"It is said in all the Sastras that of the Jiva's eighty-four lakhs of birth is the most fruitful. In no other birth can Jiva acquire knowledge of the truth. Human birth is the stepping - stone to the path of liberation. But rare are the meritorious who come by it".
"O Daughter of the mountain, which decreaseth not, passes through eighty-four lakhs as inorganic things,insects, birds, and the like.And after that,O Supreme Devi, it attains that human body which is so difficult to acquire. "
Jiva attains the position of the twice-born,having had thirty lakhs of births as inorganic things, nine lakhs of births as aqueous animals, ten lakhs of births as creeping animals, ten lakhs of births as human beings, having thus in all traveled through eighty-four lakhs of births. When Jiva attains the human body, it becomes Lord of Dharma. It is again born and again dies. In this manner, controlled by the bonds of Karma, the Jiva takes birth from various sources, and die eighty-four lakhs of times. By the command of Yama,Jiva goes to the Brahmaloka. On its return from thence, it obtain the buman body, which is so rarely obtained, and is able to secure from a dood Guru initiation in the mantra of Mahavakya and knowledge of truth. Then alone does the jiva gain the Supreme liberation, and by the grace of Mahavidya has not to return so long as the universe endures.
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