Suppose if one follows the rules and regulations of a Brahmin. His next life he may get a Brahmin birth or a very, I mean to say, learned family. Like that he can get. But that is not a very good gain. But Nārada Muni says if one has begun the occupational duty of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, giving up all other occupational duty, even if he falls down, that one percent, two percent remains as his asset so that he will be able to begin from next life again Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
So it is so nice that even one falls down, it will not . . . whatever he has done, whatever you have done, that is your permanent asset. Permanent asset, because it is spiritual. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is spiritual. As spirit soul is eternal, permanent, similarly, any activity on the spiritual platform is eternal. It will never be lost. So there are many instructions like this.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja is also stressing on that point, that durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma tad apy adhruvam arthadam. Although this human form of life is not very long, but you can get the very nice result out of it. Arthadam. Artha. Artha means profit. So real profit is spiritual profit. That is real profit, because that will never be lost. And material profit, suppose you become M.A., Ph.D., Doctor, or Rockefeller or Ford, or something like that. You gain so many material things. But as soon as this body is finished, everything is finished.
You are no more Rockefeller, you are no more M.A. Suppose you get again a birth in a human family, so you have to again begin your education to come to the point of M.A. Or you have to begin your life to become again Rockefeller. This Rockefeller estate is left here. You have to begin again. You do not know whether you are going to be Rockefeller or some feller.
But at least, it is certain that whatever material gain you acquire, that will be finished with this body. That is a fact. So you have to begin again. But if you take up this Kṛṣṇa consciousness even one percent, that will never be finished. It will give you . . . just like a seed. A seed, if you sow on the earth and you put little water, it will grow. It will grow. It will never be stopped.