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 Shri Shri Ganapati

Bhava

Ari Bhava-6

6th-from-any-lagna

Chandra in bhava-6

disproportion, disease, disagreement, distress, dishonesty, distrust

dwadamsha = table of 12 subportions of bhava-6

See also: Shukra+Addictions ; Planets in 6-8 angle

"I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health." ~ Voltaire
~~ Das

"6th house is both for friends and enemies, health and sickness, attachment and hatred, maternal relatives, cousins, servants and inferiors.

Its results are full of opposites - sharpness of the opposites is felt according to the influence of the planet, its association, conjunction, or as aspected.

The 6th house protects against enemy, sickness, sorrow and debt. "

~~ Madhya Parashari, Ch. 9 , Shloka 6

Sixth house stands for enemies, relatives, strength, illness, and stomach problems etc.

~~ BPHS Ch. 7, Shloka 39-43

6th from Budha be also considered in regard to indications derivable from Ari Bhava.

~~ Mahatma Gandhi “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

names

 Ripu = enemy ; Roga = sickness ; Vyadhi ; Satkona = sixth angle

Satru ; Satrurugriha ; kSata ; zatru =overthrower

Vocabulary for Bhava-6:

from ~~Koeln Sanskrit Lexicon

Ari:

  • Assiduous, not liberal , envious , hostile

  • An enemy

  • A hostile planet

  • name of the sixth astrological mansion

  • in arithmetic, the number six

  • A species of Khadira Or Mimosa L.

Satkona: English 'sixth angle'

  • A six-angled figure

  • The thunderbolt of Indra

  • A diamond

  • the sixth astrological house

Ripu:

  • deceitful , treacherous , false

  • A deceiver , cheat , rogue

  • An enemy , adversary , foe

  • A hostile planet

  • name of the 6th astrological house

  • gall-nut (more about gall-nut, see http://www.sakthifoundation.org/gall-nut.htm )

Roga: English 'rogue'

  • breaking up of strength

  • disease, infirmity, sickness (also personified as an evil demon)

  • a diseased spot

  • Costus Speciosus = Arabicus

"mismatched"

Poverty, exploitation, argumentation and conflict, enemies, disease: imbalance, servitude, ministries of service, Seva, loans and debt, chronic health conditions, animals/pets, the lower life forms, clinical medicine , drugs legal and illegal, addictions, police and military, dissolution of alliance (including loss of marriage); disagreement; cancellation or disruption of contract.

Faustian bargains

Criticism = Argumentation = "Problematics" - Injustice

Conflict, Criticism, Crime

Disproportion, Misalignment, Dyspepsia, Drugs

Disappointment, Disagreement; Divorce; Dislike; Distaste; Disease (esp STD); Despair

accusations and litigation; argument

Loss (12) of Balance (7) - Loss of Agreement - Loss of Mutual (7) Respect - Loss of Trust

Broken Promises - Awkwardness - Jealousy - Illness - Clinical Medicine - Toxins + Pollution

Usury - Jail - Poverty - Servants - Animals - Working Classes - Seva - Social Work - Service Ministry

Ministries of Service to Sentient Beings = Care of Victims

use and abuse

When unconscious, the satkona and its lord =

  • disproportionate, impoverishing, imbalanced practices; exploitive, blaming, argumentative, adversarial, dishonest, distrust

When conscious, the satkona and its lord =

  • Service ministry on behalf the ill-proportioned: care of the sick + exploited + conflicted; professions in medical, legal, and military service

Proverbs 11:2

(King James Version, Christian Bible)

“He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour:

but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.”

Jaya Yoga

from300 Important Combinations, #58.

"Definition:

  • When the lord of the 6th is debilitated and the lord of the 10th is deeply exalted

  • Jaya Yoga will arise.

Results:

  • the native will be happy, victorious over his enemies, successful in all his ventures and long-lived.

Remarks:

  • As the name implies, Jaya Yoga gives success in all undertakings.

  • If the Yoga is really powerful, the person will hardly meet with failures or disappointments.

The 6th is a Dusthamsha and when the lord is debilitated,

then all the indications of the sixth house, viz., debts, disease and enemies will be at a discount

so that all the obstructive forces in the way of the person's prosperity will have been removed.

The lord of the 10th or house of effort, occupation and deeds will have to be in deep exaltation.

Otherwise, the yoga cannot have its full value."

BPL note:

  • There is also some relief when the sixth lord is combust.

  • the native will experience the "solipsism" of moudhya graha, which is to say one will feel engaged with the topics of 6 (poverty, disease, animosity) in a self-reflexive and self-referential fashion.

  • However, the most brutal physical effects of 6 (enslavement, crippling disease, devastating poverty) will not harm the native when L-6 is combust (asta, moudhya)

  • Neither Surya nor Chandra can be combust; therefore neither Meena nor Kumbha natives can be relieved of suffering via the benefits of moudhya L-6.

~~ Pancha Tantra, Book III (iii)

"Though one might be exceedingly strong and clever, one should be wary of an unnecessary foe.

Though a doctor may be available, for no reason should one carelessly drink poison."

Healers Who Handle Social and Physical Illness

Two examples of splendid careers in service based in Ari Bhava:

  • Medical-clinic worker = uchchamsha yogakaraka Shani in Ripu bhava (6). Irritable Mangala rules the Mrigashira lagna.

    • With professional excellence, he handles the full range of 6th-house sorrows:

      • poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, prostitution, domestic violence, toxic medications (poisons), and chronic medical imbalances (6).

    • Shani accepts drishti from Guru and from His lord Shukra. Parivartamsha of Shukra-9 + Shani-6.

  • Anti-pollution attorney = papagraha L-6+L-11 Kuja in yuvati bhava = legal settlements. In bhava-6, the super-malefic L-8 Shani = Viparita Raja Yoga (Harsha). Rahu rules the Ardra lagna.

    • She is a respected and wealthy agent of legal resolution for cases of severe environmental pollution.

    • These dangerous (8) and costly (6) criminal (6) situations originate in ignorance and greed (6) . Toxic (6) chemical waste causes both visible and invisible (8) harm to many.

    • Yet Harsha Yoga points to imbalance, inequity, and misfortune as the sources of life's best opportunities.

medicine

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison.

The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

~~ Paracelsus

"Ubi virus, ibi virus"= "the strongest poisons make the best medicines"

B.V. Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations. (10th ed., Delhi, 1991. Originally published in 1947.) p.281

Pittaroga Yoga, #279:

"Definition:

  • The sixth house must be occupied by the Sun,

  • in conjunction with a malefic,

  • and further aspected by another malefic.

Results:

  • The subject suffers from bilious complaints.

Remarks: "According to Ayurveda,

the entire psychological activities of the body are controlled and brought about by three important forces or basic factors called thridoshas.

They are Vatha (wind), Pitta (bile) and Sleshma (phlegm). [BPL note: phlegm factor also called "Kapha"]

  • Pitta is said to be responsible for metabolic activities.

    • The thridoshas when excited or disturbed are said to cause diseases. Each dosha has got its own attributes.

  • For instance, the attributes of pitta are heat, keenness, lightness, and slight oiliness.

    • When there is excitement of pitta, the effects are

      • burning, warmth, suppuration, gangrenous ulcerations, secretions, and redness of complexion.

  • Where there is Pittavriddhi (increase of bile) there will be disposition to jaundice, sleeplessness, and increase of hunger.

    • Pittakshakshayam (decrease of bile) give rise to colic troubles.

I would refer the reader to standard works on Ayurveda for greater details.

The Sun's position in the 6th by itself is good.

When the Sun is in the house of diseases, joined and aspected by malefics, the native 's health will not be good and he will always suffer from one complaint or the other due to excitement or pitta or bile."

Medicine

  • Surya in 6

  • Chandra in 6

  • Budha in 6

  • Shukra in 6

The more graha residing in bhava-6, and the more influential the drishti incoming to bhava-6, the more the native is involved with medicines, toxicity, and conditions of imbalance.

Self-medication is especially common with Surya, Chandra, or Budha in 6. Drishti of Mangala into 6 + graha in 6 may produce invasive or destructive self-medication, including addictions.

  • Chandra in 6 = 'folk medicine' including remedies from the sea, mother's and grandmother's intuitive medicinal knowledge, kitchen medicines, herbal concoctions and treatments, Ayurveda, homeopathy, and naturopathy.

  • Surya in 6 likes to be in the bright center of medical operations, often as a working physician.

  • Budha in 6 likes to discuss, explain, instruct, and message about drugs and medical practice

  • Shukra in 6 = Shukra and Addictions

enemies

"Always forgive one's enemies; nothing annoys them as much."

~~ Oscar Wilde

Golden Tarot Deck Nine of Swords (Cruelty)

Golden Tarot Deck

Nine of Swords Cruelty

Dushthamsha - Difficulties

Superstition, fears, mental slavery

Perseverance anguish, insanity struggle,

annoyance

opponents/ oppositions / animosity

unsporting competition,

poor losers

thievery, stealing

Artha Money-Maker

Broken Partnerships -

Distrust - Enemies

Profession

  • 9th from 10th + 10th from 9th

  • Ari bhava = a professional placement, representing the highest order professions in the service ministries including medicine, law, divinity, and teaching

  • 10th-from-9th = those who hold earthly power (10) based in religion (9)
  • unfair and exploitive labor practices

  • master-slave relationships

  • broken contracts

  • disparity, inequity

  • class conflict
 12th-from-7th = unjust, unfair, exploitive, mistrusting relationships out of balance

woodcut_medieval_serfs.jpg

Medieval European serfs and their Divinely Authorized lord

the easiest situation = bhava-6 AND 6th-from-Chandra= unoccupied.

