Let us start with a Guru mantra. You can see my screen. Om Gurave Namah (12 times).
So basically you will observe there is a beautiful topic today. We are talking of Agni and particularly form of Agni that is called Dakṣināgni, one responsible for creating us. Our soul has come down through light and light is called Agni in Jyotish not just heat, not just fire. See-when you say fire there is heat and there is light.
So, two things are definitely known to man: there is heat and there is light. And from that light, we have form. Because of light, we can see forms, we can see things. And from that ability to see things is connected the ability to know. The third thing which we normally do not attribute to Agni is knowledge. And that is the hidden part of Agni. And in this PJC of America, we will be going through the various parts of the Pañcāṅga. And step by step, we will be going through everything in some detail.
So, the first thing is that fire, or energy, is the lord of Bhū loka and is symbolized by Maṅgala. Maṅgala is the controlling Graha for Agni Tattva, not its source.
There are two things to understand here. When we say Kāraka, we are speaking about the one who controls. The word Kāraka comes from the Sanskrit word kara, which means “hand.” He is the hand of God, but he is not God.
Therefore, Maṅgala is the Kāraka, the controller, or the hand of God as far as Agni Tattva is concerned. But then, who is the source? The source represents God. The source of Agni Tattva is Sūrya.
As far as we are concerned, we know that all light and heat come from Sūrya. No life is possible on Earth without Sūrya. Therefore, Sūrya must be the representative of God. These two factors are very clear as far as Agni is concerned.
Now as far as Mars, the controller is concerned he is sitting in Agni and is controlling the fire controlling the light. That is his mulatrikona that is his office. He functions from there he doesn’t sleep over there. He functions from there. He sleeps in Scorpio which is his svakshetra. He favors manuśya to lord earth on his behalf. We must realize that we are able to lord over earth because we have the maximum benefit of Agni. No other creature in this planet has as much access to Agni as manuśya or the human beings do.
The arrangement or disposition of the three sacred fires. Now you see the three sacred fires called Dakṣināgni are in Aries. Then we have Gārhapatya Agni which is in Leo and we have Āhavanīya Agni which is in Sagittarius. But in your horoscope in your chat this Dakṣināgni is in your 1st house, Gārhapatya is in your 5th house and Āhavanīya is in your 9th house. So these three form the famous triangle of Agni. You see that triangle? Put that in your mind. That triangle is pointed upwards and the tendency of fire is always burn upwards.
So the Agni triangle has three koṇa, three heads. Each koṇa, each pointed part of the triangle is called head so there are three heads of Agni and Agni is always represented as having 3 heads and three legs. So this is one leg which goes from Aries to Leo, the other leg is from Leo to Sagittarius and the third leg is from Sagittarius to Aries. So any movement along this is called the jump of the lion. It is called simha avalokana. So if you are travelling from Aries to Leo it is called the jump of the lion – simha avalokana. He is the sva, the self. How do you know yourself? You stand in front of the mirror? Of course there should be light in the room. Because of the light you can see yourself in the mirror. And the first cognition of yourself your body, your face, your features is your external features. So the self is first identified as the Lagna. And then you have a name. Your name is also sva, your identity. So sva simply means your identity, yourself and we have multiple things to identify us from each other, to identify our abilities. All that is sva- the self and Dakṣināgni is one that is manifesting. And this Dakṣināgni actually manifests through the weekday Lord in which we are born. So we are now going to see how this Dakṣināgni which is in the 1st house is going to manifest through the Lagna through the Vāreśa through the weekday lord.
Now Agni as a Devata is set to have two shakties because you will observe this diagram next to us: there is a time from 6 am roughly the Sun is rising and 8am, 10 am it’s all sunlight till sunset at 6 pm and then there is the night. So we have a day half- the Sun is ruling the day half. And when the Sun is shining none of the stars are visible. Nothing is visible out here. And in the night it is the Moon that is ruling the half.
And over here, you can see the stars, the Nakṣatra Maṇḍala, and the other Grahas moving through it. Someone is going toward a particular Nakṣatra, while someone else is coming from another Nakṣatra. You can see all of this in the night sky.
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But during the day, there is absolutely nothing else visible; there is only one Sūrya. So we say that, during the daytime, Agni is sva. The Agni that I am speaking about right now is sva, or the Self. Okay?
