SamskAras in Kali Yuga

Certain samskAras are not successfully negotiated in Kali Yuga. Not everyone in Kali Yuga has the successful completion of the marriage samskAra, as VasiShTha and arundhatI or rAmakRShNa and shAradA devi. Both partners have to reach those levels and those who aspire to be together should inspire each other to reach those levels. If neither is even close, and the common lower mind will not take the advice of the higher mind, then parting is the only option. Some samskAras are not possible in this Yuga. The fault is not in anyone but as the RShi Vishrava said to Sumali when the latter approached him to give his daughter in marriage to the RShi: 'You have come at the wrong time. The children born of this union will be rAkshasAs.' And thus was RavaNa born.

Better to steady the mind without the prescribed samskAras, than to unsettle the mind with fluctuations stemming from attempts to force the completion of those samskAras in Kali Yuga.