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.
From the perspective of Yoga in Sri Aurobindo’s life, what was the contribution of the revered Mrinalini Devi? Was it merely a worldly event? After all, Sri Aurobindo never truly lived a householder’s life. 🏡🥸👨🏻👩🏻👧🏻👦🏻🪷
July 7, 2026
Sri Aurobindo did not lead a normal ordinary householder’s life of mutual pleasure and satisfaction. If he did so, he would have just like one of us, at best a brilliant thinker and philosopher or yet another …
