Prabhupada, Boston, May 3, 1969: […] Therefore, human life should be very much responsible. This life is the preparation for the next life. Next life we have always, but we do not know what kind of life we are getting next. That we should know. That is the business of human form of life, not to waste life like animals and evolve.
By the laws of nature, we get another form of life. We are evolving by the evolutionary theory. It is not theory. Of course, Mr. Darwin has called it theory, but in the Padma Purana, Vedic literature, this evolutionary process is very nicely explained in Vedic literature. Asitims caturas caiva bhramadbhih jiva-jatisu.
These Sanskrit words are there in the Padma Purana, that “A living entity is traveling or evolving from lower grades of life to the higher grades of life in 8,400,000 species of life.” There are 900,000 species of life in the water. There are 2,000,000 species of life of plants and vegetables. Similarly, microbes, reptiles, there are 1,100,000 species of life.
Then birds, 1,000,000 species of life. Then beasts, four-legged beasts, there are 3,000,000 species of life. Then, from beastly life, he comes to the human form life. There also variety, 400,000’s of varieties.
In this way we come to the point of civilized human form of life. The evolution is coming. Just like we evolve our body or grew our body from the womb of our mother.
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