Srimad Bhagavatam verse 3.31.4.
yah panca-bhuta-racite rahitah sharire
cchanno ’yathendriya-gunaartha-cid-aatmako ’ham
tenaavikuntha-mahimaanam rshim tam enam
vande param prakrti-purushayoh pumaamsam
"I am separated from the Supreme Lord because of my being in this material body, which is made of five elements, and therefore my qualities and senses are being misused, although I am essentially spiritual. Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is transcendental to material nature and the living entities, because He is devoid of such a material body, and because He is always glorious in His spiritual qualities, I offer my obeisances unto Him."
This is the prayer of the unborn child in the womb. The difficulty with us is that as soon as the material body is decided for us, we have to squeeze ourselves in the female womb. Whichever body you accept, you have to squeeze. Otherwise you are not born and more so in the human existence, it is a very obnoxious situation. Therein the living entity prays continuously to the Lord that because I have committed so many sins, I have to be in this position. The description of the movements in the womb is very beautiful in the third canto, thirty first chapter of Srimad Bhaagvatam. If you really study these prayers, and the actual movement of the living entity, then we helplessly decide, come what may, I will not again squeeze myself in another womb. This is a terrible thing. We are already born and by Krishna’s arrangement, we have forgotten the pangs of birth but we can say that the children are barely alive when they are born. Somehow or the other, by the grace of the mother, we are just seeing the light of this planet. Otherwise it is impossible.
So in that condition, while suffering, the living entity is praying that because I am encaged in the material body, made of five great elements, I am lying here in the pool of blood, pus, urine and what not. Because You are transcendental, I entreat you that when are You going to liberate me from this position. There are 5 gross elements sky, ether, fire, water and earth and there are three subtle elements mind, intelligence and false ego. We do not see the mind and we never envisage intelligence and are never conscious of false ego. But this false ego dominates our whole life. And because false ego is the beginning of the subtle body, slowly the subtle body is developed by the condition of the mind and as soon as the mind is conditioned, it gives you ether, air, fire water and earth according to its own will and the body is born. That is why the mind is the main thing and whatever goes on in the body, particularly in the heart and intelligence is revealed by our face. Mind is the controller of face also. You will have your face as the mind is. On our condition of mind, our whole being depends. This is the secret. The living entity says that somehow by Your arrangement, I am encaged in this body. I know that you are completely transcendental. You do not have birth, growth or death. Nothing you have. So please bestow mercy upon me and somehow or the other, release me from this imprisonment.
Because the unborn child is praying from the womb of the mother, it has a practical value for our existence. We are all born and in future also living beings will be born and again and again they will be born and all this has practical value.