Do all embryos in the womb pray to God?
Prabhupada says fortunate soul remembers and prays like this. So does that mean that are all souls fortunate or is only some souls? Yeah, I have also not read anything decisive about this.
But I can make some inferences. So the broad thing is that although from our visible perspective, life in the womb or life in the disembodied state by going from one body to another, that can seem dramatically different from our normal embodied state. So because this is what we are familiar with.
But overall, all these states, the state in the womb, the state in the maybe a transition body or a host situation or in a normal physical embodied situation, for all of these, the soul is on a journey of evolution. And just as when we in our embodied state have distress, it's not that everyone turns to God and prays at that time. In 7.16 in the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says, chaturvidha bhajante mam janasukrutinam arjuna arto chikyam suradharthi jnanichabharadarshabha that there are four kinds of people who turn to me.
But he uses the specific word sukrutinam. When they are in distress or need, they turn to me. What makes them turn to me? It is because they are sukrutinam.
It is because they have some spiritual pious credits. Otherwise, when people are distressed, they may take drugs, they may just go into indiscriminate drug surfing, they might become suicidal. So just as not everybody in distress turns toward God in the embodied state outside the womb, so similarly, not everybody, not every child in the womb will necessarily turn toward God.
So just as some souls are fortunate, what makes them fortunate? You could say in the out-of-the-body state, sorry, in the embodied state, it could be that they have got some culture which makes them pray toward God. They have got some associates which inspires them. Or they have something from their previous life which inspires them.
So similarly, so that means what prompts us toward God, even in our embodied state, it is either something internal or something external. Internal from an impression from a previous life or the upbringing of this life or external in terms of the association here. So we could say the same dynamic applies in the womb also.
If that soul in a previous life has practiced some bhakti, has done something spiritual, those impressions are there, and those impressions may prompt the soul to turn toward God. Or if that soul is being born in a devotee family, then maybe the influence of the parents might prompt that turning toward God. But when Prabhupada says it is fortunate, it means that it is not necessarily that it is going to happen to every soul.
It can, but it is just that the soul has free will outside the womb. It is not that the soul's free will is taken away inside the womb. So not all souls may turn toward God because they may not use their free will that way.
Yes, please.