The Z Files - The New Age Information Encyclopaedia
( A service of Zodiac Astrology & An aid to Self-Actualisation )
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Issue 51- 09 Sep , 2007
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Of Ayurveda
In the coming years, Ayurveda will blossom - Dr Chopra
Ayurveda is the completest system of Holistic Medicine
He who exercises moderation in eating
Eating unprocessed, food cooked by Nature
Patient, equanimous & who listens to the wise
Such a one is Arogi or the Diseaseless One !
Ayurveda is derived from the Atharva Veda and the Upanishads
( Atharva vedasu upanishadsu pragulpannah )
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Vedic Astrology Lesson 42
Mathematical Astrology V
Solstitial Strength ( Ayana Bala )
Evolutionary Philosophy & Astrology has it that each soul is in a particular
state, which can be discerned by divine vision. Divine vision, x-ray like,
penetrates into all matter. It has center everywhere, circumference
nowhere. Knowing the soul-state of the client, the divine knower
prescribes spiritual practices for the client's evolution to Godhood.
Kranti - Declination
Celestial bodies move northwards and southwards of the Celestial
Equator. Declination has been defined as the angular distance from the
Celestial Equator. If the declination is North, then it is regarded as plus
and if it is South, it is regarded as minus.
It is observed that the Sun cuts the Celestial Equator twice yearly, one in
March and the other in September. The declination is always measured in tropical degrees, that is reckoned from the Vernal Equinoctial Point that
moves. Add to the Sidereal longitudes the Ayanamsa and you get the tropical longitudes of planets. This has to be done before their Krantis
or declinations are found out.
After cutting the Celestial Equator on March 21, ( Aries ingress or Mesha Sankrama ), the Sun moves northwards and his positive declination
gradually increases till it is 23 degrees and 27 minutes. Now the Sun is
at the last point of Gemini or 90 degrees from tropical Aries. 24 degrees Uttara Kranti ( north declination ) means that the Sun has reached the
northernmost point of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere.
Then hisdeclination falls gradually along with his Cancer ingress till it is 0
degress when the Sun will have crossed the Celestial Equator to start his southerly course. This is the time of the Libra ingress. Now he will
have South Declinaton or Dakshina Kranti. His negative declination gradually increases till it is 23 degrees 27 minutes when the Sun will havereached 270 degrees or the last point of Sagittarius. Now its Capricorningress begins. The Declinations decreases gradually till it is again Zero
when he will have crossed the Celestial Equator to start his northerly course. Zero Declination is the Equinox.
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Determination of Kranti
Maximum declination is 23 degrees 27 minutes and this was rounded to
24 by Vedic savants. We are enumerating a new set of rules for finding
the Krantis of planets
First convert the sidereal longitudes into their respective tropical
longitudes Find out their Bhujas.
Bhujamsa - Degrees traversed by the planet from the Equinoctail
Points
Now Bhujamsa has been defined as radius multiplied by
modern sine.
The Bhuja equation is like this
The Cirlce of Light (Zodiac) is divided into 4 parts of 90 degrees each.
If Bhuja is in the First 90 degrees, then the bhuja is the same. If Bhuja is
in the second 90 degrees, then Bhuja is 180 - Bhuja. If Bhuja is in the
Third 90 degrees, then Bhuja = Bhuja - 180 and if in the Fourth 90
degrees, then Bhuja = 360 - Bhuja.
This will give their distance from the First Point of Aries or the First
Point of Libra. At the end of the first 15 degrees ( from one of the two
equinoctial points ) the declination of a planet is 362 minutes of arc; at
the end of the second 15 degrees it is greater by 341 mins of arc;
ie when the planet has traversed 30 degrees ( from one of the two
equinoctial points ) its declination is 362 + 341, equalling 703 mins of
arc or 11 degrees and 43 mins; at the end of the third 15 degrees, it is
furthur increased by 299 mins; at the end of the fourth 15 degrees, it is
still greater by 236 mins; at the end of the fifth 15 degrees it is
increased by 150 mins more; and at the end of the sixth 15 degrees,
it is furthur increased by 52 mins.
First 15 degrees - 362 mins
Second "
- 341
Third
- 299
Fourth
- 236
Fifth
- 150
Sixth
- 52
Summing up, we can say that the maximum declination of 24
degrees is reached when the planet has advanced 90 degrees from any
one of the equinoctial points. Declination is measured as one 90 degrees
quadrant is divided by six equal divisions of 15 degrees.
Uttara and Dakshina Kranti
A planet has Uttara Kranti when its tropical longitude is in between 1 and 180
A planet has Dakshina Kranti when its tropical longitude is in between 180 and 360
The Bhuja is divided 5 and the quotient represents the number of divisions already passed from the equinoctial point. The remainder gives the number of
degrees in the next division for which the proportionate declination may be obtained.
As 15 degrees ; declination indicated by the particular division ; the
remainder degree ; the required declination ( in that division ). This
amount of declination must be added to the amount due to the number of
divisions already passed & the total declination of the planet is obtained.
Determination of Ayana Bala
The astro scholar Kesava has given the formula for Ayana Bala
Ayana Bala = 24 degrees + Kranti
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In the case of Venus, Mars & Jupiter their north declinations are
additive and south subtractive.
In the case of Saturn and Moon their north declinations are subtractive and south additive
For Mercury, both are additive. For Sun, the Ayanabala is always doubled.
