Bhagavatam-daily 153 – 11.09.28 – The human form makes pointless material existence purposeful

Shrimad bhagavatam 11 9 28 so here the avadhut brahmana is speaking to maharaja yadu after concluding his description of the 24 gurus now he is stating how he has learned from in general he’s giving a general lesson about material existence by describing um the conceptual chronology of creation so sushtva purani vividhanya jayatma shaktya sushtva in the beginning creators purani vividhani vividhani is various ajayatma shaktya so atma shaktya by his own energy ajaya refers to his illusory energy so with his material energy the lord created various species so he created the vrukshan is the plant sarishrupa is the reptiles so pashu is animals khaga is birds and then dashukan is the snakes even after creating the lord was not satisfied and then he created humans and once he created the human form brahma avalokadhishanam brahma avalok the absolute truth seeing so the human form is capable of perceiving the absolute truth atishtarudaya earlier atishtarudaya but then after creating the human form vidhaya brahm which had the capacity to perceive the absolute truth what happened mudamapadevaha mudamap he became happy he satisfied devaha that supreme lord now the purpose of creation is fulfilled in the human form of life sometimes atheists or even skeptics they look at the world and they see such struggle sometimes such savage struggle is there Richard Charles Darwin he said that there is a brutal struggle where say a lion catches a deer and tears it apart and devours it what horrible pain the deer goes through and similarly in nature sometimes when we look at nature and we may see trees and the sky and cooling wind and we think oh it’s so soothing so beautiful and that is at one level true but nature in its in its own in its own self-same existence is quite brutal and the question may come up what is the point of this all no Darwin said survival of the fittest but then even the fittest don’t survive so there is the struggle for existence and ultimately the struggle for existence ends in non-existence and then termination of existence and that a law of the jungle applies we could say at level at one level to even the human beings in the human society also there is cutthroat competition and there is sometimes savage destruction so when one sees the misery and the mortality that characterizes mortal existence then the question may come up what is the point of it all the point of it all is to transcend the misery and the mortality of mortal existence by rising to spiritual existence by becoming spiritually aware and the way to become spiritually aware is by becoming more and more cognizant of life’s spiritual side and that capacity to become spiritually conscious and to become ultimately conscious of the supreme lord that capacity is possible only in the human form only in the human form do we have does the soul have its consciousness developed enough to perceive what is the purpose of living what is the point of it all living beings exist but only human beings they seek the meaning of existence see the purpose of existence beyond the purposes of just survival and gratification so here it is described to that the Krishna the supreme lord felt satisfied after creating the human form that means that the purpose of creation which is to attain the destination beyond destruction this creation is characterized by destruction moment after moment one life form after life another life form till ultimately the whole creation itself is destroyed but the purpose of creation is to attain a destination beyond destruction that is the destination of the spiritual world Krishna’s eternal abode which is beyond destruction and to attain that we need to start thinking about the purpose of existence and when you inquire about the purpose of existence when you do inquire about spiritual truth now so that is possible the inquiry is possible because human beings have the capacity for pursuing spiritual truth perceiving spiritual truth so what happens over here is that the lord became satisfied because now in the human form the soul can inquire spiritually and attain a spiritual destination and thus transcend the misery and mortality of mortal existence so now here we human beings if we don’t inquire spiritually then our existence also ultimately becomes pointless Krishna’s saying 3.17 that 3.16 Aghaayur Indriya Ramo for seeking pleasure of the senses the life is lived with sin and Mogham Parthas Jivati life goes waste so Krishna doesn’t want us to suffer and he wants he wants us to attain eternal happiness and that’s why he’s provided the human form wherein we can attain eternal happiness and in those thought systems in those religions whose current religious dogmas hold that the soul exists only in the human form in their conception of creation the existence of the non-human species becomes pointless you know they live they struggle they suffer and they die and it’s dead over that’s all that there is but when you understand that all souls can and will come eventually to the human form that actually gives a meaning to their existence that yes they may not attain eternal life in that particular existence unless of course they come in contact with devotees and get prasad and somehow get spiritual spiritual consciousness without their conscious intention or conscious understanding but if that happens they’re very fortunate even if that doesn’t happen there is progressive reincarnation by which the soul moves from lower species towards higher species and ultimately attains and eventually attains the human form where the purpose of creation can be fulfilled and that purpose is what when that purpose is being fulfilled or when the facility for fulfilling that purpose is there has been provided and the Lord feels satisfied and in this case we can just conceive that if Krishna feels so satisfied when we just provided the human form when a human being actually takes the benefit of the human form and starts practicing spiritual life and starts coming towards him starts going beyond the reach of misery how much more happy will he will become and thus he as the paramatma accompanies us and helps us to prompts us prods us to inquire spiritually and attain the destination beyond destruction thank you