BPHS Ch.24 — 11th Lord in Houses 10–12: Honored + Religious Activist + Jitendriya/Sense Mastery (10H), Gainful in All + Happiness Increases Daily (11H), Dharmic Spending + Kamuka + Gains from Foreign (12H) & 10th House = Indrasthana (Sense Mastery, NOT Sense Organs)

BPHS Chapter 24 — 11th Lord in Houses 10–12 (Karma, Gains, Expenditure)

11th Lord in 10th House (verse 130)

Verse: lābheśe karmabhāvasthe bhūpa-vandyo guṇānvitaḥ, nija-dharma-rato dhīmān satyavādī jitendriyaḥ

• Honoured by kings (bhūpa-vandya)
• Virtuous (guṇānvita)
• Devoted to his own religion (nija-dharma-rata)
• Intelligent (dhīmān)
• Truthful (satyavādī)
• Master of his senses (jitendriya)

Why honoured:

• The 10th is the house of honour and respect; the lord of gains is there, so he gains honour in society.
• A student adds that from the 10th the planet is the 2nd lord in lagna. Another objects that a 2nd lord is a māraka. Answer: the 2nd lord is a māraka in the presence of afflictions; afflicted, he cuts off the food. Strong, he is the sustainer who feeds you. With the 2nd lord in lagna from the 10th, the 10th house is strong: he does good work and is honoured.

Why virtuous:

• From the 9th house the planet is the 3rd lord, of initiative in dharma, and he has argalā on the 9th. Planets with argalā on the 9th promote dharma.

Why devoted to his religion:

• The same argalā on the 9th.
• His lordship is the 3rd from the 9th: initiative with respect to religion. Sitting in the 10th of action, he acts on it.

"Being in the 10th house will make him an activist of religion."

Why intelligent (dhīmān):

• Intelligence is seen from the 5th, and also from lagna.
• From lagna: the 11th lord in a quadrant. Whatever intelligence lagna shows is strong — smart, good presence of mind.
• From the 5th (scholarship, knowledge, following): the 7th lord in the 6th. The 7th lord from the 5th interacts in matters of knowledge. The 6th is fights and quarrels, and an upachaya from the 5th — increase of knowledge and following.
• The 7th lord in the 6th is bad for relationships: you make enemies. For knowledge it is good. You disagree, you show why, you contest.
• Since the planet is also good from lagna, the arguments are well put.
• From the 2nd house of speech: the 10th lord in the 9th. An excellent speaker.
• So the intelligence here lies in dealing with people, arguing and speaking, more than in holding a lot of knowledge.

"Knowledge actually flourishes when there is a contest."

Why truthful:

• From the 9th of dharma the 3rd lord, of initiative and communication, is in the 2nd house of speech. He speaks for dharma. He also has argalā on dharma.

Why jitendriya:

• Control over the senses is overcoming your weaknesses, the ariṣaḍvargas. The senses can be looked at as enemies, so take the 6th house: how well you fight.
• From the 6th the planet is the 6th lord in the 5th. The teacher counts this a good placement and names a yoga for overcoming obstacles and enemies (the recording has "Dhanur yoga"; the word is not clear).
• The 10th house itself shows control over the indriyas. It is called Indrasthana, and it is the 5th, the house of pūrva puṇya, from the 6th house of overcoming enemies. See Part 3.
• A student notes that from the 10th the planet is the 2nd lord, the māraka, sitting in the 10th itself. The teacher agrees: there is a chance of overcoming the indriyas.

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11th Lord in 11th House (verse 131)

Verse: lābheśe lābhabhāvasthe lābhaḥ sarveṣu karmasu, pāṇḍityaṁ ca sukhaṁ tasya vardhate dine dine

• Gains in all his activities
• Scholarship (pāṇḍitya) and happiness (sukha)
• Which increase day by day

The teacher calls this one straightforward and goes through it quickly.

• Gains in all activities: the 11th lord is in the 11th. He is very well placed; the man is profitable and gainful.
• Scholarship: from the 5th house the planet is the 7th lord in the 7th, aspecting the 5th. A good scholar who interacts in matters of scholarship, with a very good following.
• Happiness: sukha is comfort and happiness, the 4th house. From the 4th the planet is the 8th lord in the 8th — a duṣṭhāna lord in the same duṣṭhāna, one of the three important yogas. Unexpected gains come for his comforts.
• Also from lagna: the 11th lord in the 11th has argalā on lagna. He is well placed from the 4th and from lagna, so the man is very happy.
• Increasing every day: with the planet in the 8th from the 4th, growth of comfort and happiness is no surprise.

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11th Lord in 12th House (verse 132)

Verse: lābheśe vyayabhāvasthe sat-kāryeṣu vyayaḥ sadā, kāmuko bahu-patnīko mleccha-saṁsarga-kārakaḥ

• Always spends on good activities (sat-kārya)
• Desires sensual pleasures (kāmuka)
• Has many wives (bahu-patnīka)
• Associates with mlecchas — foreigners, people from distant lands

Kāmuka is not kāmī: the earlier word meant a man full of desires in general. Kāmuka is used for one who desires sensual pleasures.

