Should our karma allow to be a powerful preacher of Krishna?
A Girl devotee (Name hidden) asked like this:
“Hare Krishna prabhuji please accept my humble obeisances unto your lotus feet. Thank you so much prabhuji for whatever you’re doing. I’m really grateful for all the services you are providing us for free & i pray to krsna also whenever i remember about you. Prabhuji i’m a girl and a student right now. My question is regarding the plantets & bhakti.
Prabhuji in one of your posts you have mentioned that when someone has a strong Venus in his/her horoscope then there are chances of falling down from the spiritual path & similarly in one of your posts you have mentioned about yourself that you were destined to preach this krsna consciousness to others as per your horoscope. So prabhuji i have some questions regarding this:
(1) What are the astrological combinations which tell us that this person will preach the krsna conscious philosophy to others and prabhuji is it pre determined that only some people will be able to preach the message of krsna to others ?
(2) Prabhuji i also want to know about the astrological combinations which tells us that the person will be interested in spirituality or KC or not or would be able to practice devotion till the end of his life? Are only planets responsible for one’s bhakti as you said that people with strong Venus falls down ? If planets don’t support then can someone can’t come to the path of devotional service ? If planets are only responsible for one’s bhakti or coming to krsna consciousness then what about those people who don’t have any astrological combinations in their horoscope regarding this they will not get any chance to come to bhakti and hence their human life would be wasted?
(3) Also prabhuji how can we control the planets if they hamper our bhakti or devotional service ?
Sorry prabhuji if i have asked a lot of questions but I’m curious to know about these questions
Only if you consider these questions appropriate then you can answer them prabhuji it would be a great help for me and specifically the ist question that i have mentioned i’m curious to know about it.
Hare Krishna prabhuji pranaam”
REPLY:
You have mentioned mine as Lotus feet. Please reserve some words to praise the Lord and His avatars only. Being a human, mine is the fleshy feet only. Don’t make humans as gods. Right?
Since this is a Krishna site, I am writing astro facts in limited numbers because this site will become astrology site.
Astrology mostly (75%) speaks about the material position of a person based on his karma of previous births.
I have written about Venus that gives material comforts and pleasures. So, if Venus is powerful, he will have more material pleasures and hence he may not be able to follow devotion seriously.
That is why even the people of heavenly planets like to take birth on earth because they are unable to follow devotion in their heavenly planets because of the availability of more material pleasures.
(Should a Krishna devotee satisfy the Navagrahas? READ HERE!)
However, there are two houses in our horoscope that speaks about our spiritual status.
They are fifth and ninth houses. In some cases, 12th house too may indicate one’s getting liberated.
Let me list the possible CASES and their outcomes:
If the 5th house is strong, but 9th house is weak, that person will naturally become a devotee on his own, but will not prefer to associate more with other devotees (may be because of genuine reasons. If other houses indicate, it may be even because of ego)
If the 5th house is weak but 9th house is strong, he will grow in devotion and even get Krishna only with the mercy and association of good devotees. He starts to follow serious devotion in this birth only and grow because of the association of other devotees.
If both the 5th and 9th houses are weak, he may be a very materialistic person who does not like to associate with or appreciate the devotees. He was still more materialistic in his previous births.
If both the 5th and 9th houses are strong, he will be a born devotee who was following devotion in the previous birth also that continues now. He will easily get a guru in this birth and he will get more and more association of other good devotees.
If the 12th house is strong and 12th Lord being in the 12th house itself, clean and uncorrupted, he will get liberated.
If other houses cooperate, he will go to the world of his worshiped god/deity.
If his second house Lord is situated powerfully and positively in an auspicious house like 5th or 9th, his words will be heard and followed by others. So, he will be able to be a powerful preacher of Krishna.
If a preaching devotee’s 2nd house Lord is in an inauspicious houses like 3rd, 6th or 8th houses, he may preach, have followers, but they will not get reformed because of his preaching. The spiritual effect will be less in the preaching of such persons though they may have lakhs of fanatic followings.
(Do Horoscope and Karma decide our devotion in this birth? READ HERE!)
If a person has Papis (negative planets) in the 2nd house, he will forcibly start to follow devotion or detached life contrary to the general expectation of parents and others.
Why forcibly?
Because he will not have much interest in managing the family responsibilities and hence he will like to escape from those material family duties and get taste in spiritual life thinking that the spiritual life is easy.
Such devotees sometimes have the risk of fall down from devotion because they may not have tongue control. They will speak whatever they like and hence may invite unwanted material problems even after coming to devotional life.
So, they should get more association of good devotees to avoid fall down from devotion.
The above mentioned are general trends as per the Vedic astrology.
There are some exceptional situations to be a powerful preacher of Krishna!
What are those exceptional situations?
When a pure and powerful acharya comes to earth or even Krishna takes avatars, that period is the exceptional period.
Because of their spiritual powers, they will change the karma of many people who even accidentally hear their speeches and get their even short association.
During he visits of pure and powerful acharyas, even those who do not have karma to get devotional taste in this birth will get that taste.
(How Devotional Service or Bhakti relieves from karma & material distress? READ HERE!)
Sometimes, the reverse happens. That is, sometimes a good hearted genuine devotee may decide to distribute the devotional interest to as many persons as possible. So, that devotee may voluntarily meet several fallen souls and make them devotees though they do not have karma to start devotion in this birth. It is the causeless mercy of the Lord and His merciful devotees.
How such change of karma happens?
See, a devotee can not preach consistently for decades till his death without the permission of Krishna. Some persons may preach for a short period and disappear in the material dust. But, if a devotee consistently preaches with his commanding words throughout his life, that means, Krishna has chosen him.
Such a devotees would have been permitted by Krishna to dedicate their lives for Him.
Thus, the brief replies for all your three questions have been given above.
The reply to your third question is that the planets that hamper your devotion can be made powerless if we associate with powerful devotees who have powerful auspicious planets and houses.
So, the message given by this reply is:
Born devotees do not depend on association. They give association to others;
Others can get taste and grow in devotion though their planets do not support IF HE ASSOCIATES WITH GENUINE DEVOTEES AND ACHARYAS.
Hope you are clear about whether our karma should allow to be a powerful preacher of Krishna.
(Does our Past karma decide our choice of God? READ HERE!)