Everyone is worried about how to pronounce the mantras properly. It’s not important at all. “What!?!?” they cry, “there are so many tales in the scripture of mantras mispronounced giving disastrous opposite effects!” Yes. That was then. This is now. This is Kali Yuga. You see universal time is very, very long. There are four [...]
This is an excerpt from a book I am writing called Making Peace with your Planets. It is my translation of a prayer from the worlds most ancient surviving book, the Rg Veda (2.23). The founder of ancient astrology recommends this prayer as the best meditation for forming a peaceful and prosperous relationship with the [...]
Water, you kindly grant life In which we can find happiness. Please grant us your most auspicious nourishing essence Like a mother feeding her beloved You carry us happily to far destinations And give us strength for procreation Waters that we drink, you are goddesses bringing aid and bliss Let your health and strength stream [...]
जपा कुसुम संकाशं कश्यपेयं महाद्युतिम् । तमोरिं सर्वपापघ्नं प्रणतोस्मि दिवकरम् ।। japaa kusuma sankaasham kashyapeyam mahaadutim tamorim sarva paapaghnam pranato’smi divakaram Shining like a yellow flower in midst of a lake; the great descendant of the primordial sage Kasyapa; the enemy of darkness and destroyer of ill karma; we respect you, the brilliant Sun. दधि [...]
You hear this from all sorts of enthusiastic religious people. Christians insist that astrology is devilish and that all you need to do is accept Jesus, you don’t need astrology or anything else to be happy and fulfilled. Muslims (and probably Jews?) say that it is a sin of pride to seek such divine knowledge; [...]
क्लीं कृष्णाय गोविन्दाय गोपीजनवल्लभाय स्वाह: Klim Krishnaaya Govindaaya Gopi-johna-vallabhaaya Svaha Klim = the syllable of perfect love (with a romantic focus); Krishna-aya = to krishna, to the “all-attractor”; Govinda-aya = to govinda, to the “sense-pleaser”; Gopi-jana-vallabha-aya = to gopi-jana-vallabha, to the “darling of the gopis” (put yourself in the vantage point of the gopis, the gopi’s are the [...]
