TEXT 40
adharmabhibhavat krsna
pradusyanti kula-striyah
strisu dustasu varsneya
jayate varna-sankarah
pradusyanti kula-striyah
strisu dustasu varsneya
jayate varna-sankarah
SYNONYMS
adharma--irreligion; abhibhavat--having become predominant;krsna--O
Krsna; pradusyanti--become polluted; kula-striyah--family ladies; strisu--of the womanhood; dustasu--being so polluted; varsneya--O descendant of Vrsni; jayate--it so becomes; varna-sankarah--unwanted progeny.
TRANSLATION
When irreligion is prominent in
the family, O Krsna, the women of the family become corrupt, and from the
degradation of womanhood, O descendant of Vrsni, comes unwanted progeny.
PURPORT
Good
population in human society is the basic principle for peace, prosperity and
spiritual progress in life. The varnasrama religion's
principles were so designed that the good population would prevail in society
for the general spiritual progress of state and community. Such population
depends on the chastity and faithfulness of its womanhood. As children are very
prone to be misled, women are similarly very prone to degradation. Therefore,
both children and women require protection by the elder members of the family.
By being engaged in various religious practices, women will not be misled into
adultery. According to Canakya Pandita, women are generally not very
intelligent and therefore not trustworthy. So, the different family traditions
of religious activities should always engage them, and thus their chastity and
devotion will give birth to a good population eligible for participating in the varnasrama system.
On the failure of such varnasrama-dharma, naturally
the women become free to act and mix with men, and thus adultery is indulged in
at the risk of unwanted population. Irresponsible men also provoke adultery in
society, and thus unwanted children flood the human race at the risk of war and
pestilence.
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