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Vedic Mangal (Mars) Beej Mantra Chanting: Invoking Courage, Strength, and Success

In Vedic astrology, Mangal (Mars) is a powerful planet associated with energy, courage, strength, willpower, and action. As the warrior planet, Mars governs physical vitality, leadership qualities, and the ability to take decisive action in the face of challenges. When harnessed positively, Mars can empower you to achieve your goals with confidence and determination. However, if its energy is misaligned, it can manifest as aggression, impulsiveness, or conflict.

The Mangal (Mars) Beej Mantra is a potent invocation to channel the energy of Mars in a balanced and constructive way. This mantra helps to enhance your courage, protect you from negative influences, and guide you toward success through strength, discipline, and focused action.

The Mangal (Mars) Beej Mantra:

"Om Kram Kreem Kraum Sah Bhau-maya Namah"

Let’s break down the mantra to understand its deeper significance:

Om – The primordial sound, Om represents the essence of the universe and the connection between the individual and the divine. It is the source of all creation and sets the tone for the powerful vibrations of this mantra.

Kram – This seed syllable (Beej) is associated with Mangal (Mars), invoking the planet's dynamic energy of action, courage, and strength. It encourages the practitioner to take bold steps in life and face challenges with bravery and confidence.

Kreem – The energy of "Kreem" activates the mind’s focus and determination. This syllable helps to enhance mental clarity, sharpen decision-making abilities, and reinforce willpower.

Kraum – This syllable stimulates the energy of success through disciplined effort. It encourages persistence and helps to overcome obstacles, pushing you forward with the power of Mars.

Sah – This sound represents divine power and grace, invoking the presence of the cosmic forces that aid in your success. It helps to align the energies of Mars with your higher purpose.

Bhau-maya – This refers directly to Mangal (Mars), invoking the planetary energy associated with bravery, leadership, and the warrior spirit. "Bhau" signifies courage, and "maya" brings forth the creative energy that helps you overcome difficulties.

Namah – A word of deep respect and reverence, meaning “I bow.” It signifies the surrender of the ego and acknowledgment of the divine planetary forces at work in your life.

The Power of Chanting the Mangal (Mars) Beej Mantra:

The Mangal Beej Mantra carries immense power and benefits, including:

Enhancing Courage and Confidence: Mars is the planet of warriors, and chanting this mantra empowers you with the strength to confront fear and take bold actions in life. It enhances self-confidence and fortitude, allowing you to tackle challenges with courage.

Attracting Success Through Action: Mars governs energy and drive, and chanting the mantra activates these qualities within you. This mantra helps you take decisive actions toward your goals, resulting in success achieved through hard work and perseverance.

Protection from Enemies and Negative Influences: As a planet associated with protection and defense, Mars shields you from harmful influences, both physical and mental. This mantra creates a protective shield around you, guarding you from enemies, both seen and unseen.

Building Discipline and Willpower: Mars teaches discipline and control over impulses. The mantra helps you develop the mental strength to stay focused on your goals, avoid distractions, and keep pushing forward even in the face of adversity.

Overcoming Obstacles: The energy of Mars is assertive and proactive, helping to remove obstacles from your path. By chanting the mantra, you invoke the planet's power to break through barriers, both internal and external, that prevent you from achieving your potential.

Boosting Physical Strength and Vitality: Mars governs physical energy and vitality. Chanting this mantra regularly can boost your physical health, endurance, and overall vitality, making you feel more energetic and strong.

Instilling Leadership Qualities: Mars is also associated with leadership and initiative. Chanting the Mangal Beej Mantra helps you develop the leadership qualities of decisiveness, assertiveness, and the ability to inspire others.

How to Chant the Mangal (Mars) Beej Mantra:

To receive the maximum benefit from the Mangal Beej Mantra, it is essential to chant it with sincerity and devotion. Here’s a step-by-step guide to chanting the mantra:

Prepare Your Space: Find a quiet and peaceful place where you can focus without distractions. You may want to light a candle or incense to purify the space and create a sacred atmosphere.

Set Your Intention: Before you begin chanting, focus on what you hope to achieve. Whether you seek courage, success in a particular project, protection, or better physical health, hold that intention clearly in your mind as you chant.

