MAN - HOW TO CHOOSE A WOMAN? HOW TO TREAT YOUR WOMAN?

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Man -How to choose a woman -How to treat your woman

Translated from an Indian manuscript

discovered in Tibet, written by an ancient Brahmin.

 

Take unto yourself a woman and obey the ordinance of God; take unto

yourself a woman and become a faithful member of society.

 

But examine with care; on your present choice depends your future

happiness.

 

If much of her time is deployed in dress and ornaments, if she is

enamoured with her own beauty, and delighted with her own praise, if

she laughs much and talks loud, if her foot does not abide in her

father's house, and eyes with boldness rove on the faces of men;

though her beauty were as the sun in the firmament of heaven, turn

your face from her charms, turn your feet from her path and suffer

not your soul to be ensnared by the allurements of imagination.

 

But when you find sensibility of heart joined with softness of

manners, an accomplished mind with a form agreeable to your fancy,

take her home to your house, she is worthy to be your friend, your

companion in life, the woman of your bosom.

 

Cherish her as a blessing sent to you from heaven; let the kindness

of your behaviour endear you to her heart.

 

She is the mistress of your house; treat her therefore with respect,

that your servants may obey her. Do not oppose her inclination

without cause; she is the partner of your cares, make her also the

companion of your pleasures.

 

Reprove her faults with gentleness; do not exact her obedience with

rigour.

 

Trust your secrets in her breast; her counsels are sincere; you

shall not be deceived.

 

Be faithful to her bed; for she is the mother of your children.

 

When pain and sickness assault her, let your tenderness soothe her

affliction; a look from you of pity and of love shall alleviate her

grief, or mitigate her pain, and be of more avail than ten

physicians.

 

Consider the tenderness of her sex, the delicacy of her frame, and

be not severe to her weakness, but remember your own imperfections.