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Although Westerners accept that Darwin first expounded the doctrine of evolution, the science of anthropology is not new. Although Westerners accept that Darwin first expounded the doctrine of evolution, the science of anthropology is not new. The development of the evolutionary process was known long before from the Bhagavatam, which was written 5,000 years ago. There are records of the statements of Kapila Muni, who was present almost in the beginning of the creation. This knowledge has existed since the Vedic time, and all these sequences are disclosed in Vedic literature; the theory of gradual evolution or anthropology is not new to the Vedas.
(More...) Imported quote 17106 Now asura, the adjective is asurim. So asurim and daivim, two sampattis are there. They are open before you. Now you take up whatever you like. It is up to you. It is not forbidden that daivi sampatti is meant for a class of men and asuri sampatti is meant for another class of men. No. Krsna is open to everyone. Krsna is not monopolized by a certain class of men. Don't think like that, that "Krsna is Indian," "Krsna is Hindu," or like that, or "ksatriya." "Therefore He is meant for others." No.
(More...) The Darwin's theory... He does not know. He has caught up some words from this Padma Purana and tried to give his own invention. The evolution is already there. But this is the evolution: from aquatics to plants, trees, then insect, then bird, then beast, then human being, civilized and not civilized. Then demigods, then others. That is the evolutionary process. So Krsna says that sarva-yonisu kaunteya sambhavanti mūrtayo yaḥ [Bg 14.4]: "All kinds of forms that are coming out of the 8,400,000 species of life," tasam mahad yonir brahma aham bija-pradaḥ pita, "I am the seed-giving father, and the material body is given by the material nature." Just like father gives the seed, impregnates the mother, and the mother supplies the body. The body belongs to the mother, and the spirit soul belongs to-not be...-to the supreme father. But it comes through the material father. Actually the supreme father is Krsna. Therefore He says, aham bija-pradaḥ pita. So Krsna is for everyone. Krsna is not monopolized. This is a wrong theory, "He is a Hindu god." No. He is for everyone. Otherwise, how you Americans, Europeans and others outside India, how you are accepting? Because originally Krsna is your father, everyone's father. Mamaivamso jiva [Bg 15.7], all living... Not only you, but the animals, the trees, the plants, the insects, the serpent, the aquatics, the fish-everyone the son of Krsna. This is daivi sampat.
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