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Immediately child is born, there is another reformation ceremony; that is called jata-karma. Jata-karma means immediately learned scholar, brahmins, astrologer, will come and they will make the horoscope of the child

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"immediately child is born, there is another reformation ceremony; that is called jāta-karma. Jāta-karma means immediately learned scholar, brahmiṇs, astrologer, will come and they will make the horoscope of the child"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

So as before giving birth there is a reformation ceremony, similarly, immediately child is born, there is another reformation ceremony; that is called jāta-karma. Jāta-karma means immediately learned scholar, brahmiṇs, astrologer, will come and they will make the horoscope of the child. So here it is said, yathā hi sūtyām abhijāta-kovidāḥ samādiśan. As they foretold that, "This child will be hero like this, he will be like this, like this . . ." That are described in the Bhāgavatam. And it was also said at that time that, "This child will die, being cursed by a brahmiṇ." That was also foretold.

Just like when the child is born, it is recorded in the government book, similarly, when one is going to give birth to a child, that is also recorded. That is called garbhādhāna-saṁskāra. Not that like cats and dogs in secrecy we have sexual intercourse, and if there is pregnancy, give some contraceptive pill or kill the child. Oh, how rascal and animal have been introduced in the human society. Just see. Here the garbhādhāna-saṁskāra, a child has to be born. How it will be nice? When the mentality of the father and mother is completely Kṛṣṇa conscious, so that when there will be sexual intercourse, the mentality of the child will be Kṛṣṇa conscious. This is garbhādhāna-saṁskāra.

So as before giving birth there is a reformation ceremony, similarly, immediately child is born, there is another reformation ceremony; that is called jāta-karma. Jāta-karma means immediately learned scholar, brahmiṇs, astrologer, will come and they will make the horoscope of the child. So here it is said, yathā hi sūtyām abhijāta-kovidāḥ samādiśan. As they foretold that, "This child will be hero like this, he will be like this, like this . . ." That are described in the Bhāgavatam. And it was also said at that time that, "This child will die, being cursed by a brahmiṇ." That was also foretold.

It is still, such kind of astrology, there in India. They will speak what you were in your last birth, and what you are now, and what you will be in your next birth. That is astrology. So still there are, Bhṛgu-saṁhitā. Anyone go, and you simply give them your exact time of birth, then they will make immediately horoscope. Immediately. Still there is. As I told you that in my horoscope it was declared that after seventieth year, I shall go to the foreign countries and I shall establish many temples. In my horoscope that is. Now I see it is coming practically. You see? So that is horoscope.

So these abhijāta-kovidāḥ, expert astrologers, whatever they predicted, everything was performed by Mahārāja Parīkṣit. Samādiśan vipra mahad-guṇas tathā. So all the high qualities . . . Parīkṣit Mahārāja was, in his childhood play, he was worshiping Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deity. Childhood play. Just like our children, some of them, they are worshiping Jagannātha. This is required from the very childhood. Our Prahlāda Mahārāja therefore says, kaumāra ācaret prājño dharmān bhāgavatān iha, durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma (SB 7.6.1). Just like I began that this human form of life is the only opportunity to become free from this material entanglement, to become perfect. So it is the duty of the father, it is the duty of the guru, it is the duty of the king, government, to give all opportunities that, "No more birth. This is the last birth. Now you go back to home, back to Godhead." That is government. No more again coming as cats and dogs and trees. And if we do not do that, then again we enter into the cycle of birth and death. This is the risk.

Page Title:Immediately child is born, there is another reformation ceremony; that is called jata-karma. Jata-karma means immediately learned scholar, brahmins, astrologer, will come and they will make the horoscope of the child
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-10, 11:16:46
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