A man of agreeable manners enjoys sexual pleasures fully and not so one of a morose nature; for he cannot secure the love of women. A woman, though at a distance, conceives a child of the shape of the person she loves ardently and thinks of at the time.
Just in the same way as a tree that grows is not different from the parent tree, whether we plant a branch or sow a seed, so the main features of the child partake of the features of its father, though there might be slight changes due to the soil.
The subtle soul co-operates with the manas (the mind); the mind, co-operates with the senses; the senses, perceive objects; all this takes place in little or no time. The above is the connection between the soul and the objects around us. What is there which the mind cannot comprehend? Therefore, wherever the mind enters, the soul follows it.
The soul being subtle whenever it enters another soul, it requires some time and an effort of the mind to know the latter. The soul which intensely meditates on an object, assumes the shape of that object, and therefore, young women’s thoughts are always directed towards amiable persons.
Real love makes one beloved of others, and hatred makes a person unpopular. There is great sin attaching to attempts at winning the favour of a person by the practice of magic or the use of drugs or by stratagems, and no pleasure can come out of it.