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.
We saw terrible destruction in Nepal due to the floods, and many innocent people, a large number of whom were visiting holy places at the time, were swept away. Why do we see such things happening constantly if there is a God somewhere? Why doesn’t God give us a single hint or clue of His existence? 🗻🌊😥🥀[…]
September 3, 2026
The idea and experience of God as well as natural disasters, even catastrophes, calamities have existed side by side since the very beginning of humanity and in fact even much earlier. If we are to believe in what Science as well as Scriptures tell us, the world has been …
