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Shri Shri Ganapati

Spiritual Figures


Baba Ram Dass

"An increasing ability to serve is the only reliable sign of spiritual progress."

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birth data from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Dass

charts, graphs, and tables generated by Shri Jyoti-Star-6 ; adapted by BP Lama

Biographical Details

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  • former university psychology professor

  • career in speaking, explaining, advising, writing, conferences and presentations = Budha-10

  • author of the USA generation-defining book "Be Here Now" = writes about ineffable spiritual experience = Ketu-3

  • significant early involvement with experimental hallucinogenic drugs = Ketu-3

  • spiritual teacher, adviser, inspirational guide = atmakaraka Shani in Dhanushya 10th navamsha

  • stage performer, comedian of relationship drama = Chandra bhava-5 parivartamsha Mangala-1

  • outreach ministry of radio programming and voice recordings = L-2 Surya-9 preaching yuti Rahu-9 exotic religions

  • stroke survivor, institutional teaching responsibilities, ministries of service = karakamsha Shani-6

MALES

Azlesa

  • Shil-Ponde. (1939). Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra. p 82.

"Outstanding characteristic of these people

  • is their rather unpleasant and unsociable disposition.

They are awkward and gauche in their manners

  • and are not quick to profit by their mistakes

  • because of their inability to adapt themselves to their surroundings

  • and their apparent reluctance to be gracious or kind to others.

This attitude militates against success in life and is a barrier to progress.


These people should live less introspectively

  • and learn to appreciate the good in other people.

They should cultivate the habit of doing things for others."

Distinctive features of nativity:

  • Sarala Yoga via Shani

  • Harsha Yoga via Guru

  • Mutual exchange of Guru + Shani

  • parivartamsha neechcha Chandra + neechcha Mangala

  • Shani drishti to 8 increases longevity that would normally be reduced via Shukra-8

Azlesa lagna

Chandra-5

Vrischika Chandra parivartamsha Karkata-Kuja

Chandra in Anuradha

Surya bhava-9 (universities, religious sangha) + Rahu = "too much father" karako bhavo nashto = father's possibly narcissistic (Surya) approach to public religious activities, university, temple, charitable causes, world travel:

  • according to wikipedia "His father, George Alpert, was a lawyer in Boston, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, one of the founders of Brandeis University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as well as a major fundraiser for Jewish causes."

Guru in bhava-12 = Guru in Mithuna = L-6 Guru in bhava-12 = Harsha Yoga

Ravi in bhava-9 + Rahu

Ravi in Meena

Mangala bhava-1

Mangala in Karkata parivartamsha Vrischika-Chandra

Budha in bhava-10

Budha in Mesha

Shukra-8

Shukra - Kumbha

Shani in Bhava-6 = L-8 in 6 Sarala Yoga

Shani in Dhanushya

Rahu in bhava 9

Ketu in bhava 3

chidakaraka Ketu in bhava 3 =

  • ambivalence toward prayer, dreams, spiritual retreat , disregard for conventions of the bedroom, barrier-free but often ignored guidance from the ancestors + clairsentient knowledge; generally unable to maintain privacy or attain sanctuary due to dispersal of the aura-protective shell

chalakaraka Rahu in bhava 9 =

  • ambition to be recognized and receive the privileges accorded to a clever adversary , a mischievous and devious servant, an adventurous and likely illegal druggist, a crafty litigator-accuser, or a great minister of service to the distrusted, diseased, dispossessed and afflicted. Rahu-6 is a difficult but ultimately successful placement for one committed to a life ministry of service.

parivartamsha yoga

between two neechcha graha: fallen Chandra and fallen Kuja = powerful mutual neechcha-bhanga of Chandra and Kuja

(compare to same parivartamsha yoga for Thomas Jefferson and author Stephen King = psychologically penetrating insights)

vargottamsha atmakaraka L-8 + L-9 Shani-7

Shani in the karakamsha

Shani receives drishti of Lord Guru

Shani receives dik-bala = discipline and austerity in marriage partnership.

However, in expansive, permissive Dhanushya as the extramarital L-8 in yuvatisthana, Shani-7 is notoriously difficult and married life may be unsustainable.

