gateway to hell for man
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Imported quote 14323 Human life is meant for self-realization. First of all one has to realize his own self, which is described in this verse as nijam. Then he has to understand or realize the Supersoul or Paramatma, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. However, when one becomes too much materially attached, he takes a woman to be everything. This is the basic principle of material attachment. In such a condition, one cannot realize his own self or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In Srimad-Bhagavatam it is therefore said: mahat-sevam dvaram ahur vimuktes tamo-dvaram yositam sahgi-sahgam (Bhag. 5.5.2). If one associates with mahatmas, or devotees, his path of liberation is opened. But if one becomes too much attached to women or to persons who are also attached to women-that is, attached to women directly or indirectly-he opens the tamo-dvaram, the door to the darkest region of hellish life.
(More...) Not only is woman the gateway to hell for man, but man is also the gateway to hell for woman. A woman, therefore, should consider her husband, her house and her children to be the arrangement of the external energy of the Lord for her death, just as the sweet singing of the hunter is death for the deer.
(More...) In these instructions of Lord Kapiladeva it is explained that not only is woman the gateway to hell for man, but man is also the gateway to hell for woman. It is a question of attachment. 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. It is a question of attachment for one another. As long as either is attached to the other for such material enjoyment, the woman is dangerous for the man, and the man is also dangerous for the woman. But if the attachment is transferred to Krsna, both of them become Krsna conscious, and then marriage is very nice. Srila Rūpa Gosvami therefore recommends:
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