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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 33]
scriptures,  ātmaiva putro jāyate : the husband's body is represented by the son. Strictly speaking, a woman is never widowed if she has a grown-up son. Devahūti was not very much affected while Kapila Muni was there, but upon His departure she was very afflicted. She grieved not because of her worldly relationship with Kardama Muni but because of her sincere love for the Personality of Godhead.
The example given here is that Devahūti became just like a cow who has lost her calf. A cow bereft of her calf cries day and night. Similarly, Devahūti was aggrieved, and she always cried and requested her friends and relatives, "Please bring my son home so that I may live. Otherwise, I shall die." This intense affection for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although manifested as affection for one's son, is spiritually beneficial. Attachment for a material son obliges one to remain in material existence, but the same attachment, when transferred to the Supreme Lord, brings one elevation to the spiritual world in the association of the Lord.
Every woman can qualify herself as much as Devahūti and then can also have the Supreme Godhead as her son. If the Supreme Personality of Godhead can appear as the son of Devahūti, He can also appear as the son of any other woman, provided that woman is qualified. If one gets the Supreme Lord as a son, he can have the benefit of bringing up a nice son in this world and at the same time get promotion to the spiritual world to become the face-to-face associate of the Personality of Godhead.
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तमेव ध्यायतो देवमपत्यं कपिलं हरिम् । बभूवाचिरतो वत्स निःस्पृहा तादृशे गृहे ॥२२॥
tam eva dhyāyatī devam apatyam kapilam harim babhūvācirato vatsa niḥspṛhā tādṛśe gṛhe
tam —upon him;  eva —certainly;  dhyāyatī —meditating;  devam —divine;  apatyam —son;  kapilam —Lord Kapila;  harim —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  babhūvācirato vatsa —became;  acirataḥ —very soon;  vatsa —O dear Vidura;  niḥspṛhā —unattached;  tādṛśe gṛhe —to such a home.