1314 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 31

human form to a person who has already suffered hellish life, the soul is
transferred to the semina of a man who is just suitable to become his
father. During sexual intercourse, the soul is transferred through the
semina of the father into the mother’s womb in order to produce a
particular type of body. This process is applicable to all embodied living
entities, but it is especially mentioned for the man who was transferred to
the Andha-tamisra hell. After suffering there, when he who has had many
types of hellish bodies, like those of dogs and hogs, is to come again to the
human form, he is given the chance to take his birth in the same type of
body from which he degraded himself to hell.

Everything is done by the supervision of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Material nature supplies the body, but it does so under the
direction of the Supersoul. It is said in Bhagavad-gita that a living
entity is wandering in this material world on a chariot made by material
nature. The Supreme Lord, as Supersoul, is always present with the
individual soul. He directs material nature to supply a particular type of
body to the individual soul according to the result of his work, and the
material nature supplies it. Here one word, retah-kandsrayah, is very
significant because it indicates that it is not the semina of the man that
creates life within the womb of a woman; rather, the living entity, the
soul, takes shelter in a particle of semina and is then pushed into the womb
of a woman. Then the body develops. There is no possibility of creating a
living entity without the presence of the soul simply by sexual intercourse.
The materialistic theory that there is no soul and that a child is born simply
by material combination of a man’s and woman’s semina is not very
feasible. It is unacceptable.

TEXT 2

Sos ARTI TATA FTITT |
THA T BHOY Fears TT Ta? TH NI 2 I!

kalalain tv eka-ratrena
paiica-ratrena budbudam
dasahena tu karkandhih
pesy andam va tatah param

kalalam—mixing of semina and ovum; tu—then; eka-rdtrena—on the
first night; pafica-ratrena—by the fifth night; budbudam—a bubble; dasa-
ahena—in ten days; tu—then; karkandhih—like a plum; pesi—a lump of
flesh; andam—an egg; va—or; tatah—thence; param—afterwards.
