ADDICTION of Substances in a Vedic astrology and Ayurvedic perspective.
- I have Refined this post a little as I wrote this on my cell phone as I was traveling on a winding road from Pushkar to Jaipur- Sorry for the typos -
Vedic astrology can be a helpful method in understanding addictions, what creates them and how to overcome them within the power of clear discernment. And the remedies for Rahu. Rahu is a measurement point in Hindu astrology and has the title of a planet and causes eclipses and can create in many cases challenges, desire and what we want in our own life yet Rahu can also create liberation in other cases-
Vedic scriptures have not encouraged recreational use of drugs , intoxication from, or abuse of the substance. they warn against the over-use of alcohol and other intoxicants and they teach against using any substances for intoxication. Many people (especially in North India and Nepal) now use marijuana as an intoxicant either as a part of religious rituals on special occasions or as a regular recreational activity. They use marijuana as an intoxicant and do not heed the warnings of the scriptures about intoxicants. They use the mention of this plant in the scriptures in an attempt to justify their habitual abuse of the substance. Many sadhus (ascetics) in these regions smoke large amounts of marijuana on a daily basis. Many will admit that they are addicted to the substance and also that consumption of the substance makes it very difficult for them to carry out the tasks that other people do like working or fulfilling obligations. These people are not realized souls but drug addicts and their abuse of drugs does not lead them closer to God but further from Him. The realized Gurus warn against the dangers of intoxicants just as the scriptures do. Most Gurus absolutely prohibit the use of narcotics for their students. Brahmins in India (the spiritual caste) traditionally abstain from alcohol, marijuana and other intoxicants, in addition to meat and other tamasic substances.
Rahu and Addiction
Rahu has been know in Hindu astrology to be the planet that causes addiction
Rahu works in and on a subconscious level. The function of your subconscious mind is to store and retrieve data. Therefor makes decisions without using a clear conscious- as Rahu is also a planet of desire - subconscious psychic abilities can play a role in to this-
According to one of the most leading Ayurvedic institutes - Quote -
Ayurveda generally views marijuana as toxic to the liver and blood. Its inappropriate use can lead to all sorts of health problems. Its use in particular is prone to damage the liver, reproductive system; it can cause impotence or infertility, constipation, dryness of the skin and organs; it can deplete the immunity, strength, energy, motivation, happiness, and it weakens the sexual drive and the body's ability to heal. It can cause serious damage to the skin and connective tissue, and deplete the organs to the extent that they have difficulty to function. When not used properly, marijuana tends to aggravate all three doshas (vata, pitta, and kapha). Marijuana is said to have tamasic (dulling) and rajasic (agitating) effects upon the mind. Its long-term use diminishes a person's will and ambition and leads to dullness, confusion, lethargy, and depression.
Addiction.
At what point it's something considered an experience over addiction. Rahu is a planet or a self manifesting energy that creates subconscious desires and obsessions. Rahu is depicted as the head without the body never getting enough or never filling up- In Buddhist text and the eight Nobel truths desire is what is said to create suffering. So when one has desire to smoke pot everyday or drink a bottle of wine each day and can't stop then you could say that this is addiction.
What are substances?
Drugs from the past
Opium was thought to be the king of drugs but they created the fall of parts of China through the great opium wars.
Cocaine was thought to be the ultimate recreational drug until synthetic forms of cocaine was
Being used and the violence that was created from the drug lords was overwhelming and created the fall of systems of structure in Mexico and Columbia. Corruption.
LSD was thought to be a powerful replacement yet turned out to be a drug that over long use could cause anger and crazy temperament permanently.
Ayahuasca
All over, Bali, Thailand, India and the world Ayahuasca is being used as what is called plant spirit medicine- it is one of the most popular drugs that is claimed to be used for healing purposes - spiritual advancement and emotional healing-
Personally I have never met a person who has become enlightened from Ayahuasca- and would be interested in hearing stories how how people have been healed from Ayahuasca- Interesting Rahu steals the nectar of immortality from the gods and becomes immortal - he stole the nectar to become immortal however rahu also rules illusions-
Illusion or Maya ?
