Extraordinary Human Beings

43
 International Institute of P redictive Astrology[IIPA] Proceedings of The Fourth Intl Conf of SA Astrologers, Club Patio South, South City-II, Gurgaon, India 11 th  & 12 th  April, 2009 Part II[Session I]: w.e.f Noon on the First Day Synopsis & Introduction: At noon on the first day, as scheduled by Professor Choudhry, I commenced the PPP on: ‘The Light of the SA on World Leaders, their Mass Movements and their Monumental Legacies’. In this presentation, I had endeavored to explore into the necessary and sufficient SA conditions, which go into the making of great World Leaders and ensure also their  Monumental Victories & their Monumental Legacies as well. I have been closely guided in this work by Prof Choudhry. If we look at any human society, we are able to identify a handful of extraordinary human beings, who have enjoyed the  Divine Grace of God to such an extent, that through their life and Mission, they have been able to bring to all humanity a Legacy of Monumental proportions, which has invariably been in the nature of courageous ‘revolutions’. Often, these World Leaders, either brought in a new world order, or ushered in some courageous revolutionary achievement which turned out to have an everlasting impact on human life and consciousness as a

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International Institute of Predictive Astrology[IIPA]

Proceedings of The Fourth Intl Conf of SA Astrologers

Club Patio South South City-II Gurgaon India

11th amp 12th April 2009

Part II[Session I] wef Noon on the First Day

Synopsis amp Introduction

At noon on the first day as scheduled by Professor Choudhry Icommenced the PPP on lsquoThe Light of the SA on World

Leaders their Mass Movements and their Monumental

Legaciesrsquo In this presentation I had endeavored to explore into

the necessary and sufficient SA conditions which go into the

making of great World Leaders and ensure also their

Monumental Victories amp their Monumental Legacies as well

I have been closely guided in this work by Prof Choudhry

If we look at any human society we are able to identify a

handful of extraordinary human beings who have enjoyed the

Divine Grace of God to such an extent that through their life

and Mission they have been able to bring to all humanity a

Legacy of Monumental proportions which has invariably beenin the nature of courageous lsquorevolutionsrsquo Often these World

Leaders either brought in a new world order or ushered in some

courageous revolutionary achievement which turned out to have

an everlasting impact on human life and consciousness as a

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whole The fields of activity of all these World Leaders may

vary but the underlying principle is essentially the same

Thus I am dealing here not merely with successful and famous

people [examples of which may not be wanting at all in our

societies] but rather with illustrious World Leaders Mahatmas

Avatars Saints Scientists amp Statesmen who have been nothing

less than revolutionary founding fathers of new systems of

thought and life This is the basic idea which is being examined

here

My commentary on each of the eleven World Leaders falls into

three parts Firstly I provide sufficient life-data on that World

Leader Secondly I throw some SA Light upon their charts

Thirdly and lastly I apply to each chart the list of lsquoSix Essential

Ingredientsrsquo to ascertain to what an extent they pass the test

and reap lsquothe final fruitrsquo of their Monumental Mission-which isthe Monumental legacy

In this Introduction I complete the first and second parts and

shall leave you to complete the last and third part when you

actually look at the PPP

Six Essential Ingredients in the making of such World Leaders

are firstly identified and cast in the form of SA Sutras

Subsequently these SA Sutras will have to be applied by you

successively to each of the eleven World Leaders I have

considered for the purpose of this Conf In the course of the

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PPP I have also given some idea about each of their lives and

only thereafter do you have to apply the SA Sutras to understand

how it is that they all left behind Monumental Legacies for thebenefit of future generations

In this introduction I have given here and there some

additional interesting facets of the lives of these World Leaders

over and above what I had spoken at the Conf I have done this

only because I thought it will help us to have so much clearer

an understanding of their charts

Six Essential Ingredients in the Making of these World

Leaders

1 Divine Grace for lsquoNobility of Soulrsquo

2 Divine Grace for Monumental Courage for accomplishing the

Monumental Mission

3 Divine Grace for Success [lsquoVictoryrsquo] in the Monumental

Mission

4 Divine Grace Surmounting VIH Obstacles

5 Divine Grace Strong VIIIH lsquoInheritancersquo

6 Divine Grace Intelligence Learning Knowledge amp Wisdom

Note I have used the term Divine Grace to mean Strong

HsPlanets in the SA

lsquoThe Final Fruitrsquo of the Monumental Mission

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The World Leader comes to be enshrined in the hearts of his

followers as a godly amp selfless

AvatarScientistAcharyaStatesman because of the blessings ofGod he was instrumental in bringing into the lives of his

numberless followers

This happens when all of the above 6 Ingredients are present in

his Chart and Life

SA Sutras for the lsquoNobility of the Soulrsquo Ingredient 1

i Strong spiritual planets per se [Su ampor Ju ampor Mo]

ii Strong VH ampor IXH [Dharma Hs]

iii Strong Sa ampor strong VIHKe as givers of Grace for

service responsibility dedication

iv And the above Influences on Strong Asdt lord ampor Asdt H

or on the IIIH IVH VH IXH

Note that in the SA we use the Divisional Charts for assessing

the Strength of Planets only

Essential Ingredient 2 Courage to Undertake a Monumental

Mission

SA Sutra Courageous Passion is the main engine of the World

Leaderrsquos Mission

The PD for Courage is the IIIH [Anjaneya Shakti] amp The GSs

are the Su amp Ma

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Fruits of the IIIH [A Sun like H]

i) Divine Grace for creating followers

ii) Divine Grace for team work amp leadership therein

iii) Divine Grace for Courage Victory [Success]

Vitality Profound Interest

Essential Ingredient 3 Divine Grace for Victory in the

Monumental Mission

Victory in Monumental Mission Work [which leaves behind an

everlasting impression on the followers amp upon the world] in the

Charts of World Leaders is given by

SA Sutra ldquoIf there is a MTS in the IIIH then the IIIH lord

becomes the PD while the Su amp Ju become GSs for Victory in

Monumental Mission Workrdquo

Essential Ingredient 4 Divine Grace for surmounting

lsquoVIH Obstaclesrsquo

There should be Divine Grace for Victory in battles with the

forces of enmity amp minimum losses of various kinds

SA Sutra ldquoA strong VIH would give capacity to succeed in

great labors [service] the Divine Grace to defeat enemies and be

free of the sapping losses through litigations accidents ill-

health Ideally there should be no planet in the VIHrdquo

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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or

strong planets placed therein

SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo

Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo

[Artha]

The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of

Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by

The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH

While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of

lsquoWealthrsquo

Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo

Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo

Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of

the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced

the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra

on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA

Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just

for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end

of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense

It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated

achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that

each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a

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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an

lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the

magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only

Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]

Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties

1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment

DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]

2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp

Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of

Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]

3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long

Learning [Aurobindo]

World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf

1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]

[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)

POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]

2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)

POB (87E44 22N53)]

3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]

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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]

[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)

POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]

5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]

[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]

6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]

[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)

POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]

7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]

[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)

POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]

8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]

[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)

POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]

9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]

[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)

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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]

10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]

[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)

POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]

Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above

World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their

charts[second part] so that after completing this you can

proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a

view to understand how it was that they left behind a

Monumental Legacy[third part]

Shirdi Sai Baba

Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the

XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation

spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of

past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The

Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH

gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God

was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame

during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace

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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga

[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for

him

Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a

forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of

Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great

detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new

born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A

fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and

guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who

groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter

he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction

through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers

who were jealous of him though his peers were also in

association with the Spiritual Master

Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode

Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the

walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in

his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with

God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of

enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance

Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he

brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees

whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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whole The fields of activity of all these World Leaders may

vary but the underlying principle is essentially the same

Thus I am dealing here not merely with successful and famous

people [examples of which may not be wanting at all in our

societies] but rather with illustrious World Leaders Mahatmas

Avatars Saints Scientists amp Statesmen who have been nothing

less than revolutionary founding fathers of new systems of

thought and life This is the basic idea which is being examined

here

My commentary on each of the eleven World Leaders falls into

three parts Firstly I provide sufficient life-data on that World

Leader Secondly I throw some SA Light upon their charts

Thirdly and lastly I apply to each chart the list of lsquoSix Essential

Ingredientsrsquo to ascertain to what an extent they pass the test

and reap lsquothe final fruitrsquo of their Monumental Mission-which isthe Monumental legacy

