Shadripu Mapped to D30 (Trimshamsha) Houses 7–12 — PVNR's Original Framework: Kama/Krodha/Lobha/Moha/Madha/Matsarya & Papapurusha in Subtle Body

The teacher’s own idea, which he says is not from any classic: the six inner enemies are read from houses 7 to 12 of the Triṁśāṁśa (D-30), the chart of weaknesses — not the Viṁśāṁśa. The Pāpapuruṣa sits in the stomach of the subtle body, is seen only in yogic vision, and creates the six. The 6th house is the seed; the six houses after it, the visible half of the chart, carry them one by one: 7th kāma, 8th krodha, 9th lobha (being unable to do dharma and charity, wanting everything for oneself), 10th moha (the false pride of accomplishment), 11th mada (wantonness — kāma carried to its end, not alcoholism), 12th mātsarya (not accepting a deprivation and resenting the one who has the thing). The order in which the classics name the six is the order of the houses.

Key principle

Mada is a blatant pursuit of one's desires and getting it fulfilled at any cost without any consideration of other factors. So it is culmination of kāma.

Ṣaḍ-ripu in the Triṁśāṁśa (D-30) — Houses 7 to 12

The digression starts from jealousy in the 12th house. The teacher says plainly that this is not from any classic. It came to his intuition a few years before the class.

The chart is the Triṁśāṁśa (D-30), "the chart of your weakness". (The recording's speech-to-text garbles the word throughout; it is the Triṁśāṁśa, not the Viṁśāṁśa.)

The Pāpapuruṣa

  • The Pāpapuruṣa — "the evil man, the so-called evil man" — is seen in the Triṁśāṁśa.
  • He is in the stomach of every person. Not in the sthūla śarīra: "if you open the intestines, you won't find him." He is in the sūkṣma śarīra, the subtle body.
  • He can be seen only in yogic visions, with the internal senses, not with the physical eyes.
  • He is depicted with a black body, and he creates the negative emotions in us: kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, mātsarya.

The 6th Is the Seed; Houses 7–12 Carry the Six

  • A student says the six are from the 6th house. The teacher agrees: the 6th house is the basic weakness. "6th house is the seed."
  • To see each weakness separately in the Triṁśāṁśa, he takes the six houses that follow, starting from the 7th.
  • Lagna to the 6th is the invisible half of the chart. The 7th to the 12th is the visible half. So the Pāpapuruṣa is in the visible half of the Triṁśāṁśa.

The Six Mappings

D-30 houseRipuWhy this house
7thKāma — desireThe 7th is the house of desires. Weaknesses in the 7th of the Triṁśāṁśa show kāma; planets there give extra kāma.
8thKrodha — angerClassical dictums read a short temper from planets in the 8th.
9thLobha — greedThe 9th is dharma and charity. Lobha is the lack of it.
10thMoha — delusionThe 10th is stature, work and accomplishments. They cause false pride.
11thMada — wantonnessThe 11th is getting what you wanted, desire fulfilled. Mada is kāma carried to its end.
12thMātsarya — jealousyThe 12th is deprivation. Not accepting it and feeling bad that another has the thing.

Lobha (9th)

  • Acts of charity are seen from the 9th house — giving a big sum to build a temple, giving money to someone who is suffering. Parāśara gives several combinations for charity, and they have to do with the 9th.
  • "What is lobha? Lack of that. If there is any weakness in the 9th house, you are not able to do your dharma, you are not able to do charity, and you want — I want everything."
  • Lobha is wanting to accumulate money for yourself and being unable to use it properly.

Moha (10th)

  • People say: great astrologer, he predicted that; great scientist, he got this award; great actor, he got the Oscar. You feel proud. That false pride is the delusion that comes with achievement.
  • A spiritually elevated person says it is God's līlā. God may take an idiot and make him a great poet like Kālidāsa and create masterpieces through him; if he is elevated he does not feel proud, he sees himself as an instrument.
  • The chess pawn: one pawn is moved a single step, another is taken to the 8th rank and made a queen. "If that pawn thinks I am great — no, it just happened to be in that spot, so it became a queen." In another life it may be killed at the first step.
  • Moha comes from accomplishment, which is seen from the 10th. So weaknesses in the 10th of the Triṁśāṁśa show moha.

Mada (11th)

"Mada has been translated by some stupid translators as alcoholism. But if you ask me, that is utter nonsense."

  • He names the source of the error: early European translations and some dictionaries, which people who do not know Sanskrit well have followed — including, he says, some books by Sanjay Rath.
  • Kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada and mātsarya are not specific habits like cigarettes or alcohol. "These are actually internal subconscious weaknesses. These are instincts that are taking hold of your mind. Alcoholism is an external habit. So it has nothing to do with mada."
  • The right word is wantonness, which some dictionaries do give: pursuing a desire to an extreme, as though possessed, so that you get it at any cost.
  • The elephant in rut is called a mada-gaja: it wants the company of another elephant at any cost and pursues it blatantly.

"Mada is a blatant pursuit of one's desires and getting it fulfilled at any cost without any consideration of other factors. So it is culmination of kāma."

Mātsarya (12th)

  • The 12th is humility — accepting a weakness, a deprivation that you have.
  • When the deprivation is not accepted and you feel jealous of the one who has the thing, that is mātsarya.

The Order Matches the Houses

"The order in which these ṣaḍ-ripus are mentioned in the classics … they say kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, mātsarya. This is in the exact order of astrological houses. This is very interesting. So there is something there, something logical there."

"I am fully convinced that this is perfect knowledge even though this is not granted by any rishi. For all you know, the inspiration I got at the moment when I conceived of this thought may have come from a rishi also, you never know."


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