Beautiful and dutiful

Unlike Christianity, Women in Vedic culture are trained to look beautiful in a decorous manner. Beautiful colorful sarees, mehendi for hands, golden jewelry and natural herbal cosmetics. Although in Vedic culture, detachment from the body is advised, once they reach old age (fifty years) vanaprasatha Asrama, women stop decorating themselves rather cultivate detachment from the bodily concept, attachment to Spiritual life.

 All these auspicious substances are still used in India as a natural cosmetic. Especially turmeric powder ( different from cooking turmeric) is used by women of southern India while bathing. It creates a golden tinge on their faces hands and legs. 


SB 3.23.32, Translation and Purport: 


About her hips she wore a girdle of gold, set with numerous jewels, and she was further adorned with a precious pearl necklace and auspicious substances.


Auspicious substances include saffron, kuṅkuma and sandalwood pulp. Before taking a bath there are other auspicious substances, such as turmeric mixed with mustard seed oil, which are smeared all over the body. All kinds of auspicious substances were used to bathe Devahūti from top to toe.

So the girls, the women, they like to be more beautiful. So if by dressing in other way they look beautiful, why should you ask them not to do it? 

Room Conversation with Christian Priest -- June 9, 1974, Paris


Sometimes the living entity is interested in the yellow stool known as gold and runs after it. That gold is the source of material opulence and envy, and it can enable one to afford illicit sex, gambling, meat-eating and intoxication


The color of gold is very glittering, and a materialistic person becomes very much attracted by its yellow color. However, this gold is actually a type of stool.


 ( extract from Srimad Bhagavatam 5.14.7)


The personality of Kali asked for something more, and because of his begging, the King gave him permission to live where there is gold because wherever there is gold there is also falsity, intoxication, lust, envy and enmity.

Gold ornaments for women may be allowed by control, not by quality, but by quantity. This will discourage lust, envy and enmity.  SB 1.17.39

Brahmacārīs or gṛhasthas who have taken the vow of celibacy as described above should not indulge in the following: applying powder or ointment to the eyes, massaging the head with oil, massaging the body with the hands, seeing a woman or painting a woman’s picture, eating meat, drinking wine, decorating the body with flower garlands, smearing scented ointment on the body, or decorating the body with ornaments. These they should give up.

Srimad Bhagavatam 7.12.12

This is imperative to our Krsna consciousness society. We have taken vow of obstaining from illicit sex ( sex for procreation not recreation).  






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