Seeing the Aim of Human Life

“At present, human society is being misled by leaders who are blind, for they
do not know the aim and objective of human life, which is self-realization and
the reestablishment of our lost relationship with the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. ... The Krsna consciousness movement is trying to enlighten
human society in this important matter.”

This very important Krsna consciousness movement is meant to save
human society from spiritual death. At present human society is being
misled by leaders who are blind, for they do not know the aim and objec-
tive of human life, which is self-realization and the reestablishment of
our lost relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is
the missing point. The Krsna consciousness movement is trying to
enlighten human society in this important matter.

According to Vedic civilization, the perfection of life is to realize one’s
relationship with Krsna, or God. In the Bhagavad-gita, which is accepted
by all authorities in transcendental science as the basis of all Vedic
knowledge, we understand that not only human beings but all living en-
tities are parts and parcels of God. The parts are meant for serving the
whole, just as the legs, hands, fingers, and ears are meant for serving the
total body. We living entities, being parts and parcels of God, are duty-
bound to serve Him.

Actually our position is that we are always rendering service to some-
one, either to our family, country, or society. If we have no one to serve,
sometimes we keep a pet cat or dog and render service to it. All these fac-
tors prove that we are constitutionally meant to render service, yet in
spite of serving to the best of our ability, we are not satisfied. Nor is the
