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Most of the astrologers give way too much weightage to guna milap. In my opinion, traditional approach of guna milap is not very relevant now and should be modified for each case. When rishi Parashar wrote the vedic astrology around 5000 years ago, one of the main objectives of marriage was to produce (male) children. In most cases, married women were not even allowed to work (at least until husband was physically and mentally fit and was able to provide for the family). Hence, the 8 different tests were designed mainly to test the husband-wife compatibility from that perspective. For example: maximum of 8 points (which constitutes to 25% of a total 36 points) were given to check the genetic compatibility of the bride and groom to ensure they are capable of producing healthy children. However, in today’s world with advances in medical sciences it has become feasible for the couples to produce healthy children even with somewhat non-matching genetic material. Moreover, it may not be even couple’s priority to produce children (for example: in case of  second marriage, if both parents have kids from previous marriage then they may not even want additional children from this marriage). In such case, it doesn’t matter whether the prospective couple has all 8 points matching or 0 points matching. I can provide similar explanation for rest of the 7 tests as well.

Hence, in my  opinion and experience, traditional approach of guna milap cannot be used “as is” these days. Also, it makes it even more important to study both patrikas individually (by Krishnamurthy Paddhati) and combined in much more details before coming to the conclusion whether marriage will work or not.