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The Forest of Enjoyment
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PURPORT
Materialistic people are sometimes called  śūdras , or descendants of monkeys, due to their monkeylike intelligence. They do not care to know how the evolutionary process is taking place, nor are they eager to know what will happen after they finish their small human life span. This is the attitude of  śūdras . Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, is trying to elevate  śūdras  to the  brāhmaṇa  platform so that they will know the real goal of life. Unfortunately, being overly attached to sense gratification, materialists are not serious in helping this movement. Instead, some of them try to suppress it. Thus it is the business of monkeys to disturb the activities of the  brāhmaṇas . The descendants of monkeys completely forget that they have to die, and they are very proud of scientific knowledge and the progress of material civilization. The word  grāmya-karmaṇā  indicates activities meant only for the improvement of bodily comforts. Presently all human society is engaged in improving economic conditions and bodily comforts. People are not interested in knowing what is going to happen after death, nor do they believe in the transmigration of the soul. When one scientifically studies the evolutionary theory, one can understand that human life is a junction where one may take the path of promotion or degradation. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.25):
yānti deva-vratā devān 
    pitṛn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ 
    bhūtāni yānti bhūtejyā 
    yānti mad-yājino 'pi mām
“Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods: those who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; those who worship ancestors go to the ancestors; and those who worship Me will live with Me.”
In this life we have to prepare ourselves for promotion to the next life. Those who are in the mode of  rajo-guṇa  are generally interested in being promoted to the heavenly planets. Some, unknowingly, are degraded to lower animal forms. Those in the mode of goodness can engage in devotional service, and after that they can return home, back to Godhead ( yānti mad-yājino 'pi mām ). That is the real purpose of human life. This