Bhadra Yoga
Bhadra yoga is formed by Mercury in the sign of Virgo or Gemini in a kendra [that is, in the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th houses of the horoscope — editor’s note] . It endows a person with strength, a broad chest, an expressive face, a quiet and obliging character, and an enviable length of life.
Sri Govind Swarup Agarwal — «Vedic Astrology»
Mercury gives Bhadra yoga. Bhadra is everything auspicious. It gives intelligence, cheerfulness, optimism and the wish to help one’s relatives and people in general.
The basic course in Vedic astrology at Vasily Tushkin’s «Surya-Siddhanta» school
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A person with Bhadra yoga is physically strong and healthy, with long arms and a thin beard. He is as tall as the span of his outstretched arms. His face resembles a lion’s, and his gait an elephant’s. He is stately, with a broad chest and shoulders and well-proportioned limbs. He has a fine forehead and dark curly hair. His body smells of saffron, and his voice is sweet and sensuous.
Bhadra yoga gives a person education and virtue. He is a specialist in yoga, with his own definite opinions, and is broadly educated. He is a sensuous person with a sattvic, virtuous character, an expert in the sacred scriptures. Whatever happens, he is always level-headed and takes care of those close to him. A person with this yoga is very wealthy, blessed with every comfort, with a wife and children. He is content with his standing, lives to the age of eighty, and will leave this world in a holy place during a pilgrimage.
Note: Since it is Mercury that plays the dominant role in Bhadra yoga, the emphasis here falls on learning, intellect and virtue. The person earns his standing and wealth by his own efforts and is content with his comfort.
Sometimes one may notice that a horoscope can contain one or even several Pancha-Mahapurusha yogas and yet pass unnoticed. Therefore, in order to analyse these yogas properly, several points must be noted.
1.The planet forming the yoga must be strong both in the birth chart (by Shad-bala) and in the vargas. This planet will manifest its qualities in full only if it is strong. A dominant Mars is strength and aggression, Mercury — intellect and virtue, Jupiter — wisdom and eloquence, Venus — beauty and pleasure, and Saturn — influence over the masses and misfortune.
2.A Pancha-Mahapurusha yoga will give no results if the Sun or the Moon is in conjunction with the planet that forms this yoga. In that case the planet will give favourable results only during its own dasha. This is equivalent to a cancellation of the Mahapurusha yoga.
- Accordingly, if the Sun and the Moon are not with the planet forming the yoga, then this Mahapurusha yoga will manifest in full and will bear fruit not only during its own dasha. In other words, such an «impeccable» Mahapurusha yoga will show itself not only during the dasha of the planet that forms it. This yoga will therefore exert its influence throughout the whole of life. It is analogous to a Nabhasa yoga. The presence of several such favourable yogas in a horoscope raises a person’s material and professional status regardless of the dasha.
K.S. Charak — «Yogas in Astrology»
from Oleg Tolmachev’s book «Rectification of the time of birth. Determining the Lagna»
