Ishta Devata.....Om Parashaktyai Namah!!

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Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!

Om Gam Ganapataye Namo Namah!!

 

Namaste Mani!!

 

i found your post in response to my own, which tells one how to

find the Ishta Devata...i hope i didn't mislead you with the first

one....although both methods may work....not sure.

i do know that the atmakaraka method, wherein you check your

Navamsha chart for where the Atmakaraka lies, and then go one back to

the "12th" before it, does work...and that is the one i used.

Strangely enough, in my own Navamsha, the Atmakaraka, Sani, is in

Gemini, making Taurus the Bhava which indicates the Beloved Deity:

Venus; and too, Taurus is my Navamsha Lagna bhava...(as it is Amma's

Navamsha Lagna Bhava too!!)

To this little one, this could possibly indicate as Amma says, that

one is to worship the Divine within one's own Self (and that

symbolically (or literally depending upon your faith) the Ishta Devata

(Amma) IS in fact my very own SELF...So in my case, Venus, or Amma, as

i had explained earlier, is the Ishta Devata, and She has even left

clues as to where to look for Her...in my own Heart...pretty slick,

don't you think? Then since that didn't work so well for the first 40

or so years, She actually came in a physical body form...(as She had

earlier promised us)....as Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, and

proceeded to teach us, Her children to look within for Her, saying

that She is always with us and often proving it by unmistakeable signs

when you lest expect it.

 

As well, although i feel like i am one of Her own children, for

some reason, in this life, Amma has seen fit to send this child into

exile in the New World...Canada, the land of trees, rivers,

mountains (i guess you can see which part of Canada i live in!!)and

very polite, if somewhat cool people...Perhaps She told me that i had

been way too lazy last time and just hung around Her gazing in rapture

at Her beautiful form, without doing enough real sadhana...and that

now i would have to go to America, and really long for Her, and that

She would set up this life so that i could finally meet Her after long

years of yearning and feeling out of place in this country.....and

that having met Her and taken some lessons...She would leave and

return and leave and return....just as She does. Swamini Krishnamrita

Prana (one of Mother's close Daughters) has said to us that Amma's

coming and going are Her greatest gifts to us....and that the leaving

is the greatest.

This is because in Her absence our Hearts pine and pine and our

tears fill the eyes, and the emptiness of life without Her presence

drives us to do the sadhana of Bhakti...weeping and crying and singing

out to the Divine Mother, just like an innocent little child, longing

for his Mother. Swamini has compared Amma's coming and going to

Krsna's leaving the Gopis when He had to take up His Kingship in

Mathura....Except for us children, Amma so far has come back every

year.(much to our joy!).

As i write this, the gentle white snow of Divine Grace is silently,

softly falling, caressing the land with its jewelled mantle of stars.

Much like when Amma when travelling in New Mexico awhile ago, had said

as a light drizzle fell. Apparently she put Her lovely little hand out

of the car window as they were travelling, to catch some of the rain

and said: "The Divine Grace is always falling upon us like this rain,

but we just don't feel it..."

Mani, did you check out the transits and periods which were

happening when you met Ammachi? it may prove interesting...and if you

compare your chart with Hers, may you not learn something also??(of

course you may not see My Mother as both Divine Mother and Guru in the

same way as i do...and so may not get the same results...Perhaps

Mother Meera's darshan (the first one) might also yield some

interesting results, re transits and periods...? i have longed for

Mother Meera's darshan for many years now, but as i said in my letter

to you, was redirected by those two Sweethearts to my own Guru and

Mother, Amma...and just as you, dear friend i have always felt so much

closer to the aspect of the Divine Feminine....now i know why. While

reading your beautiful story of how you met our Amma, dear one, my

eyes were just overflowing with those Divine Tears...it was so sweet

that story...i could just see Amma and you in that darling

Leela....Just like i was there...thankyou so much for sharing that

Bhakti drenched experience.

Amma Herself is the explanation....

She is so full of those loving little leelas....She makes sure you

are too late to get into line, and then She breaks the rules for you,

and you find yourself in Her Loving Arms, awed, mystified, and even

sometimes just a little fearful of Her Majesty...and then She

chuckles, and wipes your tears, and gives you such a sweet hug, while

whispering beloved words in your ear, like: "Darling, darling darling

darling son." or "MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA". And you know then, that

finally you have come home and that you really do have a Mother....and

Her Name is Ammachi (which of course means "revered Mother"). and then

you are done for....you are Hers and She is Yours....and then you take

a look at your rashi and navamsha charts to see just what has been

going on....and you may gasp in wonder at the amazing timing of that

Universal Mother, knowing just exactly when to call Her darling child

back home to Her lap...in my case the evidence is overwhelmingly

powerful....but i would never have seen it if not pursuing my current

studies of Jyotish!!!

It's like She set the whole thing up before i was born, such that

when i studied Jyotish i could be amazed and awed and more than a

little amused by Her masterful arrangements.......

When i was born, Jupiter (Guru) was in Pisces and in the

Shastiamsha division of Guru's placement in the rashi chart, Guru

became associated with the "presiding" deity of that division

(as i understand it!). The "presiding" deity of that division of the

shastiamsha wherein Guru lies, goes by the name of "Amrita"....which

just happens to be the Name of my Guru...Ammachi...Sri Mata

Amritanandamayi....

it makes the hair stand on end to think of it.

Also Sani is my Atma karaka, and in Mother's rashi chart, Sani

is in the Lagna Bhava in Libra next to Her Lagna(as i said earlier)

as if to indicate that my Atmakaraka and Amma are one.... And as i

also said earlier, in my navamsha the Sun (soul) is in Scorpio,

conjunct with Amma's Navamsha Sani in Libra, again "indicating" that

my "soul" and Sani (as Mother Kali) are one, and that through Her

Grace i may come to realize this

And as Mother always says: "I am the You that is within you, and

you are the Me that is within me!" a verbal explanation of the same

thing i could see from the chart comparisons,

(if i'm not totally off the wall that is) ....They are very

interesting correspondences but i am not sure how "real" or valid they

are according to classical Jyotish...being a kindergartner, i tend to

go a lot on my spiritual intuition in these matters....(with Amma's

Grace)...and seem to find the most amazing correspondences....

So do these musings make any sense to the real Jyotishis in the

crowd??

Once again Mani i want to thank you so much for sharing that

inspiring story of meeting Amma....May you have many more such

blissful meetings....She does tend to make it difficult to get there,

with traffic jams, and long trips and lack of funds, etc. but i

suspect that is to help us to grow stronger and more determined...and

to rely even more upon Her Grace and Love, while doing the best we can

with what we have...

i was also very moved by your descriptions of living in the former

east Germany, and the simplicity and sharing of the people

there....Adversity does have its pluses doesn't it? When we have

everything like we do in Canada and America it is so easy to grow smug

and just not care about our beloved brothers and sisters who are not

so well off or may be hurting...

May the Divine Mother bless you

With Her Love,

and may She fill

your Heart

with the idescribable

Bliss

of

Her Loving Presence.

 

In Her Divine Love

and in Her Service

i humbly salute

you!!!

 

as ever,

Your Own Self,

 

visvanathan

 

Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!!