Natural affection for loved ones ultimately traces back to our eternal love for Krishna, our source.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Twenty-seven? Hari-śauri: Twenty-five. Devotee: Sa baddha. Prabhupāda: Twenty-five. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevaya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevaya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevaya.
[devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto Six, Chapter One, verse number twenty-five. [leads devotees in chanting] sa baddha-hṛdayas tasminn arbhake kala-bhāṣiṇi nirīkṣamāṇas tal-līlāṁ mumude jaraṭho bhṛśam [SB 6.1.25] [02:06] So the youngest child was very dear. Everyone... Sneha.
Sneha is, another meaning of sneha is oil, liquid. So sneha means affection. So this sneha word is used that there is a liquid, how you say it, goes to down. Liquid does not go up.
Slow. Similarly, we have got some affection, the affection goes to the lowest. Therefore father, mother's affection generally goes to the youngest. So here also Ajāmila, although he's a cheat, he's a rogue, he's a thief, he has learned all the bad quality, but still the sneha, the affection, that is not lost.
So this is natural. Similarly, we have got a natural feeling for Kṛṣṇa. If you study thoroughly, that is called meditation, that "Whom I love." Say for the first time, I love my body. If there is some danger I try to protect myself from the danger.
That means I love my body. So the next question will be: "Then why don't you love a dead body?" Suppose your wife or husband, you love, because the husband and wife is in the body, within the body, dehino 'smin yathā dehe [Bg 2.13]. So I love the body because the spirit soul is there. This is right conclusion. Otherwise who is going to love a dead body?
Nobody. Now if one's husband has died, or son has died, he's crying. You can say that "Why you are crying?" "Now my son is gone, my husband is gone." "No why gone. It is lying here." "No, no, no.