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No, loving Krishna will help her to love her son.

Urmila : I along with my son and father met Prabhupada up in his room. It was supposed to be a meeting just between Srila Prabhupada and us, but maybe 40 or 50 devotees came. I heard afterwards that Prabhupada said, "If I am meeting with some person, I should just meet with that person and not that everybody should come." So in that meeting my son was sitting on my lap and Prabhupada was talking to my father about Krishna. Prabhupada looked at me and said, "Just like this mother is loving her son without any expectation of return. In the same way, you should love Krishna." My father said, "Will loving her son help her to love Krishna?" Prabhupada said, "No, loving Krishna will help her to love her son." Sometimes now, however, I hear devotees say the way you love your family members will help you understand love for Krishna. But that's not what Prabhupada said. He said, "No." We have to do it the other way. He said, "If you eat good food, you'll have good eyesight. But if you put the food in your eye, you will become blind."


Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 4 by Siddhanta Dasa