Marriage

Given the high percentage of broken ISKCON marriages I thought the following mundane quote (from an American actor of Hungarian extraction, Zsa Zsa Gabor) might be appropriate. The quote attributed to her is as follows: "Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."

Some Christian writers opine that often people go into marriage with wrong expectations such as 1: The liability-asset conception ("I'll get more out of the relationship than I have to put into it"); 2: the counselor aspect ("he [or she] will solve all my psychological problems"); and 3: the Hollywood-romance notion ("the 'white knight in shining armor' or the 'beautiful princess' will make this relationship be like an endless honeymoon." Srila Prabhupada has said that marriage without children is like living in the desert. As the Bhagavad-gita says: "It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world." (3.37)