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Jaimini Astrology: K.N. Rao's 7 Step Approach 
May 30, 2011 |
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By K.N.
Rao
Lost in wilderness, shrouded in the ambiguity of aphorism
and interpreted in arbitrary fashion by astrologers with genuine
to fraudulent claims, Jaimini astrology will continue to baffle
astrologers for many more decades.
What then should be the approach of an astrologer in genuine
search of working and workable Jaimini methods tormented me,
as it must have many astrologers. I therefore evolved a seven
step approach.
MY SEVEN STEP APPROACH
First Step
Each astrologer wanting to make Jaimini astrology his predictive
tool must first read whatever books are available, most of
them in translations.
My Findings: Karakas
The first problem was to decide when to use seven karakas
and when eight. It was not a ticklish problem at all as if
all planets are calculated up to seconds, there never was
a clash between two planets contesting for the position of
a karaka. Try it and see if I am right. I solved this problem
easily.
Meaning of Karakas: My Original Research
I studied whatever was available on Jaimini and collected
a huge library and found that no one, even the most respected
Krishna Mishra or Neelakantha even hinted at how these Karakas
were to be used. It was like someone telling me that he lived
in Bombay but never gave his address. It shocked me totally
and sometimes I felt that either it was hidden or these great
and famous commentators never understood their uses. Then,
B.Suryanarain Rao, B.V.Raman, P.S.Sastry or Iranganti Rancharya
who wrote articles in the Astrological Magazine never even
pointed out or produced any research to show how these karakas
were to be used. I took a bold decision to do it myself, a
task which had never been done before by anyone.
Rule of Harmony
Then as in law, so in astrology follow the principle of harmony
in the interpretation of karakas. I reasoned out myself and
came with a workable method which has turned to be a very
effective tool for prediction. I have shown it through various
examples for twenty six years now in 2010 and will show many
more in this article.
Atmakaraka
In Parashari system you have the first house and its lord
for self so that should be the Atmakaraka a planet with the
highest degrees.
In the Parashari system you have the third house and its lord
for siblings etc so that should be the Bhatrikaraka. So that
should be a planet with the third highest degrees.
In the Parashari system you have the fourth house and its
lord for mother and home etc so that should be the Matrikaraka.
So that should be a planet with the fourth highest degrees.
In the Parashari system you have the fifth house for education,
children, mantra etc. So the fifth karaka must be Putrakaraka.
So that should be a planet with the fifth highest degrees.
In the Parashari system you have the sixth house and its lord
for enemies, diseases etc and so it should be the Gnathikaraka.So
that should be a planet with the sixth highest degrees.
In the Parashari system you have the seventh house and its
lord for spouse etc and so it should be the Darakaka. So that
should be a planet with the lowest degrees.
What about Amatyakaraka then ? What about the second karaka
then?
It is Amatyakaraka which means a courtier or an important
man in the court of a king in the days of monarchy. So in
our days it should mean an important man and by extension
your own importance. Is it a hint about career I wondered
and proceeded with this assumption with my research and got
amazing results as I will show.
What about a karaka for father? The problem is easily solved
if you use Bhatrikaraka and Sun for father and Bhatrikaraka
and Mars for siblings as has been as shown in some books on
Jaimini. Here we must remember that sthirakarakas must always
be considered in Jaimini astrology.
Abbreviations
The abbreviations I used then were AK, AmK, BK, MK, PK, GK,
and DK. I then combined sthirakakas like Sun for father, Moon
for mother etc.
Padas
For padas I decided not to use any exception and got excellent
results which I will show partially in this article or a later
article.
Second Step
Whatever the translators say must never be accepted blindly.
Remember that most of the translators are Sanskrit scholars
but not distinguished astrologers or successful predictors.
We are grateful to them for making available many manuscripts
but we must become cautious when it comes to their what I
call “ shloka mauling and sutra chopping” boast.
My Finding
Manoj Pathak a teacher of astrology in the Bharatiya Vidya
Bhavan, New Delhi, decided to do a research on Parashara’s
Chakra dasha and found that out of eight different translations
of available Parashara texts, no astrologer knew how to compute
it. The translation they gave never gave any accurate results.
He has solved the problem amazingly now. He and his students
have been giving brilliant readings based on Chakra dasha.
Soon they are going to come out with an amazing book.
Through experience you will know when and how to ignore these
translators or even commentators (though there is none really
who can be called a commentator of these books) and then getting
enmeshed in a confusion, seek a way out of it with lot of
struggle if you persist with your research.
Third Step
Test whatever has been understood on the well known events
of your own life on your chart and on those of your family
members or friends whose life events are known to you with
correct events and correct dates.
My Finding
The results I got were amazing and brilliant and it is the
experience of my students also.
Fourth step
Now try it on the well known horoscopes of famous people and
test the validity of your understanding on the horoscopes
of yours and of your relation and friends which you have done
earlier.
My Finding
It is what I am going to show in this article.
Fifth Step
Do not bring in fanciful theories which are not mentioned
in any translation of Jaimini like the CHARA KARAKA SUBSTITUTION,
which is a fanciful, if also fraudulent, theory being circulated
now.
My Finding
Reject totally what is not given either in Jaimini sutras
or in the Jaimini portion in Parashara text otherwise you
will walk into a cave where you will suffer astrological suffocation.
Sixth Step
Wherever your testing necessitates it, modify with reasons
the translation of Jaimini texts remembering that most of
these translators were and are only Sanskrit scholars and
not successful predictors because of which they may have misinterpreted
or even wrongly translated some shlokas and sutras.
