Beings that can distinguish different forms are superior to those who perceive sounds. Superior to them are those with toothy jaws, and even higher are those with many legs. But superior still are quadrupeds, and above all, humans.
Among humans, those whose social organization is based on individual qualities and activities prevail over others, and within such a society, intelligent men, who are referred to as “learned sages,” are the most evolved. But one must also distinguish as the best among the learned sages those who have studied the Vedas (the original holy scriptures), and among them, the one who knows the true purpose of the Vedas is the highest.
However, above the sage who knows the purpose of the Vedas is the one who can dispel all doubts, and even better than this is the one who strictly adheres to spiritual principles. But even higher than this shines the soul freed from all material defilement. As for the pure devotee, who performs devotional service without expecting anything in return, he dominates them all.
Depending on the form of pleasure that beings desire and the evolutionary cycle of species, they reincarnate from one body to another.
It is written in the Vedas, the original holy scriptures, that aquatic beings are inferior to plants.
A living being (human, animal, or plant) is originally a spiritual entity or spirit soul, and its desire to taste the pleasures of this material world causes it to fall from its position.
We can understand that the incarnated soul first assumes a body in human form, but gradually, due to its degrading actions, it falls among the lower species, animal, plant, or aquatic.
Beings incarnate in various material bodies, but all these envelopes of dense matter are foreign to them. Depending on the form of enjoyment they desire and the evolutionary cycle of species, they transmigrate (reincarnate) from one body to another, passing from aquatic to plant forms, from plant forms to insect forms, then to reptiles, from reptiles to birds, from birds to terrestrial mammals, and finally to human form.
It is by His own power that God created the material cosmos.
The power of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has several aspects.
For example, it includes the Sudarsana, the discus, the weapon of the Lord whose phenomenal power destroys the demonic disbelievers, but also the gaze of Godhead through which everything was created. The material cosmos was created by the power of the gaze of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord looked upon the total material energy, and when it was stirred by the power of this divine gaze, all things came into existence.