Pitru Dosha
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A severe ancestral affliction, often caused by an untimely death (Akala Mrityu) in the lineage, addressed through Narayana Bali and Tripindi Shradh.
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What is Narayana Bali performed for, and what supplements it when negative entities block the ancestral rites?
It is performed for individuals who died untimely or unnatural deaths, to assist their transition and relieve severe ancestral affliction; if negative entities block the rites, invoke Lord Bhairava first, followed by full recitations of scriptures like Srimad Bhagavatam or Garuda Purana dedicated to the deceased.
What is the remedy once a dosha has already been incurred from careless sadhana?
A devotee describes falling ill after unknowingly doing an ugra mantra and stotra, and being cured after reciting Shiv Rudrashtakam. The speaker confirms this: whenever an apradha has occurred — a mantra shraap, deva shraap, mantra dosha, deva dosha or pitru dosha from ugra sadhana or careless havan — Bhagwan Shiva himself protects through Rudrashtakam, and one should seek kshama while performing his abhishek.
Morning-only headache as a symptom of Pitra Dosha
The speaker says that when Pitru Dosha is present in the birth chart and has begun to act on a person, its very first symptom is a heavy headache every morning on waking. He stresses that the pain comes only in the morning, never in the afternoon, evening or night, and that it comes no matter how long or how well the person has slept. Such a pattern, he says, means some ancestor is displeased or the chart's Pitra Dosha has started affecting the person.
Being called in sleep and waking thirsty around Amavasya: a sign of unsatisfied ancestors
The speaker describes a second symptom of Pitru Dosha tied to sleep. Around Amavasya, as soon as the person begins to fall asleep he keeps feeling that someone is calling him, and the moment his sleep breaks he feels thirsty again and again. He says this happens only from two to four days before Amavasya to two to four days after it; once the Pratipada or dwitiya of the bright fortnight has come, the trouble stops. This, he says, means the ancestors are unsatisfied and in pain and are using this means to say so.
Fights breaking out the moment a puja or festival begins: a strong sign of Pitra Dosha
The speaker says a third symptom of Pitru Dosha is a family that lives well all year but breaks into serious fighting the moment a festival, pilgrimage or puja arrives. His example is Navratri: all preparation is done, and just at the time of Kalash sthapana a quarrel starts over a flower not arriving or a mango leaf being missed, and it turns into beating and throwing things. If this repeats at Diwali, Holi and every auspicious occasion, right at the moment the puja is about to begin, he says Pitra Dosha is present in the house with great force. He notes that Abhichara shows the same pattern, but counts it as a Pitra Dosha symptom too because what is being blocked is the auspicious work itself.
No comfort from vehicles as a symptom of Pitra Dosha
The speaker says that with Pitru Dosha a person cannot easily buy a vehicle at all; it comes only after great effort and difficulty, whether a two-wheeler, a four-wheeler or a vehicle-based business. Then paying its EMI is a struggle, and the vehicle always has some fault. He says that however carefully the Muhurta was checked at purchase, if Pitra Dosha is there the person will not get the comfort of the vehicle: it keeps breaking down, everything it earns goes into repairing it, and half the person's time passes in the garage. Trouble in the comfort of vehicles, he says, is a major symptom of Pitra Dosha.
Sudden illness just before a festival, puja or pilgrimage as a symptom of Pitra Dosha
The speaker says another symptom of Pitru Dosha is a house where everything runs normally, but as soon as a festival or auspicious work approaches, a family member, often the main member, falls very seriously ill, to the point of needing hospital or being unable to do anything; sometimes most members of the family fall ill at once. He fixes the timing: around Amavasya, or when Navratri, Diwali, any puja one is going to do or get done, or a Teerth Yatra is about to happen. Illness exactly then, he says, is counted as a symptom of Pitra Dosha.
Can Pitra Dosha delay marriage?
Yes, the speaker says. Age keeps passing but marriage does not happen: he calls this a common symptom that is fully accepted as caused by Pitru Dosha, which brings delay and mounting problems in marriage. His advice for anyone whose marriage is being delayed is to have Pitra Dosha examined in their birth chart and to do, or get done, whatever puja and vidhi-vidhan is prescribed for pacifying it.
Trouble conceiving and repeated miscarriage as a symptom of Pitra Dosha
The speaker says that after marriage, trouble in growing the lineage is a symptom of Pitru Dosha: the wife cannot conceive, or miscarries again and again. He allows that the cause can also be Abhichara, but says the underlying fact is that the ancestors' support is not there, because when the ancestors support a family the lineage grows at once. In his view, if conception is easy, the nine months pass without trouble and the child is born well, that is the ancestors' full grace and protection; if conceiving is hard, the pregnancy is troubled, miscarriage happens, there are repeated hospital visits and bleeding that will not stop, and the whole pregnancy passes in tension, that is a symptom of Pitra Dosha.
Income that arrives but never stays as a symptom of Pitra Dosha
The speaker says a further symptom of Pitru Dosha is spending more than one earns while debt keeps growing. He separates two situations: having no source of income at all is one problem; the Pitra Dosha pattern is having a source of income but being unable to keep any of it. He says the money goes into the very troubles he has already listed: medical expenses, puja preparations for an auspicious work that never got done, and pilgrimage tickets wasted when everyone fell ill, with medical bills on top, plus loss after loss in business. Money comes in, he says, but drains away into all these things.
Many different troubles striking together around Amavasya: the sign of the strongest Pitra Dosha
The speaker asks those with these problems to mark one main point: around Amavasya different kinds of troubles all come at the same time. The vehicle breaks down, health fails, there is a quarrel or a fight; if there is a loan, the whole month went fine but at that moment the EMI collector starts harassing; someone cheats you, a fight breaks out with a competitor, a falling-out with a friend. If mental tension around Amavasya is very heavy in this way, he says, it is the sign that the effect of Pitru Dosha on the person is at its strongest.
Getting Pitra Dosha treated once its symptoms are recognised
The speaker says that anyone who has these symptoms of Pitru Dosha should act in time: contact a good, knowledgeable person, a Vedic Brahmin, a learned Brahmin or a learned astrologer, have the matter examined, and get treatment done according to the symptom, so as to remove the effects of the dosha. For those who want to do it themselves, he says the methods have been explained one by one in his other videos; they should adopt whichever vidhi-vidhan suits them. If the methods are followed continuously for three to six months, he says, Pitra Dosha decreases and the ancestors' grace begins to come.
