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extremely dangerous unless both the wife and husband take to Krsna
consciousness.
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Sarat-padmotsavam vaktrarn
vacas ca sravanamrtam
hrdayam ksura-dharabham
strinam ko veda cestitam
Sarat—in the autumn; padma—a lotus flower; utsavam—blossoming;
vaktram—face; vacah—words; ca—and; Sravana—to the ear;
amrtam—giving pleasure; hrdayam—heart; ksura-dhara—the blade of
a razor; adbham—like; strinaém—of women; kah—who; veda—knows;
cestitam—the dealings.
TRANSLATION
A woman’s face is as attractive and beautiful as a blossoming
lotus flower during autumn. Her words are very sweet, and they
give pleasure to the ear, but if we study a woman’s heart, we can
understand it to be extremely sharp, like the blade of a razor. In
these circumstances, who could understand the dealings of a
woman?
PURPORT
Woman is now depicted very well from the materialistic point of view
by Kasyapa Muni. Women are generally known as the fair sex, and es-
pecially in youth, at the age of sixteen or seventeen, women are very at-
tractive to men. Therefore a woman’s face is compared to a blooming
lotus flower in autumn. Just as a lotus is extremely beautiful in autumn,
a woman at the threshold of youthful beauty is extremely attractive. In
Sanskrit a woman’s voice is called néari-svara because women generally
sing and their singing is very attractive. At the present moment, cinema
