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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 31]
TRANSLATION
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.
PURPORT
The word  kṛcchreṇa  means “with great difficulty.” When the child comes out of the abdomen through the narrow passage, due to pressure there the breathing system completely stops, and due to agony the child loses his memory. Sometimes the trouble is so severe that the child comes out dead or almost dead. One can imagine what the pangs of birth are like. The child remains for ten months in that horrible condition within the abdomen, and at the end of ten months he is forcibly pushed out. In  Bhagavad-gītā  the Lord points out that a person who is serious about advancement in spiritual consciousness should always consider the four pangs of birth, death, disease and old age. The materialist advances in many ways, but he is unable to stop these four principles of suffering inherent in material existence.
TEXT 24
पतितो भुव्यसृञ्चिभ्रः विष्ठाभूरिव चेष्टते । रोरूयति गते ज्ञाने विपरीतां गतिं गतः ॥२४॥
patito bhuvy asṛṅ-miśraḥ   viṣṭhā-bhūr iva ceṣṭate   rorūyati gate jñāne   viparītāṁ gatiṁ gataḥ
patitaḥ —fallen;  bhuvi —on the earth;  asṛk —with blood;  miśraḥ —smeared;  viṣṭhā-bhūḥ —a worm;  iva —like;  ceṣṭate —he moves his limbs;  rorūyati —cries loudly;  gate —being lost;  jñāne —his wisdom;  viparītāṁ —the opposite;  gatiṁ —state;  gataḥ —gone to.
TRANSLATION
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  māyā .