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Imported quote 18553 So we are all sons of God. This is a fact. Either I am human being or demigod or cats or dog or tree or plants or insect-anything, all living entities. Krsna says, sarva-yonisu. Sarva-yonisu mean "All different forms or species of life, as many living entities there are, they are all My sons." Aham bija-pradaḥ pita [Bg 14.4]: "I am the seed-giving father," or "They are all My sons." This is our relationship. Actually, this is our relationship with Krsna. And as the father and son relationship means the son may live at the cost of the father... Father has got immense property, they can enjoy, but they must remain very obedient to the father-very natural-then he is happy. If the father is very rich man, he has got all the resources, and if the son is obedient, then where is trouble? Is there any trouble? Father wants simply... Father is ready to give all the property to the sons. That is natural inclination. And the son's duty is to just to become obedient to the father.
(More...) Imported quote 19111 Therefore in the Vedanta-sūtra it is said, janmady asya yataḥ. Wherefrom this attachment has come unless originally it is there in the spiritual world? Originally, the same attachment... Just like we have got attachment for our country, nation; then attachment between the servant and the master, attachment between friend and friend, attachment between father and son or mother and son, and attachment between husband and wife or the beloved and the lover-these five kinds of attachment are there in this material world. Santa, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya, madhurya. [neutrality, servitorship, fraternity, parental affection and conjugal love] So the same attachment is there between Krsna and devotee, either in the santa... Some devotees have become there land, water, tree, flower. They are attached to Krsna. Some devotees, they have become servants. They are attached to Krsna. And some devotees, they have become cowherds boy, friendly. They are attached to Krsna. And some devotees have become Krsna's father, mother, uncle, elderly. They are attached to Krsna. And some devotees, they have become gopis, young girls, and love Krsna, dance with Him rasa dance.
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