The ashes of the average cremated body weigh nine pounds.

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If you are not interested in the subject of death, please do not proceed in reading this page!

This page deals specifically with the phenomenon of the human spirit leaving its temporary physical body, flesh-death.

• The opposite of Death is not Life. There is no opposite to Life. Life is eternal.

• The opposite of Death is Birth.

• biological shell-death is a completely natural process.

• However, western society has a strong death taboo.

If you feel obliged to continue that taboo, stop reading now.

disembodiment

dematerialization

demagnetization

Disformulation

of the

mineral-body shell

lifting-up

of the Lightbody

Soul's opportunity

to

rejuvenate and refresh

Table of combinations = causes of Death

Circumstances of Death According to the Rashi of the 22nd Drekkana

There are no masks at the end.

" Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."

— Berthold Brecht

“When one has been born and has died many times, expecting extinction with each death, and when this experience is followed by the realization that existence still continues, then a sense of the divine comedy enters in.”

~~ Seth, via Jane Roberts

~Thomas Wolfe, “You Can't Go Home Again”

" Wise men say that death is the natural state, while life is a change or effect."

~~Raghuvansha, 8.87

it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come."

— Gitanjali 1861-1941 lyrical poet Rabindranath Tagore

" Two only, among the forty meditational practices, are always and under all circumstances beneficial:

the development of friendliness, and the recollection of death"

~~ Buddhagosa

I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

~~ Mark Twain

it may be so the moment after death ."

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

And then from there comes the choice.

But of course, the tricky part is knowing that the choices are already made and the other lifetimes are already occurring.

And that is a difficult one to wrap one's consciousness around!"

Light Source P'taah

Death by Nikolai Kalmakov c. 1913

Tenzing Gyatso. (1994). the Path to Enlightenment . Glenn H. Mullin (Trans. Ed.)

" We should remember that everything but Dharma is useless at death ,

and instead of wasting our lives on meaningless activities,

we should blend our mindstreams with the teachings and with practice.

Doing so benefits us as individuals

and benefits the world by strengthening its spiritual basis."

QUOTATION Mahabharata, Vana Parva , 193.18

" To keep company with those whom they do not like

and to be separated from those whom they like

as also to deal with the wicked

is the agony which people with long life have to suffer."

(2003) No Death, no Fear

“The day my mother died I wrote in my journal, " A serious misfortune of my life has arrived." I suffered for more than one year after the passing away of my mother. But one night, in the highlands of Vietnam, I was sleeping in the hut in my hermitage. I dreamed of my mother. I saw myself sitting with her, and we were having a wonderful talk. She looked young and beautiful, her hair flowing down. It was so pleasant to sit there and talk to her as if she had never died.

When I woke up it was about two in the morning, and I felt very strongly that I had never lost my mother. The impression that my mother was still with me was very clear. I understood then that the idea of having lost my mother was just an idea. It was obvious in that moment that my mother is always alive in me.

I opened the door and went outside. The entire hillside was bathed in moonlight. It was a hill covered with tea plants, and my hut was set behind the temple halfway up. Walking slowly in the moonlight through the rows of tea plants, inoticed my mother was still with me. She was the moonlight caressing me as she had done so often, very tender, very sweet... wonderful!

Each time my feet touched the earth I knew my mother was there with me. I knew this body was not mine but a living continuation of my mother and my father and my grandparents and great-grandparents. Of all my ancestors. Those feet that I saw as " my" feet were actually " our" feet. Together my mother and I were leaving footprints in the damp soil.

From that moment on, the idea that I had lost my mother no longer existed. All I had to do was look at the palm of my hand, feel the breeze on my face or the earth under my feet to remember that my mother is always with me, available at any time.”

[end quote]

Devotional Vajrayana Butter-Lamps

Q: Hello Barbara,

I have some important questions about the time of physical death. Are you willing to go there?

Some jyotishis are reluctant. Have you accurately predicted physical death before?

I'm interested in knowing whether there is an obvious, strong confluence of factors indicating death relatively soon. I'd like to match these indicators (if any) with some intuitions that I have had recently.

I would like to use the advice from Jyotisha to make some vital decisions that would impact the loved ones in my life.

Sincerely,

A: Namaste

As the eminent Jyotiṣika B.V. Raman often reminded his students, “astrology is a science of tendencies”.

There are clustered probabilities indicated by the shared-power arrangements between the graha. However, individual human consciousness also has influence, and the power of intention in the human willpower is increasing. The more awareness the human-being can develop, the more material influence is applied by one’s intention and purpose.

More and more human-beings are awakening these days. Earth is still called “Planet of the Sleepwalkers” by some of our observers, but the number of individuals entering meditative states of receptive awareness has been increasing dramatically since 2012.

More than ever, it is becoming clear that conscious people have much more control over the timing of death than they realize.

Earth is a free-will planet and everything which happens here is amenable to intervention by human willpower.

Sleepwalkers = death seems like an punishment or a random outside event

For those living in older paradigms, “time of physical death” is much easier to predict for the sleepwalkers. Those numb folks are primarily governed by superstitious fears, and the occasion of their passage into the realm of light is met with much intimidation. The village Jyotiṣika needs only to examine the primary fear-factors and marana-karaka for the native and their family, and combine that data with the Jyotiṣika’s own intuition about that family, in order to estimate the death event with reasonable accuracy.

In traditional lands, the divinatory methods of Jyotishavidya are in many of these cases quite secondary to the pure shamanistic intuition of the rural Jyotiṣika. He and his clients live in a world defined by unchanging and unquestionable knowledge, dominating physical force, short lifetimes, and constant fear of the unknown. Under those relatively simple conditions, death predictions are straightforward and usually quite accurate.

