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YB WEB DESK. Dated: 4/17/2021 11:05:57 AM
ARRANGED MARRIAGE – GOOD OR BAD?
Arranged marriage is a wrong terminology, because all marriages are arranged. By whom is the only question. Whether your parents or friends arranged it, or a commercial website or dating app arranged it, or you arranged it – any way, it is an arrangement. I asked a simple question, “Do you want to marry the girl or someone's wealth?” The idea that arranged marriage is some kind of a slavery – well that depends on whether there is exploitation. There are exploitative people everywhere. Sometimes, even your parents themselves may be exploitative – they may be doing things for their own reasons, like their prestige, their wealth, their nonsense. Recently, someone asked me about choosing a girl for their boy. One girl is well-educated and pretty, but another girl had a wealthy father. They asked me which they should choose. I asked a simple question, “Do you want to marry the girl or someone's wealth?” It depends on what your priority is. If your priority is such that someone's wealth by marriage becomes yours and that is all that matters to you, that is fine. Well, that is the kind of life you have chosen.