The Manglik dosha in astrology has well-known popularity in the common people who trust in Vedic astrology. Mangal dosha is widely famous, especially in India, but has notorious fame and a bad name.
In astrology, specifically talking about marriage astrology, there are many things that can cause harm to married life and even the possibility of marriage. From our point of view, we can say Mangal dosha is something which when present in combination with other harmful indications from kundli can cause something bad. So if you are someone who has little knowledge in astrology or is getting started with astrology or anyone who learned about this dosha. We advise that please consider this dosha as one of the many factors.
What is Mangal dosha?
Mangal dosha in a nutshell is nothing but an ill-functioning planet Mars. This ill-functioning Mars in the kundli is capable of exerting such kind of influence that in some or the other way harms the areas of married life.
Mars in astrology is a strong and logical planet, often known as the planet of wars. Indeed it is true that Mars rules the martian things like fights, wars and quarrels. Unlike planet Venus who is a soft planet that rules the harmony of relationships, Mars is someone among the planet who is not well suited for marriage related things. Therefore, they say, the Manglik effect is better to be kept outside of marriage life.
We conclude that the hype around Mangal dosha might not be completely irrelevant, but can be over-exaggerated. Let us understand why?
Mars the planet that is linked with this Manglik dosha is one of the two most evil and high rated natural malefic. In Vedic astrology, Mars and Saturn are the top-level malefic planets. Only by their respective nature, they do have some differences. Mars is more of an active planet while Saturn is passive. So at the physical level mars can be sightly more malefic than Saturn.
Understanding it with an example - In some cases, an evil Saturn in the 7th house can delay the marriage up to the extent in life, that the marriageable age has passed. But yet the marriage can occur. On the other hand, an evil Mars when placed in the seventh house and is under a similarly extreme scenario can cause suffering to the spouse or even the death of the spouse. But note that those are very extreme cases. All we wanted to tell was that the consequence caused by Mars is more at the physical level or we can say planet Mars operates in this fashion.
So the Mangal dosha, in general, is a bad condition in your kundli capable of harming the happiness of your marital life.
How does Mangal dosha occur?
Definition for Mangal dosha:
Mangal dosha or Manglik dosha arises when a strong Mars has evil functional capabilities for your birth chart, and such a Mars is placed in 1st house (Lagna), 2nd house, 4th house, 7th house, 8th house or the 12th house of Lagna kundli.
The astrologer checks these placements of Mars from the Moon as well.
Is Mangal dosha dangerous?
Mangal dosha can only be a sign of danger in very rare cases. In the rest of the most cases, it only causes the miss-match of Manglik dosha levels between couples. That mismatch might cause some small troubles in the relationship. But which couple don't have small troubles in marriage life. It is a part of life.
Let me clarify why Mangal dosha can be so-called dangerous only in rare cases. If you recheck the definition for Mangal dosha given above. You see that only Mars present in one of those houses does not give that ill fate of Mangal dosha. That Mars has to be potentially and functionally very bad as well. And on top of all this, there should be no other good factors in the birth chart which might suppress the Mangal dosha. So it requires a lot for a Mangal dosha to be that bad in function.
Why the hype around Manglik dosha is irrelevant?
If we go by the definition, there are 6 houses out of all 12 houses, where if Mars is placed will cause Mangal dosha. So there is a 50% chance of anyone having Mangal dosha in their kundli. Or we can say 50% of the populations will have the Mangal dosha. How relevant is the that every third person you meet is a Manglik? THE HYPE IS NOT RELEVANT AT ALL. And if we double-check the presence of this Mangal dosha from Chandra kundli as well, the chances of someone having it further increases. So it is very clear that not all cases of Mangal dosha will give the effects of Mangal dosha.
Therefore the other half of the definition for Mangal dosha is very important.
Who can be called a Manglik person?
A person with functionally present Mangal dosha in their kundli can be called a Manglik person.
