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Diti Vows to Kill King Indra
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TEXT 30
विलोक्यैकान्तभूतानि भूतान्यादौ प्रजापतिः।  
 स्त्रियं चक्रे स्वदेहार्धं यया पुंसां मतिर्हूता ॥३०॥
vilokyaikānta-bhūtāni 
    bhūtāny ādau prajāpatiḥ 
    striyam cakre sva-dehārdham 
    yayā puṁsāṁ matir hṛtā
vilokya—seeing; ekānta-bhūtāni—detached; bhūtāni—the living entities; ādau—in the beginning; prajāpatiḥ—Lord Brahmā; striyam—the woman; cakre—created; sva-deha—of his body; ardham—half; yayā—by whom; puṁsāṁ—of men; matiḥ—the mind; hṛtā—carried away.
TRANSLATION
In the beginning of creation, Lord Brahmā, the father of the living entities of the universe, saw that all the living entities were unattached. To increase population, he then created woman from the better half of man's body, for woman's behavior carries away a man's mind.
PURPORT
This entire universe is going on under the spell of sexual attachment, which was created by Lord Brahmā to increase the population of the entire universe, not only in human society but also in other species. As stated by Rṣabhadeva in the Fifth Canto,  puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etam : the entire world is going on under the spell of sexual attraction and desire between man and woman. When man and woman unite, the hard knot of this attraction becomes increasingly tight, and thus a man is implicated in the materialistic way of life. This is the illusion of the material world. This illusion acted upon Kaśyapa Muni, although he was very learned and advanced in spiritual knowledge. As stated in the  Manu-saṁhitā  (2.215) and  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (9.19.17):
mātrā svasrā duhitrā vā 
    nāviviktāsano bhavet