Kaal Sarpa Yoga- A Dreaded Combination in a Horoscope

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By: PARTHA SARATHI ROUT (Sree Rudrapriyo)

K.P. Astrologer

 K.P. Hora Ratna, Jyotish Vachaspati (KPSARI, Chennai),

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West Bengal, India.

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In the recent times, Kal Sarpa Yoga has become the most common point of discussion in the country. It is said that this is most ominous combination, all the beneficial roles of planets are destroyed & the native having Kal Sarpa yoga in his chart is said to be suffering through all kind of hardships throughout his life, while his hardship doesn’t yield any good result.
Now let’s see what is the combination of this Kal Sarpa yoga?

Kaal sarp yog is formed when in a horoscope, all the seven planets comes between or hemmed between Rahu and Ketu axis. This is one among the much feared yogas in Astrology. ‘Kaal’ means death and the word Sarp’ means snake, It is believed that a person born under KAAL SARP YOG has to go through various death-like agonies in life. Rahu is considered serpent’s head and Ketu is dragon’s tail. So the presence of kaal sarp yoga in a horoscope is considered particularly harmful as all the planets are surrounded by the serpent and thus loose their good impacts to a great extent which will make person less lucky, creates problems and delays in many important aspects of life. 

When all the seven planets are on the same side of Rahu and Ketu axis and not a single planet is on the other side, the full kaal-sarp dosha is formed. If even a single planet is on the other side of this axis, then it is not a kaal sarp yog. In this case, partial kaal sarp yoga is formed which is a kaal sarpa yog of less intensity. Though partial kaal sarpa yog does not come under the definition of KAAL SARPA YOG but some of them say that people born with “Ardha or Bhanga Kal Sarpa Yoga (Partial Kal Sarpa Yoga) lead more disastrous life than people having Total Kal Sarpa Yoga.

General Impacts of Kaal Sarp Dosha:

I) Problems and breaks in important and auspicious work. II) Low Mental peace

III) Low self-confidence IV) Deterioration of health and reduces longevity V) Poverty and destruction of wealth. VI) Destruction of business and loss of job VII) Anxiety and unnecessary Tensions   VIII) Bad Relations with family members and friends IX) Treachery from friends and colleagues X) Very less help from relatives and friends

Types of Kaal Sarp Dosha:

In 12 houses of the horoscope there are Kaal Sarp Yogas of 12 types. These are:

I) Anant Kalsarp Yoga:  This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed when rahu is in Ascendant (Lagna) or 1 st house and ketu is placed in seventh house. This yoga have ill imacts on the personality of the person. It makes him a short-tempered and treacherous person. He will not have much inclination towards cleanliness and will have bad habits. He will be devoid of good health and respect in the society.

It will have adverse impacts on the marriage and person will not have much satisfaction in marital relation. He will not have support from his partners in business and colleagues in profession.

II) Kulik Kaalsarp Dosha :  This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed  when rahu is in Second house or house of money or dhan bhava and ketu is placed in eighth house. This yoga will give ill impacts in earning and saving the money. He will have bad communication skills and will have no control on his tongue and in the process will hurt many persons and make them his enemies.

He will be prone to accidents and surgery. He can have unnatural death from poison, accident, snake-bite or suicide. 

III) Vasuki Kaalsarp Yoga: This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed when rahu is in third house or house of  courage, younger siblings and effort and ketu is placed in ninth house or house of luck and dharma. This yoga will make the person timid and person will not have much courage and valor. He will have bad relations with younger siblings and they will not support him even in the hour of need. He will have lesser influential friend who will be cheats.

 The person will have less support of luck. He will face hurdles and breaks in many important events of his life. He will be a follower of religion of foreigners and will leave or will have less interest his own dharma.

