The human form exists for inquiring into Brahman; all else is waste of a rare opportunity.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrī Brahma-saṁhitā Lecture — November 9, 1968, Los Angeles 681109BS-LOS ANGELES [12:18 Minutes] Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **. Govindam, Lord Kṛṣṇa; ādi-puruṣa, the original person. In the Vedānta-sūtra it is said that Brahman... Athāto brahma jijñāsā.
What is Brahman? In this human form of life this is the business, to understand what is Brahman. Therefore Parīkṣit Mahārāja says [break], ...rājendra nṛṇāṁ santi sahasraśaḥ apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām [SB 2.1.2] [Those persons who are materially engrossed, being blind to the knowledge of ultimate truth, have many subject matters for hearing in human society, O Emperor.] Question and answer. Everywhere life means questions and answers.
So those who are not interested or do not know what is the aim of life, they have got questions and answers only for sense gratification. That's all. They have no more any questions or answers. Whole field of questioning and answering is sense gratification.
That's all. But the human life is not meant for that purpose. The animals, they are... Morning... Just like birds, just early in the morning, they began to chirp, "Where is food?
Where is...? Where we have to go? Where we have to find out some food?" That is their business. The animals also.
But human form of life, does it mean it is meant like that, that they should be simply involved in questions and answers for sense gratification? No. Therefore Vedānta-sūtra says, brahma-jijñāsā. Athāto brahma jijñāsā. Atha: "After this..., after the evolutionary process of lower than human being, when we have come, we have got this body, human form of body, the business is brahma-jijñāsā," jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā.
That is the Bhāgavata. But there is no education. There are so many universities, they are going on simply how to advance the method of sense gratification. That's all. There is no education.