Life flows eternally from Krishna, the supreme living source; our eternal duty is devotional service, not attempting mastery.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 7.10 — August 16, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740816BG-VRNDAVAN [32:35 Minutes] Bg-07.10_740816BG-VRNDAVAN Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ viddhi pārtha sanātanam buddhir buddhimatām asmi tejas tejasvinām aham [Bg. 7.10] [break] [03:10] Translation: "O son of Pṛthā, know that I am the original seed of all existences, the intelligence of the intelligent and the prowess of all powerful men." Prabhupāda: bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ viddhi pārtha sanātanam buddhir buddhimatām asmi tejas tejasvinām aham [Bg. 7.10] So bījaṁ, the original seed of life: sarva-bhūtānāṁ. The modern scientists, they are trying to prove that life comes from matter, chemical evolution. But we don’t accept that.
We accept from Bhagavad-gītā that Kṛṣṇa is the original life. Kṛṣṇa is not a dead stone. As it is said in the Vedānta-sūtra, janmādy asya yataḥ [Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.2]: the Absolute Truth is that from which everything emanates. So that Absolute Truth, what kind of...
Absolute Truth: is it dead matter or living force? It cannot be dead matter, because there are so many living entities; and the Absolute Truth is a dead matter, it cannot produce living entities, because we have no such experience that from dead matter living entities are coming out. That is not possible. Sometimes we see that from cow dung some life is coming out. Sometimes we see from the heaps of rice the scorpion is coming out.
So foolish people will think that the rice is the cause of the life of the scorpion. But that is not the fact. Real fact is the scorpion, they lay eggs within the heaps of the rice, and by fermentation of the rice the eggs become fructified, and life come out. Not that rice, a dead matter, is the cause of the life.
So now big, big scientists, they are trying to prove that life come from matter. But here we understand from Kṛṣṇa, the supreme authority, that He is the origin of all life: bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ. Sarva-bhūtānāṁ. In another place Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ yāḥ [Bg. 14.4] In all species of life. There are 8,400,000 species of life—aquatics, trees, plants, insect, then reptiles, then birds, bees, then human being.
This is the evolutionary process. Asatiṁ caturaṁś caiva [Padma Purāṇa]. These are all mentioned in the Vedic literature about the evolution. Not that the foolish theory of Darwin is the origin of evolution.
The evolutionary theory is there. Not theory—fact. So Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gītā that sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya. Yoni means the original source of birth.