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,Β 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 Sir, there is a difference between the Rama of sage Valmiki’s Ramayana (not read, but heard in bits and pieces) and the Rama of Tulsidas’s Ramacharitmanas (read/heard the whole, many times, love it), I prefer Tulsidas’s version. Please share your thoughts. πΉππππ»πͺ·π
The Rama of Valmiki and the Rama of Tulsidas are the one and the same Rama, except that both see from a different vantage point. Valmiki is a seer straight from the Vedic Age, hence he sees Rama from the spiritual heights. …

