Hare Krsna,
Whenever I think of humanity and people around me, one question/thought always come to my mind:
Getting a human form is difficult and one attains it after going through several life times. How can one explain world's population (at around 7 billion) that exploded in the last century? Possible explanations that comes to my mind:
- A vast population from past died in an instant and everyone went through their karmas and again got this form again in this century.
- More people have done or have been doing good karmas.
- Lord Krsna forgave atmas and gave them a chance to correct themselves by having them take a human form. May be one last time before kaliyuga ends?
- Some other reason???
I probably shouldn't be asking this question. It is on his divine will that the world is going on and with his thought it will continue.
But if I see people around me, I sometimes wonder humanity is like a deepa that is giving out more Kanthi/Jyoti before it dies.
Sincerely,
Venkat.
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Yes, I agree. It is unbelievable.
AFAIK - Just a slang stand for know 'As Far As I know' :)
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AFAIK, the number of life times depends on the karmas. Some life forms perish in days, months or few years. In contrast, big trees live thousands of years. So I guess it depends. But may be there is an average?
Hare Krsna pr
humble obeisances
The same question was asked from HG Sankarsan Das Adhikari pr. The reply he gave was as follows.
The human population on earth is increasing because lots of living entities are coming from animal species to human species, so the over all human population of earth is increasing. New souls are not being created. Soul has neither beginning nor end, they are eternal.
After going through the other species, they are getting human body, so the human population is increasing.
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Regarding the increase in 20th century, there was a drastic reduction of population as well during the world wards and due to so many other wars.
If they miss this chance of human life, they will again have to undergo the cycle of transmigration and only then will they get the human form again..
Hope this answer helps.
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Thank you for the reply. Both the replies make sense.
my humble obeisances Prabhu,
do You mean that these days we have overpopulation or?
If You meant this than it is not so. Because in Mahabharata we read that in the battle field of Kurukshetra died 64 crore soldiers. Which means each had one wife and maybe some kids.
I do not know how to use this word "crore" in mathematic but i heard that it is something very big.
Your servant,
Oh.. I didn't know. Helps! Thank you for the reply.