See, Mathematical Astrology is not so easy, as people suppose !
Tantra Yoga
By Chris Gladwell
In the beginning she rested as Shakti, the formless unmanifest, floating like a golden egg on the ocean of the silent, still and eternal Void.Endless
& awesome power spontaneously flickered within her as she as both latent and undifferentiated continued to rest, containing within herself the
power seeds of all universes and all time.
Spontaneously she explodes into manifestation as she flowers into the
evolved cosmos of separate vibrant dancing parts, then slowly reaching the completion of full blossoming withdraws herself back into her centre
in the process of dissolution or pralaya.Throughout all of eternity, like cosmic day and night the multiverses alternately expand into energy and
matter and resolve back into herself as primal energy, the hiryanagharba.
Within her great heart rest her forms of Lakshmi, Kali and Saraswati,
these energies of matter and form (tamas), movement & transformation (rajas) and serene grace (sattvas) weave in a balance of harmony.
In manifestation her forms both create, sustain and destroy as they
permeate the whole cosmos, woven through the heart of all energy,
matter and life, so this universe as we know it rests in, unfolds from
and returns to her awesome heart.
From the Sabdabrahman or soundless sound reflected in the human
heart chakra as anahata or the unstruck sound arises the causal sound
or Nada as the vibration of undifferentiated wisdom and intelligence
that sparks into evolution this cosmic unfolding. From this vibration of
OM, there arises a deep primal shudder running through the resting
equanimity of Shakti and rajas arises and the process of
manifestation begins.
Out of this movement & cosmic vibration Shakti splits into two fields of force as being,Nada and Bindu. Bindu is the male pole, Shiva the centri
fugal ground of being as consciousness from which Nada operates. Nada as vibration expands outward in centripetal flow, female, she is nature
unfolding the manifest million forms of this universe.
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This polar duality in unity provides the forces of magnetism, gravity,
levity that holds together the phenomenal world in their state of vibrating molecules.Cosmic evolution flowing from the superconscious, unmoving,
beyond knowing and un-manifest into both the unconsciousness and conscious of the moving, knowable & manifest universe.
The journey of the individual in Yoga is a stepping into greater
consciousness and beyond the beyond into super-consciousness. It is
always a return from perceived separation to that source which is in our hearts, reflected as a balance of Shiva and Shakti with the upward and
downward triangles in Anahata (heart) chakra of the six pointed star.
In Tantra, since all is a facet of the divine there can be no impurity,
everything, every event, every experience can then become grist to the mill, an opportunity for greater and endless awakening into eternal
superconsciousness.
The first practices of Tantra include Yoga asana practice as initiated by the Lord of Yogis Shiva (consciousness) and initiated again through his
re-incarnation as the great Tantric master Adinath. Adinath taught
Matsyendranath who taught Gorakshanath. These famous Tantric masters of the Nath lineage formulated many practices and techniques to assist
the knower to step into greater wisdom and love.Yoga asana
is the first of these.
Tantra can mean weaving, the experiences of life being an opportunity
for awakening. Tantra can mean liberation or awakening through e
xpansion, this is different to the ascetic practices of denial, abstention
and belief in impurity.
Tantra can also mean technique, in this way teachers outline parameters within which the students as knowers then engage with and explore,
experiencing in their own mind and body the results of their exploration.
Tantra uses Mantra as a prime tool. Mantra meaning both Mind expansion and also protection from mundane or small mindedness is the use of specific
vibratory patterns to free the limited small mind into greater and more expansive awareness. Traditionally a teacher will empower a mantra and
then initiate the student into its use. Tantra also uses Yantra as its tool. Yantras are geometric often colourful diagrams that represent the
sacred geometric movement from the source through the bindu or seed into
manifestation.
The movement flows from one-point (bindu) into the first possible
enclosure of space the triangle and from there into the wide circles of
possibility before manifestation in the square of the earth element.
Different Yantras represent different feminine & masculine energies.
Tantra uses visualisation as a means to embody and actualise, to remember ones existence as divine.Tantra uses the focus of one pointed concentrated
mind (dharana) to step beyond limiting conceptual frames into greater freedom of awareness.Tantra uses massage and also spontaneous dance.
The dance is the counterpoint of the linear Yoga asana practice & unfolds the tensions of perceived or felt separation into greater spaciousness.
Experiencing oneself as space, knowing one self as empty of concept,
as empty of separate inherent existence, the whole of life becomes the
play of practice and presence with no outcome and no goal.
Sitting in sacred silence, one just sits, there is nothing to be attained
that is not already here, sitting merely rests us in this spacious presence.
Sacred sexuality may also be used as a playfulness & tool to rest in
deeper presence, yet like licking honey off the razors edge, such practices can easily drop beings into greater egoic belief in their own power, their
own magic, their own strength. In truth, from a place of 'realised emptiness', power, strength & magic are all possible manifestations of love
& wisdom and merely flow as functions of the all pervading divinity. They rest exclusively in no-one and belong exclusively to no-one. So as no-one
we may freely play with licking honey off the razors edge.
Tantra is a means to bring into everyday presence, into the marketplace, into the home, into the whole world the super-conscious.
Christopher teaches the various aspects of TantraYoga on his retreats, the foundations are asana practice, dance and silent sitting.
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