karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa
jantur dehopapattaye
striyāḥ praviṣṭa udaraṁ
puṁso retaḥ-kaṇāśrayaḥ
śrī-bhagavān uvāca-the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; karmaṇā-by the result of work; daiva-netreṇa-under the supervision of the Lord; jantuḥ-the living entity; deha-a body; upapattaye-for obtaining; striyāḥ-of a woman; praviṣṭaḥ-enters; udaram-the womb; puṁsaḥ-of a man; retaḥ-of semen; kaṇa-a particle; āśrayaḥ- dwelling in.
The Personality of Godhead said: Under the supervision of the Supreme Lord and according to the result of his work, the living entity, the soul, is made to enter into the womb of a woman through the particle of male semen to assume a particular type of body.
As stated in the last chapter, after suffering different kinds of hellish conditions, a man comes again to the human form of body. The same topic is continued in this chapter. In order to give a particular type of human form to a person who has already suffered hellish life, the soul is transferred to the semen of a man who is just suitable to become his father. During sexual intercourse, the soul is transferred through the semen of the father into the mother's womb in order to produce a particular type of body. This process is applicable to all embodied living entities, but it is especially mentioned for the man who was transferred to the Andha-tāmisra hell. After suffering there, when he who has had many types of hellish bodies, like those of dogs and hogs, is to come again to the