we say that there are four miseries of life.....birth, death ,oldage, diseases....but how birth is miserable.when a child takes birth everybody is happy...then how it is misery.....
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"Deriving its nutrition from the food and drink taken by the mother, the fetus grows and remains in that abominable residence of stools and urine, which is the breeding place of all kinds of worms. Bitten again and again all over the body by the hungry worms in the abdomen itself, the child suffers terrible agony because of his tenderness. He thus becomes unconscious moment after moment because of the terrible condition. Owing to the mother's eating bitter, pungent foodstuffs, or food which is too salty or too sour, the body of the child incessantly suffers pains which are almost intolerable. Placed within the amnion and covered outside by the intestines, the child remains lying on one side of the abdomen, his head turned towards his belly and his back and neck arched like a bow.The child thus remains just like a bird in a cage, without freedom of movement. At that time, if the child is fortunate, he can remember all the troubles of his past one hundred births, and he grieves wretchedly. What is the possibility of peace of mind in that condition?
- Srila Prabhupada on Pregnancy- September 23, 1967, Delhi, India
My dear Himavati,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter.
Please try to be steadfast in your time of pregnancy and Krishna will be pleased. Yours will be the first baby born into a KC family in America, so we must be very careful for him while he is in the womb.
In SB the environment of a child in the womb is described by Narada Muni as a very awful place and after nine months when the child has developed its body and consciousness to some degree the entrapped soul begs to Lord Krishna to set me free and promises that in this life he will be a devotee. At that time the baby is allowed to be born but, unfortunately during the Kali yuga as soon as the child is come out of the womb he is in 90% of the cases he is not given any facility to further its KC. However in your case Krishna has shown this soul great mercy.
The Bhagavat also says that no one should become the parent unless he can deliver the child from the clutches of death. So it is your duty to make this baby KC so that he may not have to take birth again. My advice for the present is that during your time of pregnancy you should eat very simple foods, hot or spicy foods are not to be taken and also sexual relations are forbidden.
birth is the cause of other 3 problems so it is the greatest problem...if one can surpass the problem of birth then no problem....actually thare are medical explanations of hw birth is so measurable while the embryo lives in the womb of the mother....
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Q. WHAT IS THE CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATH AND HOW TO STOP IT ? part 1.
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Q. WHAT IS THE CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATH AND HOW TO STOP IT ? part 2.
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Q. WHAT IS THE CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATH AND HOW TO STOP IT ? part 3.
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Q. WHAT IS THE CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATH AND HOW TO STOP IT ? part 4.
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Q. WHAT IS THE CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATH AND HOW TO STOP IT ? part 5.
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A quotation from Prabhupad's letters..
"Deriving its nutrition from the food and drink taken by the mother, the fetus grows and remains in that abominable residence of stools and urine, which is the breeding place of all kinds of worms. Bitten again and again all over the body by the hungry worms in the abdomen itself, the child suffers terrible agony because of his tenderness. He thus becomes unconscious moment after moment because of the terrible condition. Owing to the mother's eating bitter, pungent foodstuffs, or food which is too salty or too sour, the body of the child incessantly suffers pains which are almost intolerable. Placed within the amnion and covered outside by the intestines, the child remains lying on one side of the abdomen, his head turned towards his belly and his back and neck arched like a bow.The child thus remains just like a bird in a cage, without freedom of movement. At that time, if the child is fortunate, he can remember all the troubles of his past one hundred births, and he grieves wretchedly. What is the possibility of peace of mind in that condition?
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Hk prabhu, these letters and this picture are so precious, thank you so much for sharing it.