Shukra = alliances, partnerships, terms of contract = hidden liaison = 8

Kumbha-Shukra-8 "secret relationships" accepts drishti of (1) Guru (2) Mangala (3) Shani.

Ram Dass claimed for decades that he was celibate yogi "in love with his Guru" and committed to the purity of the guru-sisya relationship.

However he later revealed that after multiple brief relationships with both men and women he would self-label as 'bisexual with a preference for men'.

A long union with a male partner framed his 6th decade.

Vargottamsha Shani-6 + Shukra-Kumbha-89 receives drishti of Shani + Shukra = L-7 from Chandra = never married (gay sexuality).

At age 78, RD began a familial relationship with his previously unknown 50-something son, who had been born into one of RD's brief unions with a woman in graduate school.

karakamsha = satkona = Dhanushya. Ram Dass is a master of teaching on the very difficult subject of mistrusting, out-of-contract, exploitive, and illicit relationships as well as the super-difficult subjects of aging and chronic illness, which with Shani in 6 ruled by wise Guru he has endured in a long clinical study based in his own life and body. He is characteristically humble (Shani) and realistic (Shani) while preaching on all-too-human topics, which has endeared him to millions of western students throughout the world.

Guru

Kuja and Guru control the most graha;

Guru is strong by shad bala

Meena = 10th navamsha containing Guru = world teacher

Planetary Yogas

from B.V. Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations 16.Subha-Vesi Yoga

  • Definition: If planets other than the Moon occupy the 2nd from the Sun, Vesi Yoga is formed. [mesha budha]

  • Results: The person will be fortunate, happy, virtuous, famous and aristocratic.

Ram Dass

"I was giving this lecture back in the 70's and everybody in those days wore white, and they had flowers in their hair and we sang a lot, and we were all - it was like an explorers club coming together, and sitting in the front row was this woman about 70 years old and she had - she had a bonnet on with little strawberries, plastic strawberries, and cherries and things and she had a black patent leather bag and solid oxfords and a print dress and she was a very - I kept thinking, she was so unlike everybody else in the audience, I kept thinking what is she doing here.

  • I thought maybe she's somebody's grandmother or somebody brought her or -

  • so I would tell these far out stories that what happened to me under psychedelics for the most part or deep meditation,

  • and I'd look over and she'd be going like this, and I thought well maybe she has a neck problem.

I mean it was inconceivable to me that she could understand what I was talking about, and she kept going like this and I kept getting more far out and watching - I mean the whole evening became focused on this woman.

  • And at the end I couldn't stand it, the evening was over.

And I just had to know and I kind of smiled her up - actually couldn't get away, and she came up and she said oh thank you that's - the way you said it she said that's just the way I understand the universe to be, and I said, how do you know?

What have you done in your life that has put you in the space where you know these things, and she leaned forward very conspiratorially and she said, I crochet, and that moment of realizing that just the simplest thing, that in the way she did that took her into those spaces and realizing at that moment that I had gotten so hooked on my method, and that methods are methods are methods and people do it all different kinds of ways..."

Budha Mahadasha

[L-4] period of early education and personality development

Budha in 11 receives no incoming drishti

lagnesha Budha in 11 brings a lifetime of social networking and connects the native to some really good friends

Development largely intellectualized = strongly influenced by Budha's lord neechcha Mangala in 2 = family, knowledge of history and languages, accumulated values treasuries - yet Mangala neechcha is much discontented with the values acquired

Budha lord of navamsha (swamsha) will push to find a more adequately defining argumentation, spiritualized vocabulary, and explanatory devices

Ketu Mahadasha

  • age 20-27

  • continues effect of Ketu's lord L-1 + L-4 Budha "the explainer"

  • Ketu in bhava-4 - rarely at home, usually out doing Rahu's public high visibility roles

[L-4] graduate school = very ambivalent, despite the strength of personal identification with bhava-4 schooling = a province of the lagnesha

Ketu scatters the conventional morality (4) = experimental intellectuality and sexuality, unconventional lifestyle, and opening of awareness; interest in religions

Graha in bhava-4 support education.