What spiritual harm results from abandoning traditional Vedic Sanskaras?
Abandoning sacraments like the sacred thread (Yajnopavita), the tonsure ceremony (Chudakarana/Mundan), traditional cremation on a funeral pyre, and post-death Shradh and Pinda Daan causes spiritual disruption, Pitru Dosha, and material or physical afflictions.
Where the ancestors (pitrs) reside and how bodiless pitrs can be impurified
The speaker says families with recurring trouble are often told by a tantra-knower that their Pitrs have become impure, and he asks how that is possible when the pitrs' body is not made of the five elements. He explains that the pitrs have a vayaviya (airy) body, that their chief seat is beside the entrance door of the house together with the Kuldevi and Kula Bhairava, and that every auspicious (mangalik) work of the family happens only by their grace. Because they hold that authority, they can be reached and impurified — and only those who have gained divine sight by a Mahavidyas's grace see this correctly.
Ancestral impurity caused by an enemy binding the threshold (chaukhat)
The speaker names the first cause: someone who wants, out of jealousy, to bring impure and petty forces into a house must first bind the Chaukhat — nail (keelit) or defile the entrance — and once the door is defiled the Pitrs become impure 99% of the time. Defiling, he says, means having forbidden substances of the sacred cow (Gau mata) — its flesh or a part of its dead body — thrown on or touched to the threshold by shmashan vidya, mantra or tantra, often with the help of Bhagatvaals. The pitrs then can no longer support any auspicious work; the family keeps doing its puja but sudden upheaval breaks out. Enemies do this, he says, when a family is rising or a wedding is coming.
Ancestral impurity from readmitting a daughter who left the lineage tradition
The speaker's second cause is a son or daughter marrying into a kula wholly opposed to the family's tradition. His example: a daughter from a Sanatana house where puja follows Vaishnava or Dakshinachara vidhi goes off with a Muslim boy, and the family later takes her back out of pity or attachment — then, he says, it is more than 95% certain the Pitrs will be angered by impurity, because her character and body are wholly impure from what is done there against dharma, and when she crosses the Chaukhat with that aura the impurity falls on the children and descendants. His rule: do not let such a person back in; if you feel compassion, meet her outside. If she truly wants to return, take her first to a tirtha where the Ganga is pure — Haridwar, Rudraprayag — have Brahmins conduct Prayashchitta (he mentions Ganga sand being fed for seven days), and keep her there in vidhi-vidhan puja for at least a month and a quarter before bringing her home; then no dosha attaches.
Ancestral impurity from a daughter-in-law who breaks the lineage rules
The speaker's third cause is a son of the house marrying a woman — not necessarily a Muslim girl, he says, but any woman — who runs wholly against the kula tradition. His examples: meat is not eaten in your house and your Pitrs' seat and deities forbid it, yet she cannot live without it; she will not sweep and mop, will not do puja on time or at all, or ignores shuddhi and shauch (Ashauch); being very modern she does not observe menstruation and in that state touches the pitrs' seat, the deity images or enters the deity's place. This, he says, pains and impurifies the pitrs, who then bring suffering on the family — and it applies even if you yourself arranged the match.
Ancestral impurity picked up inadvertently on travel or pilgrimage
The speaker adds a special cause that happens unknowingly: a family member on a journey touches some forbidden thing without knowing, someone else touches such a thing to their body (unknowingly or deliberately), or at a tirtha they step over the wrong kind of Utara that people leave behind — and then walk into the house. The Pitrs are impurified unknowingly, and the biggest sign, he says, is that skin-related disease starts increasing sharply in the body. His rule: whenever someone comes back from somewhere and a family member develops heavy skin trouble with no particular cause found, do pitr-related remedies.
One-day remedy for inadvertent ancestral impurity: Gita path and Tulsi abhisheka
The speaker says remedies differ by dosha, but gives one general one. A boy of the house fills a copper lota with pure water, adds a little Gomutra and Gangajal, and recites the 11th chapter of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita 11 times holding the lota in both hands — on any Sunday (either paksha) or on an Amavasya, all in one day, finishing between 10 am and 12:30 pm (the path may begin at 7–8 am), without blowing on or making the water jutha. The charged water is then poured over a Tulsi plant placed facing the sun, with a prayer to Surya Narayana and Tulsi that the Pitrs be freed of whatever impurity they got knowingly or unknowingly, and a request to all pitrs to be present in the plant in their portions and receive their share. He says the root, stem and top of Tulsi house different classes of pitrs — Oot, pitr and Jujhar — and by the grace of Surya Narayana, Narayana and Tulsi the pitrs become fully pure. It is a one-day prayoga; it works for impurity incurred unknowingly, and is not as effective if the fault was deliberate.
What is Pitri Dosha from disparaging deceased parents, and how is parental debt discharged?
Even if parents were unable to provide material wealth, criticizing or cursing deceased parents attracts severe ancestral affliction (Pitri Dosha) inflicted by the ancestral deity Aryama; parents discharge their debt by giving birth, education, sustenance, and marriage, after which the debt transfers to the progeny to honor and serve them.
Who the Anagha Bel-tree tarpan is for: a deceased woman of the household who troubles the family
The speaker says that if a woman of the household has died, especially an untimely (Akala Mrityu) death, and is troubling the family badly, whatever form she has taken, called Pitrani (as in Rajasthan) or dakini, and a dosha connected with her is present, Bhagwati's 101 names are used for Tarpana on a Bilva tree. He gives the case of a man whose mother was murdered and now troubles them, with no means yet for Narayana Bali: this tarpan is the option there, and within three to four days, by a week, that shakti's fierceness eases and she becomes gentle. It can also be used when she is troubling small children.