In alot of ways illusion is pioneering if used in the correct way.
John Lennon and Steve Jobs two pioneers who where in Rahu phases and created amazing things during Rahu.and expansion and creativity can go hand in hand at time. However had they addictions. Many people call drugs a medicine. I have seen what medicine or drugs do and pulling us apart from the truth is anything that is not real. It is so clear to see in the natal charts who is addicted and who has learned the lessons. I find a higher presence of addition of people who are in a planetary cycle called Rahu mahadasa Or have debilitated planets or challenging conjunctions in the 12th house. The north node of the moon 18 year mahadasa cycle. I have seen the charts of 100 people who were addicted and then became a substance councellor after Rahu when they moved in to Jupiter period the next period after Rahu. Rahu rules addictions on most cases. Not to say that everyone is addicted in Rahu. Some may be addicted in Venus or Jupiter mahadasa periods but Rahu will always play a role in addictions and obsessions.
In most cases Rahu kicks your ass to take you to spirituality Jupiter 16 year cycle makes us learn about god and then the 19 year Saturn mahadasa period makes us spiritual. Jupiter writes the law and Saturn Enforces it.
Shadow Periods-
These periods are called shadow periods. With the power to cause eclipses in the measurement if time of eclipse cycles. Where the sun and the moon are darkened through the eclipses - They can also be amazingly powerful time periods that can amplify vision. Whether that vision is real is a question.
Yugas time of light periods and time of dark periods.
The vedic time system measurements of ancient India called the Yugas also have a shadow period and the natal chart of the solar system The Kali Yuga - Now countries have a natal chart just as the USA. As the USA recently moved in to its 3rd Rahu period. The USA was born in the shadow period also and that can help us understand the character of obsession and desire we see in the USA today. Not to mention many untold truths and wars. Rahu is in the 9th house in the natal chart of the united states. The house house is the spiritual teachings and teacher so Rahu can be described as the game spiritual teacher or adviser art this time or false spiritual teachings from a guru it to think that drugs and substances are spiritual. As Rahu can rule deception in Rahu periods.
As so below just as a therapist will retrace the past in order to heal the future. The theory of universal truth is to study and understand where we are. In the study cycles of the yugas or what position the universe is to understand the cosmic mind and where we are but most importantly where we have been. Such said It is much like giving the universe it our solar system a Vedic astrological reading.
Where are we as a collective consciousness I ask..what is the true value of social media and opinions of others. Many great yogis yogananda swami Vivekananda and yukteswar believes that we are in the dwarpara you and we finished the Kali yuga in the 1700..we are detoxing from the Kali yuga and as we are in an assertion cycle toward the satya yuga the golden age.in thousands of years.
So the yoga, search for truth and spirituality matures slowly in this age but is speeding up fast with technology. It us said in the rig Veda that in the age of technology we would develop telescopes to find the outer planet and and that was the start of western astrology. and more then anything the belief on the unknown through optimism.i agree fully . In the higher forms we channel Ganesha from the golden age. The western interpretation of Ganesha is not understood. Ganesha was from the age of the gods and that was the golden age. Darwin theories are wrong to say we are in the peak of our evolution . Time is circular and the universe has a sort of reincarnation as we move closer to the the galactic center in many reincarnations of this earth and the solar system.
In a way there is no such thing as linear time. Only recirculating until we either learn our lessons or evolve.
Now the BURNING QUESTION can we live a spiritual life yet also have drugs and addictions? Many gurus have Sexual addictions,drug and food addictions. First of all they would be a bad example. There is a concept that many of the holymen of India smoke marijuana in my studies and personal experience I find these are fake gurus looking and are making money from tourist by selling marijuana a real teacher and master does not been substances.
Auurvedic medicine strictly frowns and many case studies apon marijuana in all forms.
http://www.somamatha.org/ayurvedic-view-of-marijuana.html
Ram Dass said.. When you get the message hang up the phone.
