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Guru * Brihaspati

Great Golden Guide - Gnanakaraka


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bhadrakaraka

gnanakaraka

putrakaraka

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Table of Guru transits thru 12 rashi: 1900-2099

  1. Guru in Mesha
  2. Guru in Rishabha
  3. Guru in Mithuna
  4. Guru in Karkata* uchchamsha
  5. Guru in Simha
  6. Guru in Kanya
  7. Guru in Thula
  8. Guru n Vrischika
  9. Guru in Dhanushya * moolatrikona
  10. Guru in Makara * neechchamsha
  11. Guru in Kumbha
  12. Guru in Meena
  1. Guru in bhava-1 * dik-bala
  2. Guru in bhava-2
  3. Guru in bhava-3
  4. Guru in bhava-4
  5. Guru in bhava-5
  6. Guru in bhava-6
  7. Guru in bhava-7
  8. Guru in bhava-8
  9. Guru in bhava-9
  10. Guru in bhava-10
  11. Guru in bhava-11
  12. Guru in bhava-12

Book of Proverbs

  • 4:5-7
"Get wisdom, get understanding:
  • forget it not;
  • neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee:

  • love her,
  • and she shall keep thee.

Wisdom is the principal thing;

therefore get wisdom:

  • and with all thy getting, get understanding."
Names for Guru

Vrihatipati - Vrihaspati - Brahaspathi - Brhaspati - Brihattejas - Brahmanapati - Aggirasa - Amaraguru - Citrazikhandin -

Devapati - Devapujya - Devapurohita - Devejya -

Dhisana - Diidivi - Dvaadazakara - Dvaadazaamzu -

Gaura - Guraja - Giriiza -

Graharaaja -

Indramantrin -

Ijya - Jyau - Jove

Mahaamati - Mahendra - Naakanaayaka -

Paarusya - Pracaksas - Prakhyas -

Praakphaalguneya - Phalguniibhava - Phaalgunya - PuurvaphalgunI -

Saptarsi - Suraguru - Surapati - Surejya - Surendra - Suri -

Utathyaanuja -

Vaacasaampati - Vaacaspati - Vaagiiza - Vaagmin - Vaakpati -

Vibudha

BPHS

  • Ch. 3 Shloka 27

"Guru

  • has a big body, tawny hair and tawny eyes,

  • is phlegmatic, intelligent,

  • and leaned in all shastra."

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Direction Northeast = aparajita

movements in a northeasterly direction are forecast during many periods of Guru

Jupiter Brihaspati = " Guru of the Gods". He is the teacher of teachers; the high-priest; the voice of Truth. His portfolio includes wisdom, ritual excellence, and joy.
  • Psychically, Guru indicates the native 's "permission" levels set at birth.

  • Karmically, Guru tells us what type of talent, gift, and privilege is stored in the "credit account" created by generous actions in past lives.

  • Physically, Guru expands everything He contacts. He can change the size of the person's Annamayakosha the "food body". When Guru sends a drishti to the lagna, for example, Guru makes the person look large. When Guru sends drishti to Chandra, the person is fertile.

  • Emotionally, Guru = relaxed and confident.

  • Socially, Brihas-pati = compassionate and generous.

  • Intellectually, Guru = omniscient Himself and a wonderful teacher to others.

Ju-piter Anc. Gk. = zdeus + pitar = zdeuspitar = Jupiter , father of the gods

Book of Proverbs

  • 16:16 (KJV)
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!

and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

www.etymologyonline.com ::

from L. Iupeter, from PIE * dyeu-piter- "god-father" ...

  • from *deiw-os "god" (see divine + piter "father"...)

  • Cf. Gk. Zeu pater, vocative of Zeus pater "Father Zeus;

  • Skt. Dyaus-pita "heavenly father.

worship (n.)
  • O.E. woršscip, wuršscip (Anglian), weoršscipe (W.Saxon)
  • condition of being worthy, honor, renown," from weorš "worthy" ... + -scipe .
  • Sense of "reverence paid to a supernatural or divine being" is first recorded c.1300.
  • The original sense is preserved in the title worshipful (c.1300).
  • The verb is recorded from c.1200.

