gāthām
- history — SB 9.19.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.19.2
My dearly beloved wife, daughter of Śukrācārya, in this world there was someone exactly like me. Please listen as I narrate the history of his life. By hearing about the life of such a householder, those who have retired from householder life always lament. - poetic verses of glorification — SB 5.15.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.15.8
My dear King Parīkṣit, those who are learned scholars in the histories of the Purāṇas eulogize and glorify King Gaya with the following verses. - story — SB 9.19.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.19.1
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Yayāti was very much attached to woman. In due course of time, however, when disgusted with sexual enjoyment and its bad effects, he renounced this way of life and narrated the following story to his beloved wife. - the narration — SB 9.19.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.19.26
When Devayānī heard Mahārāja Yayāti's story of the he-goat and she-goat, she understood that this story, which was presented as if a funny joke for entertainment between husband and wife, was intended to awaken her to her constitutional position.
pramadā-gāthām
- talking with women — SB 7.12.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.12.7
A brahmacārī, or one who has not accepted the gṛhastha-āśrama [family life], must rigidly avoid talking with women or about women, for the senses are so powerful that they may agitate even the mind of a sannyāsī, a member of the renounced order of life.
yūtha-gātham
- full of stories of man and woman — SB 4.29.55plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.55
My dear King, just try to understand the allegorical position of the deer. Be fully conscious of yourself, and give up the pleasure of hearing about promotion to heavenly planets by fruitive activity. Give up household life, which is full of sex, as well as stories about such things, and take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the mercy of the liberated souls. In this way, please give up your attraction for material existence.