Srila Prabhupada said "The soul has no by-product" (children)

na jayate mriyate va kadacin
                      nayam bhutva bhavita va na bhuyah
                        ajo nityah sasvato 'yam purano
                         na hanyate hanyamane sarire

                                 



TRANSLATION
Purport
     For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.. The soul, however, does not go through such changes.     



Purport
The soul is not born, but, because he takes on a material body, the body takes its birth.

The soul does not take birth there, and the soul does not die. Anything which has birth also has death.

And because the soul has no birth, he therefore has no past, present or future. He is eternal, ever-existing, and primeval--that is, there is no trace in history of his coming into being.

Under the impression of the body, we seek the history of birth, etc., of the soul.

The soul does not at any time become old, as the body does.

The so-called old man, therefore, feels himself to be in the same spirit as in his childhood or youth. The changes of the body do not affect the soul. The soul does not deteriorate like a tree, nor anything material.

The soul has no by-product either. The by-products of the body, namely children, are also different individual souls; and, owing to the body, they appear as children of a particular man. The body develops because of the soul's presence, but the soul has neither offshoots nor change. Therefore, the soul is free from the six changes of the body.




     
        samasrita ye pada-pallava-plavam
   tavad vibho tanu-bhrtam tvad-upeksitanam
Srimad Bhagavatam, 7.9.19


        "O Nrsimha, O Almighty Lord, precautions and remedies are only short-lived when attempted by the suffering embodied souls who are not favored by You.
Parents are not the guardians of their child,
medicine is not the cure for the diseased,
and a boat is not the savior of a man drowning in the ocean."

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