Harmony In Marriage, Dada Bhagwan [top 5 books to read txt] 📗

you and what is bad for you. Then there will be an end to the conflicts at home.

Lord Krishna has said there are two kinds of intellect, one is helpful and the other is harmful. The harmful intellect brings forth only pain and misery while the helpful intellect brings forth happiness and seeks out happiness amidst pain and suffering. But what do people do instead? They put grit in their basmati rice and then they eat it! Here in America you get such good food, pure ghee and pure yogurt. Life is easy, but people do not know how to live, and that is why they suffer.

We should be thinking about what is beneficial to us. Which of the following is more beneficial, recalling the happiness you experienced on your wedding day or remembering the sorrow of becoming a widower?

The thought of becoming a widower came to me during our marriage ceremony. On my wedding day I was wearing a very stylish and elaborate turban, a kind that royalty would wear at weddings. Dressed in this manner even as a fifteen-year-old groom, I looked very handsome. My attire was bedecked and impressive. Later, as the wedding ceremony was in progress, the turban on my head shifted, obstructing my view. It occurred to me then, that it was fair and well that we were getting married, but one day one of us would have to become a widow.

Questioner : You had such thoughts at that young an age?

Dadashri : Yes, unfortunately! Whatever is built has to break one day.

Questioner : The intense desire to experience marriage makes one forget his real Self (Soul). Where is the time for such thoughts of detachment in marriage?

Dadashri : However at that time, the thought occurred to me that whatever had begun, would eventually come to an end. Of the two of

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Text: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust
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Publication Date: 07-07-2017

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