evaṁ kṛta-matir garbhe

evaṁ kṛta-matir garbhe

daśa-māsyaḥ stuvann ṛṣiḥ

sadyaḥ kṣipaty avācīnaṁ

prasūtyai sūti-mārutaḥ

Kapila said: Deciding in this way in the womb at ten months, the wise jīva praises the Lord. However, the air causing childbirth suddenly moves the foolish jīva eager to enter the world in order for it take birth.

 

Deciding in this way that he will worship Kṛṣṇa, living in the womb, praising the Lord, he becomes wise (ṛṣiḥ). He will not come into this world and again suffering saṁsāra. Now hear the misfortunate condition of the afflicted jīva described in the previous chapter. The air causing birth (sūti-mārutaḥ) quickly moves the body about to enter saṁsāra (arvācinam) in order for birth to take places during the tenth month. It is understood from this that he who is wise (ṛṣiḥ) comes out of the womb without the movements of the birth air. If one desires to explain this verse in terms of one jīva, then it can mean “The wise jīva, having determination, praises the Lord, but the birth air pushes him out.”

 

|| 3.31.23 ||

tenāvasṛṣṭaḥ sahasā

kṛtvāvāk śira āturaḥ

viniṣkrāmati kṛcchreṇa

nirucchvāso hata-smṛtiḥ

 

Pushed strongly by the birth air with head down, in pain, he emerges with difficulty, without breathing, and without memory of his previous births.

Hatā smṛtiḥ means the he cannot remember his previous births, that he had previously died and been born.

 

 

|| 3.31.24 ||

patito bhuvy asṛṅ-miśraḥ

viṣṭhā-bhūr iva ceṣṭate

rorūyati gate jñāne

viparītāṁ gatiṁ gataḥ

 

Falling on the ground, smeared with blood, he moves around like a worm and cries loudly. Having lost knowledge of his previous existence, he enters into ignorance.

 

He moves like a worm (viṣṭhā-bhūḥ). Rorūyati should be rorūyate. His knowledge of previous existence is gone (gate jñāne) and becomes forgetful of that state (viparītāṁ gatim). Even the devotee jīva’s knowledge is generally covered from childhood because of the nature of things. By a little association, he has his previous impressions aroused, and attains the Lord by his devotion.

 

|| 3.31.25 ||