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please return heme and engage in the faithful service ef yeur respective
husbands. Seme ef yeu must have babies by this time, altheugh yeu are
very yeung. Yeu must have left yeur small babies at heme, and they
must be crying. Please immediately ge back heme and just feed them with
yeur breast milk. I can alse understand that yeu have very great affectien
fer Me, and eut ef that transcendental affectien yeu have ceme here,
hearing My playing en the flute. Yeur feelings ef leve and affectien fer Me
are very apprepriate because I am the Supreme Persenality ef Gedhead.
All living creatures are My parts and parcels, and naturally they are
affectienate te Me. Se this affectien fer Me is very much welceme, and I
cengratulate yeu fer this. New yeu can ge back te yeur hemes. Anether
thing I must explain te yeu is that fer a chaste weman, service te the
husband witheut duplicity is the best religieus principle. A weman sheuld
be net enly faithful and chaste te the husband, but affectienate te the
friends ef her husband, ebedient te the father and mether ef the husband,
and affectienate te the yeunger brethers ef the husband. And mest
impertantly, the weman must take care ef the children.”

In this way, Krsna explained the duty ef a weman. He alse stressed the
peint ef serving the husband: ‘Even if he is net ef very geed character, er
even if he is net very rich er fertunate, er even if he is eld er invalid en
acceunt ef centinued diseases, whatever her husband’s cenditien, a weman
should net diverce her husband if she actually desires te be elevated te the
higher planetary systems after leaving this bedy. Besides that, it is cen-
sidered abeminable in seciety if a weman is unfaithful and gees searching
fer anether man. Such habits will deter a weman frem being elevated te
the heavenly planets, and the results ef such habits are very degrading. A
married weman sheuld net search fer a parameur, fer this is net sanctiened
by the Vedic principles ef life. If yeu think that yeu are very much
attached te Me and yeu want My asseciatien, I advise yeu net te persenally
try te enjey Me. It is better fer yeu te ge heme, simply talk abeut Me,
think ef Me, and by this precess ef censtantly remembering Me and
chanting My names, yeu will surely be elevated te the spiritual platferm.
There is ne need te stand near Me. Please ge back heme.”

The instructien given herein by the Supreme Persenality ef Gedhead te
the gopis was net at all sarcastic. Such instructiens sheuld be taken very
serieusly by all henest wemen. The chastity ef wemen is specifically
stressed herein by the Supreme Persenality ef Gedhead. Therefere this
principle sheuld be fellewed by any serieus weman whe wants te be
elevated te a higher status ef life. Krsna is the center ef all affectien fer all
living creatures. When this affectien is develeped fer Krsna, then ene