In this Introduction I complete the first and second parts and

shall leave you to complete the last and third part when you

actually look at the PPP

Six Essential Ingredients in the making of such World Leaders

are firstly identified and cast in the form of SA Sutras

Subsequently these SA Sutras will have to be applied by you

successively to each of the eleven World Leaders I have

considered for the purpose of this Conf In the course of the

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PPP I have also given some idea about each of their lives and

only thereafter do you have to apply the SA Sutras to understand

how it is that they all left behind Monumental Legacies for thebenefit of future generations

In this introduction I have given here and there some

additional interesting facets of the lives of these World Leaders

over and above what I had spoken at the Conf I have done this

only because I thought it will help us to have so much clearer

an understanding of their charts

Six Essential Ingredients in the Making of these World

Leaders

1 Divine Grace for lsquoNobility of Soulrsquo

2 Divine Grace for Monumental Courage for accomplishing the

Monumental Mission

3 Divine Grace for Success [lsquoVictoryrsquo] in the Monumental

Mission

4 Divine Grace Surmounting VIH Obstacles

5 Divine Grace Strong VIIIH lsquoInheritancersquo

6 Divine Grace Intelligence Learning Knowledge amp Wisdom

Note I have used the term Divine Grace to mean Strong

HsPlanets in the SA

lsquoThe Final Fruitrsquo of the Monumental Mission

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The World Leader comes to be enshrined in the hearts of his

followers as a godly amp selfless

AvatarScientistAcharyaStatesman because of the blessings ofGod he was instrumental in bringing into the lives of his

numberless followers

This happens when all of the above 6 Ingredients are present in

his Chart and Life

SA Sutras for the lsquoNobility of the Soulrsquo Ingredient 1

i Strong spiritual planets per se [Su ampor Ju ampor Mo]

ii Strong VH ampor IXH [Dharma Hs]

iii Strong Sa ampor strong VIHKe as givers of Grace for

service responsibility dedication

iv And the above Influences on Strong Asdt lord ampor Asdt H

or on the IIIH IVH VH IXH

Note that in the SA we use the Divisional Charts for assessing

the Strength of Planets only

Essential Ingredient 2 Courage to Undertake a Monumental

Mission

SA Sutra Courageous Passion is the main engine of the World

Leaderrsquos Mission

The PD for Courage is the IIIH [Anjaneya Shakti] amp The GSs

are the Su amp Ma

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Fruits of the IIIH [A Sun like H]

i) Divine Grace for creating followers

ii) Divine Grace for team work amp leadership therein

iii) Divine Grace for Courage Victory [Success]

Vitality Profound Interest

Essential Ingredient 3 Divine Grace for Victory in the

Monumental Mission

Victory in Monumental Mission Work [which leaves behind an

everlasting impression on the followers amp upon the world] in the

Charts of World Leaders is given by

SA Sutra ldquoIf there is a MTS in the IIIH then the IIIH lord

becomes the PD while the Su amp Ju become GSs for Victory in

Monumental Mission Workrdquo

Essential Ingredient 4 Divine Grace for surmounting

lsquoVIH Obstaclesrsquo

There should be Divine Grace for Victory in battles with the

forces of enmity amp minimum losses of various kinds

SA Sutra ldquoA strong VIH would give capacity to succeed in

great labors [service] the Divine Grace to defeat enemies and be

free of the sapping losses through litigations accidents ill-

health Ideally there should be no planet in the VIHrdquo

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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or

strong planets placed therein

SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo

Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo

[Artha]

The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of

Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by

The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH

While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of

lsquoWealthrsquo

Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo

Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo

Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of

the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced

the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra

on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA

Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just

for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end

of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense

It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated

achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that

each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a

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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an

lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the

magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only

Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]

Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties

1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment

DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]

2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp

Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of

Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]

3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long

Learning [Aurobindo]

World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf

1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]

[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)

POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]

2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)

POB (87E44 22N53)]

3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]

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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]

[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)

POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]

5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]

[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]

6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]

[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)

POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]

7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]

[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)

POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]

8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]

[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)

POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]

9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]

[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)

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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]

10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]

[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)

POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]

Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above

World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their

charts[second part] so that after completing this you can

proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a

view to understand how it was that they left behind a

Monumental Legacy[third part]

Shirdi Sai Baba

Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the

XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation

spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of

past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The

Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH

gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God

was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame

during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace

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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga

[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for

him

Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a

forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of

Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great

detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new

born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A

fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and

guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who

groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter

he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction

through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers

who were jealous of him though his peers were also in

association with the Spiritual Master

Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode

Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the

walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in

his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with

God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of

enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance

Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he

brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees

whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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PPP I have also given some idea about each of their lives and

only thereafter do you have to apply the SA Sutras to understand

how it is that they all left behind Monumental Legacies for thebenefit of future generations

In this introduction I have given here and there some

additional interesting facets of the lives of these World Leaders

over and above what I had spoken at the Conf I have done this

only because I thought it will help us to have so much clearer

an understanding of their charts

Six Essential Ingredients in the Making of these World

Leaders

1 Divine Grace for lsquoNobility of Soulrsquo

2 Divine Grace for Monumental Courage for accomplishing the

Monumental Mission

3 Divine Grace for Success [lsquoVictoryrsquo] in the Monumental

Mission

4 Divine Grace Surmounting VIH Obstacles

5 Divine Grace Strong VIIIH lsquoInheritancersquo

6 Divine Grace Intelligence Learning Knowledge amp Wisdom

Note I have used the term Divine Grace to mean Strong

HsPlanets in the SA

lsquoThe Final Fruitrsquo of the Monumental Mission

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The World Leader comes to be enshrined in the hearts of his

followers as a godly amp selfless

AvatarScientistAcharyaStatesman because of the blessings ofGod he was instrumental in bringing into the lives of his

numberless followers

This happens when all of the above 6 Ingredients are present in

his Chart and Life

SA Sutras for the lsquoNobility of the Soulrsquo Ingredient 1

i Strong spiritual planets per se [Su ampor Ju ampor Mo]

ii Strong VH ampor IXH [Dharma Hs]

iii Strong Sa ampor strong VIHKe as givers of Grace for

service responsibility dedication

iv And the above Influences on Strong Asdt lord ampor Asdt H

or on the IIIH IVH VH IXH

Note that in the SA we use the Divisional Charts for assessing

the Strength of Planets only

Essential Ingredient 2 Courage to Undertake a Monumental

Mission

SA Sutra Courageous Passion is the main engine of the World

Leaderrsquos Mission

The PD for Courage is the IIIH [Anjaneya Shakti] amp The GSs

are the Su amp Ma

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Fruits of the IIIH [A Sun like H]

i) Divine Grace for creating followers

ii) Divine Grace for team work amp leadership therein

iii) Divine Grace for Courage Victory [Success]

Vitality Profound Interest

Essential Ingredient 3 Divine Grace for Victory in the

Monumental Mission

Victory in Monumental Mission Work [which leaves behind an

everlasting impression on the followers amp upon the world] in the

Charts of World Leaders is given by

SA Sutra ldquoIf there is a MTS in the IIIH then the IIIH lord

becomes the PD while the Su amp Ju become GSs for Victory in

Monumental Mission Workrdquo

Essential Ingredient 4 Divine Grace for surmounting

lsquoVIH Obstaclesrsquo

There should be Divine Grace for Victory in battles with the

forces of enmity amp minimum losses of various kinds

SA Sutra ldquoA strong VIH would give capacity to succeed in

great labors [service] the Divine Grace to defeat enemies and be

free of the sapping losses through litigations accidents ill-

health Ideally there should be no planet in the VIHrdquo

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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or

strong planets placed therein

SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo

Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo

[Artha]

The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of

Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by

The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH

While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of

lsquoWealthrsquo

Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo

Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo

Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of

the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced

the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra

on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA

Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just

for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end

of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense

It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated

achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that

each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a

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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an

lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the

magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only

Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]

Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties

1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment

DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]

2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp

Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of

Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]

3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long

Learning [Aurobindo]

World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf

1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]

[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)

POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]

2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)

POB (87E44 22N53)]

3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]

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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]

[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)

POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]

5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]

[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]

6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]

[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)

POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]

7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]

[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)

POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]

8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]

[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)

POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]

9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]

[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)

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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]

10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]

[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)

POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]

Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above

World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their

charts[second part] so that after completing this you can

proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a

view to understand how it was that they left behind a

Monumental Legacy[third part]

Shirdi Sai Baba

Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the

XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation

spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of

past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The

Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH

gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God

was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame

during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace

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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga

