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Nakshatras & their deities
An exploration of the Starry SkySueAnn McKean
October 20, 2013
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"Aum Ekadantaya Vidmahe
Vakratundaya Dheemahi
Tanno Danti Prachodayat."
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Big Bang or Infinite Cycle?
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The Hymn of CreationNasadiya Sukta*
RV 10.130
Then even nothingness was not, nor existence,There was no air then, nor the heavens beyond it.
What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping
Was there then cosmic water, in depths
unfathomed?
Then there was neither death nor immortality
nor was there then the torch of night and day.The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining.
There was that One then, and there was no other.
At first there was only darkness wrapped in
darkness.
All this was only unillumined water.
That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing,
arose at last, born of the power of heat.
In the beginning desire descended on it -
that was the primal seed, born of the mind.
The sages who have searched their hearts with
wisdom
know that which is is kin to that which is not.
And they have stretched their cord across thevoid, and know what was above, and what
below.
Seminal powers made fertile mighty forces.
Below was strength, and over it was impulse.
But, after all, who knows, and who can
say
Whence it all came, and how creationhappened?
the gods themselves are later than
creation,
so who knows truly whence it has arisen?
Whence all creation had its origin,
he, whether he fashioned it or whether he didnot,
he, who surveys it all from highest heaven,
he knows - or maybe even he does not know.
*Nasadiya Sukta: n sat "not the non-
existent"
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What came out of the churning?
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Shiva drinks the poison
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Halahala
Kamadhenu
Ucchaihshravas -7 headedflying horse of Indra
Airavat Indra's elephant
Kaustubha the jewel
Parijata wish-fulfilling tree
Apsaras
Goddess Lakshmi
What emerged from the churning of the
Milk Ocean?
Goddess Varuni
The Moon God Chandra
Goddess Jyeshta
Earrings given by Aditi
Shankha, Visnu's conch
Varuna's umbrella
Dhanvantri
Amrita
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Our Milky Way Galaxy
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Karma
Cause & Effect: The effects of past and present actions will determine destiny
Types of Karma Sanchita storehouse of all karma accumulated from all
lifetimes
Kriyamani free will karma
Parabadha karma from past lives destined to be experienced
in this life; what see in a birth chart
Rasi is a heap of karma. Nakshatras show the unfolding of karmic
patterns. Grahas are the instruments through which the Law of Karmaworks by grasping our body/mind and causes the experience of karma.
Grahas activate karma within the rasi and nakshatra.
Rishi Parasara: There are many incarnations of the unborn Lord. Visnuincarnated as the 9 grahas to bestow the living beings the results of their
karma. He assumed the auspicious form of the grahas to destroy thestrength of the demons and to sustain the strength of the devas.
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OM SOMAYA NAMAH
OM CHANDRAYA NAMAH
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What are Lunar Mansions?
27 Celestial spaces 13:20 27 wives
Rasi vs Nakshatra:
material vs mental experience
Sun-gods vs Moon-goddesses
12 sun + moon matings = 12
months; 27 approx. days =lunar month
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Nakshatras & Rasis
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Nakshatra Mandala
History
Earliest Zodiac
Chinese, Greeks, Arabs
Definition: nakt + kshetra
that which does not decay
Classics:
Rig Veda
Ramayana, Mahabharata
Surya Siddhanta
Vedanga Jyotisha (BCE)
BPHS
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Tri Loka
Bhu Loka 1-9 taras Earth: childhood, present
Buva Loka 10 18 taras Solar system: future, adult life
Swarga Loka 19 27 taras the Universe: past, spiritual world
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Wow.....
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Patterns of Stars
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Know your Deities
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Donald TrumpIndra
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Barak ObamaBrahma Prajapati
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Bharani
Yama
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Mother TheresaYama
M h
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MaghaPitris
Wi t Ch hill
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Winston ChurchillPitris
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Krittika
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AmmachiKrittika
Chit
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Chitraishw k rm
S it i D i M k ji
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Savitri Devi Mukerjiishw k rm
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Visnu Purana by H.H. WilsonWikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakshatrahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_myth
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/samudramanthan/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7tXShmQ3Dg
Savitri Devi:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=202NQ0RhqN0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ww25-ZYXlI
Credits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakshatrahttp://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/samudramanthan/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7tXShmQ3Dghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=202NQ0RhqN0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ww25-ZYXlIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ww25-ZYXlIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=202NQ0RhqN0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7tXShmQ3Dghttp://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/samudramanthan/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakshatra8/13/2019 AIAC Webinar Day3 Nakshatras SLIDES
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Questions: Skype - sueann2268Phone - 650-851-2431
Email: [email protected]
In Gratitude to all of my gurus especially
Pandit Sanjay Rath & Souvik Dutta
Om Shanthi, Shanthi, Shanthi