Sanjeev Patra
4 min readFeb 25, 2019

Marriage and its relevance

Marriage - An Institution survived for 1000s of years

But lost its sheen and glamour and fragrance over the years

Some may champion for the cause and need of marriage

But can they explain the rapidly deteriorating trust and value

World is witnessing an unbelievably high and bizarre divorce rate

When a divorce occurs in the same day or a week after marriage

Putting a question mark not only on those life-term pledges

But also on the need of such a wasteful expenditure with zero results.

Some get psychological shock, depression or trauma if they don't marry

Despite knowing the futility and horrific scary stories of marital cacophony

Some go to real jail for the life term in search of life long happiness

Some go to virtual jail for rest of life burning with no alternate options

Marriage has become a dirty affair, an unfortunate necessity of late

Whole idea is amusing, childish, without any true meaning or significance

When the supramental being will have no connection with marriage in future

As sexless beings will no longer procreate by satisfying animal desires.

But hello humans, will you still continue to fall in its trap, but for how long?

Time to introspect…

Will you continue a broken hopeless relationship

Despite its destructive, destabilizing and diminishing returns?

When will you accept this as an absolutely failed and obsolete idea?

Ordinary persons marry:

To get assurance of security

To increase the species or race

To follow religious and moral commands to rule the world

To find happiness and peace

To complete a milestone goal just like having a car, furniture, or a house

To fulfill a human exploratory need of a reel life dream spouse

To satisfy the financial hunger or need or bring success or power

To experience the illusion of that shallow human love

To satisfy the carnal animalistic desire for sexual pleasure

To justify the act from religious scriptures

To give mindless untold pain and suffering under the cover of lust

To stop someone engaged from choosing a destructive path

To succumb to the unending social pressure or blackmail

To produce an ideal family and become a role model to all

Even a spiritually awakened person tend to marry:

Because of the above-mentioned reasons/pressures

For family, social, security, emotional reasons blackmails

In the hope of producing divine children in the future.

Act smartly to be world’s protector through its progeny

In the guise of fullfilling one’s carnal desires

Also to uplift another family out of ignorance and decay

Also to help a needy person and become its only helping-aid

Also to be eternally happy and keep others happy forever

Also to become the ray of hope for the other person in the old-age

But a True marriage is only:

To fulfill the Divine or Supreme Will or Duty

To discover the God present within or without

To live consciously where Divine is the only Center

When God is the Only Goal 24x7, and nothing else

You find Supreme in every circumstance and in every relation:

From the lowest depths to the highest heights

When you give importance to Divine Love not Human love

No expectations from another human, but everything from the Divine

Where there is no greediness, harmful lust and desire, selfishness, and ego

A union without considering the birth, country, education or environment

With unconditional love for the Divine as the lasting union's secret.

True Marriage is only:

To seek refuge only in the Divine and not in the humans

To seek to satisfy all your needs from the Divine alone

To be simply happy in all circumstances of life

To consider everyone as independent soul in this timeless journey

To accept some souls as way behind because of ignorance or darkness

To accept some souls as much advanced and enlightened for the Supreme

To believe each other and move ahead in this gifted life

To live in complete illumination of knowledge of the Divine

To consult the inner guide to show the right path at right time

To communicate through silence with Divine not by egoistic chaos

To chant the only mantra always: Peace, Peace and Peace

To offer oneself every moment for the Divine work alone

To widen one's consciousness and live with the universal love.

To perform above goals, a Marriage is not at all necessary

All can be done outside the social and moral periphery

Because True Marriage is not the Marriage with Humans.

It is the Timeless Marriage with Eternity, Supreme, and the Divine.

This union is the only thing worth living,

This union is the sole object of human birth and fire of aspiration

In this marriage with Eternity:

There is no more animal-like fights, or hatred or jealousy

There is no more break-up as shown in serials.

There is no longer any trust issues, no lust or desire issues

as Divine has more trust in us than we have in the Divine.

No longer any communication gap, as Divine uplifts us by hand when we are down.

Always immersed in infinite universal love and oneness between Divine and us

Even a conflict with the Divine will turn into a great blessing

Any anger or hatred with the Divine will make us closer and closer to the Divine

Infinite Love for the Divine even in extreme distress, penury and catastrophe

No need to ditch the Divine in search of greener pastures or ambitious life

As Divine fulfills what is good for our soul’s progress and experience.

After knowing all this,

Are you still ready to marry another animal-human or the pure Divine?

Time to introspect…

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My poem published in www.storymirror.com

https://storymirror.com/read/poem/english/hzx5qo3h/marriage-and-its-relevance

Sanjeev Patra
Sanjeev Patra

Written by Sanjeev Patra

Believer in Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga and His Vision of Universal Unity and Supramental Consciousness. “Man is not final, He is just an intermediate being”.

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