In Ketu period, Richard Alpert completed his Stanford University Ph.D. in Psychology

Shukra Mahadasha

  • age 27-47

  • Shukra-9

  • Shukra-Kumbha

  • "Double L-12" = foreign lands, private sanctuary, ashram, imagination, clandestine activity

  • L-5+L-12 from Mithuna lagna

  • L-7+L-12 from Vrischika Chandra

Shukra/Shukra:

  • [L-5] appointed Harvard University psychology professor, 1960

  • [L-12]began experimenting with psilocybin (hallucinogenic mushrooms)

Shukra+L-2 Chandra:

  • [L-2 death, rescued by parivartamsha yoga]dismissed from Harvard University faculty for unauthorized drug use and giving drugs to undergraduates

Shukra/Rahu:

  • Rahu = foreigners, exotic leadership, "Great Leap Forward" in life

  • Life-defining trip to India. Meets guru Neem Karoli Baba. Adopts 'Seva' lifestyle. Returns to USA as itinerant spiritual teacher.

Be Here Now front cover 1973Shukra+L-8+L-9 Shani:

  • 1971 publication of Be Here Now, the spiritual classic which swept the Anglosphere with Eastern mystical and Selfless Service inspiration

  • 1974 - Hanuman Foundation, world service

  • 1977 - "Grist for the Mill"

Surya Mahadasha
  • age 47-53

  • L-3 from Mithuna Lagna

  • L-10 from Vrischika Chandra

Dhuma + Gulika in Simha-3 = skills training + communications media

Rahu + L-3 Surya in bhava-10 = dik-bala= a media communications and mentality career

continuing public talks and service

iconic public figure in the world of relationship management, spiritual growth and wisdom-teachings

constant short-term traveling

Chandra Mahadasha

  • age 53-63

  • L-2 from Mithuna lagna

Das / Behari: says of Vrischika Chandra/6:

"... makes you eccentric; past karma erupts into this life, so that social calumny confronts you without any provocation on your part.

  • At times the Moon will withdraw its cool judgment, as a result of which you may be immersed in profligacy.

  • Whatever the immediate cause, the Moon creates some kind of psychological pain."


    Chandra could be a killer, but Soma's parivartamsha with Kuja creates a remarkable wellspring of vitality
    • Public reputation remains high due to "Karma Padaa" = 10th-from-Arudha lagna = Vrischika with L-2 Jyestha Chandra

    • famous for speech (L-2) re: universal friendship (Anuradha), tantric lifestyle (homosexual practice) and transformative (Vrischika) teachings

  • Mangala Mahadasha

    • age 63-70

    • Kuja = Double L-6

    • L-6+L-11 from Mithuna lagna

    • L-1+L-6 from Vrischika Chandra

    L-6 Kuja+ L-8 Shani bhukti

    • massive stroke, age 66 - Feb. 1997;

    • half of body paralyzed + much speech processing is lost

    • later in 1997, serious intestinal infection

    • heavy medical expenses, and continuing illness

    • Shani occupies the devastating shad-ashtaka 6-8 anglefrom Kuja

    Rahu Mahadasha

    • age 70-88

    • Rahu gives the effect of Rahu's lord, the L-7 + L-10 Guru the Teacher.

    • Rahu/Rahu = after a long period of illness and poverty (neechcha Kuja) during Rahu/Rahu a former student alerts the community of RD's former students that RD is "still there" and needs energy

      • = infusion of funds from a deeply grateful body of thousands of his former students

      • recovers health enough to consider a return to teaching

    • Guru = lord of 10th navamsha = career, and Brihaspati enjoys dignity in lagna

    • [L-10, 5th-from-6th; Rahu for sudden changes] substantial recovery from long-lasting debility of the awful stroke

    • by popular acclaim, return to public life and teaching despite physical disabilities

    Budha lagnesha in 11 provides a huge network and some really good friends

    Here is Ammachchi delivering some Shakti to get RD up and running again

    Budha = lagnesha + L-4 education

    • significant teaching despite age and disability = breaking cultural barriers on teaching roles

    • remarkable new publications including re-issue and re-working of older texts + new internet media

    file update: 26-May-2013

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