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.

“Within you is a psychic being—a divine being, a direct portion of the Mother, pure and untouched by all these defects. It is hidden and covered by ordinary consciousness and nature. But when its covering is removed and it becomes able to come forward and take control, it transforms the ordinary consciousness, casts out all these undivine elements, and thoroughly transforms the outer nature.” – Sri Aurobindo. How will the psychic being come forward and change our nature? 😊🙏🏻❤️🔥🌷
First one has to find the psychic being, make it one’s sole preoccupation and the occupation. It means an ongoing inner concentration in the centre of the heart on the Divine Presence there. This should continue even ….

