“There are eight million four hundred thousand different types of Bodies”

"Aquatics, there are nine hundred thousand, and the trees and plants, two millions, and eleven hundred thousand, these flies and insects"

Prabhupada, Miami, February 27, 1975: […] And we have got so many varieties of life. Jalaja nava-laksani sthavara laksa-vimsati krmayo rudra-sankhyakah, means the aquatics, there are nine hundred thousand, and the trees and plants, two millions, and eleven hundred thousand, these flies and insects.

Krmayo rudra-sankhyakah. And then birds, one million types of birds. Then three million types of beasts. Then four hundred thousand of human being, civilized, uncivilized, white, red, black, so many varieties. In this way, the whole calculation is eight million four hundred thousand different types of body.

Now Krishna will explain that tat ksetram yac ca yadrk, why there are so many varieties. The living entity is the same, a spiritual spark, part and parcel of Krishna, or God, but why they have assumed these different types of body calculated to be eight million and four hundred thousand forms.

But each form is part and parcel of God. Not each form, or you can say form also, each living entity. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita,

sarva-yonisu kaunteya murtayah sambhavanti yah tasam brahma mahad yonir aham bija-pradah pita [Bg. 14.4]

Krishna says—I think in the fourteenth chapter it is there—that “I am the seed-giving father of all these forms of life. All these forms of life. They are not automatic, come from anywhere. I am the original father.”

Therefore those who are fully Krishna conscious or fully advanced in spiritual consciousness, they do not make any difference between an insect and a elephant because he knows very well that the same spirit soul is there within the elephant and within insect, within the microbe, because the dimension of the spirit soul is very small. You cannot imagine. It is one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair.

Kesagra-sata-bhagasya satadha kalpita [Cc. Madya 19.140], everything is there. So such minute particle is so powerful that it is managing the body of the elephant and it is managing the body of the ant.
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