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Bhakti Vikasa Swami is writing in his book "Brahmacaraya"

 

"...Once a friendly relationship is established

the downfall of the Brahmacari has begun..."

 

Similarly in Bhagavatam we find .

 

 

urvasy uvaca

ma mrthah puruso 'si tvam

ma sma tvadyur vrka ime

kvapi sakhyam na vai strinam

vrkanam hrdayam yatha

 

TRANSLATION

 

Urvasi said: My dear King, you are a man, a hero. Don't be impatient

and give up your life. Be sober and don't allow the senses to overcome you

like foxes. Don't let the foxes eat you. In other words, you should not be

controlled by your senses. Rather, you should know that the heart of a woman

is like that of a fox. There is no use making friendship with women.

 

PURPORT

 

Canakya Pandita has advised, visvaso naiva kartavyah strisu raja-kulesu

ca: "Never place your faith in a woman or a politician." Unless elevated to

spiritual consciousness, everyone is conditioned and fallen, what to speak

of women, who are less intelligent than men. Women have been compared to

sudras and vaisyas (striyo vaisyas tatha sudrah). On the spiritual platform,

however, when one is elevated to the platform of Krsna consciousness,

whether one is a man, woman, sudra or whatever, everyone is equal.

Otherwise, Urvasi, who was a woman herself and who knew the nature of women,

said that a woman's heart is like that of a sly fox. If a man cannot control

his senses, he becomes a victim of such sly foxes. But if one can control

the senses, there is no chance of his being victimized by sly, foxlike

women. Canakya Pandita has also advised that if one has a wife like a sly

fox, he must immediately give up his life at home and go to the forest.

 

mata yasya grhe nasti

bharya capriya-vadini

aranyam tena gantavyam

yatharanyam tatha grham

(Canakya-sloka 57)

 

Krsna conscious grhasthas must be very careful of the sly fox woman. If

the wife at home is obedient and follows her husband in Krsna consciousness,

the home is welcome. Otherwise one should give up one's home and go to the

forest.

 

hitvatma-patam grham andha-kupam

vanam gato yad dharim asrayeta

(SB. 7.5.5)

 

One should go to the forest and take shelter of the lotus feet of Hari,

the Supreme Personality of Godhead. (S.B. 9.14.36)

 

 

 

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