Transfer your attachments from material pursuits to a sadhu and satisfy Krishna to achieve liberation from endless rebirth.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.21 — November 21, 1974, Bombay 741121SB-BOMBAY [37:35 Minutes] SB-03.25.21_741121SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: "[The symptoms] ...of a sādhu are that he is tolerant, merciful and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime." Prabhupāda: titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām ajāta-śatravaḥ śāntāḥ sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṇāḥ [SB 3.25.21] In the previous verse Kapiladeva has recommended that sa eva sādhuṣu kṛtaḥ. What is that? prasaṅgam ajaraṁ pāśam ātmanaḥ kavayo viduḥ sa eva sādhuṣu kṛto mokṣa-dvāram apāvṛtam [SB 3.25.20] There are two things: conditioned life and liberated life. Eight million, four hundred thousand forms of life there are.
Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati [Padma Purāṇa]. Nine lakhs forms of life in the water. [child talking] Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi. [aside:] The child may be...
Sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati. The trees and plants, they are two million. Sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati, kṛmayo rudra-saṅkhyakāḥ. And the germs and insects, reptiles, they are eleven hundred thousand, eleven lakhs.
Pakṣiṇāṁ daśa-lakṣaṇam. Then birds, they are ten lakhs of forms. Then beasts, animals, so they are three millions forms. And then human being, they are 400,000.
Very small quantity. Of all the living entities, the human forms, they are very small number, 400,000. Aśītiṁ caturaś caiva. Aśītim means eighty, and catura means four.
So 8,400,000 species of forms. So prasaṅgam ajaraṁ pāśam ātmanaḥ. Ātmā is the same, spirit soul. He has got the same form. But they are different dresses. They are having different dresses.
Just like we are sitting so many. As human being, we are the same, but we have got different dresses. Similarly, ātmā, the soul, the spirit soul, is the same. There is no difference.