Adopt a Comfortable Posture: Sit in a comfortable, upright position with your spine straight. Rest your hands on your lap or in a mudra (such as Gyan Mudra, with the tips of your thumb and index finger touching). Close your eyes and take a few deep, calming breaths.

Begin Chanting: Start chanting the mantra aloud or silently: "Om Kram Kreem Kraum Sah Bhau-maya Namah" You can chant the mantra 108 times using a mala (prayer beads) to help maintain focus and rhythm. If you don’t have a mala, you can repeat the mantra in multiples of 27 or 108, depending on your preference.

Focus on the Sound and Energy: As you chant, feel the vibrations of the mantra resonating in your body and mind. Visualize a red, fiery energy (the color associated with Mars) surrounding you, filling you with strength, vitality, and confidence.

Visualize Your Goals: While chanting, envision yourself overcoming obstacles, achieving your goals, and becoming the strong, determined person you aspire to be. See yourself radiating leadership qualities, courage, and physical vitality.

Conclude with Gratitude: After completing the chanting, take a moment to offer gratitude for the protection, strength, and success that is coming into your life. Trust that the energy of Mars is now working in your favor.

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American vs. Hindu wedding traditions

As a few of you are aware, my fiancé and I will be getting married at the end of this June. What we have learned about how cultures affect who we are piqued my interest as to how these cultural influences can manifest themselves in wedding traditions across the globe. Therefore, to gain further insight as to how others celebrate their big day, I plan to present the wedding practices of other countries while comparing them to those of the United States. More importantly, Maria and I will both be giving you our thoughts on these traditions.

American Traditions:

Most of you reading this likely know of the most popular wedding practices in the United States. Generally, the bride wears a gown that is white or ivory in color. The combination of this with a white veil is often seen as a symbol of the bride’s virginity. Moreover, the bride may also choose to wear “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” The bride may elect to borrow the jewelry of their mother or aunt as a symbol of their appreciation of their family members. Wearing something that is new is thought to bring good luck to the newlywed couple as they embark on their new lives together. However, wearing something blue is also considered to represent the purity of the bride. Emphasis is placed on the independence of the newlywed couple by them solely standing together with the minister on the altar while their families watch from a short distance.

While the belief that the groom should not see the bride in her gown is still largely followed by Americans, this tradition is slowly starting to fade away in favor of taking “first look” photos before the wedding. This entails that the groom sees the bride in her gown beforehand so that they may take candid photos of the groom’s reaction to the bride in all her beauty. To some, this non-adherence to the tradition is a warrant for bad luck that can result in the destruction of the marriage. 

Focus is further placed on the independence of the individuals involved via the tossing of the bridal bouquet. The bridesmaid who catches the bride’s bouquet is said to be the next one who will get married. This is the same concept as the tossing of the bridal garter by the groom, who removes it from his wife’s leg and throws it towards his bachelors. Traditionally, the cutting of the wedding cake serves to represent the first action that the bride and groom perform together as a married couple. They then feed a piece of the cake to one another as a symbol of their love.

As can be seen, American traditions place a heavy emphasis on the independence of the newlywed couple while the parents are often in the background of all these events. Barring walking their daughter down the aisle to be married to the groom, the only time family is heavily incorporated into the American wedding is the first dances. The groom will often dance with his mother while the bride dances with her father. Before this happens, however, the bride and groom dance with each other. This limited familial incorporation is the opposite of what is seen in the wedding traditions of Hindu cultures which are explained below.

Hindu Wedding Traditions:

Unlike general wedding traditions of the United States, the rituals performed at Hindu weddings center around the bride while also placing heavy emphasis on the celebration of the joining of the two families involved. The foundation of Hinduism is constructed from scriptures that are called the Vedas. The Vedas divide into four distinct stages called ashrams. These four ashrams are studentship, householder, retirement, and self-realization. The sacrament of marriage is thought to be the framework for retirement and self-realization. To ensure that this new relationship between the bride and the groom remains strong for eternity, all ceremonies that are held involve blessings being administered by many deities and from the families themselves.

A few days prior to or the night before the wedding an event termed Ganesh Poojan is held where prayers are sent to Lord Ganesh. 

