Text 12] Ideal Family Life 159
recommends that the necessities of life be supplied to everyone, man or
animal, regardless of good or bad qualities.

The idea of giving even one’s wife to the service of the public is that
one’s intimate relationship with his wife, or one’s excessive attachment
for his wife, by which one thinks his wife to be his better half or to be
identical with himself, must gradually be given up. As formerly sug-
gested, the idea of ownership, even of one’s family, must be abandoned.
The dream of material life is the cause of bondage in the cycle of birth
and death, and therefore one should give up this dream. Consequently,
in the human form of life one’s attachment for his wife should be given
up, as suggested herein.

TEXT 12
HATS FA AT TONES TI FAT TST |
rent aed feat tere Tees fate Fara: 28
Jahyad yad-arthe svan pranan
hanyad va pitararh gurum
tasyam svatvam striyam jahyad
yas tena hy ajito jitah

jahyat—one may give up; yat-arthe—for whom; svaén—one’s own;
pranan—life; hanydt—one may kill; va—or; pitaram—the father;
gurum—the teacher or spiritual master; tasyém—unto her; svatuam—
ownership; striyam—unto the wife; jahydt—one must give up; yah—
one who (the Supreme Personality of Godhead); tena—by him; hi—in-
deed; ajitah—cannot be conquered; jitah—conquered.

TRANSLATION

One so seriously considers one’s wife to be his own that he
sometimes kills himself for her or kills others, including even his
parents or his spiritual master or teacher. Therefore if one can
give up his attachment to such a wife, he conquers the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, who is never conquered by anyone.

PURPORT

Every husband is too much attached to his wife. Therefore, to give up

one’s connection with his wife is extremely difficult, but if one can
