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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 31]
upasarpati —she captures;  deva-māyā —the external energy of the Lord;  mithyā —false;  matiḥ —identification;  yat —which  māyā ;  anu —according to;  saṁsṛti —of continual birth and death;  cakram —cycle;  etat —this.
TRANSLATION
Therefore, my Lord, although I am living in a terrible condition, still 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-māyā , at once captures the newly born child, and immediately false identification, which is the beginning of the cycle of continual birth and death, begins.
PURPORT
As long as the child is within the womb of his mother, he is in a very precarious and horrible condition of life, but the benefit is that he revives pure consciousness of his relationship with the Supreme Lord and prays for deliverance. But once he is outside the abdomen, when a child is born,  māyā  or the illusory energy is so strong that he is immediately overpowered into considering his body to be his self.  Māyā  means illusion, or that which is actually not. In the material world, everyone is identifying with his body. This false egoistic consciousness of “I am this body” at once develops after the child comes out of the womb. The mother and other relatives are awaiting the child, and as soon as he is born, the mother feeds him, and everyone takes care of him. The living entity soon forgets his position and becomes entangled in bodily relationships. The entire material existence is entanglement in this bodily conception of life. Real knowledge means to develop the consciousness of “I am not this body. I am spirit soul, an eternal part and parcel of the Supreme Lord.” Real knowledge entails renunciation, or nonacceptance of this body as the self.
By the influence of  māyā , the external energy, one forgets everything just after birth. Therefore the child is praying that he prefers to remain within the womb rather than come out. It is said that Śukadeva Gosvāmī, on this consideration, remained for sixteen years within the womb of his mother; he did not want to be entangled in false bodily identification. After cultivating such knowledge within the womb of his mother, he came out at the end of sixteen years and immediately left home so that he might not be captured by the influence of  māyā . The influence of  māyā  is also explained in  Bhagavad-gītā  as insurmountable. But insurmountable  māyā  can be overcome simply by  Kṛṣṇa  consciousness. That is also