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Parents insist on Horoscope and find the guy is 'Manglik' || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Kanpur(2023)
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Marriage
Self-sufficiency
Freedom
Self-knowledge
Tradition
Horoscope
Love
Education
Description

Acharya Prashant responds to a question about the challenges faced by educated women in India during the marriage process, where they are often judged on superficial criteria like looks and horoscope compatibility, even by educated parents. He advises the questioner to relieve herself of the obligation to handle such a situation, stating that one should simply drop or move past it. He finds it amusing that a qualified and mature surgeon would outsource the deeply personal matter of choosing a life partner to others. He uses the analogy of a qualified elephant asking rabbits and deer to fetch its food, highlighting the absurdity of a capable individual relying on others for such a fundamental decision. If you outsource this function, he argues, you lose the right to complain about the outcome, such as the groom's lustful gaze or the emphasis on horoscopes. Acharya Prashant asserts that choosing a partner is a "Do It Yourself" (DIY) matter for all educated girls and boys, who should not unnecessarily trouble their parents with it. He suggests that parents should be free to pursue deeper aspects of life, like spirituality. He points out the contradiction of being externally educated and legally empowered yet remaining internally enslaved by custom, tradition, emotions, and ignorance. This internal enslavement, he explains, leads to suboptimal life decisions. He states that an educated woman acting helpless and choiceless is not a pretty sight. True empowerment comes from internal freedom, which is a product of self-knowledge, or spirituality. He concludes by redefining love, stating it is not about making the other person superficially happy, as even a drunkard can be made happy with nonsense. True goodness and love involve bringing welfare, consciousness, freedom, and the light of self-knowledge to the other person. He advises that if you truly love your parents, you should bring sense to them. He emphasizes that one must have the right to choose and the responsibility for one's own life. If you encounter a lustful or unsuitable person, you should simply walk away instead of complaining. The choice to engage or disengage is in your own hands.