Help Your Marriage Succeed

The decision to live with a total stranger for the rest of your incarnation is not a joke. It asks for a commitment that can endure all kinds of adversities. Marriage is not a relationship that you can walk in and out of, as and when you feel like; its sanctity is something which ought to be worshipped. It has got the potential to convert every house into a temple and lay down the foundation of a society that is compassionate. By making us work on all the polarities and paradoxes which constitute the fundamental molecule of life, it helps us in reaching out to that which has no opposite. Marriage is the ideal setup for our spiritual evolution in the kind of circumstances that characterize this culp (Yug) called Kalyug. So, I think we should all take a fresh look at our domesticity, with a reverence in our attitude for its prescription by the Gods, as a medicine for our wild and redundant inclinations.

The conquering of modern civilization by materialism and the constant decline in moral values has surely robbed the institute of marriage of all its glory. An arrangement which was basically designed to set us free of all of our enslavements has turned into the greatest threat to our freedom as well as honor. We have messed up so much with the traditional roles of a husband and wife that the very molecule of our society has been rendered dysfunctional. The home which was supposed to be our school of compassion has turned into a battle field because of the struggles for power. Everyone is fighting for domination and the tender flower of love is being trampled over by greed and wrath. Let some of us take the initiative to restore this world to health by going out of the way to practice and preach compassion. Let some of us dedicate our lives to selfless service of humanity and in the process of doing so heal a few of the ailing hearts.