Marriage Timing via Dasha (AK Dasha = Vairagya), Annual 2006 Most Promising & Three Vedantic Paths

Philosophical Opening — Doership and Spiritual Paths

Mantras

• The class is on Moola nakshatra. Its ruler is Nirriti, who also rules the south-west (Nairriti) direction in Vastu.
• From this class on, one Veda mantra of a graha is recited per class along with the nakshatra mantra. The first is for the Sun.
• The well-known Sun prayer by Vyasa is very powerful, but it is a shloka, not a Veda mantra.
• The "vidmahe … dhimahi" Gayatri-style mantras for the grahas are not from the Vedas or the Rishis. They were composed in Kali Yuga and are not as powerful.
• Veda mantras cleanse even if you do not know the meaning. The teacher holds back the meanings for now because his reading of them is still speculative.

Why Nirriti Has a Mantra — and What the Moola Rules Are Worth

• A student asks why there is a mantra for Nirriti. She rules a nakshatra, a direction in Vastu, and one direction in the Dasamsa. Prayers are almost always to the good; this is the one exception.
• The Moola dosha rules and similar formulas are not 100% rules. They raise a probability — perhaps from 1 in 10 million to 1 in 10,000. That is statistically large but it is not a prediction.

"These formulas are not for making predictions, but they are for being cautious."

• The same holds for "whoever dies in Benares gets moksha". It raises the odds; it guarantees nothing. One who goes to Benares wanting moksha is probably not ready for it — the desire for moksha helps you climb every step but the last, where it too has to be dropped.

Doership and Karma

"Any action that you do, as long as you think that you are doing, it is new karma on your back."

• What others do to you is the result of your past karma. What you do to others is new karma you accumulate — even when you are only returning what was done to you.
• You incur no karma only if you give up doership completely — 100%, not 99.99% — and know that it is being done through you.
• Before enlightenment you cut wood and cook food. After becoming a jivanmukta you cut wood and cook food. The life is the same; the attitude has changed.
• Some who realise the world is maya leave it. Others, like Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, stay on and incur no new karma.
• A jivanmukta may still see the world in duality while knowing the truth. Higher still is Sahaja Samadhi: no second being is seen even while talking, walking and working. Such a person still acts in the world.

The Star and the Diamond — Dvaita, Vishishtadvaita, Advaita

• From far away God looks like one star. So those who stand far away say there is one God.
• Come close and the star is a diamond with 33 crore faces, each face miles wide, each with its own gunas.
• One face may be red and hot, another blue and cold. Get close to a cold, blue face and the whole world feels cold and blue: the God you are close to fills the world as you experience it.
• To come close you must pick one face. "I worship all the gods" keeps you at a distance.
• Dvaita: you stand next to one face. The whole world looks filled with that deity. You, God and the world are different. The goal is to get close to God and see Him in everything.
• Vishishtadvaita: you jump into the face and become one with the chosen deity. You then carry that deity's gunas. The other devatas and the world still look separate.
• Advaita: you break through the face into the inside of the diamond. There is no outside, no observer, no observed, no act of observing. This is Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
• You cannot jump from the ground to the inside of the diamond. First get close to one God, then merge, then go beyond. That is why Shankaracharya, the proponent of Advaita, worshipped deities and wrote hymns to them.

"For most people, Dvaita is the best way to start."

• Saying "aham brahmasmi" from the ground and doing nothing leads only to more births.
• The three are like marathons of 100,000, 100,001 and 100,002 miles. Whoever finishes any of them is great. Do not look down on another's path.
• A student says one should first become sattvic. The teacher: sattva is better to start with, but that is a generalisation. The faces differ — one may be tamasic — and the jump from any face to the inside is the same. If a tamasic devata is your deity, get close to her fully. Do not vacillate.
• Ramakrishna: both avidya maya and vidya maya must go in the end. Give up avidya maya first, using vidya maya as the tool. Astrology too is vidya maya.

Vimshottari Dasha Analysis for Marriage

Sun Dasha (age 18–24) — Came Close

• By Indian custom this was the age to marry.
• Sun is the 9th lord in Rasi and sits in the Navamsa lagna. A planet in Navamsa lagna, especially the 9th lord of the Rasi chart, can give marriage.
• Against it: in Rasi he is with Venus, the 6th lord, in the 8th house. In Navamsa he is eclipsed by Ketu.
• With effort and propitiation, Sun Dasha could have given marriage before 24. It did not happen.

Moon Dasha (1992–2002, age 24–34)

• In Navamsa Moon is the lagna lord. In Rasi he is the 8th lord.

"If he is the 8th lord, he is designed to not give marriage, or to break the marriage if there is a marriage. That is Moon's agenda."

