There is a great Shani -- Mangal stand-off going on right now. Mangal is in Vrushabh raashi in 17th degree and Shani is in Sinvha rashi 25th degree. Mangal is aspecting (drushti) Shani (4th drushti) and Shani is aspecting Mangal (10th Drushit).

This is going to cause a lot of traffic issues and more importantly it would have issues w.r.t accidents QUITE a bit. Do not travel in the night (avoid as far as possible) and drive carefully and take all preacautions like checking tyre pressure, brake situation etc. Drive thru water taking in to account possibility of potholes etc.

Every 1.5 day Mangal would advance by 1 degree and when it comes exactly in close aspect around August 8 :: Be VERY careful. August 8 is also a Saturday -- So DOUBLE Whammy !!! Saturday and 8th : Double Shani effect. --> ANY hurry or aggressiveness wil be dealt with very harsh response by the conditions.

So basically from today onwards until August 16 be very careful w.r.t driving.

There is something about date 28 that fascinates me from time to time.

1. Dheerubhai Ambani: 28th december
2. Ratan Tata : 28th December (Sun sign Saggi)
3. Bill Gates: 28th Oct (Sun Sign Libra)
4. Lata Mangeshkar: 28th Sept (Sun Sign Virgo)
5. Jon Stewart ("The Daily Show" Comedy Central): 28th Nov (Sun Sign Scorpio)

You would say what is common with these 28 folks? Well, there IS something VERY strikingly common out there!! Will get to that in a while.

This date 28 of course shows some of the properties of numerological 1 (2+8 = 10 = 1+0 =1)
The 1 properties are:
a. Entrepreneurship,
b. Pioneers
c. Doing something which nobody in the family did before
d. Forming / Making their own circles/spheres of influence like their ruling planet :: the SUN.

BUT there is something unique to 28:: Which is their MASS-CONNECTION. They always want to make something for masses.

1. Ratan Tata: Maybe interested in makng the fastest car, may be the bggest car etc etc but MORE THAN that he was interested in making something for the masses & hence the Nano !! So Nano owes its roots to the 28 data.

2. Bill Gates: His interest/focus was NOT towards making the fastest operating system, nor the most efficient one BUT it was to make an operating system that would be used on each and every desktop in the world.

3. Lata Mangeshkar: Was she a Pandit, Was she like someone from Kirana ghanare or was she interested inly in "Sadhana of Shastriya sangeet" like her father (to a large extent). NO, she ended up creating as sacred and as beautiful and as wonderful things but they were MADE for MASSES and not for critiques. Maybe thats a reason she liked Lakshmi-Pyare very much as they also connected to masses quite a bit. Critiques never seemed to acknowledge LP apart from some 2-3 sentences about their variety!

4. Jon Stewart: He is brilliant guy, almost a nurd type quality to him but he is spending his life time to create something for the masses.

5. Need we say anything about Dheerubhai Ambani ?? King of mass-production !! Even for RCOM his vision was mobile to every Indian !!

One thing is quite common, these are all 1:
SUN dominated, SELF-Sufficient folks and sometimes it reflects in their ways that are of a loner/staying alone etc. Somewhat aloof at times. They are quite stiff and stubborn from time to time.

The biggest problem with 28 is that they are deceived many times by their own people with the intention. Their folks become over enthu/zealots and want to help them by doing a few things that are against the law etc. Courts, friction with the law is a common thing for 28 personalities. 2 is moon and 8 is Saturn and these two combine to give 1 (the Sun) -- So you can understand how completely different things are adding to come up with something totally different.

The presence of 2 makes these people friendly, moody, people friendly. 8 makes them good with masses/workers etc. And they use these skills for 1: Entreprenuership, Starting a venture, Doing something on their own etc.

There has been much of a talk and fear about the "Kaalsarp yoga". Here are (strictly) my opinions and experience about it so far. I am not 100% expert on this though. I am sharing my exposure to it from 1991 when I started my journey in astrology.

