Text 10] The Movements of the Living Entities 1321

undergone at birth and death by reading the authorized scriptures like
Srimad-Bhagavatam. If we do not believe in the scriptures, that is a
different question, but if we have faith in the authority of such descrip-
tions, then we must prepare for our freedom in the next life; that is
possible in this human form of life. One who does not take heed of these
indications of suffering in human existence is said to be undoubtedly
committing suicide. It is said that this human form of life is the only means
for crossing over the nescience of maya, or material existence. We have a
very efficient boat in this human form of body, and there is a very expert
captain, the spiritual master; the scriptural injunctions are like favorable
winds. If we do not cross over the ocean of nescience of material existence
in spite of all these facilities, then certainly we are all intentionally com-
mitting suicide.

TEXT 10

AT TARTS TaPTST Afra: |
aeara aftrarafasrafta «alee oll

arabhya saptaman masal
labdha-bodho ‘pi vepitah

naikatraste sitti-vatair
vistha-bhiir iva sodarah

arabhya—beginning; saptamat masat—from the seventh month; labdha-
bodhah—endowed with consciousness; api—although; vepitah—tossed; na—
not; ekatra—in one place; adste—he remains; siiti-vataih—by the winds for
childbirth; vistha-bhiih—the worm; iva—like; sa-udarah- born of the same
womb.

TRANSLATION

Thus endowed with the development of consciousness from the seventh
month after his conception, the child is tossed downward by the airs that
press the embryo during the weeks preceding delivery. Like the worms
born of the same filthy abdominal cavity, he cannot remain in one place.

PURPORT

At the end of the seventh month the child is moved by the bodily air
and does not remain in the same place because the entire uterine system
