Sunday, May 11, 2014

Mother's Day: And the Seven Mothers

[As posted by Krishna Kirtan das. Good job. ys pd]

THE SEVEN MOTHERS

(1) ādau mātā: the first mother, to whom we are born.
(2) guru-patnī: the wife of the spiritual master.
(3) brāhmaṇī: the wife of a brahmana.
(4) rāja-patnikā: the wife of the king.
(5) dhenu: the cow, she gives us milk.
(6) dhātrī: the nurse.
(7) pṛthvī: the earth.


ātma-mātā guroḥ patnī
brāhmaṇī rāja-patnikā
dhenur dhātrī tathā pṛthvī
saptaitā mātaraḥ smṛtāḥ

"You get all your necessities of life from the earth. Now, you get food, you get drinking water, you get shelter, bamboo. You get cotton. Roti [bread] is there, kapara is there, and makan is there. And wherefrom it is coming? Sarva-kama-dugha mahi. From earth. Why you are after factories? The mother earth is giving you everything. Therefore she's called mother. [There are] seven mothers... One of the mothers is this earth. Dhenu dhatri tatha prthvi sapteti matari smrtah. Dhenu means cow, and dhatri means nurse. Tatha prthvi. Prthvi means this land. So they are taking care of the land, nationalists, and killing the other mother, dhenu [cow]. A rascal civilization.

If you are taking care of mother, you must take care of all mothers. No, they are mad after the land, but killing the other mother, dhenu. This is called rascaldom. ...to give all comforts to the human brother, and they are sending the animal brother to slaughterhouse. What is this Communist? If you are Communist, if you are equal to all your brothers, why you should discriminate? And our communism is that even there is a snake in your home, you must see that he is not starving. This is spiritual communism. Nobody likes snake. Everyone kills. But sastra says, 'Even a snake is there at your home, you must see that he's not starving.' This is communism, perfect."

[Srila Prabhupada, Mayapur Walk, 5 March 1976]

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