INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

COMPLETE WORKS OF DR K.C.VARADACHARI – VOL10
liberation, that is the ultimate. It is true that liberation
can be of various kinds and levels. Perhaps one may
say that wherever Rahu is in a horoscope, there is
knowledge (abstract and powerful) in respect of that
bhava, and wherever there is Ketu in a horoscope there
is liberation in respect of that bhava. But it is a
significator of aspiration for the highest realization an
ascending force even like fire-a carrier of all offerings to
the Ultimate. No wonder the Brahmana says that Agni
is avamah and Visnu is paramah-the lowest and the
highest among the Gods, and if the imagery be
accepted, Agni is Ketu, then Visnu is the Rahu, and it is
stated that it is Visnu who separated the Rahu from the
Ketu, and it is the business of the whole edifice of Yoga
to unite the disjoined, to join the disjoined: within us is
the aspiration urging forward and upward, and above us
is the sovereign head that has to be attained-the power
that is great and all-enveloping.
A Ketu philosophy would be the philosophy of
aspiration, of scared will. But it too can go wrong by
excess. A philosophy of sacrifice or yoga apart from the
exercise of knowledge-a mudha-bhakti or devotion that
permits no enquiry or abstract ascent to higher and
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