tasya sÄdhor apÄpasya
bhrūṇasya brahma-vÄdinaḥ
kathaá¹ vadhaá¹ yathÄ babhror
manyate san-mato bhavÄn
tasya - of him; sÄdhoḥ - of the great saintly person; apÄpasya - of one who has no sinful life; bhrūṇasya - of the embryo; brahma-vÄdinaḥ - of one who is well versed in Vedic knowledge; katham - how; vadham - the killing; yathÄ - as; babhroḥ - of a cow; manyate - you are thinking; sat-mataḥ - well recognized by higher circles; bhavÄn - your good self.
As stated in the Amara-koÅ›a dictionary, bhrūṇo ’rbhake bÄla-garbhe: the word bhrūṇa refers either to the cow or to the living entity in embryo. According to Vedic culture, destroying the undeveloped embryo of the soul in the womb is as sinful as killing a cow or a brÄhmaṇa. In the embryo, the living entity is present in an undeveloped stage. The modern scientific theory that life is a combination of chemicals is nonsense; scientists cannot manufacture living beings, even like those born from eggs. The idea that scientists can develop a chemical situation resembling that of an egg and bring life from it is nonsensical. Their theory that a chemical combination can have life may be accepted, but these rascals cannot create such a combination. This verse refers to bhrūṇasya vadham — the killing of a bhrūṇa or destruction of the embryo. Here is a challenge from the Vedic literature. The crude, atheistic understanding that the living entity is a combination of matter belongs to the grossest ignorance.