Punishment purifies the sinful; avoid it through Krishna consciousness, the only genuine law of God.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.68 — September 4, 1975, Vṛndāvana 750904SB-VRNDAVAN [16:35 Minutes] SB-06.01.68_750904SB-VRNDAVAN Prabhupāda: So? Recite. Who is going to recite? Hmm? Brahmānanda: The prayers have already been said. Prabhupāda: Huh? Brahmānanda: The ācamana has already been done.
So if you give lecture, then after lecture [indistinct] the Deities. Prabhupāda: So? Somebody will recite the verse? Brahmānanda: [aside:] You're going to recite the verse? Nitāi will do it. Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Sixth Canto, First Chapter, verse number sixty-eight. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] tata enaṁ daṇḍa-pāṇeḥ sakāśaṁ kṛta-kilbiṣaṁ neṣyāmo 'kṛta-nirveśaṁ yatra daṇḍena śuddhyati [SB 6.1.68] [break] [01:50]
Prabhupāda: tata enaṁ daṇḍa-pāṇeḥ sakāśaṁ kṛta-kilbiṣaṁ neṣyāmo 'kṛta-nirveśaṁ yatra daṇḍena śuddhyati [SB 6.1.68] So without obeying the instruction of the śāstra, he has fallen down. Although he was born in the brāhmaṇa family and educated nicely, but on account of bad association he fell down from the standard of human ideal life. Therefore he is punishable. Not only he; every one of us.
The human form of life is specially meant for going back to home, back to Godhead. The animal life... By progressive evolution they come to the human form of life, and when one is..., the living entity is on the platform of human form of life, he has got his responsibility. Therefore śāstra says, nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujām ye tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvaṁ yasmād brahma-saukhyam anantam [SB 5.5.1] This is the responsibility of human life. This human life is not meant for working day and night like the dogs and hogs for sense gratification.
At the present moment it is going on all over the world: simply for sense gratification they are working so hard. From hundred miles they are going to the working place, hanging on the Delhi passenger train. Sometimes there is accident. These things are going on, very hard labor like the asses.
So this is also another punishment. The more punishment is awaiting, yama-daṇḍa, at the court of Yamarāja. Not only they are suffering here, but they will be taken to the Yamarāja. And there, according to his work, abominable work, he will be punished.