84 LAKH SPECIES

Human life is  said to be rare and precious .We will check out and find the reason behind this statement.As per Shastras a soul gets Human birth only after passing through many different janams in other yonis.There are totally 84 lakh yonis in this world. A soul's spiritual evolution happens when it passes through these species one by one and finally achieves human body.Such a precious human birth should be devoted to the upliftment of self and spiritual success.

We will examine the number of all these yonis as per our ancient Shastras.As per our Rishis the different species are classified as follows 

Plants and trees - 30 lakh species
Insects (keede-Makkaude) - 27 lakh species
Birds - 14 lakh species
Water-living creatures - 9 lakh species
Animals - 4 lakh species
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Total -- 84 lakh species (Chauraasi laakh Yoni)
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Hence in Vivek-Choodamani it is said that

" DURLABHAM MAANUSHAM DEHAM"
In otherwords,Human birth is extremely rare.

One should ponder upon this and spend this Human birth in Ishwar-Chintan and other good activities