Introduction
People can have the view and
certainly some people put across this view, that marriage is something
difficult, yet there is something good about it, but for the larger part it is
difficult and to enjoy the good which is smaller in comparison to the
difficult, you just have to endure and endure.
Three Types of Marriages
There are three types of marriages
which are:
- Karmic
- Dharmic
- Conscious
Obviously the person who has this
view that marriage is wonderful comes from the point of view of a dharmic
marriage.
It is good to know though, that a
marriage can be dharmic and hey do exist. This is good to contrast against
one’s views and thinking about marriage.
Dharmic and Karmic Marriage
Obviously a person may marry one
person and that marriage may end up being karmic, yet marry another and it may
end up being dharmic. Or whoever one marries, the marriage may end up being
karmic. It depends a lot on the Divine Law and one’s level of karma. If the Law
decrees that one is to have a dharmic marriage then it will be dharmic with the
minor part being some payment of karmic debts.
A Dharmic marriage will have the elements
of dharma active in both people, that is both will be capable of respecting,
valuing, appreciating and loving to some degree one another.
Conscious Marriage
For the Gnostic the aspiration is
a conscious marriage, and certainly as one works one progresses toward that
end. There within a conscious marriage the work on oneself reigns and the
relationship is more essence to essence or consciousness to consciousness and
the major goal of the marriage is to accomplish the work of the realisation of
person’s Being.
There are three types of
relationships, which are personality to personality and ego to ego and essence
to essence. An essence to essence relationship is the one from where a dharmic
marriage can mostly exist from. Ego to ego and personality to personality
certainly do not allow for a dharmic marriage. But sometimes essence to ego or
essence to personality can allow for a dharmic marriage, but not all the time,
perhaps for just enough to keep things going, who knows.
Of course when the consciousness
reigns there is balance and there is the absence of suffering and difficulty.
Often conscious marriages start
off as karmic and with the work they are transformed into dharmic and then into
conscious.
Some people are lucky in that they
start with a dharmic marriage and then begin working and slowly transition to a
conscious marriage. This is the ideal situation and is much better and easier
and quicker
Only really the work of the two
people can transform a karmic marriage into the dharmic one.
End (774).
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