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12-09-2008, 04:52 PM
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BG 10.34 . . . Among women I am fame, fortune, fine speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness and patience.
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. . . The seven opulences listed—fame, fortune, fine speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness and patience—are considered feminine.
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If a person possesses all of them or some of them they become glorious. If a person is famous as a righteous man, that makes him glorious.
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Sanskrit is a perfect language and is therefore very glorious. If after studying one can remember a subject matter, a person is gifted with a good memory, or smrti.
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And the ability not only to read many books on different subject matters but to understand them and apply them when necessary is intelligence (medha), another opulence.
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The ability to overcome unsteadiness is called firmness or steadfastness (dhrti).
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And when one is fully qualified yet is humble and gentle, and when one is able to keep his balance both in sorrow and in the ecstasy of joy, he has the opulence called patience (ksama).
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See my post regarding sublime/transcendental/Yogic principles of childbirth:
Garbhadhana-samskara [What Prabhupada said about sex]
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