Martanda vairagya - about woman

By editor - 30.4 2021

MARTANDA

Jiva Gosvami

NIYATE TAD VRTHA YENA PRAMADA SUMAHAN AHO

           (Vairagya Martanda 3/273)

      A  moment wasted in ones duration of life  cannot  be  returned  even in exchange for an unlimited volume  of  gold.  Sorry  to those who waste this valuable life.  Such  persons  are  considered madmen.

  

 

    IHAMUTRA SUKHA PREKSUH PUJAYET SATATAM HARIM IHAMUTRA SUKHAPREKSUH PARANINDA PARO BHAVET

         

           (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 3/298)

    "One  who desire happiness in this world and in the  next  (the spiritual  world)  should  always  worship the Supreme  Personality of Godhead, Lord Hari. If someone criticizes  others,  including his superiors, it means he actually wants to suffer  in  this world and in the next (material world).

                

    AJNANA VAIBHAVADEVA DUKHAM APNOTI MANAVAH TAD AJNANA NIVRTTAV TU PRAPNOTI SUKHAM UTTAMAM

           (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 4/62)

    A  person  influenced by  ignorance  experiences  extreme  misery, but when he becomes free from ignorance, he achieves  the  topmost happiness."

 

AJNANASYA NIVRTTIS TU JNANAD EVA NA KARMANA JNANAM NAMA PARAM BRAHMA JNANAM VEDANTA VAKYAJAM

            (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 4/63)

 

    One  is  freed from ignorance by knowlege, not  by  other  processes.  Real knowlege, which is nondifferent from the Supreme  Person, is achieved by hearing or realizing Vedic instuctions.

TAD JNANA CA VIRAKTASYA JAYATE NETARASYA HI MUKHYADHIKARINAH STUTYAM ACARYASYA PRASADATAH

          

  (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 4 /64)

 

    An  ideal  person attains this knowlege from  the  acarya  (spiritual master).  It is true that a materially detached person  can attain this knowlege.    

 

YADA SARVE PRAMUCYANTE KAMA YASYA HRDI-STHITAH TADA MARTYO' MRTO'TRAIVA PARAM BRAHMA SAMASNUTE

           (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 4/65)

    When all kinds of  desires for material sense  gratification  are  irradicated from the heart of  a  person,  he  becomes liberated, even while alive, and he  realizes the Supreme  Personality of Godhead, the source of brahman.

 

VISAYASI VISASANGA PARI JARJARA CETASAM

APRAUDHA ATMA VIVEKANAM AYUR AYASA KARANAM

       (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/2)

    The  life of a person whose mind is always bitten by  the  snake of material sense gratification, and who is bereft of  pure  self realization, is always miserable.

 

TARAVO'PI HI JIVANTI JIVANTI MRGA PAKSINAH SA JIVATI MANO YASYA MANANENA NA JIVATI       

(VAIRAGYA MARTYANDA 5/8)

      Unlike the trees, deer (other  animals) and birds  who are all living, the life of a human being is successful  only  if he uses it to realize the Absolute Truth..

 

JATASYA EVA JAGATI JANTAVAH SADHU JIVITAH YE PUNARNAHA JAYANTE SESA JARATHA GARDABHAH

       (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/9)

    The only people who are glorified (by learned persons) as  successful  in  this world are those who will not  have  to  take  another  birth.The lives of everyone else are  condemned  like  that of a  donkey.

BARO' VIVEKINAH SASTRAM BHARO JNANAM CARAGINAH ASANTASYA MANO BHARO BHARO'NATMA VIDO VADUH

            (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/10))

    To those unintelligent people who consider the body to be  the self, the study of Vedic scriptural knowlege is a burden. For  people  who are engaged in and attached to  sense  gratification,  true knowledge becomes a burden.  Those who are not at peace with  themselves,  their mind is a burden. Those who  have  transcended  the mental platform, their body becomes a burden.

 

SARVA JATIR EKA VIDHA CA ADAU SRSTA CA BRAHMANA TA SARVAH PRAKRTER ANSA PAVITRAH PANDITADHIKAH

            (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/13)

 

    In  the beginning of creation, Lord Brahma  created  only  one  catagory  of  woman. They  were  all  very  high  quality,  intelligent, pure women who appeared naturally from him who  were  as ???????of nature. 

KEDARA KANYA SAPENA SA HI DHARMAH KSAYAM GATAH TADA KOPENA DHATRA CA KRTYA STRI CA VINIRMITA

          (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/14)                     

    When  the  daughter of Kedara, Sri Vrndadevi  cursed,  at  that  time the real, natural occupation was destroyed,  then  the  angry  Brahma created a kind of woman named krtya.

