What is the reason for very strong attachment to one's mother over other family bonds?

Shri Anil asked: What is the reason for the very strong attachment to one’s mother even above other family bonds? At Your Lotus Feet, -anil]

Swami replied:- Always remember Adi Shankara, who is also born in Kerala and who abandoned His old mother even though He is the only son. Veda says Mātṛdevo Bhava and this statement means that God is the mother and mother is not God. The first wheel among the six wheels (worldly bonds) is mother or the earth present in the Muulaadhaara chakra. If this wheel is not crossed, even the first step is not put in the spiritual line. Always analyse with sharp intellectual analysis without getting fascinated towards any worldly bond and only then can you  find the truth either in Pravrutti or in Nivrutti.

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