A lot of the communication problems we experience as a couple comes from “not what we say, but what we don’t say.” When we fail to be honest and direct about our feelings because we don’t want to disturb the relationship, we create a much more insidious relationship problem. Often we suppress or repress unspoken […]
Selfishness
By Visakha Dasi If, in our marriage, we focus on what we need and negate the needs of our partner, the relationship can’t last. If we give up who we are to please our partner, we may suffocate and become frustrated, resentful and depressed. One who is self-controlled doesn’t need to lord it over another, […]
For Better or Worse
Mature practitioners in the Hare Krishna tradition choose to accept vows of purity. Individuals or couples solemnly vow to avoid intoxicants, illicit sex, meat-eating and gambling, and to chant 16 rounds of the maha-mantra daily. To preserve these holy vows that are taken before the Deity, before the fire and before the Vaishnavas are […]
The Yoga of Marriage
My Gurudev explained this is the solution for any problem in marriage- these two words, ‘forget it’. Because whatever the problems that you have based on circumstances, based on two different egos, because the ego is such a thing that when two egos are living so close to each other there sometimes has to be […]
Vedic & Vaisnava is Not Always the Same
maitreya uvaca stuvatisv amara-strisu pati-lokam gata vadhuh yam va atma-vidam dhuryo vainyah prapacyutasrayah The great sage Maitreya continued speaking: My dear Vidura, when the wives of the denizens of heaven were thus talking amongst themselves, Queen Arci reached the planet which her husband, Maharaja Prthu, the topmost self-realized soul, had attained. PURPORT According to Vedic […]