Text 30] Diti Vows to Kill King Indra 229
TEXT 30
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fot wa Atend aa gat aftga lel!
f vilokyaikanta-bhitani
bhitany ddau prajapatih
striyam cakre sva-dehardham
yaya pumsam matir hrta

vilokya—seeing; ekdnta-bhiitdni—detached; bhiitani—the living en-
tities; Gdau—in the beginning; prajapatih—Lord Brahma; striyam—
the woman; cakre—created; sva-deha—of his body; ardham—half;
yaya—by whom; pumsam—of men; matih—the mind; hrta—carried
away.

TRANSLATION

In the beginning of creation, Lord Brahma, the father of the liv-
ing entities of the universe, saw that all the living entities were
unattached. To increase population, he then created woman from
the better half of man’s body, for woman’s behavior carries away a
man’s mind.

PURPORT

This entire universe is going on under the spell of sexual attachment,
which was created by Lord Brahmi to increase the population of the en-
tire universe, not only in human society but also in other species. As
stated by Rsabhadeva in the Fifth Canto, pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam
etam: the entire world is going on under the spell of sexual attraction
and desire between man and woman. When man and woman unite, the
hard knot of this attraction becomes increasingly tight, and thus a man is
implicated in the materialistic way of life. This is the illusion of the ma-
terial world. This illusion acted upon Kasyapa Muni, although he was
very learned and advanced in spiritual knowledge. As stated in the
Manu-samhita (2.215) and Srimad-Bhagavatam (9.19.17):

matra svasra duhitra va
naviviktdsano bhavet
