kim vidyaya kim tapasa

 kim tyagena srutena va

kim viviktena maunena

 stribhir yasya mano hrtam

 

Translation: 

 

What is the use of a big education or the practice of austerities and renunciation, and what is the use of studying religious scriptures, of living in solitude and silence, if, after all that, one’s mind is stolen by a woman?

 

Purport: 

 

All of the above-mentioned processes are useless if one’s heart and mind are stolen by an insignificant woman. One who hankers after a woman’s association certainly spoils his spiritual progress. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura states that if one worships the example of the liberated gopis of Vrndavana, who accepted Lord Sri Krsna as their paramour, one can free one’s mental activities from the contamination of lust.