The position of Sani, Rahu and Ketu are especially considered important. Depending upon where they are located in the astrological chart at a given time, they exert positive or negative influence upon people and their destinies. Hindu astrologers draw the birth charts of individuals based upon the their position at the time of their birth. The nine planetary gods have a great significance in Vedic astrology. Depending upon their location in the planetary system and their association with the remaining deities, they are deemed either auspicious or inauspicious. Their names are derived from either comets or from the dark and somewhat hostile planets of the solar system (Neptune and Pluto). The remaining two deities are actually demons who managed to gain a place in the pantheon through an act of trickery. Of the nine deities, seven are named after the planets in the solar system, and correspond with the names of the seven days in the week of the Hindu calendar. Devotees usually propitiate these gods before offering prayers to the main deity in the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. They are found in most Hindu temples either grouped together on a panel or on a pedestal in commonly visible areas of the temple. They are worshipped in Hinduism for good luck or to overcome adversity, bad luck or misfortune arising from past karmas or birth related defects (dhoshas). The nine planets are collectively known as Navagrahas. For example the mind and the breath are considered atigrahas because you can control your senses with their help. The deities that preside over them are called atigrahas, or their controllers. The Upanishads describe the senses as grahas, since they are the grasping (grahnam) ones. Just as many other concepts in Hinduism, the word graha has multiple meanings. Though not all members of the Navagraha are planets Surya, the sun is a star Chandra, the moon is the natural satellite of Earth Rahu and Ketu are lunar nodes that are responsible for eclipses of the sun and moon.ĭepending upon where these planets are located at the time of a person’s birth, Hindus believe that the possibilities and potentialities of his life and energies are determined well in advance. This thorough study of astronomy and astrology eventually created the Jyotish Shastra which explained how the Navagraha, literally meaning the nine planets, influence the lives of the earth dwellers. Ancient Indian scholars extensively studied the stars and other celestial bodies in the never-ending spatial sky.
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