Understanding the unborn’s understandings 1 – How can the embryo with ana undeveloped brain speak prayers?

[Bhagavatam class on 3.31.13 at ISKCON, Denver]

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of things in the Bhagavatam. I spoke on this theme of understanding the unborn’s understandings.
We looked at the prayers of the child in the womb and the child is praying that my dear Lord, I surrender to you. Although I am suffering and you are with me, but you are transcendental. I take shelter of you.
And you can be pursued by the repentant heart. In the repentant heart. So, I discussed broadly three main themes.
What is this section doing? What is going on in this section of the Bhagavatam? Kapil Dev is detaching, is helping us to become detached from the world so that we can become attached to the Lord by deconstructing the world. One way he does it by, earlier he has done it, previous chapters he has done it by, showing everything attractive is nothing but just a combination of the material elements. Beautiful picture is just nothing but a few colors.
All material things are just earth, water, fire, etc. And then, he is analyzing our average life journey and showing how it is filled with so much misery. That misery begins right from the womb.
And, then I discussed about the womb might be biologically comfortable. Home developers say that houses are as comfortable as a mother’s womb. But that’s not considering the consciousness of the child.
It’s like, if we are put in a trunk, even if we are not in a trunk, even if we are not squeezed, it’s dark and scary and disorienting. So, like that, the child is squeezed over there. And, it is painful in that case.
The main part of the class was, how can a child whose brain is not developed enough to articulate even a few words after the child is born, compose such extraordinary verses. In that section, I talked about how the soul, the mind and the body, they are normally linked together and normally the soul requires the body to function. Normally, say a person doesn’t feel lusty till they are in puberty.
But, in extreme situations, the distance between the body and the soul can be increased. And, I gave two examples. Children who remember past lives and people who may have gender dysphoria.
That’s because what has happened is, just like a person travelling across many time zones has jet lag, some souls who maybe have a violent death and are not able to process the event of death, they have a transmigration lag. Because of which, the mind stays in the previous life. And, so, that can happen conceivably.
And, I talked about, even in the course of life, experiences are there, when the soul distances itself from the body, when the body is under more trauma. And, the soul is conscious, although the brain is unconscious. So, in that case, the conscious awareness is through non-physical means.
And, similarly, the child over here is offering his prayers through non-physical means. That is, the soul and the mind which are in the impressions, based on that, this is being uttered. And, how does the soul have the impressions which can enable proper prayers about God? That is from a previous life.
And, how the knowledge, the spiritual knowledge of a previous life can be manifested in this life, I will discuss in tomorrow’s session.