274 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 5
PURPORT

A woman who has no husband declares herself independent, which
means that she becomes a prostitute. A prostitute generally dresses
herself in various fashions intended to attract a man’s attention to the
lower part of her body. Today it has become a much advertised fashion
for a woman to go almost naked, covering the lower part of her body only
slightly, in order to draw the attention of a man to her private parts for
sexual enjoyment. The intelligence engaged to attract a man to the lower
part of the body is the intelligence of a professional prostitute. Similarly,
the intelligence of a living entity who does not turn his attention toward
Krsna or the Krsna consciousness movement simply changes dresses like
a prostitute. What is the benefit of such foolish intelligence? One should
be intelligently conscious in such a way that he need no longer change
from one body to another.

Karmis change their professions at any moment, but a Krsna conscious
person does not change his profession, for his only profession is to attract
the attention of Krsna by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra and living a
very simple life, without following daily changes of fashion. In our
Krsna consciousness movement, fashionable persons are taught to adopt
one fashion—the dress of a Vaisnava with a shaved head and tilaka.
They are taught to be always clean in mind, dress and eating in order to
be fixed in Krsna consciousness. What is the use of changing one’s dress,
sometimes wearing long hair and a long beard and sometimes dressing
otherwise? This is not good. One should not waste his time in such
frivolous activities. One should always be fixed in Krsna consciousness
and take the cure of devotional service with firm determination.

TEXT 15
° oe
qamifent dard | garag |
agdeareae = famacannfiraag 24
tat-sariga-bhrarsitaisvaryam
samsarantam kubharyavat
tad-gatir abudhasyeha
kim asat-karmabhir bhavet
