Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita is totally neutral about marriage. Bhagavad Gita is a spiritual treatise and in field of spirituality there is no place for family.
Reason being, we are primarily a spiritual being manifesting human form. To regain our lost original pure prime pristine primordial form we had to establish total control over five senses and mind. Furthermore demolition of ego in totality is necessitated.
Control over five senses and mind means all earthly relationships coming to naught. For a spiritual traveler the whole world becomes one large family. The bondage or Moha (extreme emotional attachment) has to be cut in totality. For a seeker there is no earthly relationship of any kind.
In absence of worldly relationships, Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita remains mum on the subject. Still those who are married and interested in spirituality, they just could not cut family ties midway as did Siddhartha Gautama. As per Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita karma needs to be burnt in totality. As per Bhagavad Gita one has to take permission of wife and child, those dependent on us before seeking refuge elsewhere in isolation for contemplating on god.
In search of God from six years of age around 15 years of age I asked my mother permission to go to Himalayas for contemplating on god. I wanted to permanently quit my family and go. My mother looked at me twice and said over my dead body. That was the last moment I ever talked to my mother on the subject. I prayed to God and continued my journey of spirituality even while living in family. I did not want to duplicate the mistake committed by Siddhartha Gautama.
Luckily by grace of God I succeeded in completing my journey of spirituality reaching God in the wee hours of third of August 1993 37 years of age. This is my last manifestation on mother earth.
I do not remember how many times I had to eat hell for breakfast, how many contemplations of suicide. Journey of spirituality while living in family is difficult, extremely difficult yet not impossible.
Prime reason why in the entire history of mankind only two ladies till date succeeded in reaching state of enlightenment, famous philosopher Sage Gargi and Maitreyi, the second dutiful wife of Sage Yajnavalkya (composer and compiler of most voluminous Brihadaranyaka Upanishad). The Gargi and Maitreyi colleges in New Delhi are reminiscent of these enlightened ladies.
Path of spirituality is full of thorns and must be travelled with caution.
Some sages like Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa indulged in spirituality even while married yet successfully reached state of enlightenment. Maharshi Ramana indulged in spirituality as a bachelor and throughout remained a bachelor. Even Swami Vivekananda did not marry.
Married people can indulge in spirituality provided we have the assets and the willpower to take care of the family.
m married n living a life of celibecy since 5 plus years, can u guide me further , how to live , sometimes i feel suicidal n want to run away, but my family are stalkers, they want to bind me in every sense,,,i feel suffocated to the core