Category:Real Father
Theme Analysis
Redefining familial relationships through a profound spiritual lens, Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies that material parentage merely facilitates the temporary physical body. The original and eternal parent of every living entity is the Supreme Lord, who provides ultimate protection and maintenance. In Vedic culture, genuine parents are those who guide their offspring out of the cycle of birth and death, while the sacred scriptures and the bona fide spiritual master serve as the spiritual father bestowing the second, enlightened birth.
- The Supreme Original Father: Beyond the temporary bodily designations, God is the eternal source and maintainer of all spirit souls.
- The Role of Sāstra and Guru: The sacred Vedic scriptures and the spiritual master act as the factual father by delivering the soul from the darkness of material ignorance.
- Duty of Enlightened Parents: A true mother and father must take responsibility to elevate their children spiritually, stopping the repetition of birth and death.
- Overcoming Bodily Illusion: Identifying exclusively with the temporary physical parents is considered an animalistic vision; true knowledge requires recognizing the spiritual source.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Transcending the Animal Vision of the Body to Recognize Kṛṣṇa as the Real Father.
Pages in category "Real Father"
The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total.
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- A dog is also becoming a father. The such kind of father-becoming is not recommended in the Vedic civilization. Just become a real father to give the real benefit to the son. Then you become a father. This is called varnasrama-dharma
- A real father is one who does not allow his son to chew the chewed
- According to Vedic civilization, one is offered a sacred thread as a sign of second birth. One takes his second birth by dint of having received instructions in the sastra from a bona fide spiritual master. Therefore, sastra, scripture, is the real father
- After Krsna left the shelter of His real father and mother, He went to the lap of Yasodamayi to play the part of an ordinary cowherd boy in the blessed Vrajabhumi, which is very sanctified because of His childhood pastimes
- All the scriptures they are advising you to search out your real father. To search out your real father then you will be happy. Don't try to be happy by this false dress and false father, false platform. No
- Any father who gives chance to his children to become Krsna conscious, he's real father. Pita na sa syaj janani na sa syat . . . na mocayed yah samupeta-mrtyum
- Any intelligent man can understand that the real father, within the body, was a different thing. But our ignorance is so great that we accept this body, this dead body, as my father. This body is not only dead now; it was always dead
- Any parents who cannot enlighten their offspring in Krsna consciousness cannot be accepted as a real father and mother
- Anybody can say, "I do not know who is my father." And if the real father says, "I'm your father, my son," then how he can prove? How he does not know
- As a helpless child looks upon his father, so I look upon you in the absence of my real father
- At the time of death he understands that, "My real father, the soul, which was within this body, he has now gone." Therefore our vision is always imperfect
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- Devaki and Rohini said, "Actually They are not our sons; They belong to you. Nanda Maharaja and you (Yasodadevi) are the real father and mother of Krsna and Balarama"
- Devaki and Rohini said, "We shall never forget your kindly behavior toward us. When Krsna and Balarama were born, before They even saw Their real father and mother, They were entrusted to your care"
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- Every scripture will say that you find out your real father. Come back, back to Godhead that is the real
- Every spirit soul is son of God, but materially we think somebody as father. But real father is God. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita - BG 14.4
- Everyone naturally gets a father and mother at the time of birth, but the real father and mother are those who can release their offspring from the clutches of imminent death. This is possible only for parents advanced in Krsna consciousness
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- Have you seen the real father who is within the body of the father? Have you seen the real son which is in the body of the son? No. Then your whole conception of education, your whole conception of living condition and problems - in the false world
- He (Jinnah) was neither Muslim nor Hindu. He was an intelligent barrister. His father - means not real father - his father was Parsi, and he kept one Muhammadan girl. So the Jinnah is the issue of this - Muslims against the Hindus
- Here we make such relationship - mother, father, son, daughter, relative. Actually this is material nature made, in different bodies. Otherwise, real father is Krsna
- Higher caste means they must be twice-born. How is that? One birth is father and mother, real father and mother, and the next birth is spiritual master and the Vedas
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- If a child is born, I shall educate him in such a way that this birth will be his last. Next he is going to back to home, back to Godhead, - then produce a child. Otherwise don't produce. This is spiritual contraceptive. This is real father and mother
- If a man does not use his life to reawaken the relationship he has with his real Father, he is to be considered fallen in the human scale
