SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

Text 38] Hiryak.a8ipu, King of the Demons 99of matter. To follow this theory, if the lump of matter is aborted by asurgical operation, no life is killed; the body of a child is like a tumor,and if a tumor is operated upon and thrown away, no sin is involved. Thesame argument could be put forward in regard to the King and hisqueens. The body of the King was manifested from an unmanifestedsource, and again it became unmanifested from manifestation. Since themanifestation exists only in the middle-between the two points of nomanifestation-whyshould one cry for the body manifested in theinterim?TEXT 38 \:lT tl: fqq:+qf ;r RM41¥i! I3( 3N ·fit:« mJijt N qif IIaho vayarh dhanyatamd yad atratyaktii/:t pitrbhyam na vicintayama/:tabhayamdT)ii abala vrkiidibhi/:tsa raitii rak§ati yo hi garbheaho-alas; vayam-we; dhanya-tamd/:t-most fortunate; yat - because;atra-at the present moment; tyaktii/:t-left alone, without protection;pitrbhyam-by both father and mother; na-not; vicintayama/:t-worry;abhayamdT)ii/:t-not being eaten; abala/:t-veryweak; vrka-iidibhi/:t-by tigers and other ferocious animals; sa/:t-He(the Supreme Personality of Godhead); raitii -will protect; rak§a,tihasprotected; ya/:t-who; hi-indeed; garbhe-within the womb.TRANSLATIONIt is wonderful that these elderly women do not have a highersense of life than we do. Indeed, we are most fortunate, for althoughwe are children and have been left to struggle in materiallife, unprotected by father and mother, and although we are very