Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana Book 10 Chapter 60:47-55

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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 60: Verses 47-55


(when you ask me to choose another partner even now,) o sleyer of the demon Madhu, I do not regard your words as without meaning; for sometimes, surely, enough, there are girls who like Amba [1](the daughter of the celebrated king of kasi), cherish love for somebody else (than the one by whom they have be won). The mind of a woman of easy virtue, though married, is always attracted towards a new person. A wise man should not (therefore) maintain such an unchaste woman; for by doing so he falls both here and hereafter. The glorious Lord replied:O virtuous lady ! it was with intent to hear you speak in this strain, O princess, O princess, that you were subject to a joke by me. In fact, interpretation you have put on my words is wholly and literally true. Whatever blessing you seek from Me are undoubtedly ever possessed by you, who are solely devoted to me, O blessed one ! And blessings from Me lead to freedom from desires, i.e., Liberation. O faultless one, I have come to know your love and fidelity to me .
For, though I tried to shake you by My words.your mind could not be estranged from me. They who propitiate Me, the bestower of Liberation, for conjugal pleasure through austerities and vows have given their heart to sensuous enjoyments and are deluded by Maya. Having obtained (propitiated) Me, the source and Bestower of Liberation, as well as of worldly riches, O proud lady, they who seek after the latter only are unfortunate (as a matter of fact), inasmuch as these can be obtained even in the lowest species of life (which are compared with hell) .To such men (however) whose mind is given to the pleasures of sense (even) hell appears to be a pleasant resort. Well it is, O mistress of my household, that you have practised constant devotion to me, which rids one of worldly bondage, and which is (so) very hard to practise for the wicked and more so for a decitful woman reeking with unclean desires and given to sense-gratification only.In the whole of my household I do not see a house-wife affectioate like yourself, O proud lady, who, ignoring all the kings assembled on the occasion of our marriage, sent a Brahmana carrying a confidential message to me, of whom you had (only) heard good accounts (and whom you have never personally known).

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References

  1. ↑ We are told in the Mahabharata how the three daughters of the then king of kasi were conquered in an open contest by Bhisma for the sake of his cousins. Citrangada and Vicitravirya. and how Amba. the eldest of them, who had set her heart upon Salva. was. when she opened her mind before Bhisma. allowed by the latter to seek the company of Salva.

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