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The Killing of the Demon Tṛṇāvarta
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other women of the neighborhood. On that day, there was a conjunction of the moon with the constellation Rohiṇi. As the brāhmaṇas joined by chanting Vedic hymns and professional musicians also took part, this great ceremony was observed by mother Yaśodā.
PURPORT
There is no question of overpopulation or of children's being a burden for their parents in a Vedic society. Such a society is so well organized and people are so advanced in spiritual consciousness that childbirth is never regarded as a burden or a botheration. The more a child grows, the more his parents become jubilant, and the child's attempts to turn over are also a source of jubilation. Even before the child is born, when the mother is pregnant, many recommended ritualistic ceremonies are performed. For example, when the child has been within the womb for three months and for seven months, there is a ceremony the mother observes by eating with neighboring children. This ceremony is called  svādabhakṣaṇa . Similarly, before the birth of the child there is the  garbhādhāna  ceremony. In Vedic civilization, childbirth or pregnancy is never regarded as a burden; rather, it is a cause for jubilation. In contrast, people in modern civilization do not like pregnancy or childbirth, and when there is a child, they sometimes kill it. We can just consider how human society has fallen since the inauguration of Kali-yuga. Although people still claim to be civilized, at the present moment there is actually no human civilization, but only an assembly of two-legged animals.
TEXT 5
नन्दस्य पत्नी कृतमज्जनादिकं
विप्रैः कृतस्वस्त्ययनं सुपूजितैः ।
अन्नाद्यवासःस्रगभीष्टधेनुभिः
संजातनिद्राक्षमशीशयच्छनैः ॥ ५ ॥
nandasya patnī kṛta-majjanādikam
vipraiḥ kṛta-svastyayanam supūjitaiḥ
annādya-vāsaḥ-srag-abhīṣṭa-dhenubhiḥ
sañjāta-nidrākṣam aśīśayac chanaiḥ