Prabhupada: Yes. So all the mothers of my disciples, they will get salvation, because she has got nice son like…

Jayatirtha: All the mothers will get salvation.

Prabhupada: Oh, yes.

Mrs. Wax: Oh, good. [laughter]

Devotee (3): What about the fathers?

Prabhupada: Father also. Both the father and mother. Because they are father and mother of a Vaisnava devotee, so they will be taken special care. You’ll find from the Prahlada Maharaja’s description. Even a father like Hiranyakasipu, he got salvation because Prahlada was son.

Devotee: Srila Prabhupada, it seems strange that so many parents who are engaged in meat-eating and illicit sex and intoxication and gambling could have a son who would become a Vaisnava.

Prabhupada: Therefore they will get the advantage of the son. Somehow or other, they have produced a son, Vaisnava, so the son’s activities will react upon the life of the parents. Because naturally the sons think of the father and mother, that is beneficial for them. However one may be renounced, he cannot get rid of family affection. That is natural. So the Vaisnava son sometimes thinks of the father and mother. So they are getting the benefit.

Devotee: So sometimes the attachment is beneficial, then?

Prabhupada: Yes.

> Room Conversation with Mr. & Mrs. Wax — July 5, 1975, Chicago