My recent experience in Tryambakeshwar (10th Shiva Ling)

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Dear Gentlepeople:

 

My experience is related in a round-about way with Jyotish so I'm

posting it here.

 

I was visiting Tryambakeshwar near Nasik (Maharastra), the home of

the 10th Shiv Ling of total of 12 Shiva Lings located in India for

conducting Narayana Nag Bali (a sacred rite for appeasing the souls

of the ancestors).

 

The ceremony required that I bathe in a Kund (a public bath) before

beginning the ceremony). When I arrived at this bathing place, I was

appalled to see thousands of people bathing in the same static body

of water which was emitting a foul smell as well.

 

I refused to bathe in this water and told my priest that I was

canceling the Narayana-Nag-Bali ceremony and was going back to the

United States. As I was walking away, a middle aged man who had been

watching my disgust at the public bathing approached me and said

that "when you come to God, come there as a zero, leave behind your

ego and status, I guarantee that if you bathe in this public pool of

the water of river Godavri, you won't fall sick or get any skin

disease."

 

This statement from a stranger struck me like a lightning. I returned

back, bathed in the public pool where thousands others were bathing,

continued bathing for the three days I was there for the ceremony,

completed the ceremony that I almost walked away from and I felt

GREAT, I felt FREE, all the prejudices (possibly based on ego) I had

on bathing in a dirty public pool was gone. This same man asked me to

meet him at the Shiva temple on the 3rd day.

 

When I met him, he gave me a YELLOW loin cloth (dhoti) that I had to

wear around my waist—no undearwear, no other clothing or accessories

were allowed—walking around with nothing on except a piece of cloth

felt strange as well. Then, this man took me to the inner-sanctum of

the Shiva temple where he asked me to touch the THREE Lingas and

pray. This was unbelievable—there were millionaires, billionairs and

other powerful people getting off their big, fancy cars and waiting

in line for hours and hours to get one glimpse of the Shiva Lingas

through a reflection in a mirror placed on the roof of the temple AND

here I was, literally a NOBODY in India or anywhere else in the

world, actually touching the three Lingas located in the innermost

sanctum of the temple.

 

This man never accepted a penny from me, didn't give me his address

and disapppeared into the thousands of people waiting outside the

temple after I came out of the inner-sanctum of the temple. This

indeed was an uncanny, humiliating and a great spiritual experience

for me. All my ego (actual as well as sub-conscious) was washed away

with those public baths in the pool of the water from Godavri river.

 

Now connecting this to Jyotish—I was born with an Exhalted Jupiter

placed in the ninth house, I feel this Jupiter is bound to give such

uncanny spiritual and religious experiences. At the time of my

experience (November 18, 19, 20), I was running Mar-Moon-Rahu. Moon

antardasa as the 9th lord would give such an experience, but why

during Rahu sub period that I don't understand.

 

Sanjay (Rath) had told me a couple of months back that Mars or

Jupiter located in 2nd from Moon is a powerful Raj-yog and I'll

experience Raj-yog results in Mars-Moon rather than the bad results

that I had predicted based on 2-12 relationship between Mars and

Moon. Sanjay was right, I was wrong. -- Being able to travel to the

10th Shiva Linga and be able to actually touch the Lingas and pray is

indeed a Raj-yog result for a Hindu.

 

Birth detail: June 14, 1967; Bombay, 5.29 pm.

 

Hope Narasimha and others don't get mad at me for posting somewhat

non-Jyotish material.

 

Mukund