वर्जयेत्प्रमदागाथामगृहस्थो बृहद्व्रत: । इन्द्रियाणि प्रमाथीनि हरन्त्यपि यतेर्मन: ॥ ७ ॥
varjayet pramada-gatham agrhastho brhad-vratah indriyani pramathini haranty api yater manah
- varjayet
- must give up
- pramada-gatham
- talking with women
- agrhasthah
- a person who has not accepted the grhastha-asrama (a brahmacari or sannyasi)
- brhat-vratah
- invariably observing the vow of celibacy
- indriyani
- the senses
- pramathini
- almost always unconquerable
- haranti
- take away
- api
- even
- yateh
- of the sannyasi
- manah
- the mind.
A brahmacari, or one who has not accepted the grhastha-asrama (family life), must rigidly avoid talking with women or about women, for the senses are so powerful that they may agitate even the mind of a sannyasi, a member of the renounced order of life.