in womb, development

So these things are taking place daily within the womb of the mother-how the child is developing from the day of union of the father and the mother, and on the first day it is like a pealike form by the semina of father and mother, and then everything develops. Different types of body, different types of intelligence, different types of brain-how it takes place? If it is simply material, then all children would have come out of the same quality. But it does not so come. Every child, baby, born has got everything separate from the others. How subtle laws of nature is working, we can just imagine. It is not possible to understand by our these material senses even this material formation of the body, what to speak of spiritual understanding.    (More...)

Therefore, in the sastras it is advised, acintyaḥ khalu ye bhava na tams tarkena yojayet [Mahabharata, Bhisma-parva 5.22]. Acintyaḥ khalu ye bhavaḥ. Things which are beyond your perception, sense perception, acintya, mental speculation, not cintaniya... Acintya. Acintya means mentally speculating. Beyond that, acintya, you cannot think of how this pealike form develops into such a big brain or small brain. The hands, legs and the mechanical process of different body... This is a machine. In the material world we manufacture machine, manufacturing different parts and assembling them. [child makes noises] [aside:] The child may be... But this machine is automatically developing. There is no question of manufacturing each part and then assembling. It is yantra. This body is yantra, machine. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita:    (More...)

Īsvara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is situated in everyone's heart. He is supervising what kind of yantra, or machine, this living entity requires for fulfilling his desires. That is karma. He is engaged in such karma, and he is manufacturing by his karma another body. Everything is going on by the laws of nature. Prakrteḥ kriyamanani gunaiḥ karmani sarvasaḥ [Bg 3.27]. Gunaiḥ. By different gunas-sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna; goodness, passion and ignorance-very subtle machineries are going on. They are all material.    (More...)