Why are marriages banned in the same gotra?

All the men and women born in the same gotra of father, and belonging to his varna are called gotri brothers or gotri sisters in Hindu Sanatan Dharma. That is why marrriages are banned amongst sagotra (same gotra) brothers and

brothers and sisters.”

“Its scientific aspect is that just as marriages in extremely different castes bring distortion, likewise unusually common marriages in the same gotra and its sub-varieties are undesirable. The main reason of marriage in the same varna but outside the
Gotra is that in unusually common contacts there is nothing special which is added to the basic object. There is no reaction of either attraction or repelling. By mixing the same common milk to the milk of the same varna nothing extraordinary results. But if a little yoghurt is
By mixing the same common milk to the milk of the same varna nothing extraordinary results. But if a little yoghurt is mixed into the common milk, then it not only converts it into curd but adds special properties of organising butter elements also.
The simple formula of marriage
is that the marriage should not take place outside caste, as well as it should not be with extremely common persons in the same varna and caste. From the scientific point of view the best physical, mental and spiritual relationship takes place between people.

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“Why arghya (water offering) to the sun?

It is a common belief that by giving arghya to the sun one’s sins are washed out. It is written in the Skand-Parana that to take food without arghya to tha “sun is like committing sins

अथ संध्याया यदपः प्रभुक्ते ता विपुषो वज्रीयुत्वा


असुरान पाध्नान्ति ।।

The water used in prayer converts into vajra (hard stones) and destroys demons. The destruction of demons through sun-rays is figurative language. The demons for mankind are typhoid, tuberculosis, pneumonia etc. and their bacterias in water are destroyed by

the divine strength of sun-rays. The germs of anthrax, which survive years of drying, are killed by sun-rays in one and a half hours. Likewise, the harmful germs of cholera, pneumonia, small pox, T.B., which survive in boiling water are easily killed by the ultraviolet rays of

the sun, reactivated by water.”

In suryarghya, the devotees stand, in the morning facing the sun, take handful “attentively, you will see the seven coloured spectrum of light.
It is considered proper to offer water to the sun from a lota with convex edge. If the edge of the

pot, from which you are offering water to the sun, is concave, you will see the sun in a bigger form
In such a situation our eyes will not be in a position to bear the sun-rays. It would be better if the lota is of copper or brass, instead of a bright metal such as aluminium or

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