It is joined with “hā.” When you say “hā,” you breathe out. It is like giving something away, renouncing it, or sacrificing it. So you are giving away the Agni. You are sacrificing your Agni, and you are doing so for the welfare of the world. That is what Sūrya, the Sun God, is doing, is it not? He is constantly giving away his energy. During the daytime, you can see Sūrya giving away his energy completely.
So think about the daytime. This Agni is joined with “hā,” because sva is joined with hā. Sva is the Self, and Sūrya is the Self. When sva is joined with hā, it becomes svāhā. Correct?
So did you see the derivation of the first mantra of Agni? The first mantra of Agni is svāhā. And this sound svāhā means I am sacrificing some energy for the greater good, for doing something good, for doing some karma. Just like Sūrya I am going to go ahead and do some work. Right now I am doing svāhā because I am the one who is talking? I am the one who is sacrificing the energy. Ok? And this whole half is AHO day time- AHO, see from “hā” – “aho”. It’s an exclamation AHO, so you have sacrificed. So when the day is over we say “aho”. He has sacrificed, sacrificed his energy, like Sūrya. And that’s dakṣina. He is called Dakṣināgni because of that during the day time –weather it is morning 6 o’clock, 7, 10, midday, afternoon, the whole focus was on midday. The whole focus was on midday. The whole concept of time in our head is about am and pm: ante meridiem, post meridiem. This am and pm has really got into the head of human beings and all other creatures. They become aware that: “Oh. It’s morning time; I have energy, have time to do things”. But the moment it’s pm you realize: not much time is left, the day is going to finish very soon. So the whole focus was on the 10th house which is the midday Sun. So, the midday Sun symbolizes the meridian, the sky, the Sun in the 10th house, the Sun right on top of our heads in the sky, that’s called the 10th house, and that is called ” dakṣina” because the 10th house is called “dakṣina”, the South. Agni is in the South because Agni is our focus. Agni is the focus of not just our eyes, it is the focus of our mind, it is the focus of our entire consciousness, our whole being gets focus because of Agni. I want you to appreciate the importance of this Agni. That if you are in the day time it’s in the South- Dakṣināgni.
But what’s about the night? In the night it is different. “Dhā” the whole focus is about conserving because the Sun has gone to sleep. The Sun is no longer visible at the sky at night. The Sun has gone under the Horizon. We say he’s gone to conserve his energy, he’s gone to rest, he’s saving energy, he’s gone to set himself up again, reset himself, reboot himself to bestow new energies to himself, to fix whatever losses he’s made or whatever errors that were made to restore himself.
So, the night is all about restoration. So in the day the energy is going out, in the night the energy is coming back it is restoring.But the in the night: let us say the sun has set at 6:00 p.m.. So, whether it is 6 p.m, 7 p.m, 10 p.m, midnight, 2: a.m. there is only one focus: what time is the Sun going to rise. See the focus in the day time was the midday Sun whereas the focus in the night time is the sunrise. And the sunrise is nothing but sva and to “Sva” I add “dhā”, the restoration power to Sva, so Sva is getting restored. Sva or the self is getting restored. Svādhā, so that is the Shakti of Agni at night. In the daytime the shakti is svāhā, in the night time the Shakti is svādhā. So that is the second Mantra .These two shakties are very beautiful shakties.
They say that Svāhā is like Gaurī, the wife of Śiva, whereas Svadhā is like Lakṣmī, the wife of Viṣṇu. So these are the wives. If Svāhā is like Gaurī, the wife, and we say that the energies of husband and wife must be opposite, then this is basic Jyotiṣa. Most of you know the basic principle that husband and wife must have opposite polarities.
So, if Gaurī represents the daytime energy of Svāhā, then Śiva must represent the nighttime. Śiva must be associated with the night and with Candra. And if Svadhā, or Lakṣmī, is associated with the nighttime energy, then Viṣṇu must be associated with the daytime energy. So, I have beautifully derived for you the very foundation of Hinduism and Vedic learning. The principal deities of this two -fold system arise from these two streams of day and night.
