Why there are so many varieties of living entities?

Prabhupada, Tokyo, January 28, 1975:[…] Then why one is born as a cat, one is born as a dog, one is born as a rich man’s son, one who is born as…, so many varieties? Why? If kama-haitukam, then why not one variety? Where is the question of varieties? What is the answer? Why there are so many varieties?
Everyone wants to take birth in rich family, in high family. Why one is born as a street dog and there is no food and crying, barking, and somebody is capturing and eating and no protection? Why? Why kama-haitukam, the dog is also born by the lusty desires of the male dog and the female dog, but why he is dog, and why he is such a rich man’s son? Why?

What is the answer? If kama-haitukam, lusty desire is the only cause for birth, production, then why there is one production, street dog, cat or pig or a worm in the stool, and why one is born as demigod, as Indra or Chandra, Varuna? Why? A Brahma? Who makes this arrangement?

Why one is put into such exalted position, and why one is put into that abominable position? What is the answer? Kama-haitukam.

Trivikrama: Past activities.

Prabhupada: Yes. You cannot say it’s by chance. And who is making this chance arrangement, that one is born so exalted, one is born so low? Then again we have to accept somebody is. So these are all foolish theories, “By chance, by kama-haitukam.” No, there is great arrangement.
Just like the traffic control. There is a very big, great arrangement behind this. It is not by chance. By chance there has been not line, and they pass the car in certain line. No, it is not chance. How you can say, “chance”? So these theories are made by the demons. Read the purport.

Trivikrama: “The demoniac conclude that the world is a phantasmagoria. There is no cause, no effect, no controller, no purpose: everything is unreal. They say that this cosmic manifestation arises due to chance material actions and reactions. They do not think that the world was created by God for a certain purpose.

They have their own theory: that the world has come about in its own way and that there is no reason to believe that there is a God behind it. For them there is no difference between spirit and matter, and they do not accept the Supreme Spirit. Everything is matter only, and the whole cosmos is supposed to be a mass of ignorance.”

Prabhupada: Therefore they say chemical evolution. They cannot think of spirit. Go on.

Trivikrama: “According to them, everything is void, and whatever manifestation exists is due to our ignorance in perception. They take it for granted that all manifestation of diversity is a display of ignorance.

Just as in a dream we may create so many things which actually have no existence, so when we are awake we shall see that everything is simply a dream. But factually, although the demons say that life is a dream, they are very expert in enjoying this dream. And so, instead of acquiring knowledge, they become more and more implicated in their dreamland.

They conclude that as a child is simply the result of sexual intercourse between man and woman, this world is born without any soul. For them it is only a combination of matter that has produced the living entities, and there is no question of the existence of the soul.

As many living creatures come out from the perspiration and from a dead body without any cause, similarly, the whole living world has come out from the material combinations of the cosmic manifestation. Therefore material nature is the cause of this manifestation, and there is no other cause.

They do not believe in the words of Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita, mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram: [Bg. 9.10] ‘Under My direction the whole material world is moving.’ In other words, amongst the demons there is no perfect knowledge of the creation of this world; every one of them has a particular theory of his own.

According to them, one interpretation of the scriptures is as good as another, for they do not believe in a standard understanding of the scriptural injunctions.”
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