Doshas the Rudrashtakam is said to remove
The speaker says the Rudrashtakam should be recited for the removal of doshas incurred knowingly or unknowingly: failing out of pride to bow to a learned person and drawing their wrath; some insult to one's ancestors in the course of events (Pitru Dosha); or, at a pilgrimage place, not bowing to deities one did not even know were there. He says it removes daivik doshas in particular, whether related to Upadevata, to deities, or to the shaktis of a specific place who gave a curse in anger, and that this pacifies the dosha.
Can Bhairav sadhana release a person from a curse?
Bhairav ji's sadhana, the speaker says, has the capacity to bring about the vimochan of every kind of curse — many anishtakarak grahas and shaktis, dev shraap, pitru shraap, the curses of bhoot and pret, whoever gives whatever curse. If a curse that will not be destroyed has fallen on you because you greatly harmed someone, then doing Batuk Bhairav's upasana while making prayashchitta frees you from every calamity and from that curse.
Monthly Purnima and Amavasya observance: why it is prescribed and the temple rule
The speaker says one may or may not do a big anushthan at other times, but on the monthly Purnima and Amavasya a special Anushthana and path should be done. The reason he gives is that most people's charts carry Grahan Dosha and Pitru Dosha, and when they do, trouble will surely come at exactly that time; so do more japa and path then, and if a tirtha kshetra or an old temple is nearby, go there that day, register your presence and take refuge. He asks the listener to make it a rule to go to the temple of Bhagavati Kali, or of whoever their Ishta Devata is, on every Amavasya and Purnima, from which they will receive considerable strength.
What kinds of shaap and dosh are named in a kundali?
Moving to the paath vidhi, he comes to the kilak and to shaap vimochan. When any kind of curse attaches to us — what we speak of in the kundali as dev shaap, pitru shaap, pitru dosh, dev dosh, the dosh of pret and pishach, the dosh of rakshas and the like — jyotishis very often tell us of it from the kundali.
What are the causes of repeated miscarriage?
The case where a woman's pregnancy repeatedly falls. The speaker names three causes: that some dosha is present in that family, some matter of the pitrs; that an abhicharik condition has been fixed such that when the woman conceives she will see someone in a dream and the pregnancy will fall; and third, whether there is a medical reason or anything else, that she cannot conceive, or conceives but it does not hold and falls.
Can pitrs give trouble to a daughter of the house?
Asked whether pitrs can give bodily trouble to a girl of the house as well: yes, absolutely they can. Especially when she is unmarried, a kunwari.
What is to be done when a pitr becomes aveshit on someone?
See — let the pitr be aveshit upon whomever, and let them trouble whomever: have their gati performed. They are dissatisfied, and only for that reason are they causing difficulty. This will not be managed with a remedy; by a remedy there can only be peace, and that temporarily.
Where no shraadh or pitr karma has been done in a kula for a generation or two — and for the gati of the pitrs it nearly never is — trouble follows.
The first problem he discusses is the one relating to the pitrs. He says he has clarified before that if in our kula no shraadh or other karma has ever been performed for the pitrs for a generation or two — and for the gati of the pitrs it very nearly is not done, one may look and see that people do not do it.
Videos denying that pitru dosha exists are answered plainly: where the karma is not done, difficulty comes after a generation or two.
He criticises those who nowadays make videos saying that there is no such thing as pitru dosha, that such a thing will hardly happen to everyone. He answers that when it is not done, then after a generation or two there will certainly be difficulty.
Why do marriages and mangalik work not happen in a household?
He says that where mangalik work and marriage do not take place, leave aside tantra-mantra — first of all this is an obstruction related to the pitr of your kula. For their removal, first perform a parayan of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita to the best of your capacity for at least a year, and perform particular vidhi-vidhan in Pitr Paksha and the like. If pitr shanti does not occur, then there will be more than enough obstruction in marriage and mangalik work.
Either the japa vidhi is wrong, or a pitr resident in the Tulsi is being distressed by it
He says either your japa vidhi is wrong and a dosha is attaching, or the Tulsi ji plants will dry only if in your kula there are some in the pitr yoni who are being distressed by Baglamukhi. The presence of the pitr is formed in your Tulsi ji plant; different kinds of pitr take their own portion from different parts — from the leaves, the stem, the root and the manjaris — and Bhagavati Tulsi becomes the medium of their shanti.
What does Ravi with Rahu in the third house indicate?
To a listener who says his lagna is Tula and that Ravi and Rahu are in the third place, in Dhanu rashi, the speaker answers that as it is in the third place there is pitru dosha in full form.
Who especially should do something on Govatsa Dwadashi?
Anyone with a dhan-related problem, pitru dosha, the avesh of any negative shakti on the body, or a dosha connected with the kula devi-devatas or their displeasure. Otherwise everyone does gau seva every day, but on that day it should certainly be done.
What does gau seva remove?
All the devatas dwell in the gau, he says. Our ananta pitru dosha and many papas are cut by gau seva; release is obtained from Yama's side. If there is a yoga of akala mrityu, or a shraap has fallen because of which some disturbance is arising in the body, or one has become afflicted by some disease, then from that there is shanti.
What symptoms should I check for before doing this prayoga?
Look at these well, he says: there is a great deal of daridrata; a very strong foul smell keeps coming from the body; a very strong foul smell comes from the mouth; the signs of pitru dosha are present in the house. He notes there is a whole separate video on what the signs of pitru dosha are and what troubles arise in it.
What is the remedy for persistent skin problems?
The largest factor is the wrath of the family ancestors (Pitru Dosha), which causes the most difficulty of all. The best single application is recitation of the seventh chapter of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita; there are also rites directed to Surya Narayana and to Budh Dev.
What is the Mahatmya of the Rudrashtakam?
Very great. If any offence against a deity occurs, or a mantra-curse, or anyone's curse (Shraap) — even a curse of Bhagavan Shiva himself — an Anushthan of the Rudrashtakam brings immediate release from it. It also pacifies the affliction of the ancestors.
What should be done if the ancestors are Malin — impure or afflicted?
Two things: recite the eleventh chapter of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, and the 108 names of Bhagavati Ganga (Ganga 108 Names). Sprinkle the water kept during the japa throughout the house, and wash the threshold — without a Chaukhat, half the Anushthan does not succeed at all.
Why should the Nandi Mukh Shraddha be done?
