BPHS Ch.24 — 3rd Lord in Houses 7–9: Interacts with Powerful People (Not Just Govt Service), No Paternal Happiness (Maraka from 9th) & Fortune Through Wife

BPHS Chapter 24 — 3rd Lord in the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Houses

The class opens at chapter 24, verse 31. For each verse the teacher reads the Sanskrit, gives the meaning, then asks the class why the result follows. The method each time: take the house concerned as lagna and see which lord, counted from there, the 3rd lord becomes and where it sits.

Verse 31 — 3rd Lord in the 7th House

saptame sahajādhīśe rājasevāparo naraḥ / bālye duḥkhī sukhī cānte jāyate nātra saṃśayaḥ

• Rājasevāparo naraḥ — he serves the king: a government official, some job in the government
• Bālye duḥkhī — unhappy in childhood
• Sukhī cānte — happy in the end, after growing up
• Jāyate nātra saṃśayaḥ — one born like this has these qualities, no doubt

Serves the king

• Take the 7th house of interactions as lagna. The 3rd house is the 9th from the 7th, so the 9th lord of bhāgya sits in that lagna.
• His interactions are with big and fortunate people. That is what happens to someone working for a king or in a big government position: his own post may be small, but he is in charge of something big and meets such people.
• It does not have to be government service. Whether he serves the government is seen from other factors.

"What this really suggests is, he is somebody who interacts with a lot of big and fortunate kind of people."

Unhappy in childhood

• The 2nd house is the basic household, the time spent in the family as a child.
• The 3rd house is the 2nd from the 2nd, so the 3rd lord also shows the resources of childhood. From the 2nd house he is the 2nd lord placed in the 6th.
• That lord is in a dusthāna from the 2nd house. Childhood is not pleasant; there are obstacles and troubles to overcome.

Happy in the end

• The houses fall into four phases of life: 1–2–3, 4–5–6, 7–8–9, 10–11–12. For later life the two quadrants that matter are the 7th (marriage) and the 10th (karma, actions in society).
• From the 7th house: it holds its own 9th lord. Marital life is blessed.
• From the 10th house: the 3rd lord is the 6th lord placed in the 10th. One artha trikoṇa lord in another artha trikoṇa. He has work to do and is busy in it.
• From the 4th house of peace of mind and comfort: the 3rd lord is the 12th lord placed in the 4th. One mokṣa trikoṇa lord in another mokṣa trikoṇa, which is conducive. The 4th from the 4th also holds its own 9th lord.
• Busy in work, blessed in marriage, at peace. Overall a happy person.

Verse 32 — 3rd Lord in the 8th House

aṣṭame sahajādhīśe jātaś cauro naro bhavet / dāsavṛttyopajīvī ca rājadvāre mṛtir bhavet

• Cauro naro bhavet — he becomes a thief
• Dāsavṛttyopajīvī — he makes his living as a servant of others
• Rājadvāre mṛtir bhavet — he dies at the door of a king

Thief

• The 3rd house is initiative. The 8th house is easy money. All his initiative is directed at easy money.
• The 8th is the 2nd from the 7th. The 7th is other people, the people you interact with; the 2nd from there is their resources. The 8th is other people's money, and his focus is on how to enjoy it and appropriate it.
• The 8th house is not only easy money. It also shows workaholism, the karmayogī who always works hard, the one doing tapas in the Himalayas. Someone who puts all his energy into tapas also has the 3rd lord in the 8th.

"If you see somebody having 3rd lord in the 8th, don't say, 'What did you steal so far in your life?' Don't ask him. That will be not nice."

Lives as a servant

• The 3rd lord is in the 6th from the 3rd house. Another area where the energy is focused is the 6th house of service.
• It is better for him to be in service than in business. He depends on service for his livelihood.
• A student asked about the 10th house. The teacher: the 10th can be seen, but for someone who is actually a servant the 6th is more appropriate.
• Dāsavṛtti is not service in the sense of being employed. Service to an electronics company or to a government is different from service as a housemaid. The word points to a lowly job — servant, housemaid, cattleman. Dāsa is a servant, dāsī a servant maid.

Dies at the king's door

• The teacher calls the result "just too specific" and asks what could justify it.
• Not literal. It does not mean he is shot while running out of the palace gate. Dying at the king's door means the king punished him, or there was litigation and he was in trouble at the hands of the government — the king or the king's servants. Death as a punishment.
• The 8th house shows the punishment and suffering that come as the result of previous karma.
• The 3rd house is important for the vitality of the person and the circumstances of death — seen more from Ārūḍha Lagna, but from lagna as well.
• The lord of the circumstances of death in the house of punishment: death may come by the king's punishment.

"It's just a possibility, but again, don't predict it."

Verse 33 — 3rd Lord in the 9th House

navame sahajādhīśe pitṛsukhavivarjitaḥ / strībhir bhāgyodayas tasya putrādisukhasaṃyutaḥ

• Pitṛsukhavivarjitaḥ — devoid of happiness from the father
• Strībhir bhāgyodayas tasya — his fortune blooms because of woman, wife or wives, relationships
• Putrādisukhasaṃyutaḥ — he has happiness from children and the like

No happiness from the father

• From the 9th house of father, the 3rd lord is the 7th lord, a māraka, placed in lagna. The father may not live long.
• Suppose the father does live long. There is still friction. The 3rd lord shows where you are focusing your energy, and here it is on the father.
• There are areas where spending energy shows the area prospering. There are others where you are not expected to spend energy at all, only to enjoy; energy spent there means a problem. The father is such an area.
• Either the father does not live long or there is friction with him.

"When will you focus all your energy on your father? There is some problem, then you are focusing your energy on father."

Fortune blooms through wife

• Take the 9th house as lagna to see the kind of fortune. The 7th lord is in that lagna. Fortune comes through relationship.
• After marriage he may become a billionaire.

Happy with children

• From the 5th house of children, the 3rd lord is the 11th lord. He sits in the 5th from the 5th and aspects the 11th from the 5th (his own house, by the 7th graha dṛṣṭi). The 11th is fortified.
• The 11th is the fulfilment of all desires. All his desires with respect to children are fulfilled.
• The 5th is pūrva puṇya, and he is in the 5th from the house of children: pūrva puṇya with respect to children.
• (The recording is garbled here — it sounds like "6th from 5th" and "air sign". The 9th house is the 5th from the 5th, and the 5th is the house of pūrva puṇya.)

Other results

• A student offered another. Taking the 9th as lagna, the 7th lord is in lagna: he may interact a lot with people on dharmic matters. He may be in charge of a dharmic institution — a temple, a maṭha, a tīrtha, a religious organization.
• "There are tens of other results you can give."

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