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MANAV DHARMA / 15 greater extent but out of greediness and personal interest, if the laws of the state are opposed or violated, then the act of oppostion will not be good and appreciable. Such opposition and violation of state laws is harmful in public interest and it too, comes under the purview of theft. Hence the man, who takes a vow for the abstainment of stealing should always avoid the above-written actions. Not only this but a man who takes a vow of non-stealing, should always avoid the unwanted company of another man's wife because woman has been considered as the greatest wealth among other wealths. This can also be said in this way that woman is the chief wealth and and the prestige of the money remains in the hands of a woman. To give due social respect to a woman means to establish the right importance of the wealth. In the opinion of the author he is to be taken the biggest thief, who disregards the whole female society or who possesses evil thoughts for a woman or who looks at her with a greedy evil eye. Hence those who want to take a vow of nonstealing should always avoid the company of a woman and should abstain himself from using unchastity towards another man's wife or towards other women of the society. That action is called
न तु परदारान् गच्छति न परान् गमयति च पापभीतेर्यत् । सा परदार- निवृत्तिः स्वदार- संतोषनामापि ॥५९॥
Explanation :
He, who neither 'visits', nor causes any other person to visit, another man's wife from fear of sin that man is said to observe the 'Anuvrata', known as the renunciation of wife of another man and contentment with one's own.
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Description :
The man, who fears from sins and vices, he, neither himself visits another man's wife with a sinful eye nor he brings such person in his company who visits the wife of another man or other woman with evil and sinful eyes or thoughts, because to see another man's wife or other woman with a sinful eye is equal to the looking of his own mother and sisters and female relatives with a sinful eye, as they are also taken as other men's wives or women.
A man, who follows a particular path, will like to remove the suffering of other travellers who are walking on the same path. But who is a debaucher, will like to see or make the people of the world engaged in debauchery otherwise he feels that his own plans will be interrupted. When all become debauchers, then it will be highly difficult for mothers, sisters and other women to follow chastity or