Awakening awareness = death seems like a personal decision based on inner assessment of spiritual goals

In the modern age, as conventional third-dimensional consciousness is beginning to admit elements of more refined fourth-dimensional realities (such as telepathy) the Vimshottari Dasha bhukti of classic marana-karaka are still valid predictors of sensual saturation (2) and completion of contract (7). Naturally, significant transits of Shani-the-Law also contribute weight to a moving cluster of potentialities. However, individual intention is getting a larger share of influence on third-dimensional outcomes such as decease of the mineral-body shell. Many more folks are starting to realize that death as we know it is a bridge experience more like a school graduation. Life is eternal. Birth and death are opposite poles in an eternal oscillation.

Yes, the old Vimshottari Dasha and Gochara-Graha indicators are still functioning

With all that said, then, it is possible to identify swarms of potentialities, mainly narrowed into bhukti of dhanapathi, yuvati-pati, and Rahu-Ketu. Drishti into bhava-8 is important for estimating overall longevity. Yet, as most working Jyotiṣika will attest, the surviving commentaries on the subject of longevity are contradictory and incomplete.

Actuarial considerations are also valid. The insurance companies regularly publish statistical tables showing that age, gender, ancestry, and level of education are effective predictors of longevity. Normally in practice, aJyotiṣika would observe the obvious third-dimensional elements such as chronological age, along with the most common configurations for the time of liberation such as bhukti of the maraka graha.

Jyotishavidya predictors can confirm, but not contradict, inner-voice honest intuition

Perhaps the most important value of inquiring into timing of mineral-body expiration is to realize that it is a fairly minor event in a much larger cycle of multiple, purposeful, interlinked incarnations.

Earth is a School * Formative Assessment vs. Summative Assessment

An analogy might be school graduations. If a person can expect to attend school from first until 16th level (graduate from college in the modern sense) then obsessing about the minor details of what happens when one finishes fourth grade = neurotically missing the forest for the trees. The point of the multiple-minor graduations (deaths) within a larger educational cycle is to form a summative understanding.

What the person learned in fourth grade was introduced in third grade and it will be reviewed in fifth grade. The core critical thinking and memorization skills will be repeated many, many times in pursuit of true mastery. A poor performance in fourth grade or a superior performance in fourth grade is much less important than developing the full breadth of mature intelligence over the course of the 16 (or 20, or 25) year educational achievement cycle.

Death = Performance Review

After each mineral-body decease, there is a review of the previous performance. Based on spiritual goals met or not, are-engineered plan is formed for the next go-round. Perhaps not surprisingly, the goals have no reference to money or social authority (power). The goals are usually

1. development of compassion (understanding of human nature)
2. ability to heal sorrow (pain).

When a question about death timing is motivated by financial or social concerns (so-called “vital decisions”) then the question is misframed. The question about death timing can be answered accurately by looking within and assessing whether one has done the utmost to treat others with compassion, or whether there is still some practice-work left to do.

Jyotishavidya can confirm one’s intuition regarding whether the goals likely would have been reached by a particular calendar date. But, Jyotishavidya cannot give superior information that would override the intuition.

The most valid death timing information comes from within. That information comes from the answer to the question about whether one has done the utmost to treat others with understanding and compassion ++ self-heal one’s own pain.

• ** important condition! ** goal achievement is assessed according to one’s abilities which are naturally limite d by the circumstance of the current incarnation **

Is one ready to undertake a new set of educational circumstances to further advance one's understanding? In that case, after proper assessment and approval of the council of guides, death may be permitted.

If there is truly nothing left to do in the current curriculum, then it is time to enjoy the final graduation day.

Wishing you and your family every happiness, healing from sorrow, guidance by inner light, and success in all of life’s endeavors,

Sincerely, barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotishavidya

You did a full astrological reading for me almost two years ago now in 2013. I had a quick follow up question. You said I would leave my body at the age of 75. Is that sort of thing set in stone? Here I am at the ripe age of 35 soon to be 36 changing careers ... To try and go to med school. I will be out of med school/residency in about 10 yrs. Madness especially if I am not to live too long. Not sure why this has suddenly been keeping me up at night but it has.

Thanks,

Thanks for a great question. No, the prediction regarding the timing of permission to disconnect from the fleshbody is not set in stone.

It is a default timing only, and default settings are always less powerful than conscious intention .

There are probabilities and likelihoods but there are also extensions and exceptions to the predominant pattern.

It is common to hear of people growing longer life-lines on the palm or returning from near-death experiences when they (suddenly) realized that they have important work to do.

If you're concerned about making full use of prospective medical skills training, and let's say you start active service practice in your mid-forties, then you might discover that the original patterns need revising because you prefer to retain the present fleshbody in order to serve longer. This happens often with great saints who seem to rebound from heart failures and catastrophically stressful physical situations, simply in order to extend the period of their service to humanity.

You can definitely extend the lifespan by the power of thought. It is intention which drives the process. Therefore, the predictive patterns evident in the Jyotishavidya nativity

are only the default settings. A conscious person using intentional thought is certainly empowered to override the defaults.

Medicine is a high ministry of service. Once you start seeing all the good that you can do in Seva, it's quite reasonable to expect that as a reflective, contemplative, conscious person would want to and be able to extend their default setting for purpose of extending the Seva.

Still, sometime during the mid-seventies, you might have a"close call" that serves as a reminder of opportunity. Basically, you can go then if you want to cross over the dimensional barrier then, if you are ready.

Otherwise, any person who wishes to live longer than the default is free to do so, and the usual fuel that sustains the life extension is a passion for service to humanity.

Wishing you every happiness and success in life's endeavors,

Sincerely,

Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotishavidya

" Trauma" means "dream" .

dematerialization is a traumatic dreamlike event which requires a radical change of dimensional perception.

The material perceptions recede then disappear. Then the astral perceptions intensify - sometimes aggressively if there is unresolved emotion such as anger affecting the view.

Then if all goes well one can follow the clear light until perceptual arrival at the miraculous spiritual plane.

"Mira" means "see" . (mirror, admire)

The entire process has been documented by visionaries in several cultures, and the instructions are available for those who wish to prepare, or to assist others on their journey.

