There is nothing wrong in marriage if it is based on the foundation of wisdom and an awakened state. The institution of marriage becomes a problem because it emerges out of a mind seeking security leading to permanent enslavement. Marriage, when entered out of ignorance, can become an irreversible trap that dictates one’s life. Marriage is beautiful and wonderful if it is based on wisdom because then it redeems and gives one wings to fly, breaking oneself from the clutches of patterns and security.
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Questioner: Sir, whenever I see towards my mama’s life and towards my parents’ life or so-called married couples and then I discuss with my friends; they told me that, “This happens. Life is led like this and whatever is happening is a good thing.”
I mean that I don’t understand this and the way of life being led. There is nothing lacking, there is no problem as such. Just that I am unable to understand this.
Acharya Prashant: Why do you often talk of marriage? As such, I have nothing against two people committing to stay together. But, why do I often talk of it?
I talk of it because of the mind, that is so eagerly wanting marriage. It's often a mind that wants the marriage due to its insecurity, its dullness, and its inability to see what it is wanting and doing. That darkness, that ignorance reflects in all the actions of that mind, all the actions of that individual. But it reflects most starkly in the institution of marriage because it is so very permanent.