The more graha in bhava-6, the more agents who complain and criticize. If there are several graha in bhava-6, each graha will cause its own variety of illness, poverty, jealousy, and suspicion.

Bhava pati (house lords) which occupy bhava-6 will result in some variety of exploitationdue to disagreement Or imbalanced contract, that affects matters of the owned house.

E. g

  • L-4 in bhava-6 shows disagreement over owned properties (trouble with deeds of title), and conflict with the institutions of cultural indoctrination and validation(difficulties re: schools, diplomas, professional licensing, etc.)

  • Malefic (papa) graha = may yield a positive result in dushthamsha. Even neechcha graha in dushthamsha can give truly excellent results, under the right circumstances.

  • Papa graha = conflict and difficulty re: health, digestion, conflict, debt, etc, however they also assist problem-solving by providing a pragmatic, earthy approach toward negative realities of human life. the native does not deny the reality of suffering and exploitation. The hard-line realism, which is typical of a papa-graha in Ari Bhava, does not fear combat with the indicated debt, animosity or illness. Ironically, a papa-graha in Ripu Bhava often signals long-term success in a deeply imbalanced situation. (For example, physicians with success in treating chronic medical conditions.)

  • Benefic graha in dushthamsha = the same conflict and difficulty re: health, digestion, conflict, debt, etc, but the problems are managed with tools of Overcompensation and cheerful denial. human suffering. Mental illness through fabrication of excuses and physical illness through compensatory addictions will generally increase body toxicity. In certain evil configurations, may be an abuser of some sort who cheerfully ignores the harm one does to others.

Poverty - Usury

Gains

 11th-from-8th = profit (11) from hidden funds (8), gain (11) from mysteries and upheavals (8)

Ministries of Service to the Suffering

The Path to Enlightenment,by HH Dalai Lama, ed + trans Glenn H. Mullin. p.136

"All beings suffer in the same way as we do, and some are even more deeply immersed in sorrow.

Yet all of these beings wish to experience only happiness and to avoid all suffering, frustration, and pain. They wish lasting happiness but do not know how to cultivate its causes, and they wish to avoid misery but automatically collect only causes of further misery.

  • As Shantideva said, "Although seeking happiness, they destroy their own causes of happiness as they would an enemy. And although seeking to avoid misery, they treat its causes as they would a close friend."

Were the countless sentient beings unrelated to us, or were they not to mind their sufferings, perhaps there would be no need for us to bother with their welfare.

  • In reality, however, all are related to us and not one of them wishes to suffer.

Over the billions of lifetimes that we have experienced since beginningless time, we have known all the living beings again and again.

  • Sometimes they have been parents to us, sometimes friends or mates, sometimes enemies.

  • Without exception, each of them has been even a mother to us again and again, performing all the kindnesses of a mother.

  • How can we be indifferent to them?

Wishing them to have only happiness and its causes and to be free of suffering and its causes, we ourselves should generate a sense of responsibility for their well-being.

Finally, as only an omniscient Enlightened One is effectively able to benefit beings in deep, lasting, and ultimate ways, we must quickly attain enlightenment. This is the wishing bodhimind, the inner basis of Mahayana practice.()

--from

  • Fleshly Imbalance

  • Illness - Injury

  • Toxicity

  • Pollution

  • Drugs

Ministry of Service

"Bodhicitta is the medicine which revives and gives life to every sentient being who even hears of it.

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, one's own needs are fulfilled as a by-product."

~~ H.H. Dalai Lama + Renuka Singh. (2002). The Path to Tranquility.

The bad news about L-6

  • Periods of the lord of Ari Bhava (L-6) are typically very stressful.

  • Events triggered by Vimshottari periods of the L-6 include the breakdown of marital agreement (sometimes leading to litigation and divorce), physical imbalance (leading to disease conditions), and social conflict (on a large scale may include war, on a local scale includes exploitation and crime.)

  • Every nativity has an L-6. Whichever graha = the L-6, the periods of that graha will be problematic during one's lifetime. Much depends on the disposition of the L-6 in terms of rashi, bhava, drishti, and angular relationship to the current mahadasha pati. However even the best graha becomes handicapped through loss of agreements (12th-from-7th) when that graha becomes the L-6.

  • L-6 from lagna tends to bring physical-material disharmony. L-6 from Chandra brings psycho-emotional disharmony.

The good news about L-6

  • Untoward effects of periods of the L-6 may be substantially mitigated through selfless service to the less fortunate.

  • Periods of the L-6 are the perfect time to undertake a ministry of service.

  • Personal misfortune which might be predicted through the negative effects of the L-6 can be averted by serving those who are victims of the same conflicts as oneself, however the beneficiaries of service should be suffering that imbalance in a slightly worse intensity than oneself. For example most of the karma of disease can be averted through ministry of charitable service in medicine.

Vimshottari periods of L-6:

Vimshottari dasha periods of the satkona-pati usually signals some type of painful imbalance experience.

The main effects are animosity (esp in marriage alliance), illness (inner animosity within the body) and debt.

If there is a severe financial conflict or criminal proceeding, it is usually brought on by Rahu who encourages "ends justify the means" type of unbalanced money-spending, such as taking on exorbitant student loans or paying vast sums for uninsured medical treatments. Rahu pretends to have legitimate expenses but the method will be found to be irregular.

It is usually not that bad, frustrating but manageable; however it often reveals some problems in the imbalanced relationship to the mother, often exploitation by the mother or parents (Chandra), and this old historic pattern with the childhood caretakers is what is really repeating.

It is an interesting experience to try to sort out, if you like problem-solving (6).

Appreciate that the spiritual level is the origin and whatever is not dealt with on the spiritual will percolate down to the mental, if not dealt with on the causal-mental plane will percolate down to the emotional-astral, and finally if not dealt with on the emotional level everything that needs karmic attention will manifest on social and material form level. That means relationship problems and flesh-nerve pain.

  • There is usually a physical symptom (pain)

  • an emotional symptom (depression, grief, despair about life and about the pain)

  • a social symptom (trouble getting along, even little things causes suspicion and annoyance, which feels worse because of the pain)

  • a mental symptom (inner narrative of blaming and accusation; going over the details of the cheating or betrayal or the accident or the toxicity over and over again, without solving it - just rehearsing the problem.)

  • Sometimes there is a noticed spiritual symptom also, which is a loss of faith, a spiritual doubt in divine providence; made worse by the pain and the sneaking suspicion that one is not really being cared for, it's all a scam and there is no proof of God.

    • That sort of downward spiral into grief and depression, caused mainly by feeling exploited and way off center not treading the middle way of the spiritual path but having gotten sucked up a bit too much in material concerns, the whole business of entering into partnership with anyone including the divine looks like a scam. There can be resentment and anger but usually it is a victim feeling of 'why me'?
    Emotionally, from Chandra lagna

    The bhava which occupies the 6th position from Soma and the graha which is Lord of the 6th from Chandra give highly problematic agency during the current incarnation. In their Vimshottari periods, the lord of sixth-from-Soma as well as the lord and content of the house which is 6th-from-Soma will cause much travail.

    • The fundamental mechanism of 6th-from angles is chronic imbalance. Results include argumentativeness, exploitation, illness, conflict, and servitude arising from the emotional relationship with the agent of L-6 from Chandra and graha associated with the bhava which occupies 6th-from-Chandra.

    • The end result of these inconveniences (often severe suffering) is the desirable outcome of intended payback of moral errors in past lives. (Usually the error is caused by intentional or inadvertent appropriation of the power of others.)

    • It is especially difficult to recall one's spiritual intentions at birth when engaged in the fast-paced lifestyle of the modern world. One intended the benefit of recovery of balance through payback; yet in the present moment the experience is one of acute disrespect, imbalance, and emotional pain.

    • Vimshottari periods of the L-6 from Chandra are likely to contain significant emotional suffering and feelings of servitude or exploitation by a manipulative master. Most notably period of L-6 from Chandra are distinguished by the experience of giving much more into the matters of that house than one is receiving in return.

    If the bhava pati is benevolent then one's servitude will be well-rewarded in some social, material, or spiritual form of payment, yet the feeling of having been exploited is emotionally definitive and the native suffers from the breakdown of contractual agreements, the loss of relationship integrity, and the feeling of having been cheated or betrayed by the agent (L-6) of victimization and crime.

    The 6th-from angle from Chandra represents chronic and often severe imbalance in emotional expectations, which is normally manifest in expectation that a particular relationship (with the agent of 6th-from) will be loving, caring, balanced, or otherwise provide equity and respect of contractual agreement. Respect and equity will not be forthcoming due to the condition of servitude and exploitation implied by the 6th-from angle.

    Should the L-6 from Chandra permanently occupy some critical relationship house such as 7th-from-radix-lagna or 7th-from-Chandra, there may be a repeating cycle of victimization and broken promises in key partnerings and unions. If the L-6 from Chandra and the house which occupies 6th-from-Chandraare neutral and do not contain key relationship karakas (such as Shukra for the first wife or Guru for the first husband) then the only problematic item will be the actual Vimshottari periods of that graha which is lord of sixth-from-Soma.

    • If Guru (karaka for husband-1) or Shukra (karaka for wife-1) should occupy the 6th-from-Chandra, emotional exploitation and suffering related to the health or debt of the first spouse will occur.