Because our own Kula's Pitrs should be satisfied first. Before all these things — before a Chandi or Saptashati as the previous questioner asked about — having the Nandi Shraddha done is very necessary. They belong to your house; please them fully first, and then perform the Devi worship. Only then is the full fruit obtained.
Who the Pitru Beesa prayog is for, and when in the year it is done
The speaker says this prayog is for people who, as they go further into the tantra field, feel their inclination turning towards the Pitr and want to do some naimittik karma for the pitr of their kula so that the ancestors get tripti and their own work gets done; and for anyone whose pitr are very dissatisfied or whose janma kundli, on examination, shows doshas connected with Pitru Dosha. It should be done in Pitr Paksha, which he calls best of all, or else only on Amavasya. For making it siddh, he says, it is Pitru Paksha that works: the sixteen days from the Poornima tithi of Bhadrapada Maas up to the Sarva Pitru Amavasya tithi.
Sankalp of the Pitru Beesa prayog and its siddhi over the paksha
The speaker says that if this work is done daily in this way from Poornima up to the Amavasya tithi, the Pitru Beesa becomes siddh for the sake of the Pitr. The Sankalpa to take is only this: that the pitr of my kula be satisfied and at peace, that they obtain tripti and do my welfare; and that whatever dosha connected with the pitr is present in the kundli of anyone in my family be pacified, and the Pitru Dosha be quieted.
Where can one learn basic karmakand, and does Dattatreya jap remove pitru dosha?
Asked whether there is any ashram or gurukul where basic karmakand and puja vidhi can be learnt, he says yes — if you search you will find one; there is one in every tirth kshetra. Asked whether jap of the mantra of Bhagavan Dattatreya gives release from pitru dosha, he answers: yes, absolutely it does.
Should pitrs be called onto the head?
Asked whether a pitr should be called onto the head, and told that dev putra and devi putri are displeased with the family, he says: never make this mistake. Calling them onto the body will put them into bondage. Their gati will never take place hereafter. Ordinarily, he says, it is held that after three generations — if their gati occurs at that time — it is best; people have Nagbali and the rest performed at Trimbakeshwar and Badrinath, and if one has that much capacity their gati takes place and their second birth happens.
What remedies does he give for heavy pitru dosha?
To a listener who says he has a great deal of pitru dosha and is not able to have anyone called, he says there is no difficulty and gives three things he can do himself. First: daily, when the floor is mopped in the house, have the mopping done with sendha namak added. Second: the seva of living creatures must certainly happen — roti for the cow, roti for the dog, for the crow, for beasts and birds; whatever is given must go out of the house every day, by rule. Third: let some one member recite the seventh adhyaya of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita daily, even in Hindi, and while reciting put three kusha and a tulsi leaf into a copper lota.
What are the rules for the tulsi leaf and the water in that remedy?
The tulsi leaf must not be plucked on Ekadashi and Dwadashi — that is, on the sudosh — and must not be plucked on a Sunday or a Thursday; so pluck it in advance and keep it, and then do the path of the seventh adhyaya. When the water has been made abhimantrit by the path, give a little of it to everyone to drink as the charanamrit of God, and sprinkle it in the house too, sprinkling three times at the main door. Begin it from tomorrow, Somvati Amavasya, which is a very good and extremely auspicious day, and continue it without break for a whole year. Do not call anybody and do nothing else special; do only this much, and benefit will certainly come in the pitru dosha.
Why is service to Dattatreya held to be necessary?
Because he is the Mahaguru — the Siddha of Siddhas, before whom the Acharyas and Siddhas of every tradition bow. His service is held necessary where a curse has attached, or a Kula-Pitr or Kula-dosha is at work; once he casts his glance, the speaker says, nothing has the standing to harm your house.
Misconception: pitru dosha attaches easily and overnight
The speaker says that when trouble mounts and a person consults a capable astrologer or tantrik, they are told Pitru Dosha is present, or that the chart carries a grahan yoga, a pitru dosha yoga in the ninth or second house, or a nag dosha in the fifth. Because anyone now says this, people have turned it into a joke and ask whether it is really so cheap. He agrees that it is not: pitru dosha is not easy to catch and never attaches overnight, done today and caught tomorrow.
Daily rules the forefathers kept that guard against pitru dosha
The speaker says the first thing to examine, when told you have Pitru Dosha, is whether you live the way your great-grandfather, grandfather and father lived. They would at least have done Sandhya morning and evening as a daily rule, kept up the Kuldevi puja of the family tradition, worn the yagyopavit and done the Gayatri sandhya it requires even if only for ten minutes, offered arghya to Surya daily, and served any cows in the house properly, with no shortfall.
Panchbali and eating seated on the ground
The speaker says earlier generations certainly did Panchbali, that is feeding the cow, the dog, the crow, a human being and the ant, and kept all these rules. They ate seated on the ground, not on sofas and at tables. All of this, he insists, has a definite effect, and dropping it is among the lapses that build Pitru Dosha.
The hearth fire is the first deity: not to be touched before bathing
The speaker says the fire of the household hearth was called the first deity, and no woman or daughter-in-law of the house touched it or lit it without bathing; he saw his own elders keep this strictly. Today household work is finished at night and people get up and light the gas for tea, so Agni is insulted first thing in the morning. Where, he asks, will that be paid for?
Rahu is the main factor behind the strength of pitru dosha
The speaker says Rahu first confuses the mind so thoroughly that all the lapses in household rules arise as Rahu dosha, and Rahu is the most important factor playing a role in the strength of Pitru Dosha. Rahu carries a person to a ruined state while the person thinks everything is going pleasantly, and all their own misdeeds do the work.
Strong pitru dosha attaches only after a family falls from its rules
The speaker says that as long as a family had not fallen, by fate or its own karma, and kept these household rules going, a strong Pitru Dosha did not attach quickly; the matter of Preta, pishach and Abhichara is separate. Asked which of the rules you keep, the only answer people give is that times have changed. He replies that people ate then and eat now, only the way of eating has changed and so the dosha attaches; installing a Chaukhat breaks no boundary, and one who plants fifty decorative trees trembles at planting Tulsi.