IV) Shankpal Kaalsarp Yoga: This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed when rahu is in fourth house or house of sukh or happiness or sukh bhava and ketu is placed in 10 th house or karm bhava or house of profession. This yoga will give ill impacts in the relation with mother and person will be separated from his mother. He will have lesser mental peace and will be prone to anger. His driving skills will not be good .He will be having vastu dosha in his house.He will be prone to diseases related to heart, chest and lungs.

He will be having problems with the higher authorities in the workplace and will not be popular in his office or workplace. He will be suffered many conspiracies from his colleagues and in spite of doing hard work will not be able to achieve higher position in his profession. He will be unpopular in the society.

V) Padam Kaalsarp Yoga: This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed when rahu is in fifth house or house of education and children and ketu is placed in 11 th house or aaya bhava or house of income. This yoga will give breaks and hurdles in case of getting education. The person will be weak in studies and will have less intellectual power as well. He will not have much interest in arts. His analytical skills will be less and will have no luck in share market, gambling or sudden gain of money through speculations or betting. He will have problems in love relations.

The person will have problems in child birth and if the person is female, she will have many problems in child birth. Child birth will happen after a long time after marriage. His children will not respect him and leave him.

VI) MahaPadam Kaalsarp Yoga: This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed when rahu is in sixth house or house of enemies and diseases and ketu is placed in 12 th house. This yoga will give problems from the side of enemies and person will have many powerful enemies. The enemies of this person will not confront him openly and work against him secretly and will give him much damage. He will be prone to diseases and will not live a healthy life.

The person will have much expenditure in wasteful things and will have very less savings. He will be unpopular with his in-laws. In case of female, she will always get bad behavior from her in-laws. He could be imprisoned also and will have punishment in the hand of government.

VII) Takshak Kaalsarp Yoga: This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed when rahu is in seventh house or house of marriage and ketu is placed in first house or lagna. This yoga will give problems from the wife and person will not have support from wife. There will be excessive delay in the marriage and the wife of person will be of bad nature and there will be lesser harmony in the family. If the lord of house of marriage is also in the fall then marital life will not last long and wife of the person will give him divorce.

The person will be suffered from headache and high BP. He will be cruel and devoid of good qualities.

VIII) Karkotak Kaalsarp Yoga: This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed when rahu is in eighth house and ketu is placed in second house or . This yoga will severe problems in case of health. The person will be prone to accidents and surgery. The person will be suffered from his enemies and the enemies will try to damage him with the use of black magic.

The person will suffer in case of savings and will have lesser savings in spite of his high end earnings. He will have defect in his eyes. He will not have much support from his relatives. He will have problems in getting the gains through inheritance.

IX) Shankchood Kaalsarp Yoga: This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed when rahu is in ninth house and ketu is placed in third house. The person suffering from this yoga will lose his money in gambling. He will be devoid of interest in ritual and good deeds. He will be a miser. He will not give any donations and he will be unlucky.

He will have bad family relations and will have lesser harmony in his home. The person will have many ups and downs in the life and luck will be not favoring him.

X) Ghatak Kaalsarp Yoga: This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed when rahu is in tenth house and ketu is placed in fourth house. The person suffering from this yoga will have no permanent thoughts. He will be confused and will not be a good decision taker and lacks the decision making capability and good leadership skills.

He will have less mental peace and will not have pleasure of good vehicles. His servant will be thieves. He will be prone to depression. Punishment by law is also possible.

XI) Vishdhar Kaalsarp Yoga: This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed when rahu is eleventh house and ketu is placed in fifth house. The person travels frequently and is  never fixed at place. The person will have many problems in earning money and will have lesser power of brain.

His elder sibling will always treat him as enemy and will try to damage him. Problems also arise from children. However these natives get peace in the latter half of their life.

XII) Sheshnag Kaalsarp Yoga: This type of kaal sarp dosha is formed when rahu is twelfth house and ketu is placed in sixth house. The person will have habits of taking loans and spending more than his income. He will suffer from excessive expenditure and debts. He will be an unpopular person and his inlaws will always conspire against him.

