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Theme Analysis
Affection within household life becomes spiritually healthy when it is guided by detachment and devotion to Kṛṣṇa. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that a devotee may care for wife and children, speak with affection, and fulfill family responsibilities, yet remain inwardly unattached because the real goal is service to the Supreme Lord. The danger is not affection itself, but affection that deepens bodily identity, sense gratification, and forgetfulness of liberation.
- Natural Affection: Affection for a wife is recognized as natural in household life, not artificially denied. When it is governed by spiritual intelligence, it can coexist with duty and devotional purpose.
- Binding Attachment: The same affection becomes bondage when it feeds lust, anxiety, and uncontrolled senses. In that condition, family life is compared to ropes that hold the soul within material existence.
- Devotional Detachment: A devotee may act affectionately toward wife and children while remaining unattached to the temporary roles of family life. This detachment does not mean coldness; it means seeing family responsibilities in relation to Kṛṣṇa.
- Higher Shelter: The examples of great souls show that attachment to the Supreme Lord can loosen even deep-rooted family affection. When Kṛṣṇa becomes the center, renunciation is not loss but spiritual awakening.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: A Devotee Shows Affection for a Wife Without Becoming Attached.
Pages in category "Affection for a Wife"
The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
A
- A husband naturally has some affection for his wife. Therefore Satyavati's mother thought that the oblation prepared for Satyavati by the sage Rcika must have been better than her own oblation
- Although a devotee may enter family life and act very affectionately toward his wife and children, he is never attached to these activities
- Although he (the great devotee of God) has no attraction for his children, he cares for them and educates them to become devotees. Similarly, he speaks to his wife with affectionate words, but he is not attached to her
D
- Dhira means one who is not disturbed, even when there is sufficient provocation. One cannot give up a comfortable family life due to his affectionate relation with wife and children
- Due to the continuance of his lusty desires, King Puranjana became very poor in everything. Thus he did not understand the aim of life. He was still very affectionate toward his wife and children, and he worried about maintaining them
E
- Every one of us within this world is perpetually engaged in some sort of service, and the impetus for such service is the pleasure we derive from it. Driven by affection for his wife and children, a family man works day and night
- Everyone is affectionate toward his wife and is attached to her, but what is this wife? The wife is called stri, which means, "one who expands the material condition"
I
- If one prefers to remain in the dark well of household life because of uncontrolled senses he becomes increasingly entangled by ropes of affection for his wife, children, servants, house money. Such a person cannot attain liberation from material bondage
- If the Lord is pleased with a devotee, what is there that is unobtainable? Why should one not give up his affection for his wife and children and take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? Where is the loss of anything material
W
- What person too attached to household life due to being unable to control his senses can liberate himself? An attached householder is bound very strongly by ropes of affection for his family (wife, children and other relatives)
- When one is bound by affection for one's wife, one is attached to sexual desires that are very difficult to overcome. Therefore, according to Vedic civilization, one must voluntarily leave his so-called home & go to the forest. Pancasordhvam vanam vrajet