Reviving Varnasrama

Varnasrama in a nutshell means performing ones duties according to ones nature and work. Everybody has got a particular nature according to ones past karmic activities and also according to what one associates with in this lifetime as well. This is actually the secondary nature whereas the primary nature is that of the soul, but because of the bodily identification the secondary nature becomes very prominently functional and the primary nature of the soul is very much covered up. The goal of our life should be to revive our primary nature which is what we call as self realization by which one can become free from the innumerable sufferings of this world and be situated in ones natural position as a servant of God as sat-cit-ananda.. eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. But reviving our primary nature is a gradual process and the identification with the gross and subtle bodies which has been there from many lifetimes does not go away so fast. For that one has to do two things simul...

Having grown in Kali yuga and brought up in the modern Western education, most of us think of late marriages and don't prefer to get married early in life because one feels that there's a lot of things to try to enjoy first before starting married life which is a "BIG" responsibility. The underlying concept of the current education is 'life is meant for enjoyment' whereas factually it is supposed to be 'human life is a life of responsibility' which is actually the Vedic perspective. So one who is brought up in the modern education is usually afraid or unwilling to take up responsibility of life in general and marriage in particular. In India there's a common saying, "if a boy is living life care free and not doing anything constructive, get him married." I was thinking in these lines and I found some very good reasons why early marriage should be preferred. A grown up adult boy or a girl usually get infatuated with the thoughts of t...