Our Duty Now (HinduDharma: Marriage)   Receive pages from Hindu Dharma in your email

Let the authorities take their own time to change their mind. What is our immediate duty? If the limit fixed by the law for a girl's marriage is 14, 16, 18 or whatever, let us celebrate it immediately on her attaining this age. We must prepare for the day in advance, deciding in the groom and making all other arrangements for the wedding. It would be reprehensible on our part to prolong the period of waiting after a girl begins to feel the biological urge and the consequent emotional disturbance. It is one thing if the marriage gets postponed owing to circumstances beyond our control, but quite another if we do not exert ourselves sufficiently to conduct it in time.

About "Hindu Dharma" "Hindu Dharma" is a book which contains English translation of certain invaluable and engrossing speeches of Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi MahaSwamiji (at various times during the years 1884 to 1994). For a general background, please see here

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Quick jump Hindu Dharma, part 18 : For the Practise of Dharma Upanayana for Girls The Age of Marriage and the Law Controversy about Age of Marriage Eight Forms of Marriage Why Child Marriage Our Duty Now Make Marriages Simple Duty of Motherhood Duty of the Bridegroom Arrangements made by the Matha The Real Reform Working Women Any Use Talking ? Marriage Expenses and the Sastras Three Ways to Economy Ideals of Marriage

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