Regardless of his avidness and big hurry to give himself another period, he just as quickly regrets it after he does it. He despises what he has done to himself and despises it straight away.
Past reason hunted,
and no sooner had
Men get crazy for sex stimulation and release — they become irrational in pursuit of the female, or “past reason.” They become willing to do stupid things — even risking the best things in their lives — to get the sex thrill from the female. But immediately upon getting fulfillment, just as rapidly they…
Past reason hated as a swallow’d bait
…hate the effect of orgasm on themselves and realize they have been tricked again. Like a hapless fish swallows a hook and guts itself by it, they realize that they have taken, again, a “bait” that has negative consequences.They hate the results yet their remains no rationality in them, thus they hate it with the same irrationality that preceded (“past reason hated”) because orgasm destroys his mind and reason. There is no rationality in the man either before (in the sex-obsessed state), or after (in the God-vitiated state). After having an errant male period he can only cry out in desperation and regret, longing for his former virile, alive, strong, and inwardly illumined self.
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
The female knows what she is doing when she sexually tempts the male. She knows the great power that her sexuality exercises over him. It is second nature for her to lay her sex trap consciously and on purpose. She also knows that it makes the male irrational and that he falls from his normal powerful and clear-headed state. Woman clearly sees that a great and wise creature becomes a childish fool in the face of her sexual charm. She sees that it makes him stupid, unwise and weak. But she loves this power over him and craves to exercise it. She becomes addicted to the true worship that his sexual attraction represents and the male all-giving (to her) that occurs in his orgasm. It makes her feel fulfilled as a woman, secure as his mate, and gives her the experience of being like a goddess; the god of this world. Thus even though she sees the pathetic condition he attains once entranced with her sexuality, she still is capable of laying her “bait” (with various flirtations or ways of dressing, etc.) — quite on purpose. Further, she knows how sexually vulnerable he is in the sex act itself, what he wants, and knows she has him completely under her power then. Yet it is a part of her tragic ignorance that she doesn’t accept that in fulfilling man in a sinful way she also destroys him and the very nobility and wisdom that she loved. That is why a good and wise wife will not exploit this power and give in to his desires any time he wants, will demand a sacred, wifely context for sex, and have supportive compassion and cosmic gratitude before God when her husband, that great being, succumbs to her Shakti magical power and gives all.
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Men become basically crazy, out of their wits, in pursuit of sex pleasure. When they get the woman, have her in their possession, or have the sex act in their reach — they are just as crazy.
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
Men do extreme things trying to get the sex thrill via woman or the thought of woman. Whether seeking it or having it — he becomes extreme and does things that he later sees were stupid.
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe,
“In proof” means ‘while having his orgasm.’ He experiences bliss while proving out (having, finally experiencing) his goal of orgasm.
But once done (“proved”) it is a woe.
“A very woe” means that the result of orgasm not just a woe but is WOE ITSELF the Woe of the world itself. The emptiness, vitiation, and disturbance the male experiences after orgasm is Essential Woe; All woe.
Before, a joy proposed;
behind, a dream.
Prior to vetting himself and spilling his highest essence, he is certain that the sex proposition is his true joy. Once it is over, just like all transitory experiences it becomes just another dream passed; a memory.(Meanwhile he is emptied out and not the same man as before.)
All this world well knows,
yet none knows well
In Shakespeare’s time all the world was cognizant of the fact that both man and woman are debauched by sex. “Debauchery” was a word used for sexual relations and incontinence (or polluting one’s self with alcohol and the like), because the male was denatured by it. So all of society understood this and knew that the male qualities were ruined by incontinence and that women were ruined as women by illicit sexuality. Yet though all of Shakespeare’s world condemned incontinence and sexual sin, very few people ever get firm conviction and renunciation…
To shun the heaven
that leads men to this hell.
…such as to truly shun the false sex-thrill that leads a man over and over again to subsequent states of inner hell plus generates exterior hell states through disturbance and strip-mining of his body — basis and source of the exterior world condition.