How a Bus Driver Tamed His Violent Temper with Hanuman Chalisa and Vedic Remedies from ShreeKundli

The Punch That Almost Ended Everything

Rakesh Dubey has driven the morning and afternoon school bus for DPS Varanasi for six years. He knows every pothole on the Sigra to Lanka route. He knows which children get carsick and need a window seat. He knows which parents are always two minutes late and which ones are already waiting at the stop ten minutes early. He is good at his job, dependable in the way that matters when you are responsible for forty children twice a day.

He is also — or was — a man with a temper so volcanic that his wife Sunita had a name for the expression that preceded an eruption: "the blank face." When the blank face appeared, Sunita would take their two children to the back room. The blast radius varied. Sometimes it was shouting at a neighbor over a parking dispute. Sometimes it was smashing a glass against the kitchen wall after a bad phone call. Rakesh always felt ashamed afterward. He always apologized. And it always happened again.

In November 2025, on an evening when he was not driving the school bus but his own scooter, a car cut him off on the Dashashwamedh Ghat road. In the three seconds between the near-miss and what happened next, something in Rakesh's brain bypassed every rational circuit. He chased the car to the next signal, pulled the driver out through the window, and hit him in the face. The driver's lip split. Blood on the steering wheel. A crowd formed. Police arrived. Rakesh was taken to the Dashashwamedh police station and charged with assault.

He was released on bail that night. Sunita did not speak to him for three days. The school management called him in and told him his job was suspended pending the court case. The driver he had hit was an accountant with a wife and elderly mother. Rakesh had drawn blood from a man whose only crime was changing lanes badly.

Mars in the First House, Mars Mahadasha, Rahu in Aries

Sunita's brother Deepak was the one who pulled up ShreeKundli. Deepak had been using the platform for his own career decisions and had found the dasha analysis remarkably precise. He entered Rakesh's birth details — time confirmed from the old hospital register that Rakesh's mother kept in a steel almirah — and generated the full chart.

The chart read like a case study in unmanaged aggression. Mars in the 1st house — the house of self, personality, and physical body. Mars here does not make a person bad. It makes them intensely energetic, physically brave, quick to act, and dangerously quick to anger. The 1st house Mars also aspects the 7th house — the house of others, partnerships, and public interactions — meaning the aggressive energy is projected outward, onto other people, in every confrontation.

But that was just the foundation. Rakesh was also running Mars Mahadasha — the major period of Mars that intensifies every Mars-related quality for seven years. And as if that were not enough, Rahu was placed in Aries — Mars's own sign — amplifying Mars energy with Rahu's quality of excess, obsession, and loss of control. It was a triple amplification: Mars in the 1st house, Mars Mahadasha active, Rahu supercharging Mars from its own sign.

"When Deepak showed me the chart, I did not need anyone to explain it. Mars everywhere. In my body, in my time period, amplified by Rahu. I am not excusing what I did. But for the first time, I understood why my anger is not like other people's anger. It is not proportional. It never has been."

Hanuman Chalisa, Red Coral, and Tuesday Discipline

ShreeKundli's Vedic Remedies for this configuration were extensive and specific. The primary recommendation was Hanuman Chalisa recitation twice daily — morning and evening. In Vedic tradition, Hanuman is the deity who embodies the positive expression of Mars energy: strength channeled through devotion, power governed by service, physical courage directed by dharma. For a native with excessive Mars, Hanuman worship does not suppress the fire. It gives the fire a purpose.

The second recommendation was wearing a red coral set in copper on the ring finger — a gemstone that stabilizes Mars energy rather than amplifying it, particularly when Mars is already overexpressed. Third: fasting on Tuesdays — Mars's day — as an act of voluntary self-discipline, teaching the body restraint on the day when martial impulses are strongest. Fourth: reciting the Mangal Beej Mantra — "Om Kraam Kreem Kraum Sah Bhaumaya Namah" — 108 times every Tuesday. Fifth: donating red items (red cloth, red lentils, red bangles) at a Hanuman temple every Tuesday.

Rakesh started the very next day. He had no choice but to take the remedies seriously — he was facing a court case, a suspended job, and a wife who had begun sleeping in the children's room. The Hanuman Chalisa was not unfamiliar. He had grown up reciting it with his mother. What was different now was the intention behind it. He was not reciting from habit. He was reciting as a man who had drawn another man's blood and needed to become someone who would never do that again.

The Court Case and the Tuesday Transformation

The court case proceeded through the Varanasi magistrate court over four months. Rakesh's lawyer argued that it was a single incident of road rage provoked by a dangerous lane change, with no prior criminal record. The accountant's lawyer pushed for jail time. In the end, the magistrate imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 and six months of good behavior bond. No jail time. Rakesh paid the fine from savings that had been set aside for his daughter's school admission. That payment hurt more than any punishment.

More important than the court outcome was what happened on Tuesdays. The fasting created a physical anchor — every Tuesday, Rakesh's body experienced voluntary restraint, and that restraint began to extend beyond the fast itself. He noticed the blank face appearing less frequently. When it did appear, there was a new pause between the trigger and the reaction — a gap that had not existed before. In that gap, the Hanuman Chalisa phrase "Buddhiheen tanu jaanike, sumirau pavan kumar" would surface unbidden: "Knowing myself to be lacking in wisdom, I remember Hanuman."

Three months into the practice, Rakesh was in traffic again when a truck driver swerved and nearly sideswiped the school bus. Forty children were on board. The old Rakesh would have chased the truck. The new Rakesh pulled over, checked that every child was safe, took a deep breath, and continued the route. His assistant driver, who had worked with him for four years, later told Sunita: "I do not know what has happened to bhaiya, but he is a different person."

"My wife says I am a different person on Tuesdays. She is right. On Tuesdays I fast, I recite, I donate. And the discipline of that one day has leaked into the other six. Mars is still in my 1st house. The fire is still there. But now it has a chimney."

Back Behind the Wheel

The school reinstated Rakesh after the court case concluded and after a meeting where the principal observed what Sunita and the assistant driver had already noticed — a measurably calmer man. Rakesh now drives with a small Hanuman murti on his dashboard. The children think it is decoration. Rakesh knows it is a reminder.

He has not hit anyone since November 2025. He has not broken anything in his house. He and Sunita sleep in the same room again. He fasts every Tuesday without exception and has not missed a single day of Hanuman Chalisa in five months. He also sought out the accountant he had hit — the man's lip had healed but the incident had shaken him — and apologized in person at his office with a box of sweets and a folded note. The accountant accepted both.

"I am not fixed," Rakesh says with the honesty of a man who has stopped pretending. "Mars Mahadasha has years left. The fire will test me again. But now I have tools. The Chalisa, the fast, the mantra, the coral on my finger — they are like the seatbelt I make every child wear. They do not prevent the accident. They prevent the damage."