13.2 Inauspicious times for the appearance of the First Menses
1. Amavasya or the New-Moon day.
2. Rikta Tithies.
3. The 1st, 6th, 8th and 12th lunar days in both halves of the lunar months.
4. The first half of the Parigha yoga.
5. Vyathipatha and Vyadhriti.
6. The two twilights.
All these considered to be unfavourable for the appearance of the first Menses in a girl.
13.3 Results of Weekdays
Sunday – She will suffer from many diseases.
Monday – Virtuous and good.
Tuesday – Suffering from sorrows.
Wednesday – Good married life and enjoyment.
Thursday – Virtuous and polite.
Friday – Obedient and loving life.
Saturday – Vicious and bad-tempered.
13.4 Auspicious Constellations
Hasta, Chitta, Swati, Visakha, Anooradha, Uttara , Uttarashadha, Uttarabhadra, Sravana, Moola, Revati, Dhanishta, Satabhisha, Aswini, Pushyami, Rohini and Mrigasira. These 17 stars are considered good for the appearance of the first Menses.
13.5 Evil Constellations
Pubba, Poorvashadha, Poorvabhadra, Bharani, Aslesha. If the first Menses appears in these stars the girl should not chew betel leaves, should have no oil baths, wear no flowers, use no yellow or red powders, Haridra and Kunkuma, and should not see the face of the husband for the special periods mentioned for each of those stars.
Proper remedies ordained by Sastras to avert these evil influences should at once be adopted in interest of the girl’s future. If she attains age in Aridra and Makha she becomes sorrowful. She becomes adulterous, it she attains puberty in Punarvasu and Jyeshta. If the girl attains puberty in Bharani, 10 months; if in Krittika, Aslesha and Jyeshta, 4 months; if in Pubba, Poorvashadha, Poorvabhadra, 8 months; if in Aridra, 6 months; if in Makha, 12 months; and if in Punarvasu, 5 months should be allowed to pass before nuptials could be celebrated and she must not see during these months the face of her husband and should avoid using leaves, flowers and other luxuries.
13.5 Remarks for Serious Reflection
The safety of human society entirely depends upon the sexual purity, the times of enjoyment, and the health of the parties concerned. Among many of the animals, there are instinctive impulses in masculine and feminine creatures which restrict the sexual enjoyments and they preserve good health, because they have a gift of nature, the great and unerring instinct which guides the animals in all these operations. Nature is not partial to them. As a compensative gift to mankind, nature has been graciously pleased to implant in man a wonderful power, the great intelligence and for its protection, reasoning powers and practical knowledge.
Great as man is, with his intellectual powers and lofty comprehension, he often degrades and debases himself, lower than the lowest of brutes. The colossal and appallin venereal complaints prevailing in the most enlightened and civilised centres are unmistakable monuments, showing the amount of moral filth which surrounds the lofty intellects of human beings and drags them to the level of brutes and sometimes even to lower levels than brutes in their social and sexual transactions. Their horrible sexual ideas can have no comparison or parallels in the animal world, whom man has the barefaced audacity to call as senseless beasts. There is no question that the animals are far below the mark of intelligence, which humanity possesses to its credit when properly directed.
But abuse of intelligence is his motto and excessive and untimely sexual indulgences are his baneful practices. Astrology shows his weakness in these matters and warns him to be careful in his sexual fransactions. In the flush of passions he forgets his intelligence and reason, rushes on the mad career of sexual excesses, falls into the folds of hopeless diseases, racks his brain to discover and invent remedies to remove these complaints, suffers all excruciating pains from his own body, grows degenerate in health and mind, produces unhealthy and syphilic issues and corrupts society in so many ways that an enumeration of all the evil effects of these sexual irregularities is not possible in such short treatises. None of the other departments of knowledge can help humanity in the selection of marriage couples, how the couple should. cohabit, and when and what should be their future conduct in the way of these sexual matters on which depend the whole prosperity of the nation, the strength of the armies, the vitality of all industries, and the progress and health of the future generations.
A girl attains her age. The husband or some other man enjoys her sexually. There will be discharges of electrical, ethereal and other subtle forces, and when they are bad and unfavourable, the result will be death, danger, sorrows or diseases. Go to an electric generating and distributing station. Suppose the off officers concerned had not put the warning notices on different knobs or other machinery, which are dangerous and a touch of which will kill a person at once, or send him to nervous prostration. The man goes in utter ignorance of the dangerous effects of the electric power and touches any one of these dangerous instruments. What would be the result? He may die straight, or may be afflicted with some nervous destruction which would incapacitate him for future work and enjoyment of normal health. Will he not be ruined by his rash act, touching a knob although done in the most innocent mood? The nut may have a very fine external appearance.
Man is a bundle of Electrical energy and other various subtle agencies. Some of them are very deadly in their effects, so much so that as a breath of some poisonous gases will kill a human being instantly so also will these unfavourable electric and ethereal currents cause destruction to the parties concerned. I will give an illustration which proved quite correct. A rich gentleman in Madras wanted me to see the marital agreement of his son with the daughter of his wife’s brother. The female horoscope stood thus. The girl was 12 years and the boy about 20 years in the B.A. class possessing a fine specimen of developed athletic body. I warned both the parents not to have the marriage. They neglected my advice and through the influence of the boy’s mother, the betrothal was celebrated. Then came the nuptial day and it passed off well. From that night,
2 – Kuja, Ketu
3 – Sani
7 – sukra, Ravi, Budha
8 – Lagna, Rahu
9 – Chandra
10 – Guru
the boy went on losing blood and in a month he was on his death-bed. He expressed his great anxiety to see me and I saw him. When I questioned him he frankly told me that he had only two connections on that fatal night, felt a sort of electric shock through his organ, and fell sick. The case was hopeless and the poor boy was sacrificed for relational and financial considerations. The girl is now a widow. The human body is a strange and mysterious combination of various forces or energies, some of which are demonstrable and others are invisible, but all the same real. How do the temperaments change for good or bad? After some years of love and friendship people begin to quarrel and even try to kill each other. Sometimes the electric, magnetic and ethereal currents suddenly change from causes, some of which are known and many of which lie concealed behind the mysterious folds of nature. If the first appearance of menses changes the whole course of a girl’s career, then all the causes, which produced that result, will have to be examined, their influences must be ascertained, their intensities should be properly gauged and all reasonable attempts should be made to remove them, and secure happiness. Therefore, this chapter of a girl’s history should receive the best attention of all sensible men and women and no amount of time and labour spent upon an examination of these details should be considered as wasted. The labour involved in the examination of these details should be considered as the most beneficial which a man could render to the service of humanity in the upliftment of mankind, in their health and prosperity.