He will not have sound health and from time to time, he will suffer from diseases. His enemies will give him damage. His elder sibling will always treat him as enemy and will try to damage him. Problems also arise from children. However these natives get peace in the latter half of their life.

Having kal sarp yoga in horoscope doesn’t mean that person will be totally unlucky and devoid of all the good things of life. The overall result differs from person to person and it depends on other yogas in the particular horoscope. For example, if a person is having strong Raj-yogas present or having four planets Dig-Bali or having two to three escalated or Swagrehi planets in horoscope along with kaal sarp dosha, then the results of kaal sarp yoga will be minimized in this case by the strong good planets or yoga.

If a native do not get the dasa of Rahu or Ketu throughout his span of life then he will not be violently effected by the kaal sarpa yoga. In any of the horoscope is the Sun and Mon are sound to be strong then kaal sarp yoga cannot do any harm to the native.

Searching the classics for the existence of Kal Sarpa Yoga:

Whenever a problem arises, we consult the classics of astrology, but in this case the problem is that we don’t find anything regarding Kal Sarpa Yoga in Brihat Parasara Hora Sastra, Jaiminisutram, Brihat Jatakam, Uttar Kalamrita, Phaladeepika, Jatak Parijat, Sarbartha Chintamani, Bhabartharatnakar, Jatakabharanam, Sanketnidhi, Bhabakutuhalam, Manasagari Paddhati, even the modern Astro books like, Jataktatwa etc. don’t speak anything about this Kal Sarpa Yoga.

Pandit Shree P.S. Sastri discussed about Kal Sarpa Yoga in the Astrological magazine published from Bangalore in the volume of December 1965, October 1987 & September 1994. While discussing about Kal Sarpa Yoga , Mr. Sastri quoted a sloka, but didn’t mention about its root. However he admitted that classics don’t talk Kal Sarpa Yoga. The sloka he quoted is :-

“AGRE RAHU ANTE KETU SARBE MADHYA-GATA GRAHA
 YOGAM KALASARPA-KHYAM NRIPA SASYA BINASANAM”

the meaning is quite clear. If Rahu is at front & Ketu is at last while all other planets are in between, then this combination is called Kal Sarpa Yoga & results into death of king or destruction of grains. It is clear that the above mentioned sloka has nothing to do with personal astrology (Jatak Jyotish) and is related to mundane astrology (Rashtriya Jyotish).

In that same magazine, another writer supported this combination by refering it to classics like Brihat Jatakam by Varahamihira and he wrote about Sarpa Yoga, the condition of which is Sun, Mars and Saturn in kendras while the rest of the planets in houses other than kendras, and this combination is mentioned in the chapter of Nabhas Yoga of Brihat Jatakam, Saravali by KalyanVarma, and in the texts of Badarayan, Manish and Garga etc.

We can deduce that Kal Sarpa Yoga has no reference in classical texts, nor supported by any astrological texts, because Maharshi Parasar, Jaimini, Varahamihira, Ramanujacharya, Kalidas, Baidyanath Dixit, Benkateswar Daivajna, Mantreswar, or famous astrologers didn’t accept this yoga.

 We know that a planet’s role (both as a benefic & a melefic) depends upon its natural, according to lordships, according to its position, according to combinations formed. As for Rahu & Ketu, they can’t give results according to lorshipd, but they have a major role to play according to their placements. If Rahu & Ketu is posited in a benefic’s house or related to any benefic, then definitely it will give good results, which has been seen in many of the charts.

Now let us discuss on Rahu & Ketu according to various classical literatures. In Laghu Parasari, in 2nd Chapter, 8th sloka, it is clearly said that if Rahu or Ketu are posited in Kendras or Trikonas and if they are related to lords of Kendras or Trikonas, then they become Rajyogakaraks.

