Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 9.14.36

urvasy uvaca

ma mrithah purusho 'si tvam

ma sma tvadyur vrika ime

kvapi sakhyam na vai strinam

vrikanam hridayam yatha

SYNONYMS

urvasi uvaca -- Urvasi said; ma -- do not; mrithah -- give up your life; purushah -- male; asi -- are; tvam -- you; ma sma -- do not allow it; tva -- unto you; adyuh -- may eat; vrikah -- the foxes; ime -- these senses (do not be under the control of your senses); kva api -- anywhere; sakhyam -- friendship; na -- not; vai -- indeed; strinam -- of women; vrikanam -- of the foxes; hridayam -- the heart; yatha -- as.

TRANSLATION

Urvasi said: My dear King, you are a man, a hero. Don't be impatient and give up your life. Be sober and don't allow the senses to overcome you like foxes. Don't let the foxes eat you. In other words, you should not be controlled by your senses. Rather, you should know that the heart of a woman is like that of a fox. There is no use making friendship with women.

PURPORT

Canakya Pandita has advised, visvaso naiva kartavyah strishu raja-kuleshu 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 vaisyas tatha sudrah). On the spiritual platform, however, when one is elevated to the platform of Krishna consciousness, whether one is a man, woman, sudra 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 grihe nasti

bharya capriya-vadini

aranyam tena gantavyam

yatharanyam tatha griham

(Canakya-sloka 57)

Krishna conscious grihasthas must be very careful of the sly fox woman. If the wife at home is obedient and follows her husband in Krishna consciousness, the home is welcome. Otherwise one should give up one's home and go to the forest.

hitvatma-patam griham andha-kupam

vanam gato yad dharim asrayeta

(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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