Todays Bhagavad-Gita Class 2.11 By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada--76/03/25 Hotel Imperial, Delhi

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"Evolution -- Darwinian or Divine"

76/03/25 Hotel Imperial, Delhi, Bhagavad-gita 2.11

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Prabhupada: (prema-dhvani) Thank you very much.

 

Sri bhagavan uvaca

 

asocyan anvasocas tvam

prajna-vadams ca bhasase

gatasun agatasums ca

nanusocanti panditah

[bg. 2.11]

 

Our this Krsna consciousness movement, it is not something new, imaginary

movement. It is very old movement. At least five thousand years ago this

Bhagavad-gita was repeated by Lord Krsna in the Battlefield of Kuruksetra.

Before that, as it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, Fourth Chapter,

 

imam vivasvate yogam

proktavan aham avyayam

vivasvan manave praha

manur iksvakave 'bravit

[bg. 4.1]

 

Krsna said to Arjuna that "This science of understanding God, long, long

ago I spoke to the sun-god Vivasvan." In the Vedic scripture we understand that

every planet is inhabited by living entities. The sun is also one of the

planets, and there are living entities. Otherwise how Krsna could go there and

speak the predominating person, Vivasvan? The name of the person is also given,

imam vivasvate yogam proktavan aham avyayam [bg. 4.1]. And vivasvan manave

praha. Vivasvan, the sun-god... Because in the higher planetary system the sun

planet, moon planet, and many, many other planets, they are called the heavenly

planets. The inhabitants of those planets are very opulent. The material

happiness available in those planets are hundreds and thousand times better than

in this planet. So it is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita that sun planet is also

inhabited by living beings. But their body is made of fire. That is the

difference. Just like here our body is made of earth. Earth, air... Earth,

water, air, fire, ether -- these are the five material elements. In some planet

the earth is prominent; in some planet the water is prominent; in other planet

the fire is prominent. So this is the creation of God, different varieties. That

is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita:

 

athava bahunaitena

kim jnatena tavarjuna

vistabhyaham idam krtsnam

ekamsena sthito jagat

[bg. 10.42]

 

This material world, composed of many millions of universes, that is

one-fourth creation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Ekamsena sthito

jagat.

 

So Bhagavad-gita means to understand what is God, the science of God. And

God Himself is speaking about Himself. Otherwise it is not possible to

understand what is God. So if we carefully understand the slokas and the

passages mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita, we can understand what is God. And the

human form of life is meant for understanding God. He has no other business. In

the lower bodies, less than human form of body... According to Darwin's theory,

the human form of body comes from monkey. But the evolution is accepted in the

Vedic literature but not like Darwin's. The evolution, again according to Vedic

scripture, is that the living entity is different from the body, and the living

entity is passing through many forms of body. We shall read that. So the bodies

are according to my desire. I am desiring something. Just like here we are

sitting, so many ladies and gentlemen, but not one of them is similar to anyone

else. They have got different bodies. That body is created according to one's

desire. The mind, the subtle mind, is the creator of the next body. Yam yam vapi

smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram [bg. 8.6]. At the time of death whatever I

am thinking, a similar body will be offered to me by the laws of nature. Subtle

body. The mind, intelligence and ego, they are subtle body, and the gross body

is made of earth, water, air, fire, ether. So when we give up this gross body,

the subtle body carries me to another gross body. This is the way of

transmigration of the soul. The prakrti, nature, nature's law, is very strict

and stringent. The nature will immediately offer you a similar body according to

the thinking at the time of your death. Tatha dehantara-praptih [bg. 2.13].

 

Therefore this human form of body is meant for going back to home, back to

Godhead. Yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama [bg. 15.6]. We are

eternal. As God is eternal, we are also eternal because we are part and parcel

of God. As God is always blissful, jolly, similarly our nature is always

blissful and jolly. Sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [bs. 5.1]. Sat, cit, ananda. Sat

means eternal, and cit means blissful, cit means full of knowledge; and ananda.

Ananda means blissfulness. That is our nature. Therefore we want to live. We do

not wish to die. We do not wish... Nobody wishes to die, but we are forced to

die. That is our punishment. Nityah sasvato 'yam na hanyate hanyamane sarire

[bg. 2.20]. This instruction you will get in the Bhagavad-gita, that "The living

entity is eternal," sasvata, "very, very old." Nityah sasvato 'yam na hanyate

hanyamane sarire: [bg. 2.20] "When the body is destroyed, is annihilated, the

soul exists. It goes to another body." The example is just like every one of

us... In the first day of intercourse of the father-mother, the secretion mix

together, emulsified, and if the living entity is allowed to enter into that, it

grows. That is the beginning of our body. But if the living entity is not

allowed into the, that emulsified, small pealike form, then there is no

pregnancy. So attempt is made to pollute that emulsification. Therefore the

living entity cannot enter into it and there is no pregnancy. Otherwise there

must be pregnancy. Then that pealike body grows, and in seven months it grows

the hands and legs and head and everything, and consciousness comes back. When

we die our consciousness becomes almost stopped, and we then lie down within the

womb of the mother according to species of body, a status -- take it for granted

our human form of body -- seven months. At that time body is grown up. In this

way, in tenth month the body is fully grown. Then by nature's way the body comes

out and another life begins. This is called transmigration of the soul.

 

So actually we are eternal.

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