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Shukra - Bhrigu
Zucra -
Zaukra - zukrAcArya - Zuci (shining, glowing, radiant) -
Daityaguru - Asuraguru - Amaraari -
Asphujit - Surazatru -
Bha - Bharga - Bhrigu - Bhriguja - Bhriguputra - Bhaargavapriya
- Bhrigunandana -
Ekanayana - Ekekshana - Dhishnya - Ditisuta - Kavi -
Maghabhava
(offspring of Magha) - Sita (white sugar) - Sodhazaamzu (16-rayed) - Sodhazarcis
(16-rayed)
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Sveta (dressed in white) - zvetaratha (having a white chariot) - vedAdhipati
(one who presides over the Veda) -
Pasang (Tib.)
zataparva = wife of Zukra
Venus
The morning star and
the evening star
= morgensteorra - æfensteorra
(Old English)
"Guru of the Demons" - Attraction /
Distraction
Appreciation, Pricing, Preciousness, Appraisal, Prized Deliciousness and Delights
wealth, natural
resources, beauty, and harmonious relationships; gathering ,
hoarding, collecting, accumulating
"How you have fallen from
heaven, O MORNING STAR, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down
to the Earth, you who once laid low the nations!
You said in your
heart, "I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the
stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on
the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
I will ascend above the
tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High."
(Isaiah 14:12-14)
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VENUS:
O.E., from L. Venus (pl. veneres),
in ancient Roman mythology, the goddess of beauty and love, especially
sensual love,
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from venus "love,
sexual desire, loveliness, beauty, charm,"
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from PIE base *wen-
"to strive after, wish, desire, be satisfied"
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cf. Skt. vanas-
"desire," vanati
"desires, loves, wins;"
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cf. Avestan vanaiti
"The
wishes, is victorious"
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cf. O.E. wynn
"joy," wunian "to
dwell," wenian "to
accustom, train wean," wyscan (ween)
"to wish"
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Applied by the Romans to Gk. Aphrodite, Egyptian
Hathor, etc.
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Meaning "second planet from the sun" is
attested from c.1290 (O.E. had morgensteorra
and æfensteorra).
~~ www.etymonline.com
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"
Once,
during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and
water." ~~ W. C. Fields
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Zukra
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bright , resplendent -
clear , pure, spotless -
light-colored , white -
brightness , clearness , light -
Name of Agni or fire -
Name of a month (Jyestha =
May-June , personified as the guardian of Kubera's treasure) -
clear or pure Soma ; receptacle for
Soma -
Any clear liquid (as water , Soma
etc.) -
juice , the essence of anything -
semen virile , seed of animals
(male and female) , sperm -
a morbid affection of the
iris (change of color etc. accompanied by imperfect vision -
A
good action
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gold , wealth
A
marAri
A
suraguru
bha
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semblance , delusion , error -
A
ppearance , resemblance , likeness
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A
star , planet , asterism , lunar asterism or mansion (and so also
the number 27 nakshatra)
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light or a beam of light , luster , splendor
bhRgu
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name of a mythical race of beings (closely connected with fire);
they are also said to fabricate chariots -
Shukra or the planet Venus (called either Bhrigu or the son of
Bhrigu [bhriguputra] ; his day is Friday) -
Of Krishna or of Rudra -
a declivity , slope , precipice
bhArgava
bhArgavapriya
ekekSaNa
maghAbhava
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Offspring of Magha
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The
planet Venus
~~ Cologne
Digital Sanskrit Lexicon
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Amusements, arts, beauty, pleasures, dance, attachments to things, attraction
to the opposite sex, capacity to enjoy life, care for ones body, charm, feminine
graces, clothes, comforts, enjoyments, conveyances, cultured, delightful,
sociable, fortune, fame, generative system, happiness, harmony, health illusion,
infatuation, passions, immortality, secret of intoxicating drinks, kidneys,
love, lust, affairs, romance, making others happier, marriage, musicians,
refined, polished, sex in all aspects, sexual and love happiness, wealth,
prosperity, gems, wife, women, pink or rainbow, worldliness, not renunciation. (this
list adapted from Das)
BPL:
Money, Capital, Finance, Wealth
Management, "investments", Luxury, Fashion, Jewelry and Ornamentation,
delicious Food and Drink, sweets, wines, alcohol, partnerships and alliances, contracts, perfumes, Decorations, Art and Design , Beauty,
Dance, Music and Harmony, deal-making,
match-making, brokerage, women's products, feminine
magnetic attraction, mouth-teeth-jaw-smile, sensual delights, pleasures, jewel-toned rainbow-sparkle things, Agreements,
legal resolution of conflict, equity and
equality, bargains, trade
"Venus secures sexual delight and the society of fine women;
the pleasures of pictorial art, fine apparel, wealth, cattle, vehicles,
gems
and precious stones, musical concerts, dancing parties,
lordly magnificence, good fame, great liberality
and association with the virtuous."
