Our Cultural Marriage || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 When you were doing the circles around the fire and reciting the vows and the oaths,
00:06 even at that moment did you bother to ask where are these shlokas, these mantras, these
00:11 vows coming from?
00:13 And that I suppose is an important moment in life, is it not?
00:17 Right?
00:18 You are getting married, do you bother to ask these mantras that we are partaking in?
00:23 Pandit is saying a lot of things, then the groom and the bride too have to follow what
00:28 the priest is saying and they too have to recite a few verses.
00:32 Did you bother to ask for the meaning?
00:35 That's how culture progresses.
00:37 Not really progresses, I would say, keeps rolling on through the centuries.
00:42 Nobody bothers to ask why we are doing what we are doing.
00:45 Nobody bothers to ask where is it coming from, is it even written anywhere?