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Preliminary Manthra
Om Nava Graha Suktham
We meditate on the seven upper worlds and the great Mantra Gayathri.
(Adithya is the Sun God and is the son of Sage Kashyapa and Adhithi.
He is strong, splendid, bold, regal, warlike, victorious and energetic*. He
travels in a chariot drawn by seven horses and his charioteer is Aruna.)
* The characteristics of all planets are mentioned By sage Aurabindo
and are reproduced.
(This is the planet Mars also called as Kuja and Mangala. I could not
trace his lineage. He is a politician, soldier, crafty, unscrupulous and
tyrannical)
Oh earth be happy,
Give us thorn less abode,
Which is wide and grants us refuge.
(Shukra is the planet Venus and is the son of sage Brugu. His mother's
name is Kavyaa. He was adopted as their Guru by the Asuras and he
guided them in their wars with devas. He is self willed, lustful, master of
state craft, poet, thinker and philosopher)
(He is the moon God and rose from the ocean of milk when it was
churned. He is inconsistent, amorous, charming, imaginative and
poetical.)
Aapyasva,
Samethu they viswatha soma vrushnyam,
Bhavaa vaajasya samgadhe, 2
(He is the planet Mercury. He is the illicit child of Moon and his teacher
Brahaspathi's wife. He is speculative scientific, skilful.)
(He is the planet Saturn and the son of Sun God. He is lame and moves
slowly. He is cruel, vindictive, gloomy, immoral and destructive.)
VIII. Raahu
(He is the son of sage Kasyapa and his Asura wife Simhika. When
Vishnu as mohini and was distributing nectar to devas, he tried to get it
by deceit. Lord Vishnu cut him in to two. Rahu is the head portion and
Kethu the body part. He is violent, head strong, frank and furious.)
IX. Kethu
(He is the son of sage Kasyapa and his Asura wife Simhika. When
Vishnu as Mohini was distributing nectar to devas, he tried to get it by
deceit. Lord Vishnu cut him in to two. Rahu is the head portion and
Kethu the body part. He is secretive. meditative and unsocial.)
Oh fire you are brilliant and join us with the brilliant treasures,
And find the growth through luminous nights,
Oh Chandra join him with very delightful words,
And have vast delightful wealth and keepers of heroes.