Why a person can’t marry more than one person?

Being a Sunday morning, I was having a relaxed breakfast and enjoying songs from 94.3 FM with my daughters. There came the song “Pahli baar mohabbat ki hai…aakhri baar mohabbat ki hai…”. Harshita felt happy that she could understand Hindi and was translating its meaning to me. Then suddenly she told “even though one can love only one person…they can marry more than one… right Maa?“.

Hmmm…didn’t know what to answer. I tried to be a bit smart and told her that marrying more than one person is illegal and they’ll go to jail if they do so. Immediately her reaction was “how come Sri Krishna married more than one person and still he didn’t go to jail?”.

Kids are growing up and sometimes it’s really hard to answer their questions. With no hesitation, I told her “Sri Krishna is GOD and he can clone himself to handle so many wives. But it is really impossible for a normal person to handle more than one .… and if they do so… there will be fights and that leads them to jail “ ;-).

After half an hour, there was a small argument between my parents and she was just staring at them. There was a BIG smile on her face when I told her “now do you understand.... why a person should not marry more than one person?”