This from Matthew
22:15-22 (New
International Version )
"Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words.
They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians.
·
Rabbi,
they said, we know that you are a man of integrity
·
and that
you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.
·
You
aren't swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are.
·
Tell us
then, what is your opinion?
·
Is it
right to pay the imperial tax to Caesar or not?
But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said,
·
You
hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?
·
Show me
the coin used for paying the tax.
They brought him a denarius, 20 and he asked them,
·
Whose
image is this?
·
And
whose inscription?
Caesar's, they replied.
Then he said to them,
·
So give
back to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's.
When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him
and went away. "
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So pay your taxes.
The next article will tell why it is good to pay taxes and how paying taxes is going to help you get more rich.
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Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Paying Taxes
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Is it possible to avoid bad marriage even if u love somebody?
Yes it is possible to do
that. And it would be the best thing to do, not to marry the person u love if
you are aware that the marriage will be a bad one. As already discussed in my
blog earlier, love is the function of the fifth house whereas marriage is the
function of the seventh house. Both should not be confused. But unfortunately
many people believe that romantic love must culminate into a marriage. This is a
wrong set of mind.
What is Love? Love is the desire for another to have
happiness. And a bad marriage brings happiness to no one, to neither of the
partners. The confusion should be cleared and with the necessity of marriage
having little validity and all importance in today’s world, it can be put on
the last burner. Most people have a
quite limited understanding of marriage, and therefore confuse the sexual,
social, and spiritual purposes of marriage.
But this is
an essential understanding that every person should be aware of. If u know the
marriage is going to be bad, be prepared for a hell on this earth. It can bring
physical, social, economical and emotional turmoils as well as bruises for
life. That is why divorces take place and they are devastating, affecting not
only the partners but also the families of both the partners.
So marriages,
especially those undertaken during period of Rahu, might better be avoided by
those with the self-knowledge to avoid them. But this is a Catch-22
statement because it is precisely the Rahu-dominated folks who can't avoid
these marriages due to intense, past-life-rooted passions which strongly tend
to make history repeat itself. Rahu gives burning desires for pleasure,
excitement, tumultuous change, and uprising of subconscious patterns into
consciousness. If your consciousness permits a higher awareness of your
repeating desire patterns, you can avoid unfavorable marriages entirely by
working out some other type of partnership [business, caretaking, service] with
the object of your Rahu-driven passions. Such a relationship will be more happy
and successful.
Of course once
the Rahu period is over and the partners are happy to continue, then the
marriage can take place and such a marriage will be more meaningful.
How it happens?
Rahu creates obsessive-compulsive behavior, passions, OBSESSIONS.
His special forte is sexuality and money, jealousy and greed. So during Rahu
periods, people often wonder "what hit me?" Suddenly the feelings
change with a hurricane force. An intense new hunger for a person, substance,
or experience arises. One feels willing to sacrifice all life stability in
order to gain this burning desire. Once achieved, however, the object of desire
becomes repugnant, revolting, hideous... and so the inevitable and permanent cycle of attraction-repulsion makes
a yo-yo toy of the mind. Everything becomes dramatic, extreme, a violent
roller-coaster of desire and revulsion ... until finally, the Rahu period
expires.
This Rahu Effect explains why it is that the love marriages are
not very successful as compared with the arranged marriages. But even arranged
marriage, if it takes place in Rahu bhukti chances of Rahu Effect are certain.
So, if you are in Rahu's grips right now, take heart! Although
Rahu periods do create these marriages for less conscious folks, if you are
conscious enough to know that Rahu is operating and you find yourself immersed
in a powerful attraction-repulsion take the scriptural advice and resist
marriage! Wait and marry when the stars are more favorable for a happy married
life.
Monday, 13 January 2014
Timing of Marriage
Many
people want to know if the chance of survival of a marriage are better or not
if one chooses to be married during the
"appropriate period (Bhukti)”?
Marriages pretty much occur on schedule of the Vimshottari dasha. It is actually not possible to experience a marriage unless the planets are lined up correctly. (Humans don't have the power to control major life events, regardless of what we learn in schools!)
The benefit of Astrology in the modern age is not so much “marriage insurance” via ritual protection of the planets (which certainly used to be Astrology’s central function) but rather mental advantage of knowing when these key life events are most likely to occur. (The only exception is the negative "warning function that a Rahu bhukti is likely to signal a crazy, exotic marriage... which one might wish if karmically possible to decline!)
First marriage occurs during the bhukti of the proper lord plus a gochara Rahu-Ketu contact point. Bhukti of the subsequent navamsha lords with corresponding Rahu-Ketu transits brings subsequent marriages. A more-or-less auspicious day or month within the destined bhukti may be chosen by the marriage partners or their parents, but the timing of marriages is rather a karmic affair, with larger forces enforcing the schedule.
