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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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The Vedic literature is to be considered the mother, and Vedic literature says, janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1): "The Supreme Absolute Truth is that who is the source of all generation, all emanations." And what is that source? Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā that "I am the father." So if you believe scriptures, Vedic literatures, if you believe Bhagavad-gītā, then you have to accept Kṛṣṇa as the supreme father, because the mother.
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[[Vanisource:680108 - Lecture CC Madhya 06.254 - Los Angeles|680108 - Lecture CC Madhya 06.254 - Los Angeles]]
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Nobody can deny it. Because our this body . . . just like the child's body is made by the mother. Father gives the opportunity to develop the body, and the mother supplies the ingredients for developing the body. Similarly, God impregnates, God impregnates material nature with the living entities, and they come out in different form: aquatics, birds, beasts, animals, trees, plants, vegetables—so many. And Kṛṣṇa says that "I am the father of all of them."

So my request to you, that don't accept Kṛṣṇa as something Indian god or Hindu god. No. Kṛṣṇa is the original father of all living entities. He claims. If you don't accept . . . if the father says: "You are my son," and the son says: "No, I am not your son," oh, that is son's prerogative. He may deny it if he doesn't believe his mother. Now what is the proof that one man is my father? The mother is the proof.

There is no other source of understanding who is my father. If a boy wants to understand, "Who is my father?" the only authority is the mother. Mother will say: "My dear boy, my dear child, here is your father," you have to accept. If you say: "I don't accept. I must have proof that he is my father," how it is possible? It is not possible.

Similarly, the Vedic literature is to be considered the mother, and Vedic literature says, janmādy asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]): "The Supreme Absolute Truth is that who is the source of all generation, all emanations." And what is that source? Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā that "I am the father." So if you believe scriptures, Vedic literatures, if you believe Bhagavad-gītā, then you have to accept Kṛṣṇa as the supreme father, because the mother . . .

Vedic literature is considered to be the mother. She gives evidence that Kṛṣṇa is the father. Just like mother gives evidence who is your father, similarly, the Vedic literatures is compared to a mother, and the Vedic literature says that Kṛṣṇa is the father.

In your Christian literature, Bible, Jesus Christ is accepted as the son of God. He presented himself as son of God. And here Kṛṣṇa says that, "I am the father." So there is no contradiction. The son of God also says about God, and the father also says about the God, Himself. The son of God says that, "You surrender unto God," and God says: "You surrender unto Me." Then where there is contradiction? There is no contradiction.
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