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Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.3
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Melbourne, May 22, 1975
Prabhupada: So, we were discussing last night about nivrtti-marga, the opposite direction of progressing towards hellish condition of life, that by nature’s own way the living entity comes to the human form of body by the evolutionary process. That we have already discussed. There are 900,000’s forms in the water.
Then there are two millions forms of trees, plants. And jalaja java-laksani sthavara laksa-vimsati. Then insects, moths and flies, like that, they are 1,100,000 forms. Then birds, one millions forms. Then beast three million forms. And then human being, civilized or not civilized, there are 400,000. This is the total number of different forms of life.
The living entity, spirit soul, is the same, but they are passing through different forms of life. Just like I am the same man. I have passed through my babyhood body, my childhood body, my youthhood body. Now I have come to another body. So it is a fact that I was staying in a baby’s body.
Now it is another body. A very simple thing, that we are changing body, but I am, the soul, the same. We have to understand this thing. The evolution is going on.
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