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.
How can we detach our true awareness [the observant guide] from the vital ego-mental behaviour? And why is it necessary? 👁️🕊️🔥🙏🏻
November 8, 2026
Without detachment we remain attached and moved by all kinds of forces circulating in the field of human ignorance. We mistake every suggestion, every thought, every feeling, every impulse for truth and, in the process, land up in the thick maze of falsehood.
By attaching oneself to the Divine, by…
