The Sacred Marriage Vow!

" When we take the vow of marriage, especially in front of a fire sacrifice, it is supposed to be that, the husband and wife take a vow to serve Krishna and to serve Guru. Husband sees the wife as the property of Radha and Krishna, given by Radha and Krishna for him to protect, the property of Prajapathi Vishnu to bear his children and whom he should protect and give Krishna Conscious guidance. Not his property but the property of Krishna. But that Krishna has given her to him for a life companion to help him in his Krishna Consciousness.

Similarly the wife sees that 'Krishna has given me a husband who is supposed to guide me and protect me as the representative of Krishna and I am supposed to serve Krishna through the husband and give a proper Krishna Conscious association. It is my responsibility to be a positive Krishna Conscious influence to my husband and to my children. Ultimately I belong to Krishna and the husband is supposed to represent Krishna. When the husband becomes mad then I have to take shelter of father.

So these vows are taken with the idea that since we want to, we do some sense gratification, but we want to regulate it and we want to become more Krishna Conscious and go back to Godhead. Now that we see how we can enjoy as much sense gratification as we can with in this useful years of our life. But rather how we can control our senses and how we can become more Krishna Conscious."

HH Jayapataka Swami

From the book: Vaishnava Vani Courtesy: Mathuradesh Publications

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Comments

Gandarvika(Renu) June 3, 2010 at 10:20pm

its very beautiful. change my thoughts about marriage thanks hare krishna
Manash De June 3, 2010 at 2:21pm

Hare Krishna ! well very important to behave properly and cautiosly to Bhaktilata grow nicely.. this bond is very delicate to maintain... we must be very careful..
geeta kakkar June 2, 2010 at 6:09pm

Radhe Radhe,
Excellent thoughts. If followed by husband and wife, surely will lead to a perfect marriage.

Take care.
Shabda Hari Das June 2, 2010 at 3:22pm

Hare Krsna. it means, if the husband is not of good character and conduct, the wife can then take shelter of the father. The bottom-line is protection of a woman either by her father, husband or son.
Navagaur Das June 2, 2010 at 3:19pm

Hare Krishna,
Thank you prabhu for nice post.
I could not understand this line
"When the husband becomes mad then I have to take shelter of father."

Please throw some light on this.

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