Category:Attachment for Women
Theme Analysis
Attachment for women is repeatedly described by Śrīla Prabhupāda as one of the central forces binding the conditioned soul to material existence. The soul becomes entangled through attraction to bodily relationships, sensual enjoyment, prestige, wealth, and family expansion. Such attachment strengthens identification with the temporary body and keeps one within the cycle of birth and death. However, the same human relationships can become spiritualized when attachment is redirected toward Kṛṣṇa and devotional service. The quotations emphasize the danger of material attachment, the influence of bad association, and the necessity of cultivating higher spiritual attachment.
- Material Attachment Creates Bondage: Attachment for women expands into attachment for home, wealth, children, prestige, and bodily enjoyment, which binds the conditioned soul within saṁsāra.
- Association Influences Consciousness: Association with persons attached to women and material enjoyment contaminates consciousness and gradually leads one away from spiritual realization.
- False Renunciation Leads to Fall Down: Artificial renunciation without purification of the heart causes one to again become attracted to women and material activities.
- Spiritual Attachment Is the Real Solution: Real freedom is not achieved merely by repression, but by transferring attachment from material relationships to the loving service of Kṛṣṇa.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: How Attachment for Women Increases Material Bondage.
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Pages in category "Attachment for Women"
The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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- A man becomes attached to a woman because of her service, her beauty and many other assets, and similarly a woman becomes attached to a man for his giving her a nice place to live, ornaments, dress and children
- A man should not be attached to a woman, nor should a woman be attached to a man. Both man and woman should be attached to the service of the Lord
- Although many men take sannyasa to become liberated, because of their imperfections they again become attached to women, material activities, social welfare work and so on
- An intelligent person gives up the company of those who are attached to women and bereft of Krsna consciousness. One should be free from all kinds of material attachment and should take full shelter under the lotus feet of Krsna
- Anyone desiring to cross beyond material nescience must, by the grace of Krsna, be freed from attachment to women and money
- Asat is one who is too materially attached, who is not a devotee of the Lord and who is too attached to women or enjoyable material things. Such a person, according to Vaiṣṇava philosophy, is a persona non grata
- Attachment to women is so contaminating that one becomes attached to the condition of material life not only by the association of women but by the contaminated association of persons who are too attached to them
- Austerity, cleanliness, mercy and truthfulness, became curtailed by proportionate development of pride, attachment for women and intoxication
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- If an unfit person sentimentally accepts vairagya or takes sannyasa but at the same time remains attached to women, he is in a very dangerous position. His renunciation is called markata-vairagya, or renunciation like that of a monkey
- If one wants to go to the darkest regions of material existence, one may continue to associate with persons who are attached to women (yositam sangi-sangam). The word yosit means "woman." Persons who are too materialistic are attached to women
- In this verse (SB 9.10.11) the words stri-sanginam gatim iti indicate that the condition of a person attached to women was shown by the Lord Himself
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- Lord Ramacandra manifested the truth both spiritually & materially. Materially those who are attached to women suffer, but spiritually when there are feelings of separation between the Lord & His pleasure potency the spiritual bliss of the Lord increases
- Lord Ramacandra wandered in the forest with His brother Laksmana as if very much distressed due to separation from His wife. Thus He showed by His personal example the condition of a person attached to women
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- Since these two persons (Nalakuvara and Manigriva) have been blinded by the pride of celestial opulence and have become attached to women, I (Narada Muni) shall relieve them of their false prestige
- Sometimes fruitive workers, dry philosophers, nondevotees, mystic yogis and persons attached to material opulence, women and money are considered mahajanas. But Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 6.3.25) gives a statement about such unauthorized mahajanas
- Sukadeva Gosvami said: O Pariksit, Yayati was very much attached to woman. In due course of time, however, when disgusted with sexual enjoyment and its bad effects, he renounced this way of life and narrated the following story to his beloved wife
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- The body of a man should not be misused through forming an attachment to women and thus becoming too entangled in material enjoyment, which will result in getting the body of a woman in the next life
- The dream of material life is the cause of bondage in the cycle of birth and death, and therefore one should give up this dream. Consequently, in the human form of life one's attachment for his wife should be given up
- The gopis continued, "A person attached to the wives of others is interested in them as long as there is a need of sense gratification, just as bumblebees have interest in flowers as long as they want to take the honey out of them"
- The prakrta-sahajiyas generally chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, yet they are attached to women, money and intoxication
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- We must remember that false pride, or too high an estimation of one's own values of life, undue attachment to women or association with them, and intoxication will divert human civilization from the path of peace however much the people clamor for peace
- Whether in the forest or at home, if one is attached to women this attachment is always troublesome, as shown by the Supreme Personality of Godhead by His personal example
- With the progression of the age of Kali, people are becoming very proud, and attached to women and intoxication