Why expenditure, and why good expenditure:

• The 11th lord in the 12th diverts gains into expenses.
• From the 9th house of dharma the planet is the 3rd lord in the 4th. As 3rd lord from the 9th his agenda is initiative in dharma, and the 4th from the 9th has argalā on dharma. He has a strong sense of dharma and wants to do something for it.
• That makes good expenditure likely, not certain. It is an indirect indication.
• A student asks how bad expenditure is seen. Answer: expenditure can be for the 8th house or the 6th — spent on fighting enemies, say — and you could call that bad. But what is good and what is bad expenditure depends on the perspective. Reading sat-kārya as dharmic expenditure is one perspective, and it makes sense here.
• Second reading: sat-kārya can also mean smart expenditure — an investment, not a loss. The 12th house stands for investments as well as donations. The lord of gains in the house of spending makes the man spend for a gain later; "tomorrow it will be doubled or tripled, at least he thinks so."
• Both readings hold. One man gives $10,000 for a temple and it is wasted. This man gives the $10,000 and also makes sure the temple is built — and then goes there and benefits from it.

Why kāmuka:

• The 11th lord shows gains; the 12th is the house of pleasures in bed. He has gains in that matter and pursues it a lot.

Why many wives:

• From the 7th house of wife the planet is the 5th lord in the 6th: a trine lord, showing pūrva puṇya in the matter of wife, in an upachaya, a house of increase. There is a chance of accumulating wives.
• Add the desire for sensual pleasures, and he may pursue many women and have many wives.

Why foreigners:

• The 12th is the house of faraway things: foreign countries, living abroad, travelling abroad.
• The 11th lord makes you gain from wherever he sits. He cannot make the man gain in the matter of spending, but he can in the matter of foreign things.
• So: foreigner friends and gains because of them; or business abroad; or importing foreign goods; or investing in foreign things.

"His gains have something to do with foreign — there is a foreign element to his gains, that is the bottom line."

Can a man who pursues many women be dharmic?

A student's question at the end of the BPHS half: if he pursues many women, can you still say he spends on dharmic activities?

• Yes. The planet is well placed from the 9th and is in an upachaya from the 7th. A man can be dharmic in religion and not dharmic in the matter of women.
• "That particular thing is adharmic, but in general he may be a very dharmic person." Krishna had many wives; you cannot call him kāmuka.
• A man may have ṛṇas with many women. If a great king — Shivaji, Akbar — were reborn today, he would carry ṛṇas of many kinds with thousands of people, and many would come to him for every kind of relationship. For such a person it may be better to go through many relationships and give than to carry them into the next life.
• The sin lies in the attitude. In Kali Yuga people think only of taking; every relationship, marriage included, becomes self-gratification. Using many people to gratify yourself is a sin. If the aim is to satisfy them, it is not adharma.
• Still, by today's yuga dharma, by deśa-kāla-pātra, marrying many women is adharma, and only adharmic people will cross that bar.
• Working rule: judge dharma from the 9th house. If it is strong, call the person dharmic. Do not conclude adharma because he cheats, has enemies, destroys enemies or has many vices.

"Dharma is a very subtle thing. It is very difficult to judge."

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10th House = Indrasthana — the Senses, Not the Sense Organs

Why the 10th house shows control over the indriyas

Said while explaining jitendriya for the 11th lord in the 10th:

• The 10th house is called Indrasthana. The indriyas get their name from Indra.
• The 7th house is interacting with other people; the 10th is what puts you amid other people. It is the centre of your being in society.
• Amid people, many inputs reach the senses and make you want things. A man with a strong 10th house — a prime minister, a president — comes in touch with many people, and they pose challenges of kāma, krodha, lobha. How you resist is the control over the senses.
• A student objects that the 10th then sounds like the house of succumbing. Answer: it is the house of the indriyas. You can succumb or you can overcome.
• In many classical combinations the 10th is seen as the house of purity because it is Indrasthana. Indra is the king of the gods, and also the Indra inside you. Indra falls frequently, through pride. So the 10th can show meritorious work and it can show a fall into the lure of the indriyas.

6th house = ariṣaḍvargas; the 6th is the 9th from the 10th

• The ṣaḍripus, the six enemies, are seen from the 6th house. The senses are seen from the 10th.
• The 6th is the 9th from the 10th. The dharma of the 10th house is the 6th house: the dharma of the indriyas is to create kāma, krodha, lobha, moha.
• You see something nice and want it; you hear praise and think "I am great". When that arises the senses are doing their dharma — teasing and challenging you through the ariṣaḍvargas.
• A student asks whether each enemy can be tied to a house. Answer: it is not that straightforward in the rāśi chart. In the Triṁśāṁśa (D-30), houses 7 to 12 can show the six specific enemies. In the rāśi, the 6th is the house of the ariṣaḍvargas and of how you succumb to them, and the 10th is the house of the senses in general.

"The dharma of the senses is to cause weakness. The dharma of the 10th house is 6th house."

Clarification after the break — senses, not sense organs

During the break a student asked about people who are blind. If the 10th shows the indriyas, what of them?

• The 10th does not show the physical sense organs. Each sense organ has its own house — the 2nd, the 3rd, and so on.
• The 10th shows the overall relationship with your senses: whether you master them or succumb to them.
• Indra is not your eyes or your ears. Those are shown by different devatās.

"When I said 10th house shows Indriyas, I am not talking about the physical senses. For each sense organ there is a different house. What 10th house shows is the overall relationship with your senses."

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