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International Institute of Predictive Astrology[IIPA]
Proceedings of The Fourth Intl Conf of SA Astrologers
Club Patio South South City-II Gurgaon India
11th amp 12th April 2009
Part II[Session I] wef Noon on the First Day
Synopsis amp Introduction
At noon on the first day as scheduled by Professor Choudhry Icommenced the PPP on lsquoThe Light of the SA on World
Leaders their Mass Movements and their Monumental
Legaciesrsquo In this presentation I had endeavored to explore into
the necessary and sufficient SA conditions which go into the
making of great World Leaders and ensure also their
Monumental Victories amp their Monumental Legacies as well
I have been closely guided in this work by Prof Choudhry
If we look at any human society we are able to identify a
handful of extraordinary human beings who have enjoyed the
Divine Grace of God to such an extent that through their life
and Mission they have been able to bring to all humanity a
Legacy of Monumental proportions which has invariably beenin the nature of courageous lsquorevolutionsrsquo Often these World
Leaders either brought in a new world order or ushered in some
courageous revolutionary achievement which turned out to have
an everlasting impact on human life and consciousness as a
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whole The fields of activity of all these World Leaders may
vary but the underlying principle is essentially the same
Thus I am dealing here not merely with successful and famous
people [examples of which may not be wanting at all in our
societies] but rather with illustrious World Leaders Mahatmas
Avatars Saints Scientists amp Statesmen who have been nothing
less than revolutionary founding fathers of new systems of
thought and life This is the basic idea which is being examined
here
My commentary on each of the eleven World Leaders falls into
three parts Firstly I provide sufficient life-data on that World
Leader Secondly I throw some SA Light upon their charts
Thirdly and lastly I apply to each chart the list of lsquoSix Essential
Ingredientsrsquo to ascertain to what an extent they pass the test
and reap lsquothe final fruitrsquo of their Monumental Mission-which isthe Monumental legacy
In this Introduction I complete the first and second parts and
shall leave you to complete the last and third part when you
actually look at the PPP
Six Essential Ingredients in the making of such World Leaders
are firstly identified and cast in the form of SA Sutras
Subsequently these SA Sutras will have to be applied by you
successively to each of the eleven World Leaders I have
considered for the purpose of this Conf In the course of the
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PPP I have also given some idea about each of their lives and
only thereafter do you have to apply the SA Sutras to understand
how it is that they all left behind Monumental Legacies for thebenefit of future generations
In this introduction I have given here and there some
additional interesting facets of the lives of these World Leaders
over and above what I had spoken at the Conf I have done this
only because I thought it will help us to have so much clearer
an understanding of their charts
Six Essential Ingredients in the Making of these World
Leaders
1 Divine Grace for lsquoNobility of Soulrsquo
2 Divine Grace for Monumental Courage for accomplishing the
Monumental Mission
3 Divine Grace for Success [lsquoVictoryrsquo] in the Monumental
Mission
4 Divine Grace Surmounting VIH Obstacles
5 Divine Grace Strong VIIIH lsquoInheritancersquo
6 Divine Grace Intelligence Learning Knowledge amp Wisdom
Note I have used the term Divine Grace to mean Strong
HsPlanets in the SA
lsquoThe Final Fruitrsquo of the Monumental Mission
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The World Leader comes to be enshrined in the hearts of his
followers as a godly amp selfless
AvatarScientistAcharyaStatesman because of the blessings ofGod he was instrumental in bringing into the lives of his
numberless followers
This happens when all of the above 6 Ingredients are present in
his Chart and Life
SA Sutras for the lsquoNobility of the Soulrsquo Ingredient 1
i Strong spiritual planets per se [Su ampor Ju ampor Mo]
ii Strong VH ampor IXH [Dharma Hs]
iii Strong Sa ampor strong VIHKe as givers of Grace for
service responsibility dedication
iv And the above Influences on Strong Asdt lord ampor Asdt H
or on the IIIH IVH VH IXH
Note that in the SA we use the Divisional Charts for assessing
the Strength of Planets only
Essential Ingredient 2 Courage to Undertake a Monumental
Mission
SA Sutra Courageous Passion is the main engine of the World
Leaderrsquos Mission
The PD for Courage is the IIIH [Anjaneya Shakti] amp The GSs
are the Su amp Ma
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Fruits of the IIIH [A Sun like H]
i) Divine Grace for creating followers
ii) Divine Grace for team work amp leadership therein
iii) Divine Grace for Courage Victory [Success]
Vitality Profound Interest
Essential Ingredient 3 Divine Grace for Victory in the
Monumental Mission
Victory in Monumental Mission Work [which leaves behind an
everlasting impression on the followers amp upon the world] in the
Charts of World Leaders is given by
SA Sutra ldquoIf there is a MTS in the IIIH then the IIIH lord
becomes the PD while the Su amp Ju become GSs for Victory in
Monumental Mission Workrdquo
Essential Ingredient 4 Divine Grace for surmounting
lsquoVIH Obstaclesrsquo
There should be Divine Grace for Victory in battles with the
forces of enmity amp minimum losses of various kinds
SA Sutra ldquoA strong VIH would give capacity to succeed in
great labors [service] the Divine Grace to defeat enemies and be
free of the sapping losses through litigations accidents ill-
health Ideally there should be no planet in the VIHrdquo
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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or
strong planets placed therein
SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo
Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo
[Artha]
The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of
Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by
The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH
While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of
lsquoWealthrsquo
Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo
Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo
Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of
the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced
the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra
on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA
Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just
for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end
of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense
It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated
achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that
each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a
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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an
lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the
magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only
Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]
Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties
1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment
DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]
2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp
Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of
Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]
3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long
Learning [Aurobindo]
World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf
1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]
[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)
POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]
2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)
POB (87E44 22N53)]
3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]
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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)
POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]
5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]
[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]
[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)
POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]
7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)
POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]
8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]
[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)
POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]
9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]
[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)
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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]
10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]
[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)
POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]
Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above
World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their
charts[second part] so that after completing this you can
proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a
view to understand how it was that they left behind a
Monumental Legacy[third part]
Shirdi Sai Baba
Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the
XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation
spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of
past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The
Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH
gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God
was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame
during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace
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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga
[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for
him
Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a
forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of
Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great
detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new
born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A
fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and
guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who
groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter
he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction
through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers
who were jealous of him though his peers were also in
association with the Spiritual Master
Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode
Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the
walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in
his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with
God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of
enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance
Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he
brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees
whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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whole The fields of activity of all these World Leaders may
vary but the underlying principle is essentially the same
Thus I am dealing here not merely with successful and famous
people [examples of which may not be wanting at all in our
societies] but rather with illustrious World Leaders Mahatmas
Avatars Saints Scientists amp Statesmen who have been nothing
less than revolutionary founding fathers of new systems of
thought and life This is the basic idea which is being examined
here
My commentary on each of the eleven World Leaders falls into
three parts Firstly I provide sufficient life-data on that World
Leader Secondly I throw some SA Light upon their charts
Thirdly and lastly I apply to each chart the list of lsquoSix Essential
Ingredientsrsquo to ascertain to what an extent they pass the test
and reap lsquothe final fruitrsquo of their Monumental Mission-which isthe Monumental legacy
In this Introduction I complete the first and second parts and
shall leave you to complete the last and third part when you
actually look at the PPP
Six Essential Ingredients in the making of such World Leaders
are firstly identified and cast in the form of SA Sutras
Subsequently these SA Sutras will have to be applied by you
successively to each of the eleven World Leaders I have
considered for the purpose of this Conf In the course of the
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PPP I have also given some idea about each of their lives and