~~ Jataka Parijata, Ch. 17, Sloka 43
"All women in this world are forms of the goddess. "
~~ Devi Mahatmyam 11.6
"All the gods reside where women are worshipped. "
~~ Manu Smriti 3.56
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Venus rules diamonds, ornaments, marriage, scents, friends, wreaths, females, cow dung, diagnosis.
(Apart from meaning diagnosis also indicates end, purity, rope to tying up a calf
etc.)
Education, sexual enjoyment, and gold.
~~ Saravali, Ch. 7-13
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Continuing to fill a pail after it is full, the water will be wasted.
Continuing to grind an axe after it is sharp, will wear it away.
Excess of
light blinds the eye. Excess of sound deafens the ear. Excess of condiments
deadens the taste.
He who possesses moderation is lasting and enduring. Too much is always
a curse, most of all in wealth. ~~ Lao-Tse
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"Too much is already enough --- except in Texas." ~~
American saying
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"To live
consciously, you must have the courage to go inside yourself to find out who
you really are, to understand that behind all of the masks of individual
differences, you are a being of beauty, of love, of awareness.
Christ said, "
he
kingdom of heaven is within ."
Buddha said, "
each person is the Buddha."
Until you can allow your own beauty, your own dignity, your own being, you
cannot free another.
Have compassion for
yourself. Allow yourself to be beautiful and all the rest will follow."
--
Ram Dass
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Venus isn't really the *Love* planet; Shukra
is the Pleasure Planet
All benefic graha provide positive loving
support to human life, but Shukra's "love" is not divine - it's
inter-human:
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Venus rules
attraction to pleasures and distraction by pleasures. Shukra
provides human
sensual experience
that claims our profound devotion and attention. Shukra rules human-to-human
contracts, love-making in the pursuit of
mutual pleasure, and all forms of alliance for the purpose of enhancement of mutual interests (particularly mutual financial interests.)
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Moon rules pure and
unconditional mother-love, shelter and protection. Chandra has profound needs
and expectations, but the parent-child relationship is not equal-to-equal.
Soma has no contracts.
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Surya rules truth, which is the
purest form of the supreme love of the
divine. It is not possible to negotiate with the truth.
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Guru is all-embracing,
all-encompassing, and utterly non-discriminating; Guru has no contracts. The
dharma includes all. Guru accepts all.
Venus= the karaka for marriage, sexual relationships, promises
and agreements, exchanges of equal value, and understandings toward mutual
benefit.
Marriage = the "ultimate contract".
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Marriage = attraction between two
parties who expect each other to provide interactive interpersonal benefit.
Marriage alliance is also a social contract. -
Affection in marriage
is contractual, depending on multiple levels of agreement (private services
provided in exchange for protection, fulfillment of public expectation, etc.)
The "love" of Shukra is not unconditional like
mother-child love, nor transcendent like devotee-deity (sometimes, guru-sisya)
love. Shukra's marital love is the result of attraction to sensual
pleasures. As a result, Shukra is not really the "love" planet
at all, but a rather misleading and even fraudulent substitute for pure
love.
Sensual experience isn't really love. That is why Shukra is
called A
suraguru = "Guru of the Demons".
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Venus is charming, has a splendorous
physique, is excellent or great in disposition, has charming eyes, is a poet,
is phlegmatic and windy, and has curly hair.
-- BPHS
Ch. 3 [Planetary
Characters and Description], Shloka 28
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Shukra = the natural lord of
yuvati bhava
Shukra = the kalatra-karaka = the main karaka for marriage
 Venus is the planet responsible for much of our sexual
and contractual interaction in this life. (Of course, Rahu plays His own part!)
Venus = women in
general, with their unique culture of beauty and fashion. Shukra = art and music - the exalted feminine values of high
civilization.
Venus always works in tandem with His worthy adversary, the
planet Mars. In sexual communication, Venus represents the feminine,
attractive, incoming energy. Mars shows the masculine, pursuing, outgoing energy.
