From: Blaine Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 8:58 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Jyotish
This is from a talk Maharishi gave in 2003 on jyotish. He doesn't translate it but the term griha or graha means planet. The griha shanti referred to in the last paragraph refers to planetary yagyas. "So what a man produces from his action in the sun, in the moon, in the galaxy, in the stars -- that has its connectedness with the individual. There is a language to express all that: they are called Grihas. "Griha" means "that which grips." So what "grips" the individual? His own doing, his own effect of his own karma. It's a great detailed science of behavior, science of consciousness. And this whole thing is dealt with as a part of the Veda. The part of the Veda is called Vedanga. There are six divisions of the Veda; one of the divisions of the Veda is Jyotish. Jyotish considers this grip of the reaction that is going to be controlling the doer. So all this language is in terms of the Grihas, and in every action, (unless a man is fully enlightened, and is fully supported by natural law) the man has freedom of action: in his freedom, he follows the evolutionary channel, and sometimes he falters. So there is positive, and there is negative doings by man. So positive doing has a positive reaction; negative doing has a negative reaction. They are called the positive and negative influences of the Grihas. There are nine Grihas. This is a whole big science, dividing them into one, into three, and three into nine, and nine into multiples of three, and three, three, three... huge, enormous, "unlimited" we can say. But majorly, the whole influence of every action is given in the channels of the nine Grihas. Out of the nine Grihas, two-three Grihas are always very good; two-three Grihas have some kind of medium influence; two-three Grihas are negative. So there are pacifying performances, Vedic performances, which will pacify the negative influence, so that the negative influence which is the effect of one's own negative karma will not have to be faced by the man. This is what is called Griha Shanti. Griha Shanti."
