Rahu/Ketu exaltation

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JAYA JAGANNATH

Dear Raghu,

FOOD FOR FURTHER THOUGHT:

1. What do we really mean by exaltation and debilitation? See my earlier

post about Swakshetra and Moolatrikona.

 

2. What is good and what is bad? If Maharishi Parasara can give the

Vaishnava directions for worshipping Sri Varaha Avatar for Rahu, then is

Rahu always diabolical or is there another underlying meaning to all this?

When the Jyotish Shastra was put to its ultimate test in the middle ages, it

is Rahu who stood like a champion for VARAHAMIHIRA. Which Roopa of Rahu was

this?

 

3. Rahu in Sagittarius in the sixth house of Sri Rama's horoscope (which I

had given earlier) represents His prime enemy Ravana. Thus, Rahu in

Sagittarius produced the King of the Rakshasa clan. We know the dictum that

malefics in debility in quadrants produce Rajyoga. Treating the sixth

Sagittarius as the Lagna of enemy(Ravana), we can infer that Rahu should be

in a " SORT OF DEBILITY IN SAGITTARIUS THAT PRODUCES RAJYOGA OR MATERIAL

GAIN " . What is more, that KING OF THE RAKSHASA GOT MOKSHA. Where are we??

 

4. In that case, what exactly did Parasara imply by debility of Rahu in

Scorpio, the house of the Dead and the dying and the source of the roots of

all religions? What is Pitri-Paksha and Shraddha? Could Sri Rama do the last

rites of His father when He was in exile?

 

This is a nice exercise for all Jyotisha to try and understand what is

meant by exaltation and debilitation in the case of the nodes and which are

the exaltation/debility sign for these meanings.

 

WITH A SINCERE BOW TO THE LORD OF ALL KNOWLEDGE

OM KRISHNA GURU,

 

I remain,

 

Sanjay Rath

Sri Jagannath Vedic Center

152B Pocket-C, Mayur Vihar Ph-2, Delhi, INDIA 110091.

Tel:+91-11-2489531;e-mail: srath

Webpage: http://www2.crosswinds.net/~srath

 

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Das Goravani, pres.dmi <Das

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Thursday, September 02, 1999 1:30 AM

Re: Rahu/Ketu exaltation

 

 

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> Re: Rahu/Ketu exaltation

>

> It is my opinion, regardless of what BPHS supposedly says, that Rahu and

> Ketu are complete Rouges in the Divine Sense, and are not Gods, and do

> not own or exalt anywhere.

>

> It is improper and offensive to the Devas to regard them as equal to

> them, in my opinion.

>

> They represent the node between divinity and materiality. Rahu expands,

> Ketu contracts, but they both exist to mess up your plans here.

> Therefore they are highly karmic in nature, or reactively karmic. They

> should not be equated with the real Devas, and in fact in various places

> in Sattvic Hindu Scriptures it will tell you not to equate anyone with

> the Gods, or in other words, to know proper ontology.

>

> Ontology can also be called Spiritual Hierarchy. In the Vedic hierarchy,

> Rakshashas can never be equal to Gods unless they shed completely their

> malefic nature and become " suras " or " aryans " . Prahlad, the son of the

> Great Rakshasha Hiranyakasipu, was Godly, though born in an Asura

> family. So Rahu and Ketu, to my knowledge, have not attained this status

> exactly. They live on the border inbetween the two, hence their effects

> are usually simultaneously good and bad, very obviously.

>

> I personally think likening them to Saturn and Mars is an example so

> that we can learn their effects. I think after learning their effects

> one can know them separately as individuals. Because they are not

> primeval but appeared later, they cannot " own " anything at all.

>

> These are my opinions. Scriptural referrences will say varying things. I

> think those things are there to guide us towards true understanding. In

> " true understanding " , I believe, again " I " believe, that they and all

> things assume their OWN individuality and are then not likened unto

> anything else. Just like, we can say, " Oh, Das Goravani is LIKE so and

> so " , but ultimately, I am " me " , an individual, and " so and so " , the

> compared-to entity, is yet another unique individual.

>

> Remember please, I have said it a few times, this is MY opinion. I am

> not saying this is what is said in any certain place in scripture. I

> almost always only speak of my own realizations, or vi-gyan, not " gyan "

> proper, which is based on Sruti and Sastra, and is not " opinion " .

> Realizations, because they " join " many " points of light " or " spots of

> gyan " or " pieces of knowledge " , cannot be " verified " except by your own

> " realizations " or your own " Vigyan " in other words.

>

> Thanks for listening. I bow humbly to higher authorities. It may be a

> fault in me that I rely too much on my own realizations. If that be the

> case, then take me accordingly.

>

> Humbly, in serving mood,

>

> Raghunandan das

> aka

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