Continued from: "One who has taken birth, he must die."
"... Prabhupada: srotavyadisu yaḥ paraḥ. Now we have got to hear so many things. Now what we are doing in this world, in big Delhi city? In the morning we get a bunch of paper to hear about so many advertisements, so many political struggle, and so many things, all useless waste of time. But in our country it is how many pages newspaper nowadays? But in the Western countries, oh, such huge, a big bag. You see? So many, you see? So there are so many things to hear. They are nonsense. Therefore we say srotavyadisu yaḥ paraḥ. This is the... Now, if there had been some political meeting, oh, many hundreds of people would have come to hear. But because we are talking of Krishna, nobody is here.
Although it is the srotavyadisu yaḥ paraḥ, it is the supreme subject matter to hear. This is the position. This is the position of the material world. They have lost interest even to hear about the transcendental life, what is this life, what is next life, how we can improve, how, where we are going. Nothing. Simply like cats and dogs they are working hard. Therefore sastra says, nayaṁ deho deha-bhajaṁ nRloke kasṭan kaman arhate viḍ-bhujaṁ ye [SB 5.5.1]. Viḍ-bhujam. Viḍ-bhujaṁ ye. Viḍ-bhujam. Viḍ-bhujam means the hogs, the pigs who are eating stool. They are also working very hard for finding out the stool, "Where there is stool? Where there is stool? Where there is stool?"
So Rsabhadeva warned, "My dear sons, this life, this human form of life, is not meant for working so hard simply for eating, sleeping, mating and defending." Then what it is meant for? Tapo divyaṁ putraka yena suddhyet [SB 5.5.1]. "My dear boys, just try to become austere. Just tapasya." Tapasya means voluntarily accepting some difficulties. Not difficulties. Just like in our Society we say, "No illicit sex life, no intoxication, no meat-eating, no gambling." But in the Western countries, these things are daily affair. But they have given up. But they have not..., have died. All these boys and girls who have taken up Krishna consciousness movement, they have given up. No illicit sex life, no meat-eating, no intoxication. They do not drink even tea, coffee. They do not smoke even cigarette. This is tapasya, little tapasya. [break]
Everything is there. But we have become so unfortunate, led by rascal and fools leaders, that we are missing the opportunity of this human form of life where we can solve all the problems of life, and the indications are there, here in srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission is yare dekha tare kaha Krishna-upadesa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission, that amara ajñaya guru haña tara' ei desa, yare dekha tare kaha Krishna-upadesa. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission, that "I give you order. You, every one of you become a spiritual master." "Oh, I have no qualification. How can I become spiritual master? It requires high knowledge, Sanskrit understanding." "No, you don't require anything. Simply you speak Krishna-upadesa."
What is Krishna-upadesa? Krishna says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekaṁ saraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. You simply go door to door and say, "Please surrender to Krishna." Then you are spiritual master. I have done this. What I have done? I have gone to your country to say this thing, that "Here is Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You surrender; you become perfect." That is being done.
So it is not very difficult to become spiritual master. Simply you have to become very serious and sincere to the service of Krishna. Therefore sukadeva Gosvami, variyan esa te prasnaḥ: [SB 2.1.1] "Oh, it is very nice." Loka-hitam: "It will be beneficial to the whole human society."
Source: http://harekrishnablog.blogspot.in/2013/01/this-human-life-form-what-is-it-meant.html
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