We are in the womb of the mother, and all of a sudden we come out, we see light, begin to cry, and the relatives take care of us and we forget everything, in how much precarious condition I was before my birth.

Those who are ordinarily sinful can at least see the light once, but those who are very severely sinful are killed within the womb. They cannot see even the light coming out. There are so many cases now, that so many children, before coming out of the womb of the mother and before seeing the light of the sun, they are killed. And after killing, after being killed, the body is finished. Then he has to be put another body. Then enters another mother’s body. Again the body is developed, and again he is killed. Just imagine. “Tit for tat.” If I kill a child in the womb — “Now I am very much proud of my scientific advancement” — then I have to be killed in my birth. You cannot avoid this nature’s law.

From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.35 — March 13, 1976, Mayapur