Category:Affectionate Mothers
Theme Analysis
Affectionate mothers reveal how love naturally expresses itself through care, protection, nourishment, and sacrifice. Śrīla Prabhupāda shows that motherly affection can be ordinary and necessary within human society, but when centered on Kṛṣṇa it becomes a powerful form of devotional service. Mother Yaśodā, Devakī, Śacīmātā, and even Pūtanā's imitation of motherhood reveal how deeply the Lord responds to the mood of maternal affection.
- Natural Motherly Care: A mother is naturally anxious for the welfare of her child and works to protect the child from disturbance. This affection is one of the tender foundations of family life and civilized human conduct.
- Devotional Motherhood: Motherly affection becomes spiritually exalted when offered to Kṛṣṇa. In Mother Yaśodā and Devakī, concern for the Lord appears so intimate that His supreme opulence becomes covered by love.
- The Lord's Mercy: Kṛṣṇa accepted even Pūtanā's false motherly gesture and awarded her a motherly position. This shows how the Lord magnifies even the smallest trace of service when it resembles devotion.
- Renunciation and Higher Love: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu left behind the shelter of an affectionate mother to distribute love of God. Śacīmātā's sacrifice teaches that the highest affection helps the soul move toward Kṛṣṇa.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Affectionate Mothers Reveal the Tender Power of Devotional Love.
Pages in category "Affectionate Mothers"
The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
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- A father and mother are always affectionate to their children. When the children are disobedient the parents chastise them, not due to enmity but only for the child's instruction and welfare
- A living creature, however powerful he may become by dint of severe penance, can never become equal to the Supreme Lord. Lord Krsna accepted the motherhood of Putana because she pretended to be an affectionate mother, allowing Krsna to suck her breast
- Advanced civilization, the mother is killing the child, abortion. You see? Still, it is called advancement. Mother's duty is to take care of the child, motherly affection
- Although the SPG, Krsna, who is full of all opulences, did not disturb His mother's (Yasoda's) parental affection, His opulence was automatically displayed, for Krsna's opulence is never lost at any stage, but is manifest at the proper time - SB 10.8.36
- An affectionate mother takes great care of her child and is always anxious to see that the child is not disturbed even for a moment
- Anyone who desires to be Krsna conscious in motherly affection or parental affection should contemplate the bodily features of mother Yasoda. It is not that one should desire to become like Yasoda, for this is Mayavada
- At the full youthful age He gave up His family life, beautiful wife, most obedient, perfect wife, beautiful wife, mother, affectionate mother, very good prestige, social prestige
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- Because of her (mother Yasoda's) deep affection for Krsna, she could never think that her very son was Narayana, the Personality of Godhead Himself. That is the action of yogamaya, the internal potency of the Supreme Lord
- Brahma said, "I think of how You are so kind, so magnanimous, that even Putana, who came to cheat You by dressing herself as a very affectionate mother, was awarded liberation and the actual post of a mother"
- By allowing her son (Caitanya) to go as a sannyasi and search for Krsna, Sacimata instructs all mothers of the world. She indicates that all sons should become real devotees of Krsna and should not stay at home under the care of an affectionate mother
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- He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) was in renounced order of life; He gave up His family, beautiful wife, very affectionate mother, very comfortable home, very prestige, too much prestige of His personality in the society. He gave up everything
- He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) was only twenty-four years old. His lovable wife, beautiful wife, very very serving; mother, so affectionate mother; but He gave up everything, took sannyasa
- He (Lord Caitanya) had His very beautiful and obedient wife, Laksmi devi, sixteen years old. She was by name Laksmi, and actually she was goddess of fortune . . . and His mother was so affectionate, there is no comparison
- He (Pradyumna) inquired from her (Mayavati), "How is it possible that first you were affectionate like a mother and now you are expressing the symptoms of a lusty woman? What is the reason for such a change"
- He is the original person. He has no father. But He accepts His devotee as His father. He accepts His devotee as mother. He is full in Himself, but still, He awaits the affection of father and mother. This is the beauty of Krsna
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- I lost my mother when I was only 14 years old. So I didn't get much of my mother's affection in my childhood. But in my old age, Krishna has given me so many young mothers to take care of me
- I request that for the time being You (Visnu) become invisible to our material eyes - Devaki expressed her motherly affection to God while praying
- I understand that this transcendental form is generally perceived in meditation by the great sages, but I am still afraid because as soon as Kamsa understands that You (Visnu) have appeared, he might harm You - Devaki expressed her motherly affection
- If Putana attained the position of a mother of Krsna, what then is to be said of the cows whose nipples Krsna sucked with great pleasure and who offered their milk very jubilantly with affection exactly like that of a mother - SB 10.6.37-38
- If the wife of the spiritual master is young, a young brahmacari should not allow her to care for his hair, massage his body with oil, or bathe him with affection like a mother
