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In looking for your soulmate consider your attitude; are you thinking: “I am seeking someone so that I can avoid learning the lessons of life, a partner who won’t make learn patience or tolerance, because the perfect partner is meant to make me happy without requiring any improvement or progress from me.”? If you think […]
This is a letter by Srila Prabhupada to the father of a devotee from London explaining about Krishna conscious marriage and how it is a lot better than a usual materialistic marriage that does not keep Krishna in the center. Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated November 7, […]
As members of the Grihastha Vision team, my wife and I recently attended a conference for marital educators and therapists in Orlando Florida. At one keynote address, research was presented from Joseph Unwin PhD (1895-1936) an anthologist and anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, who over the course of seven years studied 80 past civilizations. […]
You might have been preached to that you should not be attached to women; but now you are thinking to share your life with a woman. Material attachment means accepting things for one’s own sense gratification. Eagerness for selfish enjoyment in married life can cause disappointment, spiritual difficulties, mental disturbances and, in some cases, divorce. […]
This is an excerpt from a transcription of a wedding and initiation lecture given by Srila Prabhupada on 29th March, 1971 at Cross Maidan, Bombay. Prabhupāda: …yaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ sa bahyābhyantara-śuciḥ śrī viṣṇu śrī viṣṇu śrī viṣṇu (Garuḍa Purāṇa) By chanting the holy name of Lord Viṣṇu, one becomes purified in whatever condition he may […]
According to Srimad-Bhagavatam, the husband should take a leading position in the marriage: “One who cannot deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a husband, a mother or a worshipable demigod.” (SB 5.5.18). To lead means to show by example. The difference between […]
Srila Prabhupada explains that, “The custom in Vedic society is to examine the horoscopes of a girl and boy being considered for marriage to see whether their combination is suitable.” (SB 6.2.26, purport) Therefore it’s traditional – and it’s also fashionable in ISKCON – to check the compatibility of the couple by astrology. The problem […]
This is an excerpt from a lecture by Srila Prabhupada at the wedding ceremony of Paramananda and Satyabhama in Montreal on July 22, 1968. This last verse, it is not last, it is the third of Brahma-sūtra, Brahma-saṁhitā. Ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-ratnaṅgadaṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam (Bs. 5.31). There are about one hundred verses in the Brahma-saṁhitā, and this verse, I […]
When I was about eight years old my parents were considering divorce. I remember my mother putting mascara on in front of a mirror and I was sitting on her bed watching her. I thought it was a very strange thing, women putting on mascara, so I was watching. And my mother said to me […]
In 1693, William Congreve wrote in his comedy The Old Bachelor: “Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.” An academic study has shown that this well-known piece of traditional wisdom is still relevant. Tracking the relationships of 168 couples over 14 years, the researchers found […]
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