Rashi Lagna
Om rim Pitambaraya Paramatmane Namah
Om
namho sri pitambaraye namah
(Om Preem
peetambaraya namaha)
Virgo
Chandra in Kanya |
Juni, Brevarium
Grimani
fol. 7v (Flemish), ca. 1510 --
from: Venedig, Biblioteca Marciana |
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woodcut from
Liber Astronomiae by
Fra. Guido Bonatti,
c. 1277
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Names
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Kayaka - Kanyaaraazi - Kanni - Aggana - Paartha - Paathona - Plavaga - Pramadaa - Ramani - Taruni
Parthenos (Παρθένος
"virgin")
"parthenon"
= Pathona
=
Greek
Virgo -
Vierge
(French) - Vergine
(Italian) -
Panna (Polish) - Pava (Russian)
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BPHS Chapter 4: 13-14.
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"This Rashi is a hill-resorter
and is strong in daytime.
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It rises with its head and has
a medium build.
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It is a biped Rashi and resides
in the South.
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It has grains and fire in its
hands.
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It belongs to the business
community and is variegated.
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It relates to
hurricanes (Prabharanjani).
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It is a Virgin and is Tamasic
(a disposition of demons). Its ruler is
Budha."
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Parashara
says
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"[They]
are tall with a slender body.
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Their
eyebrows are covered with hair growth.
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Their voice is very often thin and sometimes even shrill.
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They walk quickly and they seldom have a pot belly.
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As they are very active they often appear younger than their
actual age.
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The persons
with Kanya lagna are fond of quick changes.
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However, they are very capable of handling even unfavorable
situations.
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They are
thorough, and methodical, practical and discriminative but they
lack power.
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They will have
desire to save money.
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They have sound commercial instinct and they
want to grow rich as quickly as possible.
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Their married life is not unhappy.
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Public Figures
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Uttaraphalguni
(ruled by Surya) = splendid for politics and entertainment
Surya mulatrikona =
Simha bhava-12 = interiority, foreign lands,
private dealings behind closed doors, enemies of
the marriage and those adversarial to alliances,
meditation, dreams, other worlds, fantasies, the
bedroom, imagination
UK-PM
Winston
Churchill
golf champion
Tiger
Woods
dramatist, occult
writer
Shirley MacLaine
political wife of
USA Pres-40
Ronald
Reagan = Nancy Davis Reagan
dramatist
Warren Beatty
dramatist
Harrison Ford
"Playboy" publisher,
entrepreneur Hugh Hefner
spiritual writer Thomas Merton
poet, novelist
Rainer Maria Rilke
Hasta
= ruled by intuitive, patriotic Chandra
Chandra mulatrikona =
Vrishabha bhava-9 = religious and philosophical
preaching; public guidance; world travel
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USA Pres-28,
Woodrow
Wilson
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industrialist
Henry
Ford
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announcer, presenter Jacques Cousteau
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animator, entrepreneur
Walt Disney
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television journalist Barbara Walters
Chitra ruled by muscular, moving Mangala
Mangala mulatrikona =
Mesha bhava-8 = death of partner or catastrophic
divorce; inheritance; occult knowledge;
sudden, forced changes
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wealth
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from Shukra lord of
2nd-from-Kanya
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T. Subba Row. (1881). "The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac" in
Five
Years Of Theosophy.
George Robert Snow Mead (ed.). London.
(1885,
1894).
"Mystical, Philosophical,
Theosophical, Historical and Scientific Essays Selected from "The
Theosophist". Available at www.gutenberg.org
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"VI. Kanya
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Means a virgin and represents
Saktior Mahamaya.
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The sign in question is the sixth Rasi or
division, and indicates that there are six primary forces in
Nature.
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These forces have different sets of names in
Sanskrit philosophy.
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According to one system of nomenclature, they
are called by the following names*:
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(1) Parasakty; (2) Gnanasakti; (3) Itchasakti
(will-power); (4) Kriytisakti; (5) Kundalinisakti; and (6)
Matrikasakti.
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The six forces are in their unity represented by
the Astral Light.**
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* Parasakti:--Literally the great or supreme
force or power. It means and includes the powers of light and
heat.
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Gnanasakti:--Literally the power of intellect or
the power of real wisdom or knowledge. It has two aspects."
