2 Sep 2011 - QA 22

Guruji, people say that love is the union of two hearts. Then why is there a need for marriage? Is it to please society?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Once two hearts unite in love, they don’t want to stay apart and that is called marriage. When they live together, they multiply into three, four or five hearts! Those three, four or five hearts need the two hearts; hence the institution of marriage came into being.