Bhagavatam on the State of the Baby in the Womb

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SB 3.31.1: The Personality of Godhead said: Under the supervision of

the Supreme Lord and according to the result of his work, the living

entity, the soul, is made to enter into the womb of a woman through

the particle of male semen to assume a particular type of body.

 

SB 3.31.2: On the first night, the sperm and ovum mix, and on the

fifth night the mixture ferments into a bubble. On the tenth night it

develops into a form like a plum, and after that, it gradually turns

into a lump of flesh or an egg, as the case may be.

 

SB 3.31.3: In the course of a month, a head is formed, and at the end

of two months the hands, feet and other limbs take shape. By the end

of three months, the nails, fingers, toes, body hair, bones and skin

appear, as do the organ of generation and the other apertures in the

body, namely the eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth and anus.

 

SB 3.31.4: Within four months from the date of conception, the seven

essential ingredients of the body, namely chyle, blood, flesh, fat,

bone, marrow and semen, come into existence. At the end of five

months, hunger and thirst make themselves felt, and at the end of six

months, the fetus, enclosed by the amnion, begins to move on the

right side of the abdomen.

 

SB 3.31.5: 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.

 

SB 3.31.6: 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.

 

SB 3.31.7: 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.

 

SB 3.31.8: 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.

 

SB 3.31.9: 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?

 

SB 3.31.10: Thus endowed with the development of consciousness from

the seventh month after his conception, the child is tossed downward

by the airs that press the embryo during the weeks preceding

delivery. Like the worms born of the same filthy abdominal cavity, he

cannot remain in one place.

 

SB 3.31.11: The living entity in this frightful condition of life,

bound by seven layers of material ingredients, prays with folded

hands, appealing to the Lord, who has put him in that condition.

 

SB 3.31.12: The human soul says: I take shelter of the lotus feet of

the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who appears in His various

eternal forms and walks on the surface of the world. I take shelter

of Him only, because He can give me relief from all fear and from Him

I have received this condition of life, which is just befitting my

impious activities.

 

SB 3.31.13: I, the pure soul, appearing now bound by my activities,

am lying in the womb of my mother by the arrangement of maya. I offer

my respectful obeisances unto Him who is also here with me but who is

unaffected and changeless. He is unlimited, but He is perceived in

the repentant heart. To Him I offer my respectful obeisances.

 

SB 3.31.14: I am separated from the Supreme Lord because of my being

in this material body, which is made of five elements, and therefore

my qualities and senses are being misused, although I am essentially

spiritual. Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is

transcendental to material nature and the living entities, because He

is devoid of such a material body, and because He is always glorious

in His spiritual qualities, I offer my obeisances unto Him.

 

SB 3.31.15: The human soul further prays: The living entity is put

under the influence of material nature and continues a hard struggle

for existence on the path of repeated birth and death. This

conditional life is due to his forgetfulness of his relationship with

the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, without the Lord's

mercy, how can he again engage in the transcendental loving service

of the Lord?

 

SB 3.31.16: No one other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as

the localized Paramatma, the partial representation of the Lord, is

directing all inanimate and animate objects. He is present in the

three phases of time -- past, present and future. Therefore, the

conditioned soul is engaged in different activities by His direction,

and in order to get free from the threefold miseries of this

conditional life, we have to surrender unto Him only.

 

SB 3.31.17: Fallen into a pool of blood, stool and urine within the

abdomen of his mother, his own body scorched by the mother's gastric

fire, the embodied soul, anxious to get out, counts his months and

prays, "O my Lord, when shall I, a wretched soul, be released from

this confinement?"

 

SB 3.31.18: My dear Lord, by Your causeless mercy I am awakened to

consciousness, although I am only ten months old. For this causeless

mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the friend of all fallen

souls, there is no way to express my gratitude but to pray with

folded hands.

 

SB 3.31.19: The living entity in another type of body sees only by

instinct; he knows only the agreeable and disagreeable sense

perceptions of that particular body. But I have a body in which I can

control my senses and can understand my destination; therefore, I

offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead,

by whom I have been blessed with this body and by whose grace I can

see Him within and without.

 

SB 3.31.20: Therefore, my Lord, although I am living in a terrible

condition, I do not wish to depart from my mother's abdomen to fall

again into the blind well of materialistic life. Your external

energy, called deva-maya, at once captures the newly born child, and

immediately false identification, which is the beginning of the cycle

of continual birth and death, begins.

