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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 7]
patching soldiers of Cupid. But in the case of the Lord, it became an unsuccessful attempt when the celestial beauties saw that the Lord can produce innumerable such beauties by His mystic internal potency, so there was no need to be attracted by others externally. There is a common proverb that a confectioner is never attracted by sweetmeats. The confectioner, who is always manufacturing sweetmeats, has very little desire to eat them; similarly, the Lord, by His pleasure potential powers, can produce innumerable spiritual beauties and not be the least attracted by the false beauties of material creation. One who does not know, foolishly alleges that Lord Kṛṣṇa enjoyed women in His  rāsa-līlā  in Vṛndāvana, or with His sixteen thousand married wives at Dvārakā.
TEXT 7
कामं दहन्ति कृतिनो ननु रोषदृष्ट्या 
  रोषं दहन्तमुत ते न दहन्त्यसह्यम् । 
  सोऽयं यदन्तरमलं प्रविशन् बिभेति 
  कामः कथं नु पुनरस्य मनः श्रयेत ॥ ७ ॥
kāmam dahanti kṛtino nanu roṣa-dṛṣṭyā  
 roṣam dahantam uta te na dahanty asahyam  
 so 'yam yad antaram alam praviśan bibheti  
 kāmaḥ katham nu punar asya manaḥ śrayeta
kāmam—lust; dahanti—chastises; kṛtinaḥ—great stalwarts; nanu—but; roṣa-dṛṣṭyā—by wrathful glance; roṣam—wrath; dahantam—being overwhelmed; uta—although; te—they; na—cannot; dahanti—subjugate; asahyam—intolerable; saḥ—that; ayam—Him; yat—because; antaram—within; alam—however; praviśan—entering; bibheti—is afraid of; kāmaḥ—lust; katham—how; nu—as a matter of fact; punaḥ—again; asya—His; manaḥ—mind; śrayeta—take shelter of.
TRANSLATION
Great stalwarts like Lord Śiva can, by their wrathful glance, overcome lust and vanquish him, yet they cannot be free from the overwhelming effects of their own wrath. Such wrath can never enter into the heart of