Turiya sandhya: fifteen minutes at night for those with no time
The speaker asks whether a person who cannot give the morning or evening can not give fifteen minutes at night. The devas understand desh, kaal and circumstance, since a Grihastha must earn his livelihood, but you keep no rule at all for the kul, the deity and the Pitrs who gave you birth. So do the turiya Sandhya: bathe, sit at ten at night, and for fifteen minutes do a path with dhoop, deep and camphor for your own deities. Instead four hours go to a movie, reels, Facebook and cursing someone, while bathing, wearing a dhoti and showing a lamp is called pakhand; and it is exactly this abandonment, he says, that gives birth in its strongest form to Pitru Dosha and every Rahu-related dosha, which come slowly rather than at once.
Foeticide and copied neglect across generations pile up into pitru dosha
The speaker says you once saw your father and grandfather keep the rites, then watched the neighbours and fell into the delusion that none of it is needed, a delusion Facebook and YouTube have multiplied, steadying the steady and ruining the ruined. Add the foeticides: girls killed in the womb after a sex test in the fifth or sixth month, arranged by your father, uncle, grandfather or great-grandfather, which will certainly have happened in the last two or three generations. All of this collects and rises as the strongest Pitru Dosha to trouble you today, not at once but slowly.
Signs of a strong pitru dosha
The speaker lists the ill effects of an accumulated, strong Pitru Dosha: no santan sukh, severe loss of wealth, enemies at your back, something bearing down on you with full force, and puja-path that does not bear fruit.
Inherited wealth comes with inherited paap
The speaker says it is in this afflicted state that people sit and abuse the devas, saying mantras have no effect and what pandits and tantriks teach is worthless. It is not worthless, he says, it works, but who will bear what you have stored up over two or three generations? If you enjoy your father's earnings and live in the house your grandfather gave, you must also bear your grandfather's and father's sins; paap and Punya both come to you. You cannot take the punya, wealth, fields and house and then, when it is time to bear the paap, ask why you should suffer for what your father did.
Give daan by your capacity and never speak of it
The speaker says to give daan according to your capacity, one rupee if that is your means, ten if ten, a lakh if a lakh, but never discuss it or tell anyone you have given. The more you talk about it, the more that Punya is destroyed. Talking about paap destroys paap and talking about punya destroys punya: confess a theft and four people will condemn you, and that condemnation wipes out the sin; boast of your good deeds and the punya is lost. Only when all of this is done, he says, will the Pitru Dosha diminish.
How long does a full-blown pitru dosha take to lift?
The speaker says Pitru Dosha takes time to attach, and once it is in its full, violent force, quick results of that scale will not come. You must do fierce sadhana and regular Upasana of your kul devi-devatas; ten days, eleven days, one or two years is not the measure when a fifty-year account has landed on your head, and few are heard in a year or two. Bear the paap patiently as you enjoyed the Punya in wealth, children and spouse, keep up the strongest remedies alongside, and in two to four or five years it will go.
Precaution: cursing gods, pitrs, brahmins or scriptures in discouragement wipes out earned punya
The speaker warns that during the long remedy for Pitru Dosha you will lose heart, break and see your morale fall. If in that state abusive words leave your mouth against the devas, your kul Pitrs, brahmins, any learned person or any scripture, such as calling what the Shiv Mahapuran says nonsense, a vajra strikes you at once, the Punya you had earned is destroyed and you are back at zero. Avoid all of this, he says.
Quick totkas cannot end pitru dosha
The speaker says the quick remedies, float a coconut and Pitru Dosha is finished, burn some item and it is finished, will not finish it. Such a thing gives a momentary benefit of a day or so, and you think that is how it is done. Totkas are a separate subject; if you want a permanent result you must do permanent work. Otherwise, having enjoyed fifty years of Punya until now, you will have to bear a hundred years of paap, and there will certainly be trouble.
What should be done if quarrels increase during a sadhana on account of the kula pitrs?
If the matter is of such a kind for the sake of the pitrs of your kula that it recurs again and again — and especially if this quarrelling increases at the time of a sadhana, puja or anushthan — then have the Tripindi and the rest performed in the name of the pitrs of your kula.
Can pitru dosha bind the devatas of a house?
Asked how the devatas of a house, bound because of pitru dosha, are to be freed, the speaker says that if the pitrs are bound because of pitru dosha, then the pitrs will not bind the devatas. The matter of pitru dosha is a separate one; there is a very extensive video and a playlist on it on the channel. In brief: devatas will not be bound by themselves; only if, alongside the pitrs, an outside shakti is present will the devatas be bound. However displeased your own pitrs may become, they will not bind the devi devatas of your kul. This can certainly happen, that if there is pitru dosha in the house and your own pitrs are displeased, then because of that your devatas too will be displeased — that why are you doing nothing for the sake of your pitrs. But bound they will be only when an outside shakti, or some abhicharik condition, or something or other, is present there. Because the pitrs of the kul who have now become pitrs, whether of two generations or four, took their birth also by the kripa of those same kul devatas — so they can never bind them. No one can bind a father.
What is added when the wrath of the pitrs is great?
If the kop of the pitrs is very great, he says, then the chaukhat pujan of Bhagavan Shiva will certainly happen; and along with it, after the abhishek and the rest of Bhagavan Shiva, do a beautiful shringar of Vasuki ji who lies coiled about his neck, and apply itra and so forth to him as well.
Who especially should do the sarp pujan?
If your household people, or you yourself, have knowingly killed serpents, or have killed even one serpent; or if some dosha of this kind is present; or if a dosha connected with the pitrs is present — then certainly do the sarp pujan, he says. That is the matter of the Panchami tithi.
What about a death the day after a Narayan Bali?
The speaker calls it a very difficult matter and declines to answer it unseen. Consider it, he says: the Narayan Bali was done and the next day he was gone — not even a fortnight passed. There must certainly have been some cause; and where so many untimely deaths have occurred, a strong Abhichar is also a possibility.
Can a deceased family member's photo be kept in the puja room?
Asked whether the photo of a dead family member can be placed at the home's place of worship and worshipped there, the speaker says no. He says people who do it out of attachment and lack of knowledge, setting the photo among the gods, invite great destruction on the house: a major Pitru Dosha forms, a deva-dosha forms as well, and the family receives both a deva Shraap and a pitru shraap. The only exception he allows is a deliberate tantric seating, which he treats as a separate case.