Do not
confuse the the Shukra-Mangala energies with anatomical male and female bodies! Within any
person and within any relationship, there is a mix and balance of male and female energy. Women
can pursue, and men can attract. Women can dominate, and men can accommodate. But in
general, within a sexual partnership, Venus will tell us what love energy each partner is
magnetically pulling in, whereas Mars describes what love energy one is
athletically putting out.
Shukra = a benefic (Shubha) = positive planet
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Shukra creates life experience of
physical pleasure, luxury, and sensual
indulgence. -
Yet, spiritually, Venus has a bad reputation as "guru of
the demons." The only spiritually useful fruits of Venusian desire
are the tantric realizations... -
What we call love, especially in its more base expressions, can be
very distracting and even harmful to the spiritual life. Unless
consciously managed -- ideally through proven tantric practice under supervision
of a reputable guide -- sensual desires can totally enslave the
person's consciousness.
An endless quest for greater and greater
five-senses pleasure can form an infinite loop, that becomes a trap for
consciousness. The sad reality for many is that Shukra's desires do not
bring satisfaction or long-term happiness - but rather devastation,
disappointment, fear of loss of pleasure, and chemical addictions.
The
higher Love
of cosmic-connectedness bliss or Ananda is represented by Guru (Jupiter).
Guru is not concerned with the physical and emotional senses, but rather with
the social and spiritual senses.
However it is important to remember that Guru is absolutely inclusive.
Guru does not judge, criticize, or punish any desire. Guru does not find
anything "wrong" with the natural desires of Shukra!
Brihaspati simply waits, like a doting parent; His wisdom
always available; until the student is ready for more satisfying fare...
The
two benefic planets Venus and Jupiter give two different
kinds of pleasure.
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If Venus is stronger there is more pleasure through
sensation and the arts, but also the danger of becoming so addicted to these
feelings that one aspires to nothing further.
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If Guru is stronger there is
more pleasure through knowledge and religion, and the huge benefit of knowing
that knowledge gained through Guru is portable across incarnations (while
physical-body sensations acquired through Venus are quick forgot!)
There is a reason
that spiritual aspirants have traditional
ly sought celibacy. Seeking to
shorten the cycle of repeating birth and death, and to reduce the body's craving
for constant pleasure sensations, they maximize Guru by minimizing Venus.
Male Nativity: Shukra = Wives, Sisters, Female Colleagues
In the present lifetime, Shukra regenerates
past-life imagery regarding harmonious alliances and sense pleasures;
therefore additional wives are related to the sense-pleasure-harmony
karaka Shukra. If other factors point in the direction of second
marriage, a man with numerous graha yuti Shukra is likely to have a
complex of women in his life: several wives, wealthy or harmoniously
related sisters, female professional colleagues, etc.
Shukra is not inherently sexual therefore
pleasant, harmonious, wealth-enhancing relationships with female peers
of all social categories are included in the portfolio of Shukra. Female Nativity: Shukra = Wives, Sisters, Female Colleagues
Women form many essential alliances with other
women. Not only aesthetic and financial but the all-important trust
which permits one woman to care for another woman's children.
Naturally these trusted women are normally the sisters and
sisters-in-law, however close friends from childhood who are like
sisters, college friends whose values imitate one's own, and other
sister-like relationships between women are indicated by Shukra.
The position of Shukra in a woman's nativity is
an essential indicator of her social and professional relationships
with other women, particularly her sisters and female cousins; but
also importantly her female superiors in the workplace.
Chandra rules her mother, and 8th-from-Chandra can
be a woman's step-mother. However nearly all other women = Shukra, in a
woman's kundali.
Exception: the Mother in Law
Husband's family overall = domain-8; husband's
mother in particular = 4th-from-Guru or (less often) L-7. To see the
overall effect of the husband's mother upon a woman's own marital
harmony, find the angle between Shukra (karaka for marriage) and
4th-from-Guru.
For second marriage the baseline (lagna) for
marriage remains domain-7 and Shukra, but the particularities of
second husband = Shani, and conditions of his childhood home esp his
mother's behavior should be assessed from 4th-from-Shani.
Ketu in 8 or Ketu in 4th-from-Guru indicates
complete non-interference from mother-in-law.
Husband's relationship to his own mother = location
of Chandra measured from the woman's yuvati bhava, and also location
of Chandra measured from Guru.