    • Guru for Thula lagna and Budha for Mesha lagna are both particularly inauspicious graha. Should Guru or Budha also occupy the 6th-from-Chandrain a nativity, expect periods of Guru (for Thula lagna ) or Budha (for Mesha lagna) to generate a narrative of intense argumentation regarding the illness, debt, or broken promises of the partner-spouse.

    Each lagna has particular pre-programmed karma of inherent conflict + disappointment (6).

    • These victim-mind past-life based attitudes and expectations are embedded in responses to the karaka people, ideas, and environments of the L-6.

    • If there are graha in Ari Bhava, expect an increase in the number and variety of people, ideas, and environments regarding which the native is pre-disposed to find broken agreements, ongoing conflict and social or physical imbalance.

    • A loaded 6th house = nearly always a call to conflict-mitigation service via medicine, military, or human-needs ministry. Naturally these professionals deal with a relentless flow of animosity, exploitation, and disease.

    • Fewer graha in 6 means that the L-6 will carry more of the conflict karma.

    • L-6 in bhava-10 gives a leadership career that is fraught with social conflict. the native becomes a public icon for fomenting society-wide disagreements, usually in nations that are unstable because they are on the verge of formulating a new social contract.

    Examples:

    Although the default animosities are also present from radix lagna, the Chandra lagna should be used to show Emotional Reactivity - read the below table from the rashi of Chandra.
    How to Resolve the Victim-Karma of bhava-6

    bhava-6 is indeed the house of the victim-class, and its denizens tend toward extremes of poverty, illness, and perpetual social conflict. The default identity of one with strong markers in bhava-6 or 6th-from-Chandrais an underclass personality who is always arguing and embedded in a victim mentality. the native is sick from lifelong effects of irresolvable conflict originating in negative thoughts (Budha).

    However, it is worth noting that many of those who hear the clarion-call toward a ministry of service are gracious personalities who hold deeply religious or humanitarian beliefs. They are typically well educated, and born into the privileged classes.

    bhava-6 is the house of "serve or suffer". Therefore one with strong markers in Ripu Bhava need not suffer personal animosity or illness, if one chooses to serve.

    • The cure for all ailments of Roga Bhava is commitment to a spiritual practice of serving the needs of others.

    • The particular Others who require the service of one who has karma in bhava-6 are those who have not yet achieved the consciousness to resolve their own imbalances.

    • A ministry of service directed to the care of criminals, the outcast, the exploited, the sick, and the poor may address all personal karmas of Ari Bhava with great success.

  • relationships (7) with distant lands (12)

    MarinusVanReymerswaele_MoneyChangers.jpg

    Ari Bhava - Angles to the 12 Domains

    Although known as the 'maha-dusth-amsha', Ripu Bhava is not 'all bad'.

    Some of the functions of bhava-6 are quite favorable.

    • 5th-from-2nd= working (6) while it often feels like servitude, generates (5th-from) resource-savings (2)

    • 5th-from-2nd= intelligent (5) theatrical expression (5) of memorized historical knowledge (2) in logical argumentation (6) can result in self-mastery via subordination of the chaotic mind (mind is a good servant but a poor master)

    • 9th-from-10th = service to others gives leadership wisdom

    The most difficult implications of Ripu bhava =

    • 6th-from-1st (body imbalance)

    • 8th-from-11th (disruption of goals)

    • 12th-from-7th (disagreements)

    1st-from-6th

    bhava-6 = identification with illness, imbalance, animosity, poverty, servitude, exploitation, medicine, police

    arguments, accusations, complaints, employer-employee relationships, "human-resources", workplace, laboratory, clinics

    • Underclass (esp w/ Rahu)
      Exploitation, Servitude

    • Work and the workplace

    • Working trades, trade unions

    • tasks 'tarea', school-homework,

    relationships (7) that are'naturally' power-imbalanced (master-slave etc.)

    • Servants,

    • employees

    • prostitutes,

    • slaves

    • Animals esp service animals

    • manual labor

    • Pets, Livestock,

    • working animals, domesticated animals

    exploiters, victims, prostitutes + 'johns' , animosity, unfaithfulnessfood-lodging attending to guests, hospitality industry, conflict, complaints, accusations, disagreement, divorce, criminals, crime, criminal attorneys, litigation, conflict, Victims and the Victim-Mind (Budha = narrative) Jails (not prisons) accidents, imbalance, injurypollution, , toxicity, illness-addiction, physicians, pharmacists, medicine, medical science, medical treatments, medical workersDebt/Finance

    Usury - Loans - Loan Interest - Mortgages

    Bankruptcy miserliness, acrimony, fear of poverty due to mental slavery

    Agents of bhava-6: Servants, Employees, Enemies, Criminals, Police, Usurers, Physicians and Victims: the Poor, the Sick, and the Needy and

    The primary agents of L-6 =

    • those with whom one is in conflict (out-of-balance)

    • those who live in a state of chronic imbalance (poor, sick, self-doubting, or jealous)

    • professionals who serve the disempowered

    Q: What person or object in this world enacts the karmic agenda of bhava-6 and its lord?

    A: Servants, enemies, money-lenders, physicians, police, and agents associated with conditions of "animosity, debt, disease" will carry out the instructions of bhava-6 and its lord. and

    bhava-6 rules argumentation and disagreement. 1st-from any house gives psychological identity, material appearance, and vitality.

    bhava-6 and its lord indicate the argumentative behaviors with which the native is most intimately identified. Ari bhava and L-6 show the phenomena (dharma) of making arguments and experiencing a resulting condition of internal imbalance.

    Under supervision of mentalized Budha, the nature of blaming and argument is inherently adversarial. Arguments require opposed voices, and Opposed voices when personalized with lower emotion can easily become a fight between two enemies.

    Ministries of Service, Professional Service Education

    bhava-6 is the house of the doctor and the patient, the police and the criminal, the money-lenders and the poor. At higher levels of education in the service professions, logical arguments about the material causes of animosity, debt, and disease can be free of jealousy and reactive emotion. Service education, if free of lower emotions, can lead to effective problem-solving in areas of social conflict, economic development, and health-care. However note that education regarding social ills is indicated by 4th-from-9th which is the all-good dharma bhava!

    Unfortunately the baseline behavior of bhava-6 is a chronic litany of deep and repetitive blaming of some purported Other for one's own ills.

    Logical debate pits the 'pro' against the 'con'. Argument-makers can be agents of social justice (defense attorneys, physicians, ministers and advocates for victims) or agents of crime and exploitation.

    Lord Budha is flexible, neutral, and quick-moving. Typically, the split-minded psychic environment of Roga Bhava contains both the attachment to imbalance and the instinct to begin to correct it.

    The argument can be largely unconscious and internalized in a self-identification 'victim script'. Or, the argument can be conscious and externalized in a professional service practice.

    If conditions in bhava-6 are beneficial (ideally, an exalted malefic tenant or ruler) then the native may serve others with dignity and compassion.

    Should conditions be less supportive, the native may suffer frenetic internal argumentation which instructs one to serve only oneself. This inner narrative invokes subconscious memories of scarcity, exploitation, and war. It may claim that the only way to get power, wealth, or pleasure is to take it from someone else. the native may suffer toxic self-criticism, expressed as fear and hatred toward others, and diseases caused by jealousy.

    Periods of L-6 and tenants of Ripu bhava may show the external effects of the mental conflict as a body out of balance, bodies in physical conflict, but also Seva, medicines, and clinical treatments.

    2nd-from-5th

    Budha -6

    Shukra - 2

    Surya - 5

    children's treasuries

    wealth of first child

    bhava-5 rules children and creative genius. 2nd-from any house gives conservation of wealth, historical and linguistic knowledge, hoards and collections, speech, face, and family history. 2nd-from-5th gives the children's hoarded wealth, the children's values, the children's speech and face. and

    bhava-6 = the historical values (2) expressed by one's children (5), including the nature of their speech (2), the quality of their hoards (2), and their facial features (2).

    Idiomatic language (2) habits cultivated by the children, their language facility, and the wealth-conserving (2) powers evinced by one's own creative intelligence (5).

    Conservation of wealth (2) that is generated through speculative, creative, political, or gaming behaviors (5).

    (Gain of profit = 11th-from-5th = bhava-3 = self-made wealth. Ability to conserve the earned profit from creative endeavors = bhava-6.)

    Wealth hoarded from literary publications, winning of contests and elections, publication of games and amusements. The speech qualities expressed by the native during political campaigns, during theatrical performances, when talking to or about one's children.

    E.g.,

    • Barack Obama, Shukra/Mithuna in bhava-6, sweet talk in political campaigns.

    • Steve Jobs: L L-2+L-11 Budha/Makara in bhava-6, wealth from intelligent speculation in creative venture.

    Wealth produced by 6 = 2nd hoard from 5th luck

    • accumulated wealth of children (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by acts of genius (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by use of Divine Intelligence (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by romatic lovers and matters of the Heart (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by literary + performance arts (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by gambling + games (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by charisma + charm (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by theatre (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by politics (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by celebrations + celebrity (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by royalty and regalia (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by ornaments + fashion (5)

    • accumulated wealth produced by the partner's elder sibling (5)

    3rd-from-4th

    • property and vehicle sales

    • skilled crafts and trades

    • service workers in the home

    bhava-4 rules shelter, protection, owned property, boundaries, fencing, and cultural 'roots'. 3rd-from any house gives mental process, manual skill, and communications.

    3rd-from-4th = messaging about boundaries (us-vs-them), talk about protecting (our) property, and meetings with others from one's own same folkways root. These boundary-defending talks generate mistrust, exploitation or belittlement of neighbors and can become the precursor to war (6).