• The Saturn–Moon yoga in the Arudha Lagna takes full effect in Moon Dasha or in Saturn Dasha. "I don't want to do anything. I just want to sleep."
• Whom to propitiate in Moon Dasha? Saturn. He is the UL lord, the lord of the 2nd from UL, and the 7th lord in Navamsa. With effort Saturn can do it.
• For the lord of the 2nd from UL: a woman prays to a male deity, a man to a female deity.
• Saturn is Vishnu. Saturn with Moon is a lunar form of Vishnu: Krishna.
• Krishna also takes care of Mercury — the Rasi 7th lord in Marana Karaka Sthana, in the 8th in Navamsa.
• Krishna is the deity for her always. In Moon Dasha it would have been most apt.

Mars Dasha (from 2002)

• Mars has been running for about 3¾ years at the time of the class.
• Mars is the 5th lord in the 7th with the 7th lord. Mars Dasha activates that Raja Yoga. As Mars takes control of her life, the emotional need for a partner comes up. That is the change of mind.

Atmakaraka Dasha

• A student notes that Mars is the Atmakaraka.
• In Vimshottari or any nakshatra dasha, the Atmakaraka's dasha is usually tough.
• If you are spiritual it is the greatest dasha of your life: the atma shines.
• If you are not, the atma still wants to shine, and it can only do so by removing the layers. Materially that is painful: disappointment, frustration, things not working out — until you see that all this is nonsense and the atma is what matters.
• Materially the Atmakaraka's dasha is bad unless the Atmakaraka is in a yoga. With a Raja Yoga it can be good. Here Mars is in one.
• The class notes give the yogas meant: Atmakaraka with Putrakaraka, or Atmakaraka with Pitrukaraka. Then the dasha is very good materially too. Marriage in an Atmakaraka dasha is less likely, not impossible.

Antardashas in Mars Dasha

• Jupiter: lagna lord in the 9th of dharma in Rasi; in Navamsa lagna, mediating between Sun and Ketu. Probably the antardasha in which the wish to marry was first triggered.
  • The published class notes date the change of mind to 2003, in Mars–Jupiter, and say her elder sister persuaded her. Mars, the 5th lord of love and affection, changed her mind; Jupiter is the karaka of the elder sibling.
• Saturn: 7th lord in Navamsa, but he is the one giving vairagya with the Moon. With propitiation marriage could have come. It did not.
• Mercury (running, from last November to the coming November) — the best period:
  • Rasi 7th lord in the 7th, in Raja Yoga with the dasha lord. The desire for marriage is very strong now.
  • In Navamsa he is in the 8th — not good for the Rasi 7th lord. But seen within the Navamsa, the 3rd and 12th lord in the 8th is not that bad — a Viparita Raja Yoga; it can give the result suddenly, at the end.
  • Aquarius is the 2nd from Capricorn, so Mercury has argala on the 7th house of Navamsa.
  • Bhoga: Mercury is the 10th from Mars in Navamsa. The 10th from Mercury is Scorpio, the 5th house of love and affection. In Rasi the two are together, so the bhoga falls in Gemini, the 7th house.
• Ketu: 12th lord in the 10th in Rasi; in the Navamsa lagna. Some chance, less than Mercury.
• Venus: the karaka, but 6th lord in the 8th in Rasi. Strong in Navamsa but unconnected to the 7th. Not likely.
• So by Vimshottari: Mercury or Ketu, before April 2007.

"After running a terrible period for 10 years, she started the good 7-year dasha. Within that, the right antardashas are coming now."

Narayana Dasha for Marriage

Navamsa Narayana Dasha

• Running now: the last one-third of Scorpio Dasha. Scorpio is the 5th house from the Navamsa lagna.
• Scorpio is a shirshodaya sign, so it gave its own results in the first one-third.
• Its stronger lord is Ketu — the 5th lord sitting in the Navamsa lagna. His results are being given now.
• From July 2007: Sagittarius Dasha. It is the 6th house from the Navamsa lagna. "We don't really expect this house to give marriage."
• So the Narayana Dasha agrees with Vimshottari: there is a decent chance, any time before July 2007.

Tithi Pravesha 2005 (the year now running)

• Rasi: 7th lord Jupiter is in lagna — the only saving point. Hora lord Saturn owns the 5th and 6th — houses that have nothing to do with marriage. Rahu, the 6th lord, is in the 7th; his agenda is fights in marriage.
• Navamsa: Ketu in the 7th; an exchange between the 7th and 11th lords; Rahu in lagna; Jupiter, the 7th lord of the Rasi, in the 6th of brahmacharya.
• Some chance, not encouraging.

