Do you recall how difficult it was when you were coming out of your mother's stomach? [No] Then, how do you teach about that? You'll know if you give birth. (Laughter) Why did God make a child to be born in this way? How easy it would be if it were as simple as talking, or as easy as eating good food, or as the scent of perfume spreads, just feeling good, opening your mouth and saying "Ha ha ha," to give birth? Why isn't giving birth like that, but instead delivered in a perspiring life-or-death situation?

Why was it made like that? This was to observe brilliant love. In terms of electricity, there is what is called a motive current. Motive current. What is that? When you click on a switch, at that moment, a strong current several tens of times the normal power is discharged at once. In the same way, if man is in a state where everything is cut off so that he feels, "I am tired of everything, there is nothing," and he is suddenly connected, the power of love explodes with tremendous energy. It is the same logic. Do you understand? [Yes]

In such a situation confronting death where eyeballs jump out of the sockets and all things are destroyed, if a child cries its first cry and is born, your eyes open wide. All pain disappears in an instant. Mother knows that well, don't you? You gave birth with such difficulty so you can love more than the hardships experienced. In that way, you clench your teeth, undergo pain and then love the baby. You will say, "Aigoo!" Do you understand what that means? Is the pain of a mother giving birth a happy one or an unhappy one? [A happy one] A father will never understand no matter how you describe it. A father doesn't know how much the mother went through. The father will never know more than the mother. That is why the mother is the best when it comes to knowing the true taste of love. (1980 Jan. 20, Belvedere Training Center)

Ladies, are you afraid of delivering a child? If you ask women who have given birth, they all say that at the time of birth they thought they would die, but after giving birth that feeling of death disappears in an instant. On a ship, a seasick person will vomit and thinks he will die, but once he sets foot on land again he is immediately well. This is a similar situation. You should try to experience it. Of course, it isn't easy to spend nine months with a baby in your stomach. (1989 Jan. 6, Hannamdong estate)