So, the day is represented by Viṣṇu and Gaurī because of Svāhā, while the night is represented by Śiva and Lakṣmī because of Svadhā. Thus, Lakṣmī is like a sister of Śiva, and Gaurī, or Pārvatī, is like a sister of Viṣṇu. Did you understand that? It is very interesting.
When Pārvatī, or Gaurī, was getting married, Viṣṇu acted as the brother-in-law of Śiva. He received Śiva and performed all the necessary rites. Whenever Lakṣmī is in trouble, she rushes to Śiva for help. So, you can see the connection of Śrī, that is, Lakṣmī, with Śiva, and Hrī, that is, Gaurī, with Viṣṇu. The two principal sounds, or bījas, also arise from this.
The Viṣṇu side is Svāhā, and it is like Gaurī. Therefore, Hrīṃ. Svadhā is like Lakṣmī. Therefore, Śrīṃ. So, Hrīṃ and Śrīṃ: Hrīṃ during the day and Śrīṃ at night. Hrīṃ during the day and Śrīṃ at night. Did you understand?
These are two sounds, two bījas, and all of this arises from sva, the Self. Even the breath is called śvāsa. It comes from sva: the word for breath is śvāsa, to take a breath.
The night is called rātri. Now, I break this word into two parts. Rā is Agni; we know that rā is Agni. In mystical Jyotiṣa and in Kuṇḍalinī Śāstra, Rāṃ is the Agni-bīja. Rā is manifested Agni. Ā indicates manifestation because of Vāsudeva. Thus, Agni, which is Rāṃ, is joined with Vāsudeva, and Agni becomes manifest.
And TRA, the sound TRA is “to protect” like” mantra”, like you have the sound “Mantra”. What is the meaning of the sound Mantra? Mantra is from “Mana” that is mind, TRA – “to protect”, so, protection of the mind. Okay, it’s a simple breakup of the sound. There is of course a whole schloka to that about “manas trayate” but I am not going into that. I just want to do a simple straight breakup “rā” is Agni “tra’’- is protect. So, in “rātra” means protect Agni, protect the energy, go to sleep, restore yourself: that is what rātra energy is about. And from here we took the last part of “aho”, so “ho” is over here. “A” starts over here at 6 a.m. and “ho” finishes at 6 p.m. So, we took “ho” and from rātra “rā” starts at 6 p.m., ”tra” finishes at 6 a.m.
So, we took “ho” over here at 6 p.m. and “rā” around 6 p.m. to get Hora Shastra. So, what is Hora Shastra? It is the science of Agni, it is the science of energy and it is not just science as a physical science it is a metaphysical science. It is of Agni and Agni is not just light. So, I cannot just call it science of light, it is also science of heat and there is something more to Agni that I talked about – sound so it is a science of sound also.
There is a soul that is transported by Agni. My soul has come from Śiva or from Oṃkāra through the light process. Because my soul, all the books say that, — that the soul or the Ātman is a spark of light. So, there is… it is also the science of the Soul. So, therefore, Horā Śāstra is the science of Agni. The word Agni covers everything. I hope you appreciated this two-fold division and you are very clear that Gaurī is on Śukla Pakṣa with Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī is in Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa with Svadhā, with Śiva, or Rudra Pakṣa, to be more precise, technically more right.
Now we are going to study the relationship between Agni and Vāyu. Okay. Wherever Agni is the wind blows from the opposite direction. If it’s a simple physics, simple physics – wherever you create heat the air on top of that gets heated and starts rising and from the colder regions around the air has to come rushing. So, if the heat is in Aries at 6 a.m., the coldest region is opposite. So, therefore all the wind must rush from here to here. So, basically in the daytime there is more Agni you can see: it is heating, and heating, and heating, and heating, and heating until maximum heat point is around 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Now, if I were to time the heat around the natural zodiac and say that the Sun is rising at 6 a.m. in Aries every day then the maximum heat will be in Leo and who can stay over there other than the Sun himself. This in the zodiac the hottest burning region is Leo, so, therefore only the Sun can have that as his home because naturally the Sun will live in a place which is hot, not in a place which is cold.
Since Leo is the hottest region in the Zodiac, opposite that- Aquarius must be the coldest region. So, that is why Aquarius is associated with the tall cold mountains, ice clad mountains of the Himalayas and other regions. Now we have derived that the Sun must live in Leo, this must be his home, he has to make his palace over there and because he’s the Sun he will work from his palace. He decides he’s the boss.