only thereafter do you have to apply the SA Sutras to understand
how it is that they all left behind Monumental Legacies for thebenefit of future generations
In this introduction I have given here and there some
additional interesting facets of the lives of these World Leaders
over and above what I had spoken at the Conf I have done this
only because I thought it will help us to have so much clearer
an understanding of their charts
Six Essential Ingredients in the Making of these World
Leaders
1 Divine Grace for lsquoNobility of Soulrsquo
2 Divine Grace for Monumental Courage for accomplishing the
Monumental Mission
3 Divine Grace for Success [lsquoVictoryrsquo] in the Monumental
Mission
4 Divine Grace Surmounting VIH Obstacles
5 Divine Grace Strong VIIIH lsquoInheritancersquo
6 Divine Grace Intelligence Learning Knowledge amp Wisdom
Note I have used the term Divine Grace to mean Strong
HsPlanets in the SA
lsquoThe Final Fruitrsquo of the Monumental Mission
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The World Leader comes to be enshrined in the hearts of his
followers as a godly amp selfless
AvatarScientistAcharyaStatesman because of the blessings ofGod he was instrumental in bringing into the lives of his
numberless followers
This happens when all of the above 6 Ingredients are present in
his Chart and Life
SA Sutras for the lsquoNobility of the Soulrsquo Ingredient 1
i Strong spiritual planets per se [Su ampor Ju ampor Mo]
ii Strong VH ampor IXH [Dharma Hs]
iii Strong Sa ampor strong VIHKe as givers of Grace for
service responsibility dedication
iv And the above Influences on Strong Asdt lord ampor Asdt H
or on the IIIH IVH VH IXH
Note that in the SA we use the Divisional Charts for assessing
the Strength of Planets only
Essential Ingredient 2 Courage to Undertake a Monumental
Mission
SA Sutra Courageous Passion is the main engine of the World
Leaderrsquos Mission
The PD for Courage is the IIIH [Anjaneya Shakti] amp The GSs
are the Su amp Ma
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Fruits of the IIIH [A Sun like H]
i) Divine Grace for creating followers
ii) Divine Grace for team work amp leadership therein
iii) Divine Grace for Courage Victory [Success]
Vitality Profound Interest
Essential Ingredient 3 Divine Grace for Victory in the
Monumental Mission
Victory in Monumental Mission Work [which leaves behind an
everlasting impression on the followers amp upon the world] in the
Charts of World Leaders is given by
SA Sutra ldquoIf there is a MTS in the IIIH then the IIIH lord
becomes the PD while the Su amp Ju become GSs for Victory in
Monumental Mission Workrdquo
Essential Ingredient 4 Divine Grace for surmounting
lsquoVIH Obstaclesrsquo
There should be Divine Grace for Victory in battles with the
forces of enmity amp minimum losses of various kinds
SA Sutra ldquoA strong VIH would give capacity to succeed in
great labors [service] the Divine Grace to defeat enemies and be
free of the sapping losses through litigations accidents ill-
health Ideally there should be no planet in the VIHrdquo
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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or
strong planets placed therein
SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo
Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo
[Artha]
The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of
Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by
The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH
While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of
lsquoWealthrsquo
Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo
Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo
Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of
the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced
the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra
on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA
Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just
for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end
of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense
It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated
achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that
each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a
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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an
lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the
magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only
Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]
Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties
1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment
DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]
2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp
Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of
Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]
3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long
Learning [Aurobindo]
World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf
1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]
[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)
POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]
2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)
POB (87E44 22N53)]
3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]
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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)
POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]
5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]
[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]
[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)
POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]
7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)
POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]
8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]
[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)
POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]
9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]
[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)
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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]
10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]
[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)
POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]
Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above
World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their
charts[second part] so that after completing this you can
proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a
view to understand how it was that they left behind a
Monumental Legacy[third part]
Shirdi Sai Baba
Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the
XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation
spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of
past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The
Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH
gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God
was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame
during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace
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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga
[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for
him
Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a
forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of
Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great
detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new
born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A
fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and
guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who
groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter
he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction
through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers
who were jealous of him though his peers were also in
association with the Spiritual Master
Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode
Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the
walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in
his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with
God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of
enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance
Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he
brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees
whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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PPP I have also given some idea about each of their lives and
only thereafter do you have to apply the SA Sutras to understand
how it is that they all left behind Monumental Legacies for thebenefit of future generations
In this introduction I have given here and there some
additional interesting facets of the lives of these World Leaders
over and above what I had spoken at the Conf I have done this
only because I thought it will help us to have so much clearer
an understanding of their charts
Six Essential Ingredients in the Making of these World
Leaders
1 Divine Grace for lsquoNobility of Soulrsquo
2 Divine Grace for Monumental Courage for accomplishing the
Monumental Mission
3 Divine Grace for Success [lsquoVictoryrsquo] in the Monumental
Mission
4 Divine Grace Surmounting VIH Obstacles
5 Divine Grace Strong VIIIH lsquoInheritancersquo
6 Divine Grace Intelligence Learning Knowledge amp Wisdom
Note I have used the term Divine Grace to mean Strong
HsPlanets in the SA
lsquoThe Final Fruitrsquo of the Monumental Mission
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The World Leader comes to be enshrined in the hearts of his
followers as a godly amp selfless
AvatarScientistAcharyaStatesman because of the blessings ofGod he was instrumental in bringing into the lives of his
numberless followers
This happens when all of the above 6 Ingredients are present in
his Chart and Life
SA Sutras for the lsquoNobility of the Soulrsquo Ingredient 1
i Strong spiritual planets per se [Su ampor Ju ampor Mo]
ii Strong VH ampor IXH [Dharma Hs]
iii Strong Sa ampor strong VIHKe as givers of Grace for
service responsibility dedication
iv And the above Influences on Strong Asdt lord ampor Asdt H
or on the IIIH IVH VH IXH
Note that in the SA we use the Divisional Charts for assessing
the Strength of Planets only
Essential Ingredient 2 Courage to Undertake a Monumental
Mission
SA Sutra Courageous Passion is the main engine of the World
Leaderrsquos Mission
The PD for Courage is the IIIH [Anjaneya Shakti] amp The GSs
are the Su amp Ma
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Fruits of the IIIH [A Sun like H]
i) Divine Grace for creating followers
ii) Divine Grace for team work amp leadership therein
iii) Divine Grace for Courage Victory [Success]
Vitality Profound Interest
Essential Ingredient 3 Divine Grace for Victory in the
Monumental Mission
Victory in Monumental Mission Work [which leaves behind an
everlasting impression on the followers amp upon the world] in the
Charts of World Leaders is given by
SA Sutra ldquoIf there is a MTS in the IIIH then the IIIH lord
becomes the PD while the Su amp Ju become GSs for Victory in
Monumental Mission Workrdquo
Essential Ingredient 4 Divine Grace for surmounting
lsquoVIH Obstaclesrsquo
There should be Divine Grace for Victory in battles with the
forces of enmity amp minimum losses of various kinds
SA Sutra ldquoA strong VIH would give capacity to succeed in
great labors [service] the Divine Grace to defeat enemies and be
free of the sapping losses through litigations accidents ill-
health Ideally there should be no planet in the VIHrdquo
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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or
strong planets placed therein
SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo
Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo
[Artha]
The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of
Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by
The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH
While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of
lsquoWealthrsquo
Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo
Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo
Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of
the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced
the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra
on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA
Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just
for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end
of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense
It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated
achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that
each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a
