Text 73] Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Siva 1125

te vayam noditah sarve
praja-sarge prajesvarah

anena dhvasta-tamasah
sisrksmo vividhah prajah

te—by him;vayam~—all of us; noditah—ordered; sarve—all; praja-sarge—at
the time of creating population; praja-isvarah—the controllers of all living
entities; anena—by this; dhvasta-tamasah—being freed from all kinds of
ignorance; sisrksmah—we created; vividhah—various kinds of; prajah—living
entities.

TRANSLATION

When all Prajapatis were ordered to create by Lord Brahma, we chanted
these prayers in praise of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and became
completely free from all ignorance. Thus we were able to create different
types of living entities.

PURPORT

In this verse we can understand that the various types of living entities
were created simultaneously at the very beginning of the creation. The
nonsensical Darwinian theory of evolution is not applicable here. It is not
that intelligent human beings did not exist millions of years ago. On the
contrary, it is understood that the most intelligent creature, Lord Brahma,
was first created. Then Lord Brahma created other saintly sages like Marici,
Bhrgu, Atreya, Vasistha, Lord Siva and others. They in their turn created
different types of bodies according to karma. In Srimad- -Bhagavatam Lord
Kapiladeva told His mother that the living entity gets a particular type of
body in accordance to his work and that this body is decided upon by
higher authorities. The higher authorities, as appointed by the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, are Lord Brahma and all other Prajapatis and
Manus. Thus from the beginning of creation it can be seen that the first
creature is the most intelligent. It is not that so-called modern intelligence
has developed by the gradual process of evolution. As stated in Brahma-
vaivarta Purana, there is a gradual evolutionary process, but it is not the
body that is evolving. All the bodily forms are already there. It is the
spiritual entity or spiritual spark within the body that is being promoted
by the laws of nature under the supervision of superior authority. We can
understand from this verse that from the very beginning of creation dif-
ferent varieties of living entities were existing. It is not that some of them
have become extinct. Everything is there; it is due to our lack of knowledge
that we cannot see things in their proper perspective.

In this verse the word dhvasta-tamasah is very important, for without