The daytime has more Agni and people go to work because of that see they are giving, they are sacrificing energy, right? They are burning their energy, right? And energy is wealth, energy is wealth -don’t forget this equation! All energy is converted to wealth. So, if energy is being sacrificed by the Sun, all of us in the daytime are going out to work, we are working in the daytime, we are working when there is light and that is how wealth is created in the world because of the Sun. So, if for some reason the total solar activity starts dying then we know that the planet Earth has started dying. That at least we are going to lose wealth that financially we will be going down. Those of you who have been following sunspots please make a Google Search and see what is happening in the world from 2019. The total solar activity is going down, very-very drastically from last year. So, it is but natural that the wealth of the world will go down. So, keep it’s very obvious there is a connection between the Sun, the heating, breathing out a “hā”, what we call “hā”, and giving the energy.
So, therefore, the Sun is the giver of all wealth of every kind to every creature. What you value only the Sun can give it to you, nobody else can. None of the Grahas have any capacity whatsoever to give you anything. They only do when the Sun approves it. The boss has to approve. If he doesn’t approve none of the Grahas can actually give anything to you. It is very interesting that in this time the Guru is Bṛhaspati, Jupiter is the Guru. We will come to the derivation of this later but remember that in the daytime the Sun, the Guru is Bṛhaspati and the stars are not visible. So, the rāśi are said to be adṛṣya. So, from the first house as an analogy from the first house to the sixth house, we say, is like daytime. From the seventh house to the, that’s the sunset, to the 12th house is like nighttime.
So, in the daytime it’s heating, in the night time it’s cooling. The fifth house has maximum heat, maximum burning and the Sun lives over there. The stars are not visible so this is adṛṣya. And in invisible half the stars are visible so it is dṛṣya. So, the word dṛṣya– adṛṣya is based upon visibility of the stars, visibility of the sky: whether the sky is visible or not. The real, I mean the sky beyond, because all that we see in the daytime is the reflected light from the water vapors showing us a blue sky, the sky is actually not blue.
Those are water vapors that are reflecting the blue light. So, the in the night time there is more Vāyu, there is more wind. So if there is fire over here there was wind over here. Fire is heating, the wind is cooling. Have you seen, when you burn your fingers you try, you start blowing on that to cool it. The wind is rushing to cool things down, the wind is cooling. Once the wind blows, the place cools down. It carries the heat away, the wind carries the heat away. So, the Moon shines and the Vāyu cools. The Moon is shining and the Vāyu is cooling. So, the more the Moon will shine, the more the Vāyu will cool down. So, Vāyu and the Moon get interlinked.
Agni and the Sun get interlinked. I want you to remember the linkages. The Sun is associated with Agni, heating, fire, and cooling is because of Vāyu, the wind. The cooling is happening because of the wind, it is not some kind of an air conditioner out there in the sky. The wind is blowing and that’s how things are cooling down and that cooling is happening, and that that’s connected to the Moon and the stars. At that point of time what is there in the mind? Love, home is in the mind.
Now see: in the daytime wealth and work is in the mind, in the night time love and home is in the mind. So, the Guru become Śukra, the Guru is Śukra. He’s telling: “Come home”. Whereas here the Guru is Bṛhaspati: “Generate wealth, have more income, go to work, don’t sleep”. See the difference. The Guru Bṛhaspati is very work focused, he is very, it’s very important that you must generate enough wealth for everybody; there should be food and everything that is required available that is Bṛhaspati’s objective. Whereas Śukra’s objective is there should be a lot of love and affection people should live together, they should come home. So, the mind, the consciousness of the night is about home, of the day is about work.
