Text 17] The Movements of the Living Entities 1331
TEXT 17
Sarateeat | souhtaTaT-
i alo TITAE |
reotaat faafid worry aarary
frataa srorihinay e713 112!
dehy anya-deha-vivare jatharagninasrg-
vin-mitra-kiipa-patito bhyrsa-tapta-dehah
icchann ito vivasitum ganayan sva-masan
nirvasyate krpana-dhir bhagavan kada nu
dehi—the embodied soul; anya-deha—of another body; vivare—in the
abdomen; jaf hara— of the stomach; agnind—by the fire; asrk—of blood; vit—
stool; mittra—and urine; kipa—in a pool; patitah—fallen; bhrsa—strongly;
tapta—scorched; dehah—his body; icchan—desiring; itah—from that place;
vivasitum—to get out; ganayan—counting; sva-mdsan—his months;
nirvdsyate—will be released; krpana-dhih—person of miserly intelligence;
bhagavan—O Lord; kada—when; nu—indeed.
TRANSLATION
Fallen into a pool of blood, stool and urine within the abdomen of his
mother, his own body scorched by the mother’s gastric fire, the embodied
soul, anxious to get out, counts his months and prays, ““O my Lord, when
shall I, a wretched soul, be released from this confinement?”
PURPORT
The precarious condition of the living entity within the womb of his
mother is described here. On one side of where the child is floating there
is the heat of gastric fire, and on the other side there is urine, stool, blood
and discharges. After seven months the child, who has regained his con-
sciousness, feels the horrible condition of his existence and prays to the
Lord. Counting the months until his release, he becomes greatly anxious
to get out of the confinement. The so-called civilized man does not take
account of this horrible condition of life, and sometimes for the purpose
of sense gratification he tries to kill the child by contraceptive methods.
