Revatīnandana: Actually, I wanted to ask you about something like that. When I took sannyāsa in Calcutta, some time afterwards, I used to correspond with my parents. So I sent them a letter explaining what was sannyāsa, and that I had taken sannyāsa, and that I didn't want to hear so much more about nieces, nephews, things like that that I have in that family. I said "If you want to talk, now we have to talk about Kṛṣṇa consciousness." So I didn't hear anything from them for about six months. But just the other day I received a letter...
Prabhupāda: Then don't. Now you have taken sannyāsa, you don't.
Revatīnandana: I shouldn't do it at all.
Prabhupāda: No.
Revatīnandana: But she's quite intelligent. She's asking...
Prabhupāda: Your mother?
Revatīnandana: Yeah. ...all about Kṛṣṇa consciousness. She has the Gītā.
Prabhupāda: Your mother, your mother must be intelligent because you are intelligent. Your mother must be intelligent. Without mother being intelligent, no intelligent son comes out. A son inherits the quality of mother, and the daughter inherits the quality of father. This is natural.
Revatīnandana: The letter is so... She's told me, she says, "Two reasons I want to hear from you: one, I want to know how you are," that's the body. She says also, "I'm interested in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement," because she's noticed that the devotees...
Prabhupāda: That is mother's anxiety. You see all this?
Revatīnandana: So I should not respond?
Prabhupāda: Hm, you can send news: "Mother, I'm all right." That's all.
Revatīnandana: That's all right?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Don't worry. No. Caitanya Mahāprabhu also was sending news to His mother.
Revatīnandana: Oh, I see.
Prabhupāda: Although He never went to mother.
Revatīnandana: It's hard for the family, because my mother's brother is Viṣṇujana Mahārāja's father, right? So they also figure they have lost one son. They don't hear from him at all, and now she doesn't hear from me at all. So the whole family is very miserable. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: Hm. But they have lost for the better.
Revatīnandana: Yes, but they don't understand that. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: Lost not in vain. They will be benefited. They will be benefited. You are giving the best service to the family. What about your mother, Himavatī?
Himavatī: I never hear from her anymore.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Himavatī: I never hear from her anymore.
Prabhupāda: She's also not very happy?
Himavatī: No. I don't think she's very happy with me.
Prabhupāda: (laughs) Yes. Anyway, you serve Kṛṣṇa and then your mother will be best served. Kṛṣṇa will favor all the family members of a devotee. You have seen from Prahlāda Maharaja's statement. Kṛṣṇa is so kind that anyone coming to become His devotee, He takes care of the family of the devotee-spiritually, for their emancipation. That is natural.