PITRA Dosha
Pitra Dosha is one of 14 shapit doshas (bad formation in kundali/horoscope bringing unfortunate results) described in the main book of Vedic astrology, Brihatparashara. Such doshas normally make the bearer suffer from financial losses, obstacles in business, child related problems etc. It can be more dangerous for the life overall than more known dosha like “Mangal or Kuj Dosha”
Pitra stands for father or forefather. Sun is considered as father in astrology. Therefore, whenever Sun is afflicted by a malefic planet, in that case there Pitra Dosha in the Horoscope. As per the Brahma Puran, Yamraj, the Lord of Death, gave permission to all the souls to eat the food once in a year when their children offer them on the Krishna Paksh of Ashwin month which is popularly known as Shraad month. This is considered as a very important time as
children perform Pitra pooja for the departed souls. And those who fail to perform Shraad suffer from “Pitra Dosha” because the Pitras are not pleased with them as they failed to offer them food during Shraad.
As per Vedic astrology, Pitra dosha is a bad combination. It is not a curse of the ancestors but it is a debt of the ancestors which is a result of bad deeds done by them and is required to be paid by the present generation. This debt can be paid either by facing all the punishments and suffering or by doing good deeds in counter that can help in softening the effect of punishments.
Main reason why Pitra Dosha occurs
It occurs mainly due to wrong deeds related to traditions. Below are some reason given.
- Insulting Parents or Honorable person wrongly
- premature ancestor death in family and not performing proper rituals like shradh
- Evil deeds, sins, or crimes committed by one's ancestors knowingly or by mistake.
- Sordid curses of the innocent victims received by one's ancestors. (often seen in royal families)
- Sinful, unsatisfied, and restless souls of the ancestors.
- Grave delinquencies of the native in his/her previous births, which inflicted sorrows to the then parents and ancestors.
Important Signs to identify Pitra Dosha exist
Before one look for the solution, it is necessary to identify the source of problems in life. It is so vital to know if signs really indicate towards Pitra Dosh, which then can be confirmed seeing the horoscope by any expert astrologer. Below are the signs which will be present in life if Pitra Dosha occurs.
- Insulting Parents or Honorable person wrongly
- premature ancestor death in family and not performing proper rituals like shradh
- Evil deeds, sins, or crimes committed by one's ancestors knowingly or by mistake.
- Sordid curses of the innocent victims received by one's ancestors. (often seen in royal families)
- Sinful, unsatisfied, and restless souls of the ancestors.
- Grave delinquencies of the native in his/her previous births, which inflicted sorrows to the then parents and ancestors.
- Unnecessary delay in Career
- Sudden or Frequent Job losses
- Obstacles in Education, person not able to realize potential
- Often gets under debt, despite doing all efforts and even earnign money
- When the lord of the sixth, eighth or twelfth house aspect or conjuncts the planets forming Pitra dosha then the native may have to suffer from accidents, injuries, eyesight problems, obstacles in promotion, loss of wealth etc.
- One can see dreams related to snakes which is a hint towards this dosha.
- One can have a dream of ancestors requesting for food or clothes.
- A person might lose his reputation in society as well as the ill effects of Pitra Dosh could even go to an extent that a person may serve a long sentence in prison.
Types of Pitra Dosh
It is said by our great sages that there are 14 different types of Pitra-doshas, based on the position and aspects of the malefic planets, out of which the position of malefic Rahu is considered the most important for this dosha.
But among these, the following 3 are most important.
* 1st is due to curse of the deceased soul if the elders has failed to perform the basic rituals of the last rites, like pinda-daan etc.
* 2nd, is due to the curse of a known or unknown living who was caused pain by the ancestor.
* 3rd, due to failure to look after the aged elder (parents or grandparents), not performing basic duties and leaving them alone to fend for themselves.
Identifying Formation of Pitra Dosha in Kundali
- In the horoscope, Sun represents Father from the planets and 9th house represents father from the houses, so its important to see the condition of 9th house and the Sun along with 2nd house and Rahu- as the 2nd house represents family which is majorly impacted by the Pitra-dosha and Rahu is the one who gives the effects.
- Placement of Sun in 5th or 9th house, which is malefic along with Rahu and Ketu.
- When Rahu and Sun are present in the same house and Rahu is stronger
- Sun and Rahu or Sun and Saturn are situated in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 9th or 10th house of the birth chart.
- Rahu is in the Lagna or ascendant and the Lagnesh is situated in the sixth, eighth or twelth house
- Sun is closely conjunct with Rahu and Ketu in the same house and within 5 degrees.
- Sun is conjunct with Rahu and Ketu without being aspected by Jupiter, in such cases the Pitra Dosha becomes more intense.
- Rahu situated in the 9th house or sitting with the Lord of 9th house.
- Rahu is main planet associated with Pitra Dosha, hence its of utmost importance to see the placement of Rahu in the chart. If Rahu gets associate with Sun, Moon, Jupiter or Saturn or if Rahu is situated in the houses of – 2nd, 8th, central houses or trine house – then it should be considered as Pitra Dosha and should be matched with the symptoms discussed above.
- If the ninth house, the lord of the ninth house, the ninth house from the Moon sign and the ninth house’s owner is afflicted by Rahu or Ketu, then Pitra Dosha gets formed.
- When the lord of the sixth, eighth or twelfth house aspect or conjuncts the planets forming Pitra dosha then the native may have to suffer from accidents, injuries, eyesight problems, obstacles in promotion, loss of wealth etc.
- When the lord of the twelfth house is in the ascendant, lord of the eighth house is in the fifth house and that of tenth house comes in the eighth house then the native is deprived of children and faces huge financial losses.
In the next post we will see about the Remedy for the Pitra-Dosh. I will discuss the remedy from all angles and in detail, hence will write it seperately.
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