SLOKA OF THE DAY:

Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 9 Text 17
pitaham asya jagato
mata dhata pitamahah
vedyam pavitram omkara
rk sama yajur eva ca

pita--father; aham--I; asya--of this; jagatah--universe; mata--mother; dhata--supporter; pitamahah--grandfather; vedyam--what is to be known; pavitram--that which purifies; om-kara--the syllable om; rk--the Rg Veda; sama--the Sama Veda; yajuh--the Yajur Veda; eva--certainly; ca--and.

TRANSLATION

I am the father of this universe, the mother, the support and the grandsire. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier and the syllable om. I am also the Rg, the Sama and the Yajur Vedas.

JOURNAL:

Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport; In the material existence we create different relationships with different living entities who are nothing but Krsna's marginal energy; under the creation of prakrti some of them appear as our father, mother, grandfather, creator, etc., but actually they are parts and parcels of Krsna. As such, these living entities who appear to be our father, mother, etc., are nothing but Krsna.

I remember a friend of mine, after listening to me complain about my wife, saying, "She may be your wife but remember, she is God's daughter".

How many times must I be told to respect my fellow man? How long before I get it through my head? The Paramatma lives in all of us. Disrespecting people is the same thing as throwing rocks at a church window. I would never do that and it is only a material building. Yet, I find myself doing that very same thing, time and again, to a "living building".