Some Sanskrit verses and explanations from India's ancient Bhagavata Purana, wherein Urvasi is kindly conveying some harsh truths (social science if you like) to help sober up a King who had become a complete simp for her.
TEXT 36
urvaśy uvāca
mā mṛthāḥ puruṣo ’si tvaṁ
mā sma tvādyur vṛkā ime
kvāpi sakhyaṁ na vai strīṇāṁ
vṛkāṇāṁ hṛdayaṁ yathā
SYNONYMS
urvaśī uvāca—Urvaśī said; mā—do not; mṛthāḥ—give up your life; puruṣaḥ—male; asi—are; tvam—you; mā sma—do not allow it; tvā—unto you; adyuḥ—may eat; vṛkāḥ—the foxes; ime—these senses (do not be under the control of your senses); kva api—anywhere; sakhyam—friendship; na—not; vai—indeed; strīṇām—of women; vṛkāṇām—of the foxes; hṛdayam—the heart; yathā—as.
TRANSLATION
Urvaśī 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
Cāṇakya Paṇḍita has advised, viśvāso naiva kartavyaḥ strīṣu rāja-kuleṣu 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 śūdras and vaiśyas (striyo vaiśyās tathā śūdrāḥ). On the spiritual platform, however, when one is elevated to the platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, whether one is a man, woman, śūdra or whatever, everyone is equal. Otherwise, Urvaśī, 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. Cāṇakya Paṇḍita 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.
mātā yasya gṛhe nāsti bhāryā cāpriya-vādinī araṇyaṁ tena gantavyaṁ yathāraṇyaṁ tathā gṛham (Cāṇakya-śloka 57)
Kṛṣṇa conscious gṛhasthas must be very careful of the sly fox woman. If the wife at home is obedient and follows her husband in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the home is welcome. Otherwise one should give up one’s home and go to the forest.
hitvātma-pātaṁ gṛham andha-kūpaṁ vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta (Bhāg. 7.5.5)
One should go to the forest and take shelter of the lotus feet of Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TEXT 37
striyo hy akaruṇāḥ krūrā
durmarṣāḥ priya-sāhasāḥ
ghnanty alpārthe ’pi viśrabdhaṁ
patiṁ bhrātaram apy uta
SYNONYMS
striyaḥ—women; hi—indeed; akaruṇāḥ—merciless; krūrāḥ—cunning; durmarṣāḥ—intolerant; priya-sāhasāḥ—for their own pleasure they can do anything; ghnanti—they kill; alpa-arthe—for a slight reason; api—indeed; viśrabdham—faithful; patim—husband; bhrātaram—brother; api—also; uta—it is said.
TRANSLATION
Women as a class are merciless and cunning. They cannot tolerate even a slight offense. For their own pleasure they can do anything irreligious, and therefore they do not fear killing even a faithful husband or brother.
PURPORT
King Purūravā was greatly attached to Urvaśī. Yet despite his faithfulness to her, she had left him. Now, considering that the King was wasting his rarely achieved human form of life, Urvaśī frankly explained the nature of a woman. Because of her nature, a woman can respond to even a slight offense from her husband by not only leaving him but even killing him if required. To say nothing of her husband, she can even kill her brother. That is a woman’s nature. Therefore, in the material world, unless women are trained to be chaste and faithful to their husbands, there cannot be peace or prosperity in society.
TEXT 38
vidhāyālīka-viśrambham
ajñeṣu tyakta-sauhṛdāḥ
navaṁ navam abhīpsantyaḥ
puṁścalyaḥ svaira-vṛttayaḥ
SYNONYMS
vidhāya—by establishing; alīka—false; viśrambham—faithfulness; ajñeṣu—unto the foolish men; tyakta-sauhṛdāḥ—who have given up the company of well-wishers; navam—new; navam—new; abhīpsantyaḥ—desiring; puṁścalyaḥ—women very easily allured by other men; svaira—independently; vṛttayaḥ—professional.
TRANSLATION
Women are very easily seduced by men. Therefore, polluted women give up the friendship of a man who is their well-wisher and establish false friendship among fools. Indeed, they seek newer and newer friends, one after another.
PURPORT
Because women are easily seduced, the Manu-saṁhitā enjoins that they should not be given freedom. A woman must always be protected, either by her father, by her husband, or by her elderly son. If women are given freedom to mingle with men like equals, which they now claim to be, they cannot keep their propriety. The nature of a woman, as personally described by Urvaśī, is to establish false friendship with someone and then seek new male companions, one after another, even if this means giving up the company of a sincere well-wisher.
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