8 Elevation to Krsna Consciousness

“In My transcendental form I pervade all this crea-
tion. All things are resting in Me, but I am not in
them. Again, everything that is created does not rest
on Me. Behold My mystic opulence: Although I am
the maintainer of all living entities, and although I
am everywhere, still My Self is the very source of
creation.” (Bg. 9.4,5)

Actually we are all spirit souls and are intended to
associate with God in the spiritual sky where there
are innumerable spiritual planets and innumerable
spiritual living entities. However, those who are not
fit to live in that spiritual world are sent to this ma-
terial world. This very idea is expressed by Milton in
Paradise Lost. Although spirit soul, we have volun-
tarily accepted this material body and by accepting
it have also accepted the threefold miseries of mate-
rial nature. Exactly when we accepted it and how we
accepted it cannot be traced out. No one can trace
out the history of when the conditioned soul first
began accepting these material bodies.

At present Darwin’s theory of the evolution of
organic matter is very prominent in institutions of
higher learning, but there is information given in the
Padma Purana and other authoritative scriptures of
the living entities’ spiritual evolution from one
bodily form to another. This Purana informs us that
there are 8,400,000 forms of living entities, 900,000
of which live within water. There are 2,000,000
species amongst plants and vegetables alone. At
present everyone is giving stress to Darwin’s theory,
but in Vedic literature there is immense information
about the different species. Darwin expresses the
