DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIP

14 February, 1928

If you marry, you incur seven more new births. It is for this reason that saints and Realized Masters advise their devotees to lead an unmarried life. These seven births go on multiplying as you proceed, lifetime after lifetime. For example, 7 X 7 = 49 X 7 = 343 X 7 and so on. How many former wives you have left in your past lives and how many new ones you will come into contact with in the future! None of the past wives do you remember, nor will you know of those to come.

Hence, if at all you want to marry, marry me ! A marriage with me means so much regard, affection, and love for only me; such thought and remembrance of me demands a great deal indeed — much, much more love than even that of yogis of ancient times. So marry me! Marriage with me means love, peace, and bliss. Ordinary marriage with a woman means jhagada [fighting] and a thousand and one worries arising therefrom.

Lord Meher On-line p. 906

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