What is the perspective on marriage as a malady according to Rahim?
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"Marriage is a malady that reveals our inner emptiness, as two beggars seek fulfillment in each other, only to find that true happiness lies in embracing our own aloneness."
According to Osho, Rahim calls marriage a ‘malady’ because it exposes our inner illness: dependence on the other, inability to rejoice in aloneness, and flight from inner emptiness (vyadhi). Marriage becomes nature’s grand delusion—two beggars hoping to be filled—so promised happiness never truly arrives, quarrels follow, and blame replaces responsibility; the real issue is inner poverty, not the partner.
When you can’t be happy alone and expect marriage to fix it, you stay sick inside—learn to be happy by yourself first.
Why this matters practically
- Cultivate joy in aloneness to reduce dependency and conflict.
- Stop projecting salvation onto a partner; own your inner state.
- Relate from wholeness so love is sharing, not need.
- Stop projecting salvation onto a partner; own your inner state.
- Relate from wholeness so love is sharing, not need.
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