My Finding
It is a risk you take but not rashly or with fraudulent claim
that you have learnt it from some secret tradition which can
be dubious and fraudulent. Claiming to be belonging to a secret
tradition is marketing.
You must prove it and replicate it over a period of many years
as I have done before publishing my research. Your aim must
be to contribute something for understanding the changed and
changing times through astrology and reject or modify whatever
has agricultural and pastoral connotation when these books
of astrology were written.
Seventh Step
Without losing respect for Krishna Mishra or Neelakantha,
the famous commentators on Jaimini sutras, keep in mind that
their own understanding or interpretation may be incomplete
or even wrong.
My Finding
I will refer to it later and not in this article.
After laying the seven step approach let me explain how I
proceeded in interpreting Jaimini astrology within my own
limitations. I took a bold decision to do it myself, a task
which had never been done before by anyone.
My Aims In Doing Research in Jaimini Chara Dasha
I must explain that I had been giving excellent predictions
through Vimshottari dasha and vargas which late Shehadri mentioned
in his books but which I popularized on a large scale.
But I had to use Chara dasha and many other dashas of Jaimini
out of sheer necessity and demand. The reasons are:
1. During my service career I was posted in Shillong (1962-63)
when I met many Bengalis who had lost their birth horoscopes
when they were fleeing from what then was East Pakistan.
2. Then I had two postings in Calcutta (1967 to 1969 and again
from 1975 to 1978 when again I met many Bengalis who had lost
their birth horoscopes when they were fleeing from what then
was East Pakistan.
3. From 1978 till my retirement in 1990, I met many Punjabis
and Haryanvis and Delhites who were either refugees who had
lost their horoscopes while fleeing from West Pakistan at
the time of the partition of India in 1947 or had Arya Samaj
background and never got their horoscopes prepared. When they
felt the need to have astrological readings, some of them
came to me and I found out that if I fixed their lagnas properly
on the basis of the scanty information they provided, without
fixing the degrees of the lagna, I could give them helpful
predictions on the basis of Chara dasha and seven, and only
seven karakas.
I also found that being a government officer with ten to five
office hours, I was always short of time and I needed accurate
Vimshottari dasha after correcting the birth time which is
wrong in ninety percent times. I solved my problem by heavily
relying on Chara dasha and Karakas and double checked it with
Vimshottari dasha without using vargas in most cases and gave
good predictions though some went wrong awfully also.
In those cases where I had accurate horoscopes, I used both
dashas and even some conditional dashas on which I did lot
of research but have left it to my colleagues in the Astrology
Faculty of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. In these cases I invariably
used divisional charts most of which,(leaving some) I have
revealed in my books.
Keeping this background in the mind follow my discussion of
the horoscopes under ECMCD or education,
career, marriage, children and death.
Follow my line of reasoning by preparing charts in which all
birth horoscopes are:
1) Marked with karakas.
2) Mark the Karakamsha (KL) along with the Atmakaraka also
in the lagna.
3) Mark the putrakaraka (PK)
4) Mark the darakaraka and also the darakaraka navamsha in
the birth horoscope. (DKN) and note the dual use I make of
it for marriage and also death.
5) Mark the upapada in the birth horoscope.
Computing the Chara Dasha Periods
In calculating the periods I neither add one extra year for
exalted planet nor deduct one extra for debilitated period
for the following reasons:
1) Since there are only twelve rashis, so the maximum dasha
period can be of twelve years only. If Mercury is at two degrees
in Kanya,by adding one year to full twelve year period it
will become thirteen.
2) If Jupiter is at two degrees in Makara, for the Dhanu period
the period will be zero which appears absurd to me as no rashi
can have zero period. Additionally, Dhanu periods are known
for rise and fall, sudden events and even tragedies. If in
a horoscope there is a zero year for it, some important events
cannot be seen at all is my experience.
3) In timing events in horoscopes which have exalted and debilitated
planets as in the case of Queen Elizabeth II and Chandrasekhar,
the former prime minister of India, I will show how following
my method, timing of events becomes accurate.
I and my students have followed this method and have given
many successful predictions with timing becoming accurate.
The illustrative horoscopes being used here are of those famous
persons who life events are historically documented and the
horoscopes used have correct lagnas though the degrees of
the lagna may be debatable. But in using Chara dasha that
is not a handicap.
NOTE: I use the Karakamsha lagna in the birth
horoscope for many good reasons which are sound. I will explain
it. If all karakas are used in navamsha it is called Swamsha.
It is the tradition followed in many parts of northern India
and gives excellent results. See a sutra for example:
Shukrendo Shukradrishe rasavadi p 49, meaning that if Venus
is in Karakamsha lagna and is aspected by Moon, he will become
a dealer in medicines etc. (Suresh Ch, Mishra Jaimini Sutram
of Ranjan Publications, 1989 edition in Hindi)
Anyone in the world with Moon and Venus in the same degrees
as Atmakaraka and Amatyakaraka in the birth horoscope will
also have them in navamsha and they all will become dealers
in medicines. If you judge it from Karakamsha in lagna it
may give a different meaning and lot of flexibility is available
for interpretation. It is why traditionally, north Indian
astrologers put Karakamsha in the birth horoscope and judge
the results.
If you blend the results from Karakamsha in lagna and Karakamsha
in Swamsha (meaning all karakas put in navamsha as south Indian
astrologers do) you get better results.
Special Point
Finally, no writer on Jaimini has talked of Darakaraka as
both giver of spouse and also death. Death should of course
be predicted after finding out the span of life which is a
tough task and should be approached through many techniques
combined in a harmonious scheme and technique.
reprinted with permission
Copyright 2011. Vaughn Paul Manley.
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