Human Birth: A golden Opportunity

We can know God first-hand only in the man-body. To keep the physical man-body fit, we must give it proper food, rest, exercise, clothing and care. If we have to separate from our body – or die – before achieving the culmination of our aim to know what we truly are and then of knowing God, we lose a golden opportunity.

After all, 

What does it profit a man if he gains the possessions of the whole world and loses his own soul?

St Matthew 16:26