The life is meant for understanding what is my relationship with God

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video: Ralph Laurino

Srila Prabhupada, Bombay, March 22, 1974: […] Prahlada Maharaja says, “These rascals, unnecessarily they are working so hard like an ass just to get a morsel of food.” That’s all. Unnecessarily. Everyone is eating four capatis, but he’s working so hard, like an ass. Well, ass also can get his share of foodstuff anywhere.

The ass is so fool that he can get grass anywhere. It is for a few pieces of grass only, he’s loading on his back so much burden from the washerman. He thinks that “The washerman is giving me this morsel of grass.” He’s so foolish that he can see there are grasses so many here and there.

Still, he has agreed to take the burden. Therefore, he’s an ass. Similarly, the karmis, you see in Bombay. There are so many karmis. They are working so hard. What is that? He’s also eating less. Four capatis, that’s all. But he does not think that “Four capatis, why I am working so hard and wasting my time?”

The life is meant for understanding what is my relationship with God. Athato brahma jijnasa. This is the vision of life: what is Brahman, what is God, what I am, what is my relationship with God. And so far eating, sleeping concerned, that is done by the cats and dogs.

But the modern civilization, they are busy. Because they are busy for eating, sleeping and mating, they, by the laws of nature, that is also being minimized. I have already explained. Because the nature wants to help us because we are now forgotten souls. We have forgotten God.

The animals have also forgotten God. They are thinking they are this body, bodily concept of life. They have no knowledge. But when you come to the, by evolutionary process, come to the human form of life, then it is your duty to inquire about the Supreme Brahman. That is Vedanta-sutra. Athato brahma jijnasa. “Now you have to ask about Brahman.” Full Lecture