Evolution is not merely the transformation of physical forms. It is
actually the transformation of paradigms and understanding.
Evolution (BG & SB) ISKCON
BG Chapters 1 - 6
BG 2.31, Purport: "In the battlefield, a king or kshatriya, while fighting
another king envious of him, is eligible for achieving the heavenly planets
after death, as the brahmanas also attain the heavenly planets by
sacrificing animals in the sacrificial fire." Therefore, killing on the
battlefield on religious principles and killing animals in the sacrificial
fire are not at all considered to be acts of violence, because everyone is
benefited by the religious principles involved. The animal sacrificed gets
a human life immediately without undergoing the gradual evolutionary
process from one form to another, and the kshatriyas killed on the
battlefield also attain the heavenly planets, as do the brāhmaṇas who
attain them by offering sacrifice.
BG Chapters 13 - 18
BG 14.15, Purport: Some people have the impression that when the soul
reaches the platform of human life it never goes down again. This is
incorrect. According to this verse, if one develops the mode of ignorance,
after his death he is degraded to an animal form of life. From there one
has to again elevate himself, by an evolutionary process, to come again to
the human form of life. Therefore, those who are actually serious about
human life should take to the mode of goodness and in good association
transcend the modes and become situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is the
aim of human life. Otherwise, there is no guarantee that the human being
will again attain human status.
BG 16.1-3, Purport: At any rate, when there is an ample food supply for
humanity, persons who are desiring to make advancement in spiritual
realization should not commit violence to animals. Real ahiṁsā means not
checking anyone's progressive life. The animals are also making progress in
their evolutionary life by transmigrating from one category of animal life
to another. If a particular animal is killed, then his progress is checked.
If an animal is staying in a particular body for so many days or so many
years and is untimely killed, then he has to come back again in that form
of life to complete the remaining days in order to be promoted to another
species of life. So their progress should not be checked simply to satisfy
one's palate. This is called ahiṁsā.
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 1
SB 1.1.3, Purport: He was liberated even in the womb of his mother, and he
did not undergo any sort of spiritual training after his birth. At birth no
one is qualified, neither in the mundane nor in the spiritual sense. But
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī, due to his being a perfectly liberated soul, did not
have to undergo an evolutionary process for spiritual realization. Yet
despite his being a completely liberated person situated in the
transcendental position above the three material modes, he was attracted to
this transcendental rasa of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is
adored by liberated souls who sing Vedic hymns. The Supreme Lord's pastimes
are more attractive to liberated souls than to mundane people. He is of
necessity not impersonal because it is only possible to carry on
transcendental rasa with a person.
SB 1.9.39, Purport: All the soldiers and persons on the Battlefield of
Kurukṣetra attained their original spiritual form like the Lord after their
death because by the causeless mercy of the Lord they were able to see Him
face to face on that occasion. The conditioned souls rotating in the
evolutionary cycle from the aquatics up to the form of Brahmā are all in
the form of māyā, or the form obtained by one's own actions and awarded by
material nature. The material forms of the conditioned souls are all
foreign dresses, and when the conditioned soul becomes liberated from the
clutches of material energy, he attains his original form. The
impersonalist wants to attain the impersonal Brahman effulgence of the
Lord, but that is not at all congenial to the living sparks, parts and
parcels of the Lord. Therefore, the impersonalists again fall down and get
material forms, which are all false to the spirit soul.
SB 1.19.9-10, Purport: He was a great sage, and his very dear wife was
Pulomā. He could travel in space like Durvāsā, Nārada and others, and he
used to visit all the planets of the universe. Before the Battle of
Kurukṣetra, he tried to stop the battle. Sometimes he instructed Bhāradvāja
Muni about astronomical evolution, and he is the author of the great
Bhṛgu-saṁhitā, the great astrological calculation. He explained how air,
fire, water and earth are generated from ether. He explained how the air in
the stomach works and regulates the intestines. As a great philosopher, he
logically established the eternity of the living entity (Mahābhārata). He
was also a great anthropologist, and the theory of evolution was long ago
explained by him. He was a scientific propounder of the four divisions and
orders of human society known as the varṇāśrama institution. He converted
the kṣatriya king Vītahavya into a brāhmaṇa.
