Category:Good Son
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains the profound material and spiritual significance of having a good son. According to Vedic culture, a true son is called apatya, one who protects his father from falling into hellish conditions by offering spiritual oblations. A good son makes a family famous, brings immense fortune, and fulfills the higher purpose of marriage, provided the parents regulate their lives to attract such an elevated soul. However, material attachment even to a well-behaved child can be a hindrance to spiritual progress. On a higher platform, everyone is meant to be a good son of the Supreme Father, Kṛṣṇa. A pure devotee perfectly exemplifies this by depending entirely on the Lord, spreading His message, and treating all living entities as brothers. Ultimately, the greatest blessing is to raise a child as a pure devotee, transforming the family into an eternal spiritual asset.
- The Duty to the Father: The word apatya signifies a son who faithfully protects his father's spiritual destination through the performance of Vedic sacrifices and offerings.
- Regulating Generation: The birth of a highly qualified son is the only valid justification for sex life, requiring strict regulation and purity, especially from the mother.
- Material Blessings and Curses: While a good son brings fortune and fame to a family, the resulting deep attachment to home can prevent an intelligent person from achieving spiritual detachment.
- The Supreme Father: Just as a loyal son loves his siblings, a true devotee recognizes Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Father and treats all other living entities with brotherly compassion.
- Spiritual Progeny: The highest perfection of family life and national pride is to raise children as pure devotees who actively spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the rest of the world.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: A Good Son is Called Apatya, One Who Does Not Allow His Father to Fall Down.
Pages in category "Good Son"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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- A good son is called apatya, one who does not allow his father to fall down. The son can protect the father's soul when the father is dead by offering sacrifices to please the Supreme Lord, Visnu. This system is still prevalent in India
- A man is considered to be fortunate in three ways. If he has got good wife then he is fortunate. If he has got good son then he is fortunate. And if he has got plenty money he is fortunate
- Although he (Daksa) was the father of such good sons (the Haryasvas), he had lost them all. Certainly this was lamentable
- As a good son of the father behaves in a friendly way with all his other brothers, so also the devotee of the Lord, being a good son of the supreme father, Lord Krsna, sees all other living beings in relation with the supreme father
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- I have left my hearth and home in India but here by the Grace of the Lord I have got good sons and daughter like you
- It is the duty of the son to depend upon his father without asking anything from him. The good son has faith that the father knows best how to benefit him. Similarly, a pure devotee does not ask anything from the Lord for material benefit
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- Kandarpa is the sex desire for presenting good sons; therefore Kandarpa is the representative of Krsna. Sometimes sex is engaged in only for sense gratification; such sex does not represent Krsna. BG 1972 purports
- King Anga thought: A bad son is better than a good son because a good son creates an attachment for home, whereas a bad son does not. A bad son creates a hellish home from which an intelligent man naturally becomes very easily detached
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- The devotee of the Lord, being a good son of the supreme father, Lord Krsna, sees all other living beings in relation with the supreme father
- The great politician Canakya said that if there is a good tree within a garden or forest, its flowers will fill the forest with their fragrance. Similarly, a good son within a family makes the whole family famous all over the world
- The Haryasvas, the sons of Prajapati Daksa, were certainly well behaved, learned and advanced, and in accordance with the order of their father they went to perform austerities to beget good sons for their family
- The Lord is very kind to the forgetful souls. He therefore comes Himself and leaves behind necessary instructions and also sends His good sons as representatives to call all the conditioned souls back to Godhead
- There are certain sacrifices to perform to attain a good son or to attain elevation to the higher planets, but sacrifices prompted by desires should be stopped. BG 1972 purports
- This is especially true for boys; if the mother is not good, there cannot be good sons. The learned Kasyapa could foresee the character of the sons who would be born of the condemned womb of Diti
- To have a good son, Maharaja Agnidhra wanted a wife from a family of demigods. Therefore he went to Mandara Hill, where the women of the demigods generally come, to worship Lord Brahma