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May Jupiter's light shine on us,

Narasimha

 

vedic astrology, "Narasimha P.V.R. Rao" <pvr@c...>

wrote:> Namaste all,> > Before I start, a learned friend said she did not know

the Sanskrit names of chakras and asked me for a definition of chakras. She and

others in the same situation may kindly check out> >

http://www.sanatansociety.org/yoga_and_meditation/seven_chakras.htm> > *

* *> > What Bepin Behari and Subba Row apparently gave seems to be the

most popular version on the internet. Most sites seem to associate Sun, Moon,

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with the 7 chakras (from sahasrara to

mooladhara).> > Well, the motivation must be as given by Chendrashekhar ji. But

this approach has loopholes.> > If it is based on the distance from Sun, why is

ajna chakra given to Moon? Mercury is closer to Sun than Moon. Why not give

ajna to Mercury, Visuddhi to Venus and Anahata to Moon? So it is not exactly

based on distance from Sun.> > Basically, this approach (of Behari and others)

is based on seeing ajna and sahasrara chakra from Cancer and Leo (which do not

have Ida and Pingala - female and male nadis - but have only one nadi) and

seeing the 2 nadis of other five chakras from the signs Cp, Sg, Sc, Li and Vi

or Aq, Pi, Ae, Ta and Ge (bisect the zodiac and assign two signs owned by the

same planet to one chakra). This corresponds to Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus

and Mercury for Mooladhara, ..., Visuddha.> > I am showing their approach

pictorially below:> > > * * *> > But the five non-luminary

planets represent the five tattwas. When we give importance to physical

distance, the tattvas get reversed (and they get messed up in the case of

Saturn and Jupiter. It is not just reversal). For example, Mooladhara chakra is

said to represent earthy nature (bhoo tattva), but Mercury (planet of bhoo

tattva) is being given to Visuddha chakra above. Swadhishthana chakra is said

to represent watery nature (jala tattva), but Venus (planet of jala tattva) is

being given to Anahata. Why this reversal?> > This reversal is coming from the

fact that we are counting from Mooladhara to Sahasrara. However, in all

religious rituals involving chakras, the natural order of invoking the chakras

is different. It is> > Visuddha, Anahata, Manipoora, Swadhishthana, Mooladhara,

Ajna, Sahasrara> > This is the natural order of invoking chakras as per rituals.

Even when chakras are mentioned in Lalita sahasra nama stotram, this is the

order in which they are mentioned! So the order used by most authors is wrong.>

> Also, you may note that Sg, Cp, Ar, Ta, Ge and Cn are night-strong signs

according to Parasara and taken in Moon's hora in Kashinatha Hora chart.

Similarly, Le, Vi, Li, Sc, Aq and Pi are day-strong signs according to Parasara

and taken in Sun's hora in Kashinatha hora. This discontinuity is said to be due

to a "Brahma sutra" involvind Jupiter and Saturn (I don't understand it quite

well, but this discontinuity is a fact as per Parasara's classification of

signs into day-strong and night-strong ones).> > But these authors end up

getting Aq, Pi, Ar, Ta, Ge and Cn for Ida (female/Moon hora) and others for

Pingala (male/Sun hora). This is incorrect for the signs owned by Saturn and

Jupiter! Thus, the above picture does not obey Parasara's classification of

day-strong and night-strong signs!> > * * *> > My approach is

very similar to that of others, but differs in two key aspects: (1) I put the

night-strong signs together in one half and day-strong signs together in the

other half and assign them to Ida and Pingala nadis (i.e. obey the Brahma

sutra), (2) I take the natural order of chakras as used in religious rituals

and not based on any physical order.> > With this approach, I get Mercury for

Mooladhara chakra, which shows bhoo tattva, Venus for Swadhshthana chakra,

which shows jala tattva, and so on. Even airy and ethery tattvas fall in

place!!> > To those who haven't yet got it, the following picture should make

it clear:> > > With this, you can see that> > (1) the Pingala nadi side has all

the day-strong signs and Ida nadi side has all the night-strong signs> (2) the

order of the chakras is in the natural order of invocation in Hindu rituals.>

(3) the tattvas fall in place. For example, visuddha chakra has ether

(Jupiter), anahata chakra has air (Saturn) and so on.> > Thus, everything falls

in place beautifully. I sincerely believe that this is the correct approach and

the other approach is based on faulty logic. I cannot accept the list given by

Bepin Behari.> > However, I have no problem with a different list given by Sri

Harish Johari. It makes perfect sense, when you visualize the form of the

Divine Mother in various chakras and her spiritual blessings. In fact, I have

given four lists assigning various aspects of chakras to planets. The

classification in the picture above is only one of the four! Please read the

previous mails if you haven't done so already.> > Disclaimer: I have done a lot

of reading and thinking on this matter, but I am certainly not an expert. So use

your own discretion when getting influenced! ;-)> May Jupiter's light shine on

us,> Narasimha> > > Dear Gili,> > Well it appears I am not alone in this line

of thinking. Thanks for the> > info.> > Love,> > Chandrashekhar.> >

> > Gili Mary [xapsarax@h...]> >

Friday, December 05, 2003 5:50 AM> > To:

vedic astrology> > RE: [vedic astrology] Re:

Spiritual Chakras and Planets> > > > > > Dear Chandrashekhar,> > Both

T.Subba Row and Bepin Behari suggest this too. As I posted before,> > it> >

seems so simple and so tidy that it 'feels' right to me but I am just an> >

inexperienced novice in this field.> > Love,> > Gili> > > > >Dear

Narasimha,> > >I am not much in to religion interpretation per-se. But since

there is an> > >ongoing attempt to relate Chakras to Planet karakatwa, would

you check up> > >the following and let me know whether this logic can be

applied to> > >Chakra-Karaka relationship?> > >I think the Karakatwas could

relate from Sun to Saturn in descending> > order> > >depending distance of

planets from Sun, from Saharara to Mooladhara as> > the> > >locations relate

to the planets in question. I may be completely off the> > >track,but could

you check up.> > >Regards,> > >Chandrashekhar.