Horoscope of Saints 2

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he horoscope of  Swami Sivananda is very interesting as it discloses apparently nothing uncommon. uncommon. His horoscope is as follows: follows:

Su: 15° Aq 40’; Mo: 02° Le 00’; Ma: 07° Li 42’; Me: 02° Aq 06’; Ju: 13° Sc 15’; Ve: 11° Cp 15’; Sa: 02° Cn 20’; Ra: 01° Cn 06’; Ke: 01° Cp 06’ Swami Sivananda was born on Monday, the day of the Full Moon, 27 th February 1888 in the District District of Midnapore, West Bengal. Bengal. His lord of the Lagna, Lagna, Jupiter, is almost free from any aspect. . Truly speaking, Rahu cannot cast any impact upon Jupiter . The aspect aspect of Rahu in this this case is negligible. Hence, the Pravrajya Yoga is not cancelled. Jupiter aspects Lagna and and the th th th 5 . The 5 is also aspected by Venus. The 12 is also powerful and partly responsible for his monkhood. monkhood. The Sun in the 12th is not bad because he is the lord of the 6 th and is the atmakaraka planet here. Aquarius, Aquarius, the mystical mystical and mysterious sign, sign, becomes the Karaka Lagna. Ketu is in the 12th along with Venus from the Karaka Lagna. Ketu is also aspected by the 9th lord Mars. This can give salvation. Jupiter, the 10th lord, has become unique as he is in the 9 th. It is interesting interesting to note note that from from the Karaka Lagna also, Mars, the 10th lord, is in the 9th and is free from any aspect. aspect. Lagna lord lord posited in the 9th

generally makes one fortunate, leader, religious and a devotee of Lord Vishnu. The result will vary according to the strength and affliction of the planet, which happens to be the Lagna lord. Here the result has been the maximum because of the strength of  unblemished Jupiter, posited in a friendly house. This Jupiter is in paravata varga. We are to note that Jupiter is the lord of the 5th from the Chandra Lagna and is posited in a Kendra. Jupiter, the unblemished 5th lord from the Moon, has become capable of giving the realization of Brahma as he is in paravatamsa as per the statement of parasara: Paravate tatha vachyam brahmavidya samanvitam

In this horoscope, Jupiter is the planet which alone is capable of giving concentration, meditation and ecstasy. Yogi Barada Charan Majumder was a house-holder-yogi, who never wanted to come to the limelight as a spiritual master. It was Kazi Nazrul Islam, the rebel poet of Bengal, who first tried to introduce him to the public. Barada Charan initiated Nazrul into yoga. Sri Aurobindo called Barada Charan “the greatest yogi of modern Bengal”. During his life-time, few people could know him closely. He was a concealed yogi. We may study his horoscope here.

Su: 15° Cn 52’; Mo: 20° Cn 44’; Ma: 24° Vi 24’; Me: 08° Le 14’; Ju: 10° Vi 07’; Ve: 14° Ge 35’; Sa: 23° Ge 14’; Ra: 16° Le 25’ Ke: 16° Aq 25’

What first of all arrests our attention here is that all the planets are placed in the 5th, the 6th, the 7th and the 8th houses respectively. Aquarius is Lagna which is a mysterious and fixed sign. Venus, yoga-forming planet for this Lagna, is posited in the 5th along with Saturn, lord of the Ascendant. Gemini is a friendly house for both Venus and Saturn. The 5th house, therefore, has become very strong. Mercury, lord of the 5th, is

posited in a Kendra aspected by Lagna lord Saturn. This has also enhanced the efficacy of the 5th. Rahu in Kendra has formed a Raja Yoga as he is with Mercury, lord of a trikona house. Jupiter, the lord of the 2nd and the 11th, is in the 8th. This is not good for income and wealth. There is a consolation. Jupiter is aspecting the 2nd. From the Moon, the 2nd house is also weak and the lord of the 11 th is in the 12th. Barada Charan came of  middle class Bengali Brahmin family of what is now Bangladesh. After his graduation in 1914, he started his career as an Assistant Head Master in a high school and after a lapse of six months was appointed Head Master in another school. From both Lagna and the Moon, Mars is lord of the 10th. He is joined by  Jupiter. This explains his profession. Lord of the 6th in the 6th is also responsible for this profession . From Chandra Lagna, Jupiter and Mars, lords of the 9 th and the 10th, are combined in the 3 rd and they are aspecting the 9th. Saturn also aspects the 9th from the Moon. The religio-spiritual prospect of the horoscope is manifest primarily because of the strength of the 5th house referred to earlier and also because of the fact that the 9 th and the 10th lords from the Moon have joined together and aspect the 9 th. Although Jupiter and Mars are not posited in a friendly house, they are free from any malefic aspect. Barada Charan was fortunate to have enjoyed the major period of the 9th lord Venus in his youth. The Moon is ahead of the Sun as we see in the horoscope of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Mercury is the lord of  the 5th from the Ascendant and is in paravata varga which can confer Brahma vidya. Here he is in a friendly house identical with a Kendra and is aspected by Saturn, Lagna lord, who is placed in the house of the former. This enabled him to remain absorbed in the unfathomable depths of ecstasy. In his book, , he has given a new interpretation of yoga.