Marriage is Essential
By Karmayogi
Biologically, almost everyone needs marriage. For the woman, the birth
of a child is more important than wedding or marriage or even the
husband. Man is fulfilled in his children, but he seeks his fulfillment
in the wife. Man longs for the approval of his wife. To him there is
nothing more valuable than the adoration of his wife. Apart from the
above biological, psychological truths, marriage has become a minimum
necessity for social survival. The married man enjoys in the society a
status which is not accorded to the one who remains unmarried. A
bachelor at the age of 40 may not find it easy to get a room for rent.
Unmarried women are rare. Society disregards them. Everyone hastens to
marry as soon as education is over.
Nothing compels parents to earn and save as the wedding of their
children. Whether they will have the same motivation to acquire higher
levels of prosperity is a question. As soon as the last child of the
family is married off, we witness the parents level off in their efforts
to seek fresh opportunities. Marriage is a greater spur to earning than
the goal of wealth or money. In the West, boys or girls are expected to
find their own partners and marry. In most cases, the parents receive
the information. Here in India, the whole responsibility of finding the
boy or girl as well as the funds needed is on the parents. As soon as
the marriage is over, the parents, as well as children, give up further
efforts to earn.
Achievement is a goal in the West, not so much in India. To own lands
was a grand achievement in the villages before the war. It still remains
one of the aims. Do Indian youth have such a goal? If one is there, it
is not fully defined. As land was a goal in rural India, and marriage is
a duty to people, I wish high Prosperity should be placed before the
youth as an indispensable GOAL. If there is a product which is
prohibitively expensive and that becomes essential in the eyes of the
society just as marriage is today, everyone will gravitate towards it.
It will make India rich, wealthy and prosperous.