I wrote this in a taxi on the way to the airport from Jaipur to kalcutta India.
- I have Refined this post a little as I wrote this on my cell phone as I was traveling on a winding road from Pushkar to Jaipur- Sorry for the typos -
Vedic astrology can be a helpful method in understanding addictions, what creates them and how to overcome them within the power of clear discernment. And the remedies for Rahu. Rahu is a measurement point in Hindu astrology and has the title of a planet and causes eclipses and can create in many cases challenges, desire and what we want in our own life yet Rahu can also create liberation in other cases-
Vedic scriptures have not encouraged recreational use of drugs , intoxication from, or abuse of the substance. they warn against the over-use of alcohol and other intoxicants and they teach against using any substances for intoxication. Many people (especially in North India and Nepal) now use marijuana as an intoxicant either as a part of religious rituals on special occasions or as a regular recreational activity. They use marijuana as an intoxicant and do not heed the warnings of the scriptures about intoxicants. They use the mention of this plant in the scriptures in an attempt to justify their habitual abuse of the substance. Many sadhus (ascetics) in these regions smoke large amounts of marijuana on a daily basis. Many will admit that they are addicted to the substance and also that consumption of the substance makes it very difficult for them to carry out the tasks that other people do like working or fulfilling obligations. These people are not realized souls but drug addicts and their abuse of drugs does not lead them closer to God but further from Him. The realized Gurus warn against the dangers of intoxicants just as the scriptures do. Most Gurus absolutely prohibit the use of narcotics for their students. Brahmins in India (the spiritual caste) traditionally abstain from alcohol, marijuana and other intoxicants, in addition to meat and other tamasic substances.
Rahu and Addiction
Rahu has been know in Hindu astrology to be the planet that causes addiction
Rahu works in and on a subconscious level. The function of your subconscious mind is to store and retrieve data. Therefor makes decisions without using a clear conscious- as Rahu is also a planet of desire - subconscious psychic abilities can play a role in to this-
According to one of the most leading Ayurvedic institutes - Quote -
Ayurveda generally views marijuana as toxic to the liver and blood. Its inappropriate use can lead to all sorts of health problems. Its use in particular is prone to damage the liver, reproductive system; it can cause impotence or infertility, constipation, dryness of the skin and organs; it can deplete the immunity, strength, energy, motivation, happiness, and it weakens the sexual drive and the body's ability to heal. It can cause serious damage to the skin and connective tissue, and deplete the organs to the extent that they have difficulty to function. When not used properly, marijuana tends to aggravate all three doshas (vata, pitta, and kapha). Marijuana is said to have tamasic (dulling) and rajasic (agitating) effects upon the mind. Its long-term use diminishes a person's will and ambition and leads to dullness, confusion, lethargy, and depression.
Addiction.
At what point it's something considered an experience over addiction. Rahu is a planet or a self manifesting energy that creates subconscious desires and obsessions. Rahu is depicted as the head without the body never getting enough or never filling up- In Buddhist text and the eight Nobel truths desire is what is said to create suffering. So when one has desire to smoke pot everyday or drink a bottle of wine each day and can't stop then you could say that this is addiction.
What are substances?
Drugs from the past
Opium was thought to be the king of drugs but they created the fall of parts of China through the great opium wars.
Cocaine was thought to be the ultimate recreational drug until synthetic forms of cocaine was
Being used and the violence that was created from the drug lords was overwhelming and created the fall of systems of structure in Mexico and Columbia. Corruption.
LSD was thought to be a powerful replacement yet turned out to be a drug that over long use could cause anger and crazy temperament permanently.
Ayahuasca
All over, Bali, Thailand, India and the world Ayahuasca is being used as what is called plant spirit medicine- it is one of the most popular drugs that is claimed to be used for healing purposes - spiritual advancement and emotional healing-
Personally I have never met a person who has become enlightened from Ayahuasca- and would be interested in hearing stories how how people have been healed from Ayahuasca- Interesting Rahu steals the nectar of immortality from the gods and becomes immortal - he stole the nectar to become immortal however rahu also rules illusions-
Illusion or Maya ?
