(See the book "Divine Messages" page 33)

Abortion in terms of Vedic scriptures

To shed more light on the issues of abortion now look to the East, to the Sanskrit Vedic literature of India. In the largest of these writings, the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated:

"Under the direction of the Supreme Lord and according to the fruit of his works, the living being, the soul , is inserted into the womb of a woman through a drop of male seed to take it to a particular body. "(SB 3.31.1)

The most important point here is that the soul is introduced into the seed of the father. Then 'the soul in the male seed particle is injected into the womb of the mother.' All this is happening 'under the guidance of God' and the result is 'the production of a new material body'. According to the Vedic point of view, life is present even before the moment of conception, what about after!

We are by our original nature immortal eternal soul. That soul originally comes from the spiritual realm, but because of his material desires, fell into the material universe. Because of this fall, the soul is forced to be born and die in an endless cycle. But the being (soul) has the option, through spiritual practice, returning home in the spiritual world. This principle of reincarnation was widespread among Greek philosophers, such as Plato and Pythagoras and among the first Christians like Origen and Tertullian.

What relationship is there between the transmigration of the soul and abortion? According to the law of material nature governed by God, the eternal soul is placed in the male seed and then injected into the womb. Thus, according to the wisdom of the East, the same person, the soul, is present before conception and certainly after. It is the habitat (the body) of a spiritual soul that develops in the womb, and nobody has the right, at any stage of embryonic development, to expel the soul out of a woman's uterus in which God had placed him.

In fact, each of us is an eternal spirit soul, we are not this material body. This is only a carnal envelope that covers the soul. In all life - whether that of a bird, insect, fish, mammal, a plant, a fetus - lives an eternal individual soul. And it is accompanied by another soul, the Supreme Soul or the Holy Spirit. The Supreme Soul is in the side of the individual soul while transmigrating from one body to another in his long and