Utilizing Our Brains The Right Way - Prabhupada 1020

680610 - Lecture SB 07.06.01 - Montreal

So eating, sleeping, defense or sex life is required, but you have got another prerogative: consciousness. That is to be changed into . . . that is to be improved into Kṛṣṇa consciousness or God consciousness. That is your duty. So unless we are trained to change our consciousness which we have had in many other animal life . . . because this is evolutionary process. Jalajā nava-lakṣāni (Padma Purāṇa). From 900,000's of species of life of aquatics, then trees and plants, then reptiles, worms, then birds, then beasts, then uncivilized men, then we have come to this form of civilized men where there is intelligence for production, there is nice brain for so many things. So how it should be utilized? Prahlāda Mahārāja says it should be utilized for understanding God consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Otherwise, it is simply a misuse of life.