Recommended how-to Flesh-Death Instructions:

some of the most accessible, compassionate, and practical instructions for managing the transition of self and others are found in the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Tsogyal Rinpoche and Andrew Harvey.

Andrew Harvey is one of the best modern spiritual writers in the English language. The instructions are traditional regarding the psychological stages of experience during the passage, but the recommendations for managing these stages are entirely modern. Highly recommended.

Regards

A: Namaste,

Thanks very much for your nice compliments on the materials available at barbarapijan.com I’m very happy to know that you are finding the case-studies and interpretive articles to be useful in your research.

In matters of predicting the occasion of the exit of the consciousness from its temporary attachment to the fleshbody, Jyotisha requires multiple pointers in order to make this prediction viable. Therefore while one possible indicator would be the onset of the bhukti of the ruler of either bhava-2 or bhava-7 counted from the Earthen-body birthing indriya-lagna (not usually from Chandra lagna – usually!) it is required that several additional confirming factors also be detected within the nativity.

If you are concerned about making a comfortable transition from habitual perceptual residence in a fleshbody to a state of weightless freedom and heightened psychic perception, it can be helpful to begin to educate yourself about the flesh-death experience and its next-step state in the resting station.

Most astral travelers report that the period following dematerialization is remarkably pleasant and enlightening (in the sense of lifting up, past the heavy gravitational force of Earth). The experience is described as deeply healing as well as educational and validating. In order words, avery positive experience. In sum, asingle indicator in Jyotisha is never sufficient to make a prediction, and dematerialization is reported to be a very nice moment upon the cycle of eternal life.

Wishing you and your family every happiness, healing from sorrow, guidance by inner light, and success in all of life’s endeavors,

Sincerely,

Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotishavidya

www.barbarapijan.com

Vocabulary for Jyotisha Death

• ~~ Koeln Digital Sanskrit Lexicon www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de

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maraNa

• The act of dying, death
• passing away, cessation (as of lightning or rain)
• The 8th mansion
• A kind of poison
• refuge, asylum
• killing, slaying, slaughter, death, destruction
• or suffer death
• A magical ceremony having for its object the destruction of an enemy (also {-karman} and {-kRtya}
• slayer
• name. Of a partic. Mystical weapon
• calcination

viSa (cf. "virus ")

• A servant, attendant
• Anything active
• poison, venom, bane, anything actively pernicious; poisonous
• water
• a kind of aconite

• Marana-karaka Graha

• Natural"Maraka"

• Maraka Bhava

• Timing of Physical Death

• Circumstances of Physical Death

• Metaphorical or symbolic forms of death

• Graha in bhava-8

• Place of Death

• Tonglen Practice

• "Later" by Michael Foster

• Notes on Sickness and Death

• Conditions of the next life

• Marana karakas

• Planetary Combinations which yield a specific cause of death

• Circumstances of Death According to Rashi of the 22nd Drekkana

Metaphorical or symbolic forms of death (acutely felt)

When Shani and Kuja are neither maraka activates-2 nor maraka rules-7 or if the supporting evidence from nodes etc. which would suggest physical death is simply lacking, it is reasonable to expect that as natural maraka they will create A symbolic type of death , such as:

• separation from loved ones through conflict [Mangala]

• forced isolation or rejection [Ketu]

• death of an important professional project, death of pride, death of illusion, other forms of egoic-mind death through reduction of personal importance within the big system [Shani]

• divorce (from the maraka activates-2 function only)

Sometimes these metaphorical deaths are so psycho-emotionally painful that the person wishes they were dead, and they may be suicidal. But actual physical death has stricter rules than these admittedly painful "poetic deaths" (including death of spouse or divorce under period of randhresha-8 ). Death's strict rules almost always require the action of maraka activates-2 + maraka rules-7 confirmed by a temporal-malefic navamsha lord.

QUOTATION from: H. H. Dalai Lama,

The Path to Enlightenment, ed. and trans. by Glenn H. Mullin

" The nature of samsaric evolution is not such that death is followed by nothingness, nor that humans are always reborn as humans and insects as insects.

On the contrary, we all carry within us the karmic potencies of all realms of cyclic existence.

Many beings transmigrate from higher to lower realms, others from lower to higher.

The selection of a place of rebirth is not directly in our own hands but is conditioned by our karma and delusions.

They who possess spiritual understanding can control their destiny at the time of death, but for ordinary beings the process is very much an automatic chain reaction of karmic seeds and habitual psychic response patterns....

Our repeated experience of frustration, dissatisfaction and misery does not have external conditions as its root cause.

• The problem is mainly our lack of spiritual development.

As a result of this handicap, the mind is controlled principally by afflicted emotions and illusions. Attachment, aversion and ignorance rather than a free spirit, love and wisdom are the guiding forces.

Recognizing this simple truth is the beginning of the spiritual path."

[end quote]

Light Source P'taah www.ptaah.com

" Who you are is awesome! You are grand and beautiful multidimensional spiritual beings who have created yourselves for the experience of this dimension of reality.

And you have forgotten. Well, that is all right. It is all part of the game, the forgetting.

Even the pain, even what you consider to be 'death', it is all part of the grand game, just so that you know that you are God."

[end quote]

Pay Attention to Mental and Spiritual Things

QUOTATION from H.H. Dalai Lama, The Path to Enlightenment

edited and translated by Glenn H. Mullin

" The difficulty with a purely materialistic interpretation of life is that, in addition to ignoring an entire dimension of the mind, it does not deal effectively with the problems of this life.

• A materialistic mind is an unstable mind, for its happiness is built on transient, physical circumstances.

• Mental disease is as high among the affluent as it is among the poor , which is a clear indication of the limitations of the approach.

Although it is essential to maintain a reasonable material basis on which to live, the emphasis in one's life should be on cultivating the mental and spiritual causes of happiness.

• The human mind is very powerful and our worldly needs are not so great that they must demand all of our attention,

• especially in light of the fact that materialistic success solves so few of the many challenges and problems that confront men and women throughout their lives,

• and it does nothing for them at death.

