The human form of life is your junction to choose eternal freedom or endless cycles of birth and death.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
MaYaa TaTaiMad& Sav| JaGadVYa¢-MaUiTaRNaa ) MaTSQaaiNa SavR>aUTaaiNa Na cah& TaeZvviSQaTa" )) 4 )) Prabhupāda: [chants verse; devotees respond] mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na cāhaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ [Bg 9.4] [01:18] So this is the fourth verse of the subject matter, the confidential and the king of knowledge, to understand God. This is the subject matter. So yesterday we discussed that aśraddhadhānāḥ puruṣā dharmasyāsya paran-tapa aprāpya māṁ nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani [Bg 9.3] There are two ways. One destination is to go back to home, back to Godhead.
Another destination is to be involved in the cycle of birth and death. So this human form of life is the junction to decide where you make your way. You are going to back to home, back to Godhead, or again you are going back to the cycle of birth and death, mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani? Vartmani means "path." That you have to decide in this human form of life.
Because you are not animal. Animal, they have no intelligence. Their first duty is where to get money, er, not money—food. Money is required for purchasing food, but the animals, they do not know that food can be purchased.
They are searching after food. But we are civilized; we are searching after money. Money is required for purchasing food. Why don't you produce food directly?
That is intelligence. You are getting money, very good. What is that money? A paper.
You are being cheated. It is written there "hundred dollars." But what is that hundred dollars? It is cheap of..., piece of paper only. But because we are so fool, we are accepting a piece of paper, "hundred dollars," and the struggle for existence for a piece of paper.
Why don't you be intelligent—"Why shall I take the piece of paper? Give me food"? But that intelligence you have lost. Therefore my Guru Mahārāja used to say the present human society is combination of cheaters and cheated, that's all.