BPHS

  • Chap. 84, shloka 10

"Contemplate of Guru, as yellow complexion and Shukra of fair complexion,

both with four arms, carrying a Danda, Akshasutra, Kamandala and Vara."

Saravali

  • Ch. 7-13

"Jupiter rules

  • auspiciousness, virtue,

  • physical stoutness, prowess,

  • preceptorship,

  • deputation,

  • city, state (province),

  • gold,

  • bed,

  • conveyance,

  • position,

  • grains,

  • residence

  • sons. "

Gospel of James

  • 3:17 (KJV)
"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
  • then peaceable, gentle,
  • and easy to be entreated,

full of mercy and good fruits,

  • without partiality,
  • and without hypocrisy. "

from Koeln Sanskrit Lexicon

Guru =

  • heavy , weighty
  • heavy in the stomach (food) , difficult to digest
  • great , large , extended , long;
    • long by nature or position (a vowel)
    high in degree , vehement , violent , excessive , difficult , hard
  • grievous
  • important , serious , momentous
  • valuable , highly prized; venerable , respectable ;
    • m. any venerable or respectable person (father, mother , or any relative older than one's self)
    haughty , proud (speech)
  • A spiritual parent or preceptor
    • (from whom a youth receives the initiatory Mantra or prayer ,
    • who instructs him in the Shastras and conducts the necessary ceremonies up to that of investiture
    • which is performed by the Acharya)
    the chief of
  • author of a Mantra
  • "preceptor of the gods", Brihaspati; the planet Jupiter
  • The 9th astrological mansion
  • Mucuna pruritus
  • parents and other venerable persons;
    • a honorific appellation of a preceptor ;
    • "venerable woman ", a mother
    "great (with child)", pregnant, a pregnant woman
  • The wife of a teacher

Saptarsi (sapta-rishi) =
  • name of the authors of the hymn Rik Veda; the 7 Rishis
  • The 7 Rishis = the 7 stars of the constellation Ursa Major
  • "the northern quarter of the sky "
  • The planet Jupiter

Sura =
  • A god , divinity , deity
  • The image of a god , an idol
  • Al a symbolic name for the number `" thirty-three "' (from the 33 gods)
  • A sage , learned man
  • The sun {kSura}{svara}
  • Calotropis Gigantea
  • A wise or learned man , teacher
  • An inciter , propeller
  • The Soma-juice flowing from the Soma press

Sura-pati =
  • "lord of the gods"; lordship over the gods
  • name of Indra
  • name of Shiva
  • Indra's teacher, Brihas-pati
  • The planet Jupiter
  • "bow of Indra", the rainbow

Vaca =
  • speaking , talking
  • A parrot
  • The sun
  • speech , a word
  • The goddess of speech
  • A holy word , sacred text
  • An oath
Light Source P'taah "We have said that your belief structures create your universe, and so they do.
  • You create your universe absolutely.
  • You create your own reality moment by moment, even your physical body.

You create it, hold it together, recreate it microsecond by microsecond.

  • It is not really as solid as you would believe,
  • even those glorious cells called ‘fat'!

Not solid."

B.V. Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations.

10th ed., Delhi, 1991, 1947).

"Malefics, Benefics, and Neutrals" p. 6 : Guru = malefic or benefic?

"Jupiter.

Gnanakaraka Guru

Karaka significations:

this list is adapted from Das

Wisdom, Protection, benevolence, affluence, fame, astrology, councilors, advisors, religiousness, belief in god, priests, teachers, judges, children, guardianships, charity, generosity, contentment, laziness fat, expansion,

  • largeness, devotion, faith, hope, higher aspect of intelligence, fairness, justice, honesty financial dealings, foreign affairs, god's grace in this world, honor,

  • lawfulness, master of knowledge and wisdom ,insurance, legal matters, medicine, occult science, physicians, liver (purification of blood), morality, conservative, optimism, peace, opulence,

