Chapter Twenty Six
The Primordial SOUND known as Naada-Brahma or AUM
The Three Worlds. {Janma-mrityu, Paraloka or transcendental and Swargaloka
or cosmic realms}
The Three Sthaayees or Octaves. {within the range of audibility}
The Three states of mind. {Conscious, sub-conscious and supreme conscious}
The Three stages of the creation. {Within the body, out of the body and
back to its original state}
The Generation, Operation and Destruction of all that is created.
{Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara}
Likewise the number five featured everywhere in these three subjects.
FIVE elements of creation and the FIVE senses.
FIVE +VE signs of the ZODIAC.
FIVE octaves of a MUSICAL SCALE.
FIVE JANMAS or BIRTHS for one Manifestation.
FIVE VIKRUTA or SHARP notes of the Musical Octave.
FIVE NAADI-AMSAS of one DEGREE in the ZODIACAL space.
The importance of the Fifth Dasa of the Vimshottari system in Indian astrology.
The fifth harmonic notes. {of three primordial sounds}
The five
yogas or states of the mind {Dharma, Japa, Tapa, Karma and Bhakti} are all being
analyzed here in this dissertation.
There are
seven Hrishis called the Saptahrishis the seven stars in space, The Pleiadians.
Seven pure notes of the musical octave.
Seven colors of the Vibgyor.
The seven chakras or points in Kundalini.
The seven planets. {Rahu and Ketu are Chhaayaa-grahas}
The seven
outlets of the human body are all to be analyzed.
Then the
importance of the numeric ‘nine’ (9) has a very special place in these three
fields:
Firstly, the Nine planets or Navagrahas, 7 planets plus the two chhaaya grahas i.e. Rahu and Ketu Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. (Out of these the planets that effect us are the first seven? Earth cannot effect itself, hence Moon takes its place.) The rest of them are considered less effective due to their being too far from the earth.
Then the
Navaamsaa orthe ninth division of the degree of space, further sub-divided into
12 signs or houses. (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.) These are the most important
divisions of a person’s horoscope to determine the life, longevity, the good and
the bad of the native’s entire life, yearly, monthly, weekly and daily. Apart
from this there is the technique of using Nava-navaamsa or the subdivision of
the ninth division of the zodiac signs.
The nine combinations of a musical scale of flat notes or Shuddha- swara, lead us to the ten-thaats or mother raagas, namely BILAAWAL, BHAIRAV, MAARWAA, ASAVARI, KHAMAAJ, KALYAAN, POORVI, THODI, KAAFI and BHIARAVI.
So, the main Raaga being BILAAWAL and its derivatives are:
1.ASAAVARI
2.MAARWAA
3.BHAIRAV
4.THODI
5.POORVI
6.KHAMAAJ
7.KAAFI
8. BILAAWAL
9.BHAIRAVI
10.KALYAN
Thus, we can understand the importance of the first five nine raagas created as a result of self-regeneration of raagas. These are based on the principles of harmony, Moorchhana, Swayambhuva-swaras, the “cycle of fifths” and the shifting of the Tonic. While on the subject of the numeric nine, I would like to emphasize that the beginning of all creations as per the Vedic astrology, is from the ninth house or sign known as Dhanushaand from the star constellation of Moolaadhaaraa. (Moola meaning the Root.)
Having spoken of the numeric nine, let me take all the readers of this conceptual hypothesis to the world of the most fascinating and significant numeric: 12 or twelve.
There are twelve houses of the zodiac.
Twelve notes of musical scale.
Twelve Births or Janmas for a particular life form. {shall be explained in detail}
Twelve minutes of a degree in space make one Naadiamsa. {Five Naadiamsas make one degree}
Twelve hours of Day and night each.
Twelve hundred Praanaasin a day and the same number in the night.
Twelve cycles of Lunar years resulting in 60 year cycles.
Twelve dasamsas or tenth subdivision of a zodiac sign resulting in a total of 120. (Maximum age of a person assigned 120 years.) So, the actual age of a person is divided into two halves of sixty years each and further into Aayus of 8, 32, 54, 60, 72, and 120. Of these, five are Akaala Mrityus, and one Kaala mrityu.
But as soon as a person crosses the age of 60 years in Indian tradition, the ending of the first half of that person’s age is celebrated with great pomp known as ‘Shashtiabdhapoorthi’. And if he does live on for a double of this i.e. 120 years, then they say that the native has lived for a Sampoorna Aayu. So my contention is that an individual can live for a cycle of lunar years rightly named and that follow a set pattern of multiples of five and twelve, leading to a sixty always. Since every person is assigned a particular combination of Lagna, Nakshatra, Paada, year (lunar cycle) and also a particular naadi-amsa, I have to emphasis on the facts underlying these principles in a clearer manner.
What is to follow now is a theory, which has not been touched by anybody for the purpose of a complete research work in either astrology or music:
What has been the work of various sages of India, is that they have classified and assigned the 1800 Naadiamsas into a very compact and impeccable style of groupings so as to make it very convenient for any Naadi-reader. (Generally, the person who chalks out a native’s palm leaf is called Naadi-reader.)
To facilitate the reader to reach the correct leaf, assigned to only one leaf is derived from a bunch of such leaves for a person in a particular cycle of a sixty years. Why are there only 1800 Naadiamsas for the entire population for all times and for the entire world? As we already know through the basics of astrology, any person can be born at a place and time, which will very uniquely be only his place, date and time of birth. In Indian traditions life forms as humans are divided into four Varnas or sub-sects viz. Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Kshudras and Vaishyas. When we consider this aspect, we can understand that the same can and probably will hold good for all the created human beings regardless of where they are born, each will fall under one of these four Varnas only. So, 12 houses of the zodiac are assigned 30 Degrees each, leading to a total of 150 Naadiamsas. Significantly these are further divided into 75 for male births and the other 75 for female births. (In the reverse order.)
The zodiac is also divided into 27 Stars or Nakshatras (each of which have four quarters or Paadas). These are not necessary termed as quarters, but as combinations of Navaamsas or the ninth division of a zodiac sign i.e. 30 Degrees divided by 9 gives 13 minutes and 20 seconds. Each of these Navaamsas are nothing but one of the aforesaid Varnas. So, as any person born at any place and time in this world will have a Nakshatras Lagna, Raasi quarter/paada (which will give him the Varna) and Naadiamsa, this Naadiamsa will always have a particular name. However two persons may have the same data, one of the above given details will certainly change from one individual to another.
So we have a situation wherein one person can have the same data to all detail given, but he may not be the same as another at any time in a particular cycle of sixty years. The moment this cycle changes the Naadiamsas names also should change for that new cycle of the Luna, which not all the Naadi-granthas have considered.
This is understood, by the very nature of creation for all vibrations in the form of a Spiral. So, if Swayambhuva-Manu (self generated) is the result of the Nirguna or the formless creating its own image into a dimensional creation, then this MYTHOLOGICAL character shall have been born at the onset of the Naadi-Amsas and the first lunar cycle of sixty years.
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