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* '''The Spiritual Power of a Chaste Wife:''' The faithful devotion of a chaste woman generates extraordinary spiritual power, as demonstrated by Vedic histories where chaste wives stopped the sun from rising or revived their dead husbands. | * '''The Spiritual Power of a Chaste Wife:''' The faithful devotion of a chaste woman generates extraordinary spiritual power, as demonstrated by Vedic histories where chaste wives stopped the sun from rising or revived their dead husbands. | ||
* '''The Path to Spiritual Perfection:''' When a husband becomes a pure Vaiṣṇava and his wife remains a chaste and devoted follower, they both experience happiness in this life and ultimately return home, back to Godhead together. | * '''The Path to Spiritual Perfection:''' When a husband becomes a pure Vaiṣṇava and his wife remains a chaste and devoted follower, they both experience happiness in this life and ultimately return home, back to Godhead together. | ||
* Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Women and Chastity, As Well As Their Combined Devotional Power|Women and Chastity, As Well As Their Combined Devotional Power.]] | * Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Women and Chastity, As Well As Their Combined Devotional Power|Women and Chastity, As Well As Their Combined Devotional Power.]] | ||
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Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category highlights the supreme importance of chastity and devotion as the fundamental duties of a woman in Vedic society. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that a chaste wife is not merely faithful to her husband; she views him as a representative of the Supreme Lord and serves him with utmost devotion and without duplicity. This chastity protects the fabric of human society by ensuring the birth of good, qualified children (varṇa-saṅkara is avoided). Furthermore, the spiritual power of a chaste woman is immense, capable of performing miraculous feats, as seen in the histories of Sāvitrī and the leper brāhmaṇa's wife. Ultimately, just as mother Lakṣmī is eternally chaste to Lord Viṣṇu, a woman who perfectly executes her duty of chastity and devotional service alongside a Vaiṣṇava husband attains the supreme destination of Vaikuṇṭha.
- The Definition of Chastity: A chaste woman remains entirely faithful to her husband, serving him without duplicity and accepting him as her master, following the ideal example of the goddess of fortune, mother Lakṣmī.
- Protection of Society and Progeny: The chastity of women is the bedrock of a peaceful society. By remaining chaste and protected, women ensure the birth of a good, religious population, preventing the rise of unwanted, degraded children (varṇa-saṅkara).
- The Spiritual Power of a Chaste Wife: The faithful devotion of a chaste woman generates extraordinary spiritual power, as demonstrated by Vedic histories where chaste wives stopped the sun from rising or revived their dead husbands.
- The Path to Spiritual Perfection: When a husband becomes a pure Vaiṣṇava and his wife remains a chaste and devoted follower, they both experience happiness in this life and ultimately return home, back to Godhead together.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Women and Chastity, As Well As Their Combined Devotional Power.
Pages in category "Women and Chastity"
The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total.
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- A chaste wife is one who never had any connection with men before her marriage. Once a woman is given the freedom to mingle with all kinds of men in her youth, it is very difficult for her to keep chaste. She generally cannot remain chaste
- A chaste woman should not be greedy, but satisfied in all circumstances. She must be very expert in handling household affairs and should be fully conversant with religious principles
- A conscientious wife should be chaste and should abide by the orders of her husband. She should very devoutly worship her husband as a representative of Vasudeva
- A loving, chaste wife and loving husband desire all welfare for each other in separation and do not care for personal happiness. Desiring only each other's well-being, such a pair certainly meet again without delay
- A man should be trained to be a first-class devotee of Lord Krsna, and a woman should be trained to be a very chaste follower of her husband. That will make the lives of both of them happy
- According to Manu-samhita, a woman needs a great deal of protection in order to remain pure and chaste so that her children can be fully engaged for the benefit of human society
- Actually such a wife (a chaste wife, accepted through a religious marriage ritual) become the source of all good intelligence
- After the period of brahmacarya, a man accepts a householder's life, and the woman is also taught by her parents to be a chaste wife
- Although chaste women may follow the rules and regulations of Vedic principles to become ever faithful to their husbands, Krsna is able to break their stonelike chastity with the chisel of His beauty
- As chaste women bring their gentle husbands under control by service, the pure devotees, who are equal to everyone and completely attached to Me in the core of the heart, bring Me under their full control
B
- Because of her chastity, the woman was very powerful. Therefore when she heard about the curse (Markandeya Rsi, who cursed her husband to die at sunrise) , she vowed to stop the sunrise
- Because of the bad qualities of the age of Kali, human beings will become shortsighted, unfortunate, gluttonous, lustful and poverty-stricken. The women, becoming unchaste, will freely wander from one man to the next
- Being the wives of great personalities like Prthu, Lord Ramacandra and Dhrtarastra, these (Arci, Sita and Gandhari) were ideal chaste women
E
- Even if he is not of very good character, or even if he is not very rich or fortunate, or even if he is old or invalid on account of continued diseases, whatever her husband's condition, a woman should not divorce her husband
- Even today there are still some solitary cases where a wife will voluntarily enter the fire and die with her husband. Even after 1940 we personally knew of a chaste wife who died in this way
I
- If a chaste woman unfortunately marries a husband who is fallen, she should live separately from him. Similarly, a husband can separate himself from a woman who is not chaste according to the description of the sastra
- If a chaste woman's husband is fallen, it is recommended that she give up his association. Giving up the association of her husband does not mean, however, that a woman should marry again and thus indulge in prostitution
- If women do not remain chaste, then unwanted population will come out. That is called varna-sankarah
- In India, to the woman, in order to become very chaste and devoted to husband, they observe the ritualistic ceremony to worship Savitri-Satyavan
- It is understandable that a chaste woman wants to associate with her husband in all his different dresses. Therefore one should not criticize Laksmi for wanting to associate with Krsna
O
- One gopi said, "We are losing our senses in deciding whether we shall continue as chaste women or be victimized by the beauty of Krsna. My dear friend, I think that we have lost all hope of life!"