1. As you are aware Rahu (North Node) and Ketu (South Node) are intersection points of Earth orbit around Sun and Moon's orbit around Earth.
2. These "points" span several miles and have their own mysterious effects on human life especially when some planets are in the same sign as they are.
3. Rahu and Ketu move backward (and spend 18 months in one raashi : 30degrees.) Backward in the sense from Meen to Kumbh, Kumbh to Makar and so on.

What it is Kaalsarpa yoga:
At the time of birth if all planets are on either side of Rahu and Ketu (i.e. all planets are on either side of Rahu Ketu axis in horoscope) -- It is called as Kaalsarp yoga. Even when one planets is on the other side it is not qualified as a Kaalsarp yoga. There is NO mention of it in the Sanskrit Granthas but it seems the mention of this one started sometime in the 60s.

The EFFECTS:
Popular belief: It is very unfortunate and the person doesn't get any success in life and a lot of more bad things I am not going to mention here.

AS PER MY EXPERIENCE:
There is hardly anything that can be attributed to this yoga. We take births for the sole reason that we have unpaid karma (good or bad) and we HAVE to go thru it whether we like it or not. It is our OWN actions of past live(s). So any events that happen to you are NOT seen to be due to this yoga at all.

***If you have this yoga THEN the MOST IMPORTANT question is: Whether you see snakes in your dreams with regular intervals?? (say weekly monthly etc). If and ONLY IF you see snakes then you have this Kalsarpa issue.

My observations is that out of 100 folks who have Kaal-sarpa yoga in the horoscope:: 15-20% ACTUALLY see any snakes in dreams.

THE REMEDY:
1. Start with Hanuman Sadhana as mentioned at the end of the article. This should help you get rid of the snakes in 6 -8 weeks. My experience is that for almost 75-80%of the people who see snakes this works like a magic.

2. If even after Hanumaan sadhan of 6-8 weeks you still get snakes in your dreams -- You may want to proceed with Narayan Naagbali and related rituals at Trambakeshwar (Jyotirlinga). This is seen to get rid of the snakes for once and all.

3. The BEST thing along with these two things is to DONATE money to sarpodyan and become a Sarpa-Mitra and spend time to save snakes and increase awareness about them in people so that less snakes are killed by people. This is a "good karma: which would help you get rid of any bad karma in past live(s) w.r.t. snakes.

I have kept the article as simple as possible with out any details that consufe common folks. Hanumaan sadhana is as follows, useful for everybody BUT more so when Kaalsarpa/Snakes etc are involved and also when Horoscope has Moon Ketu and Moon Raahu or any other planets with Raahu or Ketu.

Hanuman Sadhana:
a. Have a Hanuman Purnakruti poster (as aggressve/balawaan etc as possible) it should be Dakshina-mukhi (facing South).
b. Every morning after bath cocentrate on hanumaan poster for 3 - 5 minutes (eye to eye contact) NO distrubances what so ever.
c. Every evening when it starts to get dark, Hanuman stotra(Marathi) and Raam-Raksha (sanskrit).

This will help in a MAGICAL way, Can't explain ALL the effects here for the lack of time BUT it IS magical.

Numerology : Amusing Example from Real Life : Friend Circle !!

As an Astrologer I come across amusing things in life. It is a well know fact that people born on same numerological number become very good friends due to obvious harmony and synchronization of body language and approach towards life or overall "personlity" (Personality Number described in one of the blogs).

So folks born on
6, 15, 24 become very close friends.
2, 11, 20, 29 are also a group
3, 12, 21, 30 is other group and so on.
Even 2, 7, 9 are highly compatible; 6, 8 are VERY compatible, 1, 5 are so and so on.

Some obvious mismatches are: 1 and 8 ; 6 and 3; 9 & 5; 2 & 8 and so on.

In the blog about TWINS: I mentioned about this friend of mine who is born in the 75 to 76 period (his wife too) and he has TWINS. His 4 other friends born in the same period also have twins (Refer my post on Twins). Well, I was attending brithday party in August 2008 at his home where he had invited his close friends.

