate.

And one who can meditate is becoming aware of His or Her intelligence!

Intelligence is NOT intellectuality.

KETU is NOT RAHU.

HEART is NOT HEAD.

HEART is Intelligence – that is why the sign of LEO is the most intelligent SIGN of all the 12 signs and I have absolutely no doubt about it – it remains a TRUTH – and I remain firm on this till the very last breath of my life.

On one end is LEO – Intelligence (MAGHA- KETU)

And exactly opposite to MAGHA (Inteligence) is SHATABHISHA (Intellectuality)

But one need to understand that it is NOT THE MOON SIGN but it is the ASCENDANT that has the final say in the affairs of human beings.

Nature is your Ascendant.

Mindset is your Moon sign.

NATURE is spontaneous. You are born with it.

MIND is not spontaneous- it is shaped as you grow. It is given to you by the society. Your MIND goes on shaping based in the society you grow up.

Moon is the Mind – a Leo Moon Sign may think of himself as a compassionate man but that is just THINKING – it is NOT the reality.

REALITY is your NATURE – Ascendant sign.

In my life I have met many Leo Moon Sign men and women and they have been the most mean people I would have ever met!

BECAUSE – MOON (MIND) is NOT a reality.

REALITY is your NATURE – Ascendant sign.

Once it happened- a young man and his name was Arjun. And he was such compassionate man – full of heart. He was like a fakir – whatever he had – he would give away and in that GIVING he would find his bliss.

One day he asked me – what is my Ascendant sign? Because with just a matter of minutes — my Ascendant changes. I was born on the night of 16th January at 12.36 AM. But if I move the time from 12.36 to 12.25 – the Ascendant changes from Leo to Cancer. So who am I – Cancer or Leo?

The last part of CANCER is ASHLESHA NAKSHATRA.

The starting part of LEO is MAGHA NAKSHATRA.

Arjun can either be on this side or that side – ASHLESHA or MAGHA.

I have been knowing Arjun for a long time – his nature was of Giving – his nature was of LETTING GO. And had he been born anytime between 12.25 to 12.34 – then Ashlesha Nakshatra would have been rising and Ashlesha was exact opposite of his nature.

Ashlesha is the Nakshatra that loves to CLING. ATTACHMENT is what Ashlesha’s nature is and DETACHMENT is what Magha’s nature is and so I said to him – let there be no doubt about your Ascendant– there is absolutely no need of any Birth Rectification my friend – You are A Leo ASCENDANT – born while Magha was rising on the eastern horizon – MAGHA – the Nakshatra of detachment- the Nakshatra of Ketu.

MAGHA – it is the seat of the ROYAL. The KING. A NAKSHATRA RULED BY KETU is being addressed by the ancient seers and sages as KINGLY – ROYAL!

Because ONE WHO HAS CONQUERED HIMSELF – is the REAL KING. ONE WHO CANNOT BE DISTURBED BY THE OUTSIDE NOISE – is the REAL KING. ONE WHO is deeply ENGROSSED within – is the REAL KING. One who cannot be moved – no matter how many ‘buttons’ you press – is the REAL KING.

KETU is that KING – the KING who has CONQUERED HIMSELF. THE KING who has defeated the MAYA – the LUST – the GREED – the DESIRES and emerged as the greatest CONQUEROR.

Buddha is KETU. Ketu is Meditation. The greatest YOGI exists because of KETU – KETU is the bridge between you and the beyond!

Today coincidentally is the Jayanti of Lord Parshuram – the 6th incarnation of Lord VISHNU – and one of the greatest Yogis of INDIA – the man who CONQUERED Himself – and rise above – LUST.ANGER. And JEALOUSY.

A beautiful picture of LORD PARSHURAM – I earnestly bow before His Holiness. Long back – some five years ago – accidentally I had come across His beautiful Temple in a place called CHIPLUN – Konkan. Such a beautiful temple – magnanimous and located in deep forest area.

Lord Parshuram is the 6th incarnation of Lord Vishnu and Gautama Buddha is the 9th incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Let us all bow before SHR VISHNU for giving us one of the greatest AVATAR who touched our lives in so many ways!

Astrology is just a small – a very small part of this VAST UNIVERSE. But people understand the language of astrology and so – Astrology!

The QUALITIES of SHATABISHA NAKSHATRA is primarily seen through the ASCENDANT and NOT the MOON SIGN.

NATURE (SWABHAV) is important – and NOT the MIND. The MIND is a monkey – now it is on this ‘branch of thought’ and the next moment it is on some other ‘branch of thought’ – MIND keeps CHANGING – but the NATURE remains and SO NAKSHATRA at the ASCENDANT level is IMPORTANT.

A quick walk through of all ASCENDANT – in just one line description if I have to make then this is it:

CAPRICORN ASCENDANT- PRAGMATIC PERSON

CANCER ASCENDANT- EMOTIONAL PERSON

AQUARIUS ASCENDANT- INTELLECTUAL PERSON

LEO ASCENDANT- INTELLIGENT PERSON

PISCES ASCENDANT- FAITHFUL PERSON

VIRGO ASCENDANT- LOGICAL PERSON

ARIES ASCENDANT- STRAIGHTFORWARD PERSON

LIBRA ASCENDANT- DIPLOMATIC PERSON

TAURUS ASCENDANT- PLEASURE SEEKING LIBERAL PERSON

SCORPION ASCENDANT- SECRETIVE CONSERVATIVE PERSON

GEMINI ASCENDANT – TALKATIVE PERSON

SAGITTARIUS ASCENDANT- RELIGIOUS PERSON

SO you see – the Ascendant is the very nature of your whole being. When you call someone a Miser – it is HIS nature. He may want to give – His MIND may want to give – but still his nature won’t let him.

