Swami, people say that a married bond stays for 7 Janmas. Is that true?

[A question by Ms. Laxmi Thrylokya]

Swāmi Replied:- You said that people say it and this is not said by God or the Veda. There are so many sayings created by worldly people suiting to the needed worldly contexts. To support a worldly concept liked by somebody, that somebody will create some authority in his support. If support from the Veda is not obtained, he will say “People say like this”! It is said in the Aṣṭāvakrasaṃhitā that the mother in this birth is becoming wife in the next birth and Sages told King Janaka that his wife was his mother in the previous birth. How one soul can be the wife continuously for 7 births in the light of the above said scripture? All these worldly bonds are limited to this birth only, which are like the temporary cinema shooting bonds. Śaṅkara says that a temporary thing is unreal in all the three times (past, present and future). The cinema shooting bond did not exist before shooting and after shooting and hence, temporary. Such bond does not exist in the shooting also and therefore, such bond is unreal in past, present and future. It is a bond among co-actors in the cinema which is not only temporary but also unreal. The bond between any actor and producer (God) is permanent in all the pictures. Only bond with God is permanent and real. The bonds among actors are unreal.