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Devahūti's Lamentation
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PURPORT
Before her marriage, when Devahūti was brought by her parents before the sage Kardama, she was the perfectly beautiful princess, and Kardama Muni remembered her former beauty. But after her marriage, when she was engaged in the service of Kardama Muni, she neglected to care for her body like a princess, since there was no means for such care; her husband was living in a cottage, and since she was always engaged in serving him, her royal beauty disappeared, and she became just like an ordinary maid-servant. Now, after being bathed by the Gandharva girls by the order of Kardama Muni's yogic power, she regained her beauty, and Kardama Muni felt attracted to the beauty she had shown before the marriage. The real beauty of a young woman is her breasts. When Kardama Muni saw the breasts of his wife so nicely decorated, increasing her beauty many times, he was attracted, even though he was a great sage. Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya has therefore warned the transcendentalists that one who is after transcendental realization should not be attracted by the raised breasts of a woman because they are nothing but an interaction of fat and blood within the body.
TEXT 38
तस्मिन्नुममहिमा प्रिययानुरक्तो विद्याधरीभिरुपचीर्णवपुर्विमाने । बभ्राज उत्कचकुमुद्रणवानपीच्य- स्ताराभिराष्ट्रत इवोद्धुपतिर्नमःस्यः ॥३८॥
tasminn alupta-mahimā priyayānurakto vidyādharībhir upacīrṇa-vapur vimāne babhrāja utkaca-kumud-gaṇavān apīcyas tārābhir āvṛta ivodu-patir nabhaḥ-sthaḥ
tasmin—in that; alupta—not lost; mahimā—glory; priyayā—with his beloved consort; anuraktaḥ—attached; vidyādharībhiḥ—by the Gandharva girls; upacīrṇa—waited upon; vapuḥ—his person; vimāne—on the airplane; babhrāja—he shone; utkaca—open; kumud-gaṇavān—the moon, who is followed by rows of lilies; apīcyaḥ—very charming; tārābhiḥ—by stars; āvṛtaḥ—surrounded; iva—as; udu-patiḥ—the moon (the chief of the stars); nabhaḥ-sthaḥ—in the sky.