burglars in the name of kinsmen

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A peaceful family with wife and children is compared to the peaceful

atmosphere of the forest. Children are compared to nonviolent animals.

Sometimes, however, wives and children are called svajanakhya-dasyu,

burglars in the name of kinsmen. A man earns his livelihood with hard labor,

but the result is that he is plundered by his wife and children exactly as a

person in a forest is attacked by some thieves and burglars who take his

money. Nonetheless, in family life the turmoil of wife and children appears

to be like the cooing of the cuckoos in the garden of family life.

 

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