So far as the body is concerned, O Bharata, it is the father and the mother who creates it. That birth, however, which the Acharya ordains, is considered as the true birth which is really unfading and immortal.
शरीरमेतौ सृजतः पिता माता च भारत॥ आचार्यशास्ता या जाति: सा सत्या साजरामरा।