like father like son
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Imported quote 18590 Complete knowledge is one who understands that "If I have got so many propensities, so the origin of me, the supreme father, why He should be without any propensities? What is this logic?" "Like father, like son." It is... The son has got so many propensities. Wherefrom it has come? It must be in Krsna. This is intelligence. Everything is there is Krsna. Just like Krsna is stealing butter. That means Krsna has stealing propensity. But the difference is that Krsna's stealing butter is worshiped, and my stealing is beaten with shoes. [laughter] That is the difference. So we should not imitate Krsna, but we should understand that janmady asya yata: everything... Here it is said, bijam adhatta. So just like father impregnates the child or the son within the womb of the mother, and he comes, "Like father, like son," generally; similarly, we are. We have got the same propensities, viryam, but it is being misused in the material connection. Therefore we are not getting pleasure. Otherwise, anandamayo 'bhyasat [Vedanta-sūtra 1.1.12]: All these propensities, varieties of qualities, will give us ananda.
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