Spirituality 13

Swami Vivekananda

Narendranath Dutta

January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902

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birth data from: www.astrodatabank.com

Time Zone has been set to Calcutta Railway Time TZ= 5.30 (pre-1905) for a year-1863 birth in Eastern Railway Zone

See also: Complete Writings of Swami Vivekananda online

Distinctive features of nativity:

1. the classic nodal trine (from Rahu or Ketu) usually found in the nativities of spiritual figures, is present in D-1 *and* D-9

2. Exceptionally busy and detailed earth trine in the nativity - a man of the divine (trine) but also a man of large hierarchical organizations who accomplishes a good deal on the material plane. Matched by a water trine based in uchcha Shukra in the spiritual life navamsha.

3. A stunning parivartamsha yoga between Budha and Shani: a super-powerful link between domain-1 (social personality and appearance) and domain-9 (religious wisdom and sagacious teaching).

4. Budha gains dignity in lagna. Dramatic additional powers emerge through the parivartamsha. Budha gains the uchcha status in domain-9, the house of religious philosophy, professorship, and priesthood - an indicator of extraordinary verbal and written, analytical and articulatory intelligence.

5. Shani is already a favorable graha as lagnesha, and in occupation of domain-9 indicates one whose life is dedicated to religious understanding.

6. Shani is exceptionally strong in Shad-bala , indicating one who is a very hard worker. Such a person may be gifted in many areas but a distinctive feature of the personality and lifestyle will be the focused attention on work tasks, meeting material obligations, and generally "getting things done" on an orderly schedule.

7. Vargottama atmakaraka Surya in Dhanau, 12th radix and 12th navamsha, indicates a great humanistic teacher whose impact is much stronger in foreign lands than it is in his homeland. (Cf. Barack Obama, whose nativity features a similar setup. Obama's loyal base of international admirers is arguably much stronger than his following at home.)

8. Karakamsha = Domain-12 = Sw. Vivekananda is best known for being an exponent of meditation, reflection, and prayer (12); Dhanusha = world religions, guru-ship, preaching and teaching; temple culture; universities and philosophical knowledge

9. Powerful vital force in the physical body = athletic, competitive, muscular movement = Ruchaka yoga

Vimshottari Dasha narrative

Mahadasha of L-7 Chandra, age 0-4

• Very Early Childhood

Mahadasha of L-4/L-11 Mangala

• Age 4-11

• L-4/L-11 from Makara lagna = Parents (4), young friends (11), goals (11), and schooling (4)

• L-3/L-8 from Kanya Chandra = emotional volatility, attraction to mystery stories

• Ruchaka yoga = l Ots of energy for this little boy

• Little Narendranath Datta was born into an aristocratic family.

• The strong but exceptionally sober relationship between Narendranath's father and mother may be seen in domain-9 (representing the Father, also also containing Chandra, representing the Mother.)

• The remarkably strong and character-building parivartamsha yoga which generates a "virtual uchcha Budha" in domain-9 and a "virtual swakshetra Shani" in domain-1 reinforce the Jyotisha perception that both of the Swami's parents were fiercely moral and disciplined people; highly intelligent, but perhaps lacking tolerance for slackers or indeed any great sense of humor.

• His father was a judge of the Calcutta High Court. His mother was a spiritual practitioner. According to a record of Vivekananda's talks, his advised him "Be very tranquil, but when necessary, harden your heart." [Swami Chetanananda. "Swami Vivekananda". God lived with them. p.20] Note the Chandra-Shani yoga, which can be very hard-hearted indeed. This is a "specific" type of spiritual practice which is focused on material works; it is karma yoga with emotional repression.

Mahadasha of Rahu , age 11-29

Rahu in Vrischika, domain-11, continues the effects of L-4/L-11 Mangala. In addition to magnifiying the effect of L-4 (education), Rahu occupies 3rd-from-Chandra, which generates an 18-year period of mental training and intensive verbal and written communications, predominantly writing.

Rahu-Shani, Rahu-Budha

• From 1980 until 1984, Narendranath studied western philosophy and history, including world religions, at Scottish Church College in Kolkata.

• Budha = karaka for graduation from school.

Rahu/Shani/Guru - age 18

• First meeting with Ramakrishna.

• Generally, according to the records, Narendranath did not like Ramakrisha too much, and he especially disagreed with Ramakrishna's idol worship (of goddess Kali).

• Ramakrishna was formally uneducated, and Shani = L-6 from Chandra. Not the most auspicious beginning!

Rahu/Ketu, Rahu/Shukra

• Ketu in domain-5 of divine intelligence and creative performance. Rahu-Ketu periods are by definition psychically transformative, often forcibly.

• Student of Shri Ramakrishna

• Yogakaraka L-5/L-10 Shukra occupies the lagna, in 5th-from-Chandra: an extremely auspicious set-up, which brings the inquisitive and well-educated young man into a prominent role (10) as both a student of the guru (sisya) and as a brilliant philosopher (5) of his own accord.

• Rahu/Venus/Chandra/Budha period:

  • Death of Shri Ramakrisha, August 16, 1886 - Shukra = lord of 2nd-from-9th. Ninth house represents the religious teacher, guru, priest, or sage.

  Rahu/Surya, Rahu/Chandra, Rahu/Mangala

  • From 1888 until early 1893 (five years) Swami Vividishananda (as he was then called) roamed the length and breadth of India, meeting scholars, spiritual aspirants, railway workers, and dewans.

  • Rahu-Surya in a 2/12 angle evokes the peripatetic, meditational nature of the quest for truth represented by the Surya-Dhanau in vyaya bhava. This period would have brought numerous teachers and proponents of various philosophies.

  • Rahu-Chandra in a 3/11 angle evokes the friendly, ideological nature of Rahu in relation to the very practical Kanya (Hasta) Chandra with sober, working-class Shani. This is the period, in 1892, during which Vivekananda realized - at KanyaKumari temple -- that the task of reviving India was going to be an extremely pragmatic, starting-at-the-bottom (Shani) type of venture:

  • "At Cape Camorin sitting in Mother Kumari's temple, sitting on the last bit of Indian rock - I hit upon a plan: We are so many sanyasis wandering about, and teaching the people metaphysics-it is all madness. Did not our Gurudeva used to say, `An empty stomach is no good for religion?' We as a nation have lost our individuality and that is the cause of all mischief in India. We have to raise the masses." ~~ Life and Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda, p.24

  • Rahu/Mangala period, while financially gainful (acquiring the funds to attend the Parliament of World Religions - no small financial feat) and very successful in missionary outreach (L-11, double-power) would also have been a period of poor health, since Mangala a natural maraka occupies 6th-from papagraha Rahu. Indeed, Vivekananda's traveling and vigorous spreading of the Good News took a toll on his health.

  Mahadasha of Guru

  • Age 39-death

  • L-3/L-12 from Makara lagna

  • L-4/L-7 from Kanya Chandra

  Guru/Guru/Shukra/Shukra

  • Vivekananda left Bombay for Chicago on 31-May, 1893

  Guru/Guru/Surya/Chandra

  • Tremendously positive reception to his speeches at the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago.

  • Vivekananda hailed as a magnificent orator, great teacher, and angel of truth.

  Guru/Shani

  • Very tiring but extremely well received lecture tour of USA and UK.

  • Sends extensive monies (Shani = L-2) back to India to initiate social and educational reforms.

  Guru/Budha/Ketu/Rahu

  • 01 May 1897, Founding of Ramakrishna Math, Ramakrishna Mission, at Kolkata. Begin writing and printing of two Journals (Budha)

  • A period of enormous public acclaim in India for his message of ending caste animosities, empowering the masses through education, and the end of colonial oppression. Influence upon the next generation of leaders, who will eventually bring forward Independence.

  Guru/Ketu/Surya/Surya

  • Despite declining health, Vivekananda returns to the West. Surya in domain-12 for residence in foreign lands. Ketu indicates detachment. Ketu in 8th-from-Guru suggests the conditions of death. (Exhaustion, deep detachment).

  • Ketu gives results of yogakaraka L-5/L-10 Shukra, who occupies the auspicious 4th-from-Guru in the radix lagna. The journey while tiring was productive, with much sight -seeing, a world-famous speech in Paris at the World Congress of Religions (1900) and establishment of Vedanta Study Centers in Western Europe and USA.

  Guru/Shukra/Chandra/Shukra

  • Return to India. Shukra continues the Ketu projects but with more strength. Thousands of visitors flow to him at the Belur Math. His educational projects flourished, with good funding and strong administrative support. Young politicians (5) flocked to hear his direction.

  Guru/Shukra/Budha/Rahu

  • Death at age 39, 04-July-1902

  • Suffering from Asthma, diabetes, and general exhaustion from his nearly super-human world teaching schedule , the great teacher and guide died of cerebral hemorrhage while in meditation.

  • Prescient of his death , Vivekananda left instructions for his cremation and for the care of the Mission's affairs.

  Makara lordships and conditions of death:

  • Guru = lord of 7th-from-Chandra which occupies 2nd-from-Chandra;

  • Shukra = lord of 2nd-from-Chandra.

  • In addition to granting extremely clear and compelling production of speech and writing, the L-6 Budha in radix lagna also produces lifelong health problems: asthma, diabetes (shukra), high blood-pressure.

