MARRIAGE
Purpose of marriage is to built a civilized society.
For any society this is the primary rule that there must be binding between the people.
And for this purpose the concept of marriage evolves. Marriage is the primary institution that gives primary binding effect between two person which converts in to family i.e. the smallest part of the society.
The definition of marriage depends on the person to person and their society.
Broadly speaking there are two types marriage
1. Marriage as contract
2. Marriage as religious sacraments.
Marriage as contract:
Presently people are treating marriage as contract because now we are living in modern and high-tech society.
We are treating all the relationship with profit and loss, if we are gaining something from a particular person we tried our best to make relationship with that person. And if we are not comfortable with that person then we r free to terminate the contract.
In modern era we are treating person as the commodity, but same time we faild to appreciate that by doing so whether we are really building the society.
Is there any provision regarding divorce In ancient/Hindu period, I find no provision for divorce. What was the reason behind that?
As I understood that at that time people knew the purpose of marriage i.e. to live like human being and to live their lives for others not for the purposes of themselves. They were responsible towards the society and were ready to sacrifice their own interest for the society . For them the marriage was path to create better society and they also treat it as religious work. This can be easily seen in Hindu marriage ceremony; both the bride and the bridegroom take oath for the practice of self-restraint, to work together for the welfare of the family and to help each other to attain spiritual peace.
And what we are doing in the present days we do marriage for own satisfaction we don’t care the society we think that who are the society to interfere in our personal life, we don’t want to sacrifice our life for the society. In this process we tide our self as individual and become emotionless.
We are much concern about our right i.e. personal and for that are ready to make revolution in all the terms. And for this personal right we are ready to pay any cast for it whether in form of separation which generally much affect the society. As it can be easily seen or u can say that it directly affects the primary and starting point of the society i. e. FAMILY.
Means we destroyed the whole family in form of separation between husband and wife, separation between parents and there children, in this way we are ready to break the society from very beginning.
And this is just because that we have started to follow the culture of the west and became materialistic and ready to treat the human being as the commodity which can be used as the machinery to achieve the personal interest.
In present day the instead of following the traditions of our society we are promoting the personal interest and for this reason number of divorce petitions increased.
In my opinion this is very much right that every person have right to live as he/she wants to live and they are free to choose their partner as they wish but this freedom never gives any right to create any disturbance in society.
Its depends on the maturity level of the person who are marring so. Are we attend that maturity level or capable of deciding our life partner?
then if two person marry with each other as per their own choice then there should be strict law for their divorce because the society should be not responsible for their wrong choice.
We should never forget that duty comes before the right and if we are not ready to scarify our personal interest then we have no right to marry.
We should never forget the purpose of marriage.
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