Re: Soul's Inclination
Originally Posted by
yajvan
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
While I see the gallant effort made and applaud it , the roots (dātu) of this word tells me differently.
Rāhu is rooted in rabh - to take hold of , grasp , clasp , embrace ( please feel free to look this up). The alignment to 'pathfinder' for me is a stretch of poetic liberty.
If I chose a word ( again if pressed on it) I would use catalyst.
Catalyst = an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action , yet is not used up itself. Some may be allured to the sanskrit name of vījana or to ātmāvejana meaning fanning ( as to fan a flame) or to autocatalysis, which is a rough approximation ( best I can offer).
Yet I leave you to your point of view and hope it serves you well.
iti śivaṁ
I am not a language shastri, so my word is not authoritative, but afaik "Raah" does mean path in hindi, Urdu, hindustaani (a mix of shuddha hindi, Urdu etc, a colloquial language/dialect in India), Rahu is not a term from those languages and so its connotations must only be utilized rather carefully with technical terms and nomenclature used in traditional jyotish. Given the nature of rahu and its implications in practical jyotish, my sense is that Yajvan ji's description is indeed correct.
Any planet can be a pathfinder in essence or perhaps a beacon or torch that our individual path leads towards or receives the light from!
Love, Light, Reality,
Rohiniranjan
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MA GIVE US eyes to see, and minds to understand what the eyes see, and hearts beating in unison to keep the eyes and minds alive and ALL OF US engaged in serving YOU FOREVER.
A birth-epoch is a seemingly-random TRANSIT-epoch that gains a personal-meaningfulness and becomes a beacon in the current lifetime of the incarnated soul-fragment; the union of a kona (angle) with a trikona (trine)...?
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