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for wealth that is Maya and the 12th house signifies Bhoga that is means of luxuriations. So, the 12th house is the actual and utilitarian gains of wealth in life. It implies in simple words that more would be the wealth, stronger revel-rout would be the person. The worst dissipation of the wealth occurs through the 8th house which shows that the excess of wealth produces all the tendencies to seek carnal gratifications through countless channels of revelries and a fettered soul is ever increasingly susceptible for fall in such depths. Bhoga or the enjoyments also dissipate through the 6th house and as such, possibilities of hardships and sufferings owing to the efforts of obtaining means of enjoyments become paramount. The disputes, combats, frustrations and various types of hassles in life are; therefore, inevitable which would further gravitate the enchained soul into the pool of materiality.

The 2nd house is the Maya of Lagna and the 6th house is the Maya of Mantra-Shakti. So, the arousal of Mantra-Shakti also engenders the waves of Maya and the possibilities of the aspirant (sadhaka) to get engrossed in that Maya cannot be totally ruled out. This in fact happens with many aspirant and the allegorical story of Vishwamitra falling prey to Menaka is a pointer to that state when the Sadhaka becomes vulnerable for fall on account of the illusions created by the power of his own Mantra. This is a tedious stage and is fraught with many traps and pit falls where the guidance of an adept is indispensable; otherwise, the fall becomes inevitable and that makes many Sadhaka a Vishwamitra. The Mantra used for healing then becomes counterproductive and delivers a killing blow, as its wealth begins to fructify in the form of attributes of the 6th house. Thus the obscene news about the religious personalities of many sects involved in sexuality and other acts of carnality, as heard quite often, are not merely the realities of world today but are also the psychical inevitability of the fallen sadhakas easily comprehensible through the principles of astrology. As such; the sincere aspirants should take lesson from there and fear this cosmic inevitability while treading on the path of Mantra. This happens owing to the adverse impact of Mantra shakti.

It is extremely difficult to withstand the impact of Maya because this manifested universe is the product of Divine Ideation and has come into being due to the play of Maya Shakti which is a changing aspect of the changeless Universal Chit-Shakti. Under its fantabulous sway, we; owing to the illusion (Maya), consider our individual world as something independent of the Divine World.

It appears quite incongruous to our cognitive faculties and intelligence because we never realise that the illusion (Maya) pervades all human life and on account of our own inability to discriminate (viveka), we stand prevented to have an actual feel of the same. That is the agony and irony of being an intellectual human being, the most sophisticated creation of nature.

The stunning advancement of modern science that has enabled humankind to hold mastery; certainly to considerable extent, over the laws of nature, is also exceedingly ceasing and strongly blinding, so much so that we fail to perceive the world of things and beings around us as unreal and any argument adduced to establish its unreality seems to be an act of utter madness. But that is indeed not the same; for, the modern science has also fortunately enabled us to understand the concept of Maya by dint of its advanced researches and the knowledge gained there from. It can be deemed as a great irony of luck that the modern science which laid the foundation of materialism in its efforts to demolish the structures of spiritualism has also provided the facts that squarely obliterate the scientific materialism although we are seldom aware of it owing to our intelligence ever loaded with logical justifications. In spite of the fact that it would be a digression, an attempt to enunciate the concept of Maya with scientific background becomes imperative here for making the subject more easily comprehensible. – We are all sitting on a high speed planet (Earth) having dual speed of spinning about its axis and revolving around its orbit at a tremendous speed of 1,07,200 km/hr and yet we presume that everything around us including our own state of415 so called rest as stationary. Is it not both baffling