SB Canto 2
SB 2.3.1, Purport: Even such an intelligent class of men may be forgetful
in their relation with the Lord. The whole bhakti-yoga process is therefore
a revival of the lost relation. This revival is possible in the human form
of life, which is obtained only out of the evolutionary cycle of 8,400,000
species of life. The intelligent class of human being must take a serious
note of this opportunity. Not all human beings are intelligent, so the
importance of human life is not always understood. Therefore manīṣiṇām,
meaning "thoughtful," is particularly used here. A manīṣiṇām person, like
Mahārāja Parīkṣit, must therefore take to the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa and
fully engage himself in devotional service, hearing, chanting, etc., of the
holy name and pastimes of the Lord, which are all hari-kathāmṛta. This
action is especially recommended when one is preparing for death.
SB 2.5.26-29, Purport: The whole process of creation is an act of gradual
evolution and development from one element to another, reaching up to the
variegatedness of the earth as so many trees, plants, mountains, rivers,
reptiles, birds, animals and varieties of human beings. The quality of
sense perception is also evolutionary, namely generated from sound, then
touch, and from touch to form. Taste and odor are also generated along with
the gradual development of sky, air, fire, water and earth. They are all
mutually the cause and effect of one another, but the original cause is the
Lord Himself in plenary portion, as Mahā-viṣṇu lying in the causal water of
the mahat-tattva. As such, Lord Kṛṣṇa is described in the Brahma-saṁhitā as
the cause of all causes.
SB 2.7.49, Purport: One should not, however, mistakenly think that after
the annihilation of this present body there is no body by which one can
associate with the Lord face to face. The living entity is unborn. It is
not that he is manifest with the creation of the material body. On the
other hand, it is true that the material body develops only by the desire
of the living entity. The evolution of the material body is due to the
desires of the living being. According to the desires of the living being,
the material body develops. So from the spirit soul the material body comes
into existence, generated from the living force. Since the living being is
eternal, he exists just like the air within the body. Air is within and
without the body. Therefore when the external covering, the material body,
is vanquished, the living spark, like the air within the body, continues to
exist. And by the direction of the Lord, because He is the ultimate
benefactor, the living entity is at once awarded the necessary spiritual
body befitting his association with the Lord in the manner of sārūpya
(equal bodily feature), sālokya (equal facility to live on the same planet
with the Lord), sārṣṭi (equal possession of opulence like the Lord), and
sāmīpya (equal association with the Lord).
SB 2.10.18, Purport: This gradual process of evolution suggests the
explanation of the controlling deities (adhidaiva) because Varuṇa is the
controlling deity for all relishable juices. Therefore the mouth becomes
the resting place for the tongue, which tastes all the different juices, of
which the controlling deity is Varuṇa. This suggests, therefore, that
Varuṇa was also generated along with the development of the tongue. The
tongue and the palate, being instrumental, are adhibhūtam, or forms of
matter, but the functioning deity, who is a living entity, is adhidaiva,
whereas the person undergoing the function is adhyātma. Thus the three
categories are also explained as to their birth after the opening of the
mouth of the virāṭ-puruṣa. The four principles mentioned in this verse
serve to explain the three main principles, namely the adhyātma, adhidaiva
and adhibhuta, as explained before.
SB Canto 3
SB 3.18.8, Purport: Not only the earth but many, many millions of planets
are floating in the air, and this floating power is endowed upon them by
the Lord; there is no other possible explanation. The materialists can
explain that the planets are floating by the law of gravitation, but the
law of gravitation works under the control or direction of the Supreme
Lord. That is the version of Bhagavad-gītā, which confirms, by the Lord's
statement, that behind the material laws or nature's laws and behind the
growth, maintenance, production and evolution of all the planetary
systems—behind everything—is the Lord's direction. The Lord's activities
could be appreciated only by the demigods, headed by Brahmā, and therefore
when they saw the uncommon prowess of the Lord in keeping the earth on the
surface of the water, they showered flowers on Him in appreciation of His
transcendental activity.
SB 3.26.35, Purport: In the course of time, when the subtle forms are
transformed into gross forms, they become the objects of touch. The objects
of touch and the tactile sense also develop after this evolution in time.
Sound is the first sense object to exhibit material existence, and from the
perception of sound, touch perception evolves and from touch perception the
perception of sight. That is the way of the gradual evolution of our
perceptive objects.