In alot of ways illusion is pioneering if used in the correct way.
John Lennon and Steve Jobs two pioneers who where in Rahu phases and created amazing things during Rahu.and expansion and creativity can go hand in hand at time. However had they addictions. Many people call drugs a medicine. I have seen what medicine or drugs do and pulling us apart from the truth is anything that is not real. It is so clear to see in the natal charts who is addicted and who has learned the lessons. I find a higher presence of addition of people who are in a planetary cycle called Rahu mahadasa Or have debilitated planets or challenging conjunctions in the 12th house. The north node of the moon 18 year mahadasa cycle. I have seen the charts of 100 people who were addicted and then became a substance councellor after Rahu when they moved in to Jupiter period the next period after Rahu. Rahu rules addictions on most cases. Not to say that everyone is addicted in Rahu. Some may be addicted in Venus or Jupiter mahadasa periods but Rahu will always play a role in addictions and obsessions.
In most cases Rahu kicks your ass to take you to spirituality Jupiter 16 year cycle makes us learn about god and then the 19 year Saturn mahadasa period makes us spiritual. Jupiter writes the law and Saturn Enforces it.
Shadow Periods-
These periods are called shadow periods. With the power to cause eclipses in the measurement if time of eclipse cycles. Where the sun and the moon are darkened through the eclipses - They can also be amazingly powerful time periods that can amplify vision. Whether that vision is real is a question.
Yugas time of light periods and time of dark periods.
The vedic time system measurements of ancient India called the Yugas also have a shadow period and the natal chart of the solar system The Kali Yuga - Now countries have a natal chart just as the USA. As the USA recently moved in to its 3rd Rahu period. The USA was born in the shadow period also and that can help us understand the character of obsession and desire we see in the USA today. Not to mention many untold truths and wars. Rahu is in the 9th house in the natal chart of the united states. The house house is the spiritual teachings and teacher so Rahu can be described as the game spiritual teacher or adviser art this time or false spiritual teachings from a guru it to think that drugs and substances are spiritual. As Rahu can rule deception in Rahu periods.
As so below just as a therapist will retrace the past in order to heal the future. The theory of universal truth is to study and understand where we are. In the study cycles of the yugas or what position the universe is to understand the cosmic mind and where we are but most importantly where we have been. Such said It is much like giving the universe it our solar system a Vedic astrological reading.
Where are we as a collective consciousness I ask..what is the true value of social media and opinions of others. Many great yogis yogananda swami Vivekananda and yukteswar believes that we are in the dwarpara you and we finished the Kali yuga in the 1700..we are detoxing from the Kali yuga and as we are in an assertion cycle toward the satya yuga the golden age.in thousands of years.
So the yoga, search for truth and spirituality matures slowly in this age but is speeding up fast with technology. It us said in the rig Veda that in the age of technology we would develop telescopes to find the outer planet and and that was the start of western astrology. and more then anything the belief on the unknown through optimism.i agree fully . In the higher forms we channel Ganesha from the golden age. The western interpretation of Ganesha is not understood. Ganesha was from the age of the gods and that was the golden age. Darwin theories are wrong to say we are in the peak of our evolution . Time is circular and the universe has a sort of reincarnation as we move closer to the the galactic center in many reincarnations of this earth and the solar system.
In a way there is no such thing as linear time. Only recirculating until we either learn our lessons or evolve.
Now the BURNING QUESTION can we live a spiritual life yet also have drugs and addictions? Many gurus have Sexual addictions,drug and food addictions. First of all they would be a bad example. There is a concept that many of the holymen of India smoke marijuana in my studies and personal experience I find these are fake gurus looking and are making money from tourist by selling marijuana a real teacher and master does not been substances.
Auurvedic medicine strictly frowns and many case studies apon marijuana in all forms.
http://www.somamatha.org/ayurvedic-view-of-marijuana.html
Ram Dass said.. When you get the message hang up the phone.
I wrote this in a taxi on the way to the airport from Jaipur to kalcutta India.