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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an
lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the
magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only
Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]
Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties
1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment
DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]
2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp
Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of
Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]
3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long
Learning [Aurobindo]
World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf
1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]
[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)
POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]
2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)
POB (87E44 22N53)]
3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]
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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)
POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]
5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]
[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]
[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)
POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]
7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)
POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]
8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]
[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)
POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]
9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]
[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)
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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]
10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]
[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)
POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]
Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above
World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their
charts[second part] so that after completing this you can
proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a
view to understand how it was that they left behind a
Monumental Legacy[third part]
Shirdi Sai Baba
Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the
XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation
spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of
past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The
Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH
gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God
was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame
during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace
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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga
[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for
him
Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a
forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of
Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great
detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new
born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A
fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and
guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who
groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter
he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction
through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers
who were jealous of him though his peers were also in
association with the Spiritual Master
Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode
Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the
walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in
his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with
God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of
enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance
Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he
brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees
whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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The World Leader comes to be enshrined in the hearts of his
followers as a godly amp selfless
AvatarScientistAcharyaStatesman because of the blessings ofGod he was instrumental in bringing into the lives of his
numberless followers
This happens when all of the above 6 Ingredients are present in
his Chart and Life
SA Sutras for the lsquoNobility of the Soulrsquo Ingredient 1
i Strong spiritual planets per se [Su ampor Ju ampor Mo]
ii Strong VH ampor IXH [Dharma Hs]
iii Strong Sa ampor strong VIHKe as givers of Grace for
service responsibility dedication
iv And the above Influences on Strong Asdt lord ampor Asdt H
or on the IIIH IVH VH IXH
Note that in the SA we use the Divisional Charts for assessing
the Strength of Planets only
Essential Ingredient 2 Courage to Undertake a Monumental
Mission
SA Sutra Courageous Passion is the main engine of the World
Leaderrsquos Mission
The PD for Courage is the IIIH [Anjaneya Shakti] amp The GSs
are the Su amp Ma
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Fruits of the IIIH [A Sun like H]
i) Divine Grace for creating followers
ii) Divine Grace for team work amp leadership therein
iii) Divine Grace for Courage Victory [Success]
Vitality Profound Interest
Essential Ingredient 3 Divine Grace for Victory in the
Monumental Mission
Victory in Monumental Mission Work [which leaves behind an
everlasting impression on the followers amp upon the world] in the
Charts of World Leaders is given by
SA Sutra ldquoIf there is a MTS in the IIIH then the IIIH lord
becomes the PD while the Su amp Ju become GSs for Victory in
Monumental Mission Workrdquo
Essential Ingredient 4 Divine Grace for surmounting
lsquoVIH Obstaclesrsquo
There should be Divine Grace for Victory in battles with the
forces of enmity amp minimum losses of various kinds
SA Sutra ldquoA strong VIH would give capacity to succeed in
great labors [service] the Divine Grace to defeat enemies and be
free of the sapping losses through litigations accidents ill-
health Ideally there should be no planet in the VIHrdquo
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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or
strong planets placed therein
SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo
Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo
[Artha]
The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of
Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by
The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH
While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of
lsquoWealthrsquo
Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo
Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo
Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of
the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced
the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra
on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA
Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just
for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end
of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense
It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated
achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that
each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a
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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an
lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the
magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only
Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]
Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties
1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment
DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]
2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp
Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of
Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]
3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long
Learning [Aurobindo]
World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf
1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]
[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)
POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]
2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)
POB (87E44 22N53)]
3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]
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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)
POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]
5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]
[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]
[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)
POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]
7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)
POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]
8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]
[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)
POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]
9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]
[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)
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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]
10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]
[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)
POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]
Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above
World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their
charts[second part] so that after completing this you can
proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a
view to understand how it was that they left behind a
Monumental Legacy[third part]
Shirdi Sai Baba
Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the
XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation
spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of
past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The
Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH
gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God
was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame
during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace
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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga
[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for
him
Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a
forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of
Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great
detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new
born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A
fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and
guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who
groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter
he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction
through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers
who were jealous of him though his peers were also in
association with the Spiritual Master
Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode
Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the
walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in
his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with
God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of
enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance
Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he
brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees
whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Fruits of the IIIH [A Sun like H]
i) Divine Grace for creating followers
ii) Divine Grace for team work amp leadership therein
iii) Divine Grace for Courage Victory [Success]
Vitality Profound Interest
Essential Ingredient 3 Divine Grace for Victory in the
Monumental Mission
Victory in Monumental Mission Work [which leaves behind an
everlasting impression on the followers amp upon the world] in the
Charts of World Leaders is given by
SA Sutra ldquoIf there is a MTS in the IIIH then the IIIH lord
becomes the PD while the Su amp Ju become GSs for Victory in
Monumental Mission Workrdquo
Essential Ingredient 4 Divine Grace for surmounting
lsquoVIH Obstaclesrsquo
There should be Divine Grace for Victory in battles with the
forces of enmity amp minimum losses of various kinds
SA Sutra ldquoA strong VIH would give capacity to succeed in
great labors [service] the Divine Grace to defeat enemies and be
free of the sapping losses through litigations accidents ill-
health Ideally there should be no planet in the VIHrdquo
