Pitra Dosha, Curse & Remedies

Pitra Dosh– In contrast to the misconception of it being the curse from forefathers, Pitra Dosh is actually a karmic debt of the ancestors. It is reflected in the Kundli in a form of malefic planetary combinations and is to be paid by the person having Pitra dosha in his Kundli. To put it simply, Pitra dosh is formed in a person’s horoscope, when his/her ancestors have committed some sin or mistake. So, in exchange for that, the native is held accountable to pay for the wrongdoings of their forefather’s past deeds by going through various punishments. Presence of Pitra Dosha in one’s horoscope may bring about some inevitable and unexpected hardships in the native’s life. It causes severe ups and downs in one’s lifespan. The native tends to suffer from a lack of mental decisiveness and money.

Pitra Dosh or Pitru Dosh, according to Vedic astrology, is a birth defect or a defect which occurs later in one’s life and is demoralizing for some people. The most number of cases where Pitra Dosh occurs are caused by movement of the planets and for the reasons mentioned below:

1 Bad deeds of our ancestors/children in earlier life, knowingly or unknowingly.

2 Lack of full filament of parental desires of our ancestors

3 Sudden and unnatural death of any relative ancestors in early age, Pitra Dosha occurs if any ancestors up to the 7th generation on the father’s side and up to the 4th generation on the mother’s side have expired at an early age or have had an unnatural death.

It is said that in the month of Pitripaksh, lord of death grants freedom to all the souls to visit their own people & accept the offerings of their children’s, so many people offer sharadh to their ancestors.

Effects of Pitra Dosh are listed below:

1. There will be no male child born in the family to carry on the generation or no child in the family.

2. Frequent abortions may take place.

3. There can be children in the family who do not want to get married or in spite of many efforts no suitable match could be found for the marriage.

4. Lack of interest in Business/education/profession for family members even though they are qualified to do so.

5. Children in these families may be born with physical or mental limitations or even the ones who are born normal

6 Health and hygiene-related issues at home and for family members.

7. Scarcity always revolves around these families and they hardly find any luck or prosperity in whatever they try to do.

8. The native dealing with Pitra dosh has to face several problems related to progeny. Besides, their children are likely to get affected by physical or mental illness.

9. People suffering from this Dosh tend to face plenty of issues regarding their marriage. Regardless of all their efforts, they are unable to get married at the right time because of Pitra Dosh.

10. Oftentimes the household is surrounded by diseases, due to which the family face plenty of physical, emotional and financial problems.

11. Pitra Dosh creates an unfavourable environment in the household. The husband and wife may have disagreements and issues on insignificant matters.

12. Natives often remain regularly under debt and despite all their efforts, they are unable to settle the debt. Due to the ill effects of Pitra Dosh itself, the family of the native lags in financial growth. And are always surrounded by poverty and inadequacy.

13. If a family is suffering from Pitra Dosh, any member of the family is likely to see a snake in his/her dreams or the ancestor demanding food or clothes.

14. The native might lose his reputation in the society or the ill effects of Pitra Dosh could even go to an extent when the native has to serve a long sentence in prison.

15. Increased Pitra Dosh in native’s Kundli might bring unnatural death like suicides/accidents/murder and/or continuous loss of lives in a mysterious manner.

Causes of Pitra Dosh/Pithru Dosham

Here is the list of sins that spawns the malefic effects in a Kundali.

Nobody can get away with their consequences by simply doing prayers and poojas, but facing equivalent situations and troubles that they or their ancestors had inflicted on others.

• Treating someone (human/animal) with cruelty (or) torturing (or) abusing killing humans/animals. Or any kind of living creature on the earth either directly or by indirect involvement.
• Stealing something that is not lawfully yours (or) forcefully taking away (or) pillaging (or) deceiving others by manipulating them through unethical or unlawful manner.
• Accumulation of wealth by wrong means or forcefully taking others possessions or misused their abilities and powers.
• Abusing anyone (humans/animals or any kind of living creature on earth ) physically, mentally or sexually.
• Deliberately spreading rumours (or) making false accusations (or) speaking ill of anyone with the wrong intention (or) speaking on anything with unverified information.
• Speaking of bad karma and wrongdoings of the past 

Planetary positions responsible for Pithru Dosham

Native’s chart reflects Pitra Dosha by certain planetary positions forming different types of Pitra Dosh or Pithru Dosham.

Planets/Houses that signifies Pitra Dosh SUN- represents father/fatherly figures and ancestors MOON- represents Mother and Mind SATURN- represents debts, sin and difficulties in life 9th HOUSE- represents past life, forefathers and 2nd HOUSE- represents family, heritage and bloodline Planetary combinations responsible for Pitra dosh A Kundli is considered to be affected by Pitra dosh if, in the horoscope, the 9th house or its lord is either in conjunction with or is aspected by Rahu or Ketu. If Sun and/or Jupiter is in the Kundli in conjugation or expectation of Rahu or Ketu, it gives the effect of Pitra dosh to some extent. Sun and Rahu or Sun and Saturn in the first, second, fourth, seventh, ninth and tenth house of the birth chart. Rahu is in the ascendant and the lord of the ascendant in sixth, eighth or twelfth house, in that case also Pitra Dosha forms in the horoscope. With the effect of the lord of the sixth, eighth or twelfth house aspecting or conjuncting the planets forming that forms Pitra dosha, the native might have to suffer from severe accidents, injuries, eyesight problems and basically complications in life.

Remedies of Pitra Dosh/Pithru Dosham

• The native should feed the Brahmins.
• Donate money and red clothes to them and perform Pitru Tarpan on a Sunday of Sankranti or Amavasya.
• As a remedy for this dosh, the native should arrange for Pitra Dosh Nivaran puja which comprises Tripindi Shradh and Pitra Visarjan.
• The natives should perform the rituals of Shradh with utmost sincerity and faith to remember and pay respect to their forefathers.
• Natives should offer water to his pitras for 15 days during the shradh or on the tithi of their death.
• Apart from this, offering water to Banyan tree and lord Shiva daily further minimizes the negative effects of Pitra Dosh in the Kundli.
• perform following pujas at Gokarna, Karnataka. 1 Naryan Bali puja 2 Naryan Nag bali puja 3 Tripindi pitra dosha puja. or simple solutions like Water a Banyan Tree regularly, Feed Brahmins on Amavasya and also help poor and needy on this day in your own capacity, Unconditional services to parents and old age people Worshipping Lord Vishnu, especially the form of Sri Ram etc.

I hope this post may help many, I am asking everyone to be genuine and true, if you are true then you will empathise with all even animals, and this will eradicate all the evils, try to educate sanskaar to your children’s, do not indulge in a fight or spread anger, never kill animals.

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