 

 

    KRTYA STRI TRIVIDHA JATIR BRAHMANA NIRMITA PURA UTTAMA PRATHAMA SA CA MADHYAMA CA ADHAMA VRAJA

             (VIARAGYA MARTANDA 5/15)

 

    That  krtya  woman  was  previously  divided  into  three  catagories  by Brahma --the topmost quality, the  medium  quality  and the lowest quality. 

 

    UTTAMA PATI BHAKTA SA KINCIT DHARMA SAMANVITA PRANANTE'PI NA KURUTE TAM JARAM AYASAH KARAM

           (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/16)

      The  highest quality woman is minutely  religious  (spiritually inclined)  and devoted to her husband. Even  at  the  cost  of  her  life,  she does not  accept  a  paramore  and  the  defamation it would bring.

GURUNA RAKSITA YATNAD JARAM CA NA BHAJED BHAYAT SA KRTRIMA MADHYAMA CA YATHA KINCIT PATIM BHAJET

           (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/18)

 

    Any  woman,  due  to being  carefully  protected  by  her  elders  (husband, father, etc.), and who,  due to fear, does  not  accept a paramore and somehow respects her husband is said to  be  a middle class woman.

 

ADHAMA PARAMA DUSTA ATYANTA'SAD VAMSAJA TATHA ADHARMA SILA DUHSILA DURMUKHA KALAHAN VITA

         (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/20)

    A  low  born woman who possesses  bad  character  and  is  irreligious,  hard  natured, hard speaking, and  quarrelsome,  is  said to be of the lowest quality.

 

PATIM BHATSARYATE NITYAM JARAM CA SEVATE SADA DUHKHAM DADATI KANTAYA VISA TULYAM CA PASYATI

           (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/21)

    She  always  serves  her  paramore  but  criticizes and  chastises her own husband. She considers him (her husband) to  be like  poison,  and  thus causes him to suffer  various  kinds  of  miseries.

UKTA PRATI UTTARAM DADYAD YA NARI KRODHA TATPARA SARAMA JAYATE GRAME SRGALI NIRJANE VANE

          (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/35)

    Any  woman who angerly counter-argues with  her  husband,  becomes  a  bitch in a village, or a female jackle  in  a  lonely  forest in her next life.

YA BHARTARAM PARITYAJYA RAHASCARATI DURMATIH   ULUKI JAYATE KRURA VRKSA KOTARA SAYANI

         (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/36)

 

    Any  woman, with dirty intelligence, who, unknown to  her  husband,  enjoys a paramore, she becomes an owl in her next  life  and lives in the hole of a tree.

 

YOSITA JARA SAKTANAM NARAKE YAMA NINKARAH SANTAPTA LOHA PARIGHAM KSIPANTI SMARA MANDIRE

           (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 5/41)

 

    Any  woman, while hiding from her husband,  looks  toward  other men, or enjoys them, she is taken to the hellish planets by  the  messengers  of Yamaraja and a burning red hot iron  club  is  place on her genital.

 

ANRTAM SAHASAM MAYA MURKHATVAM ATI LOBHATA ASAUCATVAM NIRDAYATVAM STRINAM DOSA SVABHAVAJA

          (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/19)

    Canakya Pandit says:

    Lying,  daringness, illusion,  foolishness,  extrordinary  greediness, uncleanliness and cruelty are the original nature  of  a woman, therefore, a wise person should not trust them.

 

STRINAM NAIVA TU VISVASAM DUSTANAM KARAYED BUDHAH VISVASE YAH STHITO MUDHAH SA DUHKHAIH PARIBHUYATE

 

           (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/20)

 

    A  foolish  person who trusts a  woman,  suffers  various  miseries throughout his life, therefore a wise person should  not  trust a cruel woman.

 

PITA RAKSATI KAUMARE BHARTA RAKSATI YAUVANE PUTRAS CA STHAVIRE BHAVE NA STRI SVATANTRYAM ARHATI

           (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/40)

 

    (This is spoken by Uma, the wife of Lord Siva, to  Narada  Muni).

    Women should be protected in her childhood by her father,  in  her youth by her husband and in her old age by her  grown  up  sons because women are unqualified to live independently. 

STRINAM NIRIKSANAM SPARSA BHASANAM KRIDANADI CA VARJAYET SARVATHA VARNI STRIYAS CA'PI AVALEKHANAM

          (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA  6/71)

    (This  is  spoken  by Lord Narayana)  Looking  at  women,  touching  them, speaking with them, and playing with them  should  always be given up.  One should not even look at the painting  or  picture of a woman.