[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for

him

Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a

forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of

Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great

detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new

born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A

fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and

guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who

groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter

he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction

through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers

who were jealous of him though his peers were also in

association with the Spiritual Master

Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode

Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the

walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in

his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with

God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of

enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance

Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he

brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees

whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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The World Leader comes to be enshrined in the hearts of his

followers as a godly amp selfless

AvatarScientistAcharyaStatesman because of the blessings ofGod he was instrumental in bringing into the lives of his

numberless followers

This happens when all of the above 6 Ingredients are present in

his Chart and Life

SA Sutras for the lsquoNobility of the Soulrsquo Ingredient 1

i Strong spiritual planets per se [Su ampor Ju ampor Mo]

ii Strong VH ampor IXH [Dharma Hs]

iii Strong Sa ampor strong VIHKe as givers of Grace for

service responsibility dedication

iv And the above Influences on Strong Asdt lord ampor Asdt H

or on the IIIH IVH VH IXH

Note that in the SA we use the Divisional Charts for assessing

the Strength of Planets only

Essential Ingredient 2 Courage to Undertake a Monumental

Mission

SA Sutra Courageous Passion is the main engine of the World

Leaderrsquos Mission

The PD for Courage is the IIIH [Anjaneya Shakti] amp The GSs

are the Su amp Ma

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Fruits of the IIIH [A Sun like H]

i) Divine Grace for creating followers

ii) Divine Grace for team work amp leadership therein

iii) Divine Grace for Courage Victory [Success]

Vitality Profound Interest

Essential Ingredient 3 Divine Grace for Victory in the

Monumental Mission

Victory in Monumental Mission Work [which leaves behind an

everlasting impression on the followers amp upon the world] in the

Charts of World Leaders is given by

SA Sutra ldquoIf there is a MTS in the IIIH then the IIIH lord

becomes the PD while the Su amp Ju become GSs for Victory in

Monumental Mission Workrdquo

Essential Ingredient 4 Divine Grace for surmounting

lsquoVIH Obstaclesrsquo

There should be Divine Grace for Victory in battles with the

forces of enmity amp minimum losses of various kinds

SA Sutra ldquoA strong VIH would give capacity to succeed in

great labors [service] the Divine Grace to defeat enemies and be

free of the sapping losses through litigations accidents ill-

health Ideally there should be no planet in the VIHrdquo

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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or

strong planets placed therein

SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo

Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo

[Artha]

The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of

Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by

The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH

While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of

lsquoWealthrsquo

Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo

Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo

Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of

the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced

the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra

on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA

Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just

for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end

of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense

It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated

achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that

each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a

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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an

lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the

magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only

Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]

Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties

1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment

DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]

2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp

Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of

Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]

3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long

Learning [Aurobindo]

World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf

1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]

[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)

POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]

2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)

POB (87E44 22N53)]

3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]

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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]

[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)

POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]

5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]

[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]

6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]

[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)

POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]

7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]

[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)

POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]

8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]

[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)

POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]

9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]

[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)

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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]

10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]

[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)

POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]

Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above

World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their

charts[second part] so that after completing this you can

proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a

view to understand how it was that they left behind a

Monumental Legacy[third part]

Shirdi Sai Baba

Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the

XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation

spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of

past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The

Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH

gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God

was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame

during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace

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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga

[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for

him

Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a

forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of

Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great

detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new

born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A

fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and

guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who

groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter

he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction

through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers

who were jealous of him though his peers were also in

association with the Spiritual Master

Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode

Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the

walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in

his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with

God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of

enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance

Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he

brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees

whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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Fruits of the IIIH [A Sun like H]

i) Divine Grace for creating followers

ii) Divine Grace for team work amp leadership therein

iii) Divine Grace for Courage Victory [Success]

Vitality Profound Interest

Essential Ingredient 3 Divine Grace for Victory in the

Monumental Mission

Victory in Monumental Mission Work [which leaves behind an

everlasting impression on the followers amp upon the world] in the

Charts of World Leaders is given by

SA Sutra ldquoIf there is a MTS in the IIIH then the IIIH lord

becomes the PD while the Su amp Ju become GSs for Victory in

Monumental Mission Workrdquo

Essential Ingredient 4 Divine Grace for surmounting

lsquoVIH Obstaclesrsquo

There should be Divine Grace for Victory in battles with the

forces of enmity amp minimum losses of various kinds

SA Sutra ldquoA strong VIH would give capacity to succeed in

great labors [service] the Divine Grace to defeat enemies and be

free of the sapping losses through litigations accidents ill-

health Ideally there should be no planet in the VIHrdquo

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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or

strong planets placed therein

SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo

Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo

[Artha]

The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of

Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by

The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH

While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of

lsquoWealthrsquo

Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo

Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo

Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of

the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced

the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra

on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA

Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just

for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end

of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense

It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated

achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that

each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a

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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an

lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the

magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only

Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]

Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties

1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment

DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]

2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp

Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of

Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]

3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long

Learning [Aurobindo]

World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf

1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]

[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)

POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]

2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)

POB (87E44 22N53)]

3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]

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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]

[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)

POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]

5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]

[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]

6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]

[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)

POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]

7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]

[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)

POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]

8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]

[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)

POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]

9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]

[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)

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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]

10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]

[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)

POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]

Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above

World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their

charts[second part] so that after completing this you can

proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a

view to understand how it was that they left behind a

Monumental Legacy[third part]

Shirdi Sai Baba

Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the

XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation

spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of

past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The

Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH

gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God

was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame

during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace

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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga

[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for

him

Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a

forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of

Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great

detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new

born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A

fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and

guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who

groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter

he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction

through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers

who were jealous of him though his peers were also in

association with the Spiritual Master

Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode

Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the

walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in

his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with

God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of

enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance

Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he

brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees

whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or

strong planets placed therein

SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo

Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo

[Artha]

The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of

Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by

The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH

While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of

lsquoWealthrsquo

Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo

Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo

Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of

the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced

the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra

on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA

Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just

for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end

of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense

It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated

achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that

each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a

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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an

lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the

magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only

Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]

Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties

1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment

DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]

2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp

Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of

Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]

3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long

Learning [Aurobindo]

World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf

1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]

[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)

POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]

2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)

POB (87E44 22N53)]

3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]

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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]

[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)

POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]

5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]

[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]

6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]

[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)

POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]

7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]

[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)

POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]

8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]

[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)

POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]

9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]

[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)

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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]

10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]

[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)

POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]

Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above

World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their

charts[second part] so that after completing this you can

proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a

view to understand how it was that they left behind a

Monumental Legacy[third part]

Shirdi Sai Baba

Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the

XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation

spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of

past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The

Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH

gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God

was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame

during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace

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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga

[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for

him

Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a

forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of

Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great

detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new

born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A

fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and

guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who

groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter

he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction

through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers

who were jealous of him though his peers were also in

association with the Spiritual Master

Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode

Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the

walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in

his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with

God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of

enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance

Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he

brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees

whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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Hs of higher learning VH amp IXH These could be strong or

strong planets placed therein

SA Sutra lsquoOn Creative Intelligence VH IIH Su Jursquo

Final Fruit = Monumental Legacy SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo

[Artha]

The Monumental Legacy of the Mission of World Leaders of

Mass Movements [or otherwise] is given by

The SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo PD of lsquoWealthrsquo is IIH ampor XH

While the IVH lord IXH lord amp IH lord are the GSs of

lsquoWealthrsquo

Mnemonic ldquoAccu - Wealth = 2[ampor 10] ndash 4 ndash 9 ndash 1 ndash Verdquo

Ve is the GS for lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo

Professor Choudhry in his inimitable way watching the lives of

the World Leaders unfurl before him one by one introduced

the XH alongside of the leading IIH in this important SA Sutra

on lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo It is to be noted that in the above SA

Sutras pertaining to lsquoWealthrsquo the term lsquoWealthrsquo stands not just

for lsquoeconomic Wealthrsquo as shown by the bank-balance at the end

of onersquos life but is to be understood in a more general sense

It has a much more comprehensive meaning accumulated

achievements [Artha] for the whole of life We will see that

each World Leader has to his credit at the end of his life a

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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an

lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the

magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only

Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]

Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties

1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment

DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]

2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp

Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of

Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]

3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long

Learning [Aurobindo]

World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf

1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]

[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)

POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]

2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)

POB (87E44 22N53)]

3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]

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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]

[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)

POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]

5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]

[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]

6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]

[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)

POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]

7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]

[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)

POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]

8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]

[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)

POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]

9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]

[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)

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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]

10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]

[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)

POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]

Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above

World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their

charts[second part] so that after completing this you can

proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a

view to understand how it was that they left behind a

Monumental Legacy[third part]

Shirdi Sai Baba

Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the

XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation

spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of

past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The

Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH

gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God

was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame

during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace

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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga

[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for

him

Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a

forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of

Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great

detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new

born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A

fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and

guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who

groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter

he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction

through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers

who were jealous of him though his peers were also in

association with the Spiritual Master

Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode

Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the

walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in

his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with

God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of

enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance

Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he

brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees

whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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certain kind of lsquoWealthrsquo as the following list illustrates Such an

lsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo is then the yardstick for measuring the

magnitude of the Monumental Legacy lsquoArtharsquo which alsomeans achievement has also been used in this sense only

Varieties of lsquoWealth [Artha]rsquo [Wealth Accords also Status]

Note SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra Applies to all Varieties

1 lsquoWealthrsquo of Community Service Rural Upliftment

DiseasePoverty Eradication [Vivekananda]

2 lsquoWealthrsquo of Spiritual Education Eradication of Ignorance amp

Sorrow amp Gains of Understanding Compassion Oneness of

Life [Ramakrishna Shirdi Baba Prabhupada Swami Padre Pio]

3 lsquoWealthrsquo of Education Spiritual and Scholastic amp Life-long

Learning [Aurobindo]

World Leaders considered for this Intl Conf

1 Sri Shirdi Sai Baba[1835-1918]

[28 Sep 1835 553 AM TZ= -5hrs 06mts (LMT)

POB Pathri (76E3019N17)]

2 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa [1836-1886][18 Feb 1836 643 AM TZ= -5hrs 58mts (LMT)

POB (87E44 22N53)]

3 Swami Vivekananda [1863-1902]

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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]

[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)

POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]

5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]

[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]

6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]

[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)

POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]

7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]

[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)

POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]

8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]

[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)

POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]

9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]

[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)

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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]

10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]

[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)

POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]

Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above

World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their

charts[second part] so that after completing this you can

proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a

view to understand how it was that they left behind a

Monumental Legacy[third part]

Shirdi Sai Baba

Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the

XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation

spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of

past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The

Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH

gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God

was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame

during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace

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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga

[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for

him

Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a

forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of

Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great

detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new

born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A

fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and

guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who

groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter

he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction

through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers

who were jealous of him though his peers were also in

association with the Spiritual Master

Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode

Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the

walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in

his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with

God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of

enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance

Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he

brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees

whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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[12 Jan 1863 633 AM TZ= -5hrs 53mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

4 Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]

[2 Oct 1869 733 AM TZ= -4hrs 38mts (LMT)

POB Porbandar (69E33 21N44)]

5 Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]

[15 Aug 1872 513 AM TZ= -5hrs 52mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E20 22N30)]

6 Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950]

[30 Dec 1879 1211 AM TZ= -5hrs 13mts (LMT)

POB Tiruchuzhi (78E17 9N25)]

7 Prof Albert Einstein [1879-1955]

[14 Mar 1879 1122 AM TZ=-0hrs 40mts (LMT)

POB Ulm Germany (10E00 48N30)]

8 Padre Pio [Christian Saint from Italy][1887-1968]

[25 May 1887 410 PM TZ= -0hrs 50mts (LMT)

POB Pietrelcina (14E51 41N12)]

9 Paramahamsa Yogananda [1893-1952]

[5 Jan 1983 838 PM TZ= -5hrs 34mts (LMT)

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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]

10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]

[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)

POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]

Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above

World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their

charts[second part] so that after completing this you can

proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a

view to understand how it was that they left behind a

Monumental Legacy[third part]

Shirdi Sai Baba

Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the

XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation

spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of

past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The

Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH

gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God

was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame

during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace

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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga

[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for

him

Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a

forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of

Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great

detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new

born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A

fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and

guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who

groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter

he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction

through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers

who were jealous of him though his peers were also in

association with the Spiritual Master

Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode

Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the

walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in

his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with

God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of

enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance

Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he

brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees

whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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Gorakhpur (83E23 26N47)]

10 Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada [1896-1985]

[1 Sep 1896 400 PM TZ= -5hrs 53 mts (LMT)

POB Calcutta (88E22 22N32)]

11 Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

[2 Mar 1931 1210 PM TZ= -3hrs (BGT)

POB Stavropol (41E59 45N02)]

Here is a short summary of the life amp times of each of the above

World Leaders [first part] and some pertinent SA Light on their

charts[second part] so that after completing this you can

proceed to apply the 6 Essential Ingredients to their lives with a

view to understand how it was that they left behind a

Monumental Legacy[third part]

Shirdi Sai Baba

Chart and SA Light Virgo Asdt chart with the Su as the

XIIH impacting upon the Asdt MEP - this gave renunciation

spiritual qualities of the Su such as Trikalagnana [knowledge of

past present and future] and medicinal knowledge as well The

Asdt lord Me afflicted by the VIH lord of enmity in the IIH

gave life-long enmity Ju ruling the IVH of the Atma or God

was fully strong and was placed in the XH He came to fame

during the Ju Dasa This strong Ju gave him all the Divine Grace

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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga

[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for

him

Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a

forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of

Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great

detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new

born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A

fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and

guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who

groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter

he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction

through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers

who were jealous of him though his peers were also in

association with the Spiritual Master

Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode

Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the

walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in

his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with

God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of

enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance

Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he

brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees

whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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to be a truly great world teacher but on the Nivritti marga

[Renunciantrsquos path]Ke the spiritual planet was also strong for

him

Life-Data He was born around Sun rise time deep within a

forest Both his parents were enlightened through the grace of

Lord Shiva and their renunciation took the form of great

detachment in the form of voluntary separation from their new

born child Thus they abandoned their baby in the woods A

fakir picked up the baby and brought him up for the first fewyears Thereafter the young boy came under the care and

guardianship of a renowned Spiritual Master lsquoVenkusarsquo who

groomed him further till roughly his fifteenth year Thereafter

he asked the boy to leave him and proceed in a certain direction

through the wilderness so as to be out of bounds for all his peers

who were jealous of him though his peers were also in

association with the Spiritual Master

Shirdi Baba made the village of Shidi his permanent abode

Here he lived like a Hermit and a Saint practically within the

walls of an old mosque in ruins There were forces of enmity in

his life as a life-long pattern but because of his oneness with

God he was not perturbed by his detractors and by the forces of

enmity jealousy hatred and ignorance

Known for his compassion and profound self-abnegation he

brought joy and spiritual contentment to all those devotees

whose good fortune it was to discover his godliness and receive

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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his blessings He was on the perfect path of renunciation loved

all his devotees and brought an abundance of Divine Grace and

benefits into their troubled lives

He is known for his thousands of miracles for his bold

declaration that he was God and for his healings as a doctor of

herbal amp folk medicine and also for his Trikalajnana ie for

knowledge of the past present and future His life was an

example of a Saint who recognized the same one God in both

the religions of Hinduism and Islam It was a life of simplicityopenness compassion piety utter friendliness surrender to

God Spiritual austerity and service to his fellow human beings

as a Spiritual Teacher and true renuncient par excellence

In a word he was the true Avatar of that age reminding people

of the power of God His Divine Grace and the importance of

Spiritual Faith at a time when the self-confidence of Indians wasat an all time low because of subjugation by the British Raj

