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You may feel incomplete; you may feel that something needs to change in your life, but perhaps you consider yourself incapable or unwilling to upgrade your spiritual condition and to become fully satisfied; and so you may decide to join with a woman to help you become wholesome. This is natural and legitimate, but you […]
What follows are the main principles I teach in my marriage workshop entitled Sacred Union, The laws of relationship. Following these principles can help a bad marriage become good, a good marriage become better, and turn around a marriage that seems doomed to fail. I, and many others, have found these principles extremely valuable in […]
The following is a lecture by Śrila Prabhupāda that he gave during the wedding ceremony of Śrīman Hayagrīva brahmacārī and Śrīmatī Śyāma dāsī. Prabhupāda: So today’s wedding ceremony between Śrīman Hayagrīva brahmacārī and Śrīmatī Śyāma dāsī is practically negotiated by me. I am the marriage maker and I am the negotiator also. How? Because I […]
Some people – especially men – think that getting married means to fail. Perhaps they strongly valued their identity as a brahmacari or aspired to become one; perhaps they dreamed of taking sannyasa early in life; perhaps they have been preached to that getting married is just maya, illusion… Be whatever it may, some young […]
You need to be clear about the foundation on which you want to build your marriage. You need to have the right values properly in place and focus on the essential elements. Values are like the rudder, the underwater blade at the stern of the ship, controlled by the helm. Without that rudder, the ship […]
Half of this lesson is a transcription of a Bhagavad-gita lecture Srila Prabhupada gave in 1966, in New York, in which he also mentions his own experience as a grihastha making the Deity the center of his household and accepting Krishna as the proprietor and the enjoyer, and offering everything to Him as a sacrifice, […]
A wife shares the spiritual advancement of her husband, simply by serving him. Even if she is not a devotee, she gets all the benefits that the husband gets, simply by serving him. Chastity and service to the husband have such power that the wife automatically shares in the spiritual advancement and piety of her […]
Protect and Provide If a case of illicit sex between a man and an unmarried woman were brought before Prabhupada, he never blamed the woman. He said it is the man’s fault because the man is supposed to be strong and intelligent, and that a woman naturally and innocently follows a man. A man’s role […]
Marriage is more than two individuals coming together. There is a sacred goal behind it, and it’s the responsibility of both partners to pursue it together. Marriage with a Purpose There are many purificatory processes for advancing a human being to spiritual life. The marriage ceremony, for example, is considered to be one of these […]
“In the Kali-yuga, simply by accepting, the man accepts the woman as wife and the woman accepts the man as husband, that is the vow. Svīkāra eva hi udvāhe. Simply by acceptance. Because other things are not possible. And without marriage, that is not civilized life, because in the animal society there is no marriage. […]
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