If not a super soul or an advanced soul, the state of being an ordinary ‘soul’ is full of disquiet and/or suffering. There are perhaps a greater number of yet to be born souls, in this universe, than there are number of species’ of any kind! The pressure to be born is immense!

Consider this. Humans are now considered to be the apex species. There are perhaps trillions of souls wishing to be birthed through any womb in general and human female womb in particular as the power to think, ideate and discriminate in a human, may lead to ‘Mukthi’ or eternal salvation – a state, free from any suffering and/or disquiet.  When such is the ‘sacred’ state of the human female’s womb/birth-canal, evil and abnormal practices like FGM should be penalized and stopped as mark of respect for the human females. Also, we should stop even condescendingly dishonouring them and accord them equal status in all walks of life, since they are likely to go through their 2nd or more, painful births during the delivery of her child(ren) from her womb! Another powerful reason why they should be integrated into all the important decision-making bodies – private or government- is this motherly tendency- a tendency that, I believe, is still untouched by any antagonists or his/her stooges. Human females can play the perfect balance to the exaggerated machismo stereotypes that we see in this world. In fact, I believe that if they have been accorded equal status in the truest possible sense, the world would not have witnessed this many wars and events like nuclear explosions.

The pressure to be born is met with resistance from the natural order that is mindful of the resources that are available to feed a growing population. Either it will use cataclysmic events to restore balance or push the waiting souls into the wombs of relatively lower (with a penchant to consume lesser resources) but karmically matching orders of species’.

So, for all the above important reasons and more, we have to take a deeper look at the abortion as a standard medical procedure. Consider the below points:

• The human embryo starts developing the nervous system around the 3rd-4th week of the pregnancy signalling its capacity to understand pain. (assuming the soul has fused by now)

• The soul in the embryo will have impressions that it has entered a womb and destroying that embryo is akin to killing it though it is not fully formed!

• Garbo Upanishad says that the soul in certain advanced pregnancy state, is likely to get some visions/impressions of its past suffering and is likely to start repenting its past ‘sinful’ lives, if any, and pray to divinity - to let it be born and that it will take, all care, to not lead another sinful and wasteful life!!

• These embryos can detect any danger and is likely to scream in the ‘Madhyama’ mode (refer to the human vak system blog) if it senses any danger and it is likely to be cursing and crying once it understands the outcome. It goes through a resenting period full of great sorrow, as its much-awaited birthing is being terminated abnormally!

• Garbo Upanishad says, at the time of birth (either when the child’s head is coming through the birth canal or when at a suitable stage of the relatively newer C-section procedure) , a kind of special prana called – Vaishnava Prana, rises up from the base of the skull and passes out through the crown, only once – thus wiping out all the past knowledge and memories returning the child to its blank state except for its basic intuitions. It even forgets its sorrowful state when it was in the womb. The passing of this prana is likely to be the reason why sometimes the child is expressing crying as a first action after birth. In extremely rare cases, this wiping is not done completely, and the child either shows extraordinary intelligence for its young age or very rarely, it can even remember past lives!

• Thus, abortion adds negative karma to the couples involved and adds negative karma to the group karmic load for the society that allows abortion as a very liberal and standard practice. This is made worse, if the society does not, take a strong moral stand against abortions and also not have some sort of critical evaluation system to judge the termination itself before allowing it. Thus, abortions should be allowed only for the most deserving cases.

• Hence as a responsible society, the law makers, doctors, parents and community elders, should take a critical moral stand on the need for abortion. They should permit it only when all other options are exhausted and that the abortion procedure is considered a must for the girl (or her partner) to continue living a normal life. Appropriate sex education, anti-pregnancy (disabling the sperm and/or egg through medication and thus removing its potency to form embryos) preventive care etc., should be made known as part of formal sex-education and the process to trigger it should be formally institutionalized with perhaps more than one approvals. At the same time, young ones should be made known the relatively high, financial and moral costs of getting into a pregnancy and then later needing it to be terminated. There should be appropriate deterrent punitive measures that are well publicised.

• Women opting for abortion, especially the young ones, should not have a very lenient/liberal view about the abortion procedure such as – ‘just a little time spent in the clinic to remove an inconvenience and nothing more’! They should stay sensitized on the negative side of abortions.

  
  

• Finally, please refer to my article on 'The Essential Divine Blessing' - https://www.mayoan.com/post/47-the-essential-divine-blessing . Procedures like IVF and C-sections, were perhaps developed without the the spiritual guidance and blessings or perhaps it was considered adequately. These procedures- either when they were conceived or when they are practised in the hospitals, needs to be blessed spiritually by invoking the divine attention by appropriate prayers and sacraments. The divine attention is likely to remove any seen/unseen obstacles and dangers that can manifest in such endeavours. It is also expected to look at the unseen aspects and smoothen any problems/issues and escalations in the endeavour and complete it perfectly in every sense possible. Simply put - Humans can never beat nature generally and specifically so in simulated processes as in genetically modified crops, cloning, IVF and C-sections.

  
  

  Consider this simple example- A person wants to travel from a place A to a place B. He can pray before travelling or he can choose not to.

  
  

  Without the essential divine blessing:

  He gets the ticket - may be at a higher price and he completes the travel in an uneventful manner.

  
  

  With the essential divine blessing:

  He gets the ticket at a lower price.

  The seat is comfortable and is a window seat.

  The next passenger is able to help him with his new job search.

  The rain prediction did not come true.

  He met his childhood friend on the way when he opted to go to a restaurant to complete his lunch.

  And so on and so forth.

I hope the above message is received appropriately.

Hari Om!