1340 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 31
TRANSLATION
Pushed downward all of a sudden by the wind, the child comes out
with great trouble, head downward, breathless and deprived of memory
due to severe agony.
PURPORT
The word krcchrena means “with great difficulty.” When the child
comes out of the abdomen through the narrow passage, due to pressure
there the breathing system completely stops, and due to agony the child
loses his memory. Sometimes the trouble is so severe that the child comes
out dead or almost dead. One can imagine what the pangs of birth are
like. The child remains for ten months in that horrible condition within
the abdomen, and at the end of ten months he is forcibly pushed out. In
Bhagavad-gita the Lord points out that a person who is serious about
advancement in spiritual consciousness should always consider the four
pangs of birth, death, disease and old age. The materialist advances in
many ways, but he is unable to stop these four principles of suffering
inherent in material existence.
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qf aerafar: Renae Fed |
weata wa ard Fattat af Ta: Well
patito bhuvy asrn-misrah
vistha-bhir iva cestate
roruyati gate jiiane
viparitarh gatim gatah
patitah—fallen; bhuvi—on the earth; asrk—with blood; migrah—smeared;
vistha-bhih—a worm; wva—like; cestate—he moves his limbs; roriyati—cries
loudly; gate—being lost; jiane—his wisdom; viparitim—the opposite;
gatim—state; gatah—gone to.
TRANSLATION
The child thus falls on the ground, smeared with stool and blood, and
plays just like a worm germinated from the stool. He loses his superior
knowledge and cries under the spell of maya.
