24 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 9
PURPORT
Srila Narottama dasa Thakura has sung:
hari hari viphale janama gondinu
manusya-janama patya, radha-krsna na bhajiya,
Janiya Suniya visa khainu
The body of a human being is extremely valuable because in this body
one can understand the instructions of Krsna and attain the ultimate
destination of the living entity. The living entity is within the material
world to fulfill the mission of going back home, back to Godhead. In the
material world, one hankers for happiness, but because one does not
know the ultimate destination, one changes bodies one after another.
However, if one gets the opportunity to possess a human form of body, in
this body he can fulfill the four principles of dharma, artha, kama and
moksa, and if one is properly regulated he makes further progress, after
liberation, to engage in the service of Radha and Krsna. This is the suc-
cess of life: to stop the process of repeated birth and death and go back
home, back to Godhead (mam eti), to be engaged in the service of Radha
and Krsna. Therefore, taking a human body is meant for completing
one’s progress in life. Throughout human society, killing of a human
being is taken very seriously. Hundreds and thousands of animals are
killed in slaughterhouses, and no one cares about them, but the killing of
even one human being is taken very seriously. Why? Because the human
form of body is extremely important in executing the mission of life.
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esa hi brahmano vidvams
tapah-sila-gunanvitah
Grirddhayisur brahma
mahd-purusa-samjnitam
