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[Canto 6, Ch. 18]
extremely dangerous unless both the wife and husband take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
TEXT 41
शरत्पद्मोत्सवं वक्त्रं वचश्च श्रवणामृतम् । हृदयं क्षुरधाराभं स्त्रीणां को वेद चेष्टितम् ॥४१॥
śarat-padmotsavam vaktram vacaś ca śravaṇāmṛtam hṛdayam kṣura-dhārābham strīṇām ko veda ceṣṭitam
śarat—in the autumn; padma—a lotus flower; utsavam—blossoming; vaktram—face; vacah—words; ca—and; śravaṇa—to the ear; amṛtam—giving pleasure; hṛdayam—heart; kṣura-dhārā—the blade of a razor; ābham—like; strīṇām—of women; kah—who; veda—knows; ceṣṭitam—the dealings.
TRANSLATION
A woman’s face is as attractive and beautiful as a blossoming lotus flower during autumn. Her words are very sweet, and they give pleasure to the ear, but if we study a woman’s heart, we can understand it to be extremely sharp, like the blade of a razor. In these circumstances, who could understand the dealings of a woman?
PURPORT
Woman is now depicted very well from the materialistic point of view by Kaśyapa Muni. Women are generally known as the fair sex, and especially in youth, at the age of sixteen or seventeen, women are very attractive to men. Therefore a woman’s face is compared to a blooming lotus flower in autumn. Just as a lotus is extremely beautiful in autumn, a woman at the threshold of youthful beauty is extremely attractive. In Sanskrit a woman’s voice is called  nārī-svara  because women generally sing and their singing is very attractive. At the present moment, cinema