Early Varshiki plus a fake year of no worship to save money invites Pitru Dosha
The speaker describes a trick some households play: they do the Varshiki right after the thirteenth day and then announce that no puja will happen at home until next year, to save the 15-20 thousand of Navratri, the Shivratri and Diwali costs, and the year's ghee and oil. He says that same cleverness gets written back against them. Either do the monthly Shradh every month and leave the varshiki for after a full year, only then coming out of Sutak, or, if the varshiki is done early, resume deity worship. Deceiving the deities this way, he says, deceives your own life and your children; the lineage suffers later, an astrologer then finds Pitru Dosha in the horoscope, and people call it humbug instead of tracing it to their own act.
Reciting Puranic marriage stories to remove marriage doshas
The speaker says that anyone whose horoscope carries a marriage-related Dosha — a flawed seventh house, a pret-pishach yoga there, Pitru Dosha, Grahan Dosha, a widowhood yoga in the girl's or the man's chart, delayed marriage, or a spouse who keeps falling seriously ill after marriage — should recite the marriage stories found in the Puranas. He says the dosha is destroyed from the root and health improves; doshas of untimely death and widowhood are also removed. This applies to the marriage story of whichever deity is one's own ishta, not only Shiva-Parvati or Ganesha-Kartikeya.
When the kul pitr chaukhat prayog is called for
The speaker says the first prayog is for when it has become clear that the kul pitr of the house are displeased and unsatisfied with you, or that pitr dosha or a shrap is somehow present in your kundali or your life. It is the first prayog especially for those troubled by upari shaktis or vayavya baadha, and above all if pitr dosha is present. How and how fast pitr dosha attaches, he says, has been explained in earlier talks — the ill effect seems to come very quickly, but there are many reasons behind it.
Does the chaukhat prayog remove pitr dosha permanently?
No — the speaker stresses that this is temporary, not a permanent remedy. Even if the pitr's affliction is pressing on you at full force, they will at once become calm, their wrath will subside and they will stop troubling you in dreams or in daily life. But the complete solution, he says, is that once they are fully appeased, one should get Narayana Bali, Tripindi and the like, and a Bhagwat, done for their gati so they are fully sent onward — they are not to be kept held back. When Narayana Bali is done, he says, will be covered separately.
Which special deepdaan is recommended in the Vaishakh Shukla Paksha?
The speaker says deepdaan is done at home in any case, but for one who wishes a special one in this paksha, do Bhagavan Dattatreya's deepdaan at the time of sandhya — for whatever pitr-related problem there may be, however much loss is occurring, whatever kind of dosha. If a brihad deepdaan is not wanted, do the laghu form; the tantrokta vidhi of Bhagavan Shiva's Panchanan deepdaan has been given on the channel.
When does a yantra need tarpan, and which yantras is it done on?
The need for tarpan is warded off especially where there is any problem connected with the pitrus. It can be done on any yantra you may have — the Panchanan yantra, if you were in the anushthan all of you do together; Bhagwan Datt's; Bhagavati Durga ji's; the Bhagavati Chandika Saptashati yantra; Bhagavati Bagla's. Two or three, he says, is what most people will have. The Dhanada yantra is a separate matter: its full vidhi vidhan has been given before, and it goes the same way, but tarpan is not needed on it.
A yantra tarpan is done with raw cow milk by bel-patra or silver spoon, for grahan, pitru and pret dosha
For tarpan you need the raw milk of a cow: either dip a bel-patra in it, or use a silver spoon. Where there is any kind of grahan dosha, pitru dosha, or the dosha of bhoot-pret on account of the pitrus — pitru and pret together, he says, in all this whole subject the tarpan of a yantra works a great deal. Those negative elements within them, which attack someone or ruin their health, are burnt up by the tarpan, or one may say pacified. As the paksha bala builds, their peace begins to form and that fierceness will not come in the same way again — by the grace of Bhagwan Datt and of Bhagavati.
What effect do the pitrs have on disease?
Whatever the cause of a disease about to arise in your body — a dosha, a dosha in the kundali, prarabdha — the pitrs, he says, carry the hundred per cent of it down to a level at which after some time it decays. It does not stay as it was: a lifelong disease will end in five or ten years, and a disease of five or ten years will end within a year. That is their samarthya in that place.
Which Jyotirlinga is for disease, and which for bhoot pret and pitru dosha?
Whoever has much disease, distress and affliction should do at least twelve thousand japa, or sawa lakh japa, of Somnath Mahadev through the whole Shravan month. Those who have problems connected with bhoot, pret, pishach and abhichaar, or who have considerable pitr-related dosha, should do the japa of Mahakaleshwar Mahadev — sawa lakh, or at the least twelve thousand japa.
Which Jyotirlinga is best for debt release and for pitru dosha?
For everything the questioner has written, for the sake of release from debt, the speaker says that if you do this especially in the name of Bhagavan Vaidyanath you will get very great benefit. And if there is pitru dosha and the like, then Bhagavan Nageshwar among the twelve Jyotirlingas — although you will get benefit from whichever Jyotirlinga you do, performing shivarchan in the name of Nageshwar gives special benefit in pitru dosha, naag dosha and to those who have Rahu in the fifth house.
The vyakhyan of nar and Narayan is deferred, and three generations are examined for a pret running with the pitr.
Asked who nar and Narayan are, the speaker says the explanation of this is very excellent but that he will not speak more today; some other time. Asked how one may have the nivaran done, so that it goes away forever, when a pret sent by another has been running with the pitr in a house for three generations, he says first that if it has been three generations then it will have kept them troubled for three generations; and second, that if it is with the pitr then two or three questions arise — if it has been three generations, does it not have the capability?
Why can nothing be done for the oots through the Srimad Bhagavad Gita?
Ganpati's pujan is therefore necessary first of all. Pitrs are of a separate nature and may be of many kinds, but for the sake of the oots you will not be able to do anything: an oot will simply not understand from the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, since that buddhi is not within them yet. So this becomes the medium. It is a matter of going inside, he says; from the surface much can be said.
