Family attachment blocks spiritual progress unless the whole family practices Krishna consciousness together.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Devotees repeat] [leads chanting, synonyms, etc., devotees respond] durāpūreṇa kāmena mohena ca balīyasā śeṣaṁ gṛheṣu saktasya pramattasyāpayāti hi [SB 7.6.8] [04:37] Translation: "One whose mind and senses are uncontrolled becomes increasingly attached to family life because of insatiable lusty desires and very strong illusion.
In such a madman's life, the remaining years are also wasted because even during those years he cannot engage himself in devotional service." Prabhupāda: durāpūreṇa kāmena mohena ca balīyasā śeṣaṁ gṛheṣu saktasya pramattasyāpayāti hi [SB 7.6.8] The calculation of life is already given account. Maximum years, hundred years. Fifty years by sleeping, minus. Then fifty years remains.
Then twenty years childhood and playing. Then, remaining thirty years, and twenty years in old age, invalidity, not fulfillment of desires, what to do. In this way twenty years, and balance ten years, because all along one is directed by lusty desires, what he'll do. Prahlāda Mahārāja is trying to establish his submission.
It is not theory, but submission, that kaumāra ācaret prājño dharmān bhāgavatān iha [SB 7.6.1]. From the very childhood this bhāgavata-dharma should be taught and learned. Just like here, these boys, they are very fortunate, because from the very beginning of their life they are being taught in bhāgavata-dharma. They are coming, take a little flower, offering to the Deity or the spiritual master, offering obeisances, chanting, taking little prasādam—these are all taken into account.
Every inch of it. It is not that playfully they are doing this. No. Because bhakti-mārga...
Kṛṣṇa says, man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru [Bg 18.65]. Four things: "Always think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me and offer obeisances unto Me." Four things. So even the child can do it. The child can, because he is mixing with devotees, he's seeing the Deity, naturally his mind always thinks of Kṛṣṇa, naturally, psychology. So man-manā, and they're coming to the temple, mad-bhakta, becoming bhakta.
Offering obeisances to the Deity, to the spiritual master, to the Vaiṣṇavas, bhakta, they're becoming bhaktas. And little flower, fruits, offering to the Deity, mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru. It is so easy. And by practicing this, Kṛṣṇa says if you do this only, then mām evaiṣyasi, you come back.