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God will literally sit you down and break you to humble you, then will isolate you to build you. Then give you back everything 10x to prove to you He’s real and everything is for a reason. Dear son, Keep your trust in Him.
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At 28, Dostoevsky was dragged before a firing squad, spared at the final second, and exiled to four years of hard labor in Siberia. Surrounded by brutal cold and severe illness, he lost his entire youth, but he never lost his spirit. Instead, those dark years forged his deepest wisdom and compassion for human nature. He went on to write Crime and Punishment at 45 and completed The Brothers Karamazov at 59.
No season of suffering is wasted. Yes, you can start all over again.
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Based on experience --
Everyone is working with a very unique individualistic timeline which is tailored according to their Karams based on a thousand births before this. All you need to do is not to get pulled into the vices of life, rest - whatever has to happen will happen.
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My Guruji was telling me recently that Mahalakshmi is पातालवासिनी, one who dwells in Patala.
It sounds odd at first, because we picture her in Vaikuntha, on the chest of Narayana, not beneath the earth.
Yet the Shastras quietly agree with him. The Devi Bhagavata says that among kings she is Raja-Lakshmi, in our homes she is Griha-Lakshmi, and in Patala she is Naga-Lakshmi.
When Narada came back from the lower worlds, he told the devas in Svarga itself that Patala was more beautiful than their heaven, lit by the jewels the Nagas wear.
The Mahabharata goes further.
Shri tells Indra that she lived with the Asuras from the beginning of creation, for yugas together, and she stayed because they earned her.
Their homes were clean, they tended the sacred fire, they cared for the old, the sick and the helpless, and none of them ate a good meal alone.
She left only when that conduct decayed.
In another episode Indra watches her step out of the body of Bali himself and asks why she is leaving.
She says she lives in truth, in giving, in vows, in tapas, in valour and in dharma, and Bali had fallen from all of them.
Then she says something every devotee should remember: neither the Creator nor the Ordainer commands her, it is Kala that moves her from one place to another.
Lakshmi belongs to no side, not even the devas. She has only conditions.
Now see Diwali through this lens.
When Vamana took the three worlds, Bali was sent below, and Narayana himself agreed to stand guard at his door.
The Puranas then record Bali’s request: that for 3 days every year his rule should return to the earth, and that Lakshmi should stay in every home that lights lamps during his reign.
The Bhavishya Purana describes the king proclaiming on Kartika Amavasya that today Bali rules this world, and the Dharmasindhu says lamps offered in Bali’s reign make Lakshmi steady in the house.
So the night we invite Mahalakshmi home is, by the Shastra’s own account, the night the king of Patala rules the earth.
The Bhavishya Purana also tells the women of the house to beat winnowing fans after midnight and drive Alakshmi out.
Our grandmothers in UP and Bihar still do it at dawn, going through every corner of the house with an old soop and saying “Ishvar paise, daliddar bhage”, let the Divine enter and poverty run.
She stayed with the Asuras for yugas while they kept dharma, and she left Bali the day he fell from it. Above the earth or below it, her terms have never changed.
Shubh Deepavali.
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BREAKING: Paying users have noticed AI is recently dumber as Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and Xai quietly reduce compute time to cut costs
Message des Rothschild.
À ceux qui ne comprennent pas l’hébreu, je précise qu’il s’agit ici d’une menace.
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People have started sexualising even Kajal Aggarwal after seeing her as Mandodari.
It is truly disturbing how some people perceive women.
Thankfully, the casting director made the right choice by casting Sai Pallavi as Maa Sita.
She has a simple, natural beauty that doesn't invite the kind of objectification we are seeing.
Otherwise, if a conventionally beautiful actress had been cast as Goddess Sita, these people would have sexualised her in exactly the same way.
People need to change their mindset and stop objectifying women, regardless of who they are or what role they portray.
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Forward
One of the TCS employee post :
The Last Standup
I never told anyone this, so I'm posting it here under a throwaway name. My name doesn't matter anyway. After 11 years in IT, I've learned that names don't matter much. Employee IDs do.
Mine was 40318. Remember that number.
I joined a mid-size services company in Pune in 2013. My father sold his wheat land in Bihar to pay for my engineering college. When I got my offer letter, he held it like it was a land deed. He couldn't read English well, but he kept touching the company logo with his thumb.
