By KVRK Bhargav
(Bhargav is a student of Swami who after completing his B.Tech in Textile Engineering graduated with an MBA from the the Sri Sathya Sai University in 2001. Ever since, he has had the great fortune of waiting for Swami’s direct guidance. He has been blessed with many interactions with Swami and he pursues astrology as a hobby to understand how it complements and dovetails spirituality. He shares his insights on how the planets are not causes of fear; rather they all serve the common goal of prodding man towards his spiritual destiny of Self Realization)
My friend , proud father of a cute angelic baby girl displayed lines of anxiety on his face. Rather surprised, I asked him the reason of his worry. He took a deep a breath and said with a lump in his throat, " I am overjoyed at the birth of a baby girl, but one astrologer told me that she is Mangalik". “Immediately, the problems associated with the marriage of a Mangalik girl were crowding my thoughts", he added drooping his shoulders and pouting his lips.
Mangalik is a word which comes as a nightmare to many parents in relation to the future of their children especially a girl child. You call a child mangalik considering the placement of Mars( Mangala or Kuja) in some particular houses of a horoscope. Let us first try to understand the characteristics of the Red planet Mars.
Mars is a planet of energy, impulsiveness, initiative and aggression. It imparts an individual the required energy to accomplish any given task successfully. Mars is a double edged sword; in the hands of a surgeon the energy helps in healing and in the hands of an anti social element leads to destruction.
Mars signifies the colour red, the colour of passion and belligerence. It signifies muscles and blood in human body which connote courage, valour and an indefatigable spirit. In its negative aspect it represents violence, bloodshed and wars. Winner of sixteen grand slam titles, Roger Federer has a strong Mars giving him never say die attitude and boundless energy to achieve personal success. A strong Mars made Subhash Chandra Bose work tirelessly for the freedom of our country, taking a military type struggle in a selfless manner. Strong positive Mars working at the mental level gave Mahatma Gandhi an iron will and strong determination to fight the British. It was the same Mars which exhibited negative energy in the case of Hilter and Mussolini resulting in the holocaust where approximately six million innocent Jews were persecuted and massacred in the name of ethnic cleansing.
Let us study Kuja dosha in a little more detail. There are twelve houses in a horoscope; if Mars is placed in 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th houses from three parameters of Lagna(one's personality), Moon(one's mind) or Venus( one's spouse) it causes Kuja dosha. Placement of Mars in first house of self, makes a person short tempered and irritable resulting in non-compatibility with partner. 2nd house is the house of family where Mars creates small tiffs and skirmishes. 4th house is the house of home and mental happiness. Mars placed here creates misunderstandings at home. 7th house is the house of spouse making one's spouse impulsive and intolerant. 8th house is a secretive house creating grudges and tendency of sulking in a partner. 12th house is the house of pleasures, where a bellicose planet like Mars creates disharmony.
Simple Mathematics reveals that the probability of finding a mangalik horoscope picked at random is 0.73 i.e. every three out of four individuals will have kuja dosha. Isn't it a staggering number?
Kuja dosha creates disturbance when one of the partners has this placement. So, the options of a trouble free marriage(sounds like an oxymoron!!!) are, both having this placement or both not having Mars in the above mentioned houses. Again simple mathematics reveals that the cases where Kuja dosha doesn't play a part in marriage disharmony is 62.5%.
In the remaining 37.5% if Mars is placed in its own houses of Aries, Scorpio or exalted( in Capricorn), it takes away the sting of its Mar's ill effects. If Mars is aspected by Jupiter in a horoscope it mitigates the ill effects of Mars as described by sage Parashara. Mars doesn't create a difficulty for individuals having Cancer or Leo ascendants or Moon in Cancer or Moon in Leo. Considering all these cases mangalik dosha affects the well being of a marriage in around 25% of the cases. In marriages, where one partner has mangalik dosha, Pandits suggest some misunderstandings and departure of one partner earlier than the other. But they also state that in majority of cases, it won't be premature but in a natural course, assuaging the apprehensions of the concerned parents. Let us not hold poor Mars alone responsible
for all the marital problems. Marital compatibility has to be studied taking into consideration many other factors of a horoscope of which kuja dosha is one. Undue importance given to mangalik dosha in ascertaining marital compatibility is unfounded.
I can now allay the fears of my friend regarding his concern about his daughter's future and marriage.
