1232 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 26
They have concluded that the best course is to have sex with any woman
and simply pay the price for her, as though she were a mercantile commodity.
Thus they engage their energy in working very hard for such material
acquisitions. Such materialistic people have lost their good intelligence.
They must search out their intelligence within the heart. A person who
does not have a chaste wife accepted by religious principles always has a
bewildered intelligence.

The wife of King Purafijana was lying on the ground because she was
neglected by her husband. Actually the woman must always be protected
by her husband. We always speak of the goddess of fortune as being placed
on the chest of Narayana. In other words, the wife must remain embraced
by her husband. Thus she becomes beloved and well protected. Just as
one saves his money and places it under his own personal protection, one
should similarly protect his wife by his own personal supervision. Just as
intelligence is always within the heart, so a beloved chaste wife should
always have her place on the chest of a good husband. This is the proper
relationship between husband and wife. A wife is therefore called
ardhangani, or half of the body. One cannot remain with only one leg,
one hand or only one side of the body. He must have two sides. Similarly,
according to nature’s way, husband and wife should live together. In the
lower species of life, among birds and animals, it is seen that by nature’s
arrangement the husband and wife live together. It is similarly ideal in
human life for the husband and wife to live together. The home should be
a place for devotional service, and the wife should be chaste and accepted
by a ritualistic ceremony. In this way one can become happy at home.

TEXT 18
Me TWF
gaa: aafed frdenagat aff |
TeRARIMN Tt TH TA UII
narada uvaca
puraiijanah sva-mahisim
niriksyavadhutam bhuvi
tat-sangonmathita-jnano
vaiklavyam paramam yayau

naradah uvaca—the great sage Narada spoke; purafijanah — King Purafijana;

sva-mahisim—his own Queen; niriksya—after seeing; avadhutam—appearing