"Beta, ab sab theek ho jayega," he said.
Everything will be alright now.
I believed him. Why wouldn't I?
The Rise
Those early years were beautiful. I worked nights, ate Maggi at 3 AM, and learned everything on the job. By 2018 I was a team lead. By 2021 I was managing 14 people, with a flat in Hinjewadi, an EMI I was proud of, and a Creta in the parking lot.
My mother started telling relatives, "Mera beta MNC mein manager hai."
I stopped calling my father on weekdays. Too busy, I'd say. Sprint deadlines, client escalations, a release at midnight.
What I didn't say was that I'd started enjoying being needed. Every Slack ping felt like proof that I mattered.
The First Crack
Early 2023, a client asked us to "explore AI productivity." Management made it sound exciting. We ran a pilot where a few developers used AI coding assistants.
Priya, one of my juniors, only three years in, finished a module in two days that I'd have estimated at two weeks. I stared at her screen and felt something cold in my stomach.
I smiled and said, "Great work."
Then I went to the washroom and stood there for ten minutes.
That night I told my wife, Neha, "It's just a tool. Tools don't replace people."
I said it with so much confidence that I almost convinced myself.
The Slow Bleed
In 2024, hiring froze quietly. Nobody announced it. Resignations just weren't backfilled. A team of 14 became 11, then 9.
The client contracts changed too. They didn't want "30 resources" anymore. They wanted "outcomes." Fixed price, fewer people, faster delivery.
In every town hall, the leadership slides said the same words: "AI-first. Reskill. Upskill. Adapt."
I did the courses. I collected certificates like a man collecting lifeboats. Prompt engineering, cloud, GenAI fundamentals. I'd study at 1 AM after my daughter slept, and I'd think: I'm 34. When did I become someone who has to prove he's still useful?
The Night I Won't Forget
October 2024. My daughter Anaya, then 6, asked me to attend her school annual day. I said yes.
Then a client call got scheduled for the same evening. A call about "team optimization," which any manager knows is code for headcount cuts.
I chose the call. I told Anaya, "Papa will come next time."
She didn't cry. She just nodded, in a way no six-year-old should. Like she'd already learned how this works.
In that call, I was asked to rank my own team by "AI-replaceability."
I sat there with 9 names in front of me. People whose weddings I'd attended. Rakesh, whose mother had cancer. Priya, who had trusted me as her mentor.
I did the ranking. I'm not proud of it. I told myself that if I didn't, someone else would, and they'd do it worse.
At 9:40 PM I closed my laptop. Anaya was already asleep, still in her little dance costume, the glitter on her cheeks half rubbed off.
Her teacher had sent a video. I watched it alone in the dark. She was on stage, scanning the audience for someone, and then her face just went quiet.
I cried in the car for an hour. In the parking lot. Like a coward.
The Fall
In March 2025, they called it a "role realignment."
A Teams invite titled "Quick sync." 15 minutes. HR, my director, and a stranger from "People Transition Services."
My director couldn't meet my eyes. I'd worked under him for 8 years. He'd once driven me to a hospital at 4 AM when Neha went into labour.
"Your role is being impacted," he said.
Impacted. Like I was a village hit by a flood.
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I love to repeat this anecdote and many must be knowing it but I am still going ahead and writing it one more time... 😬
On the 8th of October 2001 morning, when I picked up daily Gujarati news paper Gu-Samachar at my Mumbai residence, I saw picture of the new CM of Gujarat taking the oath by name Narendra Modi. This was a completely new name for me. Even though I wasn't actively interested in politics, I could recognize names of important politicians including those few prominent ones from Gujarat. This name of Narendra Modi was heard by me for the first time and that too he just took the oath of the CM!
I was baffled and so called a very close relative who was resident of Gujarat unlike me and was very active RSS and BJP member.
I asked him -"Who is this Narendra Modi??"
He:" He is well known in our RSS, BJP circles but not famous in general masses, especially outside of Gujarat"
conversation ended.
Fast forward to the 2nd half of 2013 when Modi ji was already declared as BJP's PM candidate.
