What Marriage Really Is || Acharya Prashant

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00:00There is nothing called a soulmate. The institution of marriage is a useful one constructed to give

00:05you a bodymate. If the institution of marriage is not there then there is indeed a possibility

00:10that the animal within us would run amok. Already people are so fond of peeping into their

00:15neighbor's house and if they are not constrained by religion and law and morality then you do not

00:22know what the restless animal within us can do. With that understanding now we will have very

00:29tempered and realistic expectations from marriage. She is here because I am lustful and she has

00:34agreed to come to me because she too is lustful and insecure and lonely and that is the only

00:38reason. Now the moment I say this people will bring in the word love. They will say but what

00:43about love? Don't husband and wife love each other? No sir they do not. Love is the exclusive

00:48domain of a spiritual mind. One basic characteristic of spiritual mind is that it knows that fulfillment

00:56cannot be found in the person of the other, in the body of the other.