Text 22] Divisions of the Creation 401
avido bhuri-tamaso
ghrana-jia hrdy-avedinah
tirascam—species of lower animals; astamah— the eighth; sargah—creation;
sah—they are; as{dvimsat—twenty-eight; vidhah—varieties; matah—con-
sidered; avidah—without knowledge of tomorrow; bhiin—extensively;
tamasah—ignorant; ghrana-jnah—can know desirables by smell; hArdi-
avedinah—can remember very little in the heart.
TRANSLATION
The eighth creation is that of the lower species of life, and they are of
different varieties, numbering twenty-eight. They are all extensively fool-
ish and ignorant. They know their desirables by smell, but are unable to
remember anything within the heart.
PURPORT
In the Vedas the symptoms of the lower animals are described as follows;
athetaresam pasiinam asanapipase evabhivijianam na vijfiatam vadanti na
vijidtam pasyanti na viduh svastanam na lokalokaviti; yadva, bhiiri-tamaso
bahurusah ghranenaiva jananti hrdyam prati svapriyam vastveva vindanti
bhojana-sayanady-artham grhnanti. Lower animals have knowledge only of
their hunger and thirst. They have no acquired knowledge, no vision.
Their behavior exhibits no dependence on formalities. Extensively igno-
rant, they can know their desirables only by smell, and by such intelligence
only can they understand what is favorable and unfavorable. Their
knowledge is concerned only with eating and sleeping. Therefore, even the
most ferocious lower animals, such as tigers, can be tamed simply by
regularly supplying meals and accommodations for sleeping. Only snakes
cannot be tamed by such an arrangement.
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