All species exist eternally as God's energies; the soul simply inhabits bodies according to karma, not through gradual evolution.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — May 11, 1973, Los Angeles 730511MW-LOS ANGELES [44:28 Minutes] Walk_730511MW-LOS ANGELES Kṛṣṇa-kāntī: Śrīla Prabhupāda's morning walk, recorded May 11th, 1973, in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles.
Prabhupāda: How far progress, establish matter from life, not life from matter? Svarūpa Dāmodara: I've started working.
Prabhupāda: Ah. A great task. That will be triumph of Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. [japa] [break] Svarūpa Dāmodara: ...from Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa?
Aśītiṁ caturaś caiva lakṣāṁ... [Padma Purāṇa].
Prabhupāda: Tān... Svarūpa Dāmodara: ...jīva-jātiṣu.
Prabhupāda: Jīva-jātiṣu. Jīva-jātiṣu. Yes. That means the evolution means from one form to another.
The forms are already... Jātiṣu. Their facilities, they are already there. The living entity is simply transferring himself.