I shy away from Gemstones

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> My experience with gemstones agrees with this. I thought I'd try a Jupiter

> stone and it has made a difference. Not like night and day, but I can feel

> it. Since chanting the holy name of the Lord is the recommended sadhana

for

> Kali-yuga, that's always the best remedy. But hey, we can use all the help

> we can get.

>

> Dasanudas

> http://www.consciousart.org/

 

I'm sorry to be such a downer, but I shy away from any " prescription " of

gemstones. Parashara, in his Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, recomends

sadhana, i.e., worship of the planetary deity, and prayer ( mantras ) for

the planetary deities. Parashara assures us that the creator Brahma, from

whom he said he had learned Jyotish, instructed the planetary deities to

diminish the karmic burden of those who do thusly.

 

Gemstones are not mentioned by Parashara as an astrological remedy.

Gemstones do exist which have powers, such as the Syamantaka jewel mentioned

in the Bhagavat Purana, but it isn't stated anywhere that using such a jewel

will ameliorate planetary afflictions. What authority from the Vedic era

recomends using jewels in this way? None that I know of, just more recent

and lesser " authorities ".

 

We do know, however, that we have a tendency to fool ourselves and that

tantriks have a tendency to cheat and make good money from doing some hocus

pocus.

 

Dharmapada Dasa