Marriages and Extravagances

Marriages and Extravagances

            Marriage of Dinesh’s son is hot talk among the ladies of the coloney nowadays. Marriage of any person is always a matter of discussion among the women, old or young. But this marriage had a strong point of discussion and guessing, the point of cash amount received by Dinesh as dowry. Rather it had been a commonplace talk that Dinesh had been presented a cash of rupees 16 lakhs as dowry. Dinesh, a mender of scooter seats, sofa set car seats etc. his son a B.E. degree holder doing the job of a software engineer in some company, short height man, got such a big amount in dowry, nobody was finding it easy to digest. Of course it is the Indian mentality to talk boastfully of the dowry but this was crossing all the boundaries.  Those who marry their daughter tell the people three four times the actual expenditure occurs. Fathers after the marriage of their sons tell three four times more than what they actually get in dowry. The amount of 16 lakhs is somewhat manifold of what the people were guessing about.  Dinesh has one more son to marry soon within a year or two. Though he has not fixed the marriage anywhere, so the people are guessing that Dinesh wants 16 lakhs or more in the marriage of his second son that’s why he has propagated such a rumor. The man who was hand to mouth till now has become a lakhpati. This is the benefit of being an Indian and the father of sons. And by the grace of God if the sons acquire good education, one can live his life lavishly on the money earned by his son’s in-laws.

            On the contrary, father of daughters in India is doomed fated. His earnings are not for him. Most of the part of his earnings has to be given in dowry of his daughter’s marriage. That’s why people in India do not want female child and this is the sole reason for female foeticide. 

 

Mars And People

Astrology And The Hindus
By:Mahesh Chandra Rastogi
We people of Bharat, particularly Hindus are very frenzy for the astrology. We so much believe in the horoscopes that we take them as the manuscripts written by God Himself. We are not following any logic, and not ready to accept any logic. We say that it is a science. Even we are not ready to analyze that how much one can rely upon it. We are crazier for it when we are going to arrange the marriage of our son or daughter. My daughter is manglik so I have to find a manglik boy to match and the limit of being crazy is marrying a manglik girl with a banyan tree before marrying her with a non-manglik boy as the famous cine star Eshwarya Rai did before marriage.
Horoscope, as the astrologers say, is a chart showing the position of seven grahas (Planets) in the space at the time of the birth. And the position of these grahas decides the destiny of the born. There are twelve houses (Ghar) in the chart and the nine grahas occupy different houses and accordingly the fate of the born is determined. There are the hypotheses for each house like the one for seventh house is that it is the representative of the married life of the born. If Mars is sitting in this house, the born will suffer the married life, but there is a savior that if the born is married with the one who is likely to neutralize this effect by virtue of the one’s horoscope having the grahas in such position.
The knowledge about the grahas and the position of these nine grahas in the sky had been very old in Bharat. Astrology is also very old and people have deep belief in it as the coincidences supported the belief. But a statistical study can be made to test the hypotheses as today we have better tools in Statistics and many inferences made on these bases have been found consistent to some certain degree. It can be taught to the people that to what degree one can be panic on these predictions.
Let us see some statistical facts about the horoscopes. In the chart there are twelve houses and seven planets i.e. grahas occupy these places along with two shadow planets called Rahu and Ketu. Once the position of Rahu is known, position of Ketu is determined. So, we can fix eight planets in 12 houses randomly in {=*(12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12)} = 42,99,81,696 ways. This is Forty Two Crores, Ninety-Nine Lacs, Eighty One Thousands, and Six hundred ninety six. So roughly it makes forty-three crores. Now if we fix Mars in seventh house then there will be 3,58,31,808 horoscopes with mars in 7th house. So only three and a half crores people are manglik in a population of forty three crores. Roughly 8% people are manglik with mares in the 7th house.

There are 5 positions of Mars in the horoscope of a person that claims a person to be manglik. These positions are 1st, 4th,7th,8th and 12th house. So for each position there are 3,58,31,808 people.
Thus 5 times 3,58,31,808=17915904 people are manglik in the population of 43 crores. Roughly 18 crores out of 43 crores. So 42% people are with Mangal Dosha.
This is nearly Half of the population of a country. If one is able to make this population to believe that Mangal Dosh is a real danger and he has its remedy, just think the amount of money he will earn by removing the mangal dosha and every year half of the children shall born with this Mangal Dosha . So a never ending earning without any investment.