We are suffering every moment, and still, we are thinking we are very happy. Therefore it is our misfortune, that human life is meant for understanding, “What is the position of my life? Why I am suffering?” So for that understanding Krsna has given us so many Vedic literature: four Vedas and the Puranas and the Upanisad and Vedanta-sutra, Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Ramayana, Mahabharata. We have got enough source of knowledge, treasure house of knowledge, but we are reluctant. We are busy with the newspaper. We have got time to waste our time to read the newspaper, bunch of newspaper, but we have no time to read Bhagavad-gita or Srimad-Bhagavatam or Vedanta-sutra, the books of actual knowledge. This is our misfortune.

Srila Prabhupada, Talk on Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.41 – December 9, 1974, Bombay