ABHIJITA KULSHRESTHA · SENIOR DIRECTOR, GEMSTONEUNIVERSE
There are women who read horoscopes. And then there is Abhijita Kulshrestha — the woman those astrologers call when they need answers.
As Senior Director of GemstoneUniverse — the world’s most trusted destination for natural Jyotish gemstones — and the closest collaborator of Guruji Shrii Arnav, the Forbes-recognised “Mentor of Mentors,” Abhijita occupies a singular position in the world of Vedic wisdom.
She is not a fortune-teller. She is a diagnostician. A woman who reads birth charts with the precision of a cardiologist reading an ECG — and then prescribes accordingly.
Her credentials would make a dean of any gemological institution envious. Triple-certified across the GIA (USA), SSEF Basel (Switzerland), and the Planetary Gemologists Association, Thailand, she holds a Master’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication and is a certified NLP Master Practitioner.
She has appeared on NDTV prime-time panels alongside Bollywood’s Neha Dhupia, been cover personality for Global Millionaire Magazine, and authored Cosmic Sutra — A Handbook of Healing and Ambrosia Sides. In 1999, Competition Success Review awarded her Ms. Super Brain of India. Over two decades later, the brain is sharper — and the heart, wider. We sat with her to ask the questions no gemstone brochure ever will.
GIA · USA ◆ SSEF BASEL · SWITZERLAND ◆ PGA · THAILAND ◆ NLP MASTER · FLORIDA ◆ AUTHOR · 2 BOOKS ◆ NDTV PANELIST ◆ SUPER BRAIN OF INDIA · 1999 ◆ 20 MOST INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS OF INDIA
Guruji Shrii Arnav wrote about a “Coloured Revolution” in Indian weddings. You are the practitioner sitting across from brides every day. What does this revolution actually look like from that chair?
It looks like awakening. Ten years ago, a bride would walk in with a diamond solitaire already decided — the question was only the setting. Today, she walks in with a question. She is asking: what is right for me? That shift — from consumption to consciousness — is the revolution.
What I see most often is brides who are deeply intuitive but have been conditioned to distrust their intuition. A woman will hold a yellow sapphire and feel something shift in her chest — a sense of expansion, of warmth — and then immediately look at me and ask, “Is this scientifically valid?” I tell her: that response is the data. The body knows before the mind concedes.
The coloured gemstone is personal in a way a diamond fundamentally cannot be. A diamond is optimised for universal appeal. A ruby, a blue sapphire, a Colombian emerald — each is a specific frequency. Finding yours is the work.
Can a wrong gemstone actually damage a marriage — or is that poetic language?
It is not poetic. It is precise.
Every gemstone is a sustained planetary influence delivered directly to your biofield. If you wear a blue sapphire when Saturn is not your friend — and Saturn is nobody’s casual friend — you are essentially turning up the volume on precisely the energies that create obstruction, delay, and emotional coldness. In a marriage, coldness compounds. It becomes distance. Distance becomes silence. Silence becomes separate rooms.
I have sat with couples where the only change we made was removing an incorrectly prescribed gemstone. Relationships that had calcified over years began to soften within months. The stone was not the cause — but it was amplifying the discord.
This is why the consultation matters more than the stone itself. The most expensive gemstone worn by the wrong person is a liability. The right gemstone — even a modest one — is a steady, silent ally.
You appeared on NDTV discussing codependency and infidelity in modern Indian relationships. Most people would not connect that conversation to gemstones. You do. How?
Because both are fundamentally about the same thing: the self. Codependency is the absence of a robust self — you dissolve into your partner, your identity becomes a mirror of theirs, and then when the mirror cracks, there is nothing left underneath.
In Vedic astrology, the Sun governs self-worth and identity. A weakened Sun in a chart often manifests as exactly this — a person who cannot stand alone, who is constantly seeking external validation. A properly prescribed gemstone that strengthens the Sun is not magic. It is targeted energetic support for the psychological work that person must do.
I always pair gemstone prescriptions with inner work. The stone opens the door. The person still has to walk through it. NLP is extraordinarily useful here — it rewires the narrative. The gemstone and the inner work together create real, lasting change.
Most brides walk into a jewellery store with a budget and a Pinterest board. What is the one question she should ask that nobody is currently telling her to ask?
She should ask: “What does this stone amplify in me?”
Not “Is it certified?” Not “What is the resale value?” Not even “Does it go with my lehenga?” Those are all valid questions — but they are secondary. The first question must always be: what energy does this stone carry, and is that the energy I want amplified in the most important relationship of my life?
A jeweller cannot answer that question. A gemologist might. An Astro Gemologist absolutely can. That is why the consultation is not a luxury. It is the foundation.
