GOD’s mercy in Human Life

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SYNOPSIS: The purpose of human life is to free ourselves from the cycle of birth and rebirths forever. By utilizing it rightly, we can free ourselves once and for all from the vicious cycle of 8.4 million rebirths. READ THE FULL ARTICLE BELOW -

After being born in 8.4 million different bodies as per the deeds done in our previous births, GOD has showered mercy and has given us birth in the human body which is also called the “Mukti Yoni” (body empowered for attaining salvation). Granting birth in the human body is a great act of mercy of GOD because we can utilize the human body for attaining salvation. Due to the presence of wisdom in human life, we can very well ascertain and judge the purpose of human life.

If we analyze animal species, whether it is aquatic, aerial or terrestrial, we can observe that they spend a big part of their life in search of food and in taking measures of self-defense for their life against danger from bigger species. If we observe a crow or a squirrel closely, we will see that they go out to search for food in the morning. Throughout the day, they have to be vigilant about the safety of their life as any lapse can result in their loss of life. A crow or a squirrel would look up and look around umpteen times to ascertain their safety before feeding itself with one bite of food. Smaller species have fear from bigger species. The bigger species have fear from humans. (Due to the flense of tiger skin by the humans in the greed for money, many tigers keep losing their life.) Therefore to remember or worship GOD in the animal body is almost impossible. Very few animal species due to their past good deeds are fortunate enough to find a shelter near temples. You must have seen monkeys, Holy cows and pigeons near temples, they are those few of the fortunate among animals who attempt for salvation in an animal body. By doing so they may not get salvation but they definitely get their next birth in a human body so that they can revisit their efforts for attaining salvation.

Human life is definitely a paramount blessing of GOD because it is a great medium to escape permanently from the cycle of rebirths in 8.4 million bodies. Therefore we must best utilize human birth by remaining close to GOD so that we are freed from the vicious cycle of 8.4 million rebirths. Because of this, human life is described by the saints as “Mukti Yoni”.

But see our misfortune that we spend our human life, earned with such difficulty, in useless deeds and also create new deed bondage (the after-effect of the deeds done by us). In this way, even after getting birth in “Mukti Yoni” we earn “shackles” instead of “salvation”. A bigger misfortune unfolds when due to the ill-effect of illusion, we do not even recall or foresee our mistake. The saints and great souls have alerted us with the warning not to repeat this mistake in our human life. Many hymns and lyrics of such warnings can be found. Shri Kabirdasji, Bhagwati Meera Bai, Shri Surdasji and many such saints have sung hymns with such warnings, warning to rightfully utilize human life and request to lead a life in the companionship of GOD.

When we come closer to GOD, we get the vision to identify such mistakes and it is GOD who gives us the inspiration from within to rectify such blunders of human life. Otherwise, our human life could have been wasted in earning food, in sleep and in coition. Over indulgence in earning food, in sleep and in coition are the characteristics of animal species. To only engage the human life in food (earning money), to only engage the human life in sleep (lounging), to only engage the human life in coition (raising offsprings) is an act of unwiseness. But you will find people, who after earning a fortune in their lifetime, still at the age of 65 are engaged in earning money. You will find people who have spent their entire life lounging. They have trained themselves for doing nothing. You will find people who continue to raise a family with 6 - 7 children. In such a situation they do not have the vision to focus on the purpose of human life, neither do they have the inclination to associate themselves with GOD nor do they have time for doing so.

But there are some fortunate people, who have such vision due to the blessing of GOD, earned because of the good deeds done in their past lives. What is this blessing ? A determination to seek GOD through devotion, to take strides on the devotional path. There is a greater blessing, which is the highest blessing of GOD which protects the devotees on the devotional path at all times. If it were not so, a storm of worldly illusion is enough to sweep the soul into worldliness. Thus GOD showers His mercy on His devotees and frees the soul from the cycle of birth and rebirths once and for all. In this way the soul is able to utilize the human body in fulfilling the purpose of human life.

The blessing of GOD is received either due to the good deeds done in the past lives or due to pursuing devotion vigorously in this present life. Therefore even if there is a small amount of devotion for GOD present in us, we must acknowledge it as an act of mercy of GOD on us and must make efforts to increase it so that the seed of devotion can grow into a big devotional tree thereby fulfilling the very purpose of human life.