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=== Education and Marriage are incompatible ===
 
=== Education and Marriage are incompatible ===
One of the primary dharmas of a brahmachari is to lead a celibate life in order to realise his educational ideals. Thus, the authorities who built our education system laid down that a student should observe celibacy in thought and deed during his educational life and can marry at the end of the course with the permission of his Guru. Taittriya Upanishad elaborately mentions about the [[Samavartana (समावर्तनम्)|Samavartana]] and [[Snataka (स्नातकः)|Snataka]] (a graduate who finished his studies) which are the rites of passage from [[Brahmacharyashrama (ब्रह्मचर्याश्रमः)|brahmacharya]] to [[Grhasthashrama (गृहस्थाश्रमः)|grhasthashrama]]. So marriage was considered an important samskara and transition point of ashramas. It may be observed that the reasons for being celibate during education include having single-minded focus on his studies, having less responsibility  
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One of the primary dharmas of a brahmachari is to lead a celibate life in order to realise his educational ideals. Thus, the authorities who built our education system laid down that a student should observe celibacy in thought and deed during his educational life and can marry at the end of the course with the permission of his Guru. Taittriya Upanishad elaborately mentions about the [[Samavartana (समावर्तनम्)|Samavartana]] and [[Snataka (स्नातकः)|Snataka]] (a graduate who finished his studies) which are the rites of passage from [[Brahmacharyashrama (ब्रह्मचर्याश्रमः)|brahmacharya]] to [[Grhasthashrama (गृहस्थाश्रमः)|grhasthashrama]]. So marriage was considered an important samskara and transition point of ashramas. It may be observed that the reasons for being celibate during education include having single-minded focus on studies, having less responsibility (of fending for family), 
    
=== Education should be thorough  ===
 
=== Education should be thorough  ===

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