Therefore, in a zodiac every Graha must have a home and an office. This home is called svakṣetra. “Sva”, we started with “Sva”. The whole word was “svakṣetra”, means “home”. Whereas here it is mūlatrikoṇa. Actually, the exact word is “Koṇa”. It is “Koṇa” because it is coming from the first trine that was created by the maximum heat of the Sun. The word “Koṇa” was picked up from the Sun. He was the one, whose palace has to be made first. Unless his Palace is made, nobody else can have a home. So, Koṇa. From Koṇa it became “Trikoṇa” because there are three of them. And then work. So, any planets mūlatrikoṇa is where he’s working from. Whereas svakṣetra is his home, where he relaxing. Mūlatrikoṇa—solar energy, svakṣetra—lunar energy. Mūlatrikoṇa: Guru is Jupiter, svakṣetra: Guru is Śukra. These fundamentals of Horā Śāstra are derived from Agni. And the two most important terms, turning point, these are turning points of energy, turning points of time—sunrise. Agni is exalting. Agni: “Now it’s my time has come”. And Vāyu: “Uf, my time is over. I can’t cool anymore”. See, Vāyu is constantly trying to cool. After the Sun rises Vāyu cannot cool anymore. The heat is increasing. So, who is exalting, who is becoming strong? Agni is becoming strong.
From Sunrise Vāyu is going down, from sunrise. At Sunset Vāyu is exalting: “My time has come. I am now going to show how I will cool the planet, I will chill it.” Agni is struggling, he can’t, the Sun has gone to restore himself. He says: “Hang on. I’m getting charged, my battery is down.”
You see, that’s the difference and that happens every day. Day and night and that happen with human beings, with all creatures. In this manner Agni is actually lording Bhūloka by heating and cooling, heating and cooling, and this goes on and on, and on.
And if I were to say the Sun is the hottest planet, right? If I look at the planets that we use in Jyotish, from the Sun to Saturn, we use planets from Sun to Saturn; these are the seven, right? Sun, then we have Mercury, we have Venus, Earth, actually, Earth is replaced by the Sun because we are using a geocentric model. We have the Moon as a satellite of the Earth, we are concerned with the Moon, we are not concerned with the satellites of the other planets. Then, there is Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, so, there’s seven of them. Among the seven who is the hottest? The Sun is the hottest. So, therefore the Sun will make his home in Leo and he says: “I will also work from here”. Why? Why are you going to work from there? Because that is the hottest region. To balance him- the coldest planet, who is the coldest planet? The coldest planet is Saturn. Saturn has to work from the opposite sign, from Aquarius. So, therefore, Saturn has to make his office, his mūlatrikoṇa. in Aquarius.
Did you see the derivation of the mūlatrikoṇa. of the Sun and Saturn based upon Agni and Vāyu? So, therefore, Saturn must rule Vāyu tattva also because he is the coldest one, he is the coolest one, he understands, he controls, he must symbolize. Ahh.. So, that’s how the mūlatrikoṇas were derived. So, what is sunrise? Sunrise is like an exaltation of the Sūrya. And what is sunset? It is debility of Sūrya. What is sunset? Exaltation of Saturn. He feels: “Wow, my time has come!” And what is sunrise? “From now I am entering defeat, I’m just going to struggle and struggle, and struggle, and I can’t cool the planet anymore”. You see?
So, exaltations and debilitations are turning points and these turning points give us the opportunity to turn our own life around. You have a certain kind of lifestyle, you want to turn it around. The best option that you have is to link your spiritual practices with the sunrise and the sunset because these are the turning points. When… Because then you are using the natural energy of the whole system. By using this natural energy you are using the turning points and you can turn your life around. .
So, what you do at sunrise and sunset becomes a controller for the day and the night. What you do at Sunrise controls the day, what you do at sunset controls the night. And the Śiva Mahā Purāṇa tells a very fantastic thing: if you worship at Sunrise, exactly at Sunrise, you will have a lot of money; you will be an extremely wealthy person. If you worship exactly at Sunset you will have 100 years of longevity, like Brahma, because here Vāyu will support you. You are able to catch the Vāyu at his exaltation point. Here you are able to catch the Agni at the exaltation point. All you’ve got to do is to catch it at sunrise and sunset. Ah, what a secret! Now we understand why they say that these are called the sandhya. That is why the sandhya is so important, it is so critical that you must wake up before Sunrise and get ready for catching the sandhya. You will have your wealth, whatever wealth you want. Whatever you want. What is wealth? Wealth is what you value. If I don’t value a Rolex you give me a Rolex I am going to try to chew it like a chocolate. It won’t work. I’ll throw it away. The point is if I value a chocolate then the Sun God will give me a chocolate. If I value knowledge, he will give me knowledge. Wealth is what you value and here you get longevity, long life, beautiful long breath, very cool, very healthy. Your diseases start going away if you pray at Sunset.
