Pt. Sanjay Rath — Full D60 Shashtiamsha Analysis & Moola Dasha

Moola Dasha

• Moola means root. Moola Dasha is the dasha used with the Shashtiamsa. It shows the root cause of what happens in this life on account of what was done in past lives — the karma that has to be experienced.
• Vimshottari Dasha shows how the person feels while he experiences that karma. The karma itself is from Moola Dasha.

Reading a Moola Dasha

For the dasha planet, in the D-60 read from lagna:

1. Which Shashtiamsa is it in — what kind of karma does it carry?
2. For that kind of karma, how is one paid back, or how does one reap the benefit?
3. What is the planet's agenda in the chart — lordship, house, dignity, yogas?

• Conjunct planets exchange results, as in the dashas of the Rasi and other charts. With two planets together, each gives the other's results in its own dasha. With more than two there are further rules, taught in an earlier class.
• What the natal Shashtiamsa shows is valid for the whole life. The dasha of a planet is when its results are at their peak.

The computation is not settled

• The software's Moola Dasha is not fully reliable. The classics give subtle rules — take the quadrants, find the strongest, then the strongest of the next set — and do not spell them out. The Maharshis did not write for dummies.
• Until three years before this class Sanjay Rath started the Moola Dasha from the stronger of lagna and Moon only. PVNR argued from the classics that the Sun must be used too when it is the strongest. Sanjay Rath agreed after testing it.
• In ten charts, one or two may need a couple of dashas changed.

"Even Narayana Dasha is not perfect, but it's almost perfect. Vimshottari Dasha is perfect as far as computations go. But in this dasha, the understanding is a little weak."

• So unless the Moola Dasha has worked in the life so far, there is no point predicting from it.

Pt. Sanjay Rath's Chart — Past Life and the Dashas

The chart and its D-60

August 7, 1963, 9:15 PM IST, Sambalpur, India (83°58′E, 21°27′N). PVNR uses this chart because its Shashtiamsa has been rectified.

D-60: Cancer lagna. Jupiter in Cancer (1st). Rahu in Virgo (3rd). Mercury in Libra (4th). Mars and Venus in Sagittarius (6th). Sun in Capricorn (7th). Ketu in Pisces (9th). Moon in Taurus (11th). Saturn in Gemini (12th).

Arudha Lagna of D-60: lagna lord Moon is in the 11th, Taurus. The 11th from Taurus is Pisces.

The Past Life — read from AL (Pisces)

• With that past, the vasanas for occult and traditional learning are there. If the Rasi, Dasamsa and D-24 of this life support them, they fructify in full.
• The past-life death. The 3rd from AL is Taurus, with the exalted Moon. Jaimini: death by drowning. Sanjay Rath had hydrophobia for a long time. Later he was forced to learn swimming.

Sun Dasha (1963–1968, birth to age 5)

• Indu Shashtiamsa. The Sun carries the karma of compassion and kindness. Such a Sun gives good results.
• Sun is the 2nd lord in the 7th. A planet in the 7th can give marriage in its Moola Dasha, but he was a child.
• The 2nd lord is a maraka. Planets in the 7th are marakas. The Sun is a malefic. A malefic owning the 2nd and sitting in the 7th is plainly a maraka. The karma to be experienced is death or something like death.
• In a benefic amsa he is unlikely to kill. A near-death experience is what is left.
• Event: a few months old, he crawled through an open back door at his grandmother's house and fell into the reservoir behind it. His grandmother jumped in, swam and rescued him.
• The protection (a student's point): 9th lord Jupiter, from the lagna, has graha drishti on the Sun in the 7th. The 9th lord and planets in the 9th of D-60 protect the native no matter what.

"The real protection comes from your karma. All the cumulative good karma that you did in past lives comes to you as a blessing from Maha Lakshmi, as protection at the karmic level."

• The much-discussed dog bite ('69–'70) falls in a different dasha.

Venus Dasha (between Sun Dasha and Saturn Dasha — the school and college years)

• Mrityu Shashtiamsa. Venus is not carrying the best karma.
• As 4th and 11th lord his own results are trouble over gains, the elder brother, the mother, sukha.
• But Venus is with Mars, so they exchange. Mars's results come in Venus Dasha. Venus's results will come in Mars Dasha, which is still far off.

What Mars gives:

• Davagni Shashtiamsa — clean-up and renewal.
• Yogakaraka: lord of the 5th (a trine) and the 10th (a quadrant).
• In the 6th. A malefic does well only in the 3rd, 6th and 11th.
• 4th lord Venus with 5th lord Mars is a Raja Yoga. It shows the blessings of Vishnu.
• 5th lord in the 6th is Dhimanta Yoga (below).
• Result: a very good dasha for a student. Even if the D-24 shows poor results, this overrides it — the good may come in an unpleasant way or far from home, but the karma to be experienced is good.
• Events: he did very well at school and was double-promoted. He took his B.Tech in engineering in this dasha.
• Little astrology came in this period. The 8th lord Saturn does aspect Mars and Venus (graha drishti and rasi drishti, Gemini to Sagittarius), so some learning was there. The torrent came in Saturn Dasha.