Even today lakhs of devotees visit Shidi to receive his blessings

and drink the nectar of his lsquoMonumental Spiritual Legacyrsquo

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Chart and SA Light An Aquarius Asdt Chart[Humanitarian amp

service-oriented Asdt] with a strong Ju placed in the VH of

Ishtha Devata and Asdt lord Sa placed exalted in the IXH of

God and Dharma and with the IXH lord Ve placed exalted

close to the MEP of the IIH of status and prominence on the

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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world stage but a trifle weak on account of deb in the D-9 div

chart

As in the case of the renuncient Sri Shirdi Baba his Ra and Ke

were also strong Ke gave the inclination to be turned inward

while Ra gave high emotional sensitivity Strong Jursquos exact

aspect to the VIIIH lord Me placed in the IH gave him great

versatility in his mystic reach encompassing practically all

faiths and religions Ju also exactly aspects the Asdt lord Sa

This made Sri Ramakrishna highly spiritual but at the same

time also thirsty for achievement because Ju gave aspiration[Ju

was XIH lord]The Su impacted on the Asdt MEP enhanced his

spiritual inclination and made him a spiritual king The Cosmic

feminine energy Ve stands for the Divine Mother Kali whose

devotee and son he was

Life Data He was born to very pious Brahmin parents but lost

his father when he was only 7 yrs old Was frail and

exceptionally sensitive and had the first mystical experience at

the tender age of six when seeing the flight of some water birds

against dark expanding clouds he went into a trance[Samadhi amp

Divine ecstasy] losing body consciousness in the process

The next mystic communion with God came at the age of

eleven when he was enacting the role of Lord Shiva in a play

From his eleventh year onwards mystical experiences became

an integral part of his life He was so intelligent and original that

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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he refused to be English-educated along conventional lines [that

was fashionable in his times] calling the same only a lsquobread-

winningrsquo kind of education

When Ramakrishna was twenty his elder brother also passed

away and to support himself and his family he undertook the

job his elder brother was doing ndash the work of a priest at the

Dakshineshwar Temple of Kali He was at this temple for the

rest of his life as a beloved devotee and son of Mother Kali and

as a Spiritual Teacher for numberless people of his time It wasan age when faith in God was at an all time low for Indians for

they were exploited and plundered by foreign rulers The coming

of Sri Ramakrishna was for restoring the lost faith in God and to

anchor the despondent people to the Spiritual Legacy of their

forefathers

A lady Guru Sri Bhairavi Brahmani taught him Shakti worshipthrough Bhakti Yoga as laid down in the traditional 64 Tantras

[1861-1863] It was she who declared to the world that

Ramakrishna was an Avatar Ramakrisha was of course never

interested in such a lofty spiritual stature that was bestowed

upon him Two yrs later an advaitin-renuncient Totapuri

initiated him into Sannyasa and Advaita Vedanta and in 1866 a

Hindu Sufi Guru Govind Roy initiated him into Islam In 1873

he and Sambhu Charan Mallik read the Bible together and he

immediately began to have Christian mystical experiences

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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Ma as the VH lord Ma is fully strong This yoga gave Naren a

high calling in life endowed him with a colossal intelligence

[his college professors thought of him as a genius] made himlion-hearted passionate angry impatient action oriented a

warrior in the spiritual field Me and Ve were placed in the Sun-

like IIH and this enhanced their strengths appreciably for both

planets suffered from the weakness of combustion The Su

very significantly made a very beneficial influence upon the

Asdt MEP and on the MEP of the VIIH of the lsquootherrsquo The

MMP the Mo was in the XH and made an affliction to Sa

Ayushkaraka with an orb of 3degs 50mtsUnfortunately his

health was further weakened by the Nodes closely afflicting the

VIH-XIIH axis These two factors reduced his longevity and

tragically prematurely terminated his Mission on Earth - when

he was only 39 yrs of age

His Monumental Mission consisted of a number of things

[1]He taught Vedanta Yoga and Upanishads to the West This

served to raise the image of India on the world stage

[2] He established the Ramakrishna Mission for the welfare and

education of the poor after his Master passed away

[3] Established also the Ramakrishna Mutt for furthering the

spiritual vision of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa[After his master passed away]

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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[4]He was lion-hearted royal in his bearing and approach to life

went about his mission in the spirit of a warrior was selfless to

the core sacrificing and dedicating his life for nationalupliftment and caring nothing for his own spiritual salvationIN

this sense he was one of the greatest patriotrsquos of Pre-

Independent India

[5]He successfully galvanized the spiritual and cultural ethos of

the Hindus and gave them self confidence courage and the

encouragement to plunge into action at a time when Hinduswere consumed by a feeling of diffidence dullness and apathy

[6]His prodigious intellect was known for its powers of

discrimination and learning As a young man he studied very

closely and critically Western logic Western philosophy and

European history apart from Hindu spiritual lore of the Vedas

and the Tantras before he embarked on the mission of creating a

new national consciousness based on rediscovering the

spiritual treasures of India

Many thinkers consider Swami Vivekananda to be the father of

Indian nationalism which meant Hindu nationalism in the age

in which he lived Due to foreign domination for centuries

Indians had lost a sense of self-dignity and self-identity as

lsquoHindusrsquo Vivekananda identified this malaise in Hindu society

of his times and therefore championed the cause of a Hindu

India and made millions of Hindus at home and millions of

westerners in distant lands aware of Hindu heritage and its

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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greatness He came to do this at a time when the Hindu morale

was low and his mission work resulted in a new and vibrant

form of Hindu renaissance and Indian nationalism This servedas a foundation and bedrock upon which Mahatma Gandhi

coming behind him built his edifice for the liberation of India

from British imperialism

After his Master passed away in 1886 in 1890 he undertook a

long journey of discovery travelling to every part of North

India In 1893 he addressed the Congress of World Religions onthe as yet undiscovered greatness of a spiritually luminous India

In 1897 he started the Ramakrishna Mission The biographer

Romain Rolland has drawn our attention to the fact that this

great disciple and his great Master had personalities and

approaches to life but were the direct antithesis of each other

Mahatma Gandhi

Chart amp SA Light Libra Asdt chart with a strong Asdt lord

Ve in its own MTH strong Sa as Yogakaraka planet ruling the

VH placed in the IIH of habits and tastes- and this gave him

austerity in food matters a highly fruitful yoga or mutual

influence between the IIIH lord Ju and the significator of the

IIIH namely Ma and that too formed in the Asdt H itselfthereby bestowing upon him thereby the immense lionrsquos heart

Monumental Courage through the Anjaneya Shakti[IIIH]

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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A strong XIIH lord Me malefically impacted on the Asdt

MEP[as in the case of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri

Shirdi Sai Baba] bestowing upon him analytical clarityperfection[SA Sutra] renunciatory tendencies his spirit of self-

abnegation as well as his many imprisonments his Padayatras

[walking expeditions as in Salt Satyagraha]and Ashram Life

etc

Prof Choudhry pointed out when I was covering the chart of

Mahatma Gandhi that as the Su was placed in the XIIH[Ashram Life] and Me impacted closely on the Asdt MEP the

lsquoNumero Unorsquo nature of the Su and the lsquosignification of the Sursquo

as the father also made itrsquos impact on the Asdt MEP through its

dispositor Me So through his assassination he was destined to

became the father of his people the Indians This also added to

his already Leonine courage

Life Data He was very articulate [a lawyer at that] and with

exceptional courage he spear-headed Indiarsquos struggle for

independence and took on the British Empire and defeated them

through his courage[Ju-Ma Yoga] and intelligence[Sa] and

capacity to galvanize the spiritual ethos of his people[Su Mo]

Using the non-physical lsquorevolutionary weaponsrsquo of Ahimsa[non-violent approach] amp Satyagraha[tenacious holding on to the

truth] and the civil disobedience movement he was able to

secure complete independence for India from the diabolical

British imperialism

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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His above mentioned methods in the freedom struggle attracted

world-wide attention and thus taught all the nations of the

Earth a saner nobler and more spiritual approach to the problem of liberation of an oppressed people As Einstein

remarked ldquoFuture generations will scarce believe that such a

one as this walked this Earth in flesh and bloodrdquo The

Monumental Legacy he created has made an everlasting impact

on the entire human consciousness transcending the barriers of

race and nationality religion amp language

Sri Aurobindo

Chart amp SA Light This is a Cancer Asdt chart with the

exalted but weak Ju [as the lord of the malefic VIH of

Karmayoga] making a close impact upon the Asdt MEP As

though to strengthen the VIHrsquos influence on his personality his

Asdt lord the Mo was also placed in the VIH Both the Nodeswere [in their exaltation signs] strong as in the case of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa amp also in the case of Sri Shirdi Sai

Baba

Such a strong exalted Ke placed in the VH of creative

intelligence and insight and aspecting the Asdt H from there

imparted to Sri Aurobindo considerable yogic insight in his fresh understanding and interpretation of the Vedas Jursquos

general significations of intelligence wisdom and capacity for

teaching also impressed themselves upon his self especially

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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For a time he was even imprisoned by the British govt At this

turning point he turned inward and his spiritual life and yoga

became more important for him than outer achievements Imposing a self-exile upon himself he moved to Pondicherry on

the East coast of India [a French colony at that time]from

where he commenced his magnificent new work of spiritually

awakening the Indian people through his writings in the

magazine Karmayogi and through his Ashram work

As more and more followers sought his blessings his originalinterpretation of the Vedas became available to the reading

public For 40 yrs he continued his spiritual sadhana delegating

to the Mother all administrative activities of the Ashram The

Mother was herself vey spiritual and so dedicated herself

thereby leaving Sri Aurobindo free to continue his yogic

enquiries into the Vedas

His life Mission has been to anchor the intelligentsia of India to

our Vedic heritage and Vedic roots He was very concerned that

a free and independent India still ran the high risk of lsquogoing

astrayrsquo in a lsquoWest-dominated modernrsquo world which was but

built on sensory knowledge only and not on the spiritual nature

of man Thanks to his yeomen service millions all over the

world[Indians and non-Indians alike] took his works to heart

even changed their life styles in order to come closer to the

spiritual destination of spiritual flowering which Aurobindo

had set for them as their lifersquos mission His Monumental

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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Legacy which he has left behind for all of us is a truly spiritual

one which will come to full bloom only when each one of us

undertakes the discovery of the Vedas taking it to be but thediscovery of our own divine nature

