The sanctity of marriage was laid down by God when he created men & women. Each man & woman pledged to:
1) Stay together
2) Serve each other
3) Take care of each other in illness or health
4) Be for each other, take each other spiritually up and have children together
Since marriage was decided by God, this relationship is always solemnized with God as witness. It may be in form of pradakshina around fire (phera) (each phera for the rules laid down by God) or just exchanging garlands with God as witness (gandharva vivaah). Live-in relations are not approved as purity of God is not present, commitment to each other is not present.
- These are topics of various aspects of spirituality as told by Para.