Performance of yajña through chanting and Krishna consciousness liberates souls from sinful entanglement and repeated birth.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 3.9–14 — February 6, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740206BG-VRNDAVAN [23:56] Bg-09.01–14_740206BG-VRNDAVAN [poor recording]
Prabhupāda: Oṁ namo bhagavat... Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.
Prabhupāda: Now we are on the ninth verse. [leads chanting of verse] [devotees repeat] yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra oko 'yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ tad-arthaṁ karma kaunteya mukta-saṅgaḥ samācara [Bg. 3.9] saha-yajñāḥ prajāḥ sṛṣṭvā purovāca prajāpatiḥ anena prasaviṣyadhvam eṣa vo 'stv iṣṭa-kāma-dhuk [Bg. 3.10] devān bhāvayatānena te devā bhāvayantu vaḥ parasparaṁ bhāvayantaḥ śreyaḥ param avāpsyatha [Bg. 3.11] iṣṭān bhogān hi vo devā dāsyante yajña-bhāvitāḥ tair dattān apradāyaibhyo yo bhuṅkte stena eva saḥ [Bg. 3.12] yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ bhuñjate te tv aghaṁ pāpā ye pacanty ātma-kāraṇāt [Bg. 3.13] annād bhavanti bhūtāni parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ yajñād bhavati parjanyo yajñaḥ karma-samudbhavaḥ [Bg. 3.14] So, yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ bhuñjate te tv aghaṁ pāpā ye pacanty ātma-kāraṇāt [Bg. 3.13] Entanglement. This material life means entanglement—entanglement from evolutionary process from the lower grade of life. Just like the aquatics, gradually they come to the land as the water is evaporated.
Originally, the whole planet was merged in the water. Pralaya-payodhi-jale dhṛtavān asi vedaṁ [Śrī Daśāvatāra Stotra 1]. Prayala: that as the water dries up, the lands come out, then plants, trees, insects, beasts—in this way we get this human form of life. This is the process of evolution.
This evolutionary process is mentioned in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa, but some Western scholars like Darwin, they have put forward a theory of evolution in a perverted way. But the evolutionary process is mentioned in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa. So in the lower grade of life the entanglement is conducted by nature. But when you come to the human form of life you get higher consciousness, and you have to utilize your higher consciousness. That is the mission of human life.
You cannot spoil your life making yourself behave like cats and dogs or animals. The animals, they have got four businesses: how to eat, how to sleep and how to have sex life and how to defend. This is animal life. So because we are in the material body, we have got the animal propensities and needs of the body.
But because we are in higher consciousness, we have got another function. Another function means the cats and dogs, they cannot realize God, but a human being, although he has got the tendency for material necessities of life like cats and dogs, āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca samānam etat paśubhir narāṇām [Hitopadeśa 25] But on account of developed consciousness we can get out of this entanglement. janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhiduḥkha-doṣānudarśanam [Bg. 13.9] So long we are in ignorance, we do not care for these four things: birth, death, old age and disease. We care, but don't take very seriously on them. Whether it can be stopped we do not seriously consider.