Understanding Nadi Dosh - The Critical Marriage Compatibility Factor
The Growing Crisis in Marital Life
Due to Nadi Dosha, marital life is deteriorating day by day. Not only in India but throughout the world, situations are such that married life breaks apart shortly after it begins. The coordination and harmony that should exist between men and women is not established, making life miserable with constant fights, disputes, and severe consequences including divorce, suicide, and murder cases making headlines.
Alarming Statistics
According to WHO reports, 8 lakh people commit suicide worldwide every year - one person dies every 40 seconds. Shockingly, most of these are people who either commit suicide due to betrayal by their life partner or are driven to this extreme step by family troubles. In India, there was a 17.3% increase in suicides between 2005-2015. The biggest cause of suicide in India is specifically mismatched marriages.
How Nadi Dosha is Formed
The groom and bride's birth Nakshatras should not be of the same Nadi. Their Nadis should be different for it to be considered auspicious. Accordingly, Adi-Adi, Madhya-Madhya, and Antya-Antya Nadi combinations are considered inauspicious for marriage. It's essential that both have different Nadis. Adi-Madhya, Madhya-Antya, and Adi-Antya combinations are considered auspicious. If this doesn't happen, it's considered Nadi Dosha.
If both have Madhya Nadi, it's considered extremely inauspicious and marriage should not be performed. Such marriages lead to chaotic married life with fights, disputes, separation, and even death.
Devastating Effects of Nadi Dosha
If Nadi Dosha exists, the couple becomes afflicted with diseases, job/business losses, financial losses, family discord, lack of love and harmony between husband and wife. Nadi Dosha couples cannot have children, and if they do, the children are unhealthy. Both families face troubles, family members start dying due to diseases and accidents. The couple and family members face death-like sufferings.
Ancient Scriptures on Nadi Dosha
Sanskrit Shloka from Vashishtha Samhita (Chapter 32, Shloka 188):
Meaning: Even with all qualities present, marriage in Nadi Dosha definitely leads to death. This is a great sin and crime.
From Vashishtha Samhita (Chapter 32, Shloka 189):
तस्मान्नाड़ो सदा त्याज्या दम्पत्यो शुभमिछुता
Meaning: Madhya Nadi Dosha causes the groom's death, Antya Nadi causes the bride's death. There's no doubt about this.
From Brihad Daivajna Ranjanam (Chapter 71, Shloka 401):
वर्जनीयः प्रयत्नेन दम्पत्योर्निधनं यत
Meaning: Even with all excellent qualities, if Nadi Dosha exists, such marriage should never be performed as it leads to certain death and great destruction.
Modern Academic Validation
Kashi Vidvat Parishad scholars including Professor Ramchandra Pandey, Professor Umashankar Shukla, and others have declared that Nadi Dosha is a deadly defect that occurs when both partners have the same Nadi type. They emphasized that there is no remedy for Nadi Dosha through any worship, mantras, yajnas, or donations. The only solution is to abandon such relationships.