Neechbhanga Raj Yoga

Neechabhanga Raja yoga improves the significance of the neecha graha i.e. planet which is in debilitation.^[1] Generally coming into operation after the age of thirty-six years Neechbanga Raja yoga indicates cancellation of debilitation of a debilitated planet which then does not tend to produce adverse results during the course of its own dasha but produces exceptionally good results.

The term Neechabhanga indicates cancellation of debilitation. This composite word is a combination of two Sanskrit words – neecha, meaning "debilitated", and bhanga, meaning "annulled".

The debilitation of a planet gets cancelled if its dispositor or the lord of its sign of exaltation occupies a kendra from the lagna (ascendant) or the (Natal) Moon or if it is aspected by either its dispositor or its exaltation lord or it exchanges sign with its dispositor or if it is aspected by another planet in debilitation.^[5] It is an enigmatic situation which according to Vaidyanatha Dikshita of Jataka Parijata comes into being i.e. debilitation gets cancelled if at the time of birth

• If the lord of the house occupied by a debilitated planet is in a kendra or in a trikona from the Lagna or the Chandra-lagna.
• If the planet that gets exalted in the sign where a planet is debilitated is in a kendra from the Lagna or the Chandra-lagna, or
• If the lord of the exaltation house of the debilitated planet is in a kendra from the Lagna or the Chandra-lagna.
• The debilitated planet is exalted in the navamsa.
• If a debilitated planet is aspected by another debilitated planet or by its own dispositor.
• The lord of the navamsa occupied by the debilitated planet is in a kendra or a trikona from the Lagna which rises in a movable sign or the lord of the Lagna is in a movable sign.
• If the lord of the sign that gets exalted in the sign occupied by the debilitated planet is in a trikona from the lord of the exaltation sign of the debilitated planet. or
• If the lords of the debilitation and exaltation houses of the debilitated planet are in mutual kendras or in trikonas from the Lagna or the Chandra-lagna. Raja yoga occurs only if the debilitated planet owning a benefic bhava occupies a kendra in a benefic and friendly sign otherwise its debility is removed and regains its strength.