What is given where obstruction comes from pitr dosha?
If you are initiated, your guru can tell you a great deal. Otherwise the prayoga given is the mala mantra connected with Bhagavan Dattatreya — because if anything has run in unconsidered fashion with the pitrs in your house, Bhagavan Datta stops that thing; his vidya works in the manner of a sieve, and having strained it he conveys the right thing to the pitrs.
When does a tantric bandhan actually succeed?
The speaker says a tantric bandhan and the rest succeeds only when your pitr do not stand with you. The pitr can never leave your side of their own accord: for them to leave, a great many offences must have been committed by you, or by your parents, or by the people of the generation before them. Only when the pitr leave your side does the effect of all these things begin to fall upon you.
Pitru dosha is treated according to its level, and yogini matrikas do receive ahuti in havan
Asked about kuldevi's protection and pitru dosha shanti, the speaker says that for pitru dosha one must first see what level the dosha is, and then do the process accordingly. To another question he confirms that in havan, ahuti is absolutely given in the name of the yogini matrikas.
Can a married daughter do upaya for a strong pitrudosha in her maike?
A listener says there is a strong pitrudosha in her maike, affecting her sisters and brother, but no solid upaya is being done there, and asks whether she and her husband may do it. He answers that after being married, if you do it without taking dakshina from those people, then nothing will come of it. The plain matter is that you no longer belong to their house; the marriage has taken place and you are now separate. You may do it for your mother and father if you wish, but then, according to the niti and niyam, give — take at least a hundred rupees of dakshina from them, from their side, so that the effect is obtained.
Why must the dakshina be taken?
One way of putting it, he says, is that we are taking our wage — because if you do it otherwise, then the relationship with them from before the marriage and the present situation are two different things. The subject of bhav-pradhanta becomes one thing and the subject of kriya becomes another. So do as much as you wish, whatever you wish; but even a hundred rupees in the month, having told them that for the sake of the japa and tapa we have done — and then let them give it, and it will be deducted from your share.
When could she have done it without taking anything?
Now in this, he says, learned people may put forward many kinds of subjects, saying no, she can absolutely do it. When could she have done it? When you had no brothers, when there was nobody else — then the whole responsibility would have been yours and you two alone would have done it. But there everybody is present, and you are doing it; so then you should do it after obtaining something from there.
What does a dream of a small serpent biting the foot mean?
Asked the meaning of a dream at night in which a small serpent bit the foot and there was much pain in the dream, he tells the listener Akshay that it is a matter connected with the pitrs — the pitrs are in distress.
Is it only bhoot-pret and the household's ancestors who trouble people?
Now what should he say to you, he answers. If you stay stuck in bhoot-pret then bhoot-pret will trouble you; go beyond it. Whether it be your pitr and ancestors, bhoot-pret, dev dosha or mantra dosha, Bhagavan Dattatreya is why he says again and again to do it — from him the shaman of any kind of dosha whatsoever happens. Do the sadhana of the Dattatreya Mala Mantra, and along with it the Ganpati Atharvashirsha and the first mantra of the Argala. These three are such things that every kind of dosha will be shamed; and when the dosha is shamed, whether mantra dosha, devi dosha or the dosha of the pitrs, all of them will be removed by it. You people stay troubled about bhoot-pret alone, he says — that if there is a bhoot the bhoot will cut you; nowadays there is a great deal of drama from you people.
A grahan dosha, a pitra dosha and an Angarak yoga sat together in the second house of the chart discussed
In the kundali he had discussed that day, the second house itself carried a grahan dosha, a pitra dosha and an Angarak yoga together. Where such a dosha sits in the second house — with Rahu placed there — and the second lord and the lagnesh are not well disposed to each other, considerable loss of wealth follows.
Does a dosha found in one brother's chart appear in the others?
The speaker tells those who practise or analyse jyotish that if the kundalis in a house are being cast correctly, and there are three or four brothers, then if pitra dosha comes out in the chart of any one of them, it very nearly comes out in the charts of the rest as well — even if it is formed by drishti rather than yuti.
What should be done when no marriage in the house is happening?
The speaker says some marriage-related sadhanas and siddh Sabari vidyas have been given on the channel, but that first of all the kundali should be analysed and whatever dosha there is should be removed. Pitra dosha, dev dosha, or abhicharik badha — only when all these are properly known can any upay or anushthan be told accordingly.
What does the akash deep do for the pitrs?
The speaker says that by it the pitrs are satisfied and the path is opened for them. It is especially for those whose pitr dosha is very strong, who are doing a great deal and yet no sadgati is coming about — particularly where someone has died an untimely death, or been murdered, or died by the stroke of a weapon, and is causing trouble.
What does Chandra and Rahu's grahan yoga in the ninth house indicate?
Told of a grahan yoga of Chandra and Rahu in the ninth house with Vrischik lagna, the speaker says that then Rahu becomes your marakesh. It cannot be told merely like this, but as to the remedy — a pitr dosha arises directly, and even more than pitr there is the presence of a matri-related dosha. Serve your own mother. The ninth is the bhagya bhava and also the bhava of dharma, so do the seva and puja of Bhagwati and Shiva ji as much as you can. Since it is Vrischik, your Mangal Dev should be good; always keep Mangal auspicious.
What of the claim that pitr dosha does not exist and only japa is needed?
Asked about a widely followed sant who says that pitr dosha is nothing, that any dosha or illness is one's own karma from a previous birth and one should only do japa — and whether treatment should therefore not be taken — the speaker says the answer has been given many times, and that the sant is not greater than the Shankaracharya Maharaj, who has mentioned this subject with proof. It is true that it is the fruit of one's own karma, but the means for it have also been stated: what the causes are behind the dosha arising and how it is remedied. The whole matter will not come out by nam jap alone; if it did, why would all these subjects be discussed?
Which sadhana should be done at the Pushkar tirtha?
Look, in the Pushkar kshetra you may do any sadhana, the speaker says — but there, such sadhana as relates to moksha, in which you wish that mukti or moksha be obtained by you. If there is dosha and the like connected with the pitrs, then for its removal you may do sadhana there particularly; you may also do sadhana connected with Bhagavan Narayana, or connected with Shiva.