An Interesting scenario:
This friend let us call him AI is born on 11th June.
1. My friend introduced me to his good frined from his workplace : His birth date : 11th July.
2. They both mentioned about one more common friend of theirs who;s birth date is 11th Feb.
3. AI's wife : his batch-mate is also born on 11th Feb...Love marriage, despite Shad-Ashtak of Scoprio-Gemini, it is going perfectly fine!! They are numerological 36 Gun case! :)
4. There was a very close friend of AI's wife there (class-mate) : Her birth-date :: 29th May (2+9 = 11 which is not reduced further as 11 is a master number).
5. Did I mention that I am born on 11th April?? :)
Now, what's this for God's sake? Coincidence?? :) Well, Jayant Naralikar might call this as coincidence but we "common" people can't be THAT ignorent. :)



People who give challenges about validity of astrology need to look at such examples and try to disprove it. But anyways we need them as Astrlogers take people for a ride and we DO need such people who challenge astrologers from time to time BUT the challenges are MOST of the times as childish and as ignorent as the astrologers who say that everything is predestined (it is NOT : N - O - T !!) ---> NO FATE BUT WHAT WE MAKE :: but yes our current life's most of the issues are our own past karma but it takes a "sage" a "REAL" Guru to guide in such matters to pay that off by good-deed of equal or more value.

Till then let us marvel at such examples I mentioned above !!

Did I tell you that my closest friend from last 18 years is born on 29th April and he has at least 5 friends born on 11th! :) (One common friend of both of us born on 11th Feb!!)

One more: There are 5 of us everyday at Chaay-Tapari for the tea-brake: Two born on 2nd; myself 11, 1 more on 29th and one on 20th !! Ab bolo! :)

~Milind (Milind.Chitambar@gmail.com)

Know your REAL / Correct Sun SIgn below. Check the Side-real dates in the table below and then read Linda Goodman again but now the correct Sun Sign! :)


1. Basically the Axis of the Earth also rotates in a gigantic circle and takes 84600 years to complete the rotation. (It is called as "Paranchan Gati" of the Axis).
2. Due to this movement of the axis, every 72 years, the Equinox moves 1 degree farther -- Called as "Procession of Equinox"
3. So every 72 years the Sun Sign Calnder needs a movement of 1 day ahead.
4. That is why Makar-Sankranti was celebrated in India on 14th of Jan in last century and now slowly becoming 15th of Jan.
5. Makar (i.e. Capricorn) Sankranti is the day when SUN enters Capricorn sign. This is the RULE OF THUMB if you do not remember complete calendar of Sun Signs.

You can search it on wiki with "sidereal" keyword: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
idereal_astrology
Check Sidereal Dates below (In BOLD FONT are the real ones)

Sign Tropical-date Sidereal-Date
Aries March 21 - April 20 April 15 - May 15
Taurus April 21 - May 21 May 16 - June 15
Gemini May 22 - June 23 June 16 - July 15
Cancer June 24 - July 23 July 16 - August 15
Leo July 24 - August 23 August 16 - September 15
Virgo August 24 - Sept 22 Sept 16-October 15
Libra Sept 23 - October 23 Oct 16 - Nov15
Scorpius October 24 - Nov 22 November 16 - Dec15
Sagittarius Nov 23 - Dec 21 Dec16 - January 14
Capricornus Dec 22 - Jan 19 Jan 15 - Feb14
Aquarius January 20 - Feb 18 Feb15 - March 14
Pisces February 19 - March 20 March 15 - April 14

Ancient Vedic astrologyis based on the sidereal or visible zodiac, accounting for the shift of the equinoxes by a correction called ay
anamsa. The difference between the Vedic and the Western zodiacs is currently around 24 degrees. This corresponds to a separation of c. 1700 years, when the vernal equinox was approximately at the center of the constellation Pisces and the tropical zodiac coincided with the sidereal one (around 285 AD according to N C Lahiri). The separation is believed to have taken place in the centuries following Ptolemy, apparently going back to Indo-Greek transmission of the system. But earlier Greek astronomers like Eudoxus spoke of vernal equinox at 15° in Aries, while later Greeks spoke of vernal equinox at 8° and then 0° in Aries (cf. p.16, S. Jim Tester in ref.), which suggests use of sidereal zodiac in Greece before Ptolemy and Hipparchus. The ayanamsa correction has always been made in Vedic astrology, whose existence spans around thousands of years.

