The father and the mother, O Bharata, only create the body. The life, on the other hand, which one acquires from his preceptor, is divine. That life suffers no decays and is imimortal.
शरीरमेव सृजतः पिता माता च भारत॥ आचार्यशिष्टा या जातिः सा दिव्या साजरामरा।