Vīrabhadra: Aren't we all the sons of God?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Devotee (2): (to child) You're thinking that Lord Jesus Christ had a relationship with Joseph. Joseph was married to his mother Mary. And so he's thinking what is his . . . what is Jesus's relationship with Joseph, since Jesus is son of God, and Joseph raised him up from little boy?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Just like every spirit soul is son of God, but materially we think that some . . . somebody as father. But real father is God. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā:
- sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya
- sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ yāḥ
- tāsāṁ mahad yonir brahma
- ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā
- (BG 14.4)
This mahat-tattva, this material world, just like a child, a child is born, the father gives the seed and mother develops the body. The child's body is developed . . . actually all, all of us, we have got this body from mother. Therefore we have got very natural affinity with mother.
The child can forget his father, but he cannot forget his mother. Mother's relationship is so intimate. Similarly, this material body we have got from the material energy; therefore we are so much materialist. We are thinking of this country, that community, this family, all materialistic, because this body is material. But so far spirit soul I am concerned, I am the son or the part and parcel of the Supreme.