children in a Vedic society

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Mahat-tattva (das) wrote:

 

>Here is something I just read about some differences between the modern and

>the Vedic society:

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Something worth noting is that there are many in modern society who

search out such rituals, they will invent rituals (blessing ways)

because the original ones have been forgotten.

In my capacity as childbirth educator and traditionl birth attendant, I

have attended many such rituals and am at lost at initiating their vedic

counterpart because I haven't found an authoritative source of detailed

information in this regard (other than what is written in Hari Bhakti

Vilas.)

If any of you have information that could be usefull to me please feel

free to share.

Actually there is such a renewal in the importance of what is referred

to as the Primal year (from conception to first birthday) that I wil be

hosting a seminar in Spring 2005, in Vancouver Canada on that subject,

we are expecting a minimum of 200 persons. If any of you feel that you

could contribute to this seminar either as a guest speaker or attendant,

feel free to contact me.

 

Ys Yasomati dd

 

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>Sukadeva Gosvami said: When mother Yasoda's baby was slanting His body to

>attempt to rise and turn around, this attempt was observed by a Vedic

>ceremony. In such a ceremony, called utthana, which is performed when a

>child is due to leave the house for the first time, the child is properly

>bathed. Just after Krsna turned three months old, mother Yasoda celebrated

>this ceremony with other women of the neighborhood. On that day, there was a

>conjunction of the moon with the constellation Rohini. As the brahmanas

>joined by chanting Vedic hymns and professional musicians also took part,

>this great ceremony was observed by mother Yasoda

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>PURPORT

>There is no question of overpopulation or of children's being a burden for

>their parents in a Vedic society. Such a society is so well organized and

>people are so advanced in spiritual consciousness that childbirth is never

>regarded as a burden or a botheration. The more a child grows, the more his

>parents become jubilant, and the child's attempts to turn over are also a

>source of jubilation. Even before the child is born, when the mother is

>pregnant, many recommended ritualistic ceremonies are performed. For

>example, when the child has been within the womb for three months and for

>seven months, there is a ceremony the mother observes by eating with

>neighboring children. This ceremony is called svada-bhaksana. Similarly,

>before the birth of the child there is the garbhadhana ceremony. In Vedic

>civilization, childbirth or pregnancy is never regarded as a burden; rather,

>it is a cause for jubilation. In contrast, people in modern civilization do

>not like pregnancy or childbirth, and when there is a child, they sometimes

>kill it. We can just consider how human society has fallen since the

>inauguration of Kali-yuga. Although people still claim to be civilized, at

>the present moment there is actually no human civilization, but only an

>assembly of two-legged animals.

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>>>>Ref. VedaBase => SB 10.7.4

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