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Word Meaning

suhRidashcha = your friends also; apramathaaH = vigilantly; tvaam = you; rakshantu = let guard; adya = today; samantataH = from all directions.

bhavanti hi = are having; bahu vighnaani = many obstacles; kaaryaaNi = functions; evam vidhaani = such type of.

Translation

"Generally, there are many obstacles for such type of functions. Hence, your friends should guard you vigilantly from all directions."

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Commentary

The above verses have always been looked at as discourses of a concerned father as a king to coronate his son to the throne. However, some have also looked at it from a complete jyotish perspective and spoken about transits but some have also asked a rather simple question – In a time like Treta Yuga where there were renowned scholars, pundits, acharyas and Gurus guiding the daily affairs of the state, why was a coronation day and time [muhurta] selected which ended up giving Shri Ramachandra 14 years of exile in forest?

Some very deep philosophies are discussed in this verses related to karma, jyotish and remedial measures in jyotish.

• Transit of malefic planets on janma nakshtra triggers negative events. • Taking hasty decisions at those times, makes matter worse

• Transit Moon on the janma nakshtra is not good and makes someone susceptible to false allegations

• Austerities are necessary before rewards are given to anyone

• Whenever a good karma is about to happen, bad karma will always manifest to create obstacles to it

Maharaja Dasharatha taking this hasty decision [agitated Agni – Mars, Sun by extreme desire Rahu] was the cause of the untimely exile of Shri Ramachandra. By secretly announcing the hasty coronation of Shri Rama, Dasharatha was not trying to prevent the repercussions of the evil transit but acting to its tunes to cause its fulfillment.

The astrologers did not advise Dasharatha on the coronation of Shri Ram, they advised him on the bad transit. When after hearing this, Dasharatha panicked and insisted on the earliest date for the coronation, the astrologers selected the sampat Tara of Shri Ramachandra, Pushyami since Rama was born with Moon in Punarvasu.

It is ironic that Dasharatha asked Sri Rama and Sita Devi to live humbly for the night and be on fasting till the coronation occurred. In fact, he also asks Rama to ensure that he be guarded and protected by trusted friends. These exact words come to play not only for that night but the night of the next 14 years in the life of Sri Rama, Sita Devi and their trusted protector Lakshmana.

Austerities are necessary if something large is to be achieved. This is the essence of life. The one night of austerity may not have been enough for Shri Rama to expend his karma to become the role model of a king for epochs to come. He had to spend every night of 14 years on mats of kusha grass. In fact even when Sita Devi was abducted by Ravana and kept in the Garden of

©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 52 Ashoka or Ashok Vatika, She slept on Kusha grass. This is another indication that when people go through bad transits, particularly of Rahu, they need to keep control over their speech. Their speech can turn into curses, even though, they did not mean them.

In short, the coronation ceremony kind of takes a time halt from this event until Sri Rama comes back after 14 years of exile.

The Blunder of Adolf Hitler

Germany was dependent on imported oil; a confrontation with Britain over the Czechoslovakian dispute could curtail Germany's oil supplies. Hitler called off Fall Grün, originally planned for 1 October 1938. On 29 September Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, and Benito Mussolini attended a one- day conference in Munich that led to the Munich Agreement, which handed over the Sudetenland districts to Germany.

Chamberlain was satisfied with the Munich conference, calling the outcome "peace for our time", while Hitler was angered about the missed opportunity for war in 1938; he expressed his disappointment in a speech on 9 October in Saarbrücken. In Hitler's view, the British-brokered peace, although favorable to the ostensible German demands, was a diplomatic defeat which spurred his intent of limiting British power to pave the way for the eastern expansion of Germany. As a result of the summit, Hitler was selected Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1938.

In late 1938 and early 1939, the continuing economic crisis caused by rearmament forced Hitler to make major defence cuts. In his "Export or die" speech of 30 January 1939, he called for an economic offensive to increase German foreign exchange holdings to pay for raw materials such as high-grade iron needed for military weapons.

On 15 March 1939, in violation of the Munich accord and possibly as a result of the deepening economic crisis requiring additional assets, Hitler ordered the Wehrmacht to invade Prague, and from Prague Castle proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.

It was this decision that finally led to the downfall of Hitler. Blunders in life don’t happen on one fine day, it is a gradual buildup of stress and bad decisions which leads to negative karma that finally results in one’s downfall in every direction.

Rahu creates extreme desire; it is the graha of unfulfilled desires and creates a storm of emotions in the intellect, mind and soul based on where the transit occurs in the Tripod of Life [Lagna, Moon, and Sun].

Mars and Sun bring in practicality and the hit of reality. They form the Agni Tattwa graha giving form and thus challenging the notions in the mind. Mars brings in structure, Sun

©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 53 challenges the ethics. This situation affects the Tripod of Life [natal positions of Lagna, Moon and Sun].

Around August end 1938, Rahu entered the Lagna Rasi of Hitler. Sun entered Libra around October 1938 and in December 1938 Mars entered Libra and passed over his natal Lagna.

This triple transit – Rahu, Sun and Mars over his natal Lagna pushed him to make calls which finally resulted in his defeat and death.

The Blunder of Mitt Romney

Many political analysts have claimed that the “47% comment” made by Mitt Romney was a key turning point in the Presidential election of 2012.

On September 17, excerpts from a video recorded on hidden camera were published by Mother Jones showing Romney speaking at a private $50,000-a-plate fundraiser held at hedge fund manager Marc Leder's mansion in Boca Raton.

In the video, recorded May 17, Romney responded to a question about his campaign strategy, saying:

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That's an entitlement. The government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. And I mean the president starts off with 48, 49...he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. So he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. ... My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the 5–10% in the center that are independents, that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not.

