My first husband was a plant. We were wed in my mother’s living room in Los Angeles, with a large Panasonic flat screen TV serving as the backdrop. I wore a bright red sari.
Convinced that her 30 year old, still-single daughter was cursed, my mother had arranged the whole affair. She believed that I suffered from what Hindu astrologers call Mangal Dosha, a condition in which a person born under the influence of Mars signals marital misfortune.
One remedy is Kumbh Vivah, a ceremony in which you marry a towering banyan or banana tree—but that day, we settled for a barely-sprouted basil plant.
Next to my betrothed sat a candle to symbolize Agni, the fire deity present at every Hindu wedding. It was nothing like the ceremonial fire pits used in India but it got the job done.
The 30-Year-Old’s expeience is of the numerous doshas that are existing there in Hindu religion.
Manglik Dosha is one of those that are affecting human life and causing a couple of issues in the course of their life occasions, for example, delay in manglik marriage or marriage of manglik ladies or grooms.
Indian people conceived as Mangliks – which means Mars is arranged in the first, second, fourth, seventh, eighth, or twelfth place of an individual’s Rashi (Indian mysterious moon sign) – are accepted to be reviled.
It is accepted that Mangalik Dosha contrarily impacts wedded life, causing strain and some of the time the inauspicious passing of one of the accomplices.
To drop these impacts, a Kumbh Vivah can be performed before the wedding. This is a wedding between a Mangalik and either a sculpture of Vishnu or a Peepal tree or banana tree.
The observed Bollywood entertainer Aishwarya Rai had one such marriage with a tree before wedding her better half, Abhishek.
Kumbh Vivah for the manglik ladies or grooms is similarly as the ordinary marriage with all the custom and services that are performed ordinarily with the pot, for example, wedding mantras in the marriage, pheras, Kanya daan and numerous different ceremonies.
After that the manglik young lady should change her dress, expelling all strings. After that without telling anybody, the young lady will place the pot in the waterway. In the wake of playing out this profound arrangement, the young lady is discharged out of Mangal Dosha and may wed her preferred person.
Kumbh Vivah is consolidated from the two words Kumbh which means pot and Vivah which means wedding or marriage. So its joined significance is the wedding with the pot.