Prof Choudhry commented that when there is a close impact of

the VIH lord on the Asdt MEP [as in Sri Aurobindorsquos Cancer

Asdt chart] and the Asdt lord too is placed in the VIH one

becomes very wilful and steadfast and does not give up onersquos

own views He added that lsquoHowever the influence of the VIHalso brings in the blessings of profound enquiry in

unconventional areas [Vedas and Yoga as in his case]rsquoSA

Sutra

Such an impact of the VIH on the Asdt H also results in

poverty This holds for the chart of Sri Ramana Maharshi as

well At one time in his early years in Pondicherry he wasforced to use the same towel to wipe his body after a bath as

three other co-workers were using So acute was the shortage of

resources

Prof Choudhry also drew out attention to another SA Sutra

lsquoWhen any Chart is being discussed which has the impact of the

VIH then lsquothe VIH hallmark of conflict and controversyrsquo willalso manifest on that occasionrsquo As mentioned already Sri

Aurobindo had also a strong Ke from the VH aspecting his

Lagna This took him into antarmukha [introversion] and

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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brought him the Ketuvian blessing of Yogasadhana and Yogic

knowledge of the Vedas

Sri Aurobindo was confined to his study room in Pondicherry

for 40 yrs and more He was a prolific writer [IIIH activity] and

became recognized for that and this was given by Me the lord

of the IIIH placed almost on the MEP of the IIH of status The

Prof Choudhry pointed out that lsquoMe is the planet which gives

the urge and the inclination for thoroughness and perfectionrsquo[SA

Sutra] and when the influence of the VIH is taken into accountwe see that he sought perfection in a new interpretation of the

Vedas and the scriptures through his profound enquiry into

these areas Ke also gave him a mystic tilt and yogic insight in

all his writings

One very important Sutra on which Prof repeatedly placed his

emphasis was this three-fold nature of the planetary influences

SA Sutra ldquoIn analyzing any chart one has to be aware of three

distinct ways of assessing the exact nature of the planetary

effects Firstly one must consider strength secondly the impact

or influence on the MEPs of Houses or even on other planets

and thirdly the result of placements All three must be

consideredrdquo We may now apply this discriminatory knowledgeto most of the charts presented here and reap the benefits

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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Chart amp SA Light He was a Virgo Asdt with the Asdt lord

placed in the IIIH and closely afflicted by the MMP Ma as the

lord of the VIIIH of Moksha The Asdt MEP was very closelyafflicted by the strong lord of the VIH Sa placed in the VIIH

Thus the strong planets in his chart were a strong VIIIH lord

Ma the Mokshakaraka a strong VIH lord Sa the

Karmayogakaraka and a medium strength Ke well-placed in

the XH and aspecting the IIH and the IIH from there

Sa gave celibacy spirit of service austerity disciplinediligence and profound enquiry in an unconventional field-

Atmavichara [SA Sutra] A strong VIIIH also gave the

profoundity and mysteriousness associated with the VIIIH and

above all the Divine Grace to mobilize the peoplersquos forgotten

awareness of Moksha as the ultimate goal of human life Prof

Choudhry remarked that the Su separated him from his home-

life and also gave him the renown [through its impact on the

XH] for his renunciation [XIIH signification]

Life Data No spiritual qualities served as a lsquoprerequisitersquo for

the boy Ramana to deserve the highest blessing of

Moksha[Enlightenment] at the age of sixteen With that

blessing the self or the personality vanished leaving only the

body as the vehicle and abode for the absolute consciousness of

Shiva In this state he could not carry on as a school boy any

longer and so in a single mighty leap of renunciation departed

from his home life to arrive at the abode of Arunachala Shiva at

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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Tiruvannamalai For the next 54 yrs he never stirred out of this

holy abode while the whole world came to his feet to

understand his teachings of Atmavichara [enquiry into the realnature of our seemingly petty self] to see his Self Realization as

a living example of the highest spiritual blessing of Moksha and

to offer him the highest devotion and surrender All the peoples

of the Earth whether Indians Japanese Europeans or

Americans who are able to feel the Maharshi or who have

understood the profound significance of his teachings of

Atmavichara will testify to his Monumental Legacy with their

tears and with their awakened tender hearts

Prof Albert Einstein

Chart amp SA Light Here we have the intellectual Gemini Asdt

chart of the most illustrious Philosopher-Scientist of the last

century His strongest FB planet is Ve as the lord of the VH ofcreative intelligence and imagination placed strongly in its

exaltation sign in the XH Two consciousness planets Me

ruling the IVH of home-life amp inner contentment and Mo

ruling the IIH of family life family-cohesion and status are

weak and afflicted Ke afflicts Me exactly These two

weaknesses and afflictions [in the SA placement in a malefic H

also tantamount to an affliction] were responsible for his

delayed speech in childhood as well as for domestic

unhappiness in the first marriage which ended in a divorce He

had to dissolve his first marriage because his wife [also a

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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Mathematician amp Physicist] refused to come over to the US

There were however two sons from the first marriage Note the

debilitation of the IIH of family cohesion and the IVH lordafflicted

The Su as lord of such an important Sun-like IIIH has a very

special role in Gemini Asdt charts In the chart of Einstein it is

placed in the XH of the professional impact on the world

Though weak on account of the weakness of infancy it brings in

a Leonine courage in the professional arena and will be veryuseful for those creative intellectuals who topple the old world

order in their field and replace it with a new one which is of a

revolutionary kind This is what happened to Einstein Prof

Choudhry has emphasized this role of the Su in the XH

elsewhere Ma placed exalted in the VIIIH of research gave him

aspirations in Physics research He came to world fame in the

Ve Dasa

Life Data German-Swiss-American physicist winner of the

1922 Physics Nobel prize[for the photoelectric effect and not for

the Special Theory of Relativity]He had created at the age of

26 The Special Theory of Relativity to account for the

Michelson-Morley experiment His mass energy equation

E=mc2 was to govern the stupendous quantities of energy

released during an atomic fission bomb The Special Theory of

Relativity and the General Theory [which came in its wake]

revolutionized our concepts of space amp time matter amp energy

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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They showed that at high speeds space amp time get interlinked

and so too matter amp energy This revolution in manrsquos

understanding of the so-called lsquophysical worldrsquo has been by farthe greatest intellectual leap in our understanding of the

mysterious lsquophysical worldrsquo

He began to speak so late [at age 5 only] that his parents thought

that he could be lsquomentally retardedrsquo

Enjoyed successively German Swiss Italian and American

citizenships After doing his doctoral work had to work in 1902

at the Swiss Patent Office in a clerical capacity only [IIH lord

debilitated in the VIH] This gave him enough leisure to think

In 1905 published three papers [on the Special Theory of

Relativity] in 1907 came upon the mass-energy equation

In 1933 moved to the US as he was not happy with the way

things were going on in his home country Germany under Nazi

rule [Jan 1933 to May 1945] The Nazis persecuted the Jews and

Einstein was a German Jew Later in the US observing the

world wide menace of Nazism he urged President Roosevelt to

make the atomic bomb so that the menacing Nazi power could

be contained and the evil Nazi empire terminated

In 1952 with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel he was

offered Presidency of Israel as he was the most illustrious living

Jew of the century but the wise Einstein refused this offer on

the grounds that he was good enough to understand matter and

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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energy but not skilled enough in dealing with human beings In

the last 20 yrs of his life as the most distinguished and original

thinkers of his age [at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studyin the US] he was strangely intellectually alienated from the

main stream of Physics research as he could not bring himself

to accept Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory as

these had also come to stay as much as the Theory of Relativity

had and had just like his Theory of Relativity revolutionized

our naive conception of the physical world

He was not just a brilliant scientist in some narrow field of

specialization-in Tensor Analysis [Maths] and Theoretical

Physics but was a natural philosopher a Sage with pronounced

social sensitivity and an amazingly deep and wide grasp of all

fields of human endeavour most importantly Religion His

testimony to the Monumental Legacy left behind by Mahatma

Gandhi may be seen in the PPP in the section pertinent to

Gandhi

When I had applied the SA lsquoWealthrsquo Sutra to his life to see

what Monumental Legacy he had left behind and found to my

dismay that Ve alone saved the situation and had brought him

world fame Professor Choudhry made two illuminating

comments

He said when there are many strong planets in a chart one can

see that the Divine Grace operates in many sectors of life in a

wide-ranging way and that this is always much better whereas

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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when only one planet is strong then one excels and gains in

prominence in one area but makes no satisfactory mark in the

other areas of life

Secondly he also amended the SA Sutra on lsquoWealthrsquo by saying

that in the SA Sutra ldquolsquoAccumulated Wealthrsquo=2-4-9-1-Verdquo

alongside of the IIH we must also consider the XH as well He

added that the Su in the XH though suffering from the weakness

of infancy did make him a World-renowned Leader

Commenting further on the mere placement of the courage-

giving planet the Su in the XH [and not necessarily near the

MEP] Prof Choudhry said ldquoThe mere placement of the Su in

the XH boosts courage in the professional sphererdquo[SA Sutra]