Why is it important to have an auspicious day and time for marriage? The small choices we can make within the greater karmic framework, as to choosing an auspicious day and location, are very beneficial to the spiritual well-being of the partners joined in the holy ceremony of marriage. Certainly it is not possible that our small human choices can override the greater plan, but in seeking to choose the most harmonious conditions we are expressing a higher consciousness and a desire to work hand-in-hand with the divine, which is always a helpful attitude to sustain every day of a working marriage.
Higher consciousness partners, who consider themselves bound to each other through the divine, will generally enjoy their marriages much more than those bound to each other in order to satisfy parents, religion, or government. So choosing an auspicious day and inviting our God and spirits to be present at the joining ceremony is a powerful evidence of the partners' mutual desire for a long and "fruitful marriage.
Marriages pretty much occur on schedule of the Vimshottari dasha. It is actually not possible to experience a marriage unless the planets are lined up correctly. (Humans don't have the power to control major life events, regardless of what we learn in schools!)
The benefit of Astrology in the modern age is not so much “marriage insurance” via ritual protection of the planets (which certainly used to be Astrology’s central function) but rather mental advantage of knowing when these key life events are most likely to occur. (The only exception is the negative "warning function that a Rahu bhukti is likely to signal a crazy, exotic marriage... which one might wish if karmically possible to decline!)
First marriage occurs during the bhukti of the proper lord plus a gochara Rahu-Ketu contact point. Bhukti of the subsequent navamsha lords with corresponding Rahu-Ketu transits brings subsequent marriages. A more-or-less auspicious day or month within the destined bhukti may be chosen by the marriage partners or their parents, but the timing of marriages is rather a karmic affair, with larger forces enforcing the schedule.
Why is it important to have an auspicious day and time for marriage? The small choices we can make within the greater karmic framework, as to choosing an auspicious day and location, are very beneficial to the spiritual well-being of the partners joined in the holy ceremony of marriage. Certainly it is not possible that our small human choices can override the greater plan, but in seeking to choose the most harmonious conditions we are expressing a higher consciousness and a desire to work hand-in-hand with the divine, which is always a helpful attitude to sustain every day of a working marriage.
Higher consciousness partners, who consider themselves bound to each other through the divine, will generally enjoy their marriages much more than those bound to each other in order to satisfy parents, religion, or government. So choosing an auspicious day and inviting our God and spirits to be present at the joining ceremony is a powerful evidence of the partners' mutual desire for a long and "fruitful marriage.
Proper time for marriage ceremony
Celebrating marriage is auspicious when the Sun is
in the signs of
·
Gemini
·
Aquarius,
·
Capricorn,
·
Scorpio,
·
Taurus
and
·
Aries.
1) If the Sun is in the sign of Gemini, then marriage maybe celebrated in the month of Ashadha
Note- it is only from the Pratipada (the first Tithi of the month)
to the 10th Tithi in the Shukla Paksha or the Bright Half of the month.
2) If Sun is in sign of Scorpio marriage may be celebrated in the month of Kartika.
3) If Sun is in sign of Capricorn, marriage may be celebrated in month of Pausha.
4) If Sun is in sign of Aries, marriage may be celebrated in the month
of Chaitra.
Friday, 10 January 2014
Marriage before age 31
According to modern neuroscience, the human brain reaches cellular
development maturity at approximately age 30-31. (This is one of the strongest
arguments for the unpopular but medically sound proposal to raise the USA legal
drinking age to 30.)
Marriage before age 31
It stands to reason, therefore, that marriages accomplished before
the age of 31 should be closely supervised by elders who have a much more
clearly articulated perception regarding the difference between expectations
and ideals.(see previous blogs for explanation )Young marriage partners
have not yet fully individualized. They do not, characteristically, have much
objective information about the cultural values that they have been raised to
internalize. It is not easy for a young person to truly accept that there might
be several acceptable and viable ways of responding emotionally to a given
social situation. Rather, a young person tends to assume that one was raised in
the "right" way by one's own worshipful parents/culture, and that
anyone whose behaviors veers from the standards and HABITS with which one was
raised in an (unexamined, unanalyzed) family-culture setting must be
"wrong" or "crazy". This natural, adolescent respect for
own culture tends to be very idealistic.
Longevity of marriage - individuals-self (house 1) remaining legally bound
into the property (house4) contract (house7) - is perceived as the highest value of
marriage. Naturally longevity of financial investments is one of the best ways
to develop capital wealth, and society (house 10) favors long contracts for purposes
of system (house 11) stability (house 4). But again longevity is most patently NOT the
highest spiritual (house 9) value of marriage. Rather, depth and intensity of the
shared (house7) spiritual work between partners is what counts.
Every action has a reaction. Every
attraction contains its own repulsion. Ask any good Buddhist = if you
are intensely attracted to something now, rest assured you will be intensely
repulsed by that same thing in the future!
A significant part of the work of marriage is learning to manage
the cycles of desire and contempt one feels toward one's partner over long
periods of time.
Whether conventional or unusual in
configuration, marriages manifest past-life self-knowledge, with a purpose to
complete the incomplete Karma of previous life.
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