By K.N.
Rao, from www.journalofastrology.com
Dr. B.V. Raman had given him (Yogi Bhakarananda - my Jyotish
Guru) a span of life of 90 years according to his astrological
calculation, perhaps because his atmakaraka, Moon, was in the
9th house with Jupiter. But he himself had said, "I will
take samadhi (a yogi's conscious death) as soon as the mahadasha
of Mercury begins."
"B.V. Raman's analysis is wrong," he said and proceeded
to explain it astrologically thus:
1. The lagna and the 8th lord, Mars, is debilitated.
2. The 10th lord is not in kendra.
3. The 3rd lord, Mercury is in the 8th house and retrograde.
4. Mercury is a maraka for Mesha lagna (at an advanced age).
5. Mercury is the 7th lord (maraka lord) from the Moon, and
is placed in the 12th from it.
6. After the dashas of Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter and Saturn,
the dasha of Mercury will be the 7th.
Natal Chart of Yogi Bhaskarananda
Navamsha Chart of Yogi Bhaskarananda
Vimshamsha
In the Vimshamsha (20th divisional chart), Mercury is the 12th
lord, time for samadhi and sadhe saati (Saturn's transit over
the Moon) will be on.
Vimshamsha Chart of Yogi Bhaskarananda
He was a yogi and used to say, "Do bhajans (devotional
singing). Bhajan is the medicine for all ailments and suffering."
His hints about my horoscope:
1. He used to say, "Yours is Tula (Libra) lagna and Mesha
(Aries) navamsha and mine is Mesha lagna and Tula navamsha.'
2. My 9th lord (Jupiter) which represents the Guru is on your
5th lord (Saturn) both in Dhanu (Sagittarius).
3. Your Moon is in the 11th from my Moon, which shows the possibilities
of your fulfilling my incomplete work.
Natal Chart of K.N. Rao
Navamsha Chart of K.N. Rao
Gajakesari Yoga
If human life is a half-told story of stifled sobs, the company
of a Yogi is the perfume in it of a flower. In this horoscope
(of Yogi Bhaskarananda) that flower is the Gajakesari yoga in
the 9th house. Both Jupiter and the Moon are in a blemishless
condition here. There is no aspect of any planet on it nor any
conjunction. The 4th lord in the 9th is the ashram and there
is Jupiter here. But what is the ashram of a guru? A scholar
has explained, "Aa-Samantaat Shramah" - the place
where all types of labour is to be done. Is there any place
fulfilling such condition?
Mars in the
4th
Sick of the politics of the ashram he had come back to Ahmedabad.
His Guru had assured him that he would appear after his samadhi
(death). Such divine hope assumes the shape of life's effulgence.
Perhaps this had happened in Jupiter-Mars (1966-67), which he
wanted to erase from his memory. But subtle hurts are unbearable,
particularly if they come from a person whom you venerate. Jupiter
and Mars are 6/8 here.
In the crematorium like silence of his house, in Jupiter-Rahu
(1967-69) he, as though, wanted to live down that memory. Two
currents flowed in his life side by side, to stop that interminable
flow of his sobs and the unbroken spells of meditation which
was like the flow of oil.
Saturnine detachment became strong as soon as the mahadasha
of Saturn started. Deep thinking in his cloistered life was
very natural now because in the Vimshamsha both Saturn and the
Moon are in the 9th house. As his sadhana (spiritual practice)
deepened he started getting disinterested in astrology. When
he did the discussion of any horoscope, he paid attention to
two aspects invariably. When and how will Life-Force flow and
the spiritual side. This is the essence of Jyotisha which is
a truth-based preaching.
Blessings
Were someone to ask me if I have seen anyone's blessings give
fruits a hundred percent I will say, without a moment's hesitation,
"Yes, my Jyotish guru's."
The aspect of Jupiter on his Ketu in the 5th house had given
him such supernatural power that he did not need astrology anymore.
Who came to him why and with concealed motive--he knew all that.
I must have taken at least one hundred astrologers to him. He
blessed only a young girl that jyotisha will be a divine eye
for her, which came out correct. Others are the shopkeepers
in a bazaar minting money like street ruffians.
Last Darshan
In 1988, he once rang me up from Neetibag and said,
"Will you not come to meet me? We will not meet after this."
When I met him last, he was passing through the antardasha of
Jupiter in the mahadasha of Saturn. He had faraway looks, the
past had disappeared from his life and it was only the Luminescent
Present that remained. His eyes were, as though, inebriated,
it was that, it was that God-intoxicated condition which Meerabai
described:
Friends drink and dance,
I, without drinking, dance.
Quaffed have I God's Love,
Incessant is inebriation now
Dyed I am, in God's splendor.
On 12 April 1991, while singing a bhajan in his Ahmedabad ashram,
he fell into the immortal slumber of ultimate Samadhi. (It was
his Mer-Mer-Sat dasha).
reprinted with permission
Copyright 2010. Vaughn Paul Manley.
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