 

JALUKEVA SADA NARI RUDHIRAM PIVATITI VAI MURKHAS TU NA VIJANATI MOHITO BHAVA CESTITAIH

          (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/94)

 

    "Certainly  a woman is like a leech because she  always sucks  the  blood  of man, but a foolish man,  due  to  illusion,  cannot understand that her thoughts and activities are dirty.

BHOGAI VIRYAM DHANAM PURNAM MANAH KUTILA BHASANAIH KANTA HARATI SARVASVAM KAH TENAS TADRSO'PARAH

          VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/95 )

    A woman, by physical enjoyment with a man, sucks all  his  seman  and  usurps  all of his wealth.  And  by  cheating words  (lying), she attracts his complete mind.  Thus who can be worst than her? 

VIHAYA SVA KALATRAN CA YO GRHNATI PARA STRIYAM LOBHAT KAMA SUKHAD VAPI SO'DHAMO NA ATREA SAMSAYAH

           (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/101)

 

    (Lord Narayana says)

    Any man who leaves his own wife due to greed or lust, and  thus enjoys or accepts another's wife, is undoubtedly degraded. 

 

PATAYITVA SA CA PATED DASA PURVAN DASA PARAN TYAKTVA SVA SVAMINAM YA CA PARAM GACCHATI KAMATAH

           (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/102)

 

    Along with his previous ten and future ten generations of  family  members, he goes to hell.  Similarly, if a woman, due  to  lust,  accepts another man after giving up her own  husband,  she  also achieves this same result.

PARASTRISU KRTAH SANGA PRITAYE DUHKHADO HI SAH MUHURTA VISAYASVADO JATO'NEKAVDA DUHKHADAH

      (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/103)

    (This is spoken by the messengers of Dharmaraja)

    For  sense gratification, the association  with  anothers  wife may seem pleasurable for a moment, but this moment of  sense  pleasure  will cause misery for many many years.

 

PATIVRATANAM GAMANE VALAT KARENA NISCITAM MATRGAMI BHAVET SADYO BRAHMA HATYA SATAM BHAVET

          (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/106)

    (This is spoken by Vrndadevi)

    Anyone  who  forcibly  breaks the chastity  of  a  chaste  woman,  is  called the enjoyer of his own mother. He  becomes  as  sinful as the killer of one hundred brahmanas.

 

KO DHARMAH KIM YASAS TESAM KA PRATISTHA CA KIM TAPAH KIM BUDDHIR VIDYA DANAM CA PARASTRISU YAN MANAH PARASTRISU MANO YESAM SARVAM CA NISPHALAM

        (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/110-111)

    (Spoken by Ahilya, the wife of Gautama Rsi)

    If  a person's mind becomes  attached to another's  wife,  his religiousity,  fame,  respect, austerity, intelligence,  education, and charitable nature, all become useless.

 

NA HI DRSAM ANAYUSYAM LOKE KINCANA VIDYATE YADRSA PURUSASYEHA PARA DARA ABHI MARSANAM

       (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/112)

 

    For a man there is nothing that will destroy his duration  of  life more quickly than the physical association of  another's  wife (illicit sex).

 

YAVANTO ROMA KUPAH SYAH STRINAM SATRESU NIRMITAH TAVAD VARSA SAHASRANI NARAKAM PARYUPASATE

        (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 6/115)

    If a man engages in illicit sex with some woman, he  must  go to a ferocious hell and suffer for as many thousands of  years  as that woman has skin holes on her body.

 

NA SAMBHASET STRIYAM

KAMCITPURVA DRSTAM CA NA SMARET

KATHAM CA VARJAYET TASAM

NA PASYET LIKHITAM API

 ETAC CATUSTAYAM MOHAT

STRINAM ACARATO YATEH

CITTAM VIKRIYATE'VASYAM

TAD VIKARAT PRANASYATI

  (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 11/65,66)

 

    (Lord Brahma said)

    Any  man  who desires to attain the ultimate  benefit  of  life (liberation)  should never speak to a  woman; he  should  never  remember a woman who he had previously known; he  should  never  look at the picture of a woman; and he should  never  talk  about  women  to  others, because any  of  these  activities  can  disturb  his mind and cause him to fall down from the pure  yogic  platform.

 

URO MUKHAM STANAM STRINAM KATAKSAM HASYAM EVA CA VINASA BIJAM RUPAM CA VIPADAM KARANAM SADA

        (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/37)

    (Lord Sri Krsna said)

    One should not look at the waist, face, breasts, eyes and  smile  of a woman because they are all seeds of  ones  ruination. The very form is always the cause of miseries.