[E] Examples of Saadesati or Shani’s Bhraman from Sports and Politics and movies:
1. Amitabh Bachchan (Tula rashi) was #1 to #10 when Saturn last time was in Cancer and Leo sign (9th, 10th and 11th to his Moon sign :: from June 1973 to 1980 end. He is having similar period from May 2005 to Sept 2009. Especially, from July 2007 to Sept 2009, there could be mass-hysteria, making contemporaries look like chicken.
a. From 1981, his Sadesati started and initial 2.5 years were very bad for him as he has 5 planets in Kanya rashi. i.e for him Sadesati was much more troublesome as multiple planets were before the moon & that too in 8th house of horoscope (peeda-sthan, mrutyu-sthan). i.e. 12th from Moon and 8th from 1st house of horoscope (ascendant--lagnarashi)
b. What happened in 1981 is VERY well known. When Saturn was close to Mars and Sun, he suffered a great accident. (Kanya raashi shows stomach.)
c. His Sadesati continued until end of 1987. His politics tenure happened completely in Sadesati and you are well aware of the problems he faced in Sadesati.

2. Dhirubhai Ambani is moon-sun and ascendant Dhanu raashi. When Shani was 10th and 11th from 1981 to Middle 1985, he used his money and political power a lot and was able to get almost anything done! He entered Sadesati from 1985 to 1992! ?
a. First 2.5: From Oct 1985 entered Sadesati. First 2.5 years must have been all badanami, court-baaji, police inquiries due to 12th Shani. V.P. Singh was troubling him a lot.
b. Middle 2.5: Health-wise almost a hell as Shani going over Moon, Sun and lagnarashi. Also a lot of issues from Govt (V.P Singh had become the PM, whom Dhirubhai had allegedly removed from finance ministry using Amitabh’s contact??)
c. Rest 2.5: A bit better and regrouping of business and also recuperation on health front.
3. Sachin Tendulkar: From May 2005, Saturn is exactly opposite to Sachin Tendulkar’s Mars. Mars shows sports, running apart from other things. Especially, from last Oct 2006 until end of July 2007, Sachin was going thru a very rough patch of Saturn, as it was aspecting his Mars in close degrees (Pratiyog). (With this logic he would have the best year in 2009 as Guru would be traveling over Mars at that time)
4. Imran Khan born on Nov 25th has Sun in Scorpio. From Oct 1985 to 1987 end Saturn was traveling over his Sun and hurt his ego by having a bitter / unexpected (?) defeat in the Semifinals of the 1987 Reliance World-Cup.
5. The famous “Prince” episode in 2006: Saturn was in cancer sign and opposite to prince’s Sun (14th Aug b-date?). Cancer sign shows gatare, bhuyare. Small rivers etc. Similarly even from last week Saturn is again in last charan (Ashlesha) of cancer, yesterday Jun 17th (Saturn’s date: 8), one 5 year old kid went in a boar-well. (read eSakal), Even Sachin got a flue two days back.
6. From Mid year 1990 to Jan 1993, Saturn was in Makar rashi. Sena SupremoBalasaheb Thackeray’s sun sign (23rd Jan) is Makar. During this time his ego was hurt when Chhagan Bhujbal parted ways along with some 16/17 MLAs. (Actually, it was a very good thing to happen in long term as except for Bhujbal saheb, everybody else was former Congress/Congress-S person, so not Sena-man anyways).
7. Similarly, from May 2005 to July 2007m Saturn is in Cancer and going over Uddhav Thackeray’s Sun Sign Cancer: B-date 27th July). During this time his ego was also hurt and Narayan Rane parted ways from Sena. I am 100% sure that is a very good thing in the long run. As Uddhav’s moon sign is also Leo (Sadesati), the impact is doubled for him. (Also, this Saturn is in direct pratiyog with Balasaheb’s Sun Sign too.)
8. Vilasrao Deshmukh (born from May 14th to June 14h: May 26th??), lost his CM position the 1st time when Saturn was in Vrushabh sign. Saturn was going over his Sun Sign. (From 2000 end to March 2003).
9. Most of the calamities (Tsunami, Stock Market crash, Mumbai Flood) usually happen on saturn’s date i.e. 8, 17 or 26.
10. Dilip Kumar goes into oblivion every time Sinvha rashi is under Sadesati.
11. Sanjay Dutt is moon sign Vrushabh had was under Sadesati from Apr 1998 to May 2005. From May 2005 to July 2007, Saturn is going over his Sun Sign. (Born on July 29th)
12. Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Anil Kapoor, Lakshmikant Berde all are Aries Moon sign (Mesh). Saturn was 10th and 11th to Mesh rashi from 1991 start to Feb 1996. From March 1996, Saturn went 12th and these all were seen on the wane. They all were under microscope and suffered several losses until 2002 end.

