348 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 7

patching soldiers of Cupid. But in the case of the Lord, it became an
unsuccessful attempt when the celestial beauties saw that the Lord can
produce innumerable such beauties by His mystic internal potency, so
there was no need to be attracted by others externally. There is a common
proverb that a confectioner is never attracted by sweetmeats. The con-
fectioner, who is always manufacturing sweetmeats, has very little desire
to eat them; similarly, the Lord, by His pleasure potential powers, can
produce innumerable spiritual beauties and not be the least attracted by
the false beauties of material creation. One who does not know, foolishly
alleges that Lord Krsna enjoyed women in His rasa-lila in Vrndavana, or
with His sixteen thousand married wives at Dvaraka.

TEXT 7

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Ue Tardy FA TecqAAy |
ast aera share Praha

FU: HH F FATA AA: AAT U1 9 II

kaémam dahanti krtino nanu rosa-drstya
rosam dahantam uta te na dahanty asahyam
so *yam yad antaram alam pravisan bibheti
kamah katham nu punar asya manah srayeta

kaémam-—lust; dahanti—chastises; krtinah—great stalwarts; nanu—but;
rosa-drstya—by wrathful glance; rosam—wrath; dahantam—being over-
whelmed; uta—although; te—they; na—cannot; dahanti—subjugate; asah-
yam—intolerable; sah—that; ayam—Him; yat—because; antaram—within;
alam—however; pravisan—entering; bibheti—is afraid of; kamah—lust; ka-
tham—how;nu—as a matter of fact ; punah—again; asya—His; manah—mind;
§rayeta—take shelter of.

TRANSLATION

Great stalwarts like Lord Siva can, by their wrathful glance, overcome
lust and vanquish him, yet they cannot be free from the overwhelming
effects of their own wrath. Such wrath can never enter into the heart of
