Duḥkhālayaṁ nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṁsiddhiṁ paramām. So our aim should be how to go back to home, back to Godhead. That is the real mission of human life. Because after . . . asatiṁś cāturaṁś caiva lakṣaṁs tān jīva-jātiṣu. There are eighty eight million four hundred thousand species of life. After evolving, we have come to this human form of life. Tad apy viphalā jātaḥ. So if we do not understand Govinda, govinda-caraṇa-dvayam, then it is viphalā, it is simply misused. The modern civilization, they do not know this.
This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is meant for educating people that, "You are simply wasting your time." "No. I am doing my duty." The people say, "This is my . . ." The doctor says: "I am doing my duty." The engineer says: "I am doing my duty." The father says: "I am doing my duty." The mother says: "I am doing my duty." That's all right. But Bhāgavata says: "Thank you very much, that you are doing your duty."
- dharmaḥ svanuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsāṁ
- viṣvaksena-kathāsu yaḥ
- notpādayed ratiṁ yadi
- śrama eva hi kevalam
- (SB 1.2.8)
"You are doing your duty very nice. That's all right. But by doing your duty, if you do not develop your Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you are simply wasting your time."
So these people, they do not know. They are thinking that, "We are doing our duty." What is this nonsense duty? Real duty is to develop Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you are missing that point, the so-called duty is simply wasting