Prabhupada, London, July 24, 1973: […] But if you cannot give the children cows’ milk, they will be rickety, not very healthy. They must drink sufficient milk. So cow is therefore considered mother.
Because one mother has given birth to the child, the another mother is supplying milk. So everyone should be obliged to mother cow, because she is supplying milk. So according to our sastra there are seven mothers. Adau mata, real mother, from whose body I have taken my birth. Adau mata, she is mother.
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Guru-patni, the wife of teacher. She is also mother. Adau mata guru-patni, brahmani. The wife of a brahmana, she is also mother. Adau mata guru-patni brahmani raja-patnika, the queen is mother. So how many? Adau mata guru-patni brahmani raja-patnika, then dhenu. Dhenu means cow. She is also mother. And dhatri.
Dhatri means nurse. Dhenu dhatri tatha prthvi, also the earth. Earth is also mother. The people are taking care of mother land, where he is born. That is good. But by the by they should take care of mother cow also.
But they are not taking care of mother. Therefore they are sinful. They must suffer. They must have, there must be war, pestilence, famine. As soon as people become sinful, immediately nature’s punishment will come automatically. You cannot avoid it.
Therefore Krishna consciousness movement means solution of all problems. Full Lecture
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