- In a home affectionate mother is present, and very beloved wife is present, and He (Lord Caitanya) was twenty-four years old, and His wife was sixteen years old. Materially that is the age for sense gratification, but He renounced
- In many instances we find that when a mother is moved by affection for her sons, milk flows from her breasts
- In Nadia, the city where He lived, His position was very respectable, & physically He was very beautiful. Yet He gave up His young, faithful, beautiful wife, His affectionate mother, His position, & everything else. This is called vairagya, renunciation
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- Krsna is always neat, clean and opulent and does not need to be washed, bathed or dressed, yet mother Yasoda, because of affection, considered Him her ordinary child and did her duties to keep her son brilliant
- Kunti continued, "You (Krsna) are present in everyone's heart, but because the devotees always remember You, You respond accordingly. Although the mother has affection for all the children, she takes special care of the one who is fully dependent"
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- Previously, from the very beginning, the gopis had motherly affection for Krsna. Indeed, their affection for Krsna exceeded even their affection for their own sons - SB 10.13.25
- Putana Raksasi's heart was fierce and cruel, but she looked like a very affectionate mother. Thus she resembled a sharp sword in a soft sheath - SB 10.6.9
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- Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya's wife was known as Sathira Mata, the mother of Sathi. She was a great devotee of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and she was affectionate like a mother
- Seeing Pradyumna, she (Rukmini-devi) naturally remembered her own son, and milk began to flow from her breasts out of motherly affection
- So far material condition, He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) had His very affectionate mother. He was the only son of His mother; all brothers and sister died. And His wife Laksmi-priya died first, then He married, second time, Visnu-priya. So very happy life
- Soft-hearted woman, vama-svabhava, they should be given protection. They should be trained up how to become faithful wife, affectionate mother. Then the home will be very happy
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- That is the way of dragging a sincere soul nearer to God. The poor boy was being looked after only by his affectionate mother, and yet the mother was taken from the world by the supreme will in order to put him completely at the mercy of the Lord
- The difference is like the difference between a cat’s carrying its kittens in its mouth and carrying a rat in its mouth. In the mouth of the cat, the rat feels its death, whereas the kittens in the mouth of the cat feel motherly affection
- The distinction between one's own son and another's son is not unnatural. Many elderly women have motherly affection for the sons of others. They observe distinctions, however, between those other sons and their own
- The Lord took all this (Putana's assuming the form of a very beautiful woman and approaching Krsna exactly like an affectionate mother) into consideration, and thus she was automatically promoted to a position like that of mother Yasoda
- The Lord's favorite vegetables were cooked by Malinidevi, the wife of Srivasa Thakura. She devotedly considered herself a maidservant of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, but in affection she was just like a mother
- The mother always expects some sort of service from the grown-up child and is equally affectionate toward her child, even though the child is forgetful
- The offerings of devotees attracted to Krsna in parental love are always sincere. A mother likes to offer something to her child with affection and love; there is no question of envy
- The parental love of Mother Yasoda for Krsna steadily increases, and her love and ecstasy are sometimes described as intense affection and sometimes as overwhelming attachment
- The word amba is significant. A father sometimes addresses his daughter in affection as "mother" and sometimes as "my darling."
- The word mayamayam used in this verse (SB 5.18.17) should not be understood according to the interpretations of the Mayavadis. Maya means affection as well as illusion. When a mother deals with her child affectionately, she is called mayamaya
- There is the following description of Mother Yasoda's affection for Krsna: After rising early in the morning, Mother Yasoda first of all offered her breast milk to Krsna, and then she began to chant various mantras for His protection
- These things are very much eulogized in the society, child's simplicity, mother's affection. They are necessary. But they are not qualification to raise one to the spiritual platform
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- When Caitanya Mahaprabhu was only twenty-four or twenty-five years old He had a lovable, beautiful wife and a devoted, affectionate mother, He gave up everything and took sannyasa, the renounced order of life
- When I (Narada Muni) was a mere child of five years, I lived in a brahmana school. I was dependent on my mother's affection and had no experience of different lands
- When Krsna saw that Putana had come to kill Him, He thought that since this woman was present with motherly affection, although artificial, He had to offer her a benediction. Therefore He looked at her with a little perplexity and then closed eyes again
- While praying to the Lord for rescue, mother Devaki expressed her motherly affection
- While thus praying to the Lord for rescue, mother Devaki nonetheless expressed her motherly affection
- Without disturbing the ecstasy of His mother's affection, Krsna opened His mouth and displayed His own natural opulences