Text 18] Lord Ramacandra Rules the World 117
stri-pum-prasargah—attraction between husband and wife, or man
and woman; etdédrk—like this; sarvatra—everywhere; trédsam-dvahah—
the cause of fear; api—even; iSvardnam—of controllers; kim uta—and
what to speak of; gramyasya—of ordinary men of this material world;
grha-cetasah—who are attached to materialistic household life.
TRANSLATION
The attraction between man and woman, or male and female, al-
ways exists everywhere, making everyone always fearful. Such
feelings are present even among the controllers like Brahma and
Lord Siva and is the cause of fear for them, what to speak of others
who are attached to household life in this material world.
PURPORT
As explained above, when the feelings of love and transcendental bliss
from the spiritual world are pervertedly reflected in this material world,
they are certainly the cause of bondage. As long as men feel attracted to
women in this material world and women feel attracted to men, the
bondage of repeated birth and death will continue. But in the spiritual
world, where there is no fear of birth and death, such feelings of separa-
tion are the cause of transcendental bliss. In the absolute reality there are
varieties of feeling, but all of them are of the same quality of
transcendental bliss.
TEXT 18
qa wed weet UTE 7a: |
TUM eaaaAeTY =— RII
tata irdhvam brahmacaryam
dharyann ajuhot prabhuh
trayodasabda-sahasram
agnihotram akhanditam
tatah—thereafter; irdhvam—after mother Sita’s going into the
earth; brahmacaryam—complete celibacy; dhdrayan—observing;
ajuhot —performed a ritualistic ceremony and sacrifice; prabhuh—Lord
