Srila Prabhupada pleads with us not to waste the opportunity this human life gives us to understand the teachings of Bhagavad-Gita:
“So don’t be irresponsible to your life. Be responsible and be prepared for the next life and act accordingly, as the direction is there in the Bhagavad-gita, and prove that you are human being. The animal cannot do. If you do not do it, then you remain an animal. The animal has no capacity to understand Vedic knowledge or the Bhagavad-gita. And even though we have got the intelligence if do not utilize it to understand the instruction in the Bhagavad-gita and Vedic knowledge, then purposefully we keep ourself within the category of animals.”
Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 13:22 – Hyderabad, August 17, 1976