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Chapter 11
Appendix:- All beings are born in four different ways
- Jarayuja- born with amnion from the womb as men, cows, buffaloes, sheep and goats etc.
- andaja - bom from eggs as birds, snakes, squirrels and lizards etc.,
- Udbhijja - sprouting up from the earth as trees, creepers, grass, com etc.,
- svedaja - born of sweat as louse and tiny whitish louse etc., as well as those born from the earth in rainy season such as earthworms etc. From these four sources eighty-four lac forms of lives are born. Out of these there are two kinds—immovable and movable. Trees, creepers, grass and vegetation etc., are immovable while men, beasts and birds etc., are movable. Out of these beings some live in water, some fly in the sky and some others live on the earth. Besides them there are several other forms of lives such as gods, manes, gandharvas (celestial singers and musicians), _ ghosts, evil spirits, devils, demons, `putana' and 'balagraha' etc. God is the seed viz., the root cause of all these beings. It means that there are infinite beings in infinite universes but the seed of all of them is only one. Therefore only God has manifested Himself in all these forms - 'Vasudevah sarvam'.
As seed is the origin of agriculture (farming), so is God the origin of the entire universe. As from millet there is production of millet; from wheat there is production of wheat; from an animal, animals are produced; from men, men are produced; similarly from God, only God emanates viz., the Lord is revealed in the form of the world. As in omaments made of gold there is only gold, in the tools made of iron there is only iron, in the earthen-wares made of clay there is only clay, in the cloths made of cotton there is only cotton, similarly the world emanating from God is the manifestation of only God.
From the worldly seed, only one type of crop is grown. As from the seed of wheat, only wheat is produced, other crops such as millet, green lentil (murnga) and 'moths' etc., are not produced. Their seeds are different. But God is such a seed from Whom different kinds of beings are born (Gita 14/4); and in spite of giving birth to the entire creation, there is no modification or diminution in Him, He remains immutable because He is the imperishable seed (Gita 9/18) and He is the eternal seed (GIta 7/10).
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