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Summary of Question:	Interfaith Marriage
Category:	Love & Marriage
Date Posted:	Friday, 5/18/2001 10:53 AM MDT

i am a 20 year old hindu gujarati girl. i have met the guy i want to marry, who is a 22 year old jatt sikh. we are totally into each other, and we both know we want to be together forever. we were thinking of dating for a few more years, and then bringing it up to our parents. i know that when it comes down to it, my parents won't mind who i want to marry, as long as he makes me happy, whether he is hindu or not. however, we are worried that his parents will say no, and we will be forced to walk away from eachother, after being together for so long. it will kill us both. he has been thinking of ways to talk to his parents about it. he wants to make them see that we are all the same, there is only one god, and in the end, sikhs and hindus have a lot of the same fundamental beliefs (attaining liberation from the cycle or reincarnation). he thinks his parents will make him feel guilty because they have provided him with everything he has ever wanted, so the least he could do in return would be to marry a si

kh girl. neither of us could even imagine being with anyone else. and if we were forced to marry other people, it wouldn't be fair for them to know that we really loved eachother, and that we would be married to eachother if we could be. i think about this all the time, and i worry that i may not get the spend the rest of my life with the one i want, and it is beyond our control. please help me find a way that we can make this work. i don't think anything says that people should remain unhappy in the name of religion.
what can we do to solve this situation?
thank you.
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Greetings to you in the Name of God the light of every soul and in the Name of Guru the life of every Sikh.

If you love this man as much as you say, then I would recommend to you that you begin studyng the Siri Guru Granth Sahib and learn the relevence of using it's wisdom to guide your life.

You may think this is a religion, however, it is a "way of life" that is applied to improve your experience of this life. Enrich your life and you enrich the life of your husband and future children. Look forward not backwards to expand your inner awarness of your true essence, your soul.

God bless you, SKKK