Narayana Dasha 4-Part Subdivision (Benefic: Occupancy→Yogas→Ownership→Avastha; Malefic: Reversed), Tithi Nityas (15 Forms) & DST in Muhurta

Nārāyaṇa Daśā Four-Part Subdivision — Order for Benefics and Malefics

A student's question during the marriage chart led to this review.

The Sign Lord Protects His Own Sign

• In the part of a daśā where the lord gives results as lord of the daśā sign, he protects the agenda of that sign. Sun in Leo daśā is only a benefic for Leo.
• Leo itself may be good or bad for the native. If Leo is the 6th house, Sun's part of Leo daśā brings disease or enemies easily. If it is the 9th, fortune.
• Functional benefic or malefic matters when the planet is an occupant. Sun in Aries: in Aries daśā, does he promote Aries or demote it?

Where the Lord's Portion Falls

• If the daśā sign is śīrṣodaya it gives its own results in the first third.
• If the lord is also in a śīrṣodaya sign, he gives his results in the middle third.

The Four Parts of a Planet's Portion

For a natural benefic:

1. Occupancy — the results of the house he is in.
2. Yogas — the results of the planets he is with.
3. Ownership — the results of the houses he owns.
4. His own state — exalted or debilitated, elated or depressed.

For a natural malefic the order is reversed.

"A nice person cares about where he is. So whichever house he occupies, he will give the results of that house first."

• PVNR hesitated in class over whether yogas come second or third, and settled on second.
• The benefic/malefic test here is the natural one, not the functional one.

Is Sun a Benefic When the Navāṁśa Is Read for Marriage?

• The student's question: Sun is counted a benefic for marriage. When Sun's portion of a Navāṁśa Nārāyaṇa daśā is divided in four, which order applies?
• PVNR: probably the benefic order, and probably the same for Ketu. This is his intuition. He says he has not studied it enough to answer with confidence.

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Tithi Nityās — Forms of the Divine Mother

What They Are

• The Nityās are forms of the Divine Mother, one for each tithi — one devatā for Pratipat, one for Dvitīyā, one for Tṛtīyā, and so on.
• People who do Śrī Chakra upāsanā and Śrī Vidyā know these devatās and their mantras. The tarpaṇa mantras are the popular ones.
• Tithi shows prosperity, well-being and the state of mind. The Nityās of the phases of the Moon control the states of mind.

Mahāvidyās and Nityās

• Mahāvidyās are highly spiritual. Their purpose is the highest understanding of Māyā — how the field of duality works, how to overcome it and find the single source.
• Nityās work on the material plane and the plane of mind. They are propitiated for happiness and peace of mind in the different areas of life.

Two Ways of Sādhanā

1. All Nityās on an equal footing. Each day, at the hour of sādhanā, worship the Nityā of the tithi running at that moment — not the tithi at sunrise. If a short tithi is skipped between one day's sitting and the next, do that Nityā at another hour, so that none is missed.
2. One Nityā only. Pick one and worship her every day, or on her own tithi.

Choosing a Nityā from the Special Tithis

• The special tithis — janma tithi, dhana tithi, bhrātṛ tithi and the rest — are the Moon-minus-Sun advance multiplied by 1, 2, 3 … up to 12. Each stands for one area of life.
• Worship the Nityā of the tithi that the relevant special tithi falls in:

• Example from the class: a student's putra tithi is Amāvāsyā, whose Nityā is Chitrā. For benefit through children he worships Chitrā daily, or on Amāvāsyā.
• The special tithis are fixed for a person. They depend only on the Sun–Moon difference, which is the same in the natal chart and in every Tithi Praveśa chart.

Reading the Special Tithis — Not Reliable

• Some tithis are held auspicious (Tṛtīyā, Navamī, Daśamī, Ekādaśī) and some not (Amāvāsyā).
• A superficial reading: karma tithi and putra tithi in an inauspicious tithi, so the person is unlucky in career and children. Sanjay Rath uses the special tithis for basic readings of this kind.
• PVNR: in his experience they are not reliable. A student confirmed the reading was not true in his own case.
• Amāvāsyā is the energy of Kālī. Depending on the influences on the 5th house in the Saptāṁśa, Amāvāsyā may be the right tithi for that chart and another would have been the problem.

"I will never predict just based on the tithis. … You have to correlate with all other things."

Ruling Deities of Tithis

Worshipping the deity of a tithi is a sound idea. The nature of the deity gives the nature of the tithi, and so the state of mind in that area of life. The Purāṇas give them; the festivals help to remember them.

• Caturthī — Gaṇeśa
• Ṣaṣṭhī — Subrahmaṇya
• Saptamī — Sūrya (Ratha Saptamī)
• Aṣṭamī — Kṛṣṇa
• Dvādaśī — Viṣṇu
• Amāvāsyā — Kālī
• One more tithi is given to Śiva; the recording does not make clear which.

Tarpaṇa Mantras Need a Procedure

• A mantra ending in tarpayāmi namaḥ svāhā is not for sitting and meditating. Tarpayāmi means "I satisfy her". Water, or the liquid the guru prescribes, is offered to the Nityā. Learn the procedure from a guru; it is not complicated.
• The name alone — for example Om Nityaklinnāyai Namaḥ — can be repeated at any time.

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Daylight Saving Time in Muhūrta and Tithi Praveśa Calculations

The Rule

• The clock change in the US is a convenience; it is tied to no fixed point. But a person told to act at 7 o'clock will act at 7 o'clock by his clock.
• So do every calculation in the locally adjusted time zone — the zone actually in use on that date.
• This applies to a muhūrta, to a time given for a prayer, and to the start of a Tithi Praveśa year, month or fortnight chart.

"When you give advice to people to do a particular pūjā at a particular time, it is your responsibility to make sure that all your calculations are done for that time."

Worked Example — a Fortnightly Chart

• Fortnightly Tithi Praveśa chart: cast in each pakṣa when the birth tithi returns with the same fraction left (for this student, 3.76% left).
• His next one begins on 30 November 2007 at 4:36 AM Indian Standard Time, around the start of the TP Mercury daśā that matters for his new post.
• Do not hand him the Indian time and leave him to convert. Set the software to his zone. For late November that is standard time, 5 hours west of GMT. The start becomes the evening of 29 November.
• Had daylight saving been in force on that date, enter 4 hours instead of 5.

What the Fortnight Chart Shows — Trilochana Yoga

• In its Rāśi Moon is the 10th lord in the 10th: something important in career in that fortnight.
• In its D-10 Moon is the 5th lord in the 9th, with the 9th lord Mars and Sun, the kāraka of power. He is debilitated but in a friendly house.
• Trilochana yoga: Sun, Moon and Mars in mutual trines. Being together counts. It has nothing to do with lagna. Trilochana is Śiva; the yoga gives power.
• Here it involves two trine lords, so it is very auspicious.
• From Āruḍha Lagna the three are malefics in the 3rd (Moon is kṛṣṇa pakṣa): good for material status.
• Jupiter, lagna lord and 10th lord in the 10th, gives Haṁsa yoga.
• Mars rules the fortnight. Moon is the common factor in the good yogas of both Rāśi and D-10.
• Advice: when the fortnight starts, pray to Moon — the Divine Mother, Lalitā or Pārvatī.

When the Software's Daylight Saving Table Is Out of Date

• The US lengthened daylight saving time by a week or two at each end. PVNR's software did not yet have the new dates.
• In the last week of October the software assumes one zone while people are on the other. The same happens in the first days of November.
• Override the zone by hand, check the calculations, then give the time. Until the software is corrected, the responsibility is the astrologer's.

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