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came to love Kardama Muni, but without knowing of his
spiritual advancement. Kardama Muni could understand
Devahuti’s heart; generally all women desire material
enjoyment. They are called less intelligent because they
are mostly prone to material enjoyment. Devahuti laments
because her husband had given her the best kind of
material enjoyment, but she did not know that he was so
advanced in spiritual realization. Her plea was that even
though she did not know the glories of her great husband,
because she had taken shelter of him she must be delivered
from material entanglement. Association with a great
personality is most important. In Chaitanya-caritamrta
Lord Chaitanya says that sadhu-sanga, the association of
a great saintly person, is very important., because even if
one is not advanced in knowledge, simply by association
with a great saintly person one can immediately make
considerable advancement in spiritual life. As a woman, as
an ordinary wife, Devahuti became attached to Kardama
Muni in order to satisfy her sense enjoyment and other
material necessities, but actually she associated with
a great personality. Now she understood this, and she
wanted to utilize the advantage of the association of her
great husband.”

“Association for sense gratification is certainly the path
of bondage. But the same association performed with

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