Originally Posted by
yajvan
Hari Om
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Namaste Arvind,
Thank you for the post and insight... A few points of discussion if you care to review. Hanumanji in Jyotish is also recognized as Mangala or Mars. Surya and Mars are great friends. So much so, that Sun / Surya is exalted in Aries, owned by Mars. You are well aware of Ram-Hanumanji's relationship from the Ramayana ( Rama + ayana or the direction/vehicle to Ram)- as is the relationship of Surya-Mangala. Mars is seen as tejas , or fire principle, or even agni. The first letters of Rama's name 'Ra' is the bija mantra for Agni. So there reationship is quite profound.
Surya ( also known as Savitor in the gayatri mantra) that may be blemished in ones chart - what would that indicate? Lets take a quick look. Sun/Surya is the karaka ( significator-indicator) for the eyes, for ones lagna or ascendent, for power, royality, medicine, places of worship (along with Brihaspati or Jupiter), blood circulation, the 10th house or career ( since sun rules light and the metering out of the day, Surya indicates how one spends their time e.g. career - that said, Sani also plays role too).
So, if one has a blemish with the sun ( some examples: ill placed, with malifics, with poor rasi or graha dristi , that is planet and house aspects), one may have poor eye sight or no eye sight at all; Health may be challanging, profession may be difficult, circulation may be poor and one feels cold all the time. So 'afflictions' can be light ( wearings glasses), moderate, or severe pending Sun's placement and other factors e.g. dasa periods, bindu's ( or strenth of the sign/rasi the sun is in), etc . etc. Sun is also the karkaka of pride, and too much , feeds the ego, and one's humbleness is challanged.
For many it is usully some good & some not so good influences. For me, I am blessed with Surya in the 9th house , a dharma house, wisdom, bhaga house, religious orientation. Also the sun in my chart is vargottma - that is, it resides in the same house in my rasi or birth chart and in my Navamsa ( 1/9th division called D9 chart as a Jyotishi my call it). This Vargottma gives it more strength. This occurs several times in multiple plances in my charts. Now, the not so good news is Sun in the 9th house too, that is the Karaka of one's father is the sun. The 9th house ( house is also called bhava) also indicates one father too. So when a karaka is in a house that it also is the indicator of , then there is a blemish. So, there was a blemish in my chart that points to father, and this was so.
A strong sun also indicates (for my chart) the adoration of Sri Ram. And there is a great connection of Sri Ram and Hanumanji in my chart also but I will not talk much of myself, but its nice to see the audit trail on ones Ishtadevata via Jyotish, and other devata pointed out by the other grahas.
Of Upayes or corrective measures - this upaya ,or skillful means, techniques, to mitigate blemishes in ones chart are many. You point to japa/mantra given by Valmilki. Yes, this is good. There are ones given by Parashara, Ved Vayasa, etc. There are upyae's that are yajyas, gem stones to wear ( for the sun it would be a ruby) and worn on the right hand, Yantra's, mantras, etc. Many Upayaes are offered. The best one is to be established in the SELF and then these blemishes are no more part of one's life.
Perhaps if there is interest we can start a new thread on this and pursue deeper.
Jai Ram Sri Ram Jai Jai Ram
Pranams,
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