 

ANGARA SADRSI NARI GHRTA KUMBHA SAMAH PUMAN ASPARSAD DRDHATAMETI TAT SAMPARKAD VILIYATE

       (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/42)

 

    The woman is like fire, and the man is like a pot of ghee  (butter).  Due to the absence of fire, ghee remains hard, and  in  its presence,  ghee becomes liquified.  Similarly, a man who does  not associate with  women remains fit (for self realization), but  in her association becomes disturbed with lust.

 

JALPANTI SARDHAM ANYENA PASYANTI ANYAM SAVIBHRAMAH HRDAYE CINTAYANTI ANYAM PRIYAH KO NAMA YOSITAH

         (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/107)

    A  woman talks to one person, looks at someone else  with  lusty eyes, and in her mind, she thinks lustfully of even another  person.  Who can actually be very dear to a woman?

 

KANTA KATAKSA VISIKHA NA LUNANTI YASYA

CITTAM NA NIRDAHATI KOPA KRSANUTAPAH

KARSANTI BHURI VISAYAS CA NALOBHA PASAIR LOKATRAYA JAYATI KRTSNAM IDAM SA DHIRAH

       (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/114)

    Anyone  whose  mind  is not disturbed  by  the  beautiful  eyebrows  and eyes of a woman; whoever's heart does not  burn  by  the  heat of anger; whoever is not tied with the rope  of  greed;  whoever  does  not feel misery when  sense  gratification  enters  within  the mind; such a sober and steady personality  wins  over

the three worlds.

MAITHUNASYA PARITYAGO BRAHMACARYAM TAD ASTADHA SMARANAM KIRTANAM KELI PREKSANAM GUHYA BHASANAM  SANKALPO'DHYA VASAYAS CA KRIYA NIVRTTIR EVA CA ETAD MAITHUNAM ASTANGAM PRAVDANTI MANISINAH

        (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/144-145)

    To  be  celibate, one should give up eight kinds  of  sex  indulgence. Remembering the woman, talking about  her,  playing  with  her,  looking at her again and again,  engaging  in  secret  talks  to others about women, making plans to be with her,  being  determined  to  get  her, and engaging  in physical  enjoyment. These  are  the eight limbs of sexlife explained by  the  learned  personalities.

 

NARI MAMA GRHAM DEVA SADA TATRA VASAMY AHAM ATRASTHAH PURUSAN SARVAN MARYAMI NA SAMSAYAH

      (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/151)

    (Cupid said)

    The  body of a woman is my house.  I always live  in  it. Living there, I destroy the consciousness of every man.  Of  this  there is no doubt.

SA YENA VIJITO LOKE HARI BHAKTAH SA UCYATE MADYANTI MUNAYO'PI ATRA NARI CARITA LOLUPAH

      (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/159)

    

    Whosoever  has overcome her (a woman) within this  world,  is claimed to be a devotee of Lord Visnu. Because even the  great  sages become attracted and maddened by the character of a woman. 

 

PASYED GOVINDA PADABJE MANO VAI RAMAYED BUDHAH IHA MUTRA SUKHAM TADDHI GOVINDA PADA SEVANAM  VIHAYA KO MAHA MUDHO NARI PADAM HI SEVATE  JANARDANANGHRI SEVA HI HY APUNARBHAVA DAYINI

   

       (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/180-181)

    A  wise man should engage his mind at the lotus  feet  of  the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, because they are the  solace for everyone in this world and in the next (the  spiritual  world).  Who is that foolish person who will  give up the service  to  the lotus feet of Govinda, to serve the feet of a woman? By  the  worship  of the lotus feet of Lord  Janardana,  one  becomes  free from the cycle of repeated birth and death.

 

 TASYA MATA MAHABHAGA PITA TASYA MAHA KRTI JANARDANA PADA DVANDVAM HRDAYE YENA DHARYATE

      (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/192)

    His  mother is greatly fortunate; his father is  a  great  spiritualist who has kept the two lotus feet of Lord Janardana in  his heart. UNCLEAR

 

RAKSA RAKSA HARE MAM CA NIMAGNAM KAMA SAGARE DUSKIRTI JALA PURNAM CA DUSPARE BAHU SANKARE

      (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA  12/200)

 

    Oh Lord Hari, I'm drowning in the ocean of lust. Please  save me, O Lord from this dangerous struggle  This ocean is  full  of infamy and is  very difficult to cross.

