Bhadra Dasi.

The opposite of beauty is nor the ugly but that which is

false. What is wisdom? Wisdom is not information, real wisdom
(Jupiter) is certainty (Saturn). One is impelled to search for
certainty of whatever kind it is. Any inexplicable (Neptune) failure
(Saturn) brings about an uncertainty, the path of uncertainty leads
toward psychosomatic illness, anxiety, worries, doubts, fears and
vanishing consciousness. If our awareness diminishes, our certainty
also decreases.

The greatest asset one can have is the power of discrimination, if

astrology does not teaches us how to discriminate it is completely
useless, it is a simply waste of time. Ultimately discrimination
means the ability to understand the difference between material and
spiritual, but in a lower gradient scale also means to differentiate
between our desires and those which have been imposed by others
(violently or disguised as "love"), between OUR goals and those which
are our parents'. Very often we confuse our wife with our mother or
the son with the husband...

Let's us see what is the generally accepted definition of mental

sanity: it is whether or not a person agrees with everyone else.
Nothing more far from the truth! This way of accepting evidence is
due to lack of discrimination (Mercury) or proper analysis;
nonetheless some thoughtful people have been rebels who were not
satisfied with preponderance of opinion and who have put into test
any information for themselves hence they are inquisitive and thus
obtaining a personal realization.
The first aphorism of the Vedanta Sutra states this point very
clearely:

Athato brahma-jijñasa

Now in this human form of life, one should inquire about the Absolute
Truth

And the Absolute Truth is defined in Srimad Bhagavatam as:

janmadi asya yato nvayad itaratas ca

The origin of everything is the Supreme Brahman.

One should evaluate any information discriminating. Many believe

in "someone said:" but a datum is yours in as much as YOU have
evaluated it for your self. If someone has forced it upon you, and
you do not take the trouble to investigate the subject by your self,
this is a kind of passive certainty or aberrated certainty, actually
according to Bhavagad Gita it is lethargy.

There is an inner relation between certainty and mental health. Up to

the extent an individual is not certain in a subject he is less free
to be sane upon that subject. Sanity is related with increasing
certainty and certainty (Saturn) is clarity of observation (Mercury).
In the low level of consciousness people do not observe, instead,
they substitute for observation prejudices, supposition and
preconceptions as well as evaluation and even physical pain by which
to attain their certainties. For example: A physician may seem be
completely sure of the cause of some disease yet it depends upon the
physician certainty for the layman to accept that cause of the
disease.

Some how or other one is forced to search for certainty, but when it
is delivered by masochism or by applied force, eventually bring about
a certainty as absolute as one could desire, viz. total unawareness.
Some persons desire an unawareness certainty. Unconsciousness itself
is a certainty, which is sought by many.

An uncertainty (Neptune) is product of two certainties (Saturn), one

is a conviction (Jupiter), in the causative manner it arrives by
observation (Mercury) or as effected, it comes by a blow (Mars). The
other is a negative certainty viz. One wants something but at the
same time does not want this thing. That is "maybe", a condition of
uncertainty created by the mingling together of two certainties.
Anxiety comes when this two certainties can influence ones
continuance in a state of confusion, but indecision, uncertainty, and
anxiety can ONLY exist when there is a poor observation, or inability
to observe; thus our thirst for certainty (Saturn) can lead into
oblivion, if one seeks it as an effect. As Krishna stated in the
Bhagavad Gita (4.42):

tasmad ajñana-sambhutam
hrt-stham jñanasinamanah
chittvainsm samsayam yogam
atisthottistha bharata

Therefore the doubts which have arisen in your heart out of ignorance
should be slashed bythe weapon of the knowledge. Armed with yoga, Oh
Bharata, stand and fight.

