Category:Desires of Women
Theme Analysis
The category regarding the desires of women offers a candid psychological and spiritual analysis of female nature within the context of Vedic sociology. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that in the material concept of life, the interaction between men and women is driven fundamentally by mutual lust and the desire for sense gratification. Women are described as having a natural, intense inclination for material security, including a good husband, children, and a home. However, the teachings do not stop at biological analysis; they provide a pathway for transcendence. By regulating these natural instincts through the institution of marriage and directing one's devotion toward the Supreme Lord rather than temporary material benefits, a woman can transform her life from one of entanglement to one of spiritual liberation.
- The Dynamics of Mutual Attraction: The material world operates on the attraction between male and female. This attraction is often rooted in illusion, where features like a man's strong arms—compared to serpents—incite lusty desires, leading to entanglement rather than genuine happiness.
- Natural Aspirations for Family: There is an inherent drive in women to seek security through a husband, progeny, and domestic prosperity. These desires are considered natural, yet without spiritual direction, they often lead to disappointment or broken hearts.
- The Intensity of Material Lust: The physiological and psychological makeup of women is described as having a stronger capacity for sexual desire, which necessitates social protection and early marriage to ensure these energies are properly engaged in a regulated family life.
- Spiritualizing Desire: The ultimate solution is not the suppression of desire but its purification. When a woman directs her natural devotion toward Kṛṣṇa, or desires a husband to raise God-conscious children, her activities become a source of liberation rather than bondage.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Spiritual Perspectives on the Natural Desires of Women.
Pages in category "Desires of Women"
The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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- A man should not desire to become a father and the woman should not desire to become a mother unless both of them have taken the vow that - I shall beget a child and stop his cycle of birth and death
- A woman is generally very much attracted by a man's long arms. A serpent's body is round & it becomes narrower and thinner at the end. The beautiful arms of a man appear to a woman just like serpents, and she very much desires to be embraced by such arms
- Any woman desires a child. So when she is married, it is supposed that she will get a child. But if she wants immediately child after being married, that is not possible. She must be patient, then in due course she will be pregnant and there will be child
- As both parties (a handsome man and a beautiful woman) move their eyebrows and glance at one another, their lusty desires increase more and more
- As husband & wife, a man & woman plan together to attain happiness & decrease unhappiness, working jointly in many ways, but because their activities are full of desires, these activities are never a source of happiness, and they never diminish distress
- As soon as a woman attains the age of puberty, she immediately becomes very much agitated by sexual desire. It is therefore the duty of the father to get his daughter married before she attains puberty
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- If a woman worships Your (Lord Kamadeva's) lotus feet for a particular purpose, You also quickly fulfill her desires, but in the end she becomes broken-hearted and laments. Therefore one need not worship Your lotus feet for some material benefit
- In Bengal even today if a woman lives for a long time with her husband, she is considered very fortunate. A woman generally desires a good husband, good children, a good home, prosperity, opulence and so on
- It is recommended that a woman desiring to advance in KC live peacefully with a husband & that the couple not separate under any condition. The husband & wife should control sex indulgence & concentrate their minds on KC so their life may be successful
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- Kardama Muni could understand Devahuti's heart; generally all women desire material enjoyment. They are called less intelligent because they are mostly prone to material enjoyment
- Krsna said, "If she (a woman) actually desires to be elevated to the higher planetary systems after leaving this body. Besides that, it is considered abominable in society if a woman is unfaithful and goes searching for another man"
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- When a man or woman is afflicted by the lust of sex desire, it is to be understood as sinful contamination
- Women as a class are very lusty, and apparently their continuous lusty desires are never satisfied
- Women in general are very much sexually inclined. Indeed, it is said that a woman's sex desire is nine times stronger than a man's
- Women means they are after fulfilling their material desires. They have no other idea, that there is Brahman, one should know Brahman... They do not care to know