Pitra Dosh – Why It Happens? What are its Causes, Effects, and Remedies?

We are all in some percentage reflection of our family line. Like in personality, physical aspects, vulnerability, or immunity to diseases, wealth, properties, good or bad name, as well as characteristics like anger, kindness, spiritual beliefs, habits, creativity, patience, and so on.

In the same vein, we also inherit karmas, good or bad, performed by our ancestors in certain specific domains. This is what defines Pitra dosh. Literally speaking, pitra dosh is the defect carried forward to the descendants from ancestors. It can also be understood as the suffering caused to the descendants because of the ancestors. These sufferings cannot be overturned and remain so causing damages and harms until pitra dosh nivaran is done from the concerned person or the family.

How the Pitra Dosh is Defined?

Pitra Dosh is defined by your birth horoscope, and it may be caused due to one or two planets. This dosh is so important to know about as it can run-up to the 7th generation. How it is reflected in the horoscope is defined below:

• Presence or concurrence of Rahu and Sun in the 9th house of the natal chart.

• When strong malefic planets have a strong influence on the 9th house, or when the 9th house lord is situated in a regressive position in the birth horoscope.

• The presence of Rahu-Ketu and Sun and Moon in someone’s horoscope determines pitra dosh. If such happens then the pitra dosh is in the strongest/worst phase.

• It also happens because of planetary positions of Rahu, Ketu, Sun, Moon, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury, along with their vindictive effects.

What are the Main Causes of Pitra Dosh?

• When someone from the ancestral line has committed some sin, evil deed, or crime, knowingly or unknowingly.

• If the ancestors’ soul has not been put to rest in peace and they are restless, unsatisfied, and sinful.

• If the ancestor was cursed by the innocent victims because of their sinful deed.

• If an ancestor died at quite an early age, unnaturally and suddenly.

• Treating someone cruelly (human or animal), or any living creature on earth knowingly or unknowingly.

• Manipulating others for one’s benefit, causing the loss or grief, or deceiving someone by unethical and unlawful behaviors.

• Misuse of powers, accumulation of wealth by wrong means.

Houses / Planets that Indicates Pitra Dosh

• 2nd House – It denotes family, bloodline, and heritage

• 9th House – It denotes forefathers and past life

• Moon – It denotes mother and mind

• Sun – It denotes ancestors, father, and fatherly figures

• Saturn – It denotes sins, debts, and difficulties in life

What Bad Effects Does Pitra Dosh Have?

As we have mentioned above, having pitra dosh is considered a very bad omen. The worst effect of pitra dosh means that however kind you are, however hard you work, you will always find it hard to get benefit from anything. Luck will not be by your side, and any good deed you do is usually overcome by the bad effects of inflicted planets.

The major bad effects of pitra dosh are detailed below:

• Even with full and best efforts, you aren’t able to get favorable results in professional life or business.

• Never-ending instances of debts and financial problems.

• Problems in personal and family life, sometimes leading to disputes.

• Social disputes, and sometimes legal problems also.

• Hindrances in own marriage, or marriage of an offspring, along with problem-related to the birth of a child.

• The occurrence of a disease or physical disability to native children.

• Sometimes instances of accidents, also leading to fatal ones.

• Mental troubles to someone in the family.

• There is always instability within the family due to one or other reason.

Remedies for Pitra Dosh

• Organizing pitra dosh nivaran pooja that includes Tarpan and shraddha, should be done to help get rid of dosh.

• Reading Srimad Bhagwat’s Gajendra Moksha chapter in the house will help.

• Putting the photo of the late relative on the house’s south wall with a necklace on it, along with praying would work to get freedom from the dosh.

• Donating to the temple and Brahmins also helps.

• Worshipping the presiding deity on a daily basis will help in getting rid of the dosh.

• On every Chaturdashi, offering milk to a peepal tree also helps.

• Doing good deeds in the name of deceased father and ancestors like educating poor children, constructing temples, schools and so also helps in reducing bad effects of pitra dosh.

• The native should offer sincere and selfless service to the elderly, parents, needy, and poor people.

• Worshipping Lord Vishnu in the name of Lord Rama also helps.

• Offering water to Lord Shiva and the banyan tree daily also works o minimize the negative effects of pitra dosh in the kundli.

Similarly, there are several other remedies for getting rid of pitra dosh. If there is pitra dosh in your kundli, the cause of that, effects of that are specific to you and your ancestral deeds only, and so the pitra dosh nivaran also has to be specific. To get rid of that it is important that you consult a renowned astrologer or pandit ji and see what remedy fits best for you.