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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 25]
PURPORT
The vital force of a living entity includes the five kinds of air working within the body, which are known as  prāṇa ,  apāna ,  vyāna ,  samāna , and  udāna . The vital force is compared to a serpent because a serpent can live by simply drinking air. The vital force carried by the air is described as the  pratīhāra , or the bodyguard. Without the vital force one cannot live for a moment. Indeed, all the senses are working under the protection of the vital force.
The woman, who represents intelligence, was searching after a husband. This indicates that intelligence cannot act without consciousness. A beautiful woman is useless unless protected by the proper husband. Intelligence must always be very fresh; therefore the word  aprauḍha  (very young) is used here. Material enjoyment means utilizing the intelligence for the sake of  rūpa ,  rasa ,  gandha ,  śabda  and  sparśa , or form, taste, smell, sound and touch.
TEXT 22
सुनासां सुदतीं बालां सुकपोलां वराननाम् । समविन्यस्तकर्णाम्यां बिभ्रतीं कुण्डलत्रियम् ॥२२॥
sunāsām sudatīm bālām sukapolām varānanām sama-vinyasta-karṇābhyām bibhratīm kuṇḍala-śriyam
su-nāsām—very beautiful nose; su-datīm—very beautiful teeth; bālām—the young woman; su-kapolām—nice forehead; vara-ānanām—beautiful face; sama—equally; vinyasta—arranged; karṇābhyām—both ears; bibhratīm—dazzling; kuṇḍala-śriyam—having beautiful earrings.
TRANSLATION
The woman's nose, teeth and forehead were all very beautiful. Her ears were equally very beautiful and were bedecked with dazzling earrings.
PURPORT
The body of intelligence enjoys the objects of sense gratification that cover it, such as smell, vision and hearing. The word  sunāsām  (beautiful nose) indicates the organ for acquiring knowledge by smell. Similarly, the