Do you know what I tell cancer patients? No, your morning walk is the not important. Go for a walk at 4 p.m. to 5p.m. At 5p.m. go out of the house go for a walk and as you walk keep doing your Mṛtyunjaya Mantra. Keep doing your Mṛtyunjaya Mantra as you walk. So, what happens is they are going out, they are walking, they are with the plants, they are breathing. That breath, they’re enjoying the Vāyu. When you walk it is Vāyu. Walking is Vāyu, activation. We are walking because of Vāyu, every movement is happening because of Vāyu. When you sit at a place Agni is activated. Look at the Sun: his home and palace are in the same place. He doesn’t like to walk; he just sits in his house and gives orders. Whereas Vāyu rushes from here to there. That is the wind. So, go for a walk and do the Mṛtyunjaya Mantra to cancer patients. That’s how I fight cancer. Because I know I have to catch the exaltation of Saturn. If I do that they’ll get longevity. It is very important.
So, the Sun rises, exalts. It rises, exaltation is rising, that’s why I always put an arrow up. You observe: the Sun with the arrow up. I always put that there to remind myself: it is rising now.
Animals in the tattva.
Many of you know this. That look: God created plants and animals. Okay, all the Atma, the Graha, the living, the living Kingdom, the life on planet Earth is distributed as plants and animals. The plants are generally said to be fixed and the animals are said to be mobile. They can move around. Birds can fly, cows can walk, fishes can swim and men can do all that. So, basically this box zodiac, gives a better idea of directions.
You see, Bhū loka, if you read about Bhū loka, Bhū loka maps into your Mūlādhāra chakra and there that Mūlādhāra has got four petals. And these four petals are perfectly aligned to the cardinal directions. So, you were thinking that the GPS in your, in your system. You know your system has a built-in GPS. This built-in GPS, you thought was on top of your head. No, it’s at the bottom of your spine. You see, your GPS is at the bottom of your spine. All creatures have this GPS. This tells us the cardinal directions.
Ok, now the East is where the Agni is and East in this is actually Aries and Taurus. These two are in the East. Aries and Taurus are in the East. So, life, when it comes to Bhū loka, if it travels to the East, then it is in Aries or in Taurus. If the life goes over here, it’s in Cancer, to the North; it’s in Cancer or in Leo. In the West it is in Libra or in Scorpio and in the South in Capricorn or Aquarius.
Ok, now the tattva. You see Agni is in the East, Jala is in the North, in the sky, okay. I don’t know why it is in the sky. Is the sky blue in color because of water vapor? Interesting, okay. And we have the wind in the West that is undisputed because it has to balance the Agni and then the only thing left is Prithvi. So, we put it on the remaining direction which is South, then we put all the animals, all the terrestrial animals came on Prithvi, so, basically, Capricorn and Aquarius are showing all terrestrial. But the animals are movable, mobile so they can’t go to Aquarius, they must be connected to Capricorn. Very interesting. There is a Capricorn connection to all animals who are terrestrial. There is a Cancer connection to all fishes, aquatic creatures there is a Libra connection to all birds. And human beings are different from all three of them. We have Agni, we have Prithvi, we have Jala we have, Vāyu. All right, but our dominant, our dominance is of Agni. We have very powerful brain. And that is our processing power. Our brain, our Agni is supreme. So, with the maximum of Agni God created human beings. Okay? So, keep that in mind that human beings, for us Agni is very-very important, for fishes Jala is important, for birds the wind is important and for this terrestrial creatures the Earth is very important.
The plant kingdom is fixed .It is Sthira. So, because plants don’t walk around, right? They are fixed, they are fixed and these plants are all over. So, I’m not going into what type of plants there. But you observe that these are the four cardinal directions and the living creatures can only come into the cardinal directions, not the dual signs. The Dual signs are left out over here they are called the Koṇas. So, basically, these are the Kendra and these are the Koṇas of the muladhara.
