Text 36] The Movements of the Living Entities 1351

TRANSLATION

The infatuation and bondage which accrue to a man from attachment
to any other object is not as complete as that resulting from attachment
to a woman or to the fellowship of men who are fond of women.

PURPORT

Attachment to women is so contaminating that one becomes attached
to the condition of material life not only by the association of women but
by the contaminated association of persons who are too attached to them.
There are many reasons for our conditional life in the material world, but
the topmost of all such causes is the association of women, as will be
confirmed in the following stanzas.

In Kali-yuga, association with women is very strong. In every step of
life,there is association with women. If a person goes to purchase some-
thing, the advertisements are full of pictures of women. The physiological
attraction for women is very great, and therefore people are very slack in
spiritual understanding. The Vedic civilization, being based on spiritual
understanding, arranges association with women very cautiously. Out of
the four social divisions, the members of the first order, namely brahma-
carya, the third order, vanaprastha, and the fourth order, sannyasa, are
strictly prohibited from female association. Only in one order, the house-
holder, is there license to mix with women under restricted conditions.
In other words, attraction for woman’s association is the cause of the
material conditional life, and anyone interested in being freed from this
conditional life must detach himself from the association of women.

TEXT 36

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praja-patih svar duhitararh
drstvd tad-riipa-dharsitah

rohid-bhitam so ‘nvadhavad
rksa-riipi hata-trapah

praja-patih— Lord Brahma; svém—his own; duhitaram—daughter; drstva—
having seen; tat-riijpa—by her charms; dharsitah—bewildered; rohit bhiaitam—
