Shloka 63
Adhyaya 57 — The Ninefold Divisions of Bharata: Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples
अपि मानुष्यमाप्स्यामो देवत्वात् प्रच्युताः क्षितौ । मनुष्यः कुरुते तत्तु यन्न शक्यं सुरासुरैः ॥
api mānuṣyam āpsyāmo devatvāt pracyutāḥ kṣitau | manuṣyaḥ kurute tat tu yan na śakyaṃ surāsuraiḥ ||
（彼らは思う。）「神位より地上へと堕してもよい、どうか人として生まれたい。」人間は、神々やアスラにも不可能なことを成し遂げるからである。
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FAQs
The human condition uniquely enables decisive self-transformation—through vow, renunciation, knowledge, and disciplined action—so one should treat human life as a rare instrument.
Karmic and manvantara-oriented teaching: it explains relative capacities across lokas and species, reinforcing the Purāṇic moral architecture of the cosmos.
Gods and asuras symbolize enjoyment and power; the human symbolizes the ‘middle path’ where suffering and insight can catalyze liberation-oriented effort.