Predicting education by Jaimini

The Second Illustration (Chart 4)

Here the Chara dasha is being used to show the departure I have made from the widely prevalent method of calculating Chara dasha.

The Gemini period ran from 1958 to 1961 (no extra addition has been taken for exalted Mercury here).

The Taurus period was from 1961 to 1965 (no extra deduction has been given for debilitated Venus).

The Aries period was upto 1966.

The Pisces period was upto 1971.

The Aquarius period was upto 1976 (here Rahu being with more planets is stronger).

The Capricorn period was upto 1978.

The Sagittarius period ran for full ten years upto 1988.

This young man underwent a special professional course in computer engineering during this period in a foreign country and has made a very good career.

The first sub-period in this period was of Scorpio from where Amatyakaraka aspects the fifth house.

Lagna              29⁰13’              Mars                   9⁰13’             Venus              11⁰48’

Sun                  20⁰41’              Mercury           22⁰21’             Saturn              27⁰23’

Moon                11⁰34’             Jupiter             12⁰42’              Rahu                29⁰17’

Note:   In Vimshottari dasha he was running the period of exalted Mercury from 1966 to 1983 when he completed his special technical education and started a very good career.

Pause and Think

Now pause and think whatever you have read so far. You will have noticed the following features:

1. Life is an eternal flow, a flux. In the greatest epic of the world, the Mahabharata, Bhishma, the venerable warrior describes our meetings and partings in life and likens them to logs flowing downstream, and getting driven in different directions by the currents of water.

Jaimini’s Chara dasha shows it as no other dasha ever can.

2. Have you noticed that your Atmakaraka (AK) is sometimes in one house and sometimes in a different house from your major period. Even within one major period, there are always changes manifesting as sub-periods are changing.

This is what is called the kaleidoscope of life.

3. If you find such changes visible in not one or two horoscopes but in hundreds of them, do you find yourself in a position to accept that there is some unknown karma which keeps on sprouting when you expect it the least?
4. Now combine it with Vimshottari dasha and seek confir­mation of what you see happening. Does it now convince you that there is Destiny?
5. From this stage do you feel convinced that it is astrology, through its refined predictive techniques alone that can explain the strangest quirks of life?
6. Does it then not take you to the next step and force you to accept that you did not know why, what happened to you happened?
7. So now do you get convinced that if astrology is not predictive it is not a super-science?
8. It must then lead you into the acceptance of the reality of transmigration of souls. Is that correct?
9. Which nation or which religion or religions believe in the truth of the transmigration of souls? You perhaps know the answer.
10. So in which country of the world do you think astrology originated, was developed, respected and used effectively?
11. But there is the lurking fear in your mind that if every event in life is predestined, where is the role of free-will?

No one can give a difinite answer to this, other than the Creator himself.

Let me tell you something still more significant which will arouse your hopes. Even the best astrologer of the world commits enough silly mistakes in his readings. When you get a bad prediction, do not become -gloomy. Two thoughts should spring up in your mind: the first that the astrologer may have committed one of his silly mistakes and the second that prayers do work miracles. I have seen that happen in life.

It is for this reason that astrology which is described as jyotisha in India was a compulsory subject of study in the hermitages of great seers. Brought to the marketplace now, if astrology has become a marketable commodity in most of the countries of the world, it is because of the corrupting mercenary tendencies of the age of technology and publicity in which we live.

The need to deliver this sermon arose from the fact that very few astrologers remember that j yotisha (astrology) basically ought to remain, a spiritual-academic discipline.