Not very intelligent

Expressions researched:
"not very intelligent"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 1 - 6

According to Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, women are generally not very intelligent and therefore not trustworthy.

BG 1.40, Purport: 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 Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, 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 varṇāśrama system. On the failure of such varṇāśrama-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.