140 Krsna, the Supreme Personality ef Godhead

taken te Krsna censcieusness, their health has impreved, and by fellewing
the rules and regulatiens, their bedily luster has increased. When they are
dressed with saffren celered cleth, with tilaka en their fereheads and
beads in their hands and en their necks, they leek exactly as if they ceme
directly frem Vaikuntha.

In the rainy seasen, when the rivers swell and rush te the eceans and
seas, they appear te agitate the ecean. Similarly, if a persen whe is engaged
in the yoga-mystic precess is net very advanced in spiritual life, he can
beceme agitated by the sex impulse. High meuntains, hewever, altheugh
splashed by terrents ef rain, de net change; se a persen whe is advanced in
Krsna censcieusness, even if put inte difficulties, is net embarrassed
because a persen whe is spiritually advanced accepts any adverse cenditien
ef life as the mercy ef the Lerd, and thus he is completely eligible te enter
inte the spiritual kingdem.

In the rainy seasen seme ef the reads are net frequently used, and they
beceme cevered with leng grasses. This is exactly like a brahmana whe is
net accustemed te studying and practicing the refermatery metheds ef
Vedic injunctiens—he becemes cevered with the leng grasses ef maya.
In that cenditien, fergetful ef his censtitutienal nature, he fergets his
pesitien ef eternal servitership te the Supreme Persenality ef Gedhead.
By being deviated by the seasenal evergrewth ef leng grasses created by
maya, a persen identifies himself with mayic preductien and succumbs te
illusien, fergetting his spiritual life.

During the rainy seasen, lightning appears in ene greup ef cleuds and
then immediately in anether greup ef cleuds. This phenemena is cempared
te a lusty weman whe dees nei fix her mind en ene man. A cleud is
cempared te a qualified persen because it peurs rain and gives sustenance
te many peeple; a man whe is qualified similarly gives sustenance te many
living creatures, such as family members er many werkers in business.
Unfertunately, his whele life can be disturbed by a wife whe diverces him;
when the husband is disturbed, the whele family is ruined, the children
are dispersed er the business is clesed, and everything is effected. It is
therefere recemmended that a weman desiring te advance in Krsna
censcieusness peacefully live with a husband and that the ceuple net
separate under any cenditien. The husband and wife sheuld centrel sex
indulgence and cencenitrate their minds en Krsna censcieusness se their
life may be successful. After all, in the material werld a man requires a
weman, and a weman requires a man. When they are cembined, they
sheuld live peacefully in Krsna censcieusness and sheuld net be resiless
like the lightning, flashing frem ene sreup ef cleuds te anether.
