Guest guest Posted July 1, 2005 Report Share Posted July 1, 2005 My Sani dasha began when my kids were babies. I returned to America from being in Hare Krishna temples in England. I began to find a job and try to settle down my family in a house. Everything went so well. I got jobs, and made good money for having no college degree. As a sales person, I excelled, because the movement (Hare Krishna) had taught me how to "hussle". I knew how to sell. I am naturally rather gregarious, decent looking, and so on, and so people became my customers easily. I moved on to teach myself accounting, the programming, and a career in accounting software took off. I bought us a home, then another, and took on my contract programming, as well as my own applications that I would resell nationwide in the newspaper and phone book industries. It was all up and up and up. There was no hint of depression, or slowing down, only constant improvement in my work and finances. But note that I only worked, day and night, only, always, workaholic. I was devoted. In that way I was cooperating with Saturn. My dutiful and good white Hindu wife took care of our kids, and we were like an Indian family, only white. Then, oh then, things suddenly changed. In Saturn-Venus, I grew tired of the clean life and took up pot again, played around, started programming Jyotish on the side, a hobby that absorbed me. I ignored my work. My wife and I drifted apart. Then I started feeling really strange. I would cry at anything. I could not control my emotions. I couldn't program anything BUT jyotish anymore. I hated regular work. I didn't want to go back. Then divorce came, another woman, moving to lower price homes, confusion, depression, it all began. Then it got worse, and worse and worse over time. So my first half of Sani Dasha was excellent in most people's eyes. Materialistically I was successful. The second half was full of relationship troubles (extreme), depression, drugs, intrigue, losses, extreme confusion, anquish and pain, at times it even went so far as coming close to suicide. I did one evening of mild self mutilation. That taught me some things. So for me Saturn had two sides. At first I thought "Great, this 10th lord in my ninth is going to do me all good. I'll be rich and happy. Yay!" But then I found out the other side. So I got "Good first, Bad Second". It goes the other way for some, as Ashutosh pointed out about that fella who found his mothers fortune after her death. Most of all I learned that I am fragile. I learned humility. I learned respect for all others, no matter how "low". I was "low". "There but by the grace of karma am I." I had problems of character. Saturn helped remove them to a great degree. I suffered, I learned, this is good, but hard. To all those suffering, of which I am still one, but less, there is always a day that comes, when the intense suffering ends. And at death we are released, and allowed to start over. It's all good. Peace Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 1, 2005 Report Share Posted July 1, 2005 Dear Jyotishis and everybody, Thank you for sharing your personal overview of Sani dasha. I would also like to share my experience through Sani dasha, as a matter of fact, I am nearly through this main period, and will enter Mercury dasha in 2006. Just like you, I also entered the Hare Krsna movement just right before entering Sani dasha Sani Bhukti. As I have Saturn owned in Capricorn in 12th house, I started to enjoy solitude, austerities, cutting off those usual attachments of my age such as girlfriend, pot, rock music, etc... I was completely amazed by my adaptability to practice austerity (as a matter of fact, I was enjoying my monastic life just as somebody would enjoy sense gratification). Yet, this phase of life ended soon after I entered Mercury Bhukti (Mercury owned in Virgo owned in 8th house), which increased my desire to accumulate knowledge. I left the monastic life and entered university to get a college degree in law. This was another amazing phase of my life, because I was always an under-average student in high school, and never was interested in academic education. Yet, during this short period (3 years and I was 27 years old), I saw myself studying more then I ever did during all teenage life. It just shows us how powerful these grahas are.... And again, just like Das, my life was just up-hill, growing up in my career and getting always a better financial status. Then, through my second half of Sani dasha, specifically from Sun bhukti on, I started my own business, which proved to be the downhill part of my Sani dasha. My life started to slide down, down, down... I worked just like a donkey, struggling no less then 14 hours daily. My work shifted to hard labour work and low payment. The struggle continues until now - many hours of hard work, financial problems, debts, losses, low gains, etc.... My marriage life also degraded from time to time, and I had a feeling that I was very badly treated by my own wife. In a sense, Sani has been a genuine papi for me, but it also encouraged me to learn not to scorn Nature and Her laws. Sani Devi taught me discipline, responsibility, constancy and consistency. Materially speaking, I am a true looser, but the 2nd half of Sani dasha has been the most self-realising period I can recall of. The period of deep contemplation...... Hare Krsna, Rama R. - "Das Goravani" <> "valistcom" <valist> Friday, July 01, 2005 4:58 PM Sani Dasha Personal Overview > > My Sani dasha began when my kids were babies. I returned to America from > being in Hare Krishna temples in England. I began to find a job and try to > settle down my family in a house. > > Everything went so well. I got jobs, and made good money for having no > college degree. As a sales person, I excelled, because the movement (Hare > Krishna) had taught me how to "hussle". I knew how to sell. I am naturally > rather gregarious, decent looking, and so on, and so people became my > customers easily. > > I moved on to teach myself accounting, the programming, and a career in > accounting software took off. I bought us a home, then another, and took on > my contract programming, as well as my own applications that I would resell > nationwide in the newspaper and phone book industries. > > It was all up and up and up. There was no hint of depression, or slowing > down, only constant improvement in my work and finances. > > But note that I only worked, day and night, only, always, workaholic. I was > devoted. In that way I was cooperating with Saturn. My dutiful and good > white Hindu wife took care of our kids, and we were like an Indian family, > only white. > > Then, oh then, things suddenly changed. In Saturn-Venus, I grew tired of the > clean life and took up pot again, played around, started programming Jyotish > on the side, a hobby that absorbed me. I ignored my work. My wife and I > drifted apart. Then I started feeling really strange. I would cry at > anything. I could not control my emotions. I couldn't program anything BUT > jyotish anymore. I hated regular work. I didn't want to go back. > > Then divorce came, another woman, moving to lower price homes, confusion, > depression, it all began. > > Then it got worse, and worse and worse over time. > > So my first half of Sani Dasha was excellent in most people's eyes. > Materialistically I was successful. The second half was full of > relationship troubles (extreme), depression, drugs, intrigue, losses, > extreme confusion, anquish and pain, at times it even went so far as coming > close to suicide. I did one evening of mild self mutilation. That taught me > some things. > > So for me Saturn had two sides. At first I thought "Great, this 10th lord > in my ninth is going to do me all good. I'll be rich and happy. Yay!" > > But then I found out the other side. > > So I got "Good first, Bad Second". It goes the other way for some, as > Ashutosh pointed out about that fella who found his mothers fortune after > her death. > > Most of all I learned that I am fragile. I learned humility. I learned > respect for all others, no matter how "low". I was "low". > > "There but by the grace of karma am I." > > I had problems of character. Saturn helped remove them to a great degree. > > I suffered, I learned, this is good, but hard. > > To all those suffering, of which I am still one, but less, there is always a > day that comes, when the intense suffering ends. > > And at death we are released, and allowed to start over. > > It's all good. > > Peace > > Richard > > > > > > Links > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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