Hello everyone, I hope you all are doing good. This topic of remedies, astrological or even non-astrological, in my opinion, is very important on the performance of vedic astrology. In Western modern astrology, seems that the astrologers don't emphasize this aspect, yet, they might study it from the vedic astrology and then apply it on their astrological performance. Because the behavioral remedies, in my opinion, can be used on modern Western astrology.
This remedy I will suggest, is based on the text of the Indian Paṇḍita Śāntideva, "Bodhicaryāvatāra" or "Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra" in Sanskrit, and in English "Entering the Bodhisattva Conduct".
I notice that quite some divination practitioners, spiritual influencers, also some influencers on psychology, and maybe others, use to emphasize very much the self love remedy. They advise their viewers to give very much importance to themselves, to practice self love, to prioritize themselves, and so on.
I will not say that this doesn't work, but honestly, if people would introspect themselves, that's what everybody does. Everyone is loving themselves, everyone is prioritizing themselves. We just have to look at the global situation of the world. Why are all these wars happening in the world where many people are dying? The ultimate answer is because many people are prioritizing themselves, or at least, very important people are doing. Yet, as nowadays we live in open societies, the people of the countries that are in war must agree with these wars. So these people are prioritizing themselves so much that they kill others in order to have what they desire.
Some people might have low self-esteem problems. So for these people this teaching might bring some benefit. Yet, if everybody starts to prioritize themselves so much, more problems in societies will appear.
So Śantideva tells the complete opposite to this, which is, exchanging oneself for others. This means that instead of prioritizing and cherishing oneself, one prioritizes and cherishes others. What's the result of doing this? It's non other than happiness and the fulfillment of all wishes.
Why is this? Because by reducing our self-cherishing we naturally feel happy. Also by benefiting others, indirectly we will be benefited. We shouldn't benefit others expecting to be benefited by others as a result, the benefit we will receive from others will be a secondary effect.
To give an example, if someone enters politics in order to benefit others, and he succeeds, naturally he will receive the benefit of that selfless activity. Another example is someone who is kind to others, naturally others will be kind to one. One shouldn't be kind while expecting others to be kind to us. Yet as a secondary effect, others end up being kind to us.
Some people might think that if we do this we will be stepped over by others, abused by others, and so on. This doesn't have to be the case. Because if we let others abuse us, disrespect us, and so on, we will not be able to benefit others. Also these people will be committing negative karma by doing this. So out of compassion for these people, we shouldn't let them abuse us, disrespect us, and so on.
Externally our conduct won't change, but internally our mindset will be different. Because, picking the same example of entering into politics, possibly, most of the people do that with selfish reasons. So the external action is the same, what is different is the mindset.
So this is a very powerful remedy that I'm sharing with you. Hope you get benefited by this.
All the best.







