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The Movements of the Living Entities
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undergone at birth and death by reading the authorized scriptures like  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . If we do not believe in the scriptures, that is a different question, but if we have faith in the authority of such descriptions, then we must prepare for our freedom in the next life; that is possible in this human form of life. One who does not take heed of these indications of suffering in human existence is said to be undoubtedly committing suicide. It is said that this human form of life is the only means for crossing over the nescience of  māyā , or material existence. We have a very efficient boat in this human form of body, and there is a very expert captain, the spiritual master; the scriptural injunctions are like favorable winds. If we do not cross over the ocean of nescience of material existence in spite of all these facilities, then certainly we are all intentionally committing suicide.
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अरम्य सप्तमान्पासाङ्ग्यबोधोऽपि वेपितः । नैकत्रास्ते स्मृतिवातैर्विष्ठाभूरिव सोदरः ॥१०॥
ārabhya saptamān māsāl labdha-bodho 'pi vepitaḥ naikatrāste sūti-vātair viṣṭhā-bhūr iva sodaraḥ
ārabhya —beginning;  saptamāt māsāt —from the seventh month;  labdha-bodhaḥ —endowed with consciousness;  api —although;  vepitaḥ —tossed;  na —not;  ekatra —in one place;  āste —he remains;  sūti-vātaiḥ —by the winds for childbirth;  viṣṭhā-bhūḥ —the worm;  iva —like;  sa-udaraḥ —born of the same womb.
TRANSLATION
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.
PURPORT
At the end of the seventh month the child is moved by the bodily air and does not remain in the same place because the entire uterine system