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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or
strong planets placed therein
SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo
Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo
[Artha]
The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of
Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by
The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH
While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of
lsquoWealthrsquo
Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo
Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo
Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of
the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced
the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra
on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA
Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just
for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end
of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense
It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated
achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that
each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a
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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an
lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the
magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only
Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]
Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties
1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment
DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]
2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp
Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of
Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]
3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long
Learning [Aurobindo]
World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf
1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]
[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)
POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]
2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)
POB (87E44 22N53)]
3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]
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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)
POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]
5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]
[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]
[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)
POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]
7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)
POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]
8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]
[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)
POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]
9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]
[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)
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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]
10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]
[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)
POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]
Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above
World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their
charts[second part] so that after completing this you can
proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a
view to understand how it was that they left behind a
Monumental Legacy[third part]
Shirdi Sai Baba
Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the
XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation
spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of
past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The
Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH
gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God
was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame
during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace
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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga
[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for
him
Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a
forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of
Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great
detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new
born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A
fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and
guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who
groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter
he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction
through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers
who were jealous of him though his peers were also in
association with the Spiritual Master
Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode
Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the
walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in
his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with
God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of
enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance
Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he
brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees
whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or
strong planets placed therein
SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo
Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo
[Artha]
The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of
Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by
The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH
While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of
lsquoWealthrsquo
Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo
Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo
Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of
the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced
the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra
on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA
Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just
for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end
of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense
It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated
achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that
each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a
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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an
lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the
magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only
Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]
Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties
1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment
DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]
2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp
Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of
Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]
3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long
Learning [Aurobindo]
World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf
1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]
[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)
POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]
2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)
POB (87E44 22N53)]
3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]
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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)
POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]
5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]
[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]
[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)
POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]
7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)
POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]
8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]
[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)
POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]
9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]
[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)
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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]
10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]
[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)
POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]
Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above
World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their
charts[second part] so that after completing this you can
proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a
view to understand how it was that they left behind a
Monumental Legacy[third part]
Shirdi Sai Baba
Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the
XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation
spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of
past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The
Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH
gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God
was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame
during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace
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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga
[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for
him
Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a
forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of
Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great
detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new
born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A
fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and
guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who
groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter
he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction
through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers
who were jealous of him though his peers were also in
association with the Spiritual Master
Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode
Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the
walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in
his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with
God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of
enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance
Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he
brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees
whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or
strong planets placed therein
SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo
Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo
[Artha]
The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of
Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by
The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH
While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of
lsquoWealthrsquo
Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo
Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo
Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of
the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced
the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra
on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA
Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just
for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end
of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense
It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated
achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that
each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a
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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an
lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the
magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only
Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]
Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties
1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment
DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]
2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp
Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of
Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]
3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long
Learning [Aurobindo]
World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf
1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]
[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)
POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]
2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)
POB (87E44 22N53)]
3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]
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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)
POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]
5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]
[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]
[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)
POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]
7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)
POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]
8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]
[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)
POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]
9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]
[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)
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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]
10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]
[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)
POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]
Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above
World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their
charts[second part] so that after completing this you can
proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a
view to understand how it was that they left behind a
Monumental Legacy[third part]
Shirdi Sai Baba
Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the
XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation
spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of
past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The
Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH
gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God
was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame
during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace
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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga
[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for
him
Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a
forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of
Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great
detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new
born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A
fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and
guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who
groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter
he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction
through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers
who were jealous of him though his peers were also in
association with the Spiritual Master
Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode
Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the
walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in
his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with
God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of
enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance
Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he
brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees
whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an
lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the
magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only
Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]
Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties
1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment
DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]
2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp
Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of
Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]
3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long
Learning [Aurobindo]
World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf
1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]
[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)
POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]
2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)
POB (87E44 22N53)]
3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]
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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)
POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]
5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]
[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]
[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)
POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]
7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)
POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]
8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]
[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)
POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]
9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]
[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)
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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]
10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]
[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)
POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]
Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above
World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their
charts[second part] so that after completing this you can
proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a
view to understand how it was that they left behind a
Monumental Legacy[third part]
Shirdi Sai Baba
Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the
XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation
spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of
past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The
Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH
gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God
was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame
during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace
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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga
[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for
him
Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a
forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of
Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great
detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new
born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A
fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and
guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who
groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter
he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction
through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers
who were jealous of him though his peers were also in
association with the Spiritual Master
Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode
Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the
walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in
his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with
God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of
enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance
Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he
brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees
whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)
POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]
5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]
[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]
[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)
POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]
7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)
POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]
8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]
[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)
POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]
9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]
[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)
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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]
10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]
[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)
POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]
Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above
World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their
charts[second part] so that after completing this you can
proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a
view to understand how it was that they left behind a
Monumental Legacy[third part]
Shirdi Sai Baba
Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the
XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation
spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of
past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The
Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH
gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God
was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame
during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace
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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga
[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for
him
Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a
forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of
Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great
detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new
born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A
fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and
guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who
groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter
he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction
through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers
who were jealous of him though his peers were also in
association with the Spiritual Master
Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode
Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the
walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in
his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with
God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of
enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance
Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he
brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees
whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]
10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]
[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)
POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]
11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)
POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]
Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above
World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their
charts[second part] so that after completing this you can
proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a
view to understand how it was that they left behind a
Monumental Legacy[third part]
Shirdi Sai Baba
Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the
XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation
spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of
past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The
Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH
gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God
was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame
during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace
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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga
[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for
him
Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a
forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of
Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great
detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new
born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A
fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and
guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who
groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter
he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction
through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers
who were jealous of him though his peers were also in
association with the Spiritual Master
Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode
Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the
walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in
his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with
God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of
enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance
Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he
brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees
whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga
[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for
him
Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a
forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of
Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great
detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new
born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A
fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and
guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who
groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter
he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction
through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers
who were jealous of him though his peers were also in
association with the Spiritual Master
Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode
Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the
walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in
his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with
God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of
enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance
Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he
brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees
whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved
all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and
benefits into their troubled lives
He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold
declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of
herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for
knowledge of the past present and future His life was an
example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both
the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to
God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings
as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence
In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people
of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of
Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj
Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings
and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp
service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of
Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of
God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted
close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div
chart
As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke
were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward
while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact
aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great
versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all
faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa
This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same
time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju
was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his
spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic
feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose
devotee and son he was
Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost
his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and
exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at
the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds
against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp
Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process
The next mystic communion with God came at the age of
eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play
From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became
an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that
was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-
winningrsquo kind of education
When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed
away and to support himself and his family he undertook the
job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the
Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the
rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and
as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for
they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming
of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to
anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their
forefathers
A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras
[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that
Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never
interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed
upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri
initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a
Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873
he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he
immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a
high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence
[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a
warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-
like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both
planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su
very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the
Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The
MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa
Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his
health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the
VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and
tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when
he was only 39 yrs of age
His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things
[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This
served to raise the image of India on the world stage
[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and
education of the poor after his Master passed away
[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the
spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life
went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to
the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN
this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-
Independent India
[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of
the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the
encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy
[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of
discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very
closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and
European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas
and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a
new national consciousness based on rediscovering the
spiritual treasures of India
Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of
Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age
in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries
Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as
lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society
of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu
India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of
westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale
was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant
form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi
coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India
from British imperialism
After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a
long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North
India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India
In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer
Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this
great disciple and his great Master had personalities and
approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other
Mahatma Gandhi
Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord
Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the
VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him
austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual
influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the
IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart
Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt
MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri
Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-
abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras
[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life
etc
Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of
Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the
lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo
as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its
dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to
became the father of his people the Indians This also added to
his already Leonine courage
Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with
exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for
independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them
through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and
capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]
Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the
truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to
secure complete independence for India from the diabolical
British imperialism
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted
world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the
Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein
remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a
one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The
Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact
on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of
race and nationality religion amp language
Sri Aurobindo
Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the
exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of
Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As
though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his
Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba
Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative
intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there
imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos
general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for
teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this
turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga
became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on
the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from
where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually
awakening the Indian people through his writings in the
magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work
As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading
public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating
to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The
Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself
thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic
enquiries into the Vedas
His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to
our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that
a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing
astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but
built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature
of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the
world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart
even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the
spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo
had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual
one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us
undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature
Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of
the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer
Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one
becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos
own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in
unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA
Sutra
Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in
poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as
well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as
three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of
resources
Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra
lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the
VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri
Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his
Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic
knowledge of the Vedas
Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry
for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and
became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord
of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The
Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives
the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA
Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the
Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into
these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in
all his writings
One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his
emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences
SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three
distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary
effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact
or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets
and thirdly the result of placements All three must be
consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord
placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the
lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH
Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord
Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the
Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in
the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there
Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-
Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the
profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and
above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten
awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof
Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-
life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the
XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]
Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for
the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of
Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that
blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the
body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of
Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any
longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed
from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this
holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to
understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as
a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and
to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples
of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or
Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have
understood the profound significance of his teachings of
Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their
tears and with their awakened tender hearts
Prof Albert Einstein
Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt
chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last
century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its
exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me
ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo
ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are
weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two
weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H
also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his
delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic
unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He
had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US
There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the
debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted
The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very
special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is
placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world
Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in
a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world
order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a
revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof
Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH
elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him
aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the
Ve Dasa
Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the
1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for
the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of
26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the
Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation
E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy
released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of
Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]
revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked
and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos
understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the
mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo
He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought
that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo
Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American
citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902
at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord
debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think
In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of
Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation
In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way
things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi
rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and
Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the
world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to
make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could
be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated
In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was
offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living
Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on
the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In
the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original
thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the
main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself
to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as
these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity
had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized
our naive conception of the physical world
He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of
specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical
Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced
social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all
fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His
testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma
Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to
Gandhi
When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see
what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my
dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him
world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating
comments
He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can
see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a
wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in
prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the
other areas of life
Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying
that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo
alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He
added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness
of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader
Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-
giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the
MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in
the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]
Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]
Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt
lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted
by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry
remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in
worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life
for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three
Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the
influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this
one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart
from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in
this chart
Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were
described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his
elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number
of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read
and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages
from the scriptures They were however very pious and
innocent
When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in
an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself
liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that
lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus
with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered
attacks by the devilrsquo
In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order
of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V
the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]
On Jan 22nd
1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and
obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6
yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on
spiritual education applies]
On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the
Archbishop
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp
Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ
Sigmata
Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These
illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in
World War I in the medical sector
On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side
This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart
indicating the union of love with God
On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the
ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five
wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining
50 yrs
In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole
world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual
gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign
of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo
Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and
ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled
with pilgrims
Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy
See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos
phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the
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983091983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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983091983093 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983091983094 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983091983096 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943
983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope
he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio
Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp
Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious
success
On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering
hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni
Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron
Saint Padre Pio
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord
giving authorship communication courage vitality and
profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju
exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening
Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of
Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri
Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo
Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos
case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case
it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both
cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the
VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make
his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger
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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3843
983091983096 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943
983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4043
983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143
983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243
