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If from the lords of the first and seventh houses from the Atmakaraka, the fifth house has Jupiter, Venus, or the Moon, the native has political or governmental power or authority.

~~ Jaimini Sutram, CH. 1, Shloka 35

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." 

~~ Abraham Lincoln

"You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends."

 ~~ Joseph Conrad

"Power belongs to those who use it."

~~ Mahatma Gandhi

"The time is always right to do what is right."  

~~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars."

~~ Will Durant. (1944). The Story of Civilization. (Vol 3 Caesar And Christ. Epilogue - "Why Rome fell").

"Revenge is a dish that tastes better when it's cold."

~~ Josef Stalin

World Leaders and Kala-Sarpa Yoga

One pattern worth observing in the charts of world leaders -- whether beneficent humanitarians or repressive tyrants -- is that they often display some version of Kala-Sarpa Yoga.  

That is, they tend toward either:

  • a classic Kala-Sarpa radix with all planets hemmed in between Ketu & Rahu (Version 1)

  • all planets hemmed in between Rahu & Ketu (version 2, confirmed as a kala-sarpa configuration by B.V. Raman)

or

  • an equally strong pattern of a modified KSY with one, and only one, planet outside the Rahu-Ketu axis [typically that one graha is Shani].

Dalai Lama defends Politicians

 

"In defense of politicians, they are necessarily the products of a society. 

If it is a society that thinks only of money and power, without any concern for moral values, we should not be surprised if politicians are corrupt, and should not therefore consider that the responsibility for such a situation lies entirely with them."

 

~~  H.H. Dalai Lama. (2004). 365 Dalai Lama: Daily Advice from the Heart, Matthieu Ricard (Ed.)

Dalai Lama says: Yes (Virginia) there are Human Rights

If you ask "Do humans have rights?" [I respond] yes, there are human rights.

How is it that humans have rights? 

It is on the basis of the valid innate appearance of an I to our consciousness that we naturally want happiness and do not want suffering, 

and that wanting of happiness and not wanting of suffering itself, 

with this appearance as its basis, 

is the very reason for there being human rights.  

~~  H.H. Tenzin Gyatso. (2006, rev. & updated, 25th anniv. ed.). Kindness, Clarity, and Insight 25th Anniversary Edition.  Jeffrey Hopkins (Trans. & Ed.), Elizabeth Napper (Ed.). www.snowlionpub.com

"The most exquisite paradox :

as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

As long as you want power, you can't have it.

The minute you don't want power,

you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible."

~~ Ram Dass

 

H.H. Dalai Lama: Politicians Need Religion

I consider it very important for religion to have an influence on politicians. Politicians need religion much more than pious people who have withdrawn from the world need it. There is a constant increase in the scandals in politics and business that can be traced back to the lack of self-discipline on the part of the responsible parties.

In India, the minister-president of West Bengal once said to me, with what he considered a humble attitude, that he was a politician and not a religious person. 

I responded to him:

politicians need religion more than anyone else.

When hermits in solitude are bad persons, the result is that they harm themselves alone and no one else. 

But when such influential people as politicians are full of bad intentions, they can bring misfortune to many. 

This is why religion, as continuous work on our inner maturity, is important for political rulers.

A politician must have moral principles.

I am convinced of this. Seen in this light, politics and religion belong together.

In the United States, church and state may be separate, but when the president takes office, he makes a vow in the name of God with his hand on the Bible.

This means that God should be the witness that the president will conscientiously fulfill his official duties.

~~  H.H. Dalai Lama with Felizitas Von Schonborn.  (2005). Path of Wisdom, Path of Peace. Foreword by Wei Jingsheng; Crossroad Publishing Co.

We only have one political party in the U.S., and that is the property party, which has two right wings.

~~ Gore Vidal

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

~~ Ram Dass

 

Compassionate society begins at Home

...We can't blame one individual for what happens in our world. I think we should blame our entire society. Society produces our leaders and politicians, and if we try to develop a more compassionate and affectionate society, we will have human beings with a more peaceful nature. 

Leaders, politicians, and businesspeople coming from such a society would offer hope for a better world. Our long-term responsibility--everyone's responsibility, whether they are believers or nonbelievers--is to find ways to promote a peaceful and compassionate society.

I think one way is quite simple.

Each individual must try to ensure peace and compassion in his [or her] family. 

Put together ten peaceful, compassionate homes, or one hundred, and that's a community. 

The children in such a society would receive affection in their family and in their schools from the educators concerned. 

We might have one or two setbacks, but generally I think we could develop a sensible society. Sensible here means a sense of community, a sense of responsibility, and a sense of commitment.

 

~~ H. H. Dalai Lama. (2005). Many Ways to Nirvana: Reflections and Advice on Right Living, Renuka Singh (Ed.)

  

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