Marriage

Sree Narayana Gurudev become more and more drawn away from home and social gatherings. He lived like a recluse. This frightened his parents. So they decided to marry him to one of his cousins. When he was told of this decision he did not show any reaction. As he did not protest, they took it for granted that he gave his consent.

A day was fixed for his wedding. He left his home the previous night. When he was not seen even at the time to go to the bride’s home, his sister offered to go as Nanu Asan’s proxy to marry the girl on her brother’s behalf.

After a few days, Nanu Asan returned home and his relatives presented the bride to him. She brought him a plate of bananas and a cup of boiled religious mendicant. He gave one of the bananas to her as a token of his blessings. Then he said: “ well, now there are enough people here to occupy all the rooms. It is not imperative that I should stay here. All are born with some purpose in their lives. I have mine and you have yours. Let me go to fulfill my role.”

With these words, he went out into the open. Once in a while he came home to see his father and mother and sister. At that time he spoke to his ‘ wife’ also with kind and gentle words.

Once, when she had a bleeding nose, he even administered a herbal remedy by squeezing the juice of some leaves into her nostril.