Text 38] Hiranyakasipu, King of the Demons 99

of matter. To follow this theory, if the lump of matter is aborted by a
surgical operation, no life is killed; the body of a child is like a tumor,
and if a tumor is operated upon and thrown away, no sin is involved. The
same argument could be put forward in regard to the King and his
queens. The body of the King was manifested from an unmanifested
source, and again it became unmanifested from manifestation. Since the
manifestation exists only in the middle—between the two points of un-
manifestation—why should one cry for the body manifested in the
interim?

TEXT 38

Wat Ts yal aq

cal: fret a RITA: |
FATA saat THe fa:

a dan vata at fe wi RII

aho vayam dhanyatama yad atra
tyaktah pitrbhyam na vicintayamah
abhaksyamana abala vrkadibhih
sa raksita raksati yo hi garbhe

aho—alas; vayam—we; dhanya-tamah—most fortunate; yat—be-
cause; atra—at the present moment; tyaktah—left alone, without pro-
tection; pitrbhyam—by both father and mother; na—not; vicin-
tayamah—worry; abhaksyamanah—not being eaten; abalah—very
weak; vurka-ddibhih—by tigers and other ferocious animals; sah—He
(the Supreme Personality of Godhead); raksita—will protect; raksati—
has protected; yah—who; hi—indeed; garbhe—within the womb.

TRANSLATION

It is wonderful that these elderly women do not have a higher
sense of life than we do. Indeed, we are most fortunate, for al-
though we are children and have been left to struggle in material
life, unprotected by father and mother, and although we are very
