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.

Dear Alok Da, In the book “The Mother” – Sri Aurobindo writes: “it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties…” – “Descending from above” I could get the idea. But “opening from below” How can the highest Supreme can be below? 😊🙏🏻🌹✨[…]
Opening from below means aspiration. As to the Divine, He is everywhere and in everything in all His Fullness, poornamadam, poornamidam….In His Supreme Transcendent state He is without any veils. In the lower nature,

