lesson 3

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varahamihira , " Sanjay Rath " <srath@v...> wrote:

> Om Vishnave Namah

> Dear Steve & Jyotisha,

> Comments on one question are below IN BOLD TO DIFFERENTIATE

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> > Lesson #3 Assignment,

> > Greetings,

> RATH: NAMASKAR

> > This is submitted without looking at previous posts. I'll look at

> > those after I upload this attachment.

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> > Q1. Why do the five planets have lordships over two houses whereas

> > sun and moon only have one?

> > The puranic story is that initially only the sun and moon had

rashis

> > (heaps) but Mercury and then the other planets each asked sun and

> > moon for a house so they were given one on each side. There surely

> > are many levels of meaning to this story. If we treat the Sun and

> > Moon as Parashara does, the Sun is the Soul of all and the moon

the

> > mind. We can think then of the moon as being the reflection of the

> > Sun, the owner of the 12th house from the Sun, the planet of loss

of

> > Soul and therefore the planet of maximum point of materiality or

> > alternatively the planet of the maximum point of merger in

Universal

> > Being. It is then the role of each planet first to participate in

the

> > Divine Play as it moves from the Sun toward the moon and into

> > materiality and then to participate in the divine play as it

> > participates from the Moon toward the Sun and back to

spirituality.

> > Something like this.

> RATH:INTERESTING. YET THE QUESTION REMAINS: WHY DID THE SUN AGREE

TO GIVE:

> LOOK IN THE GITA FOR THE ANSWER. STUDY SANKHYA SHASTRA.

> > Questions I have: Does anyone know or have a theory as to why Sun

and

> > Moon own the 5th and 4th Rashis and not the 1st and 2d?

> RATH:SIMPLE. DRAW A LINE FROM 0 DEG LEO TO 0 DEG AQUARIUS. NOW TRY

TO

> ANSWER. THIS IS THE UTTAR/DAKSHIN-AYANA LINE.

> >

> > Q2. My Birthtime: June 27, 1939, 11:24:56 AM, DST, NYC. During

that

> > time the Moon was in Dakshina Ayana.

> RATH: YOU TOO MAKE THE STANDARD MISTAKE. THE AYANA IS THE

DECLINATION AND

> NOT UTTARAYANA OR DAKSHINAYANA.

> > Q3. On Feb 12, 1940 it moved into Uttara Ayana.

> >

> > Q4. The mantra seems to be Om Hraum Saha Jun. OM is pranava,

Ganesh,

> > the Veda, Brahma, the seed impulse of liveliness of Oneness, which

> > Parashara calls Vishnu, beginningless and endless. It's shape in

> > Devanagari is like the profile of Lord Ganesh, head, potbelly and

> > trunk. The dot above the crescent is like the eye of Ganesh, the

> > point value of creation, the most localized value of Vishnu.-

Supreme

> > Being. The crescent under the point is the transition, the phases

of

> > activity from the point back to the whole. There is always more

to be

> > said about this cosmic hum within which all exists and can be

> > perceived as we increase in moksha.

> >

> > Hraum, Saha and Jun I know nothing of except that in a book called

> > the Daily Routine of the Hindus, the author says that all the

stems

> > of the seed mantras can be applied in adoration of particular

deities

> > by prefixing the stems with the first letter of the deitie's

> > name. So

> > Gum is for Ganesh as are Gaim, Glaum, etc.

> > Hraum could be for Hari or Hara. Saha I don't know. Perhaps Jun

> > is

> > for Jagannath.

> >

> > Jai Sri Ram

> > Steve Sufian

> RATH: THE MANTRA IS " OM HOUM JUM SAH " . VISIT

> www.sjvc.net/Mantra/mritunjay.htm and get the meanings of these

syllables.

> this is the merger of the sadashiva beeja (HOUM) and the Mritunjaya

Beeja

> (Jum).

>

> Blessings of Sri Jagannath

> Sanjay

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