Middle 2.5 years: Mental, Viral/Water, Personal Issues
The bad mouthing, economic losses of 12th Saturn now start recovering. The focus is now on your personal life, parents’ health, mental peace, health/viral fevers. It also tests your temperament by difficult situations with close relatives, siblings & friends. Saturn represents masses/workers/voters and Moon represents social contacts with similar level folks (both economically, culturally). Saturn takes you away from near and dear ones, either mentally or physically. You have tons of reality check with the people you thought were close to you. The folks that stay close to you in this period are self less and not expecting any material gains form you. They are the “real” friends. Nastha-paani friends don’t even come to say hi in this period! J

So the 1st Saturn is about Disturbed Mental peace, temperament, loss of social status/time to socialize, parent’s health, issues with relatives, siblings & close friends. Viral (or thru water) diseases is a possibility.

In your horoscope planets with or opposite to Moon make matters worse in Sadesati as they have affected factors mentioned above right from the start! (Good/bad Karma) That’s why people born on Poornima (full moon Moon 180degrees opposite to Sun) and Amawasya (Sun Moon in the same sign) have more troubles in middle 2.5 years of Sadesati.


Last 2.5 years: Family / Hereditary Issues, Investments (Share Market, land, bonds)
The focus is now your (overall) family: common issues with the family. The investments that you have made or you might need to make. Health wise, it’s about eyes, eating habits, tongue, nose/breathing & some minor indications of future issues with lungs. You may even need to spend/lend money in situations not under your control (duty) and many times the money won’t come to you for a long time (say at least 3 years or more).

In your horoscope planets in house next to moon or 8th house from moon make matters much worse as they have affected factors mentioned above right from the start! (Good/bad Karma) 8th house is peeda-sthan & shows how/how much/what peeda you get in life. It also shows hereditary estate etc.


Summary:A person (apart from health), doesn’t suffer much in Sadesati expect for his own deeds. It is your misuse of power and irregularity of temperament, mishandling of relatives, friends that comes to bite you in the axx once the mighty support of 10th and 11th Saturn is over!! Negligence of several aspects of life due to increased importance of some aspects is also brought to notice in Sadesati. You need to deal with your own issues and nothing else. They could be of money, masses, politics, relatives, studies, career and what not.

It is the natural life cycle which is mirrored into stars most of the times & not the other way round. We should rather thank Saturn for Sadesati as it gives us the reality check of our life. The lessons are Sadesati are good enough to shine and enjoy life in real-sense with a newfound wisdom for next 22 years after Sadesati.

That’s why Saturn is referred in Hindu Mythology as “Shani-Maawuli”.

[D] SADESATI: Effects of current (Gochar) Saturn on Moon

Of all the planets, the Moon (karak of mind, mother, water, and silver) shows the MOST of the asakti, love, affection of various things in your life. Rather, all other planets are also studied in the horoscope w.r.t Moon-sign too to understand what ‘you’ think about your own horoscope consciously—subconsciously.

So it is natural that when Saturn comes closer to the Moon in horoscope, it gives THE toughest reality check in your life. Many of your misbelieves will be shattered in this period. Is it good or bad? Saturn doesn’t want you to live in fool’s paradise. It wants to make you wiser!

