Human life is for austerity and devotional service, not mere sense gratification like animals.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Pradyumna: Translation: "Lord Ṛṣabhadeva told His sons: My dear boys, of all the living entities who have accepted material bodies in this world, one who has been awarded this human form should not work hard day and night simply for sense gratification, which is available even for dogs and hogs that eat stool. One should engage in penance and austerity to attain the divine position of devotional service. By such activity, one’s heart is purified, and when one attains this position, he attains eternal, blissful life, which is transcendental to material happiness and which continues forever." [SB 5.5.1] [break] Prabhupāda: The fifty percent of Western…, in Western cities, there will be ground subways. In subways, train is going on at fifty-mile speed, and working accordingly.
Aim…, aim is, "I shall get some money, then I shall drink, I shall eat meat, and then I shall have sex." This is going on Not that… Nobody would say that "I am making money for spiritual salvation or for worshiping Deity in the temple or giving in charity to the Vaiṣṇava." Nobody will say. They will say, "I am working so hard for eating all nasty things." No discrimination—"Anything you bring, I will eat: meat, eggs, rum…" I cannot say—I have not been in their home—but I have seen in the aeroplane they are eating the intestines of the hog. Yes. Nānā yoni bhramaṇa kare kadarya bhakṣaṇa kare'. That is stated by Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, that these people, fools… karma-kāṇḍa, jñāna-kāṇḍa, sakali viṣera bhāṇḍa, amṛta baliyā yebā khāya nānā yoni bhramaṇa kare, kadarya bhakṣaṇa kare, tāra janma adhaḥ-pāte yāya [Prema-bhakti-candrikā] Very simple language.
He says that there are three ways: karma-kāṇḍa, jñāna-kāṇḍa and upāsanā-kāṇḍa. Upāsanā-kāṇḍa means bhakti. The best of the upāsanā-kāṇḍa is bhakti. Ārādhanānāṁ sarveṣāṁ viṣṇor ārādhanaṁ param [Padma Purāṇa]. There are upāsanā, worshiping various different types of demigods. That is recommended in śāstra, that if you want this profit, then you worship this demigod, this demigod, this demigod.
Generally they are summarized into five, pañcopāsanā: the Surya, Gaṇeśa, Lord Śiva, Lord, er, Mother Durgā and Lord Viṣṇu. These are called pañcopāsanā. They are recommended, summarized. Otherwise, there are thirty-three crores of devas.
So these devas are worshiped according to the version of Kṛṣṇa: kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ yajante anya-devatāḥ [Bg 7.20]. They are not accepted, those who are after pañcopāsanā. Anyway, the business is…, pūjā means I call you and offer you some respectable gesture, some foodstuff, and then very much seated very comfortably. Naturally I may ask, "What do you want?" Then I’ll expect, "Give me this. Give me that.
Give me that." That is going on. That is called pūjā. But those who are worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that is not called pūjā; that is called sevā, kṛṣṇa-sevā. We never say kṛṣṇa-pūjā.
Nobody… Never says like that. Sevā. Sevā means it is my duty. I am eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa.