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A brahmana priest would come (for the Vedic ceremonies)?

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

Brāhmaṇa priest would come. There would be pūjā. There would be nice feast. Now those things are gone.

770121 - Conversation C - Bhuvanesvara:

Gargamuni: Even in the big, rich families, when they want son they perform some pūjā.

Prabhupāda: Yes. No, no. According to Vedic system, everything is so... When the woman is pregnant there are so many ceremonies. When we were children, and I was in the middle, I saw my other, two, three brothers and sisters born. So there was some ceremony. We were eating with mother in that ceremony. That ceremony was because my mother was pregnant. Sad-bhakṣā. Sad-bhakṣā. There are ten kinds of ceremonies, before the birth and after the birth, daśa-vidha-saṁskāra. So many religious ceremonies my mother was observing, and all the expenditure my father was giving. Every month, two, three ceremonies, very nice ceremonies. We were children; we were eating. So we...

Gargamuni: A brāhmaṇa priest would come?

Prabhupāda: Eh? Brāhmaṇa priest would come. There would be pūjā. There would be nice feast. Now those things are gone.

Rāmeśvara: They never existed in America.

Prabhupāda: During our wife's time they were not... And what about our daughter's time? Now, generation by generation, giving it up.(?)

Rāmeśvara: Now they're simply thinking of ways, the scientists...

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Rāmeśvara: ...how to kill the baby or how to stop the baby body from developing. Different methods for birth control. Then they'll create heaven on earth.

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