983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4343
983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3443
983091983092 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual
planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong
Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained
as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and
initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive
nature of the occult VIIIH
Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in
Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and
Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri
Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master
[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by
Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo
Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri
Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji
He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915
took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda
Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern
education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became
the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was
founded by Yogananda in the US
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3543
983091983093 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3643
983091983094 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983091983095 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to
the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled
widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter
periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu
Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In
1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for
organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and
meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at
Los Angeles
In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have
Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana
Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many
other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in
Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the
highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is
likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-
known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-
meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography
of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong
IIIH]
He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end
of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address
But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of
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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3843
983091983096 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943
983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4043
983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143
983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243
983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4343
983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983091983094 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days
after his demise without showing the slightest signs of
putrefaction
ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of
truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of
religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the
soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really
all about one must know Godrdquo
ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are
merely actors in the divine play who change roles through
reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted
in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than
with the movies director or God
ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help
people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization
ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and
soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that
you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos
omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to
do is improve your knowingrdquo
He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga
which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of
Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3743
983091983095 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3843
983091983096 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943
983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4043
983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143
983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243
983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many
strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH
of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted
closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very
courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and
giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the
spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha
Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a
devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high
discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of
Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong
VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and
made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos
of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in
the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign
Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and
weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His
spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]
Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers
of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of
Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]
but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu
spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu
Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of
ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]
Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had
children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his
54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that
is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a
Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos
life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane
entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called
Sannyasashrama
In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing
commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures
In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement
He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the
founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on
the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was
published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between
the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure
6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced
This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19
languages some Indian and some European
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943
983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4043
983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143
983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243
983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4343
983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943
983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman
Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the
highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced
many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON
was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he
weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in
leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even
though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed
around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]
Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini
Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the
two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon
him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also
gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship
with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the
Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and
Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the
curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost
planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental
achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev
was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4043
983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143
983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243
983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4343
983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4043
983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly
placed in the VIIIH
He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the
head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the
IXH] and good for the land authored good works had
Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist
ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the
Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a
weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and
ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had
less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist
Ideology and Regime
The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is
strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The
strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses
Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the
IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement
of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together
to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission
Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong
IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143
983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243
983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4343
983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143
983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire
of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people
from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are
familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize
Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political
revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact
In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather
imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This
was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin
During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what
it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village
Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and
agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual
Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the
university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in
Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957
A girl child was born in Jan 1957
He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of
courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit
Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary
of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the
8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243
983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]
which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and
expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this
way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old
Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled
as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991
He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God
respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having
been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-
European countries also became free from Soviet domination
He decentralized power and built up better international
relationships
It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest
political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom
for millions of Soviets
Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources
[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is
an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them
in my own language
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983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141
With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better
sense