Protection for all creatures is coming from the ninth house. So, men is protected by the bow by Sagittarius. So, Sagittarius is the protection of man and Aries is controlling the development of men. Men as a creature has come a long way from the Stone Age to the Computer age today. And all this rapid development we are having is all because of Aries. You just have to look at Aries. See what planets are coming, what planets are going, what planets are transiting and you will know what is happening in the world of men.
You have to look at Sagittarius, see what planets are coming, what planets are going and to check whether the heavens are protecting mankind or not. So, we have protection from nature when Sagittarius is well occupied, well placed. We have, we are growing,we are living well if Aries is well.
For example, when did World War II start? World War II started when Saturn and Ketu were transiting over Aries. Now when Saturn and Ketu transit together these two planets don’t get along at all. So, a battle is going to start and man is going to kill man and that’s what happened. Now, some time back last year Saturn and Ketu were transiting over Sagittarius. So, what will happen? The protection of man will go. Our protection is gone. Nature is no longer willing to protect us. So, something got triggered and our protection is gone we are all hiding inside our houses and waiting for better days to come when nature will afford protection to us. So, you see this is very important to understand the nature. Unless we understand nature, how are you going to study transits? Okay.
So, Agni is three-headed, okay? We talked about the three heads. They are the first, fifth and the ninth houses of the natural zodiac. And in horoscope Lagna, pañcama and navama that’s where the Agni is.
Lagna, or the first house, is said to be Bhū loka. Natural Aries, Bhū loka. The name of the Agni over there is Pavamāna or terrestrial. Why it’s on Earth? Terrestrial is on Earth and that’s called Dakṣināgni because we have seen that that Agni is actually in the midday Sun. The consciousness is in the midday. So, we call it Dakṣināgni but the energy over here is of the mother, matri, mother. So, it is called pavamāna or the terrestrial Agni.
The other Agni in the fifth house is called Suchi and it is in ARKA. ARKA is another name for the Sun. Suchi is in ARKA and this ARKA, the fifth house, Sun is normally called ARKA. And that is the celestial Sun Gārhapatya. It’s with the pitri.
And Pāvaka, atmospheric lightning, that is Āhavanīya Agni that is with the Guru. So, you observe: first house the Agni is focused on mother. In the fifth house he is focused on the father and in the ninth house he’s focused on the Guru.
We say in the first house the Agni is focused on mother. And the symbol of the mother is the Moon. In the fifth house he focused on pitri, fathers, forefathers- that is the Sun. And in the Svarga Loka he is with the Guru. He’s called Āhavanīya Agni and he is with the stars.
So, this same Agni or light, light, heat is with the Moon at sunrise. Because all the time he was with Mama, he was with the Moon. At the moment of sunrise only he assumes that he has gone off to the Sun. But the Moon has not fully left him, the cooling has not fully left him. It’s only in the fifth house that it is maximum heat. This is the Suchi. These were represented by three forms: Dakṣināgni, Gārhapatya in the fifth house and Āhavanīya in the ninth house.
Now, this is Manusmriti. Pitri, father or progenitor is Gārhapatya Agni. Matri, Mother is Dakṣināgni and Guru is Āhavanīya Agni. This triad of fires is most venerable.
So, the Lagna should be treated as a blessing of the mother. The fifth, knowledge, is the blessing or wealth, shall I say Sun, more wealth, is a blessing of the father. And ninth, knowledge, is the blessing of the Guru? These are the three blessings of Agni. That’s why they are venerable, that’s why they must be respected and prayed to. You have good health because of Dakṣināgni, you have good wealth because of Gārhapatya Agni you have good knowledge because of Āhavanīya, because of the Guru.
He, who neglects not these three, that means, you should not neglect these three, he who does not neglect three of them will conquer the three worlds: Bhū Loka, Bhūva Loka and Svarga Loka. You will conquer all these three Lokas. You will conquer; you will actually be a successful person. Your life will be meaningful. But for that the whole focus must be very clear. I have to conquer the three Agnies because I have been given a human body. You are not a bird, you are not a cow, you are not an alligator, you are not a fish. Your focus is not on the other tattvas, your focus is absolutely on Agni because you are a human being. One, five and nine are your topmost priorities and from one you will get health by the grace of the mother, you will, she is very concerned about your health. It’s the father who’s more concerned about what you are doing, what’s my son’s going to do, is he studying something or is going to be a loafer. This is the father, it is the Pitris. They want you to have wealth. If your father is wealthy you will be wealthy. He’ll give you a portion of the wealth, hopefully.
