what time is appropriate for procreation?

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Question: What days in the month can grihasthas auspiciously try for

conceiving a child?

 

Answer:

 

Sometime ago Bhanu Swami wrote to me on this subject. I am copying it

below:

 

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

 

Letter PAMHO:2028295 (47 lines)

Bhanu Swami (Madras - IN)

19-Jan-99 20:52 +0530

Jayapataka Swami (GBC) [37298]

Comment: Text PAMHO:2031273 by Jayapataka Swami

@subj times

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The following are the forbidden times. Out of ten days, if 3 days are

subtracted as saturday, sunday and tuesday, and forbidden naksatras and

tithis are avoided, then not many days are left per month.

 

Numbering the nights from the start of the menses of the woman, then at

least the first four nights are forbidden for sexual activity.

Kalaprakasika, states that the first day is fatal for the husband,the second

day is fatal forthe wife, thethird day causes abortion and the fourth day

impairs the power of the father and produces a short lived son bereft of

good habits.

 

Srila Prabhupad gives a slightly longer period.

 

The recommended period is six days after the mensturation period.

letter from Srila Prabhupada,

Shama dasi, Jan.18, 1969

 

The eleventh and thirteenth nights are also forbidden, as the offspring

produced are of bad quality. The remaining ten days are permitted, and the

later nights are favored. Even numbered nights favor male children, and

uneven numbers favor female children. Sexual union after the sixteenth

night is also forbidden. In the sequence below the starred days starting

from 1 (beginning of menses) are forbidden for sexual intercourse.

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

* * * * * * * * * * * * *

 

24 25 26 27

* * * *

The remaining ten days (5-10, 12, 14-16) are suitable provided they do not

fall on those lunar tithis which are forbidden.)

 

Forbidden Lunar Tithis:

 

Sexual union must also be avoided on days of vrata and fasting, such as

ekadasi, and on the parva days (full moon, dark moon, astami and caturdasi

tithis, as well as sankranti, when the sun passes into a new zodiac sign)

when the body is in weak condition, and the days when the moon passes

throught the same naksatra as at ones birth.

 

Forbidden Week days:

Saturday, Tuesday and Sunday should be avoided being ruled by malefic

planets,saturn, Mars and Sun.

 

Forbidden Naksatra: contact should be avoided when the moon is in the

following constellations: bharani, krttika, ardra, aslesa, magha,

purvaphalguni, visakha, jyestha, purvasada, purvabhadra

(Text PAMHO:2028295) ------

 

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So in order to calculate one should get a print out of the full unabridged

ISKCON Calender which includes Naksatras. A Naksatra is a constellation. I

think there are about 26 constellations. So it seems of the 26 ten are to

be avoided.

 

I hope this helps our grihastas to have highly qualified auspicious suputras

and suputris (good boy and girl children capable of delivering their

forfathers from repition of birth and death.

 

Your well wisher always,

 

 

 

Jayapataka Swami

 

 

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