OUr two pilgrims, Mr. and Mrs. Jogi and Annapurna Pattisappu from Orlando. Several years ago a friend of theirs gave them a copy of Dancing with Siva. Jogi is active in a new local temple starting in Orlando that has nearly 15 acres of land. Annapurna used to be aon the board of the temple. She also taught Sunday school at the Chinmaya Mission and used the A-Z section of the resources to teach the children. They became lifetime subscribers to Hinduism Today today and are on their way back to Florida with a renewed spirit.
In today's talk Gurudeva speaks on marriage and the tragedy of its dissolution. If you cannot listen to the audio file below, here is a summary one of the young monks wrote down for us:
Gurudeva talked about the similarity between bankruptcy
and divorce. Firstly, Gurudeva said that in Hinduism once married one stays
married throughout one's lifetime. Marriage is much akin to a business
agreement. It involves money, purchasing, budget, entertaining, acquiring and
so on.
If a man divorces his wife, it creates a rift between two families,
friendships splits, children become losers, a division is created. If he
keeps his family happy and strong, his business prospers year after year
after year. When his business fails, the same happens as in a business failure, a
division is created, business associates move in different directions,
suppliers lose, employee suffer and thus karmas are created to be faced
in the future.
Divorce is a bankruptcy of trust and relationship, something worth working very hard indeed to avoid.
Satguru Speaks
Cybertalk: Today Gurudeva concludes his answer to the question: "Is the
Divorce of a Marriage like the Bankruptcy of a Business?" He explains that
in both cases, everyone is the loser.
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