What is the great potential of human birth? | Mohanji
Instincts
What’s the great potential of human birth? We are detached from instinct. All beings have instincts. Human beings have detached from instinct to use imagination and intelligence. We can understand much deeper aspects of existence.
Human birth has very, very powerful potential. It has great potential. What’s the great potential of human birth? We are detached from instinct. All beings have instincts. Human beings have detached from instinct to use imagination and intelligence. We can understand much deeper aspects of existence. This is one of the things.
But please don’t think that instinct goes away. Instincts always stay, and it’s easy to go back to just basic instinct – eat, drink, survive, and then some entertainment connected to the senses, mostly eyes and ears. You know, these entertainments, or feelings – the body. It’s easy, very easy; you don’t need any effort for it. All the things which are sold on media are because of that. It’s entertaining senses. And places like Dubai thrive on it – just entertaining the senses, and you feel great. But you need new things; the same thing if you see it five times, it loses its value.
What is valuable?
There are so many things like that. We got to break free from that pattern and come to something valuable. What is valuable? Something which transforms you, increases or deepens your awareness, stabilizes you and makes you completely unaffected. As I said earlier, detachment is “nothing owns you”; not that you detach from somebody or something. Nothing owns you – it means you can survive without any of these things. That gives you stability. That gives you power.
Transcribed by Ulla Bernholdt
Proofread by Yogesh Pandit