Smruti Sandarbh Part 01

Author(s): Maharshi
Publisher: Nag Publishers

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A small child up to three entirely lives upon its mother's milk, a wholesome, good and easily digestible diet with other eatable sereals fit for the digestive system of the same as and when necessary. It is also consistent with the nature of the child and plays an important role in forming its vitality, while for the rest of the life and specially in his or her young age the food obtained from land work will constitute the wholesome nutritional diet and help ensure vitality for proper development of physical, mental and spiritual faculties of the individual concerned.
There is a reference in the Sāstric injunctions to the sight at the woman other than one's own wife (
a t) which is solely responsible for the entire downfall and degeneration of the man, morally and ethically; while on other occasions, reference to their Darśana ensures peace, progress and prosperity of the person concerned. If we ponder over the idea underlying these words we come to know that it is as a result due to two extreme view-points.
On one hand, if one looks at the woman other than one's own wife with a passion of ill-will it will cause the worst effect which will allow the dismissal of manly vitality "the virya" from its place effecting all sorts of diseases thereby. If a drop of “Virya" is wasted it is just like death. It is a common experience that a man entertaining sexual pleasures at his best is the early traveller to the abode of death(
u tarfafe). It is true "मरणं बिन्दुपातेन जीवनं विन्दुधारणात् ।" In a word, a person wasting his vitality by excessive sensual gratification is nearer to death than enjoying the pleasures and boons of life bestowed upon him as the best inheritor of nature. On the other, the noble feelings of reverence and best regards towards woman-folk as the manifestation and embodiment of Durgā, motherhood by