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that love marriage will be popular. Love marriage is seen beyond caste and creed. It is not necessary for a young man to marry with a young girl of his own caste and religion. Even downward marriage (Anuloma Vivāha) and upward marriage (Viloma Vivāha) do not matter in the love-marriage-system. Neither lover nor beloved demands anything from each other. They simply want to be married with each other and to have a pleasant and peaceful life accepted by society In this way a great problem of society is solved through love marriage: But ordinarily it is said that love marriage has percentage of success lesser than that of arranged marriage. It is because lover and beloved being attracted by their facial beauty of each other come into contact with and decide to marry. They do not care for economic and social problems. But after being married they have to face with both economic and social problems, which make them weak and they loose their patience. Sometimes they do not tolerate free movements of each other and they disagree to cooperate with each other which results into divorce. So decision of marriage should not be made in haste. After having sound economic footings lover and beloved should marry so that they may enjoy a successful and happy married life. Untouchability
Untouchability is the worst among all curses prevailing in Indian society. It has been coming from ancient time and is till defaming Indian society. Indian social organization has declared some castes as untouchables. Untouchables are those persons of lower classes who are never considered to be touched. As it has been assigned in the Vedic tradition, even shadow of untouchable person causes sin if somebody touches that. Untouchable persons are not allowed to inter into the village in which so called upper-class-people reside. They can not take water from the well of the high-class-persons. They are ordered to live outside the village in which touchable resides. Though untouchables are men they are never treated as men. This huiniliating position presents great social violence. The non-violence way of thinking proclaims that man should be behaved as a man. The untouchables deserve all proper rights and respect swinble for a healthy and happy human life.
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