On the other hand, if one cultivates spiritual qualities such as mental harmony, humility, non-attachment, patience, love, compassion, wisdom and so forth,

• then one becomes equipped with a strength and intelligence able to deal effectively with the problems of this life

• and because The financial wealth one is amassing is mental rather than material, it will not have to be left behind at death.

There is no need to enter the after-death state empty-handed."

[end quote]

-- Autobiography of a Yogi 1893-1952 Swami Yogananda

" It is foolish to be afraid of death.

JUST THINK!!

No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living."

-- Czeslaw Milosz,"Classmate" , in the volume Second Space

" I asked myself why it is constructed so perversely: so that life is vague and only death is real."

Recommended resources:

" Gungthang Tenpai Dronme said:

The thoughts that in this year and month

I will put right all my tasks and plans

And then start a perfect dharma practice

Is in fact the devil which brings all downfalls.

The lack of death awareness prevents one from undertaking the practice of dharma. This is very true: If one is not aware of the eventuality of death, one will be totally concerned and preoccupied with the affairs of this lifetime alone, and with actions that are just for the benefit of this lifetime. Such ventures may take all one's time and energy, but no matter how important they appear to be, since they are directly related to this lifetime alone, their benefits are limited--once one leaves the present body, their benefit ends. Even though one might have a best friend, when one has to leave the body, one cannot take the friend along.

...Think that after twenty or thirty years even the Dalai Lama will also be no more. While I am alive, there will be people who are, from the depths of their hearts, prepared to give their lives for my sake, but on the day when I have to leave, icannot take even one among them with me. Neither will I be able to take any of my possessions, even the body which I have always preserved and protected. This also will be left behind. At that time of my death, what will benefit is only the positive seeds that are imprinted upon my consciousness . No other factors will help at that time." (p.106)

--from The Path to Bliss by H.H. The Dalai Lama , translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa, edited by Christine Cox

Q: from a client in his seventh decade:

• can you predict my death?

A: a general rule in Jyotishavidya = the soul receives permission to separate from the Earthen-body * anna-maya-kosha * during Vimshottari Dasha periods of the Marana-karaka-graha * Short-form = Makara - Draco .

Marana-karaka graha = the planetary lords of the second and seventh bhava from the Earthen-body birthing indriya-lagna . A person who has passed the age of 50 is said to also gain liberation-permission during periods of 2nd and 7th from Chandra lagna. Your two maha-maraka graha = Budha and Mangala while the two maraka-graha from Chandra lagna = Budha and Shani. Budha therefore being a double maraka, in the era of maturity, Budha = empowered to perform the soul-from-flesh separative task

According to the Lahiri ayanamsha, Budha Mahadasha is scheduled to begin on approximately 15-October-1999 and Budha mahadasha will end in March 2002. The svabhukti of Budha-Budha is powerful to bring awareness, and your Budha occupies the revolutionary, emotionally turbulent, perpetually transformative, trauma-inducing 8th-from-Chandra .. So you are having a strong pre-awareness of a naturally occurring event.

Gochara (transiting) Rahu-Ketu often trigger a birth-death event. Rahu Ketu will be highly empowered during the period 20-Oct until 25-Dec in 2001.

Also as I'm sure you know, many people who have lived attentive and fulfilling lives do choose to leave their bodies during the holiest days in their folkways traditions, when family and the family's guardian spirits gather for celebration and feasting. Highest holy days might include ; Dasai in Nepal, yule or Christmas in England, ; First New Moon in China, Yom Kippur in the Jewish tradition, Losar in the Tibetan tradition, and so on throughout the many sacred cultures of the world.

This psycho-spiritual flight pattern holds true whether the native is ritually religious or not; it is a subconscious response to the expectation of the presence of Spirit.

So, in addition to the prognostication from Jyotisha we might add the impetus of the period autumn-winter 2001 as coinciding with the traditional time of personal reflection combined with family-gathering that occurs during the winter holidays in the West.

You mention the feeling of wanting to complete outstanding tasks and leave the world better than you found it. Indeed, tidying up loose ends and having one's affairs in order seems like a noble way to live, regardless of the timing of the actual moment of death.

The dematerialization event will arrive sooner or later; and at that urgent moment, the mentally calming and organizing power of Time will cease to have any power to control the flow of experience.

Having dissolved the step-down energy-regulating protective tree-bark, (ego) one may ; expect to be bombarded by astral overstimulation.Some say this sudden flood of imagery feels like emotional radiation, with very extreme hot-cold pulses and ; intense whirling emotional oscillations. It will be ; valuable at that somewhat chaotic time to take comfort that one indeed did everything within one's power, while on Earth, to decisively settle one's own ; affairs and make life better for others.

It is beneficial to use the mental-material tool of Time while it is still available to use.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once!

As soon as the Time factor [Shani] is eliminated, multiple streams of experience are said to converge upon the native, particularly those flowing from frustrated or unresolved relationship expectations. When the lava flow of hot-cold-angry-crazy emotions and a parade of Hungry Ghosts (for example, ex-wives!) starts exploding with vivid and inescapable emotional intensity, one may wish that Time was available to make a nice calendar with breaks for sleep, regular meals, awork schedule

However, neither Time or Gravity is available once the dematerialization process has completed. No day and night, up vs down, old and young, awake vs asleep. All is One -- in a consoling and yet also somewhat disorienting way.

The most important pre-departure task seems to be forgiveness: the release of any lingering accusations, bitterness, or blame.

14th Dalai Lama 1935- Policy of Kindness Tenzing Gyatso often quotes Buddhagosa , who says

• " Two only, among the forty meditational practices, are always and under all circumstances beneficial: the development of friendliness, and the recollection of death."

So perhaps it is a good time to start thinking of"a few things to get in order" :)

Wishing you best success in life and death (and life and death and life and death ...)