  • Rahu is intense, hidden-deep (Vrischika) and explosive (in a rashi of Mangala).. Note Rahu's lord Mangala in Mesha (blood, spurting, hemorrhage) in bandhu bhava of 'the end of things'.

  • L-8 Surya gives the conditions of death. Death occurs in meditation state, conditions of mahasamadhi Apply.

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  Degree on the Navamsha lagna = 19 Kumbha. According to M.C. Jain in The Stars and your Future, (p 145) 19 Kumbha = the "Degree of Proclaiming": "SYMBOL : Setting Sun shining on a waterfall, giving it the appearance of golden water. Denotes one who has a graceful method of expressing himself and his thoughts and who will reach his place when life's midway has passed. He will accomplish much and his words will ring so high that many will stop to listen. His Actions harmonise with his beliefs and his soul is serene."

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  Q: Respected Madam, Namaskar. I was reading about Shri Swami Vivekanand's horoscope and relation with his teachings.I feel that Surya was an intergral part of his personality.Whatever he has spoken it,seems to me that Surya rays were reflected from his soul.His words had message of Ethics,Courage,Truth and Divine love and fiery in nature. Is the reasoning correct? Best Regards Jai Ganesha

  A: Definitely the vargottamsha Atmakaraka L-8 Surya, which occupies 4th-from-Chandra, is a component of Vivekananda's teachings.

  It's always possible that if the birth time were rectified to be earlier, that Surya might be in the navamsha lagna also - definitely the sign of a great teacher. However, not to forget that Surya is the L-8, a very tantrik graha.

  urning of the wheel of death and rebirth , the cycle of destruction followed by rebirth.

  Swami Vivekananda was not primarily a teacher of Tantra. He was primarily a tremendous social philosopher, whose teaching emphasized the social and political implications of the Advaita Philosophy. He was an extremely structural (Shani) thinker who advocated massive-scale social re-programming, in particular the elimination of the "virus of caste" - which seems much better indicated via Rahu in the Makara navamsha lagna..

  Surya is important for any philosopher in any culture, since Surya represents the Divine Intelligence which flows through all schools of philosophy in all lands. Indeed Ravi (and Divine Intelligence) is an integral part of *everyone's* personality!

  However as L-8 in domain-12, Surya is largely an internal, meditative influence for Vivekananda. His meditations must have been spectacular, and powerfully clairsentient. Indeed, he was apprised of his forthcoming death, and made rational plans for his funeral and the conduct of his organization's affairs, in expectation of his sudden demise.

  Surya as atmakaraka therefore domain-12 becomes the karakamsha. USA President 44 Barack Obama has a similar set-up. Karakamsha = vyaya bhava indicates that the native has as much or more influence internationally than one has in the land of one's own birth. It also indicates the power of one's imagination.

  Nevertheless, Shani and Budha, the parivartamsha pair, have a much stronger public and active influence in this nativity. Vivekananda was a highly organized person , a stickler for time schedules, practical and earth-bound of mind, an extremely well informed student of the complexities of world society; and also he was essentially a rational philosopher - not so much a mystic. Although he counseled his followers to maintain shraddha (which is certainly a keynote of Surya) he was absolutely an advocate of the small man (Shani) and he preached the rehabilitation of India from the ground up (Shani).

  It may be tempting to idealize such a great saint, teacher, and visionary, and to attribute his impact in this world to the brilliant glory of Surya. However I think that cold, hard, pragmatic Shani is much, much stronger in this nativity than hot, regal, self-focused Ravi.

  It is to Lord Shani's extraordinary auspice for personal discipline and effective social programming, and to Lord Budha's gift for brilliant argumentation, articulation, and advocacy -- and of course Shani+ Budha's effect on both of his parents -- that we may look for the deeper reasons why Vivekananda became a revered world figure.

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  "An increasing ability to serve is the only reliable sign of spiritual progress."

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  Graha Weight by House Lordship: Swami Vivekananda L-1/L-2 Shani + L-6/L-9 Budha = in parivartamsha yoga between domain-1 and domain-9
  The Seven rashi-owning graha	Extra credit for being D-1 or D-9: - lagnesha - lord of Chandra = atmakaraka = lord of arudha lagna = lord of 10th navamsha	# of planets in His rashi, in radix (including Rahu/Ketu)	# of graha in His rashi, in navamsha (including Rahu/Ketu)
  Sun = atmakaraka + Moon	1	0	1	1
  Mars	0	2	2	4
  Mercury	2	2	1	5
  Jupiter	0	1	2	3
  Venus = lord of arudha lagna	1	2	2	5
  Saturn	2	2	1	5
  Totals	6	9	9	24

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