- Our consciousness at the time of death determines our next life. That is one reason why the Vedic scriptures stress the chastity of women - CC Intro
R
- Ravana was condemned not only by Lord Ramacandra but even by his own wife, Mandodari. Because she was a chaste woman, she knew the power of another chaste woman, especially such a wife as mother Sitadevi
- Regarding Krsna's attractive features being ever fresh, there is a statement by Radharani in the Lalita-madhava in which Krsna is compared to the greatest sculptor, because He is expert in chiseling at the chastity of women
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- She (Kunti) got Maharaja Yudhisthira from Dharmaraja, Arjuna from Indra, and Bhima from Varuna, Vayu, yes. Similarly, still she is one of the chaste women. These things are there. But still, they are not polluted
- She (the chaste wife of a brahmana) stopped the movement of the sun, brought her dead husband back to life and satisfied the three principal demigods (Brahma, Visnu and Mahesvara)
- Srimati Sitadevi is the mother of the three worlds and the wife of Lord Ramacandra. Among chaste women she is supreme, and she is the daughter of King Janaka
- Sudras and women who are chaste and sincerely interested in understanding the Absolute Truth are qualified to be initiated with the pancaratrika-mantras
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- The chastity of women is specifically stressed herein by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore this principle should be followed by any serious woman who wants to be elevated to a higher status of life
- The conclusion is that a husband should be a pure Vaisnava and that a woman should be a chaste wife with all the symptoms described in this regard. Then both of them will be happy and make spiritual progress in Krsna consciousness
- The destination of godless atheists such as Ravana, Hiranyakasipu, Kamsa and Dantavakra is a hellish condition of life. Mandodari, the wife of Ravana, could understand all this because she was a chaste woman
- The different family traditions of religious activities should always engage them (women), and thus their chastity and devotion will give birth to a good population eligible for participating in the varnasrama system. BG 1972 purports
- The faithfulness of the goddess of fortune is the ideal for a chaste woman. The Brahma-samhita (BS 5.38) says, laksmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama-sevyamanam
- The four principles to be followed by women described as chaste
- The grocer heard the whole story, and his mind became changed - Oh, such a chaste woman. Such a faithful . . . she . . . you are my mother. You take more ingredients, grains. As much as you like
- The protection of women maintains the chastity of society, by which we can get a good generation for peace, tranquillity and progress of life
- The psychology is the girl, after first menstruation, she enjoys sex life with a boy, she will never forget that boy. Her love for that boy is fixed for good. This is woman's psychology. And she is allowed to have many, oh, she will never be chaste woman
- The wife of a brahmana suffering from leprosy manifested herself as the topmost of all chaste women by serving a prostitute to satisfy her husband
- The woman who engages in the service of her husband, following strictly in the footsteps of the goddess of fortune, surely returns home, back to Godhead, with her devotee husband, and lives very happily in the Vaikuntha planets
- There is a very nice story. Nice story not, a fact. Savitri-Satyavan. This, incidences are mentioned in the sastras to give us lesson. Savitri was a very chaste, devoted woman
- There must be good population. So to have good population, the women should be very chaste
- This chaste girl would not allow the husband's body to go away. Then Yamaraja told, "It is my duty that I should take. You give it up. Otherwise, you'll be also punished." So she gave and she was following Yamaraja. So Yamaraja became compassionate
- This entering of a chaste lady into the fire of her dead husband is called the sati rite, and the action is considered to be most perfect for a woman
- To insult a chaste woman means to bring about disaster in the duration of life. Duhsasana, a brother of Duryodhana, insulted Draupadi, an ideal chaste lady, and therefore the miscreants died untimely
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- When she (Sukanya) explained that her husband, Cyavana Muni, had now been transformed into a young man, she was very proud of her chastity, and thus she smiled as she talked with her father - King Saryati
- When that leper, the sinful son of a brahmana, saw the chastity of his wife, he finally abandoned his sinful intentions. While coming home, however, he touched the body of Markandeya Rsi, who thus cursed him to die at sunrise
- When women become polluted, no fixed-up husband - that is pollution for a woman; no chaste, no chastity - then this varna-sankara will come out
- Whenever we find a description of ideal chaste women, mother Sita is among them. Mandodari, the wife of Ravana, was also very chaste. Similarly, Draupadi was one of five exalted chaste women
- While outside observing her husband, who will burn in the fire of mystic power along with his thatched cottage, his chaste wife will enter the fire with rapt attention