Jayapataka Swami: It is not clear that you are married or not? In the question you only wrote about mother and father. Definitely a mother has a duty to train her children in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And that is also a service to guru and Kṛṣṇa. If one is able to help the husband, or the children, or the parents, or anyone to be Kṛṣṇa conscious, that is also a service to guru and Kṛṣṇa. When children grow up, then maybe you will have time for service in the temple. If you marry a devotee, you should make a plan how to do service to Kṛṣṇa. But Śrīla Prabhupāda wrote a famous letter to Arundati, that taking care of her child was her deity worship. We don’t want children to complain that my mother did not love me, because she was busy in deity worship or something. So Śrīla Prabhupāda’s parents gave a lot of attention to Śrīla Prabhupāda and then he became Śrīla Prabhupāda!
12-Dec-2020 ŚRĪ MĀYĀPUR DHAM, INDIA