182 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 5

scendental value. He appreciated the valuable inquiries of Vidura and thus
thanked him with great honor.

TEXT 19
SE RCO MEE AC ICRUCCILC
TAS TAT RTPA VSI

naitac citram lvayi ksattar
badarayanaviryaje

grhito ‘nanya-bhavena
yal tvaya harir tSvarah

na—never; elal—such inquiries; cilram—very wonderful; lvayi—in you;
ksallah—O Vidura; badarayana—of Vyasadeva; viryaje—born from the
semina; grhitah—accepted; ananya-bhavena—without deviation from the
thought; yal—because; tvaya—by you; harth—the Personality of Godhead;
isvarah—the Lord.

TRANSLATION

O Vidura, it is not at all wonderful that you have so accepted the Lord
without deviation of thought, for you are born from the semina of
Vyasadeva.

PURPORT

The value of great parentage and noble birth is evaluated here in
connection with the birth of Vidura. The culture of a human being begins
when the father invests his semina in the womb of the mother. According
to his status of work, a living entity is placed in a particular father’s
semina, and because Vidura was not an ordinary living entity, he was given
the chance to be born from the semina of Vyasa. The birth of a human
being is a great science, and therefore reformation of the act of impregna-
tion according to the Vedic ritual called Garbhadhana-samskara is very
important for generating good population. The problem is not to check
the growth of the population, but to generate good population on the
level of Vidura, Vyasa and Maitreya. There is no need to check the growth
of population if the children are born as human beings with all precautions
regarding their birth. So-called birth control is not only vicious but also
useless.