I tell every bride: wear your gemstone the way you choose your partner. With full awareness. Not just because it is beautiful.
You are triple-certified — GIA, SSEF Basel, PGA Thailand. What does science miss that Vedic gemology catches?
Science measures the observable: clarity, cut, colour, carat. These are real and important — at GemstoneUniverse, the quality standards we hold are exceptionally rigorous. But the GIA report tells you what a stone is. It does not tell you what a stone does to you.
Vedic gemology asks the second question. It integrates the stone’s identity with the wearer’s energetic blueprint — the birth chart. A D-Flawless diamond is a magnificent stone. But it amplifies Venus. If Venus is debilitated in your chart, that D-Flawless diamond is working beautifully against you.
The science gives you the specification sheet. The Vedic system gives you the operating manual. Both are necessary. Neither alone is complete. That is why GemstoneUniverse was built to hold both — and it took thirty years of Guruji Shrii Arnav’s work to build a system that does.
Is this conversation entirely a bride’s conversation? What about the groom?
The groom is being left out of a conversation that is profoundly about him as well — and that is a significant oversight.
A marriage is an energetic merger. Two planetary fields come together and begin to interact. When only one person is making conscious, astrologically-informed choices about what they are wearing energetically, it is like tuning one instrument in an orchestra and leaving the rest to chance.
I see more grooms coming in now, which is a healthy sign. A well-chosen gemstone for the groom — something that strengthens his chart’s weakest link, whether that is communication, stability, prosperity, or health — is one of the most meaningful gifts a family can give at a wedding.
My appeal to Indian families: include the groom in this conversation. Not as an afterthought. As an equal participant in building the energetic foundation of the marriage.
Give us a real transformation. No names — but a story that changed your understanding of what a gemstone can do.
There is one I return to often in my mind.
A woman in her early forties. Twelve years of marriage, three children, financially comfortable — and utterly hollow. She described it as living behind glass: she could see everyone around her, she could perform all the right actions, but she could not feel anything. Her doctors had ruled out clinical depression. Her husband loved her. Her children were healthy. There was, on paper, nothing wrong.
When I looked at her chart, the Moon was severely afflicted. The Moon, in Vedic understanding, governs the mind, the emotions, the capacity to feel. She had been wearing a stone that was aggravating this affliction without knowing it — a well-meaning gift from her mother-in-law.
We removed it. We prescribed a natural pearl — specific quality, specific weight, properly set and energised. Three months later, she wrote to me. She said: “I cried watching my daughter perform in her school play. It was the first time in eight years I had cried about something beautiful.”
The glass had broken. She could feel again. That is what a correctly placed natural pearl — the Moon’s own stone — can do. It does not manufacture emotion. It removes the obstruction to one’s own emotional intelligence.
There is a growing segment of modern Indian women who are deeply sceptical — they see gemstone therapy as superstition dressed in gold. What would you say to her, directly?
I would say: I respect your scepticism completely. It is a sign of an active, questioning mind — and that is exactly the kind of mind I enjoy working with most.
Here is what I would offer: I am not asking you to believe. I am asking you to observe. Keep a journal for six months before and six months after a proper consultation. Track your energy, your relationships, your decision-making, your emotional responses. Do not change anything else. Just add the gemstone that is prescribed for your chart.
The data will speak. I have not met a single genuinely observant sceptic who did not, over time, quietly revise their position. Not because I convinced them — I never argue for belief — but because they were honest enough to see what they themselves recorded.
Superstition asks you to surrender your discernment. What we do asks you to sharpen it. There is a fundamental difference.
If a bride could add just one coloured gemstone to her bridal trousseau without a consultation yet — what would you broadly suggest?
Without a chart, I cannot prescribe — and I would never do so responsibly. But I can speak to what the tradition of South India has practised unbroken for centuries: organic red coral.
Red coral is the gem of Mars — the planet of energy, vitality, marital strength, and courage. It is connected to Mangalya Balam, the sacred strength of the marital bond. South Indian families have been gifting coral to brides for generations not because of fashion, but because of profound astrological and cultural wisdom accumulated over thousands of years.
But please — book the consultation. Her chart deserves to be read. Her marriage deserves the precision.
Where do you see the Indian bridal jewellery space five years from now?
I see a complete inversion of the current model — and it is already beginning.
For decades, the jewellery industry led with aesthetics and the bride followed. Five years from now, the most sophisticated brides will lead with the energetic question first and choose the aesthetics second. They will walk in knowing their Moon sign, their Saturn cycle, what their chart demands energetically.
GemstoneUniverse was built for exactly that future. We have been living it for thirty years. The world is simply catching up.
The most beautiful thing about this shift? When a woman wears a stone that is truly aligned with her — she does not just look radiant. She is radiant. That is a different thing entirely.
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