Mangal Conspiracy

Recently my best friend, Gaurang, suffered from a mysterious problem called "Mangal incompatibility syndrome". He was 25 year old young dashing software professional and a marriage aspirant. He happened to met a girl for matrimony purpose and both of them liked each other and felt that they are a perfect match! In traditional Hindu arrange marriage system Kundali's (Birth Charts) of boy and girl are matched for their compatibility and if one of them are Manglik then according to astrology they are not compatible and if they marry then it may cause an early break up in their relationship, such is the adverse effect of Mangal! Gaurang was Manglik but Janki wasn't hence Mangal started playing a villain role in the world of their aspirations! In the whole matter there is one character which plays a very crucial role and the name of that character is "Jyotish" (OR Astrologer), a person who interprets the Kundalis of marraige aspirants and makes predictions about their compatibility. Gaurang's jyotish read the kundalis and concluded that they are a match but girl's Jyotish came up with a conclusion that they should not marry in any case!! Now whom to believe? Let's consider for a moment that Astrology is an accurate science which makes precise future predictions but then who in the world of astrologers has the infallible knowledge of this science? Then it was decided to take opinion of 2-3 other astrologers and unfortunately all of them came up with a very negative opinion about their marriage. It seemed as if a red planet (i.e. Mangal OR Mars) which is millions of miles away from earth is conspiring to shatter the most cherished dreams of this young couple!!

Then started a mission of curbing a bad sight of red planet and it went on for almost 3 to 4 months. Lot of phone calls, discussions and meetings with astrologers to win a battle against Mangal. But in this pursuit Gaurang became an expert of astrology (although unwillingly ;)). At last one noble astrologer intervened, an astrologer who was well educated and a person who never worked for money. He gave a positive opinion that although one of them is non-manglik still due to other factors the marriage is possible and it would be a happy marriage. Both the parties accepted his opinion and they got married just one month before. Till now, as time goes their relation and love is becoming more and more intense...

Out of this story I came up with some analysis about "Mangal conspiracy"...

1) What I call a "Mangal conspiracy" is in fact an "Astrologer conspiracy", astrologers are human beings and therefore prone to errors! Also when it comes to predict a future they should be very careful and always describe future in terms of week and flexible probabilities instead of making strong deterministic statements like "If this marriage happens then it would definitely end up in divorce within a year" OR "Somebody from their home will die due to this marriage”. If future was deterministic then there would be no value to human will and effort! The irony is that astrologer himself is not aware whether his own wife is going to stay with him in future or not!!!

Also when they threaten people with bad and gloomy predictions, it is a normal human mentality which would think that although his prediction might not be correct but still why to take a risk??

2) People claim that there are proofs that if non-manglik and manglik person gets married then within a year they breaks up or something bad happened to their family members. Well, a bad event happened because that event had to happen and therefore there is no link between that event and a marriage. I bet bad events happen in case of non-maglik couples too but for them they are simply not linked to a marriage!!!

3) In some cases (if not all) there is a motive of earning money. There are always provisions of rituals which changes the future and the bad effect of planets, so when an astrologer says "this marriage seems difficult due to xyz reason" if the client asks "is there any solution, maharaj?" then he would definitely come up with resolution with a glimpse of delight on his face: "Yes, there is a ritual which would just cost 5000 rs!!" "Hmmm, sounds good!!" And then both, the astrologer and his client, are happy!

So in a nutshell, all who are the victims of "Mangal conspiracy" have to be ready to gain a knowledge of astrology whether they want or not and had to keep above points in mind. Now only future will tell whether the Mangal conspiracy will in fact be a "Mangal Conspiracy" (i.e. Good conspiracy) or not!!!