282 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 15

strindm priyatamo nityam
mattah sva-pura-lampatah

ripa—beauty; pesala—formation of the body; ma@dhurya—attrac-
tiveness; saugandhya—very fragrant, being decorated with various
flower garlands and sandalwood pulp; priya-darsanah—very beautiful
to see; strinam—of the women; priya-tamah—naturally attracted;
nityam—daily; mattah—proud like a madman; sva-pura—in his own
city; lampatah—very much attached to women because of lusty desires.

TRANSLATION

I had a beautiful face and a pleasing, attractive bodily structure.
Decorated with flower garlands and sandalwood pulp, I was most
pleasing to the women of my city. Thus I was bewildered, always
feeling lusty desires.

PURPORT

From the description of the beauty of Narada Muni when he was one
of the denizens of Gandharvaloka, it appears that everyone on that planet
is extremely beautiful and pleasing and always decorated with flowers
and sandalwood. Upabarhana was Narada Muni’s name previously.
Upabarhana was specifically expert in decorating himself to attract the
attention of women, and thus he became a playboy, as described in the
next verse. To be a playboy in this life is unfortunate because too much
attraction to women will lead one to fall into the association of Siudras,
who can easily take advantage of mingling with women without restric-
tion. In this present age of Kali, when people are mandah sumanda-
matayah—very bad because of a siidra mentality—such free mingling is
prominent. Among the higher classes—bréhmana, ksatriya and
vaisya—there is no chance for men to mingle with women freely, but in
the Sidra community such mingling is open. Because there is no cultural
education in this age of Kali, everyone is spiritually untrained, and
everyone is therefore to be considered Sidra (asuddhah siidra-kalpé hi
brahmanah kali-sambhavah). When all the people become Stdras, cer-
tainly they are very bad (mandah sumanda-matayah). Thus they

manufacture their own way of life, with the result that they gradually
