Does Swami allow marriages between Westerners and Indians?
Well, I dont know what to say about this. Indian and Western is a classification based on geography. Swami is neither Indian nor Western. Swami is universal; Swami is cosmic; Swami is a world citizen, if I am to have any say at all. I cannot limit Him. A universal God will never identify Himself only with India or the West. He belongs to both, to all. To marry or not is your problem. You marry and you suffer (Laughter). You marry, get united; then you get separated and divorced — it is your headache! But Easterners or Westerners, can they inter-marry? It has got nothing to do with Swami as both are His children. He cannot say a Western child is better than an Eastern child. Swami cannot say, The Eastern child is My child and give step-motherly treatment to the Western child. He would not say that, as both are His children. Getting married or not, facing the problems of marriage, is our responsibility and our headache. But in this context, I may refer to one point which He made. Somebo