  • performance of sacrifices, perpetuation of established codes, philosophy, pilgrimage, religious vocations, reputation, trust, scriptures, Veda. "

Multiplicity - Multiplier Agent

  • Copiousness, copies,

  • multiplex (many layers), multitudinousness,

  • "Many-ness"
Guru yuti Surya = more than one Father or father-figure

Guru yuti Chandra = more than one Mother or mother-figure

Guru in bhava-7 = more than one life-partner

Guru + L-11 = many friends

Guru + L-6 = many physicians

Guru + Rahu = many adventures

Guru + Shani (for females) = multiplication of remarriages, many second-husbands

BPL:
  • Guiding, Teaching, ritual priesthood,

  • religious and philosophical education , sacred texts, wisdom traditions, knowledge of languages and history , scholarship and studies,

  • academic fieldwork (expansion), university culture, philosophy,

  • memory , understanding of symbols, knowledge of the gods and other worlds, transactions on the bridge between the material place and the astral plane, clairsentient perceptions, mystical visions,

  • psychic healing and intuition, preaching, temple and university professions, world travel , international undertakings, sleep and the sleeping quarters, sanctuary, diagnostic medicine (vs. prescriptive medicine = Budha) escape, expansion and development, divine children, monasteries and enclosures,

  • Three Hundred Important Combinationsworldview, mediation and prayer, hospitals and anesthetic drugs, funerals, moksha, religious items, golden-orange things

  • Father (piter) - Priesthood, religion, truth - Santa Claus - Language - Generosity, charity - Abundance, wealth, expansion - Opportunity, growth, fat - Understanding, truth - Children, productivity, re-productivity - Optimism, hope, positive expectation - benefits, gifts - Wisdom (vs. knowledge, vs. information) - Teaching profession, guru - Humanistic education, opportunity, growth

  • Negative:

    • paternalism, "Nanny State", overconfidence, all of the delusions of organized religion including self-deception under cover of religion, ritualism, scripturalism, worship of priests, Brahminism, punditism, misplaced optimism, "one size fits all" theories, oversimplified answers to complex questions, Pollyanna complex, schadenfreud; inflation, obesity, erosion of discipline, excessive permissiveness

Body Parts =

swadhi-sthana = 2nd chakra

  • liver

  • reproductive organs

Illu endocrine system.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_gland

The major endocrine glands:

1Pineal gland

2 Pituitary gland

3 Thyroid gland

4Thymus

5 Adrenal gland

6Pancreas

7Ovary (female)

8 Testes (male)

Wisdom The two rashi (signs) of Surapati are Dhanushya and Meena
  • The portfolio of Sagittarius includes all Exterior - social-material - expressions of Wisdom

  • The portfolio of Pisces includes all Interior - psycho-emotional - expressions of Wisdom.

Languages
  • Traditionally, Language originates in the human structure, within the cave of Brahma = breath

  • The breath is regulated by the guru-regulated glands, Pituitary (regulates homeostasis, growth-9) and Pineal (pine-cone) (regulates sleep-12).

    • Do you see the elephant head of Shri Ganesha in the picture?

B. V. Raman, A Catechism of Astrology, p. 39

"Jupiter must be the karaka for language.

If he is in lagna or aspects the 9th house, one will know several languages.

The second house indicates speech.

If Ketu is in the second, or the lord of the second happens to see the second,

then the native will become well versed in a number of languages.

The second house and Jupiter are the most important factors for judging linguistic capabilities."

BPHS Ch. 3 , Shloka 27

Guru has a big body, tawny hair and tawny eyes, is phlegmatic, intelligent, and leaned in all shastra.

Teachers and Children
Digha Nikaya 31: Sigalaka Sutta, III

"Pupils should tend to their teachers in the following five ways:

  1. By rising to greet them,

  2. Waiting on them,

  3. Being attentive,

  4. Serving them and

  5. Mastering the skills they teach.

The teachers should similarly:

  • Give thorough instruction,

  • Make sure the pupils have grasped what they have been taught;

  • Give them a thorough grounding in skills,

  • Recommend their pupils to friends and colleagues and,

  • Make them secure. "

Neechchamsha Guru

B.V. Raman, A Catechism of Astrology. p. 33

"Q. 39 Is Jupiter's aspect in debilitation good?

