Text 9]
Talks Between Lord Śiva and Satī
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she told her husband that if he desired to go, then she could also accompany him. In other words, she submitted her desire very politely to her husband.
TEXT 9
तस्मिन् भगिन्यो मम भर्तृभिः स्वकै-
भ्रुवं गमिष्यन्ति सुहृद्दिक्षवः ।
अहं च तस्मिन् भवताभिकामये
सहोपनीतं परिवर्हमर्हितुम् ॥ ९ ॥
tasmin bhaginyo mama bhartrbhiḥ svakair dhruvam gamiṣyanti suhṛd-didṛkṣavaḥ aham ca tasmin bhavatābhikāmaye sahopanītam paribarham arhitum
tasmin —in that sacrifice;  bhaginyaḥ —sisters;  mama —my;  bhartrbhiḥ —with their husbands;  svakaiḥ —their own;  dhruvam —surely;  gamiṣyanti —will go;  suhṛt-didṛkṣavaḥ —desiring to meet the relatives;  aham —I;  ca —and;  tasmin —in that assembly;  bhavatā —with you (Lord Śiva);  abhikāmaye —I desire;  saha —with;  upanītam —given;  paribarham —ornaments of decoration;  arhitum —to accept.
TRANSLATION
I think that all my sisters must have gone to this great sacrificial ceremony with their husbands just to see their relatives. I also desire to decorate myself with the ornaments given to me by my father and go there with you to participate in that assembly.
PURPORT
It is a woman's nature to want to decorate herself with ornaments and nice dresses and accompany her husband to social functions, meet friends and relatives and enjoy life in that way. This propensity is not unusual because woman is the basic principle of material enjoyment. Therefore in Sanskrit the word for woman is  strī , which means one who expands the field of material enjoyment. In the material world there is an attraction between woman and man. This is the arrangement of conditional life. A woman attracts a man, and in that way the scope of material activities, involving house, wealth, children and friendship, increases, and thus instead of decreasing one's material demands, one becomes entangled in