 

SB 3.31.21: Therefore, without being agitated any more, I shall

deliver myself from the darkness of nescience with the help of my

friend, clear consciousness. Simply by keeping the lotus feet of Lord

Vishnu in my mind, I shall be saved from entering into the wombs of

many mothers for repeated birth and death.

 

SB 3.31.22: Lord Kapila continued: The ten-month-old living entity

has these desires even while in the womb. But while he thus extols

the Lord, the wind that helps parturition propels him forth with his

face turned downward so that he may be born.

 

SB 3.31.23: Pushed downward all of a sudden by the wind, the child

comes out with great trouble, head downward, breathless and deprived

of memory due to severe agony.

 

SB 3.31.24: The child thus falls on the ground, smeared with stool

and blood, and plays just like a worm germinated from the stool. He

loses his superior knowledge and cries under the spell of maya.

 

SB 3.31.25: After coming out of the abdomen, the child is given to

the care of persons who are unable to understand what he wants, and

thus he is nursed by such persons. Unable to refuse whatever is given

to him, he falls into undesirable circumstances.

 

SB 3.31.26: Laid down on a foul bed infested with sweat and germs,

the poor child is incapable of scratching his body to get relief from

his itching sensation to say nothing of sitting up, standing or even

moving.

 

SB 3.31.27: In his helpless condition, gnats, mosquitoes, bugs and

other germs bite the baby, whose skin is tender, just as smaller

worms bite a big worm. The child, deprived of his wisdom, cries

bitterly.

 

SB 3.31.28: In this way, the child passes through his childhood,

suffering different kinds of distress, and attains boyhood. In

boyhood also he suffers pain over desires to get things he can never

achieve. And thus, due to ignorance, he becomes angry and sorry.

 

SB 3.31.29: With the growth of the body, the living entity, in order

to vanquish his soul, increases his false prestige and anger and

thereby creates enmity towards similarly lusty people.

 

SB 3.31.30: By such ignorance the living entity accepts the material

body, which is made of five elements, as himself. With this

misunderstanding, he accepts nonpermanent things as his own and

increases his ignorance in the darkest region.

 

 

 

vediculture, "vrnparker" <vrnparker>

wrote:

> New Study Shows Pre Born Children Cry in the Womb

> In Light of Abortion, Will America Finally Listen? asks Phil

Magnan,

> Executive Director of Biblical Family Advocates

>

> "Every mother recognizes the very human trait of the 'little

> quivering lower lip of their child', that usually stirs up great

care

> and sympathy for their child. This new study once again confirms

the

> very personal face of a small child in the womb, that now is shown

to

> be 'crying out'.

>

> National Desk

>

> Contact: Phil Magnan, director of Biblical Family Advocates, BFA,

619-

> 933-1839

>

> SAN DIEGO, Aug. 29 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Phil Magnan,

Executive

> Director of Biblical Family Advocates is calling on all Americans

to

> consider a recent study that has shown that the child in the womb

> exhibits very familiar human behaviors in the womb. The pre born

> child not only cries in the womb, but "even their bottom lip

> quivers." So said New Zealand Pediatrician Ed Mitchell who helped

> with the U.S. study.

>

> The study, which can be found at

> http://fn.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/90/5/F415 revealed

> that the pre born child cries in the womb at 28 weeks.

>

> "Every mother recognizes the very human trait of the 'little

> quivering lower lip of their child', that usually stirs up great

care

> and sympathy for their child. This new study once again confirms

the

> very personal face of a small child in the womb, that now is shown

to

> be 'crying out'. When will America truly listen to the 'crying out'

> of a child being aborted? I know that late term abortions are

> performed by delivering the child 'feet first' so that you will not

> hear their screams of pain," says Phil Magnan Executive Director of

> BFA.

>

> Magnan went on to say, that "When you consider the fact that pre

born

> children feel pain in the womb, this more recent study shows that

the

> pre born child must be screaming terribly when they are dismembered

> by abortion. How many human behaviors must one exhibit before we

> recognize and extend full human rights to a person in the womb? If

> these little one's feel pain in the first trimester, if they are

> capable of having measurable brain waves at 42 days after

conception,

> or have REM dream sleep at 17 weeks and have been shown to cry at

28

> weeks, probably even earlier, what more will it take before America

> wakes up to it's ongoing genocide?" Biblical Family Advocates is a

> Christian pro family organization protecting and promoting the

moral

> interests of millions of families and churches throughout the U.S.

> and around the world.

> http://www.earnedmedia.org/bfa0829.htm