| "The cow, according to Vedic civilization, is considered mother. Why not mother? She is supplying milk. Why mother is respectful? Why we offer our respect to mother? Because when you are helpless, we cannot eat anything, the mother supplies milk from the breast. Mother means who supplies the food. So if the cow is supplying food, milk—milk is so nutritious and full of vitamin—and she is our mother. In the śāstra there are seven mothers, according to Vedic civilization. Seven mothers. One mother is real mother, from whose womb we have taken birth. Ādau mātā. This is the real mother. Guru-patnī, the wife of spiritual master or teacher, she is mother. Ādau mātā guru-patnī brāhmaṇī. The wife of a brāhmaṇa, she is also mother. Actually, a civilized man sees all women except his own wife as mother. Not seven, eight—everyone."
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