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Kumbha Vivah

Sanskrit Dictionary:

vivah

• to bear or carry off , remove

• to lead away (the bride from her father's house) , take in marriage , marry

• to marry or form a matrimonial alliance together

• to marry (a girl) to

• to lead home , take to wife

kumbham

• a jar , pitcher , waterpot , ewer , small water-jar

• a perforated pitcher

• a jar of unbaked clay

• a golden ewer

• a water-pot

• an urn in which the bones of a dead person are collected

• the sign of the zodiac Aquarius

• a measure of grain (equal to twenty Dronas , a little more than three bushels and three gallons ; commonly called a comb ; some make it two Dronas or sixty-four Seers)

• the frontal globe or prominence on the upper part of the forehead of an elephant (there are two of these prominences which swell in the rutting season)

• a religious exercise , viz. closing the nostrils and mouth so as to suspend breathing

• a harlot

• a small jar or pot , earthen cooking vessel

• Latin {cymba}, Welsh {cym, coomb}, English {comb}

Kumbha Vivah

= a historic remedy for unfavorable Jyotisha marriage prospects that is practiced in some traditional Bharati cultures.

An empty clay pot, or Kumbha, stands in for the spouse, and the native is "married" to the pot.

• Then the pot is broken and thus the 'curse' of a bad first marriage is considered to be broken.

In some cultures the hapless native will be 'married' to a sapling tree, such as a pipal.

• The tree is then destroyed.

There are many variations according to custom and climate.

IMO this custom = absolutely the height of superstition, and cannot possibly produce the least advantage in the quest to transform ignorance into wisdom.

Genuine karma = obligatory actions which have been designed by the spirit to enforce, through repetition of the lesson, an awareness of the relationship between thoughts and actions. Karma is a purposeful system which facilitates the conversion of ignorance into wisdom.

Karma is "inescapable" via superstitious methods because superstition transfers the locus of responsibility to an outside agent. If a challenging first marriage is on schedule, what would be the point of running away from it? The idea of karma is to face the difficulties and learn from them.

Yet supposedly educated persons often ask whether the kumbh-vivah "puja" will resolve forecast marriage challenges.

The answer is, no it will not. Nor will dancing in a counterclockwise circle with 108 strips of red fabric tied to one's head (a popular "remedy" for Kuja Dosha, Kala Sarpa Yoga, and various other "curses"!) Nor will wearing a ring of a certain gemstone, set in the metal form of a snake. Nor will any other act of sympathetic magic which is intended to run away from karma rather than work through it.

IMO there is no harm in doing puja of any type, so long as one understands that by performing the ritual one's power has not been usurped by outside agencies (deities, naga, spirits, a guru or the pujari). The power to change lies within the power to understand, and the power to understand is a part of conscious acceptance of the path as one finds it.

• If a puja shall be performed, that is lovely, but the puja can only confirm one's intention to make the necessary inner changes in attitude.
• The puja cannot alter the process of manifestation of one's own thoughts, beliefs, expectations due to upbringing, psychological and emotional reactions etc. as these emerge into the interactions of human-to-human relationships.
• One must be willing to accept personal responsibility for the communication and understanding within marriage.
• Only after one has exhausted all available intelligence toward harmonious agreement and been unable using every possible tool to establish a balance, should a marriage be considered completed.

Breaking a clay pot will not make the least molecule of progress toward the goal of self-knowledge through the vehicle of marriage.

However breaking a clay pot, or any other ritual, can help to confirm the native 's intention to eradicate the most fundamental ignorance by asking for help from the divine when marriage challenges become severe.

Breaking a clay pot can affirm one's commitment to breaking through barriers of misunderstanding and psychic mismatch to reach a common respect.

Rituals are lovely, confirming, and engaging.

• However it is important to continuously remember that a ritual has no power that is greater than personal conviction, personal intention, and personal commitment to accept responsibility for the situation as one finds it
• and to do one's neutral and compassionate best work to make it better while negotiating the piece-by-piece conversion of resentment, blaming, accusations, and despair into the bright light of trust and knowledge.

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