From " Where There Is Light " by Paramahansa YoganandaMarriage
Two persons who unite their lives to help each other toward divine realization are founding their marriage on the right basis : unconditional friendship.
To develop pure and unconditional love between husband and wife, parent and child, friend and friend, self and all, is the lesson we have come on earth to learn.
True marriage is a laboratory in which poisons of selfishness, bad temper, and bad behaviour may be poured into the test tube of patience and neutralized and changed by the catalytic power of love and constant effort to behave nobly.
If there is a habit or quality in your mate that rouses unlovely traits in your disposition, you should realize the purpose of this circumstance: to bring to surface those poisons hidden within you so that you may eliminate them and thus purify your nature.
The greatest thing a husband or wife can wish for spouse is spirituality; for soul unfoldment brings out divine qualities of understanding, patience, thoughtfulness and love. Live love yourself and your goodness will inspire all your loved ones.
The first and most essential requirement for a happy marriage is soul unity....Couple who possess soul unity will be able to make a success of marriage.
The second requirement for happy marriage is similarity of interest - intellectual, social, environmental, etc..
The third and last in importance (though usually given first place by unenlightened people) is physical attraction. That bond soon loses its attractive power. Sex has its place in the marital relationship between man and woman. But if it becomes the supreme factor in that relationship, love flies out and disappears completely.
When two people feel unconditional attraction for each other, and ready to sacrifice for one another, they are truly in love.
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