His birth parents literally gave him away at birth to another couple who, during his first year of life, physically and sexually abused him.

People tend to believe that everyone that gives birth is ready for parenting and they're not. He just had parents that weren't ready to parent and still aren't.

I was famous from birth

After taking such a birth, O Arjuna, one regains the knowledge acquired in the previous life, and strives again to achieve perfection.

birth pangs of a process.

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