Category:Our Affection (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The propensity to love and be loved is an inherent, indestructible quality of the spirit soul. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that this natural propensity cannot be artificially repressed; it must be purified. While material affection based on sense gratification inevitably leads to bondage and suffering, spiritual affection is eternal and reciprocal. By directing our affection toward Kṛṣṇa, the Deities, the spiritual master, and the preaching mission, we reawaken our original consciousness. Even within family life, true affection means guiding one's children back to Godhead rather than indulging in bodily attachment.
- The Illusion of Material Affection: Mundane attachment to pets, relatives, or temporary objects binds the soul to the cycle of repeated birth and death.
- The Perfection of Parental Love: True affection for one's children means disciplining and training them in Kṛṣṇa consciousness so they are liberated from material existence.
- Spiritual Reciprocation: Unlike the disappointments of the material world, offering sincere love and affection to the Supreme Lord and the spiritual master yields an eternal, deeply satisfying reciprocation.
- Awakening Real Affection: The ultimate goal of human life is to become free from false bondage and spread real sneha (spiritual affection) by placing Kṛṣṇa at the center of all relationships.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: How Prabhupāda Taught His Disciples to Center Our Affection on Kṛṣṇa.
Pages in category "Our Affection (Disciples of SP)"
The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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- I am so much obliged to you for your devotion and affection for me. I thought of you all throughout my journey from Francisco to New York and I was praying to Lord Krishna for your more and more advancement in Krishna Consciousness
- I am so much thankful to you for your affection for me, and I pray to Krishna that you may make progress more and more in Krishna Consciousness
- I must caution that we must be careful to avoid so far as possible affection for family based on sense gratification. Be happy in your family life by working cooperatively to please Krishna, and she should be your assistant
- I thank you for your very nice sentiments. I appreciate the affection that you have for our movement
- If by the Grace of Krishna you can live peacefully without any wife, completely devoted to K.C., that will be the best part of your life. You can love and put all your affection to the child, and try to make him fully K.C
- If you very much affectionate to your dog or something else, you will think at that time. Therefore practice Hare Krsna, so that at the time of death you can think of Krsna and your life is successful
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- That is real affection, to make sure my child gets back to Godhead, that is my real responsibility as a parent. And I have seen that Gurukula offers this opportunity more than any other place anywhere
- The Mayavadis think that they have themselves become Krishna. Similarly, if we think that we are Mother Yasoda, that will be the same philosophy. You should aspire to follow the footsteps of Mother Yasoda and Love Krishna in maternal affection
- Try as far as possible to discipline the children with love and affection, so that they develop a taste for austerity of life and think it great fun to serve Krishna in many ways