SB 3.26.36, Purport: Tangibility is the proof of form. In actuality,
objects are perceived in two different ways. They are either soft or hard,
cold or hot, etc. This tangible action of the tactile sense is the result
of the evolution of air, which is produced from the sky.
SB 3.26.38, Translation: By interactions of the air and the sensations of
touch, one receives different forms according to destiny. By evolution of
such forms, there is fire, and the eye sees different forms in color.
SB 3.29.23, Purport: Lord Caitanya has recommended that a devotee not
commit violence to any living entity. Sometimes the question is raised that
since vegetables also have life and devotees take vegetable foodstuffs,
isn't that violence? Firstly, however, taking some leaves, twigs or fruit
from a tree or plant does not kill the plant. Besides that, jīvāhiṁsā means
that since every living entity has to pass through a particular type of
body according to his past karma, although every living entity is eternal,
he should not be disturbed in his gradual evolution. A devotee has to
execute the principles of devotional service exactly as they are, and he
must know that however insignificant a living entity may be, the Lord is
present within him. A devotee must realize this universal presence of the
Lord.
SB 3.29.29, Purport: Although Westerners accept that Darwin first expounded
the doctrine of evolution, the science of anthropology is not new. The
development of the evolutionary process was known long before from the
Bhāgavatam, which was written five thousand years ago. There are records of
the statements of Kapila Muni, who was present almost in the beginning of
the creation. This knowledge has existed since the Vedic time, and all
these sequences are disclosed in Vedic literature; the theory of gradual
evolution or anthropology is not new to the Vedas.
It is said here that amongst the trees there are also evolutionary
processes; the different kinds of trees have touch perception. It is said
that better than the trees are the fish because fish have developed the
sense of taste.\
THUS EVOLUTION IS IN EVERY SPECIE AND CONTAINS SURPRISES. BUT B G AFFIRMS
THAT WITHOUT THREE GUNAS AS SATVA, RAJAS AND THAMO THERR EIS NO LIFE AND
THE OUTCOME OF THE GUNAS ARE ENUMERATED IN CHAP 18 OF BG. K RAJARAM IRS
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 at 06:31, Markendeya Yeddanapudi <
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> Living is learning
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> In the free and healthy nature, one lives as a limb of nature
> participating in nature as nature. Wherever there is possibility some form
> of life sprouts. In the tropics we find the lusty proliferation of the
> flora and the fauna, in the temperate grasslands we find thousands and
> thousands of miles of green grass, the enchanting green cover, while the
> ice of the cold regions with the temporary explosions of flora and fauna
> for a few months, simply enlighten and enchant embellished by the Auroras.
> But the teaching and learning from and in nature never stops. And every
> life form is a fountain of emotions.
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> The main point is, if you can see everything, atoms, particles, the
> photons themselves, then you cannot see the 3D representations. In fact you
> cannot find yourself as you see yourself now. You feel only your feeling
> identity. You enter the arena of feeling as learning. Feeling is learning.
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> That feeling becomes rapture and the 3D shapes become beautiful jewels.
> Feeling grows and changes along with evolution, creating new and connecting
> paradigms of understanding.
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> Every new paradigm is a discovery which along with the other old and new
> paradigms suddenly becomes the enchanting revelation and transforming
> enlightenment. Heaven simply is happy feeling and the free and healthy
> nature cannot but create continuous heaven.
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> Evolution is not merely the transformation of physical forms. It is
> actually the transformation of paradigms and understanding.
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> Changing the anatomies is creating into suitable shapes for the new
> paradigms. The link organisms are linking chapters. They are not merely
> changing engineerings. Evolution is mainly the learning process along with
> the changing biologies and anatomies. And every new day is a new lesson. It
> is the next chapter of rapture as evolution.
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> We need to realize and feel continuously that we are part of nature, part
> of the planet earth and as the limb of earth we participate in evolution,
> which basically is the evolution of understanding. Every organism is a
> student in the great college, nature.
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> It is for the Universities to immediately start ‘Free Nature Parks
> ‘without human Tampering So that we can change our living into automatic
> learning. Today the cartesianization of education has ousted nature from
> education and we are excluding many life forms from natural evolution.
> Mechanization is destroying natural evolution.
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> YM Sarma
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