Sincerely, barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotishavidya

Intelligent preparation for flesh-death is recommended.

Since very few people in our era possess the spiritual knowledge necessary to transcend physical death, the answer to death questions for most of us is not if but when .

• Death is a strange and wonderful moment within the eternal recycling movement of Life.

• An essential guarantor of creative differentiation in the universe, death is the great housecleaner.

Without death, things would get pretty stale, pretty quickly!

All the major religious traditions offer time-tested wisdom on the death process.

Practitioners skilled in facilitating this passage can be found worldwide in church, synagogue, mosque, devalaya, temple, and gompa.

Within the world's religious literature on death, certain texts are particularly accessible.

• Sogyal Rinpoche 's now classic commentary entitled The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying , exemplifies the clear, intelligent information on the natural reality of death and dying which is now available to English language readers.

• It is possible to be well-prepared for the transition-experience offlesh-death.

Jyotisha treats human death with the respect and admiration due an awesomely creative life force.

This page offers a tiny snippet of what Vedic astrology tells us about death and rebirth:

Timing of Physical Death by Maraka Graha

Dematerialization of body-shell, the musculature, blood, physical coherence =

• period of maraka activates-2 or maraka rules-7

• possible timing = period of randhresha-8 if and only if the Kharesha is in Lagna a, or if randhresha-8 = yuti maraka activates-2 or randhresha-8 yuti maraka rules-7

• tangible Conditions of dematerialization not timing are normally seen from bhava-8

grieved the decease of mother =

• period of maraka activates-2 or ruler of 7th-from-Chandra matrikaraka

• period of 8th-from-bhava-4 = period of vriddhi-pati-11

grieved decease of father =

• period of dhanapati-2 or rules 7th-from-Surya pitrikaraka

• period of 8th-from-bhava-9 = period of bandesha-4

death of child =

• period of dhanapati-2 or ruler of 7th-from-Chandra

• period of 8th-from-bhava-5 = period of ruler-of-12

death of spouse =

• period of 2nd-from-bhava-7 = period of randhresha-8

• period of 8th-from-bhava-7 = period of maraka activates-2

If the ruler of Rahu or the ruler of Ketu = a temporal maraka , plays one of the bhava-lordship roles above, then Rahu-Ketu can give the demagnatization-death effect of their lord or their co-occupants (most frequently their lord).

Deaths during Rahu bhukti = unusual in circumstance and shocking (8) which naturally creates considerable disruption in the social conventions normally applied to death rituals. Many ghosts will attend the death ceremony.

However, although the outcome may ultimately be favorable for the native .

~~ Bhagavata Purana 10.1.40

A walking man lifts his second leg only after the first has been placed firmly on the ground.

A caterpillar leaves a blade of grass only when it has caught hold of another.

Similarly does the embodied soul, following the course of its destiny, leave the former body only when it has caught hold of the next. [end quote]

Maraka Graha = Marana-Karaka

Marana + Karaka = Maraka

• Marana = agent of Mar = death

• Karaka = do-er, agent of movement, action, force = kri

Maraka agents signify the act of conscious separation of the wtwrnal spirit from its temporary experience of containerization within the fleshly body.

The usual suspects: maraka 2 and 7

• Planetary rulers of bhava-2 and bhava-7 are the typical maraka agents. Naturally, not every bhukti of bhava-2 or yuvati-pati-7 predicts dematerialization. Other factors such as chronological age, conditions in randhrabhava-8, and location of Chandra must be considered before predicting the window of permission to exit the flesh-container.

Rahu-Ketu

• Rahu-Ketu can be highly effective maraka agents when they occupy bhava-2 or bhava-7, or when their planetary ruler controls bhava-2 or bhava-7.

• For example, for a Mesha nativity, the primary maraka is Shukra (rules 2-and-7.) However, if Rahu occupies Thula or Vrishabha, rahu could be an empowered maraka. I

• n practice, bhukti of roguish Rahu or cutting Ketu can signify dematerialization regardless of their rulers.

Shani-Mangala papagraha

• Professor Shani and Professor Kuja are called natural maraka but in practice neither Shanicarya nor Kuraja are killers unless they are rulers of 2 or 7.

• If a papagraha also activates-2 or rules-7 , the papagraha generally requires very little additional triggering by transits or drishti to do the job.

• Rarely, abhukti of either the ruler of [2nd-from-Chandra] or the ruler of 7th-from-Chandra can trigger dematerialization of the native.

Chandra-lagna for Mother-figure

• Periods of the rulers of matrimaraka 2nd-from-Chandra and 7th-from-Chandra frequently and typically signify deccease of the primary mother-figure.

Surya-lagna for father-figure

• Similarly, pitrimaraka 2-from-Surya and 7-from-Surya frequently and typically signify dematerialization of the primary father-figure

Kharesha

• The ruler of the 22nd drekkana (decanate) typically has badhaka empowerment. When the Kharesha interacts with randhresha and the lagnesha, there is enhanced potential for a more dramatic experience of opening (randhra = aperture, opening) which may fuel the permission to exit the container due to energized portals. The kharesha is

• " Marana karakas " (see table below)

• he graha which rules the 64th navamsha from Chandra can function as a maraka (= graha ruling the 8th rashi from D-9 Soma)

• lord of Gulika or Mandi can function as a maraka

KHARA DREKKANa

The 22nd decanate from the ascendant will denote the nature of one's death via the nature of its lord, ( the humor, place et-cetera. ) Saravali, Ch 47, shloka-2 2

Natural maraka:

• Shani = material reality, laws of the natural world

• [Collapsing unshackling Ketu] = separation, alienation, dissociation

• Mars = quick actions, conflict, violence

Periods of maraka planets signify death ONLY when the maraka planet is especially death-empowered during His bhukti.

the minimum conditions for death empowerment of maraka are:

• Shani or Kuja must rule ruler of bhava-7 or maraka activates-2.

• Ketu must occupy bhava-2, or bhava-7

Empowerment to effect death is most frequently created when

• maraka activates-2's navamsha rashi is ruled by ruler of bhava-7 +randhresha-8 --or--

• yuvati-pati-7 's navamsha rashi is ruled by radix maraka activates-2 + randhresha-8

Vimshottari Dasha Periods

• When the ruler of the seventh mahadasha in the Vimshottari Dasha is also a Maraka-graha for some other reason (perhaps this graha is maraka activates-2 or yuvati-pati-7 or rules [2nd-from-Chandra] or ruler of 7th-from-Chandra etc.) then death may occur within the first bhukti of the seventh mahadasha.

• The 7th bhukti of any mahadasha also has some secondary Maraka empowerment.

Place of Death

Traditionally, the place of Death is generally determined by the Ruler of the Rashi occupied by the Lord of Navamsha ruler of Svamsha

Much depends as always upon the character of Lagnaesha, Svamsha, graha in Lagna, and graha casting drishti upon Lagna + Lagnesha.

Prediction strategy:

• Natural maraka-graha Shani and Kuja have extra natural malignancy.

• The likelihood of physical death occurring during their bhukti is characteristically stronger than the likelihood of non-maraka activates-2 + maraka rules-7 causing physical death.

• The Jyotiṣika will of course confirm the prediction by checking navamsha, gochara nodes, and other supporting factors.

• However, if either Shani or Kuja = dhanapati-2 or yuvati-pati-7 , it is easier to predict death during their periods.

Metaphorical or symbolic forms of death (acutely felt):

When Shani and Kuja are neither dhanapati-2 nor yuvati-pati-7 or if the supporting evidence from nodes et-cetera. which would suggest physical death is simply lacking, it is reasonable to expect that as natural maraka they will create A symbolic type of death , such as:

• separation from loved ones through conflict [Mangala]

• forced isolation Or rejection [Ketu]

• death of an important professional project, death of pride, death of illusion, other forms of egoic-mind death through reduction of personal importance wtihin the big system [Shani]

• divorce (from the dhanapati-2 function only)

Sometimes these metaphorical deaths are so psycho-emotionally painful that the person wishes they were dead, and they may be suicidal. But actual physical death has stricter rules than these admittedly painful"poetic deaths " (including death of spouse or divorce under period of randhresha-8 ). Death's strict rules almost always require the action of dhanapati-2+yuvati-pati-7 confirmed by a temporal-malefic navamsha lord.

The lord of bhava-8 = not a maraka.

• randhresha-8 defines the circumstances of death, not the timing.

• Timing involves bhava-8 only when Kharesha in Lagna

• Nevertheless a maraka gains empowerment by occupying the navamsha of the randhresha-8 .

Rahu-Ketu can signal tragic, premature or accidental deaths - but only when they occupy the house of yuvati-pati-7 or dhanapati-2.

• If gochara Rahu-Ketu = crossing a key axis, especially axis of Chandra, and they are Also conjunct dhanapati-2 or yuvati-pati-7 ("giving the effect of dhanapati-2 or yuvati-pati-7 ) then physical death during a Rahu-Ketu bhukti becomes as likely as it would be during a period of yuvati-pati-7 or dhanapati-2 .

• Except when Rahu-Ketu are the current bhukti-pati AND they occupy a rashi of dhanapati-2 or yuvati-pati-7 , the movement of samchara Rahu-Ketu provide essential supporting evidence for catastrophic change in a person's life.

• Nodal movements to key points can trigger big scary psychological changes that don't actually kill you (but seem like they might).

~~ Das Goravani

"The death is the gift, not the curse.

The curse would be eternal life here on Earth."

Maraka Bhava

• bhava-8 and bhava-3 contain information about circumstances of death (see below).

• bhava-2 and bhava-7 contain information about timing of death. Note that the timing *agents * are the lords of 2 and 7.

~~ Bhagavata Purana 10.33

Two types of deaths have been considered the most coveted in this world:

The yogic way of giving up the body by control of breath and meditating on the Supreme Reality,

And the second of the brave warrior fighting fearlessly at the forefront of battle.

Timing of Physical Death :

" The Usual Suspects " for timing of death are the"Maraka" or"Death-inflicting" planets+ dhanapati-2 and yuvati-pati-7 .

Uncommonly, timing of death may occur in the period of one of the"natural maraka": Kuja, shani, or Rahu. These three natural maraka do have the power, with no other planetary assistance, to effect the physical death.

However, it is rare that a natural maraka works alone. Death is much more likely in a period of Kuja, shani, or Rahu if these natural maraka also play the role of dhanapati-2 or yuvati-pati-7 in radix. In the case of Rahu, where He gives the effect of radix dhanapati-2 or yuvati-pati-7 .

Vimshottari dasha-bhukti of dhanapati-2 and yuvati-pati-7 , and occasionally periods of Kuja, shani, or Rahu, signify the physical event of death.

• In order to signify death, bhukti of Maraka planet must coordinate with other key required Jyotisha events such as a significant transit of Rahu-Ketu.

• Maraka bhukti must also respect the overall longevity parameters based on lifetime conditions of bhava-8 and bhava-3 (see below).

Death is also more common when the bhukti of the maraka graha is ALSO the final bhukti of the mahadasha.

For example for Mesha indriya-lagna a where Shukra being dhanapati-2 +yuvati-pati-7 is a powerful makara, the Surya/Shukra period where Shukra is the final bhukti of the entire 6-year Surya Mahadasha, has more maraka potency.

For a Mesha indriya-lagna a nativity, if Shukra is yuti the amplifying maraka Rahu, and the Surya/Shukra bhukti occurs while simultaneously samchara Rahu-Ketu cross a key axis (Janma-Chandra, kundali indriya-lagna a, radix nodal axis) then the likelihood of death is much increased.

Shani being the Great Separator, He must play some role in the death. If not as dhanapati-2 or yuvati-pati-7 , then He must transit the temporal maraka activates-2 or yuvati-pati-7 , or transit a key point such as Lagna a.

