[Sri Guru] Ownership of Rahu and Ketu

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Jaya Jagannath!

 

Dear Pt Sanjay Rath,

 

Thank you for your answer.

 

>There is a lesson on Ketu which you can download from the archives of this

>list. Thereafter if you have doubts, I can help.

 

If it's lesson 9 you mean, I have it. I looked through it and these are my

conclusions. Please correct.

 

Ketu acts as Mars and Rahu acts as Saturn, thus Scorpio, being mooltrikona

sign of Mars becomes the sign co-owned by Ketu and Aquarius, being

mooltrikona sign of Saturn, becomes co-owned by Rahu. Taurus, being the

opposite of Scorpio, becomes another swarasi of Rahu, having as it's lord

Venus, thus Taurus lagna persons will prove to have strong material desires.

Leo, being the opposite of Aquarius, will not have any co-ownership since it

is owned by Sun, the strongest luminary.

It is described in the lesson that Ketu attains it's Gaja Rupa in

Sagittarius, which is Ketu's exaltation sign, and Rahu opposite from it in

Gemini. As for Virgo and Pisces, Rahu would own Virgo also and Ketu Pisces.

The logic behind this is that Virgo has full earth content, and Parvati devi

had made her " son " from clay, thus after Shiva killed the boy, the body was

preserved and Ketu is opposite from it.

Now to understand the 4-headed form of Ketu, same as Lord Brahma or Shiva or

Hanuman etc, in higher dimensions of creation the devas have many heads to

look in the different directions. In the same way, just as His father Lord

Shiva, Ganesha has 5 heads, the primary one is the one of elephant, Gaja

Rupa and the other heads look in the different directions. Take the 4 dual

signs, since Ganesha was revived by Lord Vishnu and thus maintained by Him,

then we see that the 4 dual signs are appointed to the 4 directions.

Gemini - Aja Rupa, with goat head - looking at the West direction

Virgo - Haya Rupa, with horse head - looking at the South direction

Sagittarius - Markata Rupa, with monkey head - looking at the East direction

Pisces - Go Rupa, with head of Cow - looking at the North direction

We know there are ten directions, and the signs owned by Sun and Moon are

excepted from these forms of Ketu, as such the other signs give the ten

directions, 8 geometrical plus up and down. Then Sagittarius would naturally

be up direction, where Ketu attains it's Gaja Rupa, and Gemini down

direction. Naturally when one looks down one sees his body (Rahu) and when

one looks up, one is situated in the head (Ketu). Or the body looks at the

head (Rahu) and the head looks at the body (Ketu).

See also the logic behind the directions: goat head is the lowest (it's also

the natural 3rd house in the Zodiac) - kama- (we see the farther one goes

West, the more degraded people are, BTW I heard a joke that California is

the most degraded on earth, because one can translate it as the fort of Kali

- kali-yuga), then horse head is the next one (the natural 6th house) -

artha - , next is monkey head (the 9th house of the zodiac) -dharma- , next

Cow head (the 12th house) -moksha-. The fact that Gaja Rupa is attained in

9th house of dharma, is a remarkable fact, by which Lord Ganapati is showing

us that to follow one's principles of dharma is highest proces of religion,

even more than the strive to attainment of moksha.

Now, to come back to the ownerships, we see the nodes primarily co-lord over

fixed signs, Scorpio-Aquarius-Taurus except for Leo which is owned by Sun,

secondarily over dual signs. The reason for this would be that Ganesha was

killed by His father, Shiva, thus the fixed signs, and after that, the dual

signs because life was restored in Him by Vishnu, Gemini-Virgo-Sagittarius-

Pisces, attaining it's full form in Sagittarius as Gaja Rupa.

One could then ask why not the movable signs are owned by the nodes? Well,

since Ganesha is not a creation by Lord Brahma, but it was Goddess Parvati

who made Him from clay, so the nodes do not belong to Brahma's signs. And as

such, because they are linked with destruction, they become enemies of Sun

and Moon, and the movable signs.

 

Wonderful story!

 

Your servant,

Dhira Krsna dasa

 

PS. I saw pictures of Lord Jagannath being dressed in His elephant outfit.

Is this related with Ganesha or is it something else?