As you know, malefics if occupy Upachayas (3,6,10,11 houses from Lagna) then they give good results. So if Rahu & Ketu occupies the above said houses, no doubt they will give good results.

In Manasagari Paddhati, a very similar sloka is very appropriate in the current context of discussion. In that very text, presence of Rahu in Brishabh, Kark, Simha & in Kanya have been eulogised and it is said that Rahu acts as a Rajyoga karaka. The results have been seen in many natives life, where Rahu is posted in any of the above signs of zodiac.

As you all know that Sarbarth Chintamani is a good reference while analysing dasa results. In the same text the dasa results of Rahu has been said to be good, provided it is posted in Mesh, Brishabh, Karkata, Kanya, Dhanu or in Meen (chapter 16, sloka 21 & 22).

According to Phaladeepika dasa of Rahu is good when it is posted in signs like Kanya, Brischik or Meen (chapter 19, sloka 16).

Moreover according to Maharshi Parasara, one should predict about ones wealth from the position of Rahu (chapter 14 sloka 19). It is expected from a learner of Jyotish to know that a well-placed Rahu in his dasa gives wealth.

While speaking about the dasa results of Rahu when it is well placed, he says- all are beneficial for the native, be it regarding to Kingdom, be getting son, money, wealth, vehicles, construction of new home, patronised by the king etc. (chapter 36 sloka 42,46-49).

Both Parasara & Jaimini are of the opinion that when Ketu is auspiciously placed it might result into Moksha.

All these above said conditions are stated to prove that Rahu & Ketu are not always inauspicious & not at all inauspicious to minimise all the good effects of planets posted between them. So, Kal Sarpa Yoga is not established by the astrological writings & none of the classics mention about it.

But we are surprised to find horoscopes of many famous personalities who had Kal Sarpa Yoga according to the present astrologers, still they had no problem in achieving success.

Some example of Purna Kal Sarpa yoga:-

1) Shree Shree Mahaprabhu Chaitanyadev- Simha Lagna, Moon & Ketu in Lagna, Sun, Mercury, Venus & Rahu in 7th, rest of the planets between Rahu & Ketu.
2) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru- Karkata lagna, Rahu in 12th, Jupiter with Ketu in 6th, rest of the planets between Rahu & Ketu.
3) Scientist Dr. K.S. Krishnan- Mesh Lagna, Mercury & Rahu in 9th, Ketu in 3rd, rest of the planets between rahu & Ketu.

4) Anukul Thakur (preacher in Bengal)- Kanya Lagna, Rahu & Saturn in 11th, Ketu in 5th, rest of the planets between rahu & Ketu.

There are plenty of examples but I don’t want it to be unnecessarily large, so have refrained from giving more examples of Purna Kal Sarpa Yoga.

Now, some examples of Ardha Kal Sarpa yoga or Bhanga Kal Sarpa Yoga: -

1) “Father of the Nation” Mahatma Gandhi- Except Jupiter, all planets are between Rahu & Ketu.
2) Author of the book “Bande Mataram” Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay- Except Saturn, all planets are between Rahu & Ketu.
3) Adi Shankaracharya- Except Saturn, all are between Rahu & Ketu.
4) Swami Ramanujacharya- Except Jupiter, all planets are between Rahu & Ketu.
5) Singer Hemanta Mukhopadhayay (better known as Hemant Kumar)- Except Mars, all planets are between Rahu & Ketu.

Thus we can deduce that Kal Sarpa Yoga is nothing but a “CULTIVATED” yoga, only to scare people who come to seek astrological advice. As the examples given above it is true that whatever incomplete they felt in their life, was due to planetary position, not due to the so called “Kal Sarpa Yoga”. I have a number of horoscopes where there is presence of Kal Sarpa Yoga, but those persons have felt the height of success in their life, but inclusion of those examples will unnecessarily make this work pretty large.I have tried my best to support my article with relevent sources. Please forgive the shortcomings, if any.

 

GOOD LUCK!