- If the mother happens to be a cheater, then I am cheated. I am cheated. I don't get the information of my real father. But it is expected the mother should not cheat
- If you meditate on something nonsense, what is the use? This is going on. "Real father don't recognize; we are meditating." Misleading
- In one sense, Indra is the real father of Arjuna, and therefore indirectly he wanted to entertain Arjuna with the famous society girl of heaven, Urvasi, the celebrated beauty
- In the material world the varieties are reflection of the spiritual world. Here is also father, but this is imitation father. But there is also father, but that is not father, that is real father
- In the Rama incarnation He remained a king's son from His very childhood, but in the incarnation of Krsna, although He was the son of a king, He at once left the shelter of His real father & mother (King Vasudeva & Queen Devaki) just after His appearance
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- Krsna and Balarama continued, "Please rest assured that We shall come back to Vrndavana just after giving some satisfaction to Our real father and mother, Vasudeva and Devaki, and Our grandfather and other family members"
- Krsna and Balarama said, "Dear father and mother, although We were born of Vasudeva and Devaki, you have been Our real father and mother, because from Our very birth and childhood you raised Us with great affection and love"
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- Real father can say: "I am the father." Who can challenge him? Father is one. Who can? Nobody can say: "No, you are not father, he's father." No. The real father is father. Father cannot be replaced
- Real friend is Krsna. Real father is Krsna. Here husband, imitation husband. Real husband is Krsna. Master, imitation master. Real master is Krsna
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- Scripture is the real father
- Since our real father gives us food grains and our mother gives us milk with which to live, the cow and bull are considered our father and mother. According to Vedic civilization, there are seven mothers, of which the cow is one
- Suppose real father says: "I am the father of this boy." Who will challenge it
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- Tamasi ma jyotir gama: "Go to the light." Have real friendship, real fatherhood, real lover, real beloved, real son
- That (how the world is false) is explained by Caitanya Mahaprabhu, that reality, real father . . . if you accept Krsna as your father, oh, He'll give you all protection. If you accept Krsna as your husband, oh, there is no question of divorce
- That is the real father and mother: who begets children and make him devotee. That is real father and mother. Otherwise, cats and dogs
- The father helps the children to achieve Krsna and guru, that is real father
- The father-mother's duty is to stop repetition of birth and death. That is real father-mother. Otherwise dog is also doing that
- The same hand, legs, heads, coat, pant, everything is lying there. Why do you say that your father has gone away? That means the real father he has never seen. He has seen the illusion of his father
- These rajarsis, they were great personalities. They were, although on the royal throne, they were not for luxury and tax collecting. No. They were just exactly like real father, always thinking of the happiness of the prajas. It was actual democracy
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- Vasudeva also reminded Nanda Maharaja that Balarama did not know His real father. "He knows you as His father. And now you have another child, Krsna, and I think you are taking very nice care of both of Them"
- Vasudeva and Devaki were Krsna's real father and mother. Nobody is real father and mother of Krsna, because Krsna is the original father of everyone. But when Krsna comes here, advents, He accepts some devotees as His father, as His mother
- Very simple answer is: when the mother certifies, "He is your father," that's all. You don't have to make research. That is futile. By research, you cannot understand who is your real father
- Vidura's reference to the Mahabharata indicates that he had heard of the Mahabharata from Vyasadeva, his real father, while he was away from home and was touring the places of pilgrimage
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- We are not talking of foster; we are talking of real father. How do you know your real father
- We can perceive that "My real friend or my real father, the soul, who is different from this body . . ." And now, at the present moment, "He is my father, he is my friend who is this body" - that is animal vision
- We do not see the real father within the body, or we do not see the real son within the body. We see the outward dress only. This is ignorance
- When He was grown-up, His real father took Him charge, Vasudeva. He belonged to the ksatriya family. All other education was given: how to fight, how to rule, everything
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- Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja, they are foster father and mother. Real mother, father is Vasudeva and Devaki. So Nanda Maharaja came within the house and saw little Krsna, "Yes." He was playing
- You can understand your real father only by the certificate of your mother. That's all. Therefore our Vedic mantra says that religion and God cannot be manufactured by speculation
- You rascal, you cannot see your father. Why you are claiming that, "I want to see my real father." That is not possible. You have to simply hear from the mother. That is only source