So the Āryan family, they are considered as advanced, civilized, so, with full developed consciousness, and therefore this is the opportunity for understanding the value of life. So:
- kaumāra ācaret prājño
- dharmān bhāgavatān iha
- durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma
- tad apy adhruvam arthadam
- (SB 7.6.1)
Adhruvam arthadam. He says that "This life is very valuable, very rare, but it is also temporary." Because it is very rarely obtained, it is not permanent. It is also temporary like cats and dogs. They have got their temporary body. But the one significance of this body is arthadam. Arthadam means you can derive the greatest value in this life. Arthadam. Artha means money, and paramartha means spiritual consciousness. That is also artha.
So one should be engaged for earning money, because the body requires material necessities. That's all right. But his real attention should be how to achieve spiritual consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is arthadam. That is the value of life.
- yathā hi puruṣasyeha
- viṣṇoḥ pādopasarpaṇam
- yad eṣa sarva-bhūtānām
- priya ātmeśvaraḥ suhṛt
- (SB 7.6.2)
And what is that spiritual consciousness? Puruṣasyeha viṣṇoḥ pādopasarpaṇam. Viṣṇu. Viṣṇu means the Supreme Lord. The Supreme Lord is called Viṣṇu, all-pervading, the word used here, viṣṇoḥ. Viṣṇu means who is all-pervading, at the same time He's a person. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is person; at the same time, He is all-pervading.
How it is? In our material conception we cannot imagine, but there is a proof in your presence. Just like the sun. Sun is localized. You can see every day. Sun globe is located at a certain place in the outer space, but the sunshine is all-pervading. Sun is present everywhere by his all-pervasive sunshine.
Similarly, Viṣṇu, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is in His abode, which is called Viṣṇuloka, or the kingdom of God, or Kṛṣṇaloka, whatever you may understand. He has got His particular abode. But at the same time, by His different energies, He is all-pervading.
There is another example of this all-pervasiveness of God in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa that, "Just like fire is situated in one place, but its light and heat is distributed long, long distant, similarly, whatever we see within this cosmic manifestation, that is diffusion of the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." So Prahlāda Mahārāja points out that:
- yathā hi puruṣasyeha
- viṣṇoḥ pādopasarpaṇam
- yad eṣa sarva-bhūtānām
- priya ātmeśvaraḥ suhṛt
- (SB 7.6.2)
One should be Kṛṣṇa conscious, or God conscious, why? Because He is the master of your self and the most intimate friend, suhṛt. Yathā ātmeśvara. Ātmeśvara means we are individual self and He is the original Superself. Just like we, for the present, we like this body, we love this body, why? Because the body is the production of the soul.
Without soul, there is no body. Just like a child born. If the soul is there, the child will grow. If the child is born dead, however chemically you can keep up that body, it will never grow. So that is the significance of the presence of the soul. So as the body grows on account of presence of the soul, similarly, the soul, individual soul, is the part and parcel of the Supreme Lord.
It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā that mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ (BG 15.7): "All these living entities, they are My part and parcel." We are part and parcel of God. You can study. You can understand what is the nature of God by studying yourself, because you are sample God. You are miniature, small God. Just like particle of gold is also a small particle—it is also gold, similarly, because we are part and parcel of God, therefore there all the ingredients, all the chem . . . (break) (end)