My Guru narrated an outstanding short story on Guru Purnima.
The head of Gita Press likened our lives and creation to that of a vast ocean on which a boat is floating.
We have each been various species of animals and maybe even plants one birth after another. Some 8 million times, maybe more.
Now we’ve finally got a human birth, and are as if on that boat which has come very close to the shore.
If we don’t get off the boat, we will drown, and possibly go back all the way, one specie to another, one birth after another.
All we need to do is to get off the boat. The land is Vaikuntha. We just need to get off. But are we able to?