Category:Whole Family
Theme Analysis
The category Whole Family reveals how deeply one person's spiritual condition affects everyone connected with them. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that family life is not spiritually neutral: it can either become a powerful support for Kṛṣṇa consciousness or a binding force of attachment, anxiety, and material consequence. A devotee of Kṛṣṇa can bring purification to the whole family, even across generations, because devotional service touches the soul and invokes the Lord's mercy beyond ordinary social calculation. At the same time, the quotes warn that envy, offense, false prestige, neglect of dharma, or sinful leadership can bring distress, disgrace, or even destruction upon an entire household or dynasty. Thus the true welfare of the whole family is achieved when one becomes a sincere devotee and helps establish devotional principles at home.
- Devotion Purifies the Family: Śrīla Prabhupāda repeatedly states that a sincere devotee, even if born in a caṇḍāla family, can purify the whole family by devotional service. This shows that bhakti is more powerful than birth, caste, status, or external qualification, because it directly connects the living being with Kṛṣṇa.
- Kṛṣṇa Conscious Household Life: Family attachment can be the greatest impediment to spiritual advancement when it is centered on material possession and bodily identity. But when the whole family becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious, the same household becomes favorable for service, training, cooperation, and spiritual perfection.
- One Person Affects the Whole Lineage: Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that one good son can glorify the whole family, just as one bad son can turn the family into ashes. Individual conduct therefore carries a wider responsibility, because spiritual purity or sinful behavior naturally influences relatives, descendants, reputation, and destiny.
- Protection and Service in Family Duty: The examples of the Pāṇḍavas, the Yadus, Sītādevī, and Lord Rāmacandra show that genuine family duty is rooted in dharma, sacrifice, and protection. Such protection is not sentimental attachment but righteous action performed in relation to the Lord and His devotees.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Through Kṛṣṇa Consciousness the Whole Family Is Purified.
Pages in category "Whole Family"
The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
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- A chaste devotee of the Lord (Krsna) does not look to others, namely any other living being or demigod, even for deliverance from danger. That was all along the characteristic of the whole family of the Pandavas
- A devotee, although born in a candala (dog-eater) family, can purify his whole family for one hundred generations, past and future, by devotional service, whereas a proud brahmana cannot even purify himself
- According to Vedic scripture, if someone dies in the family the whole family becomes contaminated for some time, according to its status
- Akrura said, "My dear Krsna & Balarama, it is very kind of You to have killed Kamsa & his associates. You have delivered the whole family of the Yadu dynasty from the greatest calamity. The Yadus will always remember Your saving of their great dynasty"
- Arjuna and Krsna was of the same age, but Arjuna looks older; Krsna looks younger. And Krsna at that time had great-grandchildren. His grandchildren & His grandchildren's children were present at that time. The whole family extended to about ten millions
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- Family attachment is the greatest impediment in the matter of advancing in Krsna consciousness, but if the whole family is Krsna conscious, that is very nice
- For that one Sita, war was declared against Ravana, and the whole family dynasty with kingdom, everything was finished. So this is the duty of the husband
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- He (a devotee born in candala family) is not only personally becoming purified, but his parents, his father, his brother. sa kulam. Kulam means the whole family
- He (Bhisma) lamented that although the whole Pandava family was headed by King Yudhisthira, the most pious king, and protected by the two great warriors Bhima and Arjuna
- He (Duryodhana) could not accept the sound advice of Vidura, but on the contrary he insulted that great soul, who was the well-wisher of his whole family. Vidura could understand this because he was a pure devotee of the Lord
- He (Tapana Misra) washed the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and afterwards he and his whole family drank the wash water. He also worshiped Balabhadra Bhattacarya and showed him respect
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- I have no objection if the whole Vasudeva Punja family be trained up and take charge of the temple. Local men should not simply become a visitor but they should be trained up to take charge of the temple
- I simply want to see that you, your wife and your whole family become perfect Vaisnavas, Krsna's devotees. Remain in your position and try to understand the philosophy - that will make you perfect
- If a sva-paca or candala is a devotee, he delivers not only himself but his whole family, whereas a brahmana who is not a devotee but simply has brahminical qualifications cannot even purify himself, what to speak of his family
- If both Krsna and Balarama were engaged in fighting with Kalayavana at one place, Jarasandha might come at another to attack the whole Yadu family and take his revenge
- If he (an householder) cannot do that (receive a guest saying: "Welcome"), then he should feel very sorry for his poor condition and shed tears and simply offer obeisances with his whole family, wife and children
- In a family if there is one good boy, he can glorify the whole family and similarly if there is bad boy he can turn the whole family into ashes
- Instead of winning the favor of the real goddess of fortune, Ravana and his whole family were vanquished by the power of Durgadevi - srsti-sthiti-pralaya-sadhana-saktir eka
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- Kasi Misra hinted to the King, "It is not the Lord's desire that you forfeit the payment. He is unhappy only because the whole family is troubled"
- Ksatriya's business is to give protection. Just like Krsna was playing as a ksatriya in Dvaraka. As soon as there is some attack, immediately whole family goes to fight - Krsna, Balarama, Pradyumna
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- She (Vatsara's wife) had all good qualities for managing household affairs. If both the husband and wife are endowed with good qualities and live peacefully, then nice children take birth, and thus the whole family is happy and prosperous
- Sitadevi was kidnapped. Ramacandra is the Supreme Lord; He could have married many thousands of Sita. But as the dutiful husband, to rescue one wife He killed the whole family of Ravana. This is protection
- Such a devotee is better than such a brahmana because the devotee can purify his whole family, whereas the so-called brahmana in a position of false prestige cannot purify even himself
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- 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 Pandava, whole Pandava family, they are devotees. Therefore, simply if you become devotee of Lord Krsna, then you acquire all the daivi sampat, and then your life is successful
- The remnants of food left by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu were taken by the whole family of Tapana Misra. When news spread that the Lord had come, Candrasekhara came to see Him
- These cows (given by Nanda Maharaja), fully qualified to give ample milk, were given to the brahmanas in charity, and the brahmanas accepted them and bestowed blessings upon the whole family, and especially upon Krsna - SB 10.7.16
- This man who is born even in the family of a dog-eater, but because he has engaged himself fully and solely in the service of the Lord, he not only purifies himself, but he purifies his whole family
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- Unfortunately, his (a qualified person's) whole life can be disturbed by a wife who divorces him. When the husband is disturbed, the whole family is ruined, the children are dispersed, or the business is closed, and everything is affected
- Unfortunately, his whole life can be disturbed by a wife who divorces him; when the husband is disturbed, the whole family is ruined, the children are dispersed or the business is closed, and everything is affected
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- When Sitadevi was finally delivered from the clutches of Ravana, Ravana's whole family and kingdom, and Ravana himself, were vanquished. When Sitadevi came home she was tried by fire, and after some days she was again banished to the forest
- With one paisa in those days, one could purchase sufficient vegetables to provide for a whole family. Even thirty years ago, vegetables were occasionally so inexpensive that one paisa’s worth could provide for a whole family for a day