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We do not know how much suffering we had to undergo when we were within the belly of our mother. It is very miserable condition. We had to remain there in packed-up condition like this in a bag, and it is suffocating.  At that time, the skin is very tender. There are many worms and germs within the belly, mixed up with stool and urine; they bite.
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''Bhagavad-gītā'' says: "Those who are intelligent, they should always place before them four principles of miserable condition: ''janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam'' ([[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.9]])". We should not be illusioned. We should know that there is, I mean to say, distresses when we take birth. We have forgotten.

We do not know how much suffering we had to undergo when we were within the belly of our mother. It is very miserable condition. We had to remain there in packed-up condition like this in a bag, and it is suffocating. And because we are . . . at that time, the skin is very tender. There are many worms and germs within the belly, mixed up with stool and urine; they bite. We have forgotten that, the actual position.

Anyone who knows how a child remains within the womb of his mother . . . the medical profession, they also know how much it is suffocating. Suppose you are packed up in a bag . . . it is simply by the mercy of God, Kṛṣṇa, that we can remain in that condition. If you are put again into that condition, you will immediately die.

So we have forgotten what is the distress to remain in the womb of mother. And that also, sometimes a child is killed. At the present moment, advanced civilization, pregnancy is killed sometimes. So we cannot see even light. We die within the womb of a mother and again enter another womb. And it may be we die again. So just try to understand what is the miserable condition of birth. But because we forget, we think we are very happy.

And again, not only that, as soon as we take birth, again a new chapter of life begins. Again you . . . even after coming out of the womb, when we are little child we cry. There may be mosquito biting or bugs biting or something in the belly troubling, crying. Mother is trying to pacify, but we are crying, crying. We cannot express. So these are the miserable condition of life. Kṛṣṇa says it is ''duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam'' ([[Vanisource:BG 8.15 (1972)|BG 8.15]]).

So under the illusion of ''māyā'', as soon as we get out of the womb we forget everything, what we are suffering. And because the mother and relatives, they take on the lap, we forget. So this is the condition, miserable condition of birth. And similarly, miserable condition of death. When one is lying in coma, so many sufferings is going on, so many dreaming, the Yamadūtā is coming. Sometimes the man on the deathbed cries, he's so much suffering. But there is no remedy. Everyone is helpless. So that is the miserable condition of death.

And then, ''janma-mṛtyu-jarā'', old age. Just like we have now come to the old age. There are so many troubles. Sometimes heart failure, sometimes there is . . . so many troubles. You know, everyone. So ''janma-mṛtyu-jarā'' and ''vyādhi''. So long we have got this body, you'll have so many diseases. So how you can get rid of these ''duḥkha''? Therefore it is ''duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam'' ([[Vanisource:BG 8.15 (1972)|BG 8.15]]). How you consider that, "We shall make it adjusted"? That is not possible. Therefore it is the duty. This human form of life is meant for realizing what is my position.