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# WHAT IS THE TOPIC OF THIS WEEKS "BIGGEST MISTAKES" VIDEO? "Biggest Mistakes About..." (Deadline is tomorrow)
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# DOES MONOTHEISM HAVE DIVERSITY?
The “diversity” of the monotheistic religions (supposedly evident in its many different sects and factions) is their failure, not their credit – because their intention is not plurality but singularity, mono-ism. Their failure to agree on philosophical points or on practical implementations, or just on political power issues, is what caused the so-called “diversity.” It is not diversity really, it is fracturing.
To defend monotheism, one might appeal that it is not sects and factions which evidence its diversity. Rather it is the growing sense of inclusiveness and plurality we see in many churches, mosques, etc. My reply is that this is also their failure, their compromise – though it is a welcome “failure” and one I would be happy to see more of. Monotheism, by definition, is “mono-” dimensional. Inclusiveness and plurality is anathema to the singularity of anything monistic. The core of monism is exclusive and singular, it permits no variance or diversity. This is why we only see inclusiveness and pluraity being added to it – it is not a part of its original core. It is a dilution of monotheism, which will eventually cause it to fade into a lose and unorganized soup of polytheism that is ashamed of itself and in constant strife with itself.
By contrast, polytheism, has inherent, inbuilt, intentional diversity. Their *fundamental idea* is that different people have different interests and aptitudes and therefore should follow different paths towards different divinities.
So, we cannot equate the value and utility of monotheism with polytheism. Monotheism is clearly and utterly a huge degradation. It is the hallmark of kali-yuga religion.
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# SWIMMING IN THE SWAMPY STEW of TODAY'S ASTROLOGY
First, please know that I sympathise with your situation. I was in the same situation when I started. Now, let me say...
The first step is that we have to clarify the absolute mess of astrology, before we can proceed to use it with consistent objective efficiency (of course it is also possible to just wing it like a crystal ball, but then it's really not "astrology" so much as it is "personal intuition").
One of the biggest messes is the sidereal zodiac. We must develop the intellectual clarity and bravery to say, "No, ok, that's just a mistake." otherwise (A) we still aren't clear on the basic mechanics behind the symbolisms - and thus aren't really understanding the symbolisms, and (B) we will constantly be wading in a swamp of confusion about what is where and what to interpret. So, take the plunge and just erase your memory of your sidereal chart. Stop trying to reconcile anything with it. Stop trying to compare it to anything.
If that seems to dramatic or crazy, then pause trying to interpret your chart and turn your attention instead to really grasping the fundamental astronomical mechanics behind the zodiac. If you do that carefully you will become as confident as I am about the need to just unchain your mind from the sidereal zodiac.
Secondly, also take a bold step and erase the non-classical planets and points (Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, and whatever else they are sticking on charts these days). Stick with the classical planets with fidelity and a student's patience and you will soon see how copiously they provide any and all information.
And also, you may have already done this but if not, erase the dynamic house systems, and just stick with the whole sign houses.
Finally, if using nakshatras, make sure you have not glued them to zodiac degrees, and are applying ayanamsha FROM the zodiac TO the nakshatra.
Do these things faithfully and it will be like turning on your windshield wipers in a rainstorm. "Faithfully" not in a "christian" sense but in a "scientific" sense. In other words, not blind, but *educated* faith. If you hesitate on the above points, pause everything else, and investigate your hesitation until it disappears under the light of knowledge.
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I do not apply ayanamsha TO the rashi, rather I apply it FROM the rashi to the nakshatra. In effect, this means the zodiac I use is "tropical" and the nakshatras are "sidereal."
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I finally finished all the Jupiter in 11th House videos. They are all scheduled to publish over the next two weeks. Now I am getting starting on Phaladīpika 18.1, which talks about the conjunctions of the planets with the Sun. Hopefully that will publish this friday.
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Is Bad Karma Good?
We like to say so, because it helps us feel less terrible when going through difficult circumstances. It is not entirely untrue, but I would like to clarify the idea a little bit, to make it more real, and less fluff-talk.
Pain is pain. Suffering is suffering. Pleasure is pleasure. Happiness is happiness. But all these conditions are states of mind. They are subjective.
Pain, for example, is not the electrochemical output of a nerve. It is our subjective emotional reaction to that electrochemical output. Neither is pleasure really a certain condition of neurons, rather it is our emotional reaction to that condition of neurons.
We cannot, and should not, try to erase and ignore the difference between pleasure and pain - but we should and must be aware that neither of them are objective circumstances. Both are subjective.
What this means is that our emotional reaction is MORE important - more real - than what we are reacting too. And that, in turn, suggests that we have some chance, some opportunity to "decide" or "determine" whether we will suffer and be miserable, or prosper and be happy. It is not about a change in the circumstances occurring to us by karma. It is, instead, about taking control over how we react to those circumstances.
However, and I am sure you have already noticed this, we have little ability to decide on our emotional reactions. Rather we are mostly at the mercy of how our emotions decide to react. This is the true misfortune, more unfortunate than any external misery or pain.
Taking control of our own emotional engine is not even slightly easy at all. But basically the entire Indian / Vedic approach to life - described in the Vedas and Puranas and Sūtras, especially like Yoga-Sūtra - is dedicated to helping us do exactly this. We have to avail ourselves of this mercy and grace. Without doing so, pain and suffering is just pain and suffering, nothing more (and pleasure and happiness is nothing more than a fleeting break from it).
it is not that suffering automatically makes us less materialistic. Often poverty and suffering makes us more vindictive, revengeful, spiteful, jealous, angry, etc. Bad karma, then, is not automatically good for detachment or spiritual progress. Nor is pleasure and good karma automatically going to make anyone addicted to materialistic things. Again, often we see the exact opposite. People with great riches and fame very often become extremely detached from such things and don't want them.
To make any good out of any karma, the so-called good or the so-called bad, we must try to learn the paths of yoga described in Gītā and in more detail in Yoga-sūtra. Then we have to try to apply whatever we can from these paths, in some form of practice in our daily lives, however humble that may be.
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Disillusionment is the same as illusionment - just from downward side of the "wheel" rather than the upward.
There is no way not to be disillusioned with the world. Nor is there any way not to be enamoured and illusioned by it. Trying to do either is like commanding the waves of the ocean to halt. We have to try to do whatever we do simply because it is what we do, and it is what others need us to do. We have to try not to change our motivations when the wheel is rolling upwards, or when it is rolling downwards.
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Vote for the next "BIGGEST MISTAKES" video subject (1 day open vote). "Biggest Mistakes about..."
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Astrology by Vic DiCara - the amazing principles of classical Indian astrology, through modern eyes, and with a marriage of tropical signs and sidereal nakshatra