1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,400 Asavyo vasar patinilag grivo vilohitakh 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,480 utainam gopa atrishan atrishan nadaharyakh 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:14,400 utainam vishvabhutani sedristo mdayadina 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,840 These are the wonderful lines from Rudra Prashna. 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:25,400 We are asking questions to Rudra, the Lord of Desolution. 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,320 Why are we talking about that? 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:33,440 Because we are speaking about the 26th nakshatra out of the 27th 8 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:38,320 called Uttarabhadrapada nakshatra which falls 9 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:46,640 in the zodiac sign of Pisces between 3 degrees 20 minutes to 16 degrees 40 minutes of Pisces. 10 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:51,920 The Navamsa goes from Leo up till Scorpio. 11 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:58,000 Uttarabhadrapada is a twin brother of the previous one which we did, Purvabhadrapada. 12 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 So this also has the energy of Rudra buried in it. 13 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,160 But this is kind of the opposite. 14 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:10,400 Purvabhadrapada was all about fire and this is all about water. 15 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:15,440 So it's completely opposite for this nakshatra. 16 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:24,120 The nature of this nakshatra is fixed and the symbol is of a water serpent of the deep. 17 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:29,080 Ahirbudhyana is the deity, the water serpent of the deep. 18 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,640 Now think about the symbology of water serpent of the deep. 19 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:40,000 The serpent itself represents in Vedic tradition about transformation. 20 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,400 Wherever the serpent goes, it's transforming something. 21 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,680 It is shedding old skin, it is becoming something new. 22 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:49,280 That's what serpent represents. 23 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,480 In every one of these nakshatra we have done so far, look at the serpent symbology. 24 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,480 It's about transformation. 25 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,600 Spiritual mental, emotional at whatever level you want to wish to call it, it represents 26 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,120 transformation. 27 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:10,480 Now Uttarabhadrapada has got a transformation of emotion because water represents moksha 28 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:15,680 science, the cancer, the scorpio and the Pisces. 29 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,680 So in Pisces this represents the ultimate transformation. 30 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,360 And coming after Purvabhadrapada, which is all about fire and burning everything to 31 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,960 cinders, what does Uttarabhadrapada have left? 32 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:37,280 Uttarabhadrapada is therefore the energy of seeking permanence, stability in a fleeting 33 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:38,280 world. 34 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,840 They see everything in their life as fleeting, it's gone, it comes for a minute and then 35 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:43,840 it's gone. 36 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,040 Where is my stability? 37 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,640 This is the question Uttarabhadrapada asks itself. 38 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:55,560 They are all about endurance, they are very enduring people. 39 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:01,160 Forbearance, realizing the true emotional fortunes of life is their theme. 40 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,560 They are looking for emotion because it falls in Pisces. 41 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:11,720 Remember Pisces is represented by the ocean, the final dissolution place of all rivers 42 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,720 so to speak, the ocean. 43 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:21,560 So they are wanting to realize the emotional fortunes of life. 44 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:26,840 On the downside they can be very procrastination type, especially in Padha 3, Pisces going 45 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,840 into Libra. 46 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:34,960 They could be scholarly and counselors and needing fame, especially in Padha 1 going 47 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,160 into Leo. 48 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,760 They could be analytical in Padha 2. 49 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:47,040 They could have the theme of passivity in Padha 3, again going with Libra. 50 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,960 They are wanting to share knowledge with the public. 51 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:57,240 They have an energy of mysticism, occult with action and they could also on the downside 52 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:06,320 be lost in an internal emotional turmoil, especially in Padha 4, Pisces going into Scorpio. 53 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:13,000 If Pisces goes back into Scorpio, it is kind of taking a step back, isn't it? 54 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,120 That's why they can get lost in internal turmoil, emotional turmoil. 55 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,400 Why are such things happening to me? 56 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:24,600 You are trying to define what's happening by the way of your emotions. 57 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:29,720 You can do it multiple ways, you can understand it in a mental plane or you can understand 58 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,440 it in an emotional level. 59 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:39,320 Pisces being all about water and moksha, the 12th traditional house looks at everything 60 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,600 in an emotional color. 61 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:49,280 The life lesson for this beautiful nakshatra is finding emotional connect with external 62 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:55,040 beings through spiritual essence inside. 63 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,600 It should be through spiritual essence inside. 64 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,920 Anyway, finding permanence within temporary aspects. 65 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,840 If everything in life is fleeting, they need to find the so-called thread of permanence 66 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:11,400 which lies hidden within those temporary aspects. 67 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:17,440 If anything is temporary also, it has a permanent emotional signature to it. 68 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:23,680 The challenge of Uttaravadrapada is to discover that emotional thread which runs through everything 69 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:24,680 temporary. 70 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:30,000 It's like looking at secrets which are hidden in plain sight. 71 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,920 This is the theme and doing it with an emotional body. 72 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:41,400 Finding emotional connect with external beings, the true spiritual essence inside, they need 73 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:42,400 to find this. 74 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,240 This is the life lesson. 75 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:49,120 So the mantra therefore Rudra Prasna will help them discover it because Rudra is both 76 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,600 the fire, Rudra is both the water. 77 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:58,920 Rudra when it becomes Shiva, it resides in the heart, the peaceful one, the calm one, 78 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:03,040 the one who is contained with oneself that is Shiva. 79 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:04,320 It resides in the heart. 80 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:11,360 The Rudra resides in the third eye which looks at everything in its true aspect is not interested 81 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:12,360 in anything anymore. 82 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:20,040 That's why the third eye of Shiva is designated that which burns the entire creation to ashes. 83 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,400 The destructive force of the third eye which what is it destroying here? 84 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,440 It's just destroying illusions. 85 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,480 That's it. 86 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:33,640 So Uttaravadrapada and Purva-Bhadrapada in this sense represent the heart chakra and 87 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,400 the third eye chakra. 88 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:40,400 We are graduating out of all the materialistic planes of existence. 89 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:46,160 We are distilling it down to emotion or knowledge in its purest form. 90 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:56,200 The ages active for this nakshatra is 11, 18, 19, 24, 64, 68, 70 and 75. 91 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:02,240 So next we shall be doing the Revati-Nakshatra, the prosperous one. 92 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:03,240 Take care. 93 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:10,240 Thank you.