Ans. -- Jupiter is primarily a benefic by nature.

Though he is in debilitation, he still retains his benefic nature and his aspect will be good though weak."

p. 27


"Q. 32 Is there any truth in the saying that Jupiter, posited in Aquarius, is equivalent to Jupiter in Cancer?

Ans. -- Brihat Jataka, Chapter 16, verse 6 , gives this effect,

though Saravali gives bad effects. The former is more authoritative.

Many things are beyond our explanation and logic and they should not be rejected on that score."

Psychically, Guru indicates the native 's "permission" levels set at birth.
  • Karmically, Guru tells us what type of talent, gift, and privilege is stored in the "credit account" created by generous actions in past lives.

  • Physically, Guru expands everything He contacts. He can change the size of the person's annamayakosha (the "food body"). When He sends a drishti to the lagna, for example, Guru makes the person look large. When He sends drishti to Chandra, the person is reproductively fertile.

  • Emotionally, Guru is relaxed and confident.

  • Socially, Brihas-pati is compassionate and generous.

  • Intellectually, Guru is omniscient Himself and a wonderful teacher to others.

Pancha Tantra, 5.305

"It is only the mean-minded who calculate in the manner that such and such is mine and such and such is alien.

For those of magnanimous character the whole earth is one family. "

Buddhist Texts (vs. images)


~~ Generous Wisdom : Commentaries by His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV on the Jatakamala Garland of Birth Stories. (1992). Tenzin Dorjee (Trans.) Dudjom Rinpoche (Ed.).

"It wouldn't be bad if you didn't have statues, but it has become indispensable to have Buddhist texts which deal with the structured path to train our mind.

If you have Buddhist texts, read them for yourselves and to friends who visit. That way you can help others to understand Buddhist ideas.


For instance, it is interesting to read Milarepa's life story and songs. We find in them many enlightening lessons. Buddha's image alone will not purify us of karmic obscuration....

  • It is very important to study the scriptures. They are not to be just stacked up on the altar. They must be cultivated in our mind. ...

  • [we] take great interest in having the symbolic representations of Buddha's body, speech and mind.

  • I feel it is more important to acquire and read scriptures, the symbolic representations of his speech.

  • You can pay homage to them, you can make offerings to them; above all, you should study them."

Q:

Dear Barbara,

... Presume that one has both Jupiter (Guru) and Rahu in the sign of Taurus. What general conclusion could one draw from this arrangement? I'm presuming that in Jyotisha or traditional Vedic astrology, two planets (Graha) are automatically in conjunction when they occupy the same sign or house. (Concerning the house location of those two bodies, I'm not quite sure.) Thank you for any consideration that you may give to this question.

A:

Well there are a few general conclusions to be drawn about this pair of Guru + Rahu in Vrishabha rashi -- although Jyotisha graha are pretty tightly interlinked with each other, and generally it's misleading to judge graha without knowing all of their drishti, house placements, etc.

  • when Guru + Rahu share a rashi, in the radix chart, they will also share a house. However, in the bhava chart, they might be in adjacent houses based on their degree positions.

  • when Guru + Rahu share a rashi, this pair will have a very strong influence on four houses -- 1/3/ of the total real estate of the chart. They have so much influence because both Guru and Rahu cast 5-7-9 drishti. E.g., if Guru+Rahu occupy domain 8, they would both cast drishti upon domains 12, 2, and 4.

  • Rahu amplifies both His lord, and any co-tenants. Rahu will amplify and expand Guru. Guru is by nature the graha of wisdom and expansion. So, there is a lot of expansion, optimistic and Shukra-driven, in the nativity.


Expansion can be physical as in height or body-weight, but it can also be expansion of market share or territory in the empire... it depends on lord Shukra, plus house, plus drishti etc.


