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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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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
WORD BY WORD
TRANSLATION
 | 86-87 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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PURPORT
| | It is said that man is a rational animal, but from this verse we can also understand that rationality exists even in animal life. Unless there is rationality, how can an animal maintain its body by working so hard? That the animals are not rational is untrue; their rationality, however, is not very advanced. In any case, we cannot deny them rationality. The point is that one should use one’s reason to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for that is the perfection of human life.
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