And let me tell you – the NATURE remains – even if you become a YOGI – even if you become one of the greatest SAINT – still the NATURE remains – because it is NATURE and you cannot change the NATURE – changing the NATURE means interfering with the existence – the source and that never happens – it never can.

You can change the MIND – you can overcome the MIND – but the NATURE remains!

You all must have known the great Rishi – Atri Rishi. He was one of the greatest Rishi – and yet it was his nature to get ANGRY at even a small instance! It is NATURE – you can’t help!

And this NATURE is seen through the ASCENDANT SIGN and ASCENDANT NAKSHATRA.

Paramhansa Yogananda was born on LEO ASCENDANT with MAGHA RISING (KETU)!

He became one of the finest YOGI – that the world had ever known.

KETU – MAGHA Rising – brings a NATURE that is willing to LET GO – that is a perfect nature of a YOGI – to LET GO! KETU – the divine energy brings along the realization that the difficulties in your life are to awaken you – to awake you and NOT to hurt you.

KETU’s Magha is placed exact opposite to RAHU’s Shatabisha!

And so is how life unfolds.

On one end is INTELLECTUALISM ( Shatabhisha- Aquarius) and on the other end is INTELLIGENCE ( MAGHA – LEO). Shatabhisha is the HEAD. MAGHA is the HEART.

It is not a question of who is good and who is bad – in Astrology – in thIs Universe there is absolutely NOTHING that can be labelled as GOOD or BAD.

Intellectualism is a poor substitute for Intelligence.

A meditative man is an intelligent man. He is a man of awareness. He may not be literate like the intellectuals – he may not be a PUNDIT like the intellectuals but he has that which the intellectuals doesn’t – and that is LOVE. FAITH. And the readiness to live life in TOTAL SURRENDER!

Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear. Bhagavad-gita 18.66, Translation

The intellectual keeps searching for the master – but the master comes only when you are READY – only when there is READINESS to SURRENDER to LOVE.

The ultimate act of power is surrender. – Krishna Das

GOD is LOVE and LOVE is REAL.

So the whole story of 27 Nakshatras is either on the side of INTELLIGENCE or the INTELLECTUALISM.

An intellectual cannot understand the language of Buddha. Buddha’s language is the language of the HEART and the intellectual’s language is the language of the HEAD – of logic.

Love and LOGIC are two ends that can never meet. You either LOVE or you either are caught up in your LOGIC (HEAD).

SHATABISHA – is LOGIC. (Aquarius)
MAGHA – is LOVE. (LEO)

The message to SHATABISHA natives is – to get out of the HEAD and get into the HEART. Thinking will not help – FEELING will.

And so come – come you all and meditate with focus on your HEART. It doesn’t matter whether you are RAHU-ish – at some point of time – in some lives – in some births – those who today are KETU-ish – were also RAHU-ish!

But they changed – and they changed because they allowed CHANGE to happen. You also can change – you also can transform – you also can experience the taste of real freedom – all you need is to start MEDITATING – all you need to start GIVING…..

You have been focusing a lot on the OUTWARD journey – NOW the time has come to start FOCUSING on the inward journey. Transformation happens when you start turning inwards.

When you start turning inwards – you realize what an idiot you have been – you realize the many mistakes you have been committing out of IGNORANCE – you realize how much you have been ACCUMULATING your whole life – when you would have had SHARED so much with others! And GOD had been giving many opportunities to SHARE – to HELP – but you missed, you simply missed.

It is time to GIVE AWAY. It is time to SHARE. Sharing is Caring.

RAHU’s Nakshatras may give a lot of money and fame -still in the end – if you cannot have a good night sleep – if you cannot enjoy life than what is the use?

Being Rich and Famous is NOT the answer. But turning inward and realizing yourself can lead you all to the many ANSWERS that you seek. Your SELF REALIZATION is one of the greatest miracle – and only you can make it happen by turning inwards and meditating – everyday – without fail.

It happens – it always happens that one who is moving towards the beyond – the unseen – the Godly – is labeled as – INSANE!

And yet it is the INSANE whom GOD LOVES the MOST!

आंख और सपने में इक रात की दूरी रखना, ए कलाकार मेरी तसवीर अधूरी रखना.
परमात्मा पागलो को चाहता है, समझदार अकसर चूक जाता है। ।। ओशो।।

God loves the insane, the sane often miss. – Osho

God loves only those who are insane – those who are followers of the HEART – those who can RELATE to His Holy Name – those who are WILLING to JUMP without having any doubts or questions – only such men and women are the blessed ones – the world may call them INSANE – but what they could relate to – what they could listen to – cannot be listened by those who call themselves – SANE!

You will hear the ‘music’ – you will also start ‘dancing’ and then you will be so much engrossed in the dancing that you will forgot the dancer – and that is the peak of your ‘arrival’ – when the dancer (EGO) exists no more – and you become the Dance – then GOD comes in search of you – then you have to go nowhere else – the Master will come in search of you……

And so first become the Dance.

Get out of your HEAD (Shatabisha) and get into your HEART.

Let the journey of many wonderful experiences begin – you don’t have to go anywhere – you just have to close your eyes – focus on your breathing – focus on the Lord’s name and Meditate.

Through meditations you can work out on all your relationships and your miseries – the real work-out is Meditation – and so the larger question that you all should ask yourself is – Are you Ready to Meditate?

Your answer matters. Turn inward and find your answer.Meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.