The Suffering of Birth

The inherent nature of the samsara, generally is sufferings. The six state of samsara are utterly permeated by suffering and nowhere is the whole of samsara are beings free from the toils of different kind of pain. In the realm of human world, it is constituted bye unrelenting types of suffering that are intrinsic to the human condition.

Sufferings of birth:

Ws spend nine months in the mother's womb, which is equivalent to thirty eight weeks. For the first week, the suffering in the womb is like being boiled in a copper container. At seven weeks, the limbs are being develops and protrudes from the main fetus. During this time, the suffering is like a strong man holding your limbs and at the same time being flogged. At eleven weeks, nine exits originate and the suffering is like piercing new wounds with the tip of the finger. Other sufferings are, when the mother eats a cold food, the fetus suffers from cold like being kept naked and dipped in the cold water. At other times when the mother goes hungry, the fetus suffers being hung from a cliff. If the mother eats too much or when she jumps, the fetus, suffering is like being pressed between two walls/cliffs. At thirty seven weeks, the fetus is able to conceive that she/he exists within the mother womb which is tight and cramped and utterly lightless, filthy in smell and like being put into a prison and desperately wants to get out of the womb. Then gradually with time, when the times comes for birth, when the fetus is ousted with his hand first through mother's pelvis, the suffering is like being pushed through a hole in the metallic wall. Then after birth when the child is kept on the floor, the child suffers like being thrown on the floor full of thorns. When the child is being wiped, s/he suffers like being touched to a skinless body.

After existing for so long and obscured by ignorance, greed and lust, humans are bound to be selfish and going after wealth and possessions. If someone asks you to stay in a small room full darkness which is filled with filthy smell for three days for an exchange a kilogram of gold, then no one would be willing to undergo the imprisonment. The suffering in the mother's womb is far more painful the aforementioned example.