Marriages do not work out as we expect them to do because of the gap between the ideal and the strength and sacrifice needed to realise it. This is very much missing today in the fast food and utilitarian culture imported largely from the West. But the Divine is always willing to help us realise the Ideal. He is not the spoilsport to our happiness but the helper and guide and it is only rarely that he does not grant a sincere prayer, and only when He sees the harm that may accrue through it. The reason why relationships end up badly is not God but our incapacity to love. A love full of demands, expectations, wishes and desires based on the need for pleasure or happiness is not so much love but emotional and vital hunger. So too a love calculating gain and loss is a business and a marriage based on social benefits is a transaction. These are as good as failures even if it succeeds by outer standards. So grow in love and try to make it beautiful and sincere. That is all that is needed.
1) I heard something like this in your talks – ‘If we take a long route to the Divine, through all experiences and meanderings, the result is far more enriched and many-sided, than if one takes the shortest route.’ Does this mean one should take the longer path?
October 29, 2026
The path does not open without aspiration. Before aspiration there may be faith which prepares us for the path. Faith makes one a devotee which is the door through which the Divine Grace and Protection reach easily to the devotee. But the entry into the Divine doors begins with access code of aspiration. Aspiration is the initiation into the true …
