Marriage

One of the most popular topics of Swami ji's blog is this one: marriage. Swami Ji compares marriages and relationships in India with marriages in the Western world.

He writes about arranged marriages, how the originals concept was to slowly let two souls fall in love with each other and about how arranged marriages are today.

Marriage problems are a subject that is discussed in detail as well as the question if you should have sex before your wedding or not.

Bridal Henna India
Swami Balendu tells how domestic violence, especially in arranged marriages, affects children and young people in India. Read about the fear that is created – and what this means for them on the long run! Read More

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Marriage India and West
Swami Balendu tells how an Indian lady gave marriage advice to Ramona: don't leave your husband, that's now what Indians do! Read the thoughts that followed this conversation! Read More

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Children at Lunch
Swami Balendu tells of an incident when his daughter very clearly showed that for her, marriage is independent of gender. Read how she comes to this thinking. Read More

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With Friends in Jaipur
Swami Balendu tells how his daughter Apra learned about the concept of relationship and marriage - and how the difference confused her! Read More

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Working Women in Delhi
Swami Balendu writes about India's metropolitan cities where one might think that modern life has reached people's thoughts as well – but that is not the case yet! Read More

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Words of Wisdom

  • Presence

    Act with the knowledge of what happened in the past and with an idea of what you want to achieve but be in presence, be here and now.

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  • Sex

    You can often hear someone say after their first night ‘It was really a good night, I had wonderful sex’. This doesn\'t mean they did anything special. It is amazing because sex itself is such a great thing. It is not the quality of the woman and the man, it is the quality of sex itself.

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  • Stress

    Our stress is created by thinking with ego: I have to do this, I have to be good in that and I should be perfect in another thing. Actually it would be good if I was perfect in everything! Of course this creates stress! We put such high demand on ourselves and on what we should be able to do and to achieve.

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  • God

    You cannot save yourself by trusting in God!

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  • Religion

    The importance of religion is getting less and less.

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  • Belief

    Whatever your belief is, give your child as much freedom as possible to decide on his own. If you force a child into one belief, you don’t give its mind the possibility to develop in its own way.

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  • Hope

    You need hope to believe, to survive and live. This whole world and everybody keeps on breathing because of hope.

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  • Gurus

    Insecurity and lack of self-confidence makes people search for a guru.

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  • Prejudice

    Keep an open mind and don't decide how something will be before it happens. In this way you keep yourself from having fun and being happy. Let it happen and then decide. It is more fun!

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  • Feelings

    Only if you make your heart soft and accessible, you will be able to feel another person’s sorrows and pain. Only then you can give love from your heart. You can help the needy!

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  • Happiness

    If you always only think of the happiness of others, you forget your own happiness. When you have established your own happiness with what you do and with who you are, when you accept your heart, your personality and your own life, then you can help others to find their happiness.

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  • Scriptures

    People say scriptures cannot be changed. Okay, but then why do you need to follow them?

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  • Feelings

    Don’t worry what others think to find out what you feel for yourself.

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  • Perfectionism

    The wish of being perfect is driven by the wish to be an expert. Leave this wish and get into your mind that there is always a possibility to do it better, to learn something. Improvement is always possible but you are fine just as you are!

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  • Trust

    I trust you' is more valuable than 'I love you'.

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  • Happiness

    Don’t you think your personal happiness is more important than what the rest of society thinks?

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  • Religion

    It is easy to cheat God and his believers on the name of religious tradition.

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  • Happiness

    At some point everybody needs to take his own responsibility and act according to what makes him happy. If you tried to make everyone around you happy, you would never succeed but forget your own fun and joy! You should never make the happiness of others more important than your own happiness, otherwise you will make yourself unhappy – and won’t be able to help others!

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  • Celibacy

    Why should sex be forbidden? Can sex, being physically united in love, keep you from being in higher consciousness? On the contrary, suppressing your sexual feelings does not bring you closer to God!

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  • Feelings

    You need to bring love and feelings into your work. Enjoy what you are doing, meet others with happiness and feelings instead of being like a stone. There are principles in business but they are man-made. Make love and feelings a part of those principles.

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