DESCRIPTION
KARMIC CONTROL PLANETS
1. Introduction;
2. Cases of Suicides (Boy wonder of Wall Street, Sylvia Plath, Jim Jones, Reason for suicide, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, James Vincent Forrestal, Unexpected departure, Diana Barrymore);
3. Cases of Murder A. Political: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan, President Mujibur Rehman of Bangladesh, President John F. Kennedy of USA, Prime Minister Aldo Morro of Italy, Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandarnaike of Sri Lanka, George Morcone, Mayor of San Francisco, What triggers a murder?;
B. Non-political: A karmic tragedy, The mysterious Loeb-Leopold case, Death of a son, Murder most foul, Murder in San Francisco; Who killed Bob Crane;
4. Kidnaping/Molestation/Murder: Richard, Scott, Richard Speck;
5. Famous People: The roaring girl (Amelia Earhart), Elvis Presley, President Jimmy Carter, President Richard Nixon, President Lyndon Johnson, President Harry Truman, Yugoslav President Marshal Tito, King Peter II of Yugoslavia, King Farouk of Egypt, President Rajendra Prasad of India;
6. Lunar mansions tables; 7. Ayanamsa tables; 8. Vimshottari dasa tables.
Comment: The Karmic Control Planets are those planets ruling the signs wherein Rahu & Ketu (the moon's nodes) are located. As Ketu is the inlet point for past karmas, the planet ruling Ketu's sign is the past life Karmic Control. The planet ruling Rahu's sign is the Karmic Distribution Control Planet for the present life. Does this sound like Mohan Koparkar's Lunar Nodes to you? Let's have a look:
Lunar Nodes, by Mohan Koparkar, was copyright 1977. M.C. Jain's Karmic Control Planets appeared sometime after 1980 & presumably before Jain's demise in 1984. We note:
Koparkar, pg. 7: ....it (the nodes) acts as a vacuum tube connecting the Unknown Past (Karma) and the Known Present. In other words, nodes bridge the gap between previous form of soul to the present soul structure. It also enables us to extrapolate the present soul structure & its possible connection to the future soul form. This automatically ties us down with a concept of some form of reincarnation process.
Jain, pgs. 18-19: Rahu & Ketu act as a vacuum tube connecting the Unknown Past (Karma) and the Known Present. In other words, Rahu/Ketu bridge the gap between the previous form of soul to the present soul structure. It also enables us to extrapolate the present soul structure & its possible connection to the future soul form. This automatically ties us down with a concept of some form of the process of reincarnation.
At this point the two texts diverge, but there is more cribbing elsewhere. The top of Koparkar's page 15 is copied in the 3rd paragraph of Jain's page 19. Clever eyes may find more, I must press on.
Why do I consider this book, overall, to be Jain's original work? Because after their introductory notes, the two authors go in different directions. Koparkar, a board member of the American Federation of Astrologers & still (January 2003) very much alive, launches into textbook delineations of nodes in signs, nodes in houses, aspects to nodes in the natal chart, etc. Jain, by contrast, hardly explains his stolen idea at all. He instead rushes into an analysis of some 36 charts. Instead of explaining Karmic Control Planets, he instead tells us why people commit suicide, using a mixture of western & Vedic techniques. Jain starts case studies on page 22. They end on page 199 (the remaining pages are tables). The bulk of the book appears to be Jain's own.
This book has an amusing introduction. Richard Nolle reviewed the first edition of Jain's Rahu & Ketu & faults Jain for using western techniques in a supposedly Vedic astrology book. Jain retorts that Rahu & Ketu was written for the International market (whatever that is) and because of that, anything goes. For M.C. Jain, it certainly did.
