Jalajā nava-lakṣāni sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati. And two millions of trees and plants, botany, botanical. Jalajā nava-lakṣāni sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati, kṛmayo rudra-saṅkhyakā. Insects, there are eleven hundred thousands forms. Kṛmayo rudra-saṅkhyakā. Then, pakṣiṇāṁ daśa-lakṣaṇam. From insect, they become flies and birds. Pakṣiṇāṁ daśa-lakṣaṇam, one million. Then from birds, the beasts come, four-legged, triṁśal-lakṣāṇi: three million species of beasts.
Then from beasts, the human form comes—either from monkey or from lion or from cows. Out of these three . . . sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa. Those who are coming through rajo-guṇa, their last birth before human form of birth is lion. And those who are coming in the form ignorance, Darwin's father-in-law, (laughs) monkey, and ignorance. And those who are coming in goodness, their last form of birth is cow.
So this is our scientific information from the Vedas. We haven't got to make a research. Everything is there. That is Vedic knowledge. They have got already everything written there. The astronomy, everything is written there, simply you have to calculate. Astrology, we say simply mathematical calculation: if the moon is in this position and the other stars is in this position, then the effect will be like this and the result will be like this. Like that. So you haven't got to make search or research. It is already there. Similarly, this Darwin's theory is there in two lines:
- aśītiṁ caturāṁs caiva
- lakṣāṁs tāñ jīva-jātiṣu
- bhramadbhiḥ puruṣair prāptaṁ
- mānuṣaṁ janma-paryāyāt
- (Padma Purana)
Asati, asati means eighty; catura means four. Eighty and four lakṣāṇi, lakhs, 100,000. Eighty-four hundred thousand, that means 8,400,000. Aśītiṁ caturāṁs caiva lakṣāṁs tāñ jīva-jātiṣu. Jīva means living entity; jāti means species. Jīva-jātiṣu. Brahmadbhiḥ: the living entity is wandering, or transmigrating, from aquatics to trees, plants, then insect, then birds, then beasts. In this way, the last is human form of life. Brahmadbhiḥ. Brahmadbhiḥ, wandering. Puruṣair prāptaṁ, last he is getting mānuṣaṁ jiva . . . janma-paryāyāt, by the evolution of birth.
Now this form is for understanding Govinda, God. The other forms, they cannot. So if in this form the living entity does not contact Govinda . . . contacting Govinda means surrendering unto Govinda. As Kṛṣṇa says: "Surrender unto Me." Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate (BG 7.19). So after many, many, many millions of births, when one is actually in full knowledge, he surrenders to Kṛṣṇa. That is perfection. Then he goes back to home, back to Godhead. That is our program, Kṛṣṇa consciousness.