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Properties of Kanya
Rashi
dvyAtmaka group =
"double-natured"
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Mithuna
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Kanya
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Dhanushya
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Meena
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manushya
group = humane,
human-being
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Mithuna
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Kanya
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Thula
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Koeln Digital
Sanskrit Lexicon
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Kanya =
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the smallest (opposed to
uttama and madhyama) -
chaste , undefiled -
a girl , virgin , daughter -
to give one's daughter in marriage -
to receive a girl in marriage , marry
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the sign of the zodiac Virgo -
the female of any animal -
name of Durga -
Aloe Perfoliata
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name of a metre (of four lines , each of them
containing four long syllables
Yuvati =
Pramadaa =
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joy, pleasure, delight -
wanton, dissolute -
mad, intoxicated -
the thorn-apple -
the ankle -
a young and wanton woman -
any woman -
the sign of the zodiac Virgo -
the royal garden or pleasure ground attached to
the gynaeceum -
womankind , the female sex
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a woman who has the inspection of a royal
pleasure-garden -
gynaeceum of a prince -
intoxication -
madness , insanity -
negligence, carelessness about -
an error, mistake, a wrong reading -
a partic. high number -
acting in a careless manner
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Karaka
significations of Kanya, the unmarried girl:
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agriculture, cultivated fields, farming; grains and fruits of the
fields; grassy plains, and meadows; physical sustenance through labor;
restaurants, food service; manual labor, working classes; teenage girls,
female maiden, unmarried female; best qualities of the common
female; earthy consciousness; servitude, slavery, exploitation, victims,
poverty;
bondage to a person, an idea, or to the land; brothels,
prostitution, exploitation; powerlessness (of any class, but represented
by the teenage girl); underclass: those minds are imbalanced and labor
is underpaid ; industries, factories, workplace; nurseries (human and
plant), child-care ; underpaid and overworked;
rational sciences and scientific
argumentation, esp. health sciences; all "lysis"-types of
dissolution functions (analysis, dialysis, bacterio-lysis); dissolution
of marriage, disagreements, break promise; intellectualism, ana-lysis,
literary criticism, arguing;
breaking up of perceptual integrity due to
argument/analysis in the mind; medicines, drugs, herbs of field and
forest; nursing, physicians, professions in clinical medicine;
unfairness,
imbalance; sensitivity, sickness, disease; self-criticism (a
mentality of spinsters and teenage girls); stomach, digestive system,
gastro-intestinal illness; strive for perfection /
perfectionism;
suffering for a noble cause. (~~ this list is broadly adapted from
Das)
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guna
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(tamas,inert)
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( = "that-ness"; element)
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Rashi Owner
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Budha, Mercury,
mercure
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zirshodaya =
shirsho-daya group
=
head-first = daya = presentation,
delivery, or showing-portion
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Mithuna
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Simha
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Kanya
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Thula
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Vrischika
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Kumbha
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General Traits of Kanya
Lagna - Chandra in Kanya
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disagreement, disenfranchisement, and disease.
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Argumentation,
loss of agreement, conflict, illness,
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medicines, diet and digestion,
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victimization,
debt, guilt, exploitive work, jails,
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ministry of serviceand servitude; hotels and restaurants; karma yoga . -
argumentation and accusations, service and
servitude, war and policing, pollution, illness and
medication.
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General Suitability
of Gems for Kanya Lagna
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Surya ratna = no, because Surya = L-12 and does
not rules any other good house -
Chandra ratna = no, because Chandra = L-11 and
does not rules any other good house -
Mangala ratna = no-no-no, because Mangala =
L-3 and L-8 -
Budha ratna = yes
always, because ratna for the lagnesha is always
beneficial, as Budha = L-10 boosting career -
Guru ratna =
maybe, if Guru is also a favorable house-lord from Chandra, because Guru
has a good social-relations portfolio as L-4
and L-7 -
Shukra ratna = yes, unless person is close to
death. Shukra = marana-karaka L-2 and He is also the excellent
dharma-pati -
Shani ratna = yes, with caution - because Shani =
L-5 and L-6 -
Rahu-ratna = unknown, depends on Rahu's lord -
Ketu-ratna = unknown, depends on Ketu's lord
There are exceptions to
all of these general rules. Exceptions are caused by the
position of Chandra, the active Vimshottari time lords, and the native 's
personal goals inter alia.
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Cataloguing Disenfranchisement and the
Dissolution of Agreements
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In personal life, the Kanya native is prone to carry out
"Argumentation Dharma" in marriage and family relations.
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The
common expression of human argument is simply kvetching, complaining, and
developing the mental practice of "victimology".
Argumentation tends to become a repeating litany of "reasons"
why the relationship is unsustainably unbalanced, contractual terms are not
capable of being fulfilled,
satisfaction is not ever expected to be obtained, etc.
Kanya = defining problems.
Thula = negotiating
solutions.
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All of Kanya's disabilities can be corrected by intentionally
reducing expectations
of human intelligence and
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increasing faith in
divine intelligence.
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Logical Argument
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"Logos" = "The
Word"
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Similar to Budha's other rashi, Mithuna, Kanya is
concerned with mental transactions and communication. However Kanya's
specialty is the logical categorization of information with the ultimate purpose of
Organizing a detailed argument.
