Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Texts 4.29.1a-2a
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सर्वेषामेव जन्तूनां सततं देहपोषणे ।
अस्ति प्रज्ञा समायत्ता को विशेषस्तदा नृणाम् ॥ १अ ॥
लब्ध्वेहान्ते मनुष्यत्वं हित्वा देहाद्यसद्ग्रहम् ।
आत्मसृत्या विहायेदं जीवात्मा स विशिष्यते ॥ २अ ॥
sarveṣām eva jantūnāṁ
satataṁ deha-poṣaṇe
asti prajñā samāyattā
ko viśeṣas tadā nṛṇām
labdhvehānte manuṣyatvaṁ
hitvā dehādy-asad-graham
ātma-sṛtyā vihāyedaṁ
jīvātmā sa viśiṣyate
A desire to maintain body, wife and children is also observed in animal society. The animals have full intelligence to manage such affairs. If a human being is simply advanced in this respect, what is the difference between him and an animal? One should be very careful to understand that this human life is attained after many, many births in the evolutionary process. A learned man who gives up the bodily conception of life, both gross and subtle, will, by the enlightenment of spiritual knowledge, become a prominent individual spirit soul, as the Supreme Lord is also.
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