(Loka (Sanskrit) means: Place, locality; in Brahmanic literature, heavens; in theosophical literature,

world, sphere, plane. Used in the metaphysical systems of India, both in contrast to and in conjunction
with tala (inferior world). "Wherever there is a loka there is an exactly correspondential tala, and in
fact, the tala is the nether pole of its corresponding loka. Lokas and talas, therefore, in a way of
speaking, may be considered to be the spiritual and the material aspects or substance-principles of
the different worlds which compose and in fact are the kosmic universe" (OG 168). The lokas and
talas must be thought of by twos: a loka and its corresponding tala can no more be separated than
can the two poles of a magnet. They are the two sides of being, the two contrasting forces of nature,
the light-side and the night-side. There are many different divisions of the lokas and talas used in
Hindu literature, but many are merely exoteric blinds. Dividing the universe into seven manifested
grades or planes of being, which are really worlds, these worlds are polarized into lokas and talas,
two by two throughout. The seven lokas and seven talas together form the seven cosmic planes. Of
these seven loka-tala pairs, the three highest belong to the relatively arupa (formless) or spiritual
worlds, and are often called arupa lokas and arupa talas. )
If a benefic occupies Karakamsa; the person will have Moksha or Final Bliss.
If Karakamsa is Mesha (aries) or Dhanus (saggitarius) with benefics there, the subject gets Moksha. If
Mesha or Dhanus happens to be the 12th from Karakamsa and Ketu is there, the person will get
Moksha.
If the 12th from the Karakamsa is occupied by evil planets, he will go to hell and will have no Bliss.
If Ravi (sun) and Ketu are in Karakamsa, the person will become a Saivite or one who worships
Shiva.
If Chandra (moon) joins Karakamsa, the person will worship Gouri, wife of Shiva.
If Sukra (venus) joins Karakamsa, he will worship Lakshmi spouse of Vishnu.
If Kuja (mars) occupies Karakamsa, he becomes a worshipper of Skanda or Shanmukha the warrior
son of Shiva.
If Budha (mercury) and Sani (saturn) join Karakamsa, he will worship Vishnu.
If Karakamsa is joined by Guru (jupiter), he will worship Sambasiva or Parvati and Paramesvara.
If Rahu joins Karakamsa, the person will worship evil spirits and Durga.
If Ketu joins Karakamsa, the person becomes a devotee of Ganesa and Kumaraswami.
If Sani (saturn) occupies the Karakamsa falling in an evil sign, the person becomes a great devotee of
evil spirits.
If Sukra (venus) occupies the evil Karakamsa, the person will worship devils, spirits, etc.
If the 6th from Amatyakaraka (AmK) joins evil Karakamsa, the person devotes himself to the worship
of evil spirits.
If the 5th and 9th from the Karakamsa are occupied by evil planets,. the person becomes a Mantrika
or magician and will be able to exercise devils and evil spirits.
If the evil planets in the 5th and 9th from Karakamsa have evil conjunctions or aspects, the person
becomes a great Mantraic and will be able to root out all evil spirits.
If the evil planets in the 5th and 9th from Karakamsa have beneficial aspects or conjunction, the
person will help the people and do them good.
If Sukra (venus) aspects Karakamsa and the Moon, the person becomes an alchemist.
If Karakamsa and Chandra (moon) have the aspect of Budha (mercury), the person becomes a
medical man.
If Moon is in the 4th from Karakamsa and has the aspect of Sukra (venus), the person will suffer from
white leprosy.
If Kuja (mars) aspects Chandra in the 4th house from the Karakamsa, the man will have serious form
of leprosy.
If Chandra (moon) in the 4th from the Karakamsa is aspected by Ketu, the person will have black
leprosy.
If the 4th or 5th from Karakamsa is joined by Kuja (mars) and Rahu, the person will suffer from
consumption or pthysis.
If such Kuja (mars) and Rahu, started in the above sutra, have the inner aspect, certainly the person
will have serious form of consumption.
If the 4th or 5th from the Karakamsa is occupied by Kuja (mars), the person will suffer from excessive
sweating, cuts, itches or boils and sores in the body.
If Ketu joins the 4th or 5th from Karakamsa, the man will suffer from Grahani or a kind of glandular
disease and from watery diseases like dropsy, diabetes, loose motions, etc.
If the 4th or 5th from the Karakamsa is joined by Rahu and Gulika, there will be suffering from the
poisonous effects of rats, cats, etc.

If the 4th from the Karakamsa is joined by Sani (saturn), the person becomes an expert in inflicting
wounds. This means he will be skilled in the use of deadly arms.
If Ketu joins the 4th from Karakamsa, the person becomes skilful in preparing clocks, watches and
other time indicating machines.
If the 4th from the Karakamsa is combined (or aspected) by Budha (mercury), the person becomes a
paramahamsa or a great yogi, or one who bears Palasa Danda, etc., showing Brahmacharya or
Sanyasayoga of particular kind.
If the 4th from the Karakamsa is occupied by Rahu, he will become proficient in preparing machinery
out of metals or a clever mechanic.
If Ravi (sun) joins the 4th from Karakamsa, the person lives by his sword.
If Kuja (mars) joins the 4th from Karakamsa, he will live by the profession of using Kuntayudha,
maces and long sticks.
If Chandra (moon) and Guru (jupiter) are in the Karakamsa or in the 5th from it, the person will
become an author and will live by writing books.
If Chandra (moon) and Sukra (venus) join Karakamsa or the 5th house from it, the person becomes
an ordinary author.
The person becomes still less famous than in the above Sutra if Budha (mercury) joins Chandra
instead of Sukra (venus) in Karakamsa or the 5th from it.
If Sukra (venus) joins Karakamsa or the 5th from it, the person becomes a great poet; an eloquent
speaker and well versed in poetry and literature.
If Guru (jupiter) joins the Karakamsa or the 5th from it, he will be an all-round man and will know many
branches of knowledge, well read in sciences and author of various works. He becomes a versatile
genius.
In the above combination of Guru (jupiter), though a person becomes learned he will not become a
good speaker nor possess powers of eloquence.
If Guru (jupiter) joins Karakamsa or the 5th from it, the person becomes learned in Vyakarana or
Grammar, Vedic literature and Vedangas.
If Sani (saturn) joins Karakamsa or the 5th from it, the person becomes nervous in an assembly.
If Budha joins 1st or 5th of Karakamsa, he w ill shine as a Meemamsaka.
If Kuja (mars) joins 1st or 5th of Karakamsa, the person will become a great logician.
If Chandra (moon) joins 1st or 5th of Karakamsa, the person becomes clever in sankhyasastra,
learned in language, poetry, drama and attendant subjects, will have great proficiency in music and
other accomplishments.
If Ravi (sun) combines in 1st or 5th of Karakamsa, the person will become a great Vedantist and
musician.
If Ketu combines in above houses, the person becomes well versed in mathematics.
If in the above combinations of planets, Guru (jupiter) joins or aspects, knowledge in the different
branches will be well founded and regularly trained as per principles of those sciences.
The results ascribed for planetary positions in the 1st and 5th from Karakamsa will also hold good for
similar positions in the 2nd from Karakamsa.