IMP: Saturn doesn’t seem to affect other planets apart from Moon when Saturn is in the previous sign of say, Sun or Mars or other planets BUT for the moon the “fun” starts when Saturn enters the previous sign itself and continues until Saturn is in next to next sign. i.e. for other planets reality check lasts for 2.5 years but for Moon it lasts for 7.5 years.


7.5 years before Sadesati
To understand practical aspects of Sadesati, it is very much necessary to understand the previous few years before the Sadesati starts. These are the years when the person is in the “sweet-spot” of his abilities. He is perfectly ‘right there’. Unlimited support from masses is in these years of 9th, 10th and 11th Saturn. (12th, 1st and 2nd Saturn are of Sadesati). The person appears to have halo behind him and many think of him as a role model or a hero.

The person seems to have a lot of things that can be leveraged during this time period. There is no need to do any retrospect or think twice before delving into something as natural support is assumed due to your abilities being better than other’s at that point in time. Everywhere you go, people seem to take notice and treat you in a special way. You develop a habit of being always heard and being important at almost all the meetings. You get quite a bit of power (empowerment) that you can use the way you want to use it.

Basically, the support from 9th and especially 10th & 11th Saturn is the culmination of last 17/18 years of karma: acquiring knowledge, overall struggle, efforts and hard work. What ever you have learnt on what Saturn represents (masses, law, discipline, and economics apart from other things) in 18 years is given to you in 10th and 11th Saturn. (10th Saturn gives power from masses and 11th gives money.)

Now you can understand, what would person think when the support from 10/11 Saturn is no more with them! Even not doing great would be considered as bad! Doing above average would be considered as a failure! à it is all about expectation management. In Sadesati you don’t do worse than you were doing in say 7th/8th Shani! But the sorrow after lots of joy is always more troublesome! J


Sadesati Effects of each 2.5 years:
The natural support of 10th and 11th Saturn is no more there! The 12th Saturn shows that your risk profile should not be extravagant now. You need to invest for future and not expect the “Alice in Wonderland” effect of 10th/11th Saturn.

First 2.5 Years: Bad-mouth, oppose from masses, Sudden unwanted expenditure/low liquidity
The biggest effect of 12th Saturn is bad word of mouth/rumors that hurt you. The folks that got sidelined due to your might in last 5 years, regroup and their collective efforts are out of synch with you. You are suddenly “wrong time wrong place”, where you are seating on big gains but going nowhere! The factors that you HAD to neglect/overlook in the last 5 years due to various correct reasons come to haunt you! Depending on your harshness or any deeds that are against the law and you can find yourself behind the bars or in deep litigations.

So the 12th Saturn is about bad publicity (Masses thinking badly about you), loss of money/liquidity, litigations 7 public/masses thinking of you as enemy. It can make you cry many times. Health-wise: eyes (especially the left eye), ankles, stomach at times.

In your horoscope planets behind moon or 6th house from moon make matters worse in this period of Sadesati as they have affected factors mentioned above right from the start!!! (Good/bad Karma)

[A] What is Sadesati
It takes approximately 30 years for Saturn to orbit around the Sun. i.e. it travels 2.5 years in one sign. When Saturn enters one sign previous to your Moon sign, you enter the period of “Sade-sati”. It literally means 7.5 (2.5 + 2.5 + 2.5 years of Saturn’s stay around your sign).

Saturn teaches “by-example” in this period, does a reality check about various things in your life that you find important. It makes you think neutral about the things you feel very strongly about. It prepares you for the next 22 years. After Sadesati is over, you are fresh out of Saturn’s college to take on the world. You just need to put a lot of effort in Sadesati.


[B] Summary
Sadesati is seen as a problematic period with lots of troubles & hardships. Well, it’s half-truth. Sadesati is an “Atma-shudhdhi” period where a lot of “reality-check” is given to the person. Saturn doesn’t “give” anything, it just shows anomaly or problems that already exists in and around you.


