Six Traits of a Wife

In Indian culture, the sages and learned people of the yesteryears had defined almost everything – from a needle to the sun – everything was assigned a significance and responsibility of its own. And they had huge list of things that that small thing needs to be related to.

I do not like Ekta Kapoor’s Serials (and any daily soap for that matter) but there are things in everything that you can learn from. And when I heard this old sloka used in one of the serials, called Bandini, I was awestruck! I really liked the thought – not because I am a man and I want my wife to be as described in the sloka, but I have seen my mother and other elderly women in my family and I can so much relate this sloka to them – both for and against! LOL…

Anyways, there is lot to learn from the Sloka – for the wives. For any woman, for that matter. Read it:

Karyeshu Dasi

Karaneshu Mantri

Bhojeshu Mata

Shayaneshu Rambha

Roopeshu lakshmi

Kshamayeshu Dharitri

Satkarma Nari, Kuladharma Patni

It means, a wife…

Works like servant

Advises like minister

Feeds like mother

Makes love like nymph

Is as beautiful as Lakshmi and

As forgiving like the earth.

These are the six traits of a good wife who can be an example for everyone. In the process she would make her family proud!

In this world of today, it is very hard to find someone with all the above characters. I can write a whole paragraph on the same, comparing the six traits with my wife, or my mother or my aunt, but I wont go into that details here. Just wanted to share this with you, so that ask yourself, (if you are wife to someone) and see if you are actually having the same traits. I am not concluding anything – I cant. But I wish all women to keep this thought in the back of their mind – always!

BTW, thought of writing the meaning as:

With Wife

          Works like servant

          Advises like minister

          Feeds like mother

          Makes love like nymph

          Is as beautiful as Lakshmi and

         As forgiving like the earth.

End With

LOL… Only people using VB Coding would understand, if I would have written it thus :P