According to Vedic system, everything is so… When the woman is pregnant there are so many ceremonies. When we were children, and I was in the middle, I saw my other two, three brothers and sisters born. So there was some ceremony. We were eating with mother in that ceremony. That ceremony was because my mother was pregnant. Sadha-bhaksa. Sadha-bhaksa. There are ten kinds of ceremonies — before the birth and after the birth, dasa-vidha-samskara. So many religious ceremonies my mother was observing, and all the expenditure my father was giving. Every month, two, three ceremonies, very nice ceremonies. We were children; we were eating. Brahmana priest would come. There would be puja. There would be nice feast. Now those things are gone. During our wife’s time they were not… And what about our daughter’s time? Now, generation by generation, diminishing.

Srila Prabhupada – January 21, 1977, Bhubaneswar