44-Rishi Jaimini on Eye Ailments

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agdish Raj Ratra is B.Com (hons) L.L.BFellow (F.I.I) worked in Insurance Sector(LIC Of India) for 38 years. He has beendedicated to serious study in astrology sincelast few decades. He retired in Feb 1996, hasspecial interest in Jaimini Astrology. HeResearches ona) Why there are 150 nadis in a sign and what is the span of each nadi b) What is their importance and itscontribution in natives age span?

Rishi Jaimini on Eye Ailments

ByJagdish Raj Ratra, India

Readership Level: Intermediate To Advanced

Editor-Publisher:

Jaimini astrology has alwaysbeen one of the most enigmatic parts of astrology.How to interpret the verse given in Jaimini Sutras isthe toughest part, normally Katyapadi system is followed, here the senior author who quietly works on Jaimini system has broken the norm for probably the first time in doing away with the Katyapadi systemof interpretation and come up with a refreshing waydemonstrating it on more than 33 charts. Young onesmust be careful in not getting carried away withliteral implementation of the authors work withoutunderstanding the strength of the grahas if it iscapable to give ‘extent of result or not’ and that is thetoughest part in astrology – strength of planet. Mr.Ratra’s work deserves a thorough read into an areawhich is bothering humans more and more these daysdue to Computers & TV. We thank mentorwholeheartedly for bringing forth this article.

Classical text and modern astrologers giveplethora of yogas which predict about eyerelated ailments. Ordinary student of astrology gets confused by the number of yogas and simply ignores the subject itself.He wishes that there ought to be simpleformulae which talk about the eyeailments. I have been searching texts andAstrological periodicals on this subject forthe last 15 years.In my quest for the subject I came acrossseries of articles on eye diseases by oneShri V.M. NATU published inAstrological Magazine in the years 1985 &1986. Apart from this there is only onesutra No. 44 in part-III of chapter I of Jaimini Sutras dealing with eye ailments.

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Jaimini propounded his own system of astrology for us. He codified this divine knowledgewhich can be understood only under guidance of a Guru. His sutras are hard nuts to crack,but once cracked there is knowledge which is like nectar in them. He revolutionizedastrology and deviated from Shri Prashara (in consideration of Nakshatras, planetaryaspects, rashi based predictions treating planets only as travelers in them. Like travelers indeserts, snow covered mountains or meadows, planets take pain and pleasure) with hisastonishing thoughts. Every sign has three aspects (a total deviation from Prashar) andplanets in signs borrow aspects of signs. He invented new points of prediction like Pitree,Patni, by karakamsha lagna, pada lagna, upapada Lagna etc. He identified planets as Karakas(significators) depending on the degree at which they are placed in signs along with fixedKarakatwa (signification). He used dashas based on signs instead of stars. His sutra No.44 in Part-2

nd

I under chapter I reads:

श ुबाद

गौणपदाो

ा

:

स ूय रा

न ेऽहा

This sutra occurs in chapter on Pada (Arudha) but Gaunpada is like a bombshellpropounding eye ailments in just one sutra rejecting rules which are hundreds of years oldavailable in texts. Having pronounced the sutra the Rishi is silent on explanation of thesame. Gaunpada is not explained in Jaimini text, though he used words like pada, upapada,padakram in different context.To know the meaning of the sutra, the commentaries on Jaimini sutras by Mr. B.S. Raograndfather of Shri B.V.Raman, I. Rangacharya, P.S.Shastri, Varanasi based commentariesby Shri Sita Ram Jha, Lakhan Lal Jha, Ram Chandra etc. were referred. Shri Rao interpreted“shukra” numerically

श ु

=5

,



=2; makes 52 and when written in reverse order it is 25 anddivided by 12 gets a Remainder1i.e. Lagna (ascendant), Gaun is

ग

=3

,

ण

=5 --



53/12,remainder=5 i.e. fifth house. Everybody followed this interpretation i.e. Shri Rao said if the5

th

house from Arudha Lagna (A~1) is occupied by Rahu and aspected by Ravi (Sun) theperson will lose his eye sight. Shri P.S. Shastri said that Rahu in the fifth from Arudhalagna aspected by the Sun brings danger to eye. Shri I. Rangacharya said that if theArudhaof 5

th

houseis occupied by Rahu and aspected by Sun, the native may lose eyesight.We disagree humbly from renowned authors’ interpretation of Shukra as Lagna (ascendant)due to the following Jaimini dictum.

सव रऽ

सवणा र

भवाँयशच

(34)

न

महा

: (35)

We tried to collect the horoscopes of the blind people and semi blind and found that theinterpretations given by the scholars did not coincide in their charts.We laid our hope on

Venus

as karak for vision and 2

nd

and 12

th

house from Venus as eyes being gaunpadas of Venus.The 2

nd

house and the Sun are considered for right-eye. The Moon and the 12

th

house controlthe left-eye. Venus is Karak for eye sight. Rahu is responsible for eye troubles.This exactly

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tallies with Jaimini principles with only difference that he considered eye ailments fromVenus whereas modern astrologers from Lagna (ascendant).Dr. B.V.Raman in his book” A Catheism of Astrology” page 25 dealing with vocation inanswer to the question “what makes one blinds” said “if Sun and Rahu occupy Lagna(ascendant) and Mars and Saturn placed in trine, the native becomes blind”. Modernastrologers have come very close to theory of Jaimini but still they are hooked to ascendant.

Interpretation:

Accordingly our interpretation of sutra is 2

nd

and 12

th

houses from whereVenus is placed in chart if occupied by Rahu and aspected by Sun causes vision loss orconjunction/aspect of Rahu and Sun on Venus and its 2

nd

and 12

th

signs cause vision loss.

Table 2

nd

, I of part VII of Shri V.M. Natu

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, contain 45 horoscopes out of which 17 belong toblind persons. They are serial No.3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 30, 32, 33, and 38. Theyhave Venus, Sun & Rahu combinations.In the whole ColumnChart No. 18 defy the sutra, may be placement of Sun, Rahu & Venusis doubtful. If Venus gets Leo, sutra will apply.Blindness is rare. In India one in a lakh is blind. We tried to collect data from some blindschools but birth details were not available. We are of the opinion that yogas for blindnessshould be seen in Navamsha Charts also. We have found 5 charts in the commentary of Dr.P.S. Sastri and some reliable charts from Astro Data Bank website; they are given for thereference of readers.

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In order to reduce the size of the article this table of charts from Shri V M. Nathu’s article titled ‘EyeAilments & Astrology’ that appeared as a 7 series article in 1986 issue of Astrological Magazine

of DrRaman is not being given, in case readers feel the need for more charts a scan of it can be sent at a laterdate by request from the readers.

Sun-Ven Relation Rahu’s 2

nd

-12

th

Chart Nos

Sun joins Venus Rahu aspects both 3, 13, 33Sun joins Venus Rahu aspects 2

nd

5

Sun in 2

nd

Rahu aspects 12