Padre Pio[Italian Christian Saint]

Chart and SA Light Libra Asdt Chart with the strong Asdt

lord Ve the Mo and Sa placed in the IXH The Su was afflicted

by the MMP and badly-placed in the VIIIH Prof Choudhry

remarked that such a placement of the Su denies income in

worldly life but will prove to be an asset for the spiritual life

for it will not give any aspiration for earning In view of three

Sattvik planets in the IXH of God and Dharma and the

influence of strong Jupiter on the Asdt MEP he considered this

one of the best charts in the spiritual life that he had seen Apart

from the strong Asdt lord there was the sensitive Mo and the

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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983091983094 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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983091983096 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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lord of the VH namely Sa which represents devotion to God in

this chart

Life Data Born in a very pious Christian family They were

described as lsquoGod is everything-peoplersquo He along with his

elder brother and three younger sisters were told a large number

of Bible stories The parents and grandparents could not read

and write but had nevertheless learnt by heart many passages

from the scriptures They were however very pious and

innocent

When he was five he consecrated himself to the Master Jesus in

an act of piety Unlike other children he liked to be by himself

liked to sing hymns and do prayers In later life he even told that

lsquowhen he was young he used to converse with the Master Jesus

with Madonna and his guardian Angels and also suffered

attacks by the devilrsquo

In 1903 when he was 15 yrs old he was initiated into the order

of Friars He took the name of Pio in honour of Saint Pius V

the patron Saint of Pietrelcina [birth place]

On Jan 22nd

1904 took the vow of poverty chastity and

obedience At the Friary of St Francis of Assisi he studied for 6

yrs thereby qualifying himself to become a priest [SA Sutra on

spiritual education applies]

On Aug 10th 1910 at 23 he was ordained priest by the

Archbishop

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

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Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

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983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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On Sep 7th 1910 when praying in the Piana Romana Jesus amp

Mary appeared to him and gave him the wounds of Christ

Sigmata

Between 1911 to 1916 he was sent home for lsquoillnessrsquo These

illnesses bear a striking resemblance to the abnormal conditions

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Padre Pio also served in

World War I in the medical sector

On Aug 5th to 7th 1918 Christ appeared and pierced his side

This is taken by theologians as the piercing of his heart

indicating the union of love with God

On Sep 20th 1918 Wounded Christ manifested When the

ecstasy ended Padre Pio received the visible Stigmata the five

wounds of Christ which would stay with him for the remaining

50 yrs

In early 1919 news of the visible Stigmata spread to the whole

world Theologians hold correctly that lsquoPadre Piorsquos spiritual

gifts of Stigmata Perfume Prophecy amp Bi-location was a sign

of God in their midst to lead the people back to their faithrsquo

Throughout his life Padre Pio slept only for 2 hrs each night and

ate very little San Giovanni Rotondo [Friary] began to be filled

with pilgrims

Between 1924 amp rsquo31 various statements were made by the Holy

See that denied the supernatural character of Padre Piorsquos

phenomenon Pope Pius XI reversed the negative verdict of the

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983091983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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983091983092 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

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983091983093 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983091983094 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3843

983091983096 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943

983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243

983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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983091983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Holy See In 1939 when Pope Pius the XII was elected Pope

he began to encourage people to visit Padre Pio

Between 1940 amp 1956 Padre Pio built a magnificent Church amp

Hospital for healing the sick amp the distressed It was a glorious

success

On Sep 26th 1968 a large gathering of followers numbering

hundred thousand [One lakh] congregated at San Giovanni

Rotondo to bid a very tearful farewell to their beloved Patron

Saint Padre Pio

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Chart amp SA Light Leo Asdt with a strong Ve as the IIIH lord

giving authorship communication courage vitality and

profound interest placed strongly in the IVH and blessed by Ju

exactly from the VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening

Ke the planet of renunciation is also strong as in the case of

Shirdi Sai Baba Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Sri

Aurobindo In addition as in the case of Shirdi Sai Baba [Virgo

Asdt] the XIIH lord conjuncts the Asdt MEP In Yoganandarsquos

case it was the Mo as the XIIH lord and in Shirdi Babarsquos case

it was the Su as the XIIH lord This gave renunciation in both

cases His Divine Grace giving planets namely Ju ruling the

VH and Ma ruling the IXH sacrificed their strengths to make

his occult VIIIH of Yoga and Kundalini Awakening stronger

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His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983091983093 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983091983094 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3743

983091983095 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3843

983091983096 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943

983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4043

983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143

983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243

983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4343

983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3443

983091983092 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

His teaching to the world was Kriyayoga which the spiritual

planet Ju from the VIIIH of Kriyayoga transmitted to the strong

Ve in the IVH through its ninth aspect As Ve gives authorshipit becomes the powerful vehicle of Kriyayoga It is maintained

as an occult teaching taught only to those who are serious and

initiated This is in keeping with the mysterious and secretive

nature of the occult VIIIH

Life Data lsquoMukundarsquo was born into a devout Bengali family in

Gorakhpur According to his younger brother Sananda he wasspiritually precocious and was in search of various Sages and

Saints from a young age At the age of 17 he met Swami Sri

Yukteshwar Giri who was to be his Spiritual Master

[Guru]This was a very momentous meeting described by

Yogananda in his classic work lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo

Disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri [of the Yogoda SatsangSociety in Ranchi]The previous Guru was Swami Sri Lahiri

Mahasaya and his Guru was Swami Sri Mahaavatar Babaji

He completed his graduation at a college in Calcutta In 1915

took the vow of Sannyas and was named lsquoSwami Yogananda

Girirsquo In 1917 he founded a school for boys where modern

education was imparted side by side with Yoga and spiritualway of life Later this school was shifted to Ranchi and became

the Indian Chapter of the Yogoda Satsang Society which was

founded by Yogananda in the US

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3543

983091983093 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3643

983091983094 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3743

983091983095 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983091983096 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943

983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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In 1920 he moved to the US initially as an Indian delegate to

the Intl Congress of Religious liberals in Boston He travelled

widely on the East Coast of this country and lived theresometimes for many years at a stretch sometimes for shorter

periods till 1952 He was the first of the great Hindu

Yogacharyas who settled in the US on a permanent basis In

1920 he founded the lsquoSelf-Realization Fellowshiprsquo for

organizing and disseminating the philosophy of Yoga and

meditation In 1924 he established the world headquarters at

Los Angeles

In 1935-1936 he visited India and made it a point to have

Satsang with Mahatma Gandhi Anandamayi Ma Sri Ramana

Maharshi Sir C V Raman Rabindranath Tagore and many

other prominent leaders In 1936 his Master passed away in

Puri but before the Master passed away he gave his disciple the

highest spiritual title of Paramahansa [Supreme Soul the Soul is

likened to the Swan [Hansa or Hamsa]]

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote several books the most well-

known being lsquoThe Autobiography of a Yogirsquo and Gita Bhasya-

meaning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita The Autobiography

of a Yogi has remained as a modern spiritual classic [strong

IIIH]

He passed away on March 7th 1952[when he was 59] at the end

of a dinner party as he was coming to the end of his address

But amazingly his dead body defied all known laws of

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putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983091983095 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3843

