Marriage But No Love || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 There is nothing called a soulmate.
00:01 The institution of marriage is a useful one constructed to give you a bodymate.
00:06 And I am saying it's useful because if the institution of marriage is not there, then
00:09 there is indeed a possibility that the animal within us would run amok.
00:14 Already people are so fond of peeping into their neighbor's house and if they are not
00:18 constrained by religion and law and morality, then you do not know what the restless animal
00:24 within us can do.
00:25 With that understanding, now we will have very tempered and realistic expectations from
00:31 marriage.
00:32 Now we will know that if we are living with a woman, then there can hardly be any spiritual
00:36 dimension to this association.
00:39 She is here because I am lustful and she has agreed to come to me because she too is lustful
00:43 and insecure and lonely.
00:44 And that's the only reason.
00:45 Now the moment I say this, people will bring in the word love.
00:48 They'll say, but what about love?
00:49 Don't husband and wife love each other?
00:50 No, sir, they do not.
00:52 is the exclusive domain of a spiritual mind.