A son is born. Oh, you are very glad, “I have got a son.” But if you study it philosophically, no, birth is not… He is not born; death is born. Because the growing of the child means he is dying. It is dying. The dying process. The very day, the very moment the child is born, the dying process begins. So we do not know that it is not birth; it is death. This is called maya. This is called illusion, that death is born and we are jolly that there is birth of a child. This is called maya.

Srila Prabhupada/ Talk on Bhagavad-gita 2.51-55 – April 6, 1966, New York