    Mother's siblings and cousins. Parochial assumptions and communications stimulus-response patterns that were formed in the home culture. Discussions about property and vehicles. Sales (3rd-from) of property and vehicles. Animosity and defensiveness inherent in talk about defending boundaries and protecting cultural roots.

    Critical discussions and writings about one's cultural roots, sales, advertising, and marketing of vehicles and properties (3rd from bandhu bhava), including all the skilled trades which sustain and repair buildings and vehicles through either manual or verbal interaction with the property.

    Mortgage brokers, real estate agent, estate management, automobile sales and maintenance, home construction and repair, sellers of fencing and protective mechanisms such as alarms and guard systems, human guards, servants and employees who manually work and verbally talk in the home.

    Wealth produced by 6 = 3rd craft from 4th roots

    • reports about the parents esp mother (4)

    • reports about patriotism, birth-land (4)

    • reports about customs police, boundaries (4)

    • reports about houses, lands + vehicles (4)

    • reports about farming (4)

    • reports about fixed properties, limits, fences (4)

    • reports about the folkways traditions (4)

    • reports about schools, diploma + licenses (4)

    • reports about cultural roots (4)

    • reports about garden spirits (4)

    • reports about sale of food-drink, natural resources, cattle (4)

    • reports about things underground (4)

    4th-from-3rd

    • stability and security for the siblings and the team-mates

    • mother's relatives esp her siblings

    bhava-3 rules siblings and team-mates, manual skills, commercial business, and self-made wealth. 4th-from any house gives property, stability, deeds and titles, and cultural indoctrination. span style="background-color: #FFFF99"> 4th-from-3rd gives properties of the siblings, licensing and entitlement to perform commercial duties, education based on manual crafts.

    Buildings such as homes and shelters built by one's own hands. Properties acquired through self-made wealth.

    • Schooling in hand-crafts. Schooling provided to the (younger) siblings. Folksways values which emphasize mental processes, cultural indoctrination in skilled crafts using hand tools (including writing implements).

    Work practices that carry out cultural "roots" through group discussion, small-group communications, administrative processes. Ari bhava, the house of logical argumentation, is Budha's natural home.

    4th = schooling; 4th-from-3rd = schooling to acquire customs of the commercial world (3). Workplace training, on-the-job training, education for service workers = 6.

    Houses of the siblings, vehicles of the siblings.

    5th-from-2nd

    bhava-6 = intelligence from the core values, good luck in expanding the family

    the bhagya 5th-from angle brings riches, intelligence, entitlements, and entertainments

    it is an angle of delight, applause, and glamour

    from the basis of bhava-2 which contains treasuries of wealth and knowledge and the lineage history of the family line, bhava-6 shows the enrichment results:

    Logical argument reinforces memorized knowledge

    Accusations Whodunit

    the ability to remember details of a story and on a larger scale great historic truths (2) can be parlayed into successful litigation and convincing accusations of criminal blame

    great placement for crime writers

    lifetime servants of the family who are in some ways similar to children

    animal herds and other wealth based in the family's historic storage collections

    fortune from speculative capital investments (5th-from-2nd).

    bhava-2 rules hoards of wealth and knowledge; face, speech, and family history. 5th-from any house gives creativity and intelligence.

    5th-from-2nd gives speculative and risk-positive handling of the accumulated values (capital), such as savings accounts and collections.

    Children

    5th-from-2nd = previous children of the second spouse (5th-from-2nd, step-children, servants);

    Gambling

    5th-from-2nd = gambling and speculative finance with exploitive results

    • poverty caysed by gambling away (5) the savings (2)

    • crimes of usury = speculative (5) interest rates applied to money (2) loans (6) - if get-rich-quick amplifier Rahu occupies 6, speculative interest may become truly exhorbitant

    Dramatization of the Lower Emotions

    Performance art drawing from historical traditions in art, music, and poetry, can be great success when:

    • theme of the drama = exploitation, jealousy, addiction, disloyalty, greed

    • the great majority of theatrical works = repeating imbalance patterns of human relationship

    example:

    • Elizabeth Taylor legendary actress = uchcha Shukra + Rahu in 6, made a fortune and much admired in her roles of seducer, unloved wife, vixen, victim, divorcee, etc.

    bhava-6 denizens are itinerant, un-contracted, ultimately self-governing (9th-from-10th) and free.

    These significations are not always negative. Results may be positive or negative as the lordship and tenants of Ari bhava would dictate. Profit from making loans from the saved wealth of one's family, although risky, if realized, may be wealth-creating.

    The treatment of step-children determines whether they become friends or enemies. Traveling artists and actors, un-contracted servants such as roving tinsmiths and fortune-tellers, may enjoy their life quite nicely.

    ARGUMENT

    Logical analysis, argumentation and debate can serve as superior vehicles for the theatrical expression and intelligent performance of memorized knowledge.

    • The litany of victim's complaints which so typifies the interior narrative of bhava-6 can just as easily be framed as a litany of instructions for taming the at-birth chaos of the mind.

    As it is said, the mind is a wonderful servant and a terrible master.

    • In bhava-6, gaining mastery over the mind is a positive utilization of old master-slave behaviors which assert subconsciously that one party receives more respect, more control, and more resource than the other.

    IIn the case of mind control, one is indeed applying tight constrictions to the inner servant, the monkey-mind, and results of patient self-mastery are said to produce the Pearl of Great Price.

    As HH Dalai Lama says in Stages of Meditation p 22:

    " [In listening to teachings one] of the defects is to listen in a way that is like a container with holes. This means that even though we are listening to the teachings, we do not retain their contents. In this case we lack mindfulness and memory.

    Practice of Dharma means that we should be able to benefit from what we have heard. It is not a pastime, like listening to a story. The teachings give us guidance on how to live meaningful lives and how to develop proper attitudes. So in order to benefit from the teachings, we must retain them with mindfulness.

    In all kinds of learning processes, listening, reading, etc., we must pay full attention and should endeavor to remember their contents.

    • When our interest is halfhearted, we only remember half the points, and we retain them for only a short time.

    • We should reflect and think about whatever we have heard, over and over again.

    • In this way, the knowledge will stay in our mind for a long time.

    Another technique for remembering instructions is debate as it is practiced in the traditional debating schools. "

    Wealth produced by 6 = 5th charisma (charm) from 2nd hoard

    • charisma of historical memory (2)

    • charisma of knowledge (2)

    • charisma of the family of origin (2)

    • charisma of face, eyes, hair, voice, mouth (2)

    • charisma of speech, song, language (2)

    • charisma of recording, preserving (2)

    • charisma of collections, containments, libraries, treasuries (2)

    • charisma of gathering, saving, storage (2)

    • charisma of silo, storage, warehouse, bank, tank (2)

    • charisma of precious food-drink (2)

    • charisma of conserved values (2)

    • charisma of moving herds of cattle (2)

    • charisma of the father's enemies (2)

    • charisma of the mother's elder sibling (2)

    6th-from-1st

    bhava-6 = animosity within and against the physical body, imbalance disturbing the body's integrity /td>

    bhava-1= flesh-body and the world of material appearances.

    6th-from = imbalance, disloyalty, exploitation, and argumentative disagreement.

    6th-from-1st =

    • inner disagreement, argumentation, and conflict within the physical body

    • disappointment and conflict expressed via illness, injury, and pain

    Ari Bhava and L-6 = nerve pain, muscle pain, other conditions of fleshly imbalance -- however the mind is not necessarily harmed unless there is association with Chandra.

    the native is bereft of appreciation or harmonious relationship to the world of material appearances. Animosity toward one's own body. Disfigurement, injury, embarrassing appearance, external evidence of internal imbalance.

    7th-from-12th

    alliances (7) among the ancestors (12)

    contracts (7) with those in distant lands (12) -- i.e., import-export businesses

    vyaya bhava rules foreign lands, private affairs, and disintegration of identity. 7th-from any house gives partnership and terms of agreement.

    7th-from-12th = Alliances in foreign lands, imaginary or fantasized relationships, and relationships with sequestered or confined persons and environments.

    bhava-6 is the house of "import-export" business, due to its location as 7th (partnerships) from 12th (exotic lands).

    Mental illness

    Roga bhava includes mental illness, due partly to signification of imaginary relationships, belief that one can know what another person is thinking (delusion, paranoia, jealousy).

    Agreements (usually employment contracts) with Enclosures

    bhava-6 defines the contractual or agreement-based relationship to sanctuaries, ashrams, hospitals, monasteries, prisons. Strength in bhava-6 indicates that the native will have balanced and beneficial relationships with these otherwise imprisoning or enclosing environments - e.g., medical, military, or social service professionals.

    8th-from-11th

    secret (8) networks (11)destruction + rebirth (8) = death of friendship (11)

    bhava-11 rules complex, networked systems such as the marketplace and large groups of voluntary association. 8th-from any house gives secrecy and sudden changes. 8th-from-11th gives disruptive change to networking behaviors, a loss of free association, and transformation of the pathways toward goals and achievements.

    bhava-6 rules jail (external restriction) and sickness (internal restriction) on free movement in the marketplace of friends and ideas.

    The most difficult implications of Ripu bhava are indeed this bhava's roles as 6th-from-1st (body imbalance), 8th-from-11th (disruption of free association) and 12th-from-7th (disagreements)

    9th-from-10th

    wisdom (9) of accepting responsibility (10)

    • social work, human services ministry

    bhava-10 rules lawfully ordered social organizations such as state governments, and their leaders. 9th-from any house gives good fortune through philosophical knowledge and religious belief. 9th-from-10th gives wisdom and sage guidance about how to operate within conventional, hierarchical, ruled-ordered groups.

    bhava-6 = deepest humility. It is always the case that the most modest and humble servants of humanity are its greatest leaders, and that true leadership must be understood as a ministry of service.

