RISHI DAYANANDA AND MARRIAGE CUSTOMS
A student who has observed morals of disciplined student life, who has completed his education [and who has earned a college degree], shall get married and enter into married life according to the ideals of Arya Dharma [the culture of learned and noble people].
[Disciplined Student Life: involves having a positive attitude to studies, earning high grades in exams, and being humble. Students must be focused on studies, not involved in love-affairs, and not end up as school drop-outs.
Completed Education: some young people begin living with spouses while in their high school years. They never graduate, or they go back to school after marriage, and, with great difficulty, they graduate much later than normal].
Anyone who maintains moral discipline, decorum and rectitude before getting married will always progress and experience joy in family life.
When youngsters pay no attention to moral values and, in their teenage years, they begin to live with spouses, then they encounter major challenges; they barely survive.
When marriage customs are reformed, then new-born children grow up with positive values and they are, as a result, held back from falling into the quagmire of perverse values. However, when such values dictate marriage customs as cause discord, malice and strife, then there is a collapse in societal structure; any effort to reform society will encounter major impediments.
TAKEN FROM THE BOOK, SATYA SAAGAR
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