Welcome to the podcast, Sadguru, of Mistakes and Mistakes.

Namaskar, San Guru. What are your views about live-in relationships?

I thought marriage is a living relationship.

So...

Isn't marriage a living relationship? Are they living separately?

There are some marriages like that, I know, but...

First of all, we must understand why are we forming a relationship.

Right now, this, in your language, the West has seeped in too strongly in your language,

because somewhere in your mind,

if you utter the word relationship, you are only thinking about sex-based relationships.

That's not how it's been in this country.

When we say relationships in this country, we thought we have a relationship with our parents,

our friends, our brothers, our sisters, all kinds of relationships.

But if you go in the West and you say a relationship, it means body-based relationship.

First, drop that idea.

Relationships can be on many different levels, isn't it?

Why are we making only one particular relationship

so important against the other? Yes, it is also an important relationship, but not against

the other, isn't it? But right now slowly we are building this Western ideology that

this relationship versus the rest.

It need not be so.

The reason why in this country, you know, marriages have been very stable,

...