MISSED OPPORTUNITY

"Only through God's grace may we obtain those three rarest advantages--human birth, the longing for liberation, and the discipleship of an illumined teacher.

Nevertheless, there are those who somehow manage to obtain this rare human birth, together with bodily and mental strength, and an understanding of the scriptures, and yet are so deluded that they do not struggle for liberation.  Such persons are suicides.  They clutch at the unreal and destroy themselves.

For what greater fool can there be than the person who has obtained this rare human birth, together with bodily and mental strength, and yet fails, through delusion, to realize his or her highest good?"

                        -- The Crest Jewel of Discrimination by Shankara.