When souls should be losing human bodies because of bad karma why is the population increasing?

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the human population is very high the religion has been there since time immemorial ok right I got your question ok all these years people are dying people are how come that we have a lot of human population ok yeah does that mean that people dying ok yeah good question so why is the population increasing although religion has been there for a long time we see the human population increasing first of all if we look at the vastness of the time scales when we talk about population increasing but for how long do we really have a serious population count census itself started just a few hundred years ago before that we can have estimates how much is the population but even if we look from that perspective that ok even if we stick to only the empirical measurable data we can’t say for sure how much is the population say several hundred years ago there is no hard data at that time but even if we go with the assumption right now that ok the population has been increasing what it essentially means is that souls are eternal and the souls are present in many different bodies so we understand that the soul is not present only in human body there is transmigration which happens forward and backward also forward means from the lower species to human species and from human species down also to lower species it goes both ways so we may say that the human population is increasing but the souls which are there in many many different bodies they can go from one body to another body now have we done a census of human beings but has anyone done a census of say the number of trees in the world the number of grass in the world the number of mosquitoes in the world there are so many different species so if we look at the history of the world in recent times there is so much loss of biodiversity so much trees have been cut down so many animals have become extinct so the souls if we consider total number of souls souls may go from one species to another species so all that we are seeing is souls in human species are increasing or rather human population is increasing but conversely there can be many other species whose count has gone down and also another point is that in the Vedic understanding from the soul’s perspective the life is not limited to this planet there are many levels and the soul can go from one body to another body also so if we look from the perspective of cosmic time the few hundred years that we have counted population it’s like a very small time if say an alien came from an outer planet to Columbus, Ohio and came to this room and took a sample of this room’s population from say 9 o’clock in the morning till 1 o’clock you would say 9 o’clock the population was very low, 10 o’clock it has increased more, 11 o’clock more 12 o’clock there is an explosion of the population but 2 o’clock 3 o’clock hey what happened the population has gone down so basically that alien is taking a very limited sample both limited in space and limited in time and in that limited sample there may be variation but that variation doesn’t mean extinction or creation it simply means relocation people are coming here and people are going so at a particular time there may be more another time there may be less so similarly with respect to the earth