What is chiefly done at Pushkar for the pitrs?
Sadhana is done there particularly for the gati and mukti of the pitrs, he says: recitation of the Sahasranama, the Vishnu Sahasranama and the like, by brahmins; or recitation of the Gayatri and so on, and japa, which you may do having taken a sankalpa. That is the best of all. If there is any pitru dosha or anything connected with them, or even for their gati, then by doing sadhana there you may also obtain the grace of the pitrs.
Does water given to the pitrs need to be given separately?
You will not need to give water separately for the pitrs, he tells the listener. Give water to Tulsi ji, and the pitrs will be satisfied of themselves. The svarup of Tulsi ji, which is a svarup of Bhagavati, satisfies both the pitrs and the devas. You need say nothing separately; you have only to say her mantra — "महाप्रसाद जननी सर्व सौभाग्य दायनी आधि व्याधि जरा मुक्ति तुलसी त्वम नमस्तुते". Saying only this much, give the water. Do not make a separate use of til and gud for the pitrs.
What does a dream of all one's teeth breaking mean?
The cause behind teeth breaking is somewhere connected with the pitrs, he says. Do a little Surya upasana. And where there is a shivling that has become more than twelve years old, at that temple do a little puja of Shiva ji according to your strength, if it seems there is difficulty.
What should be done if the dream of teeth breaking recurs?
If it seems that the teeth have broken, whatever you have seen in the dream, and if you are seeing it more than once, then most certainly do the abhishek of Shiva ji. If you have a rudrabhishek performed, that is very good indeed — for a whole year all the things of this kind that come to you will be set right. Otherwise, according to your strength, go yourself to a temple of Shiva ji that is old, at least twelve years old, and do abhishek in that temple.
Tarpan of Bhagavati Pitambara to make an ugra shakti saumya
If everything preparatory was done and trouble still grows while the sadhana is repeated, the speaker says the first thing is the sahasrarchan of Bhagavati Pitambara and her Tarpana, and the tarpan of her Yantra: when a shakti begins to turn Ugra, she is made shant and saumya by tarpan. He gives only a small general outline and says one's guru will tell the rest: raw milk of a single-coloured cow if one can be found, with haridra and Kesar mixed in, done in one's own janma Nakshatra (any paksha, any time), before a picture of Bhagavati that will not spoil when wet; for a 108-name tarpan, 108 Bilva patra are dipped in the milk one by one, lifted with a little milk still on them, and offered with one name of Bhagavati and "tarpayami namah" each. By this her ugrata is quietened, the sadhak's Aura that could not receive her energy turns saumya, and whatever the underlying cause, mantra dosha, devi dosha, a Shraap, Pitru Dosha or other doshas, the japa one is doing becomes auspicious in its fruit.
Deaths in a family at fixed intervals: Narayan Bali, Tripindi and Bhagwat, and what they really cost
The speaker says that when a family loses a member at a fixed interval — every fifth or tenth year — it is usually put down to Pitru Dosha, and the remedy for such repeated Akala Mrityu is to get Narayana Bali done for all the untimely deaths so far together, then Tripindi Shraddha, then a Bhagwat. Society has made such a bogey of these that people are told it costs lakhs — a lakh each — but that is only for a big event with a pandal and a seven-day katha; done simply, the whole 11–12 day sequence can come to about 50–60 thousand. Even so, he says, families that borrow to pay hospital bills have been filled with such hostility towards this puja-path that they call it useless, and it is niyati itself that keeps such people wandering and bound so they never move forward on it.
What is prescribed for a house troubled by pret, pishaach and pitr dosha?
For those in whose house there is great trouble from pret and pishaachs, from the pitrs, with pitr dosha alongside — if there is time, one more thing may be done. You will in any case do the Panchakshari japa daily and Shiva ji's abhishek daily. If there is a Shaligram shila, do its abhishek as well; if not, there is no difficulty. Whatever shri vigrah or photo of Bhagwan Narayan there is, seat him along with Bhagwan Shiva.
Who, in the speaker's view, must not perform Gayatri japa?
Not everyone can do it, he says plainly: women should absolutely not do it, and those who do not wear the janeu should not do Gayatri. Those who do it anyway will themselves become fit for the punishment and will bear it. And he adds that such people often do not bear it themselves — their coming generations bear it, then ask what fault of theirs they are suffering for, and take birth again in that same lineage to bear it once more.
Who actually bears the consequence when the rules are broken?
People will hardly accept the rules, the speaker says, and afterwards they will say that trouble is coming. The trouble will not come to you — it will come to the children; and not to the children but into the later generations. And its reason will not even be understood: pitr dosha was formed, this was formed, that was formed, keep getting them dealt with. There are so many doshas that you will tire of searching. So do not make mistakes knowingly.
Why is Batuk Bhairav called a ramban and a brahmastra?
From the day of the coming Kalashtami — Kaal Bhairav Ashtami — do Batuk Bhairav's puja without fail, he says. There is no field in which you will not need Batuk Bhairav: quarrel and strife at home, pret dosha, obstruction of tantra, the mind not settling on study, no job, wanting wealth, wanting a child, dosha of the pitr. Even where there is dosha of a Brahmarakshas — Bhairav holds Brahma's head in his hand in every swaroop, and there can be no greater pret pishaach than that, yet he seizes even it directly. And on top of all this Batuk Bhairav is saumya and shaant.
How is the navagraha sadhana done through Navratri?
The sadhana of the Navagraha and their mothers is to be done in Navratri one graha on each day, and the full vidhi vidhan has been explained. Whatever kind of dosha you may have — the grahan dosha of Chandra and Ketu, a pishach dosha, a pitru dosha formed in the kundali — you should at the very least do five malas of japa of these nine kinds of devis, the sapta devis, in Navratri, even if you cannot do very much. The sapta devis, he says, are the mothers along with the Navagraha.
How does the Rudrashtak destroy the effects of tantra?
Asked to explain the subject of tantra being destroyed by a path of the Rudrashtak, he says there is a whole video on it on the channel, and states that whether it be dev dosha, pret or pitr dosha, or a shraap, all of them are uprooted by the Rudrashtak.
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