True perfection means transcending bodily identification and knowing Krishna through devotion, not sectarian dogma.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 7.3 — February 18, 1974, Bombay 740218BG-BOMBAY [37:43 Minutes] Bg-07.03_740218BG-BOMBAY Pradyumna: [leads chanting, etc.] [devotees repeat] manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye yatatām api siddhānāṁ kaścin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ [Bg. 7.3] [01:39] Translation: "Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth." Prabhupāda: Manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu [Bg. 7.3]. Sahasreṣu, many times thousands, many times. That means out of millions and trillions of persons. Many times thousands means...
One hundred thousand thousand makes one lakh. One hundred times lakhs makes one crore. Similarly, one hundred thousands of crores, billions and trillions, unlimited. First of all, manuṣya.
Manuṣya means man. So, to get this human form of life, one has to wait for many, many millions of years, according to evolutionary process. Aśītiṁ caturaś caiva lakṣāṁs tāñ jīva-jātiṣu [Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa]. In the Padma Purāṇa the evolution theory is described.
That is taken away by Darwin, and in a perverted way he has described Darwin's theory of evolution. But that is not very scientific, although it is going on as scientific. But evolution theory is fact. Not that all of a sudden you get this body of human being.
No. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ [Bg. 2.13], "After death there is another body, dehāntara." Just like in this life also, we get dehāntara, another body. From baby's body to child's body, child's body to boy's body, boy's body to youth's body, from youth's body to old man's body; then, after old man's body, why not another body? But the rascals, they do not believe transmigration of the soul.
It is very quite reasonable. After changing so many bodies, I have come to this old body. So what after this old body? There must be some body; it is quite reasonable.
But these rascals have no brain to understand that there is life after death. Big, big professors in European countries, they do not believe transmigration of the soul. So manuṣyāṇām, out of the... There are many kinds of men also. Just like kirāta-hūṇāndhra-pulinda-pulkaśā ābhīra-śumbhā yavanāḥ khasādayaḥ [SB 2.4.18].