An Odyssey

The first thing, the Mahadasha is calculated as per the fixed star the moon is situated near at the time of birth. Since Vedic technology is more than 2000 years old and the constellations have shifted relative to earth, you would have to check the placement of the fixed star closest to the degree of the moon at the time of birth And as the stars move relative to us, they're moving slowly, relative to the natal degree of the moon. To simplify, it can seem like the moon is progressing through the stars. Each star has a natural owner, a planet, whose energy it seems to embody. The period the moon seems to be in the vicinity of that planet becomes the Mahadasha of that planet. For example, my natal moon was at 12 degree 27 as per western astrology. You need to look at the Tropical Astrological Chart. As we can see, the stars are moving forward, so it'll seem like the natal moon point is moving backwards through them. And my moon is moving towards Arcus and Mimosa, and then Khamba...

Karma is not so much what happens to us, but how we are. And what we do. It's our internal mindscape. The way we choose to live and perceive life around us. And everything that happens to us, is the consequence, the repercussions of the intent. For example, if I were to generate a desire. Now I must be born as a human to fulfill that desire. But along with being born, comes Birth, Sickness, Aging, and Death. And the 8 winds. Prosperity, Decline, Disgrace, Honor, Praise, Censure, Suffering, and Pleasure These are the consequences of the original seed, which is the desire. Now again, all our lives are conditioned by the last and most potent desire from our previous life. If I've been primarily a person full of noble thoughts, I will be born into a suitable family. And if I've been a person full of thoughts of anger and hate, then that would be the kind of family I'd be born into. So again, the family we are born into is a repercussion of the original intent. Similarly, th...

Anyone who has reached here has already probably read most of everything that there is left to read on said matter. The intention of writing this was to paraphrase the essential learnings, and in the process, hopefully, to be of some help to someone, someday. What we are, is the experiencer of the innumerable experiences (within, and without) and not the experience itself. We suffer because we have given value to the experiences and forgotten the experiencer, the Self. Without us, without the experiencer, no experience is of any worth. Nor are the experiences of any worth anyway, because there is no permanence, no absoluteness, no essentiality. (anicca) All experiences come under the domain of Maya, the changing reality, phenomenon. The process of concentration is the process of transcending, or unchaining from the changing. From what lies outside us, and also from what we consider to be us. The 5 sheaths as per the Hindu scriptures, or the 5 aggregates as per the Buddhist scriptures. ...