Satya and Maya in Jyotish — Philosophical Foundation & Remedial Principles

Graha Arudhas — Satya and Maya

PVNR shows the graha arudhas in the software without teaching how to compute them yet.

Notation

• A1, A2 … A12 are the arudhas of the houses (bhava arudhas).
• L1, L2 … L12 are the arudhas of the house lords (graha arudhas). L5 is the arudha of the lord of the 5th house.

Houses and planets

• Houses show inanimate circumstances. Arudhas of houses show the tangible manifestation of those circumstances.
• Planets are animate — they keep moving. A body may be inanimate, but there is a life force in it that makes it think, move and do things. That life force is seen from the house lords.
• Example, the 4th house of learning:
  • The 4th house — the inanimate circumstance of learning.
  • A4 — the tangible side: what you are learning, from which books, at what place.
  • The 4th lord — the engine behind the learning: intelligence being applied to learning.
• Every house lord is the application of intelligence to the matters of that house. "All grahas are basically Narayana. The intelligence is Narayana."

Whose intelligence is the 7th lord?

The 7th lord shows the application of intelligence to relationships. Is it my intelligence or my wife's?

"If you think that the life force within me and the life force within somebody else that I am interacting with are different, you are in the world of Maya."

• Houses and house lords are Satya — truth, the permanent reality.
• Arudhas are what rises and manifests in the world of Maya — illusion.
• The intelligence in me applied to my learning and the intelligence in my guru applied to my learning are not two things. They are the same Narayana.

"Narayana is satya, but Lakshmi is maya. Shiva is satya, but Parvati, Shakti, is maya. So the same Shiva is within all of us."

• "When you are looking at the 7th lord, don't think that it is your intelligence. It is your wife's intelligence also."
• Each house lord is the universal intelligence applied to the matters of that house, through the native or through other people.
• The God in you, in me and in everybody is the same. It is wrong even to think of it as different parts of one thing.

What the graha arudha is

• The Divine Mother creates the illusion that this existence is one separate person and that existence another. The separation comes from Maya.
• The arudha of a house lord is the manifestation of that intelligence as a separate person.
• The house lord is the universal intelligence applied to the house. His arudha is the individual person, or set of persons, you can point to.

L1 is not the Arudha Lagna

• L1 — how the native manifests as a separate thinking and feeling person. In the Navamsa, in marital life. In the Dasamsa, in professional life.
• AL — inanimate: manifestation as a circumstance, a situation, a status — a lucky person, an unlucky person, a well-known person.
• Whether someone appears intelligent or pious has so far been read from the arudha lagna. Strictly it should not be.

"Wherever thinking, feeling, intelligence is involved, it should be seen from the lords, the planets, rather than the houses. So that should be seen from the graha arudhas."

Remedies for the Marriage

To protect the present marriage — the second upapada

• The second upapada is Capricorn, a house owned by Saturn. The 2nd lord from it is Saturn, with Rahu in that 2nd house.
• Saturn shows a form of Narayana. With Rahu there, take Varaha avatara or Venkateshwara.
• Fast on Saturdays to the best of her ability; if a full fast is not possible, fruits and milk. At the end of the Saturday pray to Venkateshwara (Balaji).
• This should bring some relief and keep the marriage intact.

What would have worked for the first relationship

• The first upapada is Gemini. The 2nd lord from it is the Moon, and the Moon in Mercury's sign shows Krishna.
• Had she fasted on Wednesdays and prayed to Krishna at the end of the day while she was in love, that marriage might have come about instead of being broken by the parents.
• A student proposes the Wednesday fast for the present marriage. PVNR: that is for the first upapada. For the second it is Saturday.

Comfort comes first

• Keeping the marriage intact is not the most important thing. She needs some sukha, some mental peace, from her marital life.
• The 4th is the house of comfort. In the Navamsa the 4th lord is Mercury, and he is with the 6th lord Ketu. Ketu is Rudra-svarupa, and as 6th lord he gives no comfort at all.
• Strengthen Mercury and appease Ketu. Mercury is Vishnu; Ketu is Ganesha.
• Pray to Ganesha and then Vishnu on Fridays — Friday because the two planets are in Libra in the Navamsa.
• "Whether she comes and joins him or not, whether she stays there, whether she gets divorced, whether this marriage continues — all these are secondary things. The primary thing is happiness."

An astrologer does not advise divorce

"As an astrologer, you should never advise somebody to get a divorce and go for the next marriage. That is not good karma."

• PVNR did it once. The husband had no interest in marriage to a woman and had married all the same; he was selfish and gave her a terrible time. She came from a very pious family and did not want a divorce.
• He calls it bad karma on his own part to have broken a marriage. Usually it is not done.