Me: What you think of Modi and Shah. Will they both be successful pan Bharat in winning general elections?
He: Politicians of Gujarat congress know it too well as to what these two guys are and How they fight elections! Unka jeena haram karke rakha hai! All these politicians and parties of Bharat still do not know what these two people are...what is their capabilities...Once they'll start election campaign across Bharat, no one in the opposition will have any answer to stop them!
and words of my relative proved prophetic! completely true over years to my super delight! our super delight!
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Aquarius natives are often judged the very people they try so hard not to hurt, even unintentionally.
They genuinely wish well for others and want to ensure that no one is harmed because of them.
Aquarius is the sign of harmony, coordination, and bringing people together.
The biggest challenge for Aquarius natives arises when they start worrying too much about what others think of them.
My advice is simple Do what your heart tells you to do. Stop worrying about what people will think of you.
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The biggest fantasy a 8H can give you is not physical pleasures contrary to expectation, it is having MIND PEACE
You will not get mind peace every time people will keep triggering you again and again while you patiently ignore and ignore
You even realise money also cannot buy mind peace, attachments will keep expecting you to fulfil responsibilities without your consent and be imposed upon you, so feeling of freedom truly never comes
You stop finding that peace in people, you do sadhana and you try to find it internally and in between everyone in the world will try to become an obstacle to you including your known kin and next of kin if there already
It is a very very difficult path to gain and truly feel mind peace
One indeed needs a very strong 4H to experience bliss from 8H nothing else can help, 8H alone will only bring ruining of mind peace thats a sad truth
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Capitalism doesn’t have a brain. Just a mouth and a belly.
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Google losing 500 billion dollars in value because of their own decision to force AI summaries down our throats when their revenue model is based on search engine ads would be funny if it weren't also evidence of how shockingly dumb the people currently running the global economy are.
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There is an unwritten rule to life that most people never get told. After every long stretch of hardship and uncertainty, a period comes where you make quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life at once. It happens all at once, and it happens because of everything you survived before it. The only requirement on your end is simple. Do not give up on yourself before that period arrives.
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The answer is that the matching most people rely on barely touches the marriage.
Guna milan, whether it is the 36 gunas or the 10 kootas, is perhaps 10% of real matching. Every point in it comes from the Moon of the 2 charts. 1 graha out of 9.
Each person also carries his own karma into the marriage. If the individual chart shows a troubled married life, a good guna score does not cancel it.
The real matching is graha to graha and bhava to bhava. And above all, it is destiny matching, which I do using tithis among other factors. Over the years it has shown me what no guna score ever shows.
Many couples are lovers and enemies at the same time. When their destinies are matched, both threads appear together. Such people will marry. And they will live a chaotic married life, because the enmity came in along with the love.
How long they carry it depends on desh, kaal and patra: their culture, their background, their times. One couple survives 15 years, another holds on for 30. I have seen this case after case, and I keep writing about it.
So when matched charts end in a broken marriage, the matching did not fail. It was never asked the right question.
A few days ago I overheard my mother talking about a relative of ours. When she was of marriageable age, 4 or 5 alliances came for her, and every one of them fell through, each for some different reason.
In the end she married a man the rest of the family was against.
They said he was sickly and weak. Her father, who was an astrologer, insisted on him anyway.
That marriage is now more than 30 years old. The man they called weak is alive. The 4 or 5 men who could have been her husband are all gone.
She was meant to have a long married life, and destiny quietly closed every road that did not lead there.
Now look at the astrologer himself.
Perhaps he saw something in those charts, perhaps he did not.
We will never know. But another of his own daughters is going through a very hard married life.
The same father, the same knowledge, the same house.
One daughter in a marriage of 30 years, another in a marriage full of struggle.
That is how small a human being is in front of karma.
This is why knowing Jyotish can work both ways. Know too much, and you may struggle to find the right person, because every chart shows you a flaw. Know nothing, and you will still marry exactly the person you are destined to.
So Jyotish is not a tool to rearrange destiny. Largely, it cannot.
It is a tool to understand karma. Remedies have their place, but like any medicine, allopathic or Ayurvedic, a remedy works only with precautions.
And the precautions come from understanding. When you know your spouse needs emotional care, you give it. When you know your mother is heading into a hard period, you stand by her before it begins.