(Bhargav is a student of Swami who after completing his B.Tech in Textile Engineering graduated with an MBA from the the Sri Sathya Sai University in 2001. Ever since, he has had the great fortune of waiting for Swami’s direct guidance. He has been blessed with many interactions with Swami and he pursues astrology as a hobby to understand how it complements and dovetails spirituality. He shares his insights on how the planets are not causes of fear; rather they all serve the common goal of prodding man towards his spiritual destiny of Self Realization)
My friend , proud father of a cute angelic baby girl displayed lines of anxiety on his face. Rather surprised, I asked him the reason of his worry. He took a deep a breath and said with a lump in his throat, " I am overjoyed at the birth of a baby girl, but one astrologer told me that she is Mangalik". “Immediately, the problems associated with the marriage of a Mangalik girl were crowding my thoughts", he added drooping his shoulders and pouting his lips.
Mangalik is a word which comes as a nightmare to many parents in relation to the future of their children especially a girl child. You call a child mangalik considering the placement of Mars( Mangala or Kuja) in some particular houses of a horoscope. Let us first try to understand the characteristics of the Red planet Mars.
Mars is a planet of energy, impulsiveness, initiative and aggression. It imparts an individual the required energy to accomplish any given task successfully. Mars is a double edged sword; in the hands of a surgeon the energy helps in healing and in the hands of an anti social element leads to destruction.
Mars signifies the colour red, the colour of passion and belligerence. It signifies muscles and blood in human body which connote courage, valour and an indefatigable spirit. In its negative aspect it represents violence, bloodshed and wars. Winner of sixteen grand slam titles, Roger Federer has a strong Mars giving him never say die attitude and boundless energy to achieve personal success. A strong Mars made Subhash Chandra Bose work tirelessly for the freedom of our country, taking a military type struggle in a selfless manner. Strong positive Mars working at the mental level gave Mahatma Gandhi an iron will and strong determination to fight the British. It was the same Mars which exhibited negative energy in the case of Hilter and Mussolini resulting in the holocaust where approximately six million innocent Jews were persecuted and massacred in the name of ethnic cleansing.
Let us study Kuja dosha in a little more detail. There are twelve houses in a horoscope; if Mars is placed in 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th houses from three parameters of Lagna(one's personality), Moon(one's mind) or Venus( one's spouse) it causes Kuja dosha. Placement of Mars in first house of self, makes a person short tempered and irritable resulting in non-compatibility with partner. 2nd house is the house of family where Mars creates small tiffs and skirmishes. 4th house is the house of home and mental happiness. Mars placed here creates misunderstandings at home. 7th house is the house of spouse making one's spouse impulsive and intolerant. 8th house is a secretive house creating grudges and tendency of sulking in a partner. 12th house is the house of pleasures, where a bellicose planet like Mars creates disharmony.
Simple Mathematics reveals that the probability of finding a mangalik horoscope picked at random is 0.73 i.e. every three out of four individuals will have kuja dosha. Isn't it a staggering number?
Kuja dosha creates disturbance when one of the partners has this placement. So, the options of a trouble free marriage(sounds like an oxymoron!!!) are, both having this placement or both not having Mars in the above mentioned houses. Again simple mathematics reveals that the cases where Kuja dosha doesn't play a part in marriage disharmony is 62.5%.
In the remaining 37.5% if Mars is placed in its own houses of Aries, Scorpio or exalted( in Capricorn), it takes away the sting of its Mar's ill effects. If Mars is aspected by Jupiter in a horoscope it mitigates the ill effects of Mars as described by sage Parashara. Mars doesn't create a difficulty for individuals having Cancer or Leo ascendants or Moon in Cancer or Moon in Leo. Considering all these cases mangalik dosha affects the well being of a marriage in around 25% of the cases. In marriages, where one partner has mangalik dosha, Pandits suggest some misunderstandings and departure of one partner earlier than the other. But they also state that in majority of cases, it won't be premature but in a natural course, assuaging the apprehensions of the concerned parents. Let us not hold poor Mars alone responsible
for all the marital problems. Marital compatibility has to be studied taking into consideration many other factors of a horoscope of which kuja dosha is one. Undue importance given to mangalik dosha in ascertaining marital compatibility is unfounded.
I can now allay the fears of my friend regarding his concern about his daughter's future and marriage.
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