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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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This is aim of life. One has to become mahātmā, greater soul, great soul, must understand. So therefore there must be training. Without training, how . . . Because after all, we are coming from the lower grade of life, animal life, and they are very expert scientist, that "Man is coming from monkey." That's all right, but shall you remain a monkey or you shall become a better person than the monkey? But they have preferred to remain as monkey. That's all.
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[[Vanisource:760413 - Lecture SB 07.12.02 - Bombay|760413 - Lecture SB 07.12.02 - Bombay]]
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:mām upetya kaunteya
:duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam
:nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ
:saṁsiddhiṁ paramaṁ gataḥ 
:([[Vanisource:BG 8.15 (1972)|BG 8.15]])
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This is aim of life. One has to become mahātmā, greater soul, great soul, must understand. So therefore there must be training. Without training, how . . . Because after all, we are coming from the lower grade of life, animal life, and they are very expert scientist, that "Man is coming from monkey." That's all right, but shall you remain a monkey or you shall become a better person than the monkey? But they have preferred to remain as monkey. That's all. When there is impotency, they borrow glands from the monkey for increasing their sex appetite. That means again going to the monkey. Punar mūṣiko bhava.

There is a story that a mouse approached a saintly person, "Sir, I have come to you for some favor." "What is that?" "Now, I am mouse. The cats gives much trouble. I cannot live peacefully on account of the cats." So the saintly person asked, "What do you want to become?" "I want to become a cat." "All right, you become a cat." Then after some time he again came: "Sir, I am still bothered." "Why?" "The dogs, they bother me." "Then what do you want?" "Now, let me become a dog." "All right, you become a dog." Then again after some time he came back, that "Still they bother me, sir." Now, "What do you want?" In this way, after, one after, he, at last he begged the saintly person to become a tiger. So the saintly person, "All right, you become a tiger." Then, when he became tiger, he began to stare his eyes on the saintly person. The saintly person, "What do you mean by this?" "I shall eat you." "Oh, you shall eat me? All right, punar mūṣiko bhava: Again you become mouse. I have made you tiger, and you want to eat me. So you become again mouse."
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