Realize your profession

I sometimes wonder what held me back then when I was about to write what I am narrating today many years later - Fear? Consciousness? Perhaps both or a manifestation of both. It takes a lot to realize an iota of what one really is - I think I have but reached just the tip of the iceberg; therefore the haste in writing. Duality exists - it is what makes us human. We see all existence with dual eyes - and perception of every eye is never overruled by the other - therefore the binocular duality; notwithstanding the dreams and astral visualization we witness as we tend to sleep, I reckon we still see it with multiple visions - the reason is simple, as mortals born on this earth, we have been entrusted with almost everything in dual or plural form - funny, we have never trust One. Not intending to be sarcastic, it is but true, we question even ourselves; our own very shadows when in doubt. My two cents - the dollar bill should have read - "In ONE God we trust".

Astrology is extremely interesting - astrological predictions are so apparent to so many so quickly - I have witnessed some folks who can predict events accurately to the day and month. Yet, some unfortunate folks like me who have studied astronomy and its applications in astrology in depth for many years are still afraid of making a basic prediction. Why? Because duality persists in a mortal like me, it does not in the privileged. Privileged? I call it privileged because these humans are endowed with something which I am not. Well, every every step towards divinity is timed with a purpose - a purpose well laid out well before life is born and by when it will be snuffed.

Let's understand one thing - there is no such thing as fate - not if you are a seeker. While you are a maker of your own destiny; the destiny is only confined to earth and not beyond. If the very purpose of our existence was just a mere molecular, chemical interaction with compatible molecular structures (I have no idea what that could really mean), then this life, this existence could be very well be explained. Unfortunately genetics and genetical growth patterns, unlike classical, statistical, predictive algorithms are very predictive in their manifestations. While mediocre parents tend to produce mediocrity, it is difficult to explain how a child who is merely two and a half years old know fully well that the computer mouse sets navigational cursors on the computer screen and not outside and sliding the thumb left to right unlocks the IPhone, never having seen one before. It's baffling what genes can do.

Nature will never send us back in time, unless there is a purpose - I would rephrase that - unless God has a purpose. While we are confronted with the ever changing landscape of man made technology (good or bad); something still beckons us to seek the immortal, the beliefs that constitute our spiritual genes.

Allow me to revert back to where I started - duality vis-à-vis non-duality. We as human beings get attracted to one of the duality in a certain time of our lives. Astrology can accurately state when. There was a time when I would find myself completely lost if I were not up to date on the latest that technology had to offer. I had to be on the cutting edge, not just abreast. The malefic in 10^th from the moon ensured that was the driving force. The benefic from the ascendant in the 10^th lay silent till a few months from now. The switch in duality makes me laugh when I realize the lessons it has taught me. The 10^th house is far from the ascendant - it should be, it determines your purpose and direction in life - illegitimately called the profession. The profession is only one side of the coin and quite the veiled side. Following the Ninth house which determines your inclination towards righteousness (otherwise spirituality), the tenth house could never have befallen into anything as materialistic as profession. The 10^th house is your direction - you have a choice - stay with materialism or stay out of it. I used the words 'out of it' - materialism must not drive you. Money is needed - it is badly needed if you want to even spend a few minutes in spiritualistic purposes; but it can never appease the insides.

The 11^th house benefits from the 10^th. It is a house of benefits not fortunes. The 10^th can only lead to the 11^th. I learnt this lesson from a strongly inclined business person many years back - something which no MBA will ever teach - that money is meant to be spent and some of it saved for a rainy day. Spend, expend what your 10^th house offers to the maximum - that will fulfill the needs of the 11^th and whatever's left will be needed when the going gets rough in the 12^th.

Circular Predictability

Time - because of its circular – rather rotational nature; just like the seasons, assumes predictability. Which simply means, like the four seasons, or 12 zodiacal divisions or even 27 lunar mansions (nakshatras), life is a predictable entity. Does it not contradict the fact that a person is a maker of the person's destiny? Well, simply put - No, while fate is predictable, life is not. Fate was chosen; life is lived – there are always 'deltas' between what was desired and what transpired – all this not too deviant from the chosen karma.