    Even if the scope of moral leadership is limited to one's own family, application of eternal wisdom (such as the Golden Rule) (9th-from) to the task of governing others (10) will eliminate most conflicts.

    If the native functions successfully within the moral and legal rule structure of one's own society, one will have few problems socially (e.g., avoid jail, war, conflicts.)

    Empowerment or victimization

    Should bhava-6 be fortunate, the native will serve in one's power-roles (parenting, policing, executive) with spiritual awareness. Should bhava-6 be less auspicious, the absence of religious understanding may corrupt the native 's ability to handle imbalanced power roles, leading to abuses.

    Wealth produced by 6 = 9th wisdom from 10th law

    • empowerment from leadership roles (10)

    • empowerment from holding government office (10)

    • empowerment from public responsibilities (10)

    • empowerment from orderly structures (10)

    • empowerment from laws + regulations (10)

    • empowerment from institutions and bureaucracies (10)

    • empowerment from being a public figure, icon (10)

    • empowerment from father's 2nd wife (10)

    • empowerment from the language of priests (10)

    • empowerment from university collections, libraries, banking (10)

    10th-from-9th

    bhava-6 = dignified social leadership (10) roles based (1) in

    • wisdom (9),

    • humanistic philosophy of life (9)

    • university scholarship (9)

    • religious and moral teachings (9)

    • world travel experience (9) (one road = 1000 schools)

    professional results of advanced wisdom having established itself in the personality =

    the "service professions" =

    • medicine

    • law

    • ministry

    • teaching

    Professions (10th) based in humanistic beliefs and philosophical wisdom:

    • visiting nurses (vs. hospital nurses = 12)

    • health professionals of all kinds

    • clinical medicine,

    • nursing profession

    • ambulatory health clinics (vs. emergency room = 8)

    • non-residential treatment of patient (vs. hospital = 12)

    bhava-9 rules the divine-human relationship, holy temples of wisdom, and philosophical beliefs.

    10th-from = leadership, reputation, dignity, public visibility, positions at the top of the social hierarchy.

    10th-from = responsibility for making decisions which affect others placed below oneself in the hierarchy, those in one's "downstream"

    10th-from-9th = leadership and decision-making roles in the service professions

    "The only reliable sign of spiritual progress is increased ability to serve."

    When bhava-6 is strong, periods of L-6 or graha in Ari Bhava will emphasize one's responsibility to uphold, direct and represent organizations such as a name="universities, houses of worship, and religious training centers.">universities, houses of worship, and religious training centers. (If Surya or Guru are involved, the ethical dimension of the responsibilities is heightened.)

    bhava-6 also indicates to some extent the nature of one's own father's public career responsibilities, and the nature of the public reputation or dignity of one's own religious belief system.

    Dignity of one's belief system:

    Positive factors in bhava-6 suggests that one's belief system is accepted and upheld in one's own culture, whereas difficulties in bhava-6 may suggest that one's religion suffers indignities in the land of one's residence.

    11th-from-8th

    bhava-6 = gain of hidden assets

    11th = fruits, results, outcome

    bhava-8 = catastrophic changes and hidden information.

    the normal outcome of sudden, forced changes (trauma) = disease, injury, sickness, imbalance (6)

    other negative outcomes include Marketplace (11) dealings in secret, taboo, confidential, unlabeled, undiagnosed-unknowable, or mysterious (8) persons and things. The outcome of dealing in secret or taboo materials may result in various types of pollution, both physical and moral, such as toxic conditions, disease and injury, prostitution, slavery, human trafficking, illegal drugs etc.

    on the positive side, 11th-from-8th can produce fruits of secret knowledge such as how to compound poisons (8) into medicines (6) and how to start from a basis of traumatized being (8) and produce a clinical environment (6) where rehabilitation and recovery can begin.

    6th = all specialties of flesh-medicine, pharmacy-druggist, litigation attorneys, police-military, social workers. These conflict-handlers earn from the emergencies, disasters, and trauma of 8.

    Illegal (6) Gains from hidden or confidential sources (8) . bhava-6 rules medical training which is a gain of secret or tantric knowledge of proper use of poison as medicine. bhava-6 also rules crime which is the result of getting trapped in the economy of secret dealings (8) or the misuse of hidden knowledge. Nature of the graha involved will indicate good or bad results.

    Wealth produced by 6 = 11th results-of from 8th weird, catastrophic, sudden changes

    • results of sudden, shocking changes (8)

    • results of disasters, emergencies (8)

    • results of surgery (8)

    • results of hidden life-force (8)

    • results of recycling (8)

    • results of upheavals (8)

    • results of discovery (8)

    • results of diving, drilling, mining (8)

    • results of spouse's wealth (8)

    • results of in-laws (8)

    • results of secret liaisons (8)

    • results of hidden things (8)

    12th-from-7th

    divorce
    = dis + vers = turning against

    Dissolution (12) of Harmony (7)

    • loss (12) of equity (7) in relationships

    • dissolution (12) of alliance (7)

    • erosion (12)of trust (7)

    • end (12)of contract (7)

      • War - Hatred - Ethnic conflict

    • Blaming, accusations, Disputes

    • Police and Military

    • violent conflict

    • marital (7) disharmony

    • Marital (7) Violation of Trust

    • Betrayal - Traitor - Broken Alliance - Crime

      dissolution of faith, infidelity, defy, perfidy; false accusations, sycophancy, slander, calumny

      spouse takes long journeys, foreign residence of spouse

    bhava-7 rules alliances and contracts. 12th-from any house gives long journeys away, and breaking apart. 12th-from-7th gives dissolution and loss of the basis for harmonious agreement.

    Most of the negative reputation of Ripu Bhava comes from its role as 12th-from-6th = loss of equality and agreement.

    • Loss of marriage agreement

    • loss of balance in the physical body = 'dis-ease'.

    • loss of balance in the social body (polity) = exploitation and conflict.

    The domain of "argument" creates a handicapped perception of victimhood, which creates inability to locate points of agreement.

    Ari Bhava contains all the relationships in this world which are'naturally' power-imbalanced, including animal-to-human, master-slave, employer-employee, physician-to-patient, prostitute-to-pimp, guard-to-prisoner.

    Ari bhava represents the dominant-to-subordinate imbalance in all situations: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

    Partner's long residence in foreign lands and other drains upon the marriage vitality

    • 12th-from-7th-from-Chandra indicates the extent of the spouse's engagement with matters of foreign lands.

    • If 12th-from-7th-from-Chandra is a heavily occupied or otherwise empowered bhava, the spouse may be greatly involved with foreign cultures, perhaps foreign-born and retaining deep ties to the homeland, or otherwise emotionally less present in the marriage due to energy invested in matters far distant from the present marriage.

    • If 12th-from-7th-from-lagna is similarly strong, the spouse is so profoundly engaged in spousal imagination, meditative retreat, or involvement in distant places, that very little vitality may be available for the present marriage relationship.

    Partner's hospitalization, long convalescence, extended meditation retreat, imprisonment, partner's bedroom

    The partner's psychic perceptions, dreams, and imagination;

    In the process of dissolution, the native may claim that the spouse is "crazy", "imagining things", "hallucinating". These are emotionally-driven claims which should be evaluated from the position of Chandra. When L-6 from Chandra is a natural malefic, the partner's imagination may become a karmic problem for the native .

    1. Mesha Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of story-teller Budha

    2. Vrishabha Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of pleasure-seeker Shukra

    3. Mithuna Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of competition-seeker Mangala

    4. Karkata Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of wisdom-seeker Guru

    5. Simha Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of order-seeker Shani

    6. Kanya Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of order-seeker Shani

    7. Thula Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of wisdom-seeker Guru

    8. Vrischika Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of competition-seeker Kuja

    9. Dhanusha Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of pleasure-seeker Shukra

    10. Makara Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of story-teller Budha

    11. Kumbha Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of shelter-seeker Chandra

    12. Meena Chandra = The partner's imagination = check the condition of attention-seeker Surya

    Ari bhava and L-6 = three classes of people (gana)

    1. Healing Service Ministry = those who comfort and aid persons who are in conflict at spiritual, social, mental, emotional, and physical levels: pastoral counselors and religious ministers "in the streets", medical workers, social workers, criminal judges and attorneys, physicians, police, etc. Anyone who deals professionally with medicine, social work, money-lending, law-breaking, deep disagreements, or war.

    2. Agents of the disorder: criminals at all levels (includes warmongering politicians and the criminally insane), unscrupulous businesspeople, tyrants, abusers of all stripes

    3. Victims of the disorder: Prostitutes (not only sexual but anyone who must sell their soul), victims, slaves, and the underclass as a whole.

    If the overall karma of the nativity is good, the nativity showing much engagement with Ari Bhava will have pure service motives and their professions highly respected.

    intend to create conflict

    Personally engaged in breaking agreements

    thieves, criminals, drug-dealers, victims, usurers, charlatans

    intend to manage conflict

    Not personally a law-breaker but rather a social control force that identifies with disorder

    Sustains unresolved conflict.

    police, military, money-lenders, divorce attorneys, bankruptcy agents, Repo man,

    intend to rebalance conflict

    Address and define conflict, suggest solutions.

