Making Marriage A Step Towards Maheshwara!
What makes a wedding a wonderful celebration is the purpose behind the process. Two individuals coming together as family, are bringing their own families as well together forever. This is evident, but how much this is emotionally true to each of the duo defines what the marriage is indeed.
Marriage was never meant to be an entanglement. It is so crude to identify it as a social arrangement, when it is much... bigger than that. Only when the wedding knocks down one's intelligence, one becomes insensitive to life beyond their new family; and that's when the resulting marriage eventually becomes a weary affair over time to not be that beautiful step towards The Ultimate.
Wedding rituals involving the siblings of the groom and the bride, are known since time immemorial. These are primarily to reinforce to the couple that they include their person's siblings as well in their new journey thereafter. Intelligence lies in inclusiveness and that inclusiveness should be ever ON for a marriage to be transformed into a successful spiritual step. Man-woman love is more than being marvellous, only when it inspires the couple to think beyond themselves and live for each other's people as family. In such an evolution, the couple turn into a boon to all those that are living around them. Also, the duo then melt themselves giving the best of their abilities and pave way for their own Ultimate well-being.
When spirituality is all about ripping off one's nasty ego for total enjoyment of life, marriage is in no way a step off the Divine until that element of ego doesn't add itself here. So, just let your love crumble your ego to see you enjoying life in unimaginably beautiful ways that wedded life is an absolute blessing upon yourself and your partner.
MAYUR
Absolutely fantastic article it made me think more consciously of the spouse's family and how that engagement is a stepping stone towards larger causeless engagement with the world