Predictability is an immense assurance of what may happen. And, assurances lead to faith. Faith drives our ambitions. The chances that a person well versed in medicines will otherwise lead a life of doom is seldom the case – therefore predictability becomes an important aspect of determining the characteristic and personality of a person. Even chaos is predictable. Buddha classified the predictable life as that of middle path. The Middle Path Life is the easiest to lead as it also falls closely to the karmic choice of the individual.

Note – human professions (or professions created by humans) may not be the one chosen for a karmic life. Again, human rules are not astral in nature. Therefore, while predicting, it is important to determine whether a person chose the life to have the following characteristics – belief, faith, peace-loving, honest, water loving, land loving, nomadic or static life. Based on these characteristics, one can narrow down to the human created profession that suits the personality the best.  

Time is Circular and therefore predictable

Time is definitely not linear. The circular nature of time is explicit and inevitable. Incidents, history repeat. Therefore does life. The passage of time (as the expression goes) is well phrased – time is slow in propagation and yet directional. It is truly a passage. However, it is like a voyage in a sailing ship. It would almost be impossible to figure out the world is round, had it not been for faster ships and perhaps revelation.

Circularity is inevitable. Only then can be explained the theory of indestructibility. How about time in the other plane – the other dimension. The passage and units could differ and it probably does – that explains the uniqueness of every creature that is born or exists in this universe.

In the illustration N expresses Natality, M - maturity, D - Decay and inevitable Death. The return path seems to be a reversal of time - perhaps, perhaps not. The question - is life a choice or is it inevitable?

Parallel Universes

All matter defaults to parallelism. Parallelism in roles and actions is easily conceivable. A person on the phone, with a sandwich, coffee and newspaper driving a car is a rich display of parallel activities. The same lady in life plays a mother, aunt, daughter and wife. While watching all this, beyond a point our minds stop assimilating every other parallel other that exists. Its time we let the five senses and idiosyncrasy guide the mind. It's high time we went beyond the limitations of 'Maya - illusions' and (perhaps) try and understand the true parallelism. For convenience of understanding, let us adhere with just 'duality' a much smaller subset of parallelism as it is easy to fathom and decipher – simple - yin and yang; white and black.  The illustration on the left denotes duality. A with it's dual A~ complement. B with parallel B~. We will get to the attachments and fallen A in a while.

Simply put, all existence in this universe has duality with another one. By the way, the word used here is existence and not life. Life by definition is enjoyed for short time-spans by living organisms. Existence, however spans a much larger domain. It goes far beyond the short lifespan of macrocosms like humans, mammals, reptiles perhaps even insects and smaller creatures. The microcosm that we all contain within us lives on a time scale that is very different from us. Life in the micro-world occur for shorter spans measured at macro levels. Like the bacterial population ceases to exist in human conceivable micro-second time spans.  

It is not about duality between macrocosm, microcosmic or even super-macrocosm existence. These are all perceptive; limited by optical and other senses. They also tend to exhibit uniqueness. Where therefore is the duality – all religions have taught us it is beyond the perceptions – the question therefore is – is the existence form or formless? Religious power-stations have also deliberately confused the duality through visually perceivable artifacts – like 'heaven' and 'hell'.

Gods that came down on this earth and lived among humans exhibited traits that were the expressions of that era – pain, emotions, concepts of good, bad and evil. Through subtle parables they spoke about duality; about parallelism. Jesus, Buddha, Krishna shared this earth with humans and yet left in a incredibly divinely manner. Their communication with the parallel form was quite explicitly perceived by folks around them. Such an extraordinary exhibition happened only to a few – or was it simple exaggeration? Whatever happened then cannot be recreated – whatever was there made them different – divinity was profoundly expressive for the chosen few.