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When overcome by lust, what is womanhood? Is it not hell, born of filth and flesh? Such intense expressions come from extreme renunciation.
Neither lustful indulgence nor desirelessness is praiseworthy. Desire directed toward Vedic learning or righteous action is truly valuable.
Krishna says: Desire, anger, and delusion—born of maya—are the root of all suffering. A seeker must reject this trio to reach the fourfold human goals...
Even if a king lacks personal power, by mastering desire, managing advisors, and controlling the household, he achieves success.
Women don't accept a husband who merely gives pleasure or provides. They seek one who consoles the mind, protects, and emotionally anchors them.
A poetic image of a beloved’s breasts, reddened by playful scratching, likened to moon-marks and mountain pigments, after a hundred amorous instructio...
One who follows desire perishes, while he who renounces it shakes off even the slightest impurity of passion.
Renouncing desire removes inner passions. Pain born of lust and anger, along with shamelessness and craving, also vanishes.
One under the influence of desire or anger acts wrongly and loses all allies, both among kin and others.
Desires constantly lure humans away from dharma. A resolute person who destroys them early earns lasting praise in the world.
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