Tulasi devi tests king Sankhachuda

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Dear Vaisnavas, Hare Krsna!

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

The fallowing text is part from Tulasi devi life story booklet. In the

chapter named "Tulasi devi tests king Sankhachuda", Tulasi devi with this

words has tested her further husband.

 

Her head lowered, her face smiling, the beautiful-eyed Tulasi said, "I am

the daughter of King Dharmadhvaja and have been practicing asceticism here.

But who are you? And why are you talking to me? If a noble man sees a

virtuous woman alone, he does not talk to her. So go away--wherever you

please."

But Sankhacuda did not move.

Tulasi continued. "The sastras say that only a degraded man desires a

woman. At first a woman is sweet to a man, but later proves fatal. Though

her mouth rains honey, her heart is like a jar of poison. She uses sweet

words but her heart is sharp like a razor. To achieve her own selfish ends

she is submissive to her husband; otherwise, she is un submissive. While her

face looks cheerful, her heart is dirty. Even the Vedas and the Puranas

cannot fathom her character. A wise man never trusts a base woman. She has

no friend or enemy; for all she wants are new lovers. When a woman sees a

well-dressed man, she inwardly desires him, but outwardly she appears chaste

and modest. She is naturally passionate, attracts men's minds, and eagerly

engages in sex. Though outwardly she hides her lust and appears modest, when

she meets her lover in secret, she is ready to swallow him up. When she does

not have sex with him, she feels offended, her body burns with anger, and

she begins to quarrel. When her passions are fully satisfied, she becomes

cheerful; when unsatisfied, morose.

"A woman likes a good lover more than sweet foods or refreshing drinks; she

likes him even more than her own son; he is dearer to her than her life. But

if the lover becomes impotent or aged, she regards him as an enemy. Quarrels

and anger ensue. Then she devours him as a snake eats a rat. She is rashness

personified and a mine of vices. A woman is hypocritical, obstinate and

unfaithful. Even Lord Brahma and other gods are deluded by her. She is a

hindrance on the path of austerity, an obstacle to liberation, an impediment

to developing faith in Lord Hari, a refuge of all delusion and a living

chain that binds men to the world. She is like a magician and is as false as

dreams. She appears to be very beautiful, but is she is a bucket of stool,

urine, gas and blood. When God created her, he arranged that she should

become the spirit of delusion to the deluded and poison to those who desire

liberation. Thus, on no account should a woman be desired, and by all means

she should be avoided."

 

Sankhacuda smiled and then answered, "O goddess, what you have said is not

completely false. It is partly true and partly false. From the Creator have

come chaste and unchaste women. One is praiseworthy, the other isn't.

Examples of chaste women are Laksmi, Sarasvati, Durga, Savitri and Radha.

Women who are expansions of them are auspicious, glorious and very

commendable, such as Satarupa, Devahuti, Svadha, Savaha, Daksina, Anasuya,

Ganga, Diti, Aditi, Vedavati, etc. In every yuga cycle these women are

excellent. The heavenly prostitutes are also expansions and partial

expansions of the above women, but they are not praiseworthy because they

are unchaste.

Women who are in the mode of goodness are virtuous and pure. The sages

declare them to be excellent. But those who are in the modes of passion and

ignorance are not so praiseworthy. The passionate ones are fond of sense

pleasures, indulge in them, and always want to fulfill their selfish goals.

Such women are usually insincere, deluded and irreligious. Generally, they

are unchaste. But woman in the mode of ignorance are considered the worst.

They are irresistible".

 

I hope this meets you all well,

 

ys bh elvis