Constantly bitten all over the body by hungry worms also being in the mother's womb, the child, so delicate, suffers terribly and dark in unconsciousness at all times, subjected to this terrible condition.

Because the mother absorbs bitter, spicy foods, too salty or too acidic, the child's body is endlessly subject to almost intolerable pain.

Enclosed in the amniotic cavity and surrounded on the outside by the intestines, the child remains lying on one side of the abdomen, the head tilted towards its belly and the back as well as the co u bent like an arch.

The child thus finds himself like a bird in a cage, without any freedom of movement. At that time, if he is fortunate, he will be able to remember all the difficulties encountered in his last hundred lives, and he will grieve pitifully. How could one find peace of mind in such a condition?

Endowed with consciousness from the seventh month after conception, the child is pushed downwards by the breaths which press the fetus during the weeks preceding the delivery. Just like the worms also born from this infected abdominal cavity, it cannot remain in place.

In this frightful condition, the living being (the soul), prisoner of the seven layers of material components which cover it, addresses, with folded hands, a prayer to the Lord, who put him in this situation.

The soul embodied in a body forming in the womb of a human mother says:

I seek refuge with similar feet -at the lotus of God, the Sovereign Person, who manifests in his various eternal forms and walks on the surface of the globe. He is my only refuge, for He alone can free me from all fear. It is He who placed me in this situation, quite appropriate to my ungodly acts.

I who am a soul of a purely spiritual nature, I am now chained by my acts, imprisoned in the bosom of a mother through the care of maya (the delusional energy of the Lord). I offer my respectful homage to the one who is also here, by my side, but who remains unalterable and unchanging. To Him who, although infinite, allows himself to be perceived by a repentant heart, I offer my most humble respects. Although of spiritual essence, I am separated from the Supreme Lord because I am covered with a material body made up of five elements, so that my qualities and my senses are misused. I pay respectful homage to the Lord, He who transcends nature and distinct beings (distinct from God), He who does not put on such a material body and who always shines in the glory of his spiritual qualities.

[The soul continues:]

The distinct being is subject to the influence of material nature and continues to wage a bitter struggle for existence on the path of repeated births and deaths. This