The four aims are dharma (righteousness and adherence to one's duty), artha (money and career), kaama (desiring things and getting them) and moksha (final liberation of the soul).
P.V.R. Narasimha Rao (PVR) maps them onto the houses: dharma on the 1st, 5th and 9th; artha on the 2nd, 6th and 10th; kaama on the 3rd, 7th and 11th; moksha on the 4th, 8th and 12th.
The four aims are taught early in Jyotish (Vedic astrology) courses: ACVA's course 104 covers the purusharthas with the houses, and Komilla Sutton's first week covers the four aims of life.
Lessons that use this term
- 12 houses in Vedic astrology (bhavas) explained
- 1st house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- 2nd house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- 3rd house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- 4th house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- 5th house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- 6th house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- 7th house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- 8th house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- 9th house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- 10th house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- 11th house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- 12th house in Vedic astrology: meaning and significations
- Kendra, trikona, dusthana and upachaya houses explained
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