Maximum Pleasure from Female Companions
The woman with maximum Shukra benefit
from feminine influence in her life might have an uchcha Shukra
with Chandra. Such a woman is slightly (or more than slightly) spoiled
(by her indulgent mother); she enjoys luxurious pleasures perhaps
quite to excess; and best of all she finds an endless stream of female
companionship amongst artists and musicians, woman who are pleasant to
socialize with and beautiful to behold.
Minimum Pleasure from Female Companions
The opposite end of the spectrum for a female
is Shukra in neechcha (Kanya) and the Moon in a rashi of Mangala or
rashi of Shani. Such a woman is surrounded by criticizing and
deceitful females.
If Chandra is severely damaged she may fall prey to
self-destructive (esp Vrischika) emotional practice. She is unable to
establish harmonious relationships with just about anyone (except
possibly her own children, whose karaka is Guru). The other women in
her life are argumentative, disharmonious, scheming, and generally
unattractive.
The native does not trust other females and very often
she is the victim of her husband's adultery. Worst of all, this female
does not feel beautiful; she takes no pleasure in her own sensuality;
she has no fashion sense. Trouble from Shukra
As the daitya-guru, asura-guru, Shukra is a
known deceiver. However certain combinations of radix lagna and Chandra lagna
have a particuarly hard time dealing with the effects of Shukra.
These combinations suffer difficulties and
disagreements (6) unforeseen consequences (8) and losses or drain of
vitality (12) from Shukra-related experience such as women (in general),
marriage, quest for harmonious alliance, beauty, art and design, sugars esp
alcohol, sensual pleasure, music, love-making, delicious foods and fine wines,
perfume and ornaments, and every form of accumulated wealth even acquisitions
of knowledge, book collections, and skill in languages.
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Shukra = L=6 for Vrishabha and Dhanusha
lagna -
Shukra = L-8 for Thulaand Meena lagna -
Shukra = L-12 for Mithuna and Vrischika
lagna.
Therefore
for these nativities, sensual
pleasures of wine, women, and song - not to mention gold, lucre, and jewels -
will have an unpleasant undertow. As always, much depends on the bhava, rashi,
and incoming drishti to Shukra.
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Combinations of Radix
Lagna and Chandra lagna = subject to
difficulties during Shukra periods
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Lagna +
Chandra in Vrishabha,
Dhanusha, Thula, Meena, Mithuna, or Vrischika
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Result of the Shukra period
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Example Nativity
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6 Vrishabha lagna +
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OSHO
Rajneesh (Vrishabha lagna + Dhanusha Chandra).
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6 Dhanusha lagna +
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Rupert Murdoch (media
mogul) (Dhanusha lagna + Dhanusha Chandra).
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8 Thulalagna +
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Elizabeth
Taylor (Thulalagna + ThulaChandra). These people seem to have
nine lives, surviving one near-death after the next, and living with
recurring, hidden sorrow.
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Charles de Gaulle
(Thulalagna + Meena Chandra). These people seem to have nine lives,
surviving one near-death after the next, and living with
recurring, hidden sorrow. Intensely conflicted re: money and material wealth , hiding (8) of great art
collections (Shukra), threats of world destruction (8). Shukra periods are very stressful for this native.
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Mohamed
Reza Pahlavi (Thulalagna + Vrischika Chandra) Shukra =
catastrophic L-8 from lagna and dissipating L-12 from Chandra.
Exhaustion and upheaval due to excessive indulgence in women,
money, and art .
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Adolph
Hitler (Thulalagna + Dhanusha Chandra) Shukra = L-8 from
lagna and L-6 from Chandra. Hitler had a great deal of trouble with
women, ancedotally also a famous dysfunction of love-making, a failed
career in art, and a general inability to accumulate wealth.
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8 Meena lagna +
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12 Mithuna lagna +
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Theodore Roosevelt
(Mithuna lagna + Mithuna Chandra) Dissipating illnesses often brought
on by travel to remote foreign lands (12). Teddy Roosevelt was a
lifelong adventurer to tropical climes and he eventually died, rather
young, from debilitation of Amazon malaria.
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Baba
Ram
Dass (Mithuna lagna + Vrischika Chandra) Shukra = lord of
12th from lagna and 12th Moon. Private "bedroom" (12) sexual
encounters with hundreds of men caused a debilitation of the life
force.
