Bride of the Pleasant Nature

Meaning: O Bride! By your pleasant nature, do good of the family members with a pure heart. That will increase happiness and wealth in the home.

Message: If the home has to be made happy and beneficial, then the family atmosphere should be peaceful and amiable. Even the animals and birds live in peaceful and pleasant surroundings. Just as the birds and animals like peaceful and safe places, in the same way man also desires a peaceful family atmosphere to remain cheerful. It is the joint responsibility of the husband and the wife to create a heavenly atmosphere in the home. Under the ‘pativarat dharma’ (i.e. faithfulness to the wife) they should enthusiastically discharge their respective duties and it should be their constant endeavor that the role of either partner should be better than the other’s.

This type of conduct is expected of the new bride. With her lies the reputation of the family. The dignity of the family and the clan depends on her character and conduct. She is the guardian of the traditions of the clan and gives birth to worthy children.

The responsibility of making the family stronger rests on her. Her duty is not merely to fulfill the household duties, but to increase the prestige of the family, to observe excellent ancient traditions, to give proper respect to members of the dynasty, welcome and honor the guests, to eliminate the bad tendencies in the family, give birth to children who will be full of knowledge, wisdom and prosperity and to educate them about excellent thoughts and conduct. These are her important functions. Only that woman is liked by everyone in the family, who considers her happiness only in the happiness of the family and always strives for the same.

The qualities like modesty, character, warmth and love in a woman are such that they attract man without effort. She has a natural attraction mostly because of her beauty. Physical beauty, qualities, knowledge, dignity a liking for art etc contributes to excellence of her personality. The basis of attraction is the purity of heart, simplicity and lack of deceit, which attract a man with similar virtues easily. A woman’s beauty has a certain intoxicating effect. By this magnetism, she attracts all the family members like a fragrant flower. But more important than external beauty is inner beauty, purity of feelings, purity of thinking etc. the home of the woman, who thinks in the interest of all in the family with sincerity, sympathy and cooperation etc, and strives in this direction, remains filled with happiness and peace. Only a hardworking and dutiful woman makes her family happy.

Only a skilful woman with inner beauty has the capacity to eradicate the troubles of the family. Thinking of the interests of all, she makes her own life happy and makes the family also prosperous.