Krishna mercifully delivers fallen souls in Kali-yuga through the divine sound of His holy names, not through destruction.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.23 — July 13, 1974, Los Angeles 740713SB-LOS ANGELES [29:30 Minutes] SB-01.16.23_740713SB-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: [leads singing of Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa. [05:18] Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] advāmba te bhūri-bharāvatārakṛtāvatārasya harer dharitri antarhitasya smaratī visṛṣṭā karmāṇi nirvāṇa-vilambitāni [SB 1.16.23] [break] [07:54] Prabhupāda: Here mother earth, Dharitrī, "O Earth." Earth is being addressed. "The whole world is perturbed because the Kali-yuga has begun." Five thousand years ago, when the Kali-yuga began, so all persons were alarmed: "Now the Kali-yuga is begun. So many catastrophes will come in." So one instruction is that the earth is addressed "amba." Amba means mother.
So the earth is also our mother. There are seven kinds of mother: ādau-mātā guroḥ patnī. Real mother, from whose womb we have taken birth, she is called ādau-mātā, first mother. Then second mother, the guroḥ patnī.
Guru means teacher or spiritual master. His wife, she's also... Actually, according to strict moral instruction... Why strict?
Ordinary. Any woman except his own wife is mother. Any woman. It doesn't matter whether she is elderly or young.
No. That is the way. Still in India, any woman by unknown person, he can address any woman "Mother." The first relationship is mother. Now they have introduced "Sister," "Bahinajī." No, that is not Vedic etiquette.
No bahinajī. Bahinajī means sister. Mother. Everyone should be addressed.