[C] Effect of Current (Gochar) Saturn’s travel on Horoscope Planets:
It is Saturn’s KARAKtva to give peeda and try to drive you away from extraneous “Asakati” of any thing you may have. Basically, Saturn gives such “reality check” every time it goes over any planet in your horoscope (the planets as they are at the time of your birth).
When Saturn goes over your Sun/Ravi, it hurts your ego, it makes you deal with seniors better, it teaches you do deal with father better. Shows illness or health issues of your father. It shows your health w.r.t heart and spine (ruled by Ravi). Ravi is “karak” of Raj-satta / administrative power, Father, Soul, Ego, Heart & Spine, bone structure apart from several other things. Check examples of this at the end of the article.
When Saturn goes over your Patrika Mars, it gives reality check w.r.t siblings (especially younger). It shows issues w.r.t blood (health), diabetes. It also shows side effects of wars, sports activities, extra competitive spirit that you might have. It also shows side effects of hard work, aggression and also at times shows issues with the land that you might have purchased or own. Mars is Karak of Sports, Wars, siblings, blood, aggression, land, and copper apart from other things. Check examples of this at the end of the article.

These are just effects of Saturn’s travel over two planets that are in nature TOTALLY different than Saturn. Saturn doesn’t have or like ego, it doesn’t have a asakti of anything. It is a nishkam karmayogi! So it takes you away from the things that you love the most by some peeda / haani just to make you aware that there is life beyond these things.

I have always recommended AUTOBIOGRAPHY of a YOGI to everyone I met. Now, adding one more book (as easy to read as for 5th grade student.) to the list "Everything you need to know about Karma" by J.P. Waswani.

(1) The book details importance of omnipotent and omnipresent but "Subtle law of Karma". ==> Everything happening to you is due to YOUR OWN deeds in past or this life.
(2) The examples given are so easy and relevant that it becomes a common sense. Some examples are from mythology and that explains how Lord Rama and Dasharatha and many more had to pay for their bad Karma: either the same or previous life.

(3) It also details the ways to create positive Karma:
Good deeds,
Passing good information,
Doing everything that benefits someone,
Charity of material / worldly things that come to you,
Returning LOVE for EVERY Hatred & so on.
FORGIVE AND FORGET is also equally important mantra.

(4) Actually some Chinese culture used to have a TABLE of earning good karma/points. 10,000 points earned guaranteed a GREAT santati who would bring great name to family.


TYPES OF KARMA:
(1) Sanchit Karma: The massive unpaid / un accounted for karma accumulated for your thousands of births. This is continuous process.

(2) Instant Karma: This doesn’t go to the Sanchit Karma. You do something and you get back something. Or you pay for something and get something in return etc. If one thing is missing then it would go to Sanchit karma (not paying a friend back after a udhari etc)

(2) Prarabdha Karma: At the time of the birth, a minor part of the Sanchit Karma is carved out for THIS BIRTH to work on. It is popularly called as the Destiny for this birth. You are supposed to have taken birth for this Prarabdha karma and DO NOT have access to the rest of the Sanchit Karma in this life. -- That is why sometimes Sad-GURUs are able to give you something to make your life a bit better to make you go thru the rest of the pending Prarabdha Karma. Probably, they are borrowing from our own Sanchit Karma!!?? (Not sure, just a thought)

(3) Despite limited to Prarabdha karma, we have a CHOICE: called as "Free Will" which should go hand in hand with Prarabdha Karma to pay off our bad deeds by suffering or good deeds.

“Hand in Hand Example:: If you can’t have kids due to previous bad karma: Adopt someone or spend time/money for orphanages etc or pay thru sufferings w.r.t kids. Doing a puja or a yagna or making some 100 Brahmans eat is not going to solve it.

(4) IMP: Any other positive/negative bonds we create are added to Sanchit Karma -- This is a continuous process. So you can't take out from Sanchit Karma but are always adding +eve or -eve to Sanchit Karma.

(5) The best part your soul is ALWAYS aware of ALL your karma, part of which you can access th ru deep meditation!!

Interesting isn't it? It is so logical, it has to be true!!! :)

~Milind