Human Life Means Responsibility - Prabhupada 0171

700427 - Lecture ISO Invocation - Los Angeles

The animal does not know what is life, but he is under the laws of nature, evolution, going on. But when you get this human form of life, there is responsibility. You have to chalk out.

Here is a chance you can become Kṛṣṇa conscious and make your life solve all problems. If not, then again go to the cycle of birth and death, 8,400,000. It will take many, many millions of years again to come back. Just like the sunshine, you will see after twenty-four . . . twelve hours, twenty-four hours, morning. Everything is a process. So if you lose this opportunity of elevating yourself, then again you come to the process. Nature's law is very strong. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī (BG 7.14). The sooner you surrender to Kṛṣṇa, mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te. Such person is able to overcome this process of material nature.