    Not a victim of imbalance but a professional handler of imbalance.

    physicians, nurses, health managers, pharmacist, pollution/hazardous waste managers, financiers, debt managers, trade union organizer

    • chronic addictions,

    • medical treatments, esp. via drugs

    • misuse of drugs, illegally obtained drugs

    • medical clinics

    • physicians

    • arguments in the workplace,

    • litigation and lawsuits

    • servants and employees

    • police and military

    • marital discord, arguments with the spouse

    • digestive illness

    • chemical imbalance

    • paired-organ imbalance

    • divorce

    • poverty

    • usury

    • loan debt

    • mother's relatives'

    • jail short stay (not prison long stay)

    • exploitive relationships

    • prostitution

    • enslavement

    • victimization

    Body Parts In the physical body, Ari bhava signifies:

    • digestive system

    • large intestines

    It is primarily the digestive system which processes the emotions of Anger and Fear in the physical body.

    Who gets sick? Why?

    The astral-emotional results of "Indigestible" experiences - those which feature disappointment, injustice, and abuse - often cannot be accepted or released; the argument must be "figured out" and explained mentally (Budha natural regulator of 6) before the release can occur.

    Victims of tragic abuse and exploitive contempt for promises made may not be able to recognize the more delicate astral plane manifestations of lingering pain and distrust (imbalance).

    Iif the native is not equipped to work directly with astral-emotional experience, the injury-image may need to materialize and lodge in the digestive system of the flesh-body causing innumerable expressions of fleshly disease.

    How to release?

    Forgiveness is the most powerful pain-relieving medicine.

    However, once the subtle emotionally memories have percolated down to a material form, material illnesses usually require material medicines. If you are sick, seek medical treatment in cooperation with spiritual and emotional practices of forgiveness and release.

    Dushthamsha = "Difficult Portion"

    Ari bhava is considered the most severe "dusthamsha" or "difficult house" because it is the natural house = swabhava ofthe victim-mind. "Dush" means "difficult" and "amsha" means portion.

    Often when it comes time to discuss the 6th house in a reading, astrologers stammer a bit and look at the ground, because matters of the Sat-kona, the sixth angle, are always difficult to honestly discuss..

    Primary significations of Ari Bhava = Enemies/Conflict, Debt/Finance, and Disease/Imbalance.

    • Ari Bhava's portfolio includes subjects like pain, fear, superstition, illness, enslavement to debt, and the people who instinctively dislike you.

    • These karmic disabilities appear to some degree in every incarnation, because everyone has a rashi sixth house.

    • But the fact that matters of distrust, exploitation, and illness are very common does not make them any easier to talk about!

    Pretty much everything that happens in Ari Bhava requires patient, neutral effort. If there is excessive ego-defensiveness in matters of this house, there can be big trouble. But with sufficient compassionate detachment, Ari bhava can produce great saints and healers.

    Ari is a dusthamsha but Ari is also an upachaya house which improves over time. Slow, gradual acceptance of the terms of the incarnation will counteract any tendency toward victim mentality or ego-bondage to "becoming one's losses".

    It's all a matter of neutrality.

    BTW, Ripu bhava signifies Fear, but not Anger per se. We can see active anger in Mars, and suppressed anger in Saturn, but unless these two marakas influence Ripu bhava there is no natural signification for anger in the sixth house.

    Artha Money-Maker

    • bhava-6 = 5th-from-2nd + 2nd-from-5th

    • bhava-6 = 9th-from-10th + 10th-from-9th

    Ari bhava is a member of the 2-6-10 Artha trine (material acquisition, employment, social position).

    Wealth can be developed here, through personal labor, dedicated servitude, ministries to victims, service catering to the working classes, theft, exploitation, loan-making, medicines, war, divorce, litigation, various crimes, and other bhava-6 behaviors.

    Enemies and Fear of Enemies

    Everybody's got 'em. Jesus had 'em. Mother Teresa had 'em. The Dalai Lama has 'em. You and I have 'em too.

    • Enemies occur when social agreements are imbalanced, when love contracts erode, when internal arguments burst from the mind and control the manifestation of the inner narrative. Enemies are people we have harmed in past lives. Most likely we harmed them inadvertently, out of ignorance - seeking short-term gain, not thinking of the longer-term spiritual consequences.

    • But the harm was done, and the action along with its immoral motivation was recorded for all time in the akashic record. The spirit is responsible for tidying up this record, converting the ignorance into wisdom, and clearing the way for our reunion with the divine. A certain amount of negative backlog is converted to wisdom in each incarnation.

    • Were you a thief in past lives? Very few of us can remember. But if you were, and one's spirit has determined that this incarnation is pay-back time, you will be caught for petty infractions that other people sail through, saddled with debt, and sick from stress. Life will be a struggle - and why? You might feel like quite the victim.

    • traditional Jyotisha offers numerous ritual remedies for purging the evils of Ari bhava. Being an American, I continue to respect the deities, but I also prefer empowering solutions such as education, healing, personal responsibility, creativity, and awareness.

    Here are some practical psychic and emotional suggestions about how to handle enemies.

    "Relieving others of their suffering is the highest worship of god." ~~ Bhagavata Purana8.7.44

    Good Effects of house-6

    bhava-6 surely contains many miseries, such as marital conflict, poverty, and disease.

    Do any good things happen in bhava-6?

    The answer is - surprisingly - yes!

    House-6 rules finance, loans, credit. Of course for the common people, debt - especially inherited debt - can be a terrible curse.

    Yet, in capitalistic cultures, debt can be a good thing. Bankers and financiers of all stripes will have functional planets in house-6 and also 6th-from-6th, lLabha bhava, known as the house of income.

    All the good people whose incomes depend on giving and managing financial credit, on repossessing defaulted purchases, mortgaging and foreclosing homes... they all earn out of the sixth and eleventh houses.

    Also the people who treat diseases, physicians of all cultures, flourish in house-6.

    Even attorneys, mediators, marriage counselors - the famous ones that take the really tough cases - must have strong 6th-house effects to handle the intense conflicts from which they earn.

    As 11th-from-bhava-8, Ripu Bhava gives the results of hidden matters. L-8 in bhava-6 is usually very profitable, with gains resulting from confidential financial arrangements, "private equity", undercover deals, etc. These arrangements may be legal or illegal (the nature of L-8 will tell) but for various reasons the transactions remain hidden from public view, and the profits are often substantial.

    So yes, bhava-6 gives good effects sometimes. But those good effects arise from skillful management of the dark side of human interaction. Professionals with strong bhava-6 markers may profit considerably from handling the negative materials of conflict/imbalance, hatred/animosity, ignorance/bad choices, exploitation/victimhood, and illness/debt.

    However those same professionals must walk the line between serving victims and becoming a victim.

    L-6 and any occupants of Ripu Bhava must have dignity to ensure ethical results.

    "The internal suffering of the person who does not reciprocate the criticism and abuse hurled at him burns down the abuser aking away all the latter's merit." ~~ Mahabharata Adhiparva87.7

    bhava-6 is a toxic environment.

    Anyone who functions in this dangerously imbalanced domain will be affected by its negativity. Therefore those who are karmicly positioned to profit from its evils need special awareness.

    Physicians, attorneys, and human services ministers need greater sensitivity to the psychic realities of the victim complex, and higher than average levels of compassion.

    If some well-meaning (?) friend gifts you with a beautiful gem that happens to be the gem of one's 6th lord, donate that gem to charity in the name of that fine friend :)

    • Periods of L-6 = acute conflict, injury, accident, disease; usually a rapid process; the native remains attached to the body - even in the case of chronic conditions, the native stays in the body and remains ego-engaged with the disease-disagreement process

    Good things from bad people

    Amusingly, sometimes good things come from bad people. Parashara tells us that our enemies could make us rich!

    "When Dhana's lord is in Ari Bhava along with a benefic, the native will gain wealth through his enemies." ~~ BPHSCh. 24, shloka 18 (satra-mooladdhana yoga)

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    • Graha in 6th-from-Chandrawill indicate the habitual method of numbing or comforting the unbalanced self when confronted with emotional conflict.

    • Surya here = self righteousness; Budha = excessive chatter and perhaps sexual behavior; Mangala is directly confrontational; Guru is cheerful and expansive, He overeats, philosophizes, and travels to relieve stress; Shukra prefers alcohol, sweets, other drugs and ladies; Shani goes to work - often a workaholic, and denial of conflict. Rahu seeks risk, and Ketu is apathetic.

    Marital Disharmony

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  • size="3" class="style25"> 12th-from-any-house contains the forces which drain and dissolve matters of the that bhava.

    Day-to-day conflict is apart of normal life for most people. Everyone has a 6th house, so everyone has to deal with the phenomenon of imbalance in relationships.

    Ari Bhava = 12th-from-7th = all the forces that erode yuvati bhava'sMarriage and Relationship Trust.

    Actions and attitudes of L-6 show the nature of marital and partnership conflict - especially the cause of lack of trust re: the first spouse.

    Enemies occur when social agreements are imbalanced, when trust is eroded, when anger controls.

    (Fear-based thinking with the second spouse would be 6th-from-2nd, or the 7th house itself. Since 7th house is the first spouse, the first spouse can create lots of stress in one's second marriage. You probably didn't need astrology to know that!)

    Debt

    8th-from-11th profiles the hidden forces that destroy income.

    Debt is another yicky 6th-house energy that everyone fears.

    Imbalance caused by guilt, grief, and fear, carried over from past lives.

    Debt is caused by having exploited others in past lives.

    It's carry-over slavery habit, outdated punishment expectation, antique fear of being judged for not having enough, not being good enough, or simply being wrong.