—Mitt Romney at the private fundraiser of May 17, 2012

In a press conference convened the night of the video's publication, Romney told reporters that while his "off the cuff" remarks could have been more eloquently stated, he had been conveying an important message: that his proposals to lower taxes would not be as persuasive to those who are not paying taxes or who rely on government services. "The president believes in what I’ve described as a government-centered society, where government plays a larger and larger role, provides for more and more of the needs of individuals. And I happen to believe instead in

©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 54 a free enterprise, free individual society where people pursuing their dreams are able to employ one another, build enterprises, and build the strongest economy in the world."

Several weeks later, Romney commented, "I was completely wrong."

Around June 2011, Rahu entered the Janma Rasi of Mitt Romney. Rahu was in Scorpio the whole time during the election process and left Scorpio only on Dec 22 2012.

On June 2, 2011, Romney formally announced the start of his campaign. Speaking on a farm in Stratham, New Hampshire, he focused on the economy and criticized President Obama's handling of it. He said, "In the campaign to come, the American ideals of economic freedom and opportunity need a clear and unapologetic defense, and I intend to make it – because I have lived it."

Sun entered Scorpio and touched Rahu first in November-December 2011. Sun, Rahu would have and should have resulted in a stir of events over his natal Moon. Sun always goes for reality checks.

Romney continued to seek support from a wary Republican electorate; at this point in the race, his poll numbers were relatively flat and at a historically low level for a Republican frontrunner. After the charges of flip-flopping that marked his 2008 campaign began to accumulate again, Romney declared in November 2011: "I've been as consistent as human beings can be." In the final month before voting began, Newt Gingrich experienced a significant surge – taking a solid lead in national polls and most of the early caucus and primary states – before settling back into parity or worse with Romney following a barrage of negative ads from Restore Our Future, a pro-Romney Super PAC.

In April-May 2012, Mars from Leo had a strong 4th _{aspect on the Rahu and natal Moon in} Scoprio. Finally, in September 2012, Mars entered Scopio almost exactly at a point when the “47% comment” video surfaced on the internet.

Mars and Rahu continued to pass over the natal Moon and Romney kept feeling the pressure of this transit. This yoga makes people do blunders and in Scorpio it would make someone’s secrets come out in the public.

What ensued after this was a series of attacks on Mitt on everything “hidden” in his life – from the pranks he did as a teenager, his tax returns and his comments in private.

The result was that he was accused of changing his stance so many times and loss of trust of the American people on his as a Presidential Candidate. The transit Mars, Rahu yoga over his natal Moon, made him lose the Presidential race.

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The Blunder of Mahatma Gandhi

Suppression of the 1942 Quit India movement had a huge impact on the minds of the Indians. This gave birth to the idea that Gandhi was too weak to take on the battle of independence and radical and fundamentalist movements became stronger. It was this act of desperation that indirectly resulted in the death of Gandhi at the hands of Nathruam Godse.

One of the achievements of the Quit India movement was to keep the Congress party united through all the trials and tribulations that followed. The British, already alarmed by the advance of the Japanese army to the India-Burma border, responded by imprisoning Gandhi. All the members of the Party's Working Committee (national leadership) were imprisoned as well. Due to the arrest of major leaders, a young and till then relatively unknown Aruna Asaf Ali presided over the AICC session on August 9 and hoisted the flag; later the Congress party was banned. These actions only created sympathy for the cause among the population. Despite lack of direct leadership, large protests and demonstrations were held all over the country. Workers remained absent en masse and strikes were called. Not all demonstrations were peaceful, at some places bombs exploded, government buildings were set on fire, electricity was cut and transport and communication lines were severed.

The British swiftly responded with mass detentions. Over 100,000 arrests were made, mass fines were levied and demonstrators were subjected to public flogging. Hundreds of resisters and innocent people were killed in police and army shootings. Many national leaders went underground and continued their struggle by broadcasting messages over clandestine radio stations, distributing pamphlets and establishing parallel governments. The British sense of crisis was strong enough that a battleship was specifically set aside to take Gandhi and the Congress leaders out of India, possibly to South Africa or Yemen but ultimately did not take that step out of fear of intensifying the revolt.

The Congress leadership was cut off from the rest of the world for over three years. Gandhi's wife Kasturbai Gandhi and his personal secretary Mahadev Desai died in months and Gandhi's health was failing, despite this Gandhi went on a 21-day fast and maintained his resolve to continuous resistance. Although the British released Gandhi on account of his health in 1944, Gandhi kept up the resistance, demanding the release of the Congress leadership.

By early 1944, India was mostly peaceful again, while the Congress leadership was still incarcerated. A sense that the movement had failed depressed many nationalists, while Jinnah and the Muslim League, as well as Congress opponents like the Communists sought to gain political mileage, criticizing Gandhi and the Congress Party.

In March 1943, Rahu entered Cancer, the natal Moon sign of Gandhi. In July August 1943, Sun also entered Cancer. This was a time of turmoil for him, because his dreams [Rahu] were being

©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 56 shattered by reality [Sun]. Finally in April-May 1944, Mars entered Cancer with Rahu over his natal Moon. This was when Congress and Gandhi lost his ground and gave birth to alternate political parties and gave birth to the idea that Gandhi was a perhaps a road block to the path of Independence of India.

Purely because of lack of time and space, I am unable to provide more case studies that I had almost ready. Please do study the Monica Lewinsky case of President Bill Clinton and some other political cases to understand the power of this yoga.

Sade Sati is another example of Gochar Yoga. Sade Sati of Saturn is a concept which is valid for all other grahas as well. Perhaps at a later point, I will write about in detail.

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