The Chara Dasha
The method of calculation I have now adopted has given me over eighty percent correct results as has been demonstrated in the charts given in this book. I also know the reason why the timing has been erratic in some cases. Till that is rectified I will not disclose it here. But that may be in one out of thousand cases. I can assure readers that my method of calculation not given in any book, can be depended upon, mainly because there is no book ever written by anyone showing how the Chara dasha could be made use of for timing specific events, as has been shown in this book. And also because I have tested them.
I have two additional advantages in saying so first, for fifteen years I proved the soundness of my research by giving predictions, which I have already discussed in the papers of mine. Secondly I taught to many batches of students of the second year astrology class, and they have tested these techniques openly in my classes. Many students of past batches have been reporting to me that they have been using these methods for successful predictions themselves.
By now, I have given predictions to many thousands in India, USA and England, the places I visited in recent years, without looking at the Vimspottari dasha at all, successfully, tape recorded or typed predictions on the basis of Jaimini astrology. But no one can remain complacent and take the position that he has uttere4 the last word on the subject, or on the technique of an astrological prediction because there will have to be additions and alternations, as newer research will be done, as is bound to happen now.
Karakas
To the modification I have made to the calculations of the Chara dasha, I can say with utmost confidence, that the meaning of Karakas as I have demonstrated, have been my mos satisfying pieces of research in Jaimini astrology. I have used the Karakas very successfully for various areas of horoscopes, with fine shades of meanings emerging out every time I looked into the depths of a horoscope. Most gratifying has been the results obtained by our students over a period, now, of ten’ years, in the use of these karakas, as expansively as they are being by us. These are the areas in which our students are bound to produce super brilliant results in future and surpass my generation. Some, a very-very small number in the generations younger to mine, are better researchers. They have yet to ‘come out with a fundamental and original research and not be satisfied with routine writing to be able to establish astrology as a super-science in the next century.
Padas
Sri Sitaram Jha shows a method of doing the padas for all the twelve houses by referring to some exceptions. I tried that and found it misleading. Then I found the south Indian method of preparing padas more rewarding and have used them also, but sparingly, for predictions.
Limitations of the Chara Dasha
A question should be pos d. If two persons are born on the same day with same karakas, same ascendant but with the degrees of the lagna being different, will the readings for both of them be the same, astrologically. The answer to it is, yes.
What then is the solution? It can be answered thus:
(1) In the case of a person whose ‘background is known, to whom predictions have been given earlier, there is no problem. This case resembles a doctor’s’ familiarity with the medical history of an old and familiar patient.
(2) In the case of a new person, predictions can be given, after verifying his past, with the astrologer himself asking the questions and not his client reeling off his story of life.
(3) To the further question, if there is a slight difference only in the degrees of the lagna; how should an astrologer deal with the answer, is very clear. There are many subtle and finer dashas, specific to the planetary patterns of a horoscope both in Parashari and Jaimini astrology.
The subtle divisions made in Vedic astrology through different dasha systems, through divisional horoscopes meet the challenge of any situation.
We must always keep reminding ourselves that the surviving astrological legacy we have is only a fragment. Then we have frauds galore in the world of astrology.
Other dashas of Jaimini
Though my major success, after the use of the Karakas, has been in the use of many other dashas of Jaimini, I do not propose to write about them, as they can be misused by unethical and gimmick loving astrologers whose number has been increasing allover the world. I have in the meantime, after the first edition of this book was published, produced another book, Predicting through Karakamsha and Mandook Dasha.
The Sthira Dasha
I tried to use the Sthira dasha as is generally done and found that while all horoscopes will have Rtidra and Maheshwara, many will be without Brahma. The steps are:
(a) Find out the stronger of the houses between the lagna and the seventh.
(b) Then find out the strongest among the sixth, the eighth and the twelfth lords, excluding Saturn, who never qualifies to be a Brahma.
Upto this point all are unanimous.
The point of difference comes in when it is said that the planet in the visible half and odd sign alone can qualify to be Brahma.
Try this method and there will be many horoscopes without Brahma;
My problem was solved by a north Indian astrologer-scholar who told me to find out the strongest among the sixth, eighth and the twelfth lords from the stronger of the two houses between the lagna and the seventh house, after excluding Saturn:
This scholar quoted from a commentary of Neelakantha on Jaimini sutras.
Not satisfied with his solution, I gave him some horoscopes of dead persons and he calculated their span of life very accurately in many of those cases by his method of doing Sthira dasha. I have followed that method and found it giving me very good results even for predicting good events of life. It is what I have taught to students and they too got good results.
For me it has been a long grope through the darknesses of the commentaries or translations of Jaimini Sutras. It shocked me to see that not a single writer ever stated that he had found Jaimini system working and proceeded to show it. In a train, as I have described earlier, I discovered a clue and worked on it and then the readings of Vemuri Ramamurthy Shastri showed the possibilities of the vast areas of unexplored Jaimini techniques. My success since then has been very good. Yet, how much more is to be re-discovered is what future? generations will have to find out. Mine is an absolutely original and pioneering work is all that I am claiming. So I must conclude this book by stating very clearly that the aim of this book is to try the predictive methods as shown by me and not treat me as a final authority on the subject.
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