There is no compulsion, it's either a slavery you buy into or just an expensive luxury that the rich afford. All this that we are doing: success, marriage, fidelity, money, prestige, whatever, all these are founded on self-ignorance. Somebody tells you, “Go get married, bear kids.” What do you know? You don't know your own birth, and you are giving birth. No point playing blind. Before you start walking, start opening your eyes.
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Questioner: Actually, there is a compulsion of early marriage. So you were talking about the holiness of marriage, and in one of the interviews a very famous Indian entrepreneurial personality who actually hailed from your academic institution, he was judged in one of the reality shows.
He was saying the virtues of early marriage: that he completed his post-graduation and graduation at one go and immediately got married, and then he figured out what to do in life. And that way he was justifying that you get a clear mind, that you get to figure out what to do in life.
And we often see that many sports persons like footballers get a huge contract from a club and at the age of 21 they get married and often have three or four children thereafter before 30. That there is this compulsion of early marriage or marriage at all, and we often get stuck with a wrong person or maybe with a person at all.
Acharya Prashant: There is no compulsion, it's either a slavery you buy into or just an expensive luxury that the rich afford. Yes, you are saying that footballers and all get married at 21 and then have kids. What you're not saying is that they also get divorced at 23. It's just fun, a good pastime.