983091983096 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943

983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4043

983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143

983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243

983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4343

983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3643

983091983094 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

putrefaction as it remained without putrefaction for 20 days

after his demise without showing the slightest signs of

putrefaction

ldquoYogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of

truth as opposed to blind belief He said that ldquoThe true basis of

religion is not belief but intuitive experience Intuition is the

soulrsquos power of knowing God To know what religion is really

all about one must know Godrdquo

ldquoEchoing traditional Hindu teachings he taught that the entireuniverse is Gods cosmic motion picture and that individuals are

merely actors in the divine play who change roles through

reincarnation He taught that mankinds deep suffering is rooted

in identifying too closely with ones current role rather than

with the movies director or God

ldquoHe taught Kriyayoga and other meditation practices to help

people achieve that understanding which he called Self-Realization

ldquoSelf-realization is the knowing in all parts of body mind and

soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that

you do not have to pray that it come to you that Godrsquos

omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to

do is improve your knowingrdquo

He passed on to his disciples the techniques of Kriyayoga

which aim at the flowering of intelligence and the awakening of

Kundalini-leading to Self-Realization

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3743

983091983095 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3843

983091983096 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943

983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4043

983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143

983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243

983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

Chart and SA Light Had a Capricorn Asdt chart with many

strong planets He had a strong benefic Me as lord of the IXH

of God placed strongly in its own MTH It also impacted

closely on the MEP of the IIIH thus making him very

courageous successful with Divine Grace for followers and

giving him authorship over a number of excellent works in the

spiritual field He had a strong Ma placed in the VH of Ishtha

Devata as the lord of the IVH of Atma or contentment alongwith an exalted Mo which was 60 in old age This made him a

devotee of God lord Krishna in particular Gave him very high

discriminative intelligence and gains as well Not to speak of

Leonine courage and a golden heart [IVH]He had a strong

VIIIH and a strong Su which boosted his courage further and

made it possible for him to harness the collective spiritual ethos

of the human race His status lord Sa was excellently placed in

the XH with its dispositor Ve placed in the IXH in its deb sign

Ju alone was badly placed in the VIIIH of obstructions and

weakened further because of the Ra-Ke affliction to it His

spiritual work was done in the last 23 yrs of his life [54-77]

Life Data Sri Prabhupada was one of the great Hindu teachers

of the last century who succeeded in bringing the fruits of

Hindu Dharma to Hindus and non-Hindus alike [worldwide]

but especially in the United States He belonged to the Hindu

spiritual tradition called Sri Gaudiya Vaishnavism He is known

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for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

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Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983091983096 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

for being the Founder-Acharya of one of the largest Hindu

Spiritual Movements in the last century namely that of

ISKCON [International Society of Krishna Consciousness]

Life began for him in quite a usual way-he married had

children and even ran a small pharmaceutical business till his

54th year In 1950 at the age of 54 he took a deliberate step that

is intermediate between a House-holderrsquos life and a

Renunciantrsquos-this is recognized to be the third stage in a manrsquos

life called Vanaprasthashrama Though this step is not fullrenunciation it does pave the way for exiting mundane

entanglements in the next final and fourth phase called

Sannyasashrama

In 1959 at the age of 63 he took Sannyas and started writing

commentaries on the Vaishnava scriptures

In 1966 when he was 70 he founded the ISKCON movement

He lived for another productive seven yrs Six yrs after the

founding of ISKCON his magnificent work-a commentary on

the Bhagavad Gita- called lsquoThe Bhagavad Gita-As It Isrsquo was

published In Its first printing 10000 copies rolled out Between

the 2nd printing and the 32nd printing another astonishing figure

6 10 000 [six lakhs and ten thousands] copies were producedand in the 33rd printing another 60000 copies were produced

This classical Hindu scripture was also translated into 19

languages some Indian and some European

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

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983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143

983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243

983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4343

983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 3943

983091983097 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Many great thinkers in the Religious field like the Roman

Catholic Mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] have shown the

highest regard for Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupadarsquos work onthe Bhagavad Gita During the last ten yrs of his life he faced

many challenges from his critics-to the effect that the ISKCON

was a cult which was attracting the American youth but he

weathered all such storms with a lionrsquos heart and succeeded in

leaving for posterity a Monumental Spiritual Legacy even

though in one sense it was rather narrowly circumscribed

around a single and unique personal God namely Lord Krishna

Mikhail Gorbachev [1931- ]

Chart amp SA Light Here again we have an intellectual Gemini

Asdt with a strong Ju placed in the Asdt H and aspecting the

two Dharma Hs namely the VH and the IXH Ju bestowed upon

him both love of learning and association with institutions ofhigher learning He studied Law at Moscow University It also

gave him connections with distant lands and a good relationship

with his wife The Su which is a very important planet for the

Gemini Asdt is well-placed in the IXH of higher learning and

Godrsquos justice and likewise Me is also placed there But the

curious thing is that as in the case of Sri Paramahansa

Yogananda the IIIH lord is exactly blessed by Ju the foremost

planet of Divine Grace and this held the key to his Monumental

achievement The blessing in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev

was much more powerful than that in the corresponding case of

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4043

983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143

983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243

983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4343

983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4043

983092983088 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda as Yoganandarsquos Ju was weakly

placed in the VIIIH

He was eloquent in communication he did in his capacity as the

head of the USSR what was Dharmic[Ju-aspects the Su in the

IXH] and good for the land authored good works had

Monumental Courage for bringing down the Communist

ideology and state Sa which is another Sun-like lord for the

Gemini Asdt was also aspecting the strong Asdt albeit with a

weakness of 50 but only due to old age This fortifies theAsdt further and makes Mikhail Gorbachev virtuous and

ethical and without this ethical disposition he would have had

less Divine Grace to terminate the repressive Communist

Ideology and Regime

The IIH is another Sun-like H and here the IIH lord the Mo is

strong in its own MTH This gave him high academic accoladesand made his rise to political power in a fast-paced way The

strong Mo also facilitated communication with the masses

Jursquos blessing to the Su the placement of the Su and Me in the

IXH the strong Mo the aspect of Sa to the Asdt the placement

of the strong Ju in the Asdt all these factors combined together

to give him a very high nobility of soul for accomplishing hisMonumental Mission

Life Data The winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize[strong

IIH] will go down in history as that lion-hearted statesman amp

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143

983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4243

983092983090 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4343

983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

8102019 Extraordinary Human Beings

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullextraordinary-human-beings 4143

983092983089 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

head of the USSR who courageously dismantled the evil empire

of Communism and thereby liberated millions of Soviet people

from the suffocation of the Communist rule-because they wereliving under that rule like frightened sheep Those who are

familiar with politics within USSR will immediately recognize

Gorbachevrsquos achievement to be one of the great political

revolutions of our times-a near impossibility in fact

In his childhood he had seen hard times and saw his grandfather

imprisoned for 9 long yrs for some small violation of rules inthe context of community farming and collective granaries This

was the highly repressive brute force regime of Joseph Stalin

During the World War II years [1942-1944] he had known what

it was like to have German troops stationed in his native village

Though he had a very good idea of collective farming and

agriculture he was also very outstanding as a university studentand had an excellent academic record [Note his intellectual

Gemini Asdt with a strong Ju in the Asdt] He went to the

university [1953] as a law student and was always interested in

Politics There he met his future wife and they married in 1957

A girl child was born in Jan 1957

He had a fairly easy and fast ascent in Politics Notice the exactaspect of the strong benefic Ju on to the Su as the IIIH lord of

courage and success In 1980 he became a member of the Polit

Buro Thereafter he rose to the position of the General Secretary

of the Communist party [1986-1991]In 1988 he introduced the

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

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revolutionary policy of Glasnost [being transparent and open]

which gave greater freedom of initiative thought and

expression Thus towards the end of the 1980rsquos he brought inmore restructuring[Perestroika] and Glasnost [Openness]In this

way the already economically-crumbling the 70-year old

Communist ideology was given the final blow and dismantled

as he was the head of the USSR between 1988 and 1991

He introduced greater liberalization of the economy Made God

respectable in Soviet lands once again Church bells began toring louder and family culture began to flourish after having

been denied these simple joys of the soul for 70 yrs The East-

European countries also became free from Soviet domination

He decentralized power and built up better international

relationships

It was the destiny of Gorbachev to have initiated this courageouspolitical revolution In this way he has created one of the biggest

political legacies in history-social cultural and political freedom

for millions of Soviets

Acknowledgements I have had to rely on the Internet sources

[too numerous] for gathering all the relevant Life Data This is

an acknowledgement I am making In some cases the wordsmay be verbatim and in other cases I may have rephrased them

in my own language

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983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense

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983092983091 983164 983120 983137 983143 983141

With this Introduction the PPP is likely to make much better

sense