Also known as Ganesha the god of wisdom and salvation, Lord Ganesh is said to remove any possible obstacles that can hinder the wedding from occurring. On the day of the wedding the groom and his party (vara yatra) arrive to singing and dancing while the family of the bride greet them with Akshat (a type of rice), telak (a dot on the forehead), a garland, and a lighted lamp that is carried by a plate (arati). Each of the planets of the galaxy are then prayed to individually so that the couple’s new life together may be blessed. This practice is known as Grahashanti, or “peace with the planets.”

Meanwhile, the bride is painted in beautiful mendhi and henna designs and is then led under the ceremonial canopy (known as a mandap) by one of her brothers or uncles. 

Under the mandap await the groom and the parents of the bride who are there to personally perform rituals to bless their daughter and new son. The bride’s parents bless the couple by washing their feet with milk and water to purify them. The bride and groom are then asked to hold out their open hands while the father of the bride extends his own hand above theirs. The bride’s mother pours water over her husband’s hand so that the water may trickle down from his to the hands of those to be married. Since Hindu tradition dictates that no man can marry a woman until she is offered by her parents, this ritual serves to symbolize the father giving his daughter away for marriage and is called Kanyadan.

In a tradition called Hastamilap, the bride and groom are asked to join their right hands together so that they may be tied together with a cotton thread at least three times. This is significant because the thread being wound around their hands multiple times serves as a metaphor for the unbreakable bond of marriage that they are committing to. The bride and groom are then moved in front of a holy fire (agni) that they walk around four times while reciting their vows of duty, love, fidelity, and respect. The circling of the fire four times refers to the four ashrams of life discussed earlier. More importantly, family members from both sides are encouraged to make offerings to the fire. This further solidifies the joining of the families of the bride and groom. Lastly, the end of the ceremony is characterized by the bride and groom reciting seven more vows (saptapadi) in Sanskrit to seal their marriage.

While their may be subtle similarities in the wedding traditions across these two cultures, the main difference between them is the level of involvement of family members in the marital celebration. American weddings tend to emphasize the independence of the bride and groom by focusing solely on their new bond to each other. Hindu traditions, however, strongly require the participation of family members from both sides. Moreover, in Hindu tradition the father of the bride must consent at the altar to giving his daughter to a potential groom in order for them to be married. This highlights the interdependent nature of Hindu culture and provides yet another example of how cultures vary in how they handle similar events and situations.

Sources:

https://www.theknot.com/content/hindu-wedding-traditions

https://www.brides.com/story/hindu-wedding-ceremony

https://www.weddingforward.com/american-wedding-traditions/  

 Maria’s reaction:

As I learn about these two cultures, I am struck by the emphasis that the American tradition places on the purity or virginity of the bride. I am very aware of the American (and generally western) wedding traditions involving the purity of the bride, and the father giving away the bride like property, however I don’t see as much of that represented in the Hindu side. Knowing that the culture surrounding Hindu communities is an incredibly modest one I expected there to be more emphasis placed on the purity of the bride. However, the Hindu wedding tradition dictates that both the bride and groom must be cleansed and purified at the start of the ceremony. There are no superficial clothing traditions signifying purity in the Hindu ceremony, instead the couple are cleansed together in a ritual that signifies spiritual purity.

This emphasis on spiritual purity vs. perceived virginity is one that fascinates me. I have personally strived to remove most of the symbols of virginity from my own wedding as I believe that to be an antiquated tradition. I am still wearing a white dress, or else my relatives would freak, but I almost wish I could wear a colorful sari instead.

 Gary’s reaction:

The thing that sticks out to me the most when looking at these cultural traditions is the level of family involvement during the ceremony by those of the Hindu tradition. I have always felt fascinated by more Eastern cultures in the realm of family relations and honor. Since family is very important to me and who I am as a person I feel that it would be interesting to include our families into the ceremony more. While it may not be part of the wedding ceremony itself Maria and I are planning to have a Pittsburgh-style cookie table at our reception. This is because her family is predominantly from the city. A cookie table entails that members of the families of the bride and groom bake cookies for everyone to enjoy at the reception. While this is not the same as the traditions of Hinduism, it still introduces a hint of interdependence to our wedding that we both feel is very important to us. Of course, I do love cookies as well!

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We are experienced and specialized Pandits, Purohits, Maharaj, Guruji, Bhatji for all your rituals. We offer all puja services in Pune and Mumbai. Call now to book a Pandit, Bhatji, Brahmin, Purohit, Guruji, Priest for all types of pujas and vidhis. For more details call us. 

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