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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 13]
“The real form of this tree cannot be perceived in this world. No one can understand where it ends, where it begins, or where its foundation is. But with determination, one must cut down this tree with the weapon of detachment. So doing, one must seek that place from which, having once gone, one never returns, and there surrender to that Supreme Personality of Godhead from whom everything has begun and in whom everything is abiding since time immemorial.” (Bg. 15.3-4)
TEXT 21
राजोवाच
अहो नृजन्माखिलजन्मशोभनं 
  किं जन्मभिस्त्वंपरैप्यमुष्मिन् । 
  न यद्धृषीकेशयशःकृतात्मनां 
  महात्मनां वः प्रचुरः समागमः ॥२१
rājovāca  
 aho nṛ-janmākhila-janma-śobhanam  
 kim janmabhis tv aparair apy amuṣmin  
 na yad dhṛṣīkeśa-yaśaḥ-kṛtātmanām  
 mahātmanām vaḥ pracuraḥ samāgamaḥ
rājā uvāca —King Rahūgaṇa said;  aho —alas;  nṛ-janma —you who have taken birth as a human being;  akhila-janma-śobhanam —the best of all species of life;  kim —what need;  janmabhiḥ —with births in a higher species like the demigods in the heavenly planets;  tu —but;  aparaiḥ —not superior;  api —indeed;  amuṣmin —in the next birth;  na —not;  yat —which;  hṛṣīkeśa-yaśaḥ —by the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hṛṣīkeśa, the master of all senses;  kṛta-ātmanām —of those whose hearts are purified;  mahā-ātmanām —who are actually great souls;  vaḥ —of us;  pracuraḥ —abundant;  samāgamaḥ —the association.
TRANSLATION
King Rahūgaṇa said: This birth as a human being is the best of all. Even birth among the demigods in the heavenly planets is not