The
Voices of Light:
Mahatma Gandhi - An
example for us all
IN
INDIA, WHERE CONSCIOUSNESS HAS BEEN EXPLORED
for thousands of years, there is an understanding that relates
back to ancient times when a “million” people was thought easily
to equal the world’s population. In the Hindu comprehension there
are a “million” Gods; one for each of us. We are each one of us
a God, or a representative of one of the many aspects of God.
We have the intrinsic potential to appreciate that each one of
us, in our own personal nature, is essential to the wholeness
of life.
In these turbulent times of monopolized media, digitized money,
obsolete religions, military invasions, pharmaceutical travesties,
“new” diseases, corporate disgrace and resource inequality, the
world’s faith in itself is being challenged as never before. What
is going on here on planet Earth? Are we born just to suffer heaps
of indignities piled on us, one after the other? Or are we here
to live a life in which we find abundance, contentment, maturity,
spirituality and fulfillment?
As the movie “The Matrix” suggests, we appear to be alive but
we are plugged into a wrong reality. What is it going to take
for us to recognize our misplaced attentions and awaken to our
truth? Do we need an Armageddon to wake us up, or is there perhaps
a peaceful solution?
In this article, we examine the Design chart of one of the great
champions of human integrity, Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi.
Mohandas Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbender, Gujarat
in India, into the incarnation of Upheaval. Of the 112 different
incarnations that are available to us as humans, the incarnation
of Upheaval is one of the rarer ones. It is an incarnation that
is lived out through dramatic and often challenging interactions
with others.
Each of us is born into an incarnation in which we live out a
certain theme for a whole lifetime. The vast majority of us live
out what we call "personal" incarnations in which very often we
do not completely comprehend the effects that our words and actions
have on others. Those who are born, like Gandhi, into an interpersonal
incarnation, spend a whole lifetime living with a sense of responsibility
for everything that appears to happen around them in their life.
The incarnation of Upheaval that Mohandas Gandhi was born into
carries with it an intrinsic challenge to any situation where
fundamental human values are perceived as incorrect. Throughout
his lifetime many people will have only seen him as a disturbance,
because his every act would, on some level or another, be construed
as obstructive and provocative, and because his every word would
have undertones of strong opinions and even criticisms. Those
who loved him would appreciate that he had a deep yearning for
society to improve its ways. The greatest achievement for somebody
with this incarnation is to make sure that their challenge is
never directed on a personal level, but is aimed specifically
at systems and the ways in which things get done in the world.
At the age of 13, as is common in India, he was married, and when
it was appreciated that the young Gandhi had a great aptitude
with things legal, he was sent to London in England to study law,
eventually being called to the bar as a qualified barrister. His
family, in the meantime moved to South Africa and became part
of an Indian community that the British typically established
in many of their colonies. Indians living in British colonies
would handle day-to-day life as merchants and bureaucrats within
the British system. Gandhi soon appreciated that the Indian colonists
in South Africa were getting a raw deal at the hands of the British,
and he started representing them legally to establish their civic
rights, often in the process finding himself behind bars in defiance
of what he considered unfair practices.
Gandhi the Generator
By design, Mohandas Gandhi is a "generator," with a definition
between the red square sacral Center and the yellow diamond self
Center, through the channel 5-15, rhythm, the design of having
a natural timing relating to universal law. The channel is called
"being in the flow." 
This
channel is composed of a combination of two gates, the 15 and
five. The 15 relates to the extremes that are played out in human
nature, and the five relates to the process of waiting for life
force energy to take its natural course. Anyone who has this channel
in their design is constrained to wait for an inner response from
their sacral Center before engaging in anything that life has
to offer. For anyone who has lived with someone that has this
channel 5-15 defined in their design they will experience that
this person has a very particular inner timing mechanism. It is
not wise to try and rush them. Somehow, they are always in right
time.
Generators, in general, have unflagging energy. When they commit
to something they are constrained to follow through on it either
until it is completed or, until they get completely frustrated
in their efforts to make something happen that simply refuses
to happen. The latter situation only comes about when a generator
gets involved in something in a way that really does not suit
them personally. All generators are designed to respond from their
sacral Center. The sacral response gives them a clear indication
that they have personal life force energy available towards whatever
they have responded.
Gandhi
the Projector
Mohandas Gandhi in his design chart, has three areas of definition.
