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sridatta1 · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 652 Location: india

The poverty, difficulties and death indicate the necessary atmosphere for the establishment of spiritual knowledge

Saturn is considered to be the giver of spiritual knowledge (Jnana Karaka) and is said to be the husband of the deity of poverty (Jyestha Devi). This means that the best ground for the spiritual knowledge is poverty only but not wealth. The excess of wealth will lead to ego and attraction to luxury and is not congenial for the spiritual knowledge. But a minimum is essential for the basic needs of a spiritual preacher. A spiritual preacher must have his own minimum arrangement for the basic needs of himself and his family without depending on the society. If a spiritual preacher shows need for the basic maintenance, his preaching is misunderstood by the public, which thinks that the preacher is aiming at the fulfillment of his basic needs through the preaching.

This misunderstanding is natural for the human psychology. Saturn is also famous for creating severe problems. The problems always direct the soul to God. Saturn being the eldest son of the Sun, received the spiritual knowledge from his father, who was taught by God in the beginning of this creation (Imam Vivasvate Yogam….Gita). Sun is said to be the promoter of intelligence and logic which is essential basis for knowledge (Dhiyo yonah…..Veda). The brightness of Sun destroying the darkness represents the removal of ignorance by Knowledge. Saturn being the eldest son got the spiritual knowledge from his father and then passed on the same to his younger brother, Yama who in turn passed on the same to Nachiketa. Nachiketa was the first human form to bring the spiritual knowledge that transmitted from God to Sun to Saturn and finally to Yama.

God is unimaginable and Sun, Saturn and Yama are the three energetic forms. Nachiketa is the first human form, who brought the spiritual knowledge from the upper world to the earth. It is mentioned in Veda that the fire of Nachiketa (Nachiketa agni) is very sacred and here the fire means knowledge. Yohan says that Jesus will sprinkle fire, which means that Jesus emit the sacred spiritual knowledge. Yama is the deity of death and here death does not mean leaving the body. Death means the ignorance by which, God is forgotten and this is the definition of death given by the sage Sanat Sujata to the king Dhritarashtra. Therefore, Yama does not cause death and instead, removes the death. The poverty, difficulties and death indicate the necessary atmosphere for the establishment of spiritual knowledge.