Get best out of three and half Muhurtas in Indian calendar Part 1

As I mentioned multiple times before, ancient Indians successfully merged all the best practices in day to day life to make the life better. One of the highly considered things in Indian calendar is Muhurta or selection of good time. The concept behind Muhurta is selecting good time for doing anything important or special. This, in fact, is in sync with the basic concept of Astrology. Even though I believe in the concept of Muhurta and have seen some mesmerizing results, I feel that people have been giving too much of importance to Muhurtas than actually needed.

There are certain challenges in selecting a Muhurta and let’s look at them a bit. The biggest challenge is that the rules on which Muhurtas are decided differ from text to text. As far as my study of Muhurta goes; I have seen that every ancient text on electional astrology (Muhurta) has a variation of a particular rule!!! Secondly, no one has explained the rationale behind the rule that they stated and due to this fact almost every Panchnaga or Indian almanac mentions different Muhurtas. L Thirdly in today’s fast paced world it’s difficult to wait because of unavailability of Muhurta. Muhurta texts also mention to take planetary positions into account and usually this fact is conveniently ignored most of the times. My guidance here would be to consider Muhurtas for very important occasions.

The four important Muhurtas are Gudi padwa or Ugadi, Akshyya Trutiya, Vijaya Dashami and Diwali. If you observe the timing of these 4 Muhurtas then you will realize that first 2 are celebrated in the morning and later two are celebrated in the evening.

In the morning the Sun occupies first house indicating these 2 occasions are for your personal wellbeing and growth. In the evening sun is in the seventh house indicating external world, to be precise a partner or enemy.

Vijaya dashami is considered to be a good Muhurta for seemollaghanam or for attacking an enemy. On Vijaya dashami the Sun occupies sixth sign Virgo and Moon occupies tenth sign Capricorn. Sixth sign or house is indicator of enemies and tenth sign or house is indicator of action or karma. So this combination indicates action against enemies. This is also true for Diwali. Diwali is considered to be a beginning of new business year in Indian tradition. On Diwali sun and moon occupies seventh sign or Libra. Seventh sign or house is indicator of business. Similarly Gudi padwa (New Year) comes when sun and moon are in Pisces. Pisces is the twelfth or last sign that indicates the end or new beginning. The meaning of word Akshyya is without loss or break. On Akshyya Trutiya sun and moon both are exalted and exalted planets give easy success. This is the significance of Akshyya Trutiya! Traditionally, you will find farmers starting their work for new crop on this day.

In Indian astrology nakshtra or constellation is very important and effects of buying or starting anything new on a particular nakshtra have been clearly mentioned. This may sound illogical and in my experience of last 21 years these results have proven to be surprisingly accurate. Let’s take a quick look at the effects of nakshtras during these 4 Muhurtas.

 Based on above explanation you must have understood rationale behind timing of particular festival. You might have also been able to visualize usefulness of Muhurta in daily life. There are some more technical aspects these 4 Muhurtas and we shall deal with them sometime soon.