Karma-Yoga : Ch-4. Part-10.

Chapter-4.


What is Duty?


Part-10.


Chastity is the first virtue in man or woman, and the man who, however he may have strayed away, cannot be brought to the right path by a gentle and loving and chaste wife is indeed very rare.

The world is not yet as bad as that. We hear much about brutal husbands all over the world and about the impurity of men, but is it not true that there are quite as many brutal and impure women as men?

If all women were as good and pure as their own constant assertions would lead one to believe, I am perfectly satisfied that there would not be one impure man in the world.

What brutality is there which purity and chastity cannot conquer?

A good, chaste wife, who thinks of every other man except her own husband as her child and has the attitude of a mother towards all men, will grow so great in the power of her purity that there cannot be a single man, however brutal, who will not breathe an atmosphere of holiness in her presence.

Similarly, every husband must look upon all women, except his own wife, in the light of his own mother or daughter or sister.

That man, again, who wants to be a teacher of religion must look upon every woman as his mother, and always behave towards her as such.

Swami Vivekananda

To be continued  .....