Marriage is unnecessary and hampering for those who, renunciants at heart, are intensely seeking God, the Eternal Lover. But in ordinary casses I am not against true marriage. Two persons who unite their lives to help each other toward divine realization are founding their marriage on the right basis: unconditional friendship. Woman is motivated primarily by feeling, and man by reason; marriage is meant to balance these qualities.
Today there aren't real soul unions, because young people get little spiritual training. Emotionally immature and unstable, they are usually influenced by fleeting sex attraction or worldly considerations that ignore the noble purpose of marriage. I often say: first establish yourself irrevocably on the divine path; then if you marry you won't make a mistake!'"
Paramahansa Yoganandji
