children in a Vedic society

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

the Vedic society:

 

 

TEXT

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

 

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.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 10.7.4