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Lord Kapila to mother Devahuti,

The person who lives in the center of household life derives material benefits by performing religious rituals, and thereby fulfills his desire for economic development and sense gratification. Again and again he acts the same way.

Such persons are bereft of devotional service due to being too attached to sense gratification, and therefore, although they perform various kinds of sacrifices and take great vows to satisfy devatas and forefathers, they are not interested in Krishna Consciousness, devotional service.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 32 Verses 1-2

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The woman, created by the Lord, is representative of maya, and one who associates with such maya by accepting services must certainly know that this is the way to death, just like a blind well covered with grass.

Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verse 40

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Lord Kapila to mother Devahuti: Just try to understand the mighty strength of My maya in the shape of a woman, who by the mere movement of her eyebrows can keep even the greatest conquerors of the world under her grip.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verse 38

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Process of birth (Explained by Lord Kapila):
(Continued...)

The soul continues to pray: Therefore, without being agitated any more, I shall deliver myself from the darkness of nescience with the help of my friend, clear consciousness. Simply, by keeping the lotus feet of Lord Vishnu in my mind, I shall be saved from entering into the wombs of many mothers for repeated birth and death.

Lord Kapila continued: The ten-month-old living entity has these desires even while in the womb. But while he thus extols the Lord, the wind that helps parturition propels him forth with his face turned downwards so that he may be born.

The child thus falls, 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.

(Concluded)

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verses 22-24

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Process of birth (Explained by Lord Kapila):
(Continued...)

The living entity in another type of body sees only by instinct; he knows only the agreeable and disagreeable sense perception of that particular body. But I have a body in which I can control my senses and can understand my destination; therefore, I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Lord, by whom I have been blessed with this body and by whose grace I can see Him within or without.

Therefore, my Lord, although I am living in a terrible condition, I do not wish to depart from my mother's abdomen to fall again into the blind well of materialistic life. Your external energy, called deva-maya, at once captures the newly born child, and immediately false identification, which is the beginning of the cycle of continual birth and death, begins.

(To be continued...)

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verses 19-20

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Process of birth (Explained by Lord Kapila):
(Continued...)

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?"

My dear Lord, by Your causeless mercy I am awakened to consciousness, although I am only ten months old. For this causeless mercy of the Supreme Lord, the friend of all fallen souls, there is no way to express my gratitude but to pray with folded hands.

(To be continued...)

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verses 17-18

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Process of birth (Explained by Lord Kapila):
(Continued...)

The human soul further prays: The living entity is put under the influence of material nature and continues a hard struggle for existence on the path of repeated birth and death. This conditional life is due to his forgetfulness of his relationship with the Supreme Lord. Therefore, without the Lord's mercy, how can he again engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord?

No one other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as the localized Parmatma, the partial presentation of the Lord, is directing all inanimate and animate objects. He is present in the three phases of time- past, present and future. Therefore, the conditioned soul is engaged in different activities by His direction, and in order to get free from the threefold miseries of this conditional life, we have to surrender unto Him only.

(To be continued...)

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verses 15-16