Muhurat/Electional astrology
or an auspicious time period According to the Hindu Vedic
astrology if we start our important work/assignment in an
auspicious time (shubh Muhurat) the chances of success in that
assignment can be optimized. A Muhurat is a unit of time
comprises of 48 minutes. We know that there are 1440 minutes in
a day. Therefore there is 30 Muhurats of 48 minutes each in day.
Muhurat (Auspicious time) are widely applicable to many
different areas including marriage, relationship, journey,
investment, purchase of property and other valuable, and many
more things. It is a natural phenomenon that every body desires
fruitful results for the work conducted by him/her.
Astrology/Muhurat helps in choosing that auspicious time to
perform the work.
Basic Muhurat Principles:
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Pushya nakshatra is favorable
for all auspicious activities, except marriage.
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For activities relating to
important ceremonies, taking firsl lesson of music Moon should
be occupy in Mrgasira, Chitra, Anuradha or Revati.
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For activities with long-term
implications (start of building house, planting trees,
accepting new position):- Moon should be occupy in fixed
nakshatra - Rohini, Uttarashadha or Uttarabhadrapada.
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For undertaking travels Moon
should be occupy in nakshatra - Aswini, Pushya, or Hasta.
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For buying new vehicle:- Moon
should be occupy in the moveable nakshatra - Punarvasu, Svati,
Shravana, Dhanishta or Satabisha.
What is the significance
of Muhurat ?
Muhurat is nothing but the fixing of a particular time for an
event to be performed in the future. We understand that making a
judgement about the future has to be based either on forecasting
techniques or on astrology. During performance of any important
function whether it is a naming ceremony, thread
ceremony,marriage, etc., an essential part is to ask a panditji
to work out the auspicious moment or 'muhurat' when the ceremony
should be performed.Astrology is a gift of its close sister
discipline astronomy. There could be no astrology without
astronomy, as astrology predicts the turn of events in the
future with the real or imaginary changes in planetary and star
positions. We know that the firmament i.e. the observable
universe, has a mechanics of its own. The earth and sun being
part of the firmament go about their own movement as per the
mechanics. The rotation of the earth on its axis causes day and
night and its revolution round the sun causes weather changes.
This co-relation between a change in star patterns and a change
in weather which repeated itself year after year, germinated
ideas that star patterns decide weather changes. This
interpretation gave birth to ideas that appearance of a
particular star spelt prosperity while that of another spelt
doom. In India the appearance of a comet was looked upon as
portending doom. Following this, it was not a difficult step to
believe that changes in an individuals fortune are also decided
by changes in star patterns. Thus the development of astronomy
lead to astrology and to beliefs in the auspicious or
inauspicious. Henceforth the practice of consulting learned
pandits for derivation of auspicious dates or time in the future
could evolve naturally.
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