Normally there are four or five dramatic Jyotisha factors at work at the time of death. Except for birth, death is the most traumatic experience of the lifetime - so, reasonably, death indicators should be highly marked, and vividly suggestive.

Certainly, * not* every occurrence of the bhukti of a maraka planet will trigger death, because several necessary factors must occur simultaneously to satisfy all the rules.

Maraka timelords:

• Lord of Radix bhava-2 [from kundali indriya-lagna a or Chandra Lagna a]completes sensual saturation, the body can't absorb any more experiences

• Lord of Radix bhava-7 [from kundali indriya-lagna a or Chandra Lagna a] creates perfect balance in the body, there is no need for further motion

• Lord of 2nd navamsha signals death of [first] spouse.

Non-physical types of death:

cycles of self-destruction and rebirth

• During His bhukti, Lord of 12th house [from radix or Chandra Lagna a or from Shani] dissolves the ego, the spirit wants to separate - can cause of terrible loss and the person does feel like dying, desires to die perhaps, but ruler-of-12 will give only the grief and loneliness, not the physical release from earthly vale.

• During His bhukti, Lord of 8th House [from kundali indriya-lagna a or Chandra Lagna a or from Shani] turns the wheel of birth and death, sometimes very fastturns the wheel of birth and death. randhresha-8 causes transformation, not physical death.

  • Ideally this transformation in the form of divorce, legacies, tantric and magical changes, psychotherapy, emergency surgery, or catastrophic health event will invoke conscious healing, but it may just as often be the agent of unconscious karma.

  Randhra a bhava, its lord and its occupants describe the Conditions of dematerialization (not the timing) (see below) and thus 8th house describes one's longevity. Bhukti of randhresha-8 can cause shocking"death of balance" such as divorce or radical surgery, but randhresha-8 does not cause actual physical death.

Circumstances of Physical Death

bhava-8 = "The Departure Lounge"

Three primary indicators for environmental conditions or circumstances of death = Not timing, just environment

• bhava-8+randhresha-8

• 8th-from-8th: bhava-3+vikrama-pati-3

• karaka Shani.

Look first to Randhrasthāna for details of departure conditions.

Auspicious planets occupying bhava-8 or good drishti to bhava-8 usually signify a gracious or honorable ending.

bhava-3:

• Look next to 8th-from-8th for additional details about environment - including the psycho-mental state - at time of spirit's departure from the physical shell (death).

Notes on Sickness and Death

Active Marana-karaka (short form"maraka" ) graha * planets

They don't always snap the cord between body and spirit.

Sometimes they weaken the will thereby weakening the psychic nourishment-pipeline silver umbilical cord which connects our psychic body to our Earthen-body , making a Earthen-body very sad or very sick.

Sickness shows that the spirit is ambivalent about staying connected to this particular cellular constellation body.

Prolonged sickness or slow recovery from an injury, is often spiritually required to bring the system"down for maintenance."

After the spiritual forces regroup and The earthen body rebalances, the current incarnation may proceed unimpeded.

Near-death sickness has spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical meaning. A combination of prayer, clean mental health, emotional healing and good medicine, may cure even quite severe illness under the influence of maraka planets.

There is usually no need to fear when maraka planets dominate -- but on the other hand there is healing work to be done!

Q :

Thanks for your Jyotisha advice on handling the loss of my life partner.

However, despite your advice that things can be expected to go fairly well in my remaining earthly future, icontinue to experience a terrible sense of anxiety and grief for my irreplaceable loss.

Do you have any suggestions for my regaining my inner peace?

A: TongLen practice works beautifully to alleviate fear/anxiety about almost anything! I'm sure you know the practice from your Vajrayana background.

• Breathe in from the astral plane, the psycho-emotional food will assuage your hunger.

• For example, breathe in love, breathe in health, breathe in trust, whatever medicine is needed.

• When invoking the help of the higher intelligence, make a special compassionate effort to include in your prayer all other beings who currently share your experience of that particular absence or Lack or scarcity or warning-pain.

For example,

• "May all the ignorant beings who crave wisdom gain access to teachings" or may all the mothers caring for their dying children be consoled in their grief or may all the world's lonely people be loved and cherished . Ask for whatever help is needed.

Breathe out the suffering of all beings.

The rishis say, one's karma ripens so that one may eat.

TongLen often helps one to step forward into the future, allowing one to eat one's karma and enjoy the meal!!

• By releasing attachment to one's own particular suffering and replacing that narrow concern with a larger awareness that countless masses of other beings undoubtedly suffer similar karma in this very moment, tonglen helps the compassionate heart to heal itself by simultaneously healing others.

And because TongLen allows one to replace a narrow, relatively ignorant self-concern with a wider, relatively wise awareness of the suffering of others, it burns off karma very quickly. (Karma is a synonym for 'ignorance' or 'separation.' Karma gets permanently burned off when we transform ignorance into wisdom.)

So, any anxiety, at any time, is fair game for TongLen. Bon appetite!

Also, we often feel bitterly disappointed and even spiritually vandalized when a partner, parent, or child has died.

It may be very helpful to walk through an empowering forgiveness exercise, to forgive the partner for dying.

• Homeopathic Ignatia is the classic potentized remedy for grief.

• Bach Rescue Remedy may relieve panic attacks when the grief becomes overwhelming, and one feels unable to go forward.

• You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay (orig. 1984) is the forgiveness classic.

  • The practical, spiritual tools she presents in the book are recommended.

  • Hay's affirmations and insights work very effectively in those moments of terrible anxiety and grief when we get"stuck" in the loss.

When Amadeus Mozart passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple of days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Mozart was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it.

The priest bent close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave. Frightened, the priest ran and got the town magistrate.

When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said,"Ah, yes, that's Mozart's Ninth Symphony, being played backwards." He listened a while longer, and said,"There's the Eighth Symphony, and it's backwards, too. Most puzzling." So the magistrate kept listening;"There's the Seventh...the Sixth...the Fifth..."

Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate; he stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery,"My fellow citizens, there's nothing to worry about.

It's just Mozart, decomposing.

QUOTATION H. H. Dalai Lama ,

Heart of Compassion : A Practical Approach to a Meaningful Life

THE GUEST HOUSE

" ...if we remain clinging to this life even for one day, we are misusing our time .

In this way, we can waste months and years on end. Because we don't know when our lives will finish, we should remain mindful and well prepared . Then, even if we die tonight, we will do so without regret.

If we die tonight, the purpose of being well prepared is borne out; if we don't die tonight, there is no harm in being well prepared, because it will still benefit us.

But when we leave the world of humans, we do so without a protector or supporter and the total responsibility falls on us.

We only have our own intelligence to rely on at that time, so we must expend our own effort in order to protect ourselves.

• As the Buddha said,"I have shown you the path to liberation; know that liberation depends on you."

We must put strenuous effort into gaining freedom from the lower migrations, liberation from samsara, freedom from conventional existence and solitary salvation.

The body is compared to a guest house; it is a place to stay for just a short time and not permanently.

At present, the guest of consciousness is staying in the guest house of the body, like renting a place to stay.

When the day comes for consciousness to leave, the guest house of the body must be left behind. Not being attached to friends, the body, wealth and possessions is the practice of the Bodhisattvas."

Attributed to Mary Elizabeth Frye

" Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there. I do not sleep.

I an a thousand winds that blow

I am the diamond splints on snow

I am the sunlight on the ripened grain

I am the gentle autumn rain

When you awaken in the morning’s hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at nighi

Do not stand at my grave and cry

I am not there, idid not die."

14th Dalai Lama 1935- Policy of Kindness Tenzing Gyatso. (2002). The Buddhism of Tibet . Jeffrey Hopkins (Trans. Ed.).

" Cyclic existence means bondage, and liberation means freedom from this bondage. ...The causes of cyclic existence are contaminated actions and afflictions.

If the roots of the afflictions are eliminated and if new actions are not 'accumulated', since there are no affiliations to activate the predispositions of contaminated actions persisting from the past, the causes of cyclic existence have been eliminated.

Then there is freedom from bondage.

Some say that as long as one still has mental physical aggregates wrought by former contaminated actions and afflictions, one has a nirvana with remainder.

When these no longer remain, there is a nirvana without remainder.

'Without remainder' means that there is no remainder of mental and physical aggregates wrought by contaminated actions and afflictions, but The continuum of consciousness and the continuum of uncontaminated mental and physical aggregates still exist."

~~ 14th Dalai Lama 1935- Policy of Kindness Tenzing Gyatso. (2000).

The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom.

" Death is a part of all our lives.

Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen.

Instead of avoiding thinking about it, it is better to understand its meaning.

We all have the same body, the same human flesh, and therefore we will all die.

There is a big difference, of course, between natural death and accidental death,

but basically death will come sooner or later.

If from the beginning your attitude is

'Yes, death is part of our lives', then it may be easier to face."

QUOTATION

~~ Second Sex 1908-1986 Simone de Beauvoir

FROM HER LATER WRITINGS about her mother's death = A Very Easy Death

" I tore myself away

from the safe comfort of certainties

through my love for truth;

and truth rewarded me."

QUOTATION

~~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

" It is not the end of The earthen body that should worry us.

Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive

– to release our inner selves

from the spiritual death that comes with living

behind a façade designed to conforam

to external definitions of who and what we are."

QUOTATION

Tsong-ka-pa and Tenzing Gyatso. (1987). Tantra in Tibet . Jeffrey Hopkins (Trans. and Ed.)

" If you are able to think about the meaning of cyclic existence in general and human life in particular, then it is possible to discipline the mind through religious practice which is the process of becoming peaceful and anxiety-free.

• Otherwise, if too much emphasis is put on the sufferings of the hells and the imminence of death, there is a chance of falling into paralyzing fear.

There is a story in Tibet about an abbot of a monastery who went to give a discourse. A fellow asked the abbot's servant where the abbot had gone, and the servant said,

"He has gone to frighten old men and women."

If you fulfill the value of a human lifetime through engaging in religious practice, then there is no point in worrying about death. "

[end quote]

Love of Life

A minister, apriest, and a rabbi die in a car crash.

They go to heaven for orientation.

They are all asked, "When you are in your casket, with friends, family, and congregants mourning over you, what would you like to hear them say?"

• The minister says, "I would like to hear them say that I was a wonderful husband, afine spiritual leader, and a great family man."

• The priest says, "I would like to hear that I was a wonderful teacher and a servant of God who made a huge difference in people's lives."

• The rabbi replies, "I would like to hear them say, 'Look, he's moving!!'"

Q: Hare Rama Krishna.

Pranam Barbara,

I read your article on dematerialization. Very interesting article on death. I have a clarification request for you. 29th row of the table presented in that article states that "in the sign or Amsa of the 8th house" . What is meant by the Amsa of the 8th house? Are you referring to the 8th house in navamsa chart?

A:

Thanks for your note - great question.

As mentioned in the table heading,

" This chart is copied in its entirety, with no changes from the original, from the generous Jyotisha offerings of : Sri Sarajit Poddar , Jyotish Guru, Sri Jagannath Center --

https://www.scribd.com/doc/282623/Death-Matters

in item 29, the author's reference to "amsha" may refer primarily to navamsha, since nava-amsha is the most commonly mentioned predictive amsha... But of course it could mean any designated amsha (portion) of any varga depending on the Jyotishi's viewpoint.

Best wishes for your success in Jyotisha studies,

Sincerely, barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotishavidya

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console;

to be understood as to understand;

to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Amen

Remember to Practice Dying

so that one may be alert and peaceful when the time comes!

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

He has also set eternity in the hearts of men;

Yet, they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

-- Book of Ecclesiastes * Koheleth, 3:11

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