Arranged Marriages

Four Rajput (राजपुत्र) wives of
Ranjit Singh (ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ)

Arranged Marriages |
Saturday – March 14, 2026

Arranged Marriages are the typical and normal way for young women to enter into marriage, and typically this marriage has been proposed, not by her future husband, but rather by her family and the family of her future husband, and it is really from this societal and familial arrangement were the term "propose" comes from, propose referring to a man attempting to betroth a woman. Of course, there are instances were it is normal for the man to propose directly to his future wife, but this is less common when young adults are involved: typically a man that is already married will propose himself, but it should also be noted that quite frequently and typically the oldest co-wife of a man married to multiple wives will propose to a younger woman, a lady, and this again could be understood as an alternative to the modern catastrophe of divorce, again this would be the case within the context of polygyny. Of course, most moderns fail to understand why arranged marriages are legitimate and good, and to them the concept of marrying someone according to arrangement is something quite heretic and evil, something that violates the core tenant of individualism in the modern world, because within arranged marriages there is surely no room for "preferences". Of course, to understand why arranged marriages are so common outside the Western world today and why they used to be common inside the Western world, one has to turn to the metaphysics of marriage, something that I have covered here to a certain extent.

    The point of marriage has traditionally nothing to do with personal and individual satisfaction: the reason why marriage—the union between man and woman (women within polygyny)—is practiced universally has everything to do with creating order and justice, and without this sacred union between man and woman there can be no place for either masculinity or femininity within the societal organization or the cosmological order; truly, without a sacred union (marriage) between husband and wife (wives within the context of polygyny) there can be no true hierarchical attenuation that can promote stability, really this is to say that without the universality of marriage, there would be no place for masculinity and femininity, and essentially men and women would exist outside the metaphysical order of things, they would be misplaced in the world without the primordial body. Marriage is in other words not about self indulgence, preferences, or individuality: marriage is about the proper balance (equilibrium) of the scales of cosmological order; marriage is about the protection on Earth of God's (The Creator's) kingdom, the heavenly Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם), and without order there can be no Terrestrial Paradise descending from the primordial principles of the Celestial Paradise. Verily, could you speak of order or really of creating order within the kingdom, within the Temporal Realm, without the proper understanding of true knowledge, of true insight? This last point is of course obscure to the modern mind that is incapable of proper metaphysical comprehension; moderns exist outside their proper domain, they are misplaced, and so are their institutions such as marriage. Nonetheless, it is still commonplace for modern people to complain about relationships and the seeming inability for large portions of modern men to actually attain such a status of being able to call himself "boyfriend"; of course, such a profane and individualistic arrangement is immoral and completely illegitimate. What these moderns with their humanist fervor fail to understand, as they are incompetent and incapable, is that the modern version of "marriage" is wholly misplaced within the metaphysical order, and these so-called "marriages" have also been secularized and "quantified" of all essence to such an extent that they constitute an almost complete inversion of the metaphysical order; call this feminism or modernity, but it is a clear sign of the modern deviation, and besides feminism is just another kind of modernity.

    The most common argument against arranged marriages are, as usual, only concerned with the material and corporeal aspects of being a citizen in a modern nation-state, and each citizen, in true humanist fashion, constitutes one member or node in the societal fabric with unalienable "rights", the individual, and this means that every decision involving the individual citizen is assumed in the negative, that is to say: without "consent" the citizen (the individual) may not be placed within any societal context; each citizen is formless and without essence, truly a "blank slate" without a destiny, completely shielded from outside "interference" and "coercion", until he, the individual citizen, is ready to "become himself". Of course, this is what the proponents of the humanist axiom would like you to believe, because the truth is that the individual citizen is only shielded from outside "interference" as far as the sacred is concerned, but at no point may the individual "opt out" of the sensible world, and quite to the point it is even assumed that not only will each individual citizen benefit from the industrial and material order, he has agreed to certain duties—in the unspecified and remote past—reducing him, the individual citizen, to the fundamental unit in the material order, ready to embrace any role, any shape, and any form, as long as this happens within the sensible order, read compulsory military conscription and compulsory education. To summarize that last point: according to the moderns, an arranged marriage, within the proper mores and peculiarities of some tradition, would essentially constitute "oppression" and "coercion" and something quite primitive and even "barbaric", something quite reprehensible; but the imposition of modernity, industry, and general deviation, confusion, and degeneration in the name of humanism and egalitarianism, is not oppressive and coercive and constitutes the fundamental nature of man, something that moderns often insist upon calling "common sense". Since when is the citizenship, general mobilization, a "nation in arms", and a lack of intuition something quite "normal" and even "natural? In fact, all of these modern deviations are the most recent developments of the general deviation, yet arranged marriage are somehow unfit for the sensibilities of man?

Reginald Drax – March 14, 2026.