Text 5] The Killing of the Demon Trnavarta 45
other women of the neighborhood. On that day, there was a con-
junction of the moon with the constellation Rohini. As the
brahmanas joined by chanting Vedic hymns and professional musi-
cians also took part, this great ceremony was observed by mother
Yasoda.
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 per-
formed. 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 svdda-
bhaksana. Similarly, before the birth of the child there is the
garbhadhana ceremony. In Vedic civilization, childbirth or pregnancy is
never regarded as a burden; rather, it is a cause for jubilation. In con-
trast, 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. Al-
though 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
aa Tal HaAsaiea
fa: sre TTA |
HATTA ATA TT A: .
aaa: 4
nandasya patni krta-majjanddikamn
vipraih krta-svastyayanam supijitaih
annddya-vasah-srag-abhista-dhenubhih
sanjata-nidraksam asisayac chanaih
