In the Vedic terminology the word ‘auspicious’ is often used, auspicious means good for one’s material wellbeing. Of course the opposite of that would be inauspicious, which would be against one’s material wellbeing. However marriage is about a spiritual activity, event or festival that is intended to be pleasing to the Supreme Lord. This is...
More2. A story about Saksi-Gopala
There is a nice story in one of our Vedic scriptures, the Caitanya Caritamrta. In the Vedic system it was a common practice that if there needed to be some declaration taken that was very important, instead of signing all these legal contracts like we do today, from notary publics and lawyers, they took the vows in front of the deity and that was the...
More3. The purpose of marriage
In the Vedic system there is no divorce as this is a serious union. What does that mean? It means that marriage must be maintained on a spiritual level. In the Vedic system the real purpose for a marriage is very different from the reason for a material marriage. A material marriage is for the convenience of the two people; it is basically a platform of...
More4. Festival in the heart!
What about children? Wonderful, they can be seen as Krishna’s children that have been put in your care to take care of them for Him. You raise them to know Him and to love Him as part of your spiritual life and part of your service to Krishna. Every aspect of married life can be an act of devotion to Krishna. If it is actually done like this, there...
More1. Taking a step further
So our topic today is yoga relationships. The relationships of yoga or yoga relationships. A very relevant topic for everybody. Life is very confusing because we don’t have knowledge. For most people life is a mystery. But a mystery is only a mystery because we don’t know the truth. And that’s the whole point: we must learn the truth about life....
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