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# Aranya Kand · Doha 44

The glory of hearing the praises of Śrī Rāma and an exhortation to cultivate fellowship with saints and practise adoration

**चौ०** 
> सुनु मुनि कह पुरान श्रुति संता। मोह बिपिन कहुँ नारि बसंता॥  
> जप तप नेम जलाश्रय झारी। होइ ग्रीषम सोषइ सब नारी॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> काम क्रोध मद मत्सर भेका। इन्हहि हरषप्रद बरषा एका॥  
> दुर्बासना कुमुद समुदाई। तिन्ह कहँ सरद सदा सुखदाई॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> धर्म सकल सरसीरुह बृंदा। होइ हिम तिन्हहि दहइ सुख मंदा॥  
> पुनि ममता जवास बहुताई। पलुहइ नारि सिसिर रितु पाई॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> पाप उलूक निकर सुखकारी। नारि निबिड़ रजनी अँधिआरी॥  
> बुधि बल सील सत्य सब मीना। बनसी सम त्रिय कहहिं प्रबीना॥४॥

Meaning: “Listen, O sage: the Purāṇas, the Vedas and the saints declare that woman is like the vernal season to the forest of delusion. Nay, like the hot season she dries up all the ponds and lakes of Japa (the muttering of prayers), austerity and religious observances. (1)

“Again, lust, anger, pride and jealousy are so many frogs, as it were; like the rainy season, woman is the only agency that gladdens them all. Even so, latent desires of a vicious type are like a bed of lilies to which, like the autumn, she is ever agreeable. (2)

“All the different virtues are like a bed of lotuses; like the season winter, woman, who is a source of base (sensuous) pleasure, blights them all. Again, the overgrowth of the Yavāsa plant in the shape of mineness flourishes when winter in the shape of woman appears. (3)

“For owls in the shape of sins, woman is a delightful night, thick with darkness. Even so, reason, strength, virtue and truth are all so many fishes, as it were, and woman, so declare the wise, is like a hook to catch them. (4)

**दो०** 
> अवगुन मूल सूलप्रद प्रमदा सब दुख खानि।  
> ताते कीन्ह निवारन मुनि मैं यह जियँ जानि॥४४॥

Meaning: “A young woman is the root of all evil, a source of torment and a mine of all woes. Therefore, bearing this in mind, O sage, I prevented your marriage.” (44)

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