Our only request is that "Take Krsna as the original father, original father"

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"Take Kṛṣṇa as the original father" |"Original father." |"our only request is that"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Our only request is that "Take Kṛṣṇa as the original father, original father." It is very easy to understand.

Lecture on BG 7.9-10 -- Bombay, February 24, 1974:

In another place Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā. The all living entities . . .

sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya

sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ yāḥ

tāsāṁ mahad yonir brahma

ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā

(BG 14.4)

Aham, the person. He is the . . . just like the father gives the seed in the womb of the mother and the child comes out. Similarly, sarva-bhūtānām, not only human being, but also all living entities. There are 8,400,000 species of living entities. The original bīja, the seed, the seed-giving father is Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is international or inter-universal. Kṛṣṇa is not a Hindu or Indian or this or that. Kṛṣṇa is for everyone. So I have explained to my foreign students, American, European and African and other that, "Kṛṣṇa is for everyone. Don't take it that Kṛṣṇa is for the Hindus, for the Indians, or for the Brāhmins or the Kṣatriyas. No. Kṛṣṇa is for everyone." Therefore our society's name is "Kṛṣṇa Consciousness."

So our only request is that, "Take Kṛṣṇa as the original father." Original father. It is very easy to understand. As I have got my father, my father has got father, his father, his father his . . . who is the original father? The original father is Kṛṣṇa. Ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā (BG 14.4). So where is the difficulty to understand? There must be one original father. If you go on researching who is the original father, then you'll come to the conclusion that Kṛṣṇa is the original father.