Pregnancy & Spiritual Wellness

A very common question that has been asked in our society is, what do you want for your child? This one question opens a plethora of desires and wishes a mother has ever dreamt of. Words like hope, happiness, peace, success, achievements are just a few to name. But there are only a handful of them who would answer the same question by saying, we want our child to find his or her purpose in life, or we want our child to be spiritually well-equipped.

- Akshay Gupta

Spiritual wellness is one crucial dimension that had been gone missing for years in the mayhems of life. Thanks to a more aware generation of ours that we are heading back to our roots and understanding how important spiritual development is. In recent years, there have been many instances where an expecting mother has been seen working on herself with a holistic approach. The effect of which is primarily fulfilling and happy, but deep down it sows the seeds of something more sustainable, a strong anchor in a world as dynamic as ours. That seed, the anchor, is what spiritual wellness is, and that becomes quintessential for the fetus as well as the carrying mother. But have you wondered how spirituality, which was talked about at the later stage of life, has suddenly found significance and relevance to the beginning of life!

Nothing is all of a sudden. This goes back to the ancient holy texts or the Vedas. Spiritual wellness has been the primary guideline for would-be parents back then. Garbha Upanishad has five connecting dots that begins by defining a human body, then how an embryo is formed, how it develops, how the embryo which is as tiny as a bean knows everything about the past, the good, and the bad. And the last section of the manuscript talks about Garbh Sanskar. Garbh Sanskar is the most followed prenatal guideline that talks about how to nurture and paren your child. One can find its relevance in Mahabharata too.