The highest human purpose is knowing God directly through His words, not speculation; chant His holy names.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 — May 24, 1975, Fiji 750524BG-FIJI [51:39 Minutes] BG-07.01_750524BG-FIJI Prabhupāda: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees chant responsively] Hmm. Ladies and gentlemen, I am just going to speak before you about knowledge of the Absolute. It is from the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā. This human form of life is obtained after many, many millions of years by evolutionary process: aquatics, then insects, reptiles, birds, beasts, uncivilized men, and then civilized form of human being.
They are called the Āryans. So the human being, civilized human being, is the topmost of the creation, and the consciousness is developed than the lower animals. Therefore the Vedānta philosophy says that this human form of life is meant for understanding knowledge absolute, knowledge of the Absolute. Athāto brahma jijñāsā.
Brahman means the Absolute. Brahman is explained in the Vedānta-sūtra, janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]: "Brahman, or the Absolute Truth, is that from whom everything has emanated." There must be the original source of everything. So to understand that original source of everything is the knowledge of the Absolute. So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is teaching throughout the whole world about the knowledge of the Absolute. There is no question of religion or dogmatism.
It is a question of cultural advancement in knowledge. Every human being has got right to understand the absolute knowledge. That is the only business of human being. There is no other business.
Unfortunately, for want of training, we are wasting our advanced intelligence for the same business as the cats and dogs are engaged. That is the difficulty. Cats and dogs, they cannot understand what is absolute knowledge. They are busy where to find out food, where to find out shelter, where to find out facility for sexual intercourse, and where to find out shelter to avoid danger.
Defense, in other words. Defense. Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca. At the present moment the human society is busy where to find out food, where to find out shelter, how to have nice sexual intercourse, and how to defense from other nation or other enemy. This has become the business. This is always the business of the materialistic way of life.
But this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is a different life. It is not materialistic way of life. It is the life of spiritual realization. It is little difficult, because people are accustomed to think everything in materialistic way.