Before you marry, think of this || Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Now you do not know who you are and therefore what's the purpose of your life.

00:03 And you get married.

00:04 And you get married to a guy who says you will have to quit your job if you marry me.

00:07 You will have to relocate to another city and if you want you may find a job there.

00:11 Now don't you see that a spiritual decision is having definite financial repercussions?

00:17 Similarly the decision to have a baby.

00:19 Do you understand the kind of economics that are attached to adding that little member

00:23 to your household?

00:24 It's not merely a biological or emotional thing, it's a big huge financial project.

00:31 But we do not know.

00:32 And when we do not know what to do with life, then we keep on taking stupid decisions that

00:36 ruin us even in the financial and economic sense.

00:40 See why do people go bankrupt?

00:42 It's not necessarily because they didn't earn.

00:46 Mostly it is because they didn't know where to spend.

00:49 They also never had their priorities clear in life.

00:53 And to have your priorities clear in life is a spiritual thing.

00:56 If you are not spiritual, how will you know what to do in life?