198 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 14

PURPORT

Canakya Pandita has advised, visvdso naiva kartavyah strisu raja-
kulesu ca: “Never place your faith in a woman or a politician.” Unless
elevated to spiritual consciousness, everyone is conditioned and fallen,
what to speak of women, who are less intelligent than men. Women have
been compared to Sudras and vaisyas (striyo vaisyds tatha sudrah). On
the spiritual platform, however, when one is elevated to the platform of
Krsna consciousness, whether one is a man, woman, Stidra or whatever,
everyone is equal. Otherwise, Urvasi, who was a woman herself and who
knew the nature of women, said that a woman’s heart is like that of a sly
fox. If a man cannot control his senses, he becomes a victim of such sly
foxes. But if one can control the senses, there is no chance of his being
victimized by sly, foxlike women. Canakya Pandita has also advised that
if one has a wife like a sly fox, he must immediately give up his life at
home and go to the forest.

mata yasya grhe nasti
bharya cdpriya-vadini

aranyam tena gantavyam
yathadranyam tatha grham

(Canakya-sloka 57)
Krsna conscious grhasthas must be very careful of the sly fox woman. If
the wife at home is obedient and follows her husband in Krsna conscious-

ness, the home is welcome. Otherwise one should give up one’s home and
go to the forest.

hitvatma-patam grham andha-kipam
vanam gato yad dharim dsrayeta

(Bhag. 7.5.5)

One should go to the forest and take shelter of the lotus feet of Hari, the
Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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