7 Commandments of Hindu Marriage Saptapadi

In Hindu Vedic religion, according to the Hindu Sanatan tradition, the seven steps ceremony, being called as Saptapadi, has a great significance in wedding ceremonies. Now a days its importance can be known with the fact that with having performed the seven steps or Saptapadi, everybody comes to believe that the bride and the bride-groom have been tied with the sacred knot of the marriage, irrespective of whether other related rituals are taken care of or not. According to the Hindu Sanatan Vedic religion, the seven steps or Saptapadi ceremony, in modern age, is performed in two ways. Some people revolve seven times around the fire and some have seven steps forward. That is to say, of all the seven Hymns or Mantras of the Saptapadi as mentioned in the religious books, the each step is moved forward with each hymn. Fire is the evidence of Sun God and is the visible Energy of Universal Energy. Hindus according to Vedas worship both Surya Dev and Agni Dev. Fire is the form of Sun God and the Fire God as per Hindu Vedic rituals becomes the witness to the Holy Bondage between the Man and Woman. It is a very pious ceremony of Hindus and all the Mantras are recited in Sanskrit the great Hindu Vedic Language and explained to the marrying couple in today's simple speaking languages . In the Hindu Sanatan Vedic religion the prime object of the wedding or marriage is that the young soul-mates should, treating the God and the society as a witness, produce children and educate them for the family, the society, the country and the world so that the cycle of creation could run uninterruptedly. It also includes that after the marriage, the soul-mates should be completely dedicated to each other and they should remain inseparable till old age, living with their able progeny or descendants. If the basic aims and objects of the marriage as envisaged in the Vedic religion are adopted and the pledges and resolutions taken at the time of wedding ceremony are followed in full spirits, in the modern times, the human society may become free of various diseases and problems, and ultimately lead towards the climax of the humanity. The 'Seven Steps' in a wedding ceremony means that the object for which the bridegroom and the bride are going to enter into wed-lock or a new relationship is to be complied with by both of them sacrosanctly and for this, both take seven types of pledges with the determination that they will absolutely follow these pledges and resolutions in their married life after the wedding ceremony.