The Ancient Science behind MangalSutra | How MangalSutra was made then ? | INSIGHTS

     You must have wondered how do a chain with a locket could have any specialty in it ? And moreover what difference it really makes when you wear it or not. Seems quite backward that we have to wear something that symbolizes that you are married, but did you Mangal Sutra is more than that? Let's find out everything we need to know about 'Mangal Sutra' of Hindu Culture in out ongoing series 'INSIGHTS'.

Need Of Marriage

    Let’s first understand why we actually need marriage. Think about the time when you were young before your teenager life- you were fine by yourself and your body, by playing around with your friends and family. On that time, body was just an object, an instrument for you to perform activities. It wasn’t overpowering you in any way, but as soon as you come into life of teenage.

Everything changed, you started to see, feel and understand things in different way. You were that carefree child that had body as an object for his daily activities, rather you were growing into adult. Your hormones that were present in your body in milligrams, started to change everything for you because wherever you looked it, being a women, it looked in particular way.

If you are man everything looked in another way, which simply didn’t exist earlier when you were young just few years back because of power of chemistry. When you got so identified by your body, when it started to matter being man or woman. Being man or woman got so established for you then you can say that nature just wants you to reproduce. It may sound gross, uncultured, backward and not-so-acceptable but it is truth.

 For some people this ‘Changing Hormone’ phase is just passing, for some people bearable but for some other it is need. Not everyone needs it.

Thinking and Science of Hindu Culture

    In our Hindu culture, we try to keep things attached and connected to make them work beautifully but, push is to reproduce, isn’t it? But there is always emotional insecurity towards the partner when he is not connected to emotionally, physically and by body.

Did you know that body also has its own memory insights? It’s called ‘Runanubandh’- The memory of body. Physical intimacy causes memory to be intact to your body in much broader and huge way. Body is very choosy but when it chooses, it only wants it; because body remembers and responds in its own way in the future, you can’t even guess, based on its memory.

 The more the memory from physical intimacy, the more the confusion in current relationship and more the emotional instability. Even if you figure out everything in your life, still you would not be able to find bliss, there always be void there to keep you empty because your body holds too much for a new person to come in your life. Then how do we fix that so that our generations do not suffer?

 

Well, the answer was ‘Mangal Sutra’. Not the one you see as a locket in fat gold chain nowadays. So, when you got married they tied Mangal Sutra to you. Essentially named as ‘Mangal Sutram’, was sacred thread.

It was supposed to be either cotton thread or silk raw thread with turmeric in middle as locket, in a certain way to use tantric way to bind you and your spouse energies together (Tantric doesn’t always mean bad; it’s use defines if it is bad or good). They were supposed to take one Nāḍī (Nāḍī is a term for the channels through which, in traditional Indian medicine and spiritual theory, the energies such as prana of the physical body, the subtle body and the causal body are said to flow), is taken from you and another Nāḍī from your spouse system and bind them together with that thread in very particular way and that is tied to you. The moment you have physical intimacy, it just not body met, but two people’s energies bind like rock together. 

You can’t break it until you severely damage both, because if you damage only one person in bond, other’s energy would revive it. It may sound filmy but it is true. Tantric ways are filmy but they work. You have to revive it every year as Nāḍī’s energies dissipates in different form and displaces. So it was important to revive its energy again.

What happens after you tied them up with ‘Mangal Sutra’?

    When their energies bind together, they mentally and emotionally also become bind with each other. No matter what they are, where they are, whom they are with. The only person that is connected to them is you, only you. There wasn’t even question like- ‘If my spouse would be cheating me right now, since he/ she is not picking up my phone?”

There wasn’t even question for that because they were so connected to you that they can be partner in your thoughts too. Now think how much mind stability it had given to the both in their works, in their goals and for most in their life. No emotional instability from the spouse side. Life would have been easier if we didn’t really care about the thing- ‘If my partner is cheating is on me or not’. That’s what ‘Mangal Sutra’ used to in old times, but now it is no more than a gold chain. It’s just representation not the reality. So we can’t judge something basing on its representation.

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