Spiritual Path

 After 8.4 million bodies, you get the human body.

Just imagine, from bacteria, birds, animals, etc., 8.4 million lives later a human life comes. In this human life, few get to know the real spiritual path. And among those, very few walk on the path and they are the lucky ones.

Adi Shankara has also said, that the human birth is very difficult to get.

After having gotten human birth, the desire of wanting to walk on the spiritual path, is also very difficult to get. Few people get this. And even after getting this desire to walk on the spiritual path, only few get the opportunity to do it; they get the right path.

So, a human birth, desire for a path, and the path being available to them (getting a Spiritual Master), these three things are rare and difficult to get. If you have all three, you are lucky. 

*Gurudev @SriSri*