Nothing happens accidentally; God's sanction governs all results, requiring both human effort and divine will.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk in the Botanical Gardens — May 20, 1975, Melbourne 750520MW-MELBOURNE [42:58 Minutes] Walk_750520MW-MELBOURNE Śrutakīrti: The following is Śrīla Prabhupāda's morning walk in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens on May 20th, 1975. [break]
Prabhupāda: [indistinct] ...here. Paramahaṁsa: Not too many flowering varieties.
Prabhupāda: Huh? No, not speaking of flowering. I mean to say varieties, plants and creepers, two millions. Lakṣa-viṁśati.
Ten lakhs equal to one million, and viṁśati, twenty lakhs. Hari-śauri: There was one newspaper article in the paper I was reading. They were advertising a new book about the evolution of man. And they were saying that there was approximately two million varieties of life on this planet.
This was the calculation of the scientists.
Prabhupāda: Two millions? No, 8,400,000. Śrutakīrti: You were saying the other day that all the species of life are mentioned in the Padma-Purāṇa.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Śrutakīrti: They're all given account of.