RishiRahul wrote:The Bhaava
Bhaava means emotion, state of mind.
Bhaavanaa – Imagination.
From various dictionaries:
bhava = coming into existence , birth , production , origin , arising or produced from , being in , relating to ; becoming , turning into (comp.); being, state of being, existence, life; worldly existence, the world
Bhava i.e. Shiva and his wife.
Meanings of "bhava":1. (at the end of comp.) arising or produced from
1.being;2.birth;3.source;4.worldly existence;5.the world;6.well-being;7.excellence;8.name of Shiva;
Bhaava. Becoming, being, existing, occurring, appearance; turning or transition into.
Meanings of "bhaava": 1.being; 2.becoming; 3.state; 4.manner; 5.rank; 6.true condition or state;
7. Innate property; 8.inclination or disposition of mind; 9.feeling; 10.love; 11.purport; 12.meaning;
13.resolution;14.the heart;15.existing thing;16.a being;17.abstract meditation;18.conduct;19.gesture;20.birth;21.the world;22.the womb;23.will;
This world is Bhava Sagar – (Ocean of Becoming), and hence the Mother Goddess Taaraa is called Bhavaani (A form of Paarvati, wife of lord Shiva) She who becomes everything and to save us from this world of becoming, she takes the form of Bhava Taarini (Takes us safely from this ocean of constant becoming). And hence the Bhaava is superimposed on Raashi.
In Western
Astrology Bhaavas are called houses.
The first house is the house which rises on the Eastern Horizon you will see a particular Raashi (Assuming you know, how to identify the star constituting the Raashi) rising (Ascending or climbing)
Suppose the rising sign is Dhanu, it is - Lagnaa or Ascendant
Makara will be the – Second Bhaava
Kumbha will be the – Third Bhaava
Meena will be the – Forth Bhaava
And so on …
The houses are counted zodiacally.
Here if we take the Raashis to be Static aspect of the zodiac, the Bhaavas are the Dynamic aspects of the zodiac.
The first house is the Rising Raashi,
The forth house is the yet to Rise and is below the horizon. In fact it is right below the feet. (Represents midnight)
The Seventh House is the Raashi which is setting in the west, just going below the horizon. (Represents Sunset)
The Tenth House is the topmost (Represents noon)
The first house is akin to Mesha, the fourth akin to Karaka, the seventh house is akin to Tula and the tenth house is akin to Makara.
Now take the 5th to 9th from each of these houses like
1st – 5th – 9th
2nd – 6th – 10th
3rd – 7th – 11th
4th – 8th – 12th
These houses are in the harmony – firstly because they represents the same Tatwaa.
The 5th from any house is its future.
The 9th from any house is its past.
These are the Trikona (Trines)
The 1 – 4 – 7 – 10 houses from any house are the pillars of the sector. These are the Kendra (Squares)
For example, the first house represents the sense of being ness the “I AM” feeling in any horoscope for the native (Jataka). (The Native or Jataka means the person whose horoscope is being read by the Jyotisha.)
The 5th house will represent the future sense of “I”
And 9th house will represent the past sense of “I”
The first and the other two houses will represent the same tatwaas.
The 4th from the 1st belongs to the same motive force, Sthira, Chara or Dwijbhaava and hence co-operate with each other. Like the example given in the Raashi Lesson – where the cars were moving in their particular lane as per the speed limit.
The first house represents the self. Your characteristics, your nature etc. this represents your Dharmaa – That which you hold.
The fourth house is the lowest point where “I” sense will be at the lowest. Totally forgetting the “I” sense is Mokshaa or The Liberation.
The 7th house is the opposite of the 1st house representing your interactions with the outside world. (This house is the doorway to the world) in other words, it is intercourse with the world hence this is Kamaa. (Desires)
The 10th house is the topmost house (Directly over head). This represents, pinnacle of “I”. Feeling this is Arthaa.
The trines from each of these four houses form the Trikonaas (Trines) of the particular Purusharthaa.
The four Purusharthaas are Dharmaa, Arthaa, Kaama, and Mokshaa. And are called the Aayaanas or aims of life.
Dharmaa
This represents the person’s belief systems. Every person holds in him / her some belief system which is said to define him / her for the society.
A person is born into a belief system by birth in a family professing it (first Bhaava).
The person goes to a certain place for worship (ninth house).
The person holds some book or words as sacred (fifth house).
Arthaa
The person has to define to the world at large. This “Trying to define himself” to the world is done through speech, food (second house),
Work ethics, hard labor, and the ability to control the people (sixth house).
Earn money, work hard and achieve power (tenth house).
Kaama
Every person has legitimate or otherwise desires, which can be fulfilled as per the norms of the society. Personal interactions i.e. person to person (third house),
Business interactions i.e. buying - Selling, partnership, negotiations (seventh house)
Social interactions i.e. Friends etc (eleventh house).
Mokshaa
This is the end point of all human existence “Freedom”.
Freedom from the feeling “I”
As in the Mothers womb or Lap (fourth house).
As in sickness or death (eighth house)
As in sleep or Liberation (twelfth house)
As we have seen that there is a synchronicity (as in Raashis having same motive force) as well as empathy (as in Raashis having same elements) Therefore in traditional Jyotisha, the house is a full Raaashi.
I.e. suppose the degree of the sign rising on the horizon is 18 degrees, the whole Raashi of Tula will be treated as the first house. The second house will be Vrischika, the third will be Dhanu, the forth will be Makara, the fifth will be Kumbha and so on… unlike Western Astrology.
There are house divisions also in Jyotish but it will be discussed later.
The Lords of Raashis:
The Lords of these Raashis will be the Lords of these Bhaavas. Like Tula rising will be lagna and so the Lord of the 1st Bhaava or Lagnaadhipati will be Shukra. The Lord of the 2nd Bhaava will be Ketu / Mars because they are the Co _ Lords of the Vrishchika. The lord of the 3rd Bhaava will be Guru as he is the Lord of Dhanu, which falls in the 3rd house and so on.
So we have learnt that each bhaava has certain significations, each rules some compartment of life of an individual, each falls in a certain Raashi, each has a lord ruling it.
Each Bhaava also has a planet (Graha) who becomes its significator.
We will deal in detail with all these aspects in detail in the next posts in this lesson.
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