The astrological chart already presents a problem, the problem of our

karma. What is required in order to solve a problem? Well, first of
all we have to know WHAT IS a problem. The anatomy of a problem is
constituted by two parts: intention and counter-intention. To solve
it, first one has to OBSERVE (Mercury) very attentively and so
carefully, the next step is that one has to CONFRONT (Mars) as
Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita (18. 59):

Yad ahankaram asritya

Na yotsya iti manyase
Mithyaisa vyavasayas te
Prakrtis tvam niyoksyati

If you do not act according to My direction and do not fight, then

you will be falsely directed. By your nature, you will have to be
engaged in warfare.
And (Bg 2.3):

Klaibyam ma sma gamah partha

Naitat tvavy upapadyate
Ksudram hrdaya-daurbalyam
Tyaktvottistha parantapa

Oh son of Prtha, do not yield to this degrading impotence. It does

not become you. Give up such petty weakness of heart and arise. Oh
chastiser of the enemy.

But what do we have to confront? 1) The fact that there is a problem

and 2) that we have to bring a solution for that problem, otherwise
we are lost. If we try to avoid the fact that there is a problem, the
problem may increase and eventually one can lose the freedom to
solution it. The other factor is that one has to trace out WHEN have
started. This is how we have to learn from the past.

In the Samskara Process one has to develop his ability to return,

that is one of the most forgotten thing now a days, one does not even
remember what was his meal last week, therefore one tends to conclude
that it is of no use to remember any event. However, how can we learn
from the past if we can not return to check out what had happened?
Generally the events and situations that we are experiencing in the
present pass too fast, and we do not have the habit to analyze the so
many experiences we have passed through. We are prone to simply
forget those things that are problematic for us, this is an automatic
mechanism. If something bad happened to us, we believe that by
forgetting the incident, we have overcome the problem, nothing more
far from truth!, it is a major rule that when we can not confront a
problem we can no solve it. In order to handle anything one has to be
able to face it, all problems start with an unwillingness to confront
(Mars). For if a problem could eventually been totally confronted,
it would disappear. Man's difficulties are a compound of his
cowardice, so if you want to have difficulties in life, all you
have to do is to run away from confronting (Mars). Life is never
bright for those who can not confront it. Did you have ever asked to
your self why people use eyeglasses? It is very simple, once ago,
they have decided not to confront the external world and the people,
they have actually intensely desired not to see anyone. There is no
other reason, this is an example of how powerful is the mind. One has
to be very careful with what one desires because these desires will
become a reality in this life or the next, and Krishna says in
Bhagavad Gita that He guides us trough our desires.

Why does one maintain him self in a state of inability, depressed or

physically ill? This is because one can not confront (Mars) and it is
easier to be a victim (effect) and to remain as a victim than to
accept responsibility (cause). Karma is the law of cause and effect.
It is very easy to blame others, actually it is the easiest thing, it
is totally passive (effect). There is no prove that any disease can
be originated by other reasons but by the turbulence of the aberrated
mind (nirbuddhi) as Krishna said in Bhagavad Gita (6.6):

Bandhur atmatmanas tasya

Yenatmaivatmana jitah
Anatmanas tu satrutve
Vartetatmaiva satru-vat

For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friend;
but for someone who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the
greatest enemy.

Verse (4.40):

Ajñas casraddadhanas ca
Samsyatma vinasyati
Nayam loko `sti na paro
Na sukham samsayatmanah

But the ignorant and faithless persons who doubt the revealed
scriptures do not attain God consciousness; they fall down. For the
doubting soul there is happiness neither in this world nor in the
next.

Verse (18.63):

Iti te jñanam akhyatam

Guhyad guhyataram maya
Vimrsyaitad asesena
Yathecchasi tatha kuru

Thus I have explained to you knowledge still more confidential.

Deliberate on this fully, and then do what you whish to do.

Trough astrology we can not surpass our Karma, but we can learn from
that. Astrology brings us the certainty that we have a problem to
resolve. Knowledge is positive certainty, and is the weapon with
which we can change the path of our actions, of our cowardice...

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