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Across his discourses, Osho frequently emphasized that a truly wise person does not marry because wisdom has already dissolved the urge and seen the world’s futility. Yet most people gain that very wisdom through marriage itself. So follow your own understanding: if the pull exists, marry and learn; if clear insight has ended the desire, remain unmarried—never imitate borrowed conclusions.

Osho's perspective on Marriage

"In a marriage based on love, children are not the private property of parents but the cherished responsibility of the whole community, where all act as caregivers in a dance of collective nurturing."

Kids won’t ‘belong’ to mom or dad; everyone lovingly helps raise them.
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"Marriage is not a destination for joy, but a school that teaches you to find fulfillment within yourself. Embrace the unknown, for it is through the experience that you will discover true freedom."

You’re scared because it’s unknown and you hope it will complete you—but only by trying will you learn happiness must come from inside, not a spouse.
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"Marriage often becomes a social mask that hides suffering; if your love is true, it needs no disguise."

He jokes about marriage because many people hide pain behind smiles; if yours is truly happy, great—just be honest.
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"Marriage often becomes a social trap, filled with borrowed promises and postponed happiness; true love requires the courage to reinvent relationships from consciousness, or to break free from dead patterns and embrace joy in the present."

He jokes about marriage because people follow it blindly expecting happiness, but end up unhappy; better to be brave, aware, and create love freshly—or not at all.
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"Marriage often transforms love into a legal contract, replacing the beauty of living love with the prison of permanence, where security suffocates aliveness. True union arises only from the freshness of present love, not from the chains of societal expectations."

Turning love into a rule makes it stiff and jail-like; only love itself, not a legal paper, keeps two people truly together.
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"Marriage can be a prison or a path to freedom; it all depends on whether you are seeking security or the true essence of love."

He's not confused—he gives different advice: if you're brave, choose free love; if you're afraid, try marriage to learn and grow beyond fear.
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"Marriage is neither a support nor a hindrance to truth; it is your inner state that determines whether you find the divine in hell or miss it in heaven."

Truth doesn’t depend on being married or single; wake up by using whatever life gives you—love or struggle—to grow.
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Profound Quotes on Marriage

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