    • Debt and its causing fears are rooted deep down in the subconscious. It seems odd that in America, a country founded on hatred of debtor's prisons, where inherited debt is outlawed, and both personal and corporate debt-forgiveness through legal bankruptcy very easy to achieve, that so many people would be tortured by guilt and despair over debt.

    • But it's only odd until you look into those folks subconscious expectations, hear the self-fulfilling negative prophecies chanted by their families, and watch their self-defeating choices in the marketplace... and there you see the manifestations of ancient humiliations and servitude. Some unfinished karmic business.

    • Luckily, with conscious personal responsibility and a profound willingness to release the matter into the hands of the Almighty, Debt can be rebalanced. Here are some psychic and emotional suggestions for handling debt.

    import-export/international trade

    International business is all a matter of import-export. Like any business its success depends on management of debt. A person who intends to succeed in international business should have strong financial planets in Ari Bhava.

    Example:

    • This man has been materially successful working for banks which specialize in international money-lending. Note his financially auspicious 9th and 11th lords in Ari Bhava: L-9 Chandra and the gainful 11th lord Mercury. Note also the 6th lord exalted 10 houses from swakshetra, exceptionally auspicious for corporate leadership.

    Bankruptcy

    11th house rules gains and income. As 8th-from-11th, Ari bhava profiles the destruction of gains and income through debt. With sufficiently beneficial conditions in the 6th house -- such as 6th lord in the 12th from itself, which gives dissolution of debt -- even a crippling debt may be resolved through legal bankruptcy.

    • Randhra bhava - the 8th house - gives rejuvenation and healing. After bankruptcy is declared all debts are forgiven or reorganized to become more easily payable.

    • By admitting one's liability and also seeking justice within the court system, the root of slavery is destroyed through the turning of the cycle of birth and death. After bankruptcy comes financial rebirth.

    • Look for a favorable 8th lord to guarantee complete financial healing. Note the access to the privilege of bankruptcy comes with sufficiently high birth only. In many world cultures inherited debt and ancestral slavery are still contemporary realities.

    • The privilege of bankruptcy is earned through compassionate actions toward those in debt to oneself, in past lives. One forgave the debt of others now one's debt is forgiven.

    Disease and How to Fix It Imbalance. House 6 shows karma which sets health balance at birth. Illness is a form of bondage to the physical body, which like enemies and debt is a carry-over from slavery in past lives.

    The root cause of the disease is "inner argumentation" Of which the native may not be conscious. There is a constant inner narrative which repeats conflict, criticism, jealous rages, vindictive accusations, and a litany of victimization claims which eventually program the physical body into a state of chronic imbalance, lack of trust, and pain.

    • Bad planets in this "bad" house often have excellent effects - see Healers Who Handle Toxins below. Surprisingly, it's "good" planets in the 6th house that spell "dis-ease."

    • Since "dis+ease" means "not easy" or "uncomfortable" the good news is that most disease can be cured through self-knowledge and sincere desire to be well.

    The funny effect of a good planet here in the house of illness it that it makes the person not care too much about correcting the imbalance. Jupiter, normally a lovely planet, in house-6 owned by His enemy Budha, creates dietary excess that over-uses the intestines and harms the health ("Oprah Winfrey Syndrome"). If house-2 which rules the mouth is also out-of-whack, you might see obesity. Venus, the pleasure planet, in house 6 creates all the diseases of love - "venereal" diseases.

    However, don't panic if you see scary stuff in one's 6th house. Check house-12, which is the release house, for corrective influences. House-12 gives "dissolution." Dissolution is not helpful for starting a business but it's very helpful for getting rid of disease. So check over there in house 12 and see if karmic imbalances in one's own health are righted by one's willingness to Let God and Let Go.

    Often, sickness is a temporary part of spiritual growth - it shows the physical body taking a vibrational step up, doing some internal reworking -- so even if you do see illness, relax and enjoy. The spirit is magnificent.

    Purchase/sales of vehicles

    Fourth house profiles vehicles. The 3rd-from-any-house shows sale, purchase, exchange, conversation about, or negotiations concerning, matters of that house.

    So, logically, 3rd-from-4th which is Ari Bhava, indicates buying and selling of vehicles with all the negotiation that naturally involves.

    Death of friends

    Friends are labha bhava, the 11th rashi house. As 8th-from-11th, Ari bhava profiles the destruction of friends. Often when a friendship is destroyed, an enemy is created. Ari is certainly the house of enemies!

    • When the 6th lord becomes bhukti-pati, be especially sensitive to triggers which could damage one's most important friendships.

    • With conscious awareness, the destructive implications of the 6th lord for friendships can be largely avoided.

    • Sometimes the destruction or recycling of friends includes their physical death - but for physical death we prefer to first see the 2nd-from and 7th-from a house. Actual death of friends may be more closely predicted by period of 2nd-from-11th or Vyaya Bhava.

    Wealth of first child

    bhava-5 represents the first child. Second house profiles wealth. Therefore the 2nd-from-5th house, Ripu-sthana, shows the wealth of the first child/

    • Wealth of 2nd child would be 2nd-from-7th, or Randhra bhava.

    • Wealth of 3rd child would be 2nd-from-9th, or Karmaa bhava.

    • etc.

    Follow this pattern to see wealth of all one's children and grandchildren.

    Pets and Livestock

    You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'" -- Dave Barry

    Relationships to lower caste people, animals and servants ( = employees in the modern West) is profiled in bhava-6 and 6th-from-Chandra. The domain which lies 6th-from-Moon, if well-disposed, will show the person having compassion toward those socially positioned lower than themselves. If the career setup is right (e.g.+ L-6 in bhava-10 and Surya in 11) such a person may succeed in large-scale efforts to eradicate poverty, end exploitation, or improve animal welfare. Psychologically, people who may be ego-attached to a victim mentality are also generally speaking highly sensitive to the feelings of animals.

    • Shukra within or favorably aspecting Ripu bhava or 6th-from-Chandra= love of animals so delightful that one takes an animal or servant as a pet - not asking it to perform any work, simply enjoying and indulging the servant or animal as one would a family member.

    • Many people in the modern west have strongly affectionate and intuitive relationships with their pets. Even Odysseus would not enter heaven unless his faithful dog was allowed to accompany him!

    • Affliction to bhava-6 shows the ignorant treatment of those positioned below oneself, particularly animals, or people whose karmic predicaments make them victims of poverty or disease.

    • Usually the native receives a 'boomerang' effect of this type of cruelty within their own lifetime. If not, you can be sure they are storing up plenty of evil effects for themselves in future lives!

    If the 6th house is strong while the 4th and 7th are weak, the person may prefer the company of animals, employees or servants to the companionship of one's human peers.

    Bad planets in a bad house usually give good results

    In Jyotisha: "Bad planets in a bad house usually give good results."

    • Rahu-Ketu, Shani and Kuja - the 'bad boys' of earth's solar system - can give excellent results in Ari Bhava if they are not encumbered there. However they will always produce some degree of health concern, according to the sign and Aspects.

    • Malefic Grahatend to function rather well in dusthamshas. Malefics give particularly good results in the uber-dusthamsha, Ari Bhava. Malefics are not generally harmed by Ripu sthana's environmental toxins. Rather, they seem to enjoy the challenge. Malefics in a dusthamsha seem to be saying "no more mister nice guy."

    • Often malefic planets in bhava-6 draw the native into service of the chronically ill or imbalanced, rather than to be chronically ill in themselves. Serious malefics in Ari bhava such as Saturn, Mars, and dusthamsha lords - combined with other virtue-laden graha - often show "Imbalance professionals" such as public health workers, clinic doctors and nurses, environmental activists, hazardous waste managers, debt counselors (including financing debt to poor countries) and others who work with spiritual, social, emotional, mental, or physical illness.

    However malefics in Ripu bhava do cause illness, according to the nature of the malefic and the specialties of the rashi.

    • Shani causes aging, cold and dryness; arthritis, stiffening, brittleness

    • Surya gives biliousness and burning; skin eruptions, heart disease

    • Mangala brings accidents, breakage, fevers and wounds

    • Rahu gives poisoning, including iatrogenic disease

    • Ketu causes the native to disconnect from medical treatment, to not seek help

    For example, Surya in Ari bhava yuti no other planets, makes a person somewhat prone to egotistical overheating due to excess pitta (bile). Eventually they will develop heart disease from the stress of self-assertion (not necessarily fatal, just a known stress zone.)

    However Surya with other malefics such as Kauja, Shani, or Rahu-Ketu in bhava-6, can make profound digestive sickness if Kuja's anger, or Shani's repression, or Rahu's drug poisoning amplify the basic ego-overload of Surya.

    Benefics in Domains 6, 8 and 12 are inevitably damaged.

    Benefics in bhava-6 become victims of the toxic, imbalanced environment in that evil house. The expected positive effects of benefics which fall into a dusthamsha are not realized. Depending on the strength of the benefic, results typically "backfire" - which is to say that the best motivations give unexpectedly nasty results.

    Benefics in a dusthamsha exemplify the old saying, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

    • Shukra gives addictions, sexually transmitted disease, sugar disease/diabetes

    • Guru brings obesity, excessive feasting, swellings, generous but unsustainable promises, gout

    • Budha encourages mental illness, chronic argumentation, worrying, anxiety

    Remedial Seva

    Q: Madame, I am facing a horrible consequence of my actions. My beloved wife has left me, finally, after discovering my sexual indiscretions after marriage, with a former lover. I desperately want to restore the trust in my marriage to my beautiful and devoted wife... but she has filed the divorce petition now and her entire family stands against me. I feel great misery and humiliation ... want terribly to reconcile with her, whom I love deeply... but she will not speak to me. I know that what I have done is wrong... and I have no feelings for my old lover. (In fact, I hate her.) What can I do? Is there a remedy?

