Skandham-5. Chapter-2. Slokam-6. :

Like a honeybee, the Apsarä smelled the beautiful and attractive flowers.
She could attract the minds and vision of both humans and demigods by her
playful movements, her shyness and humility, her glances, the very pleasing
sounds that poured from her mouth as she spoke, and the motion of her limbs.


By all these qualities, she opened for Cupid, who bears an arrow of flowers, a
path of aural reception into the minds of men. When she spoke, nectar seemed
to flow from her mouth. As she breathed, the bees, mad for the taste of her
breath, tried to hover about her beautiful lotuslike eyes. 


Disturbed by the bees,she tried to move hastily, but as she raised her feet to walk quickly, her hair,
the belt on her hips, and her breasts, which were like water jugs, also moved in
a way that made her extremely beautiful and attractive. Indeed, she seemed to
be making a path for the entrance of Cupid, who is most powerful. Therefore
the prince, completely subdued by seeing her, spoke to her as follows.



How a beautiful woman's movements and gestures, her hair and the
structure of her breasts, hips and other bodily features attract the minds not
only of men but of demigods also is very finely described in this statement. 


The words divija and manuja specifically emphasize that the attraction of feminine
gestures is powerful everywhere within this material world, both on this planet
and in the higher planetary systems. It is said that the standard of living in the
higher planetary systems is thousands and thousands of times higher than the
standard of living on this planet. 


Therefore the beautiful bodily features of the women there are also thousands 
and thousands of times more attractive than the features of the women on earth.
 The creator has constructed women in such a way that their beautiful voices 
and movements and the beautiful features of their hips, their breasts, and 
the other parts of their bodies attract the members of the opposite sex, 
both on earth and on other planets, and awaken their lusty desires. 


When one is controlled by Cupid or the beauty of women, he becomes stunned 
like matter such as stone. Captivated by the material movements of women, 
he wants to remain in this material world.


Thus one's promotion to the spiritual world is checked simply by seeing the
beautiful bodily structure and movements of women. 


Sri Caitanya has therefore warned all devotees to beware of the attraction of
beautiful women and materialistic civilization. Sri caithanya  even
refused to see Prataparudra Maharaja because he was a very opulent person in
the material world. Lord Caitanya said in this connection, 
" those who are engaged in the devotional service
of the Lord because they are very serious about going back home, back to
Godhead, should be very careful to avoid seeing the beautiful gestures of
women and should also avoid seeing persons who are very rich".


"Alas, for a person who is seriously desiring to cross the material ocean and
engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord without material
motives, seeing a materialist engaged in sense gratification or seeing a woman
who is similarly interested is more abominable than drinking poison willingly."


 One who is serious about going back home, back to Godhead,
 should not contemplate the attractive features of women
and the opulence of rich men. Such contemplation will check one's
advancement in spiritual life. Once a devotee is fixed in Krishna consciousness,
however, these attractions will not agitate his mind.

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