Tithi Pravesha 2006 — the Year

• Hora lord Mercury owns the 7th house. The lord of the year clearly has the agenda of giving marriage. He is in the 5th, but with the 6th lord Sun and the 11th and 12th lord Saturn — weaknesses, not bad.
• Ketu, the 9th lord, is in the 7th: dharma and prolonging the lineage. Ketu is also a secondary karaka for marriage.
• Mars, the 9th lord, is in the 6th: nothing to do with marriage.
• Jupiter, the lagna lord, is also the UL lord, placed in the 11th from UL. For marriage, not bad.
• Mars, Mercury and Ketu were the planets picked in the natal chart, and they play a role here again.
• Navamsa — the most important:
  • Jupiter and Ketu in lagna, as in the natal Navamsa.
  • Sun and Moon exchange signs as the 6th and 7th lords.
  • Moon and Jupiter form Gajakesari Yoga.
  • The lagna lord Rahu is in the 7th house. He afflicts the Moon there, but his agenda as lagna lord in the 7th is to get her married.

The 6th–7th Exchange

• An exchange between a good house lord and a bad house lord is not a good yoga. The one whose agenda is bachelorhood is told to give marriage, and the one whose agenda is marriage is put in the house of bachelorhood.
• But it can mean a switch from bachelorhood to marriage, because Sun and Moon are very good friends. They can each give the results of their own houses.
• Then she marries, and there are still 6th-house matters in married life — work, in-laws, struggle.

"The key is Sun and Moon have to exchange their results. If that happens, things are possible."

• "It's just a hope, it's not a dictum. It's a bad yoga."
• Rahu and Ketu can forget their lordships when Sun or Moon are near, and act only by their nature. Rahu has to be reminded that he is the lagna lord. That is why remedies are needed.
• To remind Rahu of his agenda she should pray to Venkateswara, who is Rahu's deity here, at the Tithi Pravesha.

Tithi Pravesha 2007

• Does not work: Saturn in lagna in Marana Karaka Sthana; in Navamsa the 6th lord in the 7th.

"Go back to 2006. That's the year. If she gets married, this is the year."

• There are negatives too. With remedies there is a strong chance.

Likely Periods Within the Year from July 18, 2006

• Sun and Moon periods come first and they are the planets in the exchange: August–September. A good chance.
• Mars: the 9th lord in the 6th; nothing to do with marriage. Venus: not an attractive candidate.
• Mercury: the 7th lord, the hora lord, joined to the 7th lord in the Navamsa of the year. The strongest candidate: October–December.
• The Vivaha Saham of the year is at 7° Gemini, so Mercury is its lord too. That narrows it to about October 19 – December 19, 2006.
• The teacher hopes for the earlier window, before about September 20: Shravana is a good month for marriages.

Remedies Prescribed

At the Tithi Pravesha

• The Tithi Pravesha falls on the night of July 18. Start the year on a good note: begin at sunrise on July 19.
• Go to Tirupati on July 16–17. Have darshan of Venkateswara (for Rahu).
• Come down the hill to Tiruchanur (Alamelu Mangapuram) and visit the Padmavati temple.
• On the morning of July 19 go to Srinivasa Mangapuram — a different place from Alamelu Mangapuram. It is where Srinivasa and Padmavati were married. Do a kalyanam or an archana when the temple opens. Pray sincerely for marriage within the year.
• Then go to the Vedanarayana temple, where Vishnu is shown rescuing the Vedas. Jupiter and Ketu are in lagna in the natal Navamsa and again in the Navamsa of the year.

Through the Year

• Fast on Saturdays for 48 Saturdays — almost a year. At the end of each fast pray to Krishna and offer a small naivedya.
  • Saturday because the UL is in a sign of Saturn. Krishna because Saturn, lord of the 2nd from UL, is with the Moon.
• For Rahu, who afflicts the 7th: Narasimha. Durga is also fine.

Prayer Never Harms

• A student asks whether praying to a planet with a bad lordship strengthens the bad.

"If the planet's agenda is good, you are strengthening the agenda. If the planet's agenda is bad, you are weakening that bad agenda. That's what you are doing when you pray."

• Praying to the 8th lord does not bring troubles. Praying to the 6th lord makes you fight less.
• Prayer done for a sattvic purpose never harms. You are asking the planet to behave nicely. A benefic becomes more benefic, a malefic less malefic.
• Tantra is different. A gemstone is different too: wearing a ring is rajasic, and you must know whether you are strengthening or suppressing the planet.
• These deities were chosen from the chart to get the most good. Going to any other temple that day will also only do good.

What Happened

From the published class notes; this part is not on the recording.

• The chart is very weak in matters of marriage, which is why the remedies were given. With them there was a good chance in the Sun and Moon periods of the year.
• The person who brought the chart to class learnt later that she did not want to do any remedies.
• She did not marry in 2006.