WHGG, WHGKF,
Firstly, thanks for your recommendations. I am currently 27. There are lots of complexities involved that have to be examined as far as my case in concerned. I will like to put it before sadh sanjat jee.
Firstly, as someone who kept his kesh, knew nothing about gurus and coming from more of a punjabi background and less of sikhi values, it has been a tremendous learning process over the last three years. I only got interested in sikhi when I was doing my masters in economics with gurus kirpa. I am about to get into a phd programme in economics from one of the good institutes in India.
I got so motivated that I eventually decided to be baptised about two years. But, keeping rehat was always a challenge when you are at university. But still with gurus kirpa, I did what I could. Now, since I am almost at the right age when one decides to settle down. However, I am very confused with regard to Anand KARAJ mainly becasue my Phd will take a good part of four years. Therefore, getting married after I am a doctorate will delay things, which I do not want. I do not want to get married in my 30s.
Basically, I am confused on two fronts. Firstly, ideally, I would like my spouse to be amritdhari but at the same time I will also like her to be highly educated (by highly educated I mean a doctorate or something similar). Though I have full bharosa in Guru Sahib, I also feel that it might be difficult to balance both those aspects out.The other thing that I have in mind is having Anand Karaj with a sikh female, who is interested in sikhi, but not yet baptised, but still willing to be initiated.
However, the other thing is I would like someone with whom I can learn more and more about sikhi and do more and more of simran, path and learn the sakhis, history and other aspects of sikh life and pass it to the children.
ਸਤਿਗੁਰਬਚਨਕਮਾਵਣੇਸਚਾਏਹੁਵੀਚਾਰੁ॥