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appear? How did fish appear? How did the whale appear? That is what they do not understand. However, today his theory of evolution, the theory according to Darwin, is right. But it is ten percent true. There is much more to come further on. How does a whale come into existence? What rule of evolution applies there? That is devolution (vakragati), whereby it has reverted back from human life. Where did the rhino come from? It too has come back from the human life. Where have the lions and the tigers returned from? They have turned back from the human life-form.
So lions and tigers, and even their cubs, begin to eat flesh from the time they are cubs, do they not? And what about the calves of the cows and the buffaloes? Even while they grow, they do not eat flesh. Why is that? The reason would be, that these are “vegetarian” (herbivores), while the rest are “nonvegetarian” (carnivores). You can apply the same notion here, and appreciate that it was the humans who were vegetarians themselves, that are now here in the form of cows and buffaloes. You can appreciate all that.
Questioner: After human birth, do they ever go into earthbodied life-forms (pruthvikaya) or fire-bodied life-forms (teukaya)?
Dadashri: They do not go into the earth-bodied or the fire-bodied life-forms. At most, they can go to immoveable bodies (sthavarkaya); into trees. From the human life, they can go to plant and animal (tiryancha) for a maximum of eight lifetimes.
Therefore, the whole of the celestial realm (deva gati), the entire infernal realm (nark gati), and some part of the animal and plant realm (tiryancha gati) have all come from the human being (manushya). Humans do both, they charge and discharge (karmas) and they can also, remain beyond charging and discharging. So humans do have the energy to go to moksha!