Dhimanta Yoga

• Dhi is intelligence, wisdom. Dhiman is one who has it.
• The 5th house is ability. The 6th is struggle, the overcoming of obstacles — the using of ability.
• 5th lord in the 6th: his agenda is ability, and he is told to make the native struggle. So the native uses his abilities to struggle. It keeps him sharp and agile.
• 6th lord in the 5th does the same. Any connection between the 5th and 6th is Dhimanta Yoga.

"A real dhimanta is not one who is intelligent, but one who uses that intelligence productively to solve problems."

Saturn Dasha (1985–2003)

• Bhrashta Shashtiamsa. There was something he had to do and did not. He left the right path.
• Where the work of a past life was done well and only needs continuing, the next life makes it easy. A bhrashta is tested. He must do it again, and this time it is harder.
• Saturn is the Atmakaraka. The AK in D-60 shows the mission of the soul. For another planet this could be a minor matter. Here it is the work of his life.
• Saturn is retrograde (a student's point): a deep desire.
• Saturn is the 7th and 8th lord in the 12th. The 8th is occult knowledge. He is aspected by Rahu, Ketu, Mars and Venus — all in dual signs, by rasi drishti. So many malefics on the 8th lord show mantra and tantra.
• A student asks: the 8th house or the 8th lord? Both. The house and the planets aspecting it show the environment in which the occult knowledge is pursued. The lord shows how it is learned and imbibed, and matters more here.

Events

• As 7th lord: he married in this dasha.
• As 8th lord: he learned astrology from his grandfather and his paternal uncle Kashinath Rath, most of it in '85 to '93–'94. Also a great deal of mantra and tantra.
• He began writing astrology books.
• He was in government service and did not see it as his mission. He disliked the corruption around him. He founded the Jagannath Centre.
• His own reading of his Shashtiamsa: he had a very learned guru who gave him a great deal of knowledge and wanted it taught to a few worthy people so that it would not end with him. He was drawn to other things and did not pass it on. In this life he must spread it so that it does not die.

The obstacles

• His first student, taught through many late nights, announced he was done with astrology and left for the Veda and Upanishads.

"If you do something to your guru in one life, there will be a shishya who does something similar to you in this life, so that you know how it feels. It's payback."

• Sanjay Rath was hurt, saw it as payback and moved on.
• A student entrusted with starting the centre in the US refused to hand over the presidency and hijacked the organisation. It had to be dissolved.
• A couple of students accused him of financial misdemeanours. There were court cases. Nothing came of them, but his reputation was sullied.
• Through all of it he held to the mission.

Ketu Dasha (from August 2003)

• Dandayudha Shashtiamsa: abilities that are used.
• Ketu is the 5th lord (Scorpio), a benefic, in the 9th — the house of karmic protection. PVNR calls him the most important planet in the chart.
• Pisces is his Moolatrikona.
  • A planet in own sign is a man at home in his pajamas.
  • A planet in exaltation is a man at his favourite party.
  • A planet in Moolatrikona is a man at the office, in the old sense — doing his duty.
• So Ketu delivers the 5th and 9th — dharma, students, scholarship, spiritual knowledge — in earnest. Fame grows, the bad name of Saturn Dasha fades, the obstacles lessen. PVNR says that is what he is seeing.
• But the Atmakaraka, who is also the 8th lord, stays in Bhrashta. That weakness holds for the whole life. Saturn's results peaked in his own dasha; they continue, reduced. The mission will never be a smooth ride.

Rahu Dasha (August 2008–2017) — prediction

• Dandayudha, as always the same as Ketu.
• Rahu is the 8th lord (Aquarius) in the 3rd. For Rahu as a malefic the 3rd is very good, as the 6th was for Mars. Virgo is his Moolatrikona: duty-minded work.
• The 8th is not only occult knowledge but research — finding the truth through sadhana and tapasya.
• 8th lord in the 3rd is a Viparita Raja Yoga.
• Prediction: more parakrama. Energy that was soft and scattered will be channelled. He will be more forceful and assertive. He may gain some siddhis from his sadhana in this dasha, use them, and not hesitate to punish those who err. A very good dasha.

Jupiter Dasha (after Rahu) — prediction

• The best dasha of his life. Exalted Jupiter in lagna is Hamsa Mahapurusha Yoga.

"This Mahapurusha Yoga is not physical. It is a karmic-level Mahapurusha Yoga. He is destined to do great karma, the karma of a hamsa."

• Jupiter is the 9th lord in lagna: karmic protection sitting on his head.
• The same Jupiter is in Kulaghna Shashtiamsa. He broke a lineage.

"Because you broke a lineage, you will get an excellent opportunity to establish a great lineage again."

• Prediction: the Jagannath Centre was founded long before, but in Jupiter Dasha it will stand on its feet, its policies will be set, and a lineage will be born. A kulaghna does not pay by teaching one student. He pays a hundred times over, with a lineage that lasts generations — PVNR's comparison is the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham.

A student's point: is Jupiter stationary?

• PVNR is not sure. From the speed shown in his software he does not see Jupiter as stationary.
• Some close to Sanjay Rath hold that a stationary Jupiter gives a very stable intellect, that of a maharshi. PVNR has heard scholars say the opposite — that a stationary planet is in a bad state. It also matters whether it is turning from direct to retrograde or the reverse.
• He has not worked on it and will not use the point.