The deepest gain is that you stop reacting. Every reaction is a repetition. When we react, we create nothing new. We only replay old karma in a new scene. Understanding gives you a pause, and in that pause, for the first time, the old karma does not get repeated.
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The importance of your mother’s mother. Everyone inherits mitochondrial DNA from their grandmothers only.
Mitochondrial inheritance from the sperm is nil as it’s destroyed right after fertilization. Basically it means your mtDNA from your mother comes from her mother only.
Your paternal grandmother does not contribute any mtDNA to you.
mtDNA is passed only through the maternal line. Your paternal grandmother passed her mtDNA to your father, but fathers do not pass mtDNA to their children. Your mtDNA comes exclusively from your mother → maternal grandmother → maternal great-grandmother, and so on.
Your paternal grandmother contributes a normal quarter of your nuclear DNA (and if you are female… her entire X chromosome via your father). She contributes nothing to your mitochondrial DNA.
Of course nuclear DNA and environmental factors matter most in a person’s genetic makeup, but when a pathogenic mutation is present in the maternal line, it creates a heritable risk that can affect multiple generations on the mother’s side.
Grandmothers are important. Maternal grandmothers are special.
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Most of you must have read about Shani Maharaj from various sources. On this platform as well, he is the ग्रह that is discussed the most and for obvious reasons.
So let me give you a practical example:
The most positive Shani Maharaj to his fullest glory as a KarmaYogi and a Rajarshi is dwelling in Shree Narendra Modi in our times.
While observing NaMo, you can think that you are watching auspicious Shani Dev acting with his most positive traits!
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Also your worry is not baseless. Manu says adharma never goes without fruit. If it does not fall on the doer, it falls on his sons, and if not on them, on his grandsons.
But look at how it travels. In the case I just shared, the same inaction showed up in a past life and again in the client’s own father. Karma moves through a family as a pattern. Your children are born into your home through their own karma, but what they learn from you is your pattern. And a pattern can be broken today.
The door is never closed either. Manu gives the method: admit the wrong openly, feel it, do some austerity and daana, and resolve that you will not do it again. Repentance frees you, but it is the resolve that purifies. Krishna goes further. Even one who has lived badly, the day he turns to Him with a single heart, quickly becomes righteous.
So in the time you have, where the person you wronged is still alive, go and set it right. Where they are not, do seva and daana in their name. And let your children see you do it. A child who watches his father admit a mistake and repair it learns a dharma no book can teach.
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From a Jyotishi’s side I can answer this better, with a real cases. A recent one though there are hundreds of such real life cases on my timeline.
I have been working with the Karma Vipak Samhita. It gives a past-life story for each nakshatra pada. For one client, the story was this. A man’s sister asked his wife for some gold.
The wife said very harsh things to her. The man did nothing. He never stopped his wife, and he never consoled his sister. The sister was deeply hurt, and she took her own life that same night, during the wedding of the man’s son.
Reading that story along with the other combinations in his chart, I told him that in this birth sisters will bring a lot of trouble, because we are born into the family where our karmas repeat. Karmic debt is with siblings mainly.
One of his sisters is going through a very tough life and is living with him. He is not married, and one reason somewhere down the line is his own lack of interest in marriage. Later he wrote to me that his father’s sister has always tried to dominate his mother, and his father never acts or says a word.
See how it works. Inaction happened in the previous life. Inaction is happening again in this life.
Every act leaves a reaction in us. A man who kills once finds it easier the next time. Or the shock turns him completely against it- seen via Rahu or Ketu in horoscopes (great technique revealed).
In his case, his detachment from marriage is perhaps because of what his wife did in the past life. And in this life he is living with a dependent sister.
This is how karma works, and this is what I have been working on all my years in Jyotish. It is not a fluke. A person is born in a particular nakshatra pada, and that pada carries this story. But an experienced Jyotishi has to apply it very intelligently. In a way, I am revealing a technique with this post.
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understand sir. thank u. when we know we would have been better in the past and some mistakes would have been avoided how do we course correct and do what ever possible in remaining period available..i don't want my Karma to impact my children for no fault of theirs






