And same way’s with the Guru. The Guru gives knowledge, he gives the spiritual path, he teaches you how you have to walk that path. With what values, with what strength you have to walk that path. Without the Guru you cannot walk this spiritual path. The Āhavanīya path is … it does not open without a Guru.
So, we are very clear without a mother there is no health, without the father there is no wealth and without Guru there is no knowledge, there is no spirituality. “And radiant in body like a god he will enjoy bliss in heaven”- because you will conquer, you will conquer bhū, you’ll cross bhū. Then you’ll cross bhūva and then you’ll go to Svarga. And who knows, you will cross this if you’re strong enough. You’ll cross this and go to higher levels but that can only happen with Agni going up. It is only possible with Agni because Agni is only tattva which goes up. None of the other tattvas go up.
Three headed Agni. For this world The Gārhapatya fire is piled up. Now, this world that means this world where we are, this sansara where you and I are living and we are doing job, jobs and we are doing something and getting some money, so, that we can live our lives. This whole Gārhapatya fire is centered around the fifth, around Leo, natural Leo, the palace of the king, the home of the king, the Sun. The whole world, Sansara, is focused on him. All the wealth. This Agni, when this Agni will really jump and burn very- very- very-very high, when this heats up the body, then this world you will enjoy like anything. You will get a lot of wealth; you will have a lot of status- see fifth house -power position, authority. From where does it come? It comes from the fifth house, status, fifth house: how can you have wealth if you have no status. Wealth comes with status. Or one comes first, the other comes later. It’s all together that’s Gārhapatya Agni. So, three sounds are there. Remember the three sounds: DA, GA, Ā. The “DA” for Dakṣināgni, first house, “GA” for fifth house Gārhapatya, and Ninth house “Ā”. So, Āhavanīya fire begets riches. In this world Sūrya gives wealth in Bhū loka.. You see, a lot of wealth will come in this world. You will be wealthy.
Āhavanīya is different he begets riches in the other world. That wealth which Bṛhaspati who is the natural Lord of the ninth house, Sagittarius, he gives wealth in Svarga Loka, apoklimas. It is after life that you will actually enjoy that. Even a dollar of that money you cannot enjoy in this life. That is why very -very -very spiritual people die like beggars. Why do they die like beggars? Because in reality they have ignored the Gārhapatya completely and shifted the entire focus to Āhavanīya. When you shift the whole focus to Āhavanīya this all the energy, all the Agni… You have X amount of Agni, X amount of energy. If you put all the energy in the ninth house then you are going to get riches after death. That is what Manusmriti clearly spells out.
But for this world you want to have lot of reserves. For this world. Then focus on the fifth house with reverence, prayers, pujas, mantra. Fifth house is mantra to Gārhapatya, he rests on this world. That means, in this world in bhū loka, you will rest. That means you will die and you will come back again. You will die and you will come back again. You will die and you will come back again. You will rest in this world and makes amends to life here. You, every time you come back, you make the life better, you make it even better, and better, and better, and better. Until maybe one day what? Become the president, prime minister or God knows, the richest guy in the world. You will keep resting on Gārhapatya, the fifth house. So, this is the Earth wealth. Whereas with reference to Āhavanīya, the life path is reversed from Sva. If you see I am here, my head, my brain is in “Da”. My brain, my intelligence is in “Da”. That is the Upadesha, that is “DA”… So, if I go to Āhavanīya directly, I am going in a reverse fashion. I’m going from 1 to 9. I am going retrograde. Whereas if I’m going from the DA to GA, I am going direct, I am going zodiacal, I’m traveling forward. You see? Life path is direct from Sva to Gārhapatya, fifth house: family, children, sansara. Here the life path is reversed from Sva to Andāvahanīya: Dharma, ashram, sanyasa. So, this fifth house, when the fifth house Agni is stronger, I go to sansara. When the ninth house Agni is very- very strong I will go to sanyasa. But it depends how I am going there.
Author: Pandit Sanjay Rath.
Transcribed by Garvit Kumar
