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.
I’m talking of Evil and Occult, Alok da… I’m coming to realise there is so much more than meets the eye in Spirituality – black magic, spells, etc. In that sense, not sattvic. There is, as you rightly mentioned before, much more pretense in spiritual spheres. 👥👹🍂🍂[…]
July 29, 2026
A distinction needs to be made here between the occult and the spiritual. The occult belongs to the hidden dimensions of our being, the complex network of forces between the physical world as we experience it and the vital and mental worlds that stand behind, ..
