CHASTITY (सतीत्व) OF WOMEN ===================================== Q: In many women, chastity(SATITWA) is still intact. Thakur: Look around carefully,most of the cases are of 'chidden chastity'. It means that it is not spontaneous and natural. Maybe because of the fear of public-disrepute, they are maintaining their chastity physically, but it is far from the original chastity which normally means devotion towards the husband with all mind, body and conduct. If that adherence towards the husband is present, she starts thinking her husband as her own existence. The attachment which people have towards their existence, the same attachment is seen in the chaste women for their husband. She doesn't stand still untill her husband is pleased. She has the power to induce life into the lifeless body of the husband just like Sati Behula. Hence, chastity is an object of sadhana. If someone is not chaste by birth, one can not be chaste in actual terms. To be the parents of such a chaste girl is a matter of destiny. It needs a lot of good deeds. A Chaste girl makes the whole clan holy. Wherever they go, they leave their golden imprints there by everything prosperous. Lakshmi,Saraswati come along with them. The children of their wombs are no less than dieties (devas). Normally, it is seen that the girls who have attachment towards their father before marriage, is seen to have devotion towards their husband. [Alochana Prasange, (4/01/1946) Vol.7,4th ed]