Text 23]
The Movements of the Living Entities
1339
TEXT 22
कपिल उवाच
एवं कृतमतिर्गर्भे दशमास्यः स्तुवन्नृषिः ।
सद्यः क्षिपत्यवाचीनं प्रद्वत्यै स्रतिमारुतः ॥२२॥
kapila uvāca evam kṛta-matir garbhe daśa-māsyaḥ stuvann ṛṣiḥ sadyaḥ kṣipaty avācīnam prasūtyai sūti-mārutaḥ
kapilaḥ uvāca —Lord Kapila said;  evam —thus;  kṛta-matiḥ —desiring;  garbhe —in the womb;  daśa-māsyaḥ —ten-month-old;  stuvan —extolling;  ṛṣiḥ —the living entity;  sadyaḥ —at that very time;  kṣipati —propels;  avācīnam —turned downward;  prasūtyai —for birth;  sūti-mārutaḥ —the wind for childbirth.
TRANSLATION
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.
TEXT 23
तेनावसृष्टः सहसा कृत्वावाक् शिर आतुरः ।
विनिष्क्रामति कृच्छ्रेण निरुच्छ्वासो हतस्मृतिः ॥२३॥
tenāvasṛṣṭaḥ sahasā kṛtvāvāk śira āturaḥ viniṣkrāmati kṛcchreṇa nirucchvāso hata-smṛtiḥ
tena —by that wind;  avasṛṣṭaḥ —pushed downwards;  sahasā —suddenly;  kṛtvā —turned;  avāk —downwards;  śiraḥ —his head;  āturaḥ —suffering;  viniṣkrāmati —he comes out;  kṛcchreṇa —with great trouble;  nirucchvāsaḥ —breathless;  hata —deprived of;  smṛtiḥ —memory.