Examples:

Both Cindy Crawford (fashion model) and Brooke Shields (model/actress) both have Guru + Rahu in Vrishabha (Taurus).

  • They are both possessed of exceptionally tall, exotically attractive, (Rahu, Shukra) female bodies. Cindy Crawford has Guru + Rahu in bhava-7 which casts drishti direct upon her physical body (lagna). Cindy Crawford's Shukra occupies Makara, a superb placement for beautiful bone structure. Makara isn't about sex or mystery. It's about status, profession, and hierarchies of respect ("look twice") based on control of material resources i.e., money and power.

  • By comparison, Brooke Shields has Guru + Rahu + Shukra + Budha + Ravi -- all in Vrishabha, and all in bhava-8!! Guru + Rahu for Brooke Shields does not cast drishti upon the physical body lagna directly, but rather upon domains-12, 2, and 4 - with 2 being the second marriage. The psychological complexities of Brooke Shields' sensuality and personal life are well known.

Lord Shukra

For your own kundali, at this point, it is necessary to find Shukra and determine Shukra's character. Only then is it possible to say what type of behavior Rahu-Guru are engaged in. But one thing we do know: it's all about sensual experience (food, sex, money, language, music, knowledge) and its range of influence in the lifestyle is quite wide.

Chandra

Also evaluate Rahu + Guru's angle to Chandra. Chandra is the baseline for all emotional relationships (parents, children, spouse, etc.)

  • If Rahu + Guru were e.g. in 7th-from-Chandra, the first spouse might be rather full of oneself, rather generous, sensual (rashi of Shukra), and likes mingling with foreigners (Rahu) and breaking social taboo (Rahu).

  • If Rahu + Guru occupy 2nd-from-Chandra, those characteristics belong to the second marriage partner.

  • Ninth-from-Soma = father.

  • 4th-from-Soma = maternal grandmother.

  • Rahu + Guru would be a noticeable effect if the father had it, or the mother's mother.

Find the relative indicated by the angle from the Moon, and think about their character. That relative's behavior will give a good description of the Rahu-Guru profile.

Use charts of Family members

  • One piece of advice for the beginner: when trying to figure out the effect of yogas like Guru + Rahu, don't concentrate too much on one's own personality as seen in one's own Jyotisha radix-navamsha.

  • It's hard to be objective about oneself. Trying to match one's own supposed personality traits to the moving target of a chart that one doesn't quite know how to read yet, is too vague a matching process to really start to see the patterns.

  • Rather, work with your known relatives, including spouse ( s) as counted from Chandra lagna and too from radix rashi lagna. We tend to know our relatives' personalities/traits pretty well, so they can provide lots of fun data for matching.

Hope this helps toward your study of Jyotisha. It's detailed but really rewarding to start to figure it out.

All the best,

Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha

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Religious Vows

* * * Dedicated to Chokhor Duchen, Shakyamuni Buddha


HH Dalai Lama

  • Generous Wisdom: Commentaries by His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV on the Jatakamala Garland of Birth Stories.(1992). Tenzin Dorjee (Trans.) Dexter Roberts (Ed.).

"... Shakyamuni Buddha, even when he was a trainee on the path, was solely concerned in both thought and action with others' welfare. Whenever he found an opportunity to work for others, no matter what difficulties he faced, he was never discouraged.

He never hated obstacles and hardships encountered on the way. Instead, the difficult situations facilitated his being more courageous and determined to accomplish others' welfare. Just because he was so determined to work for others in the past, even as a trainee on the path, it is needless to say how much more it is so with him now as a completely enlightened person.

...We say this prayer at the time of taking vows:

  • I shall relieve those who are distressed; I shall establish beings in the bliss of enlightenment.

In regard to situations in which we cannot help others literally, we can mentally dedicate our body, wealth and virtue to them. Otherwise, we are just helpless.

While you give, do not expect something in return. Do not give to fulfill selfish motives. Do not be discouraged in giving. Generate the altruistic mind of enlightenment as best you can, and then give out of sole concern for others.

Having been reborn as human beings and having come into contact with Dharma, we know something about what to do and what not to do."

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