Timeline for How difficult or rare is it to get human life?
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| Aug 26, 2017 at 5:35 | comment | added | ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ | @sv. Every birth is rare to get but other births are not significant, only human birth is significant to stop birth-death cycle. That's why I used the the phrase other than human. And I believe in science but not it's prophesies. Weather forecasting too in not 100% efficient what to say about other? :) | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 21:42 | comment | added | ram | @sv, in current age, many humans behave like animals. simply human birth does not imply superiority. that's why in first part of answer, i mentioned adi shankara's shloka.. that even among human births, to be spiritual is very very rare. the numbers i gave is just for statistical interest, not to be taken literally without underlying karmic cause. | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 21:24 | comment | added | Say No To Censorship | @Rohit You're missing the point. According to your logic, chance of taking birth as anything other than a dinosaur is 100%. Does it mean taking birth as a dinosaur is superior to a lion which in turn is superior to a human? Have you thought about what will happen to humans in a few billion years after the Sun expands and consumes the Earth or most of its atmosphere? Some of the bacteria may survive. What about humans? Would you rather take birth as bacteria than not taking birth at all? | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 18:21 | comment | added | ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ | @sv. Chances of becoming other than human is (1-10^-11 = 99.99999999998) | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 18:14 | history | edited | Pandya♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 25, 2017 at 16:59 | comment | added | ram | @sv - yep, makes sense. | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 16:16 | comment | added | Say No To Censorship | Here's another "common-sense calculation": there are about 40K (4 x 10^4) lions left in the wild. Chance of being born as a lion = 10^4 / 10^20 = 0.000000000000001 = 10^-15. Chance of being born as a dinosaur? Nil. | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 5:16 | history | answered | ram | CC BY-SA 3.0 |