Human life is precious opportunity for spiritual purification and understanding God, not wasting time in animal sense gratification.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Pandal Lecture — March 18, 1972, Bombay 720318LE-BOMBAY [43:06 Minutes] Lecture_720318LE-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: I thank you very much for your coming here and participating in this great movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is already there in the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So in the morning we shall speak on the Bhagavad-gītā in Hindi, and in the evening we shall speak on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in English. Of course, in India there was no necessity of speaking in English, but at least once if I do not speak in English, all my disciples who have come from Europe and America, they will be bereft of hearing me.
Therefore we have made this program: morning I shall speak in Hindi, and in the evening I shall speak in English. So Śrīmad-bhāgavatam amalaṁ purāṇam [SB 12.13.18]. There are eighteen Purāṇas. Out of them, six purāṇas are meant for persons who are in sattva-guṇa. There are three qualities of the material nature.
Some of us are in the modes of goodness, some of them are in the modes of passion, and some of them are in the modes of ignorance. So our Vedic literature... Śrī Vyāsadeva claims everyone. Not that simply persons who are in sattva-guṇa, or in the modes of goodness, they are eligible for going back to Godhead, back to home. We should remember this fact, that this human form of life is meant for going back to home, back to Godhead. That is the ultimate goal of life.
This human form of life is not meant for working very hard like the animals. Nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛ-loke, kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujām ye [SB 5.5.1]. Nāyaṁ deha, this body, nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛ-loke. Every one of the living entities, they have taken this material form, and there are 8,400,000 species of forms.
The best of the form is this human form. But this form of life is not meant for working so hard like an ass and gratifying the senses like the hogs and dogs. That is the injunction of the śāstras. Nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛ-loke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ. Viḍ-bhujām.
Viḍ-bhujām means stool-eaters. The stool-eaters you have seen, the hogs. The whole day and night they are searching after stool. So the śāstras, especially Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, says that the human form of life is not meant for working so hard like the hogs and dogs simply for sense gratification.
The modern civilization, the so-called economic development, what is the ultimate aim of life? The ultimate aim of life is sense gratification, that's all. I have traveled all over the world, especially in the Western countries. They are simply after sense gratification. They have no other object.