Category: Reflections
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Why do we need discernment?
It is said that countless lifetimes culminate in the rare gift of human birth. The sages remind us with a timeless verse: आहार-निद्रा-भय-मैथुनं च समानमेतत्पशुभिर्नराणाम् ।धर्मो हि तेषामधिको विशेषो धर्मेण हीनाः पशुभिः समानाः ॥ āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṃ ca samānam etat paśubhir narāṇām |dharmaḥ hi teṣām adhiko viśeṣo dharmeṇa hīnāḥ paśubhiḥ samānāḥ || Food, sleep, fear, and mating…