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The Kanya-lagna native is concerned in this life with establishment
of the word-based argumentative reasoning process. As a result,
Kanya emphasizes the rules of
argument in preference to the content of the claims.
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Kanya =
natural analyst re: nearly any
academic discipline or subject matter.
Similar to Budha's other rashi, Mithuna, Kanya is
concerned with mental transactions and communication.
However Kanya's
specialty is the logical categorization of information
with the ultimate purpose of
organizing a detailed argument.
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The Kanya-lagna native is concerned in this life with establishment
of the word-based argumentative reasoning process. As a result,
Kanya emphasizes the rules of
argument in preference to the content of the claims.
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the native is a
Budha-ruled Kanya is a
"quick study"
who rapidly
acquires vocabulary, methodology, and expertise.
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'victimology' (the problematizing argumentation of ego-attachment to suffering)
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Medicine

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Budha = Hermes= the
wings on the caduceus
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Attention to the organization and planning of detailed arguments may
lead to vivid success in academic, scientific, and political professions.
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Diagnosis has an essential intuitive
component = Meena; communication between physician and patient
= Mithuna; and treatment plan =
Kanya. If intuitive Meena is also strong, Kanya can be brilliantly gifted in
medical practice .
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Kanya's ability to inventory
and
catalogue facts may generate a tremendous knowledge of
medicines, treatment modalities, systems of medical thought, and risk
factors. (The same medical genius is also often present when several
strong graha gather in bhava-6.) -
Other human services ministry
such as
social work and police work with criminals is also supported by Kanya
problem-solving mentality.
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Internal Criticism and Self-Doubt
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As the natural sixth rashi, Kanya's position in 12th-from-7th = loss of balance, is always problematic.
7th = trust.
Self-doubt
arises in the human mind, on the basis of a lack of trust.
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There are many benefits to a well-composed logical argument, but
these benefits obtain only when the mind is calm and objective, free of
emotional interference. Mixed with even the slightest amount of
past-life trauma, guilt, anger, or vindictiveness, the Kanya rashi can
become a bitter terrain, littered with the corpses of mental
war.
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The two largest demons of mental health are not anger, grief,
addiction, lust or rage - but rather, internal criticism and self-doubt. -
Except for Budha, who gives very excellent results in Kanya, most
graha suffer some negative impact in the sign of "dissolution of
agreement".
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Natural communities, friendship networks, and
sangha
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Karkata: befriends the
home-landers,
home-owners, parents and caretakers; stewards and custodians;
those less concerned with drama, fashion or politics; schools and schoolteachers, those who care for
buildings and vehicles; the security-oriented |
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Karkata dislikes
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6th-from-karkata = Dhanushya = things toward which
Karkata is hostile:
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Karkata likes
staying home in familiar surroundings
and dislikes world travel for purposes of learning
(Dhanushya)
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Karkata likes home and
dislikes the temple
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Karkata likes
local ethnic customs and dislikes the
broader international viewpoint (9)
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Karkata likes simple and absolute tribal ethics and
dislikes both compassion and sacred texts (9)
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Karkata prefers the mother (4) and
dislikes the
father (9)
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Karkata likes
the cool ocean breezes and
dislikes
the hot dry open plains where the archers practice
shooting (9)
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Karkata likes
safety and security and
dislikes
adventure
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Karkata likes to guard boundaries and
fears the
threat to fixed customs posed by travel and higher
learning
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Karkata likes the protective emotions and
dislikes philosophical thought
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Karkata likes foundational, cultural-indoctrination
schooling and dislikes conceptual, university level of
inquiry
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Cleaning the Psychic and
Physical Space
H.H. Tenzin Gyatso,
Path
to Bliss: A Practical Guide to Stages of Meditation. Geshe Thubten Jinpa
(Trans.), Christine Cox (Ed.)
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"The environment where you are doing the meditation should
be properly cleaned.
While cleaning,
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you should cultivate the motivation that since you are engaged
in the task of accumulating great stores of merit by inviting
the hosts of buddhas and bodhisattvas to this environment, it is
important to have a clean place.
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You should see that all the external dirt and dust around you
is basically a manifestation of the faults and stains within
your own mind.
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You should see that the most important aim is to
purge these
stains and faults from within your mind.
Therefore, as you cleanse the environment, think that you are
also purifying your mind.
Develop the very strong thought that by cleaning this place you
are inviting the host of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who are the most
supreme merit field, and that you will subsequently engage in a path
that will enable you to purge your mind of the stains of
delusions."
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In all your designs you will succeed,
and light will
shine on your path.
~~ Job 22:28
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