Sayings of Guru Dev Shankaracharya Swami Brahmanand Saraswati

To get a human body is a rare thing thing. Make use of it. There are four million kinds of lives a soul can gather. After that one gets a chance to be human, to get a human body. Therefore, one should not waste this chance. Every second in human life is very valuable. If you don't value this, then you will have nothing in hand and you will weep in the end. Because you are human, God has given you the power to think and decide what is good and bad. Therefore you can do the best possible action.

You should never consider yourself weak or a fallen creature. Whatever may have happened up to now may be because you didn't know, but now be careful. After getting a human body if you don't find God, then you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach.