What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

I was famous from birth

birth pangs of a process.

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

If you can announce the seasons or the birth of a child, you can certainly announce the reasons for the birth of a nation.