The one area we have looked at is the generator part. The two
other areas are both projector parts. He has definition between
the Ajna Center and his throat Center through the channel 17-62,
the channel called acceptance, the logical organizer, and also
between the spleen Center and the root Center through the channel
28-38, the channel called struggle, the stubbornness to uphold
high personal values.
There
is no question that Gandhi had great organizational skills. He
could say things that on a logical basis were completely irrefutable.
Not only could he dispute whether something was legal or not,
but he could also imply how things could be arranged in a much
better way then they were before he applied his attention to them.
From the point of view of being stubborn, he had a knack of being
able to bring things to complete standstill when he felt that
his personal values were being compromised.
Assimilation
Anyone who is born with three areas of definition in their design
has the gift to relate to any single instance in their life from
three totally different points of view. In Gandhi's case his sacral
response would give him an indication as to whether to get involved
in something or not. His mental viewpoint would indicate to him
whether something was logical or not and needed (re)organizing.
His splenic viewpoint would give him the basis to confront anything
until his personal conditions were met. When these three separate
points of view were assimilated, he was completely unassailable.
When he relied too much on any particular one of these three viewpoints
without assimilating the other viewpoints, he was vulnerable.
Assimilation takes place when one interacts with other people
who link separate areas of our design together. It would always
be important for Gandhi to have people around him to discuss things
with him, helping him link his three areas of definition together.
Open and Undefined Centers
In
any design chart it is always important to have a look at the
centers that are undefined or open (and colored in white) in the
chart. The white centers are when we get to "play" in life through
our interactions with those people having the centers defined
(and colored in) in their own charts. From these Open and Undefined
centers, there is the opportunity to mirror back the world to
itself, but also we can find ourselves fascinated and even overwhelmed
by the nature of fixed energies that other people bring to us
through these centers being defined in their Design charts, to
the point where we take on other people's conditioning into our
own lives.
In Gandhi's design at the top of his chart he had an open Crown
Center, implying that he was open to all kinds of inspirations.
He would have found himself reaching into many areas of worldly
and spiritual inspirations espoused by other people. As to whether
it was appropriate for him to adopt any of these inspirations
into his own life would depend entirely on his Sacral response.
Further down on the right side of his chart he had an open emotional
Center. What can often be said for people who have any completely
open emotional Center is that they can appear quite unmoved and
even cool in emotionally charged situations. If Gandhi was really
sure in his actions he would probably become more and more justified
in himself the crazier things appeared to become in the emotional
world around him.
Gandhi also had an undefined heart Center containing the gate
51, the presence of individual initiative in disruptive and drastic
situations. In his Design, this gate was activated consciously
and unconsciously by Neptune, the planet relating to a deeper
feminine nature and mystical characteristics, and also by his
unconscious moon. Not only could he find himself making a great
play in handling drastic situations but he could also have found
himself catalyzing them as well. With the presence of Neptune
and his unconscious moon in Gate 51, he would have found himself
uncannily inspiring others to take dramatic and drastic steps
towards embracing their own personal truth.
In conclusion
It is said of Mohandas Gandhi that he was single-handedly responsible
for bringing an end to British rule in India. Whenever he saw
something as substantially illogical or he recognized a dispute
as ridiculous, he would call for a peaceful strike or he would
fast, "even unto death," shaming those involved to come to their
senses. He espoused what could be seen to be a peaceful outcome
to every disagreement. For the British, at that time a warring
nation with an empire, his peaceful stance was unassailable. Gandhi
had the logic and the timing and the stubbornness to bring India
to a standstill and render the British governors impotent.
In this time of great dissatisfaction and chaos in the world,
it would do us all good to look within ourselves to find what
it is that we are really here to live out as our own truth on
our own terms. Never have we been challenged by so much nonsense
and misinformation. It is now, more than ever, quite beyond the
scope of our minds to be able to think our way through life. Each
one of us has our own means to be guided through our life by relating
to a truth that resides within us. Mahatma Gandhi stands as a
great example of someone who lived according to his own nature
despite almost unimaginable opposition. Each one of us has our
own strengths waiting to be called forth so that we can connect
more closely with our life's essence and our Godliness.
Next month: Voices of Light : Peter Sellers, the genius.
©
2003 Chetan Parkyn
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