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Albert
Einstein (Mithuna lagna + Vrischika Chandra) Shukra = lord
of 12th from lagna and 12th Moon. Dissolution of vitality through
women. (although Shukra = uchcha in the high-reputation 10th house in
this nativity, so the consequences are less well known.)
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12 Vrischika lagna +
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Ivana Trump (Vrischika lagna + Vrischika Chandra) - loss of vitality
and degradation of the physical appearance through overindulgence in
fashion, ornament, money.
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Shukra and Foreign Residence
Vyaayapa itself shows type of lands you will visit.
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When
Vyaayapa is ruled or occupied by a shubha (benefic) graha, these lands are lovely and
prosperous.
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When Vyaayapa is ruled or occupied by a paapa (malefic)
planet, the lands to which you travel will be poor and the journeying is stressful.
Shukra and Career
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from B. V. Raman,
ACatechism of Astrology, p. 9 - part II page 2:
"Q. What makes one an actor or a singer?
A.
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Generally
Venus will have to be strong in the horoscope
before one can be a good actor or singer. -
If this is to be adopted as
profession, Venus must be intimately connected with the
10th
bhava in some way or other. -
E.g., if Venus occupies 4th or 10th Bhava or if
Venus aspects the 10th house or if Venus is conjoined with the lord of the 10th,
his means of livelihood will be singer and acting.
Q. What makes one an
engineer?
A.
If in a nativity, Venus becomes the strongest planet
with reference to the 10th Bhava, -
And occupies powerful places from Lagna and
the Moon, and joins Mercury, The native
becomes an engineer."
[BP Lama notes: Shukra rules buildings and artistic
or structural design, whilst Mars
rules the Land]
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"... the 7th from Shukra... stand for consideration respectively in respect of
... spouse...."
~~ BPHS Ch. 7, Shloka 39-43]
If Venus be posited in his own Rashi or in Mithuna, the native will be
infatuated by love.
~~ Jatakalankara, Ch3 Shloka 20
Venus produces peril through such causes as
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drink and diabetes,
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arising from the diseases of the beloved women,
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associated with a result induced by
addiction to females,
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endeared by
excessive gallantry.
~~ Jataka Parijata Ch 2 Shloka 79
You know, music, art - these are not just little decorations
to make life prettier.
They're very deep necessities which people cannot live
without.
~~ Pablo Picasso
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Pleasure Karma -
Internal Pleasure in Meditation
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Karmas that are accumulated for
the sake of internal pleasure , upon having overcome attraction for external
pleasure and having become attached to the pleasure that arises with internal
meditative stabilization [which is meritorious], are involved with the first
three concentrations. -
These are called unfluctuating
karmas in that They bear their fruit only in those concentrations.
Neutrality Karmas
Then, karmas that are
accumulated upon having turned away even from such pleasure of internal
meditative stabilization and within seeking just neutral feeling are unfluctuating karmas associated with the fourth concentration and the four
formless absorptions.
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However, if, through
understanding this presentation, you develop renunciation of all types of such
cyclic existence, and accumulate karmas for the sake of permanent bliss, These
karmas will bring about liberation from cyclic existence.
~~ H.H. Dalai
Lama. (1989). The
Dalai Lama at Harvard: Lectures on the Buddhist Path to Peace. Jeffrey
Hopkins (Trans). (Ed). www.snowlionpub.com
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Literary Author Audrey Lord: Erotic Power
~~ by Audre Lord "There are many kinds of power, used and unused,
acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies
in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our
unexpressed or unrecognized feeling . . .
As women, we have come to distrust
that power which rises from our deepest and non-rational knowledge. We have been
warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of
feeling enough to keep women around in order to exercise it in service of men,
but which fears this same depth too much to examine the possibilities of it
within themselves . .
But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative
force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief
that sensation is enough . . .
When we begin to live from within outward, in
touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to
inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us, then we begin to
take responsibility to ourselves in the deepest sense.
For as we begin to
recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being
satisfied with suffering and self-negation, and the numbness which so often
seems like the only alternative in our society. Our acts against oppression
become integral with self, motivated and empowered from within."
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Laziness will stop your progress in your spiritual practice.
One can be
deceived by three types of laziness:
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the laziness of indolence, which is the
wish to procrastinate
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the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities
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the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great
effort into non-virtue.
~~ H.H. Dalai Lama And Renuka Singh. (2002).
. www.snowlionpub.com
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