    A: Here is a brief recommendation. It will only work if you are really ready to change:

    • selfless service (Seva) offered toward those who are suffering in a similar way as oneself,

    • the beneficiaries of one's Seva should be those who suffer a worse intensity -- therefore a worse case of ignorance regarding the cause of their suffering.

    • This method transforms ignorance into wisdom

    The best response in situations of grave difficulty , such as the onethat you presently are suffering, is to offer service to those who have A worse degree of the problem than you have.

    In one's own case, the karmic problem is breaking a trust.

    • Therefore , look for an opportunity to offer Seva to men who whose inability to respect trusts and agreements has landed them in prison.

    • Being already in physical prison, they are in more severe and more long-lasting trouble than you who are in the quicker-changing psycho-emotional prison of guilt and grief.

    • Find a charitable opportunity to serve men who have grossly mistreated their wives (e.g., domestic violence or even spousal murder) or who have otherwise severely harmed a trusting partner (even a business partner).

    • During the process, you can learn about this repeating karmic pattern which they have quite vividly but which you have probably to a lesser degree because you are more intelligent and more self-controlling.

    • At the moment of accepting a targeted Seva, you can take solace in knowing that one's cloud of ignorance is breaking up!

    • But clearly you share the karmic pattern, and watching those lower than you as they do the same dysfunctional thing will be very enlightening.

    Time, past and future

    • Due to the way that humans perceive Time, we cannot change the past.

    • What we can do however is to eliminate the cause of the moral error,

      • thereby preventing the unhappy past occurrence from repeating in the future.

    Worship and Service

    • Shri Ganesha empowers the removal of obstacles from the path of enlightenment.

    • Shri Shri Ganapati may be petitioned for assistance in removing an obstacle of ignorance from one's path toward a good life in the future.

    • However after enlisting the moral support from Shri Ganesha, it is essential to get out in the material world and perform remedial service.

    • Not just as a penance but as an active quest for wisdom.

    • Q:The lord of Ari bhava is my strong and compassionate Guru in his own Rashi . I'm heading into the mahadasha of my L-6 Guru, and starting to feel worried about landing in the poorhouse from debt, or worse yet getting tricked into doing something low-class. I'm a good, religious person with a solid family life, and I also have a responsible job with employees and superiors. It seems unlikely that anyone in my family or professional environment would get me into trouble. Can I avoid most of the forecast consequences of the major period -- indebtedness, mainly -- if I am scrupulously committed to refusing all loans? Just don't do it? Forewarned is forearmed? Is there a way to outsmart the Wise Lord Guru?

    A: Good question! Generally, the conscious (but not superstitious) attitude you're describing will take the sting out of periods of L-6. When promises are broken and it seems like you owe more than you can pay (6), a wise smile and neutral attitude can allow the problem to get solved much quicker. Yes the problems will pop up due to karma but the fix can be swift and pragmatic when one knows what to expect.

    Things to be aware of: the biggest debt, illness, or injury (physical or social) events are likely in L-6 Guru-Guru and the bhukti periods of graha which occupy the 6th-from-L-6

    • Benefic in dushthamsha = "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."Because one's L-6 is a super-strong benefic, the main agents of the difficulties with animosity, debts, criminal acts, prostitution, illegal activities are not the typical bad guys. Not the usual suspects at all. Trouble comes from Guru-type figures, such as religious teachers, university professors, priests of the temple, philosophers, physicians, and even veterinarians (bhava-6 rules animals). Beware of those preaching compassion; beware of claims upon one's generosity (Guru).The key is to clearly distinguish between sympathy and compassion -- acts of pity or rescue of apparent victims is (During Guru L-6 period) a set-up for loss.

    • bhava-6 = broken promises and unsustainable agreements.

      Naturally if excess generosity and getting suckered into a bit of debt by mistaking sympathy for compassion are one's two worst problems, this L-6 period is not so brutal. You'll be quite fine overall. For mere mortals it's not realistic to expect that there would be no manifestation of financial, social, spiritual, mental or physical imbalance during the 16-year period of Guru... but you're absolutely right that the attitude of preparedness wins half the battle.

    The karmic purpose of periods of L-6 is to help the native transform the ignorance of victim-mind into an awareness that one is, at the level of beliefs, actually causing the problem by via negative expectations.

      • So, the more awareness one can muster regarding the power to control the outcome not simply by a financial tactic of refusing new loans but a higher consciousness of family patterns, relationship expectations, personal history, and religious beliefs -- the faster one can locate and eradicate the seed belief which is causing the victim experience.

  • In sum, yes, a policy of no loans will certainly help. But if circumstances seem to be generating undue animosity, debt, or disease -- look not to the spreadsheet, but to the belief system for the key to rebalance.

    • For quickly releasing expectations of physical illness and injury during periods of L-6, I recommend Louise Hay's 1984 classic book "you can heal your life" because of its extremely useful index of ailments matched to negative beliefs (worth the price of the whole book). To cut down the rebalancing time, use this index.

    Sincerely, Barbara

    Q: I was alarmed by one comment you made ("Naturally be cautious during periods of L-6...") and was wondering what L-6 meant. I know that Mangal is in my 6th house, but I'm not sure how to interpret this?

    A:

    Not to worry! Or at least, not to worry any more than usual : )

    Everyone should be cautious of internal argumentation and tendency to blame which might be potentially spilling over into an external accident during periods of their L-6.

    The internal argument can distract one's attention from the normal process of balanced, skillful movement in the outside world. It is a period which contains worry and karma of the workplace, and disagreement in contractual relationships such as marriage.

    So, naturally, it pays to check one's focusbefore engaging with the physical world.

    Nothing more scary than that! The period of Vimshottari L-6 is just a time period when everyone in one's own Vimshottari dasha of the L-6 would be benefittedby an extra dose of caution.

    ~~ BPL

    <"...in order to practice compassion, you should have an enemy."

    Real compassion extends to each and every sentient being, not just to friends or family or those in terrible situations.

    To develop the practice of compassion to its fullest extent, one must practice patience.

    • Shantideva tells us that if the practice of patience really moves one's mind and brings about a change, you will begin to see one's enemies as the best of friends, even as spiritual guides.

    • Enemies provide us some of the best opportunities to practice patience, tolerance, and compassion.

    • Shantideva [in "A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life"] gives us many marvelous examples of this in the form of dialogues between positive and negative aspects of one's own mind.

    • His reflections on compassion and patience have been very useful in my own practice. Read them and one's whole soul can be transformed.

    Here is an example:

    • For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion. So in order to practice compassion, you shouldhave an enemy.

    When you face one's enemy who is going to hurt you, that is the real time to practice tolerance. Therefore, an enemy is the cause of the practice of tolerance; tolerance is the effect or result of an enemy. So those are cause and effect.

    As is said, "Once something has the relationship of arising from that thing, one cannot consider that thing from which it arises as a harmer; rather it assists the production of the effect."

    ~~ H.H. Dalai Lama. (2003). How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life. Jeffrey Hopkins (Trans., Ed.) www.snowlionpub.com

    "I have simply stopped arguing with reality. ~~ Byron Katie

    How do I know the wind shouldblow?

    It's blowing.

    How do I know this is the highest order?

    It's happening.

    Arguing with 'what is' is like teaching a cat to bark.

    It's not very fulfilling.

    I am my friend and no longer confused.

    The way I know that reality is good is that,

    when I argue the point, I experience tension, fear and frustration.

    I lose - not sometimes, but 100% of the time.

    It just doesn't feel natural inside: no balance, no connection.

    I want reality to change?

    Hopeless. Let me change my thinking.

    Some of us mentally argue with 'what is.'

    Others of us attempt to control and change 'what is,'

    and then tell ourselves and others

    that we actually had something to do with any apparent change that took place.

    This leaves no connection or room for God in my life.

    In the peaceful experience of no opposition to God,

    I remain aware of my nature: clear, vibrant, a friend, a listener. "

    "It is easy enough to be friendly to one' s friends.

    But to befriend the one who regards himself as one's enemyis the quintessence of true religion.

    The other is mere business."

    -- Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869 - 1948) Non-Violence in Peace and War, vol. 2, ch. 248 (1948) -- www.gandhiserve.org

    "Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent.

    It is otherwise with mental non-violence.

    It has potency which the world does not yet know."

    -- M.K. Gandhi (1869 - 1948) Non-Violence in Peace and War, vol. 1, ch. 256 (1942) www.gandhiserve.org

    "If you harbor negative feelings towards others, and yet expect them to be friendly to you, you are being illogical.

    If you want the atmosphere around you to be more friendly, you must first create the basis for that.

    Whether the response of others is positive or negative, you must first create the ground of friendliness.

    If others still respond to you negatively after this, then you have the right to act accordingly."

    ~~ H.H. Dalai Lama. (2002). The Dalai Lama's Book of Love and Compassion. Thorsons Pub.

    Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of one's spiritual practice,

    provided you are able to transform the calamity and misfortune into the path.

    ~~ H.H. Dalai Lama, The Path to Tranquility. .

    I want you. I shall find you.

    I shall take you to bed and have my way with you.

    I will make you ache, shake and sweat till you moan and groan.

    I will make you beg for mercy.

    I will exhaust you and leave you weak for days.

    All my love...

    ~~ THE FLU .

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