 

PRATHAM AMRTARUPE CA PARINAMA VISALAYE YAMNALAYA PRADESAYA MUKTI DVARATI VISMRTE

        (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/203)

 

    It [lust] is nectarean in the beginning but in the end is  like  poison  and  takes one to the house  of  Yamaraja  (hellish  planets) and it makes one forget the gate of liberation.

 

BUDHYA TARANYA VIJNANAIR UDDHARAD'SMAKA MANATAH SVAYAM CA TVAM KARNADHARAH PRASIDA MADHUSUDANAH

       (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/204)

 

    Oh  Madhusudana, please be pleased upon me.  Oh Lord,  as  the  boatman of my intelligence, give me realized knowledge,  and  deliver me from this world. 

 

HE NATHA KARUNASINDHO DINABANDHO KRPAM KURU TVAM MAHESA MAHAJNATA DUHSVAPNAM MAM NA DARSAYA

         (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 12/205)

    Oh  Lord,  Oh  ocean of mercy, Oh  friend  of  the  grief  stricken,  Oh  Lord  of  lords, Oh  omniscient  one, please  be  merciful upon me and please do not show me dirty dreams.

 

YASO YASASVINAM SUDDHAM SLAGHYA YE GUNIMAM GUNA LOBHAH SVALPO'PI TAN HANTI SVITRO RUPAM IVEPSITAM

         (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 13/20)

 

    As  a  little spot of leprocy  contaminates  a  beautiful  body,  similarly,  a  small amount of  greed  destroys  a  famous  person's fame and a qualified person's good qualities.

           

KINCID EVA MAMATVENA YADA BHAVATI KALPITAM TADEVA PARITAPAYA NASO SAMPADYATE PUNAH

      (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 13/34)

    It  does  not matter what it is.  When  somebody  obtains  something  and becomes attached to it, if it is taken  away  from  him, it becomes the cause of great distress.

 

 

SVARGAPAVARGAM YORDVARAMPRAPYA LOKAM IMAM PUMAN DRAVINE KO'NUSAJJETA MARTYO'NARTHASYA DHAMANI

         (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 13/45)

    This  human  form of life is a gateway to  liberation  to  heaven. Even after receiving such a form, who is that wise  man  who will spend this uselessly in collecting wealth?  

 

TRSNA VISUCIKA MANTRAS CINTA TYAGO HI KATHYATE STOKENA ANANDAM AYATI STOKENAYATI KHEDATAM

 

         (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 14/13)

    Giving  up  thinking  about sense  gratification  is  the  mantra  to  remove  the cholora of  hankering. Giving  up  this  thought is the root of happiness and thinking of this (visaya) is  the root of unhappiness.

 

ASANIRGUNA SASYANAM PHALITA SARADAPADAM HIMAM SAMVIT SAROJANAM TAMASAM DIRGHA YAMINI VYAVAHARABDHI LAHARI MOHA MATANGA SRNKHALA SARGANYA GRODHA SULATA DUHKHA KAIRAVA CANDRIKA

       (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 14/19-20)

    Material  hankering  is like a thunderbolt to  the  green  vegetation  like  good qualities of a person.  It is just like  a  winter  season  which  increases the miseries  of  a  person  and  destroys  the fields of vegetation.  This hankering is also  like  hail which falls on the lotus flower and destroys it.  It is just  like great  ignorance of the long night of the winter season.  It  is  a  shackle to tie a maddened elephant of illusion.  It  is  a  vine  climbing on the banyan tree of this creation.  It  is  like

the moon of a blossoming  lily flower of distress.  UNCLEAR

JARA MARANA DUHKHANAM EKA RATNA SAMUDGIKA ADHI VYADHI VILASANAM NITYAM MATTAVILASINI

       (VAIRAGYA MARTANDA 14/21)

    Not  only this, it (hankering) is just like a  box  which  accumulates  the  ornaments  of  wealth of  old  age,  death  and  distress. It is the enjoyment of a maddened female elephant  of  distress and anxiety. 

 

 

TATHA SNANAM PRAKURVANTAM SAMIT PUSPA HARAM TATHA UDAPATRA DHARANCAIVA BHUNJANTAM NA ABHIVADAYET

(BRHANNRADIYA PURANA-Good character chapter) 

    At  the  time  a  Vaisnava is engaged  in  the  following  activities,  one should not offer him his respectful  obeisances:  taking  bath,  collecting wood for  sacrifice,  picking  flowers,  carrying a water pot, and eating.

 

 WRITE  THE  VERSE  FROM SRIMAD  BHAGAVATAM  11:20:17  WITH  IT'S  TRANSLATION