The purpose of coming to spiritual path is to spend every moment productively.
We have discussed again and again that human life is nothing but a few days' time.
If the time is not properly utilized, if it is wasted; our life is wasted.
This human life is a precious one: “jantunam narajanma durlabham itah” - Vivekachudamani.
Adi Shankara said: Among all different species of life, human life is the rarest one.
Again in Vivekachudamani he said:
durlabhaṃ trayam there are three things rarest in the world:
manuṣyatvaṃ mumukṣutvaṃ mahāpuruṣasaṃśrayaḥ:
To get a human life;
to take refuge at the feet of the great soul or great souls; and the desire for liberation.
When he said these three things are rare, he gave a sequence.
He said first to be a human being.
Human being - means to have human values.
A tiger has its tiger like value.
You cannot ordinarily expect a tiger to be gentle, polite, humble.
A cow has its good qualities of calmness and peace.
It is said that if you look at the eyes of the animals or at the eyes of human beings,
you can know a great deal of the person.
Through the eyes.
There is a proverb in hindi:
(Hindi proverb)
Rogee, the sick;
bhogee, those who are fond of pleasure, extrovert;
yogee, the meditator,
you can know them through their eyes.
(Hindi).
So from the eyes you can see.
If you look at the eyes of the cow there is so much of compassion, so much of calmness.
If you look at the eyes of the cat,
because it is not easy to find a tiger to look at,
so if you look at the eyes of the cat, because the tiger belongs to the cat family
you can see that there is the element of tricky nature, always looking for something.
However, when we are human beings, when we are here, we are fortunate.
We are blessed.
More or less we have the desire to improve ourselves, otherwise we would not have come.
manusyanam sahasresu.
Among thousands of people rarely one.
So be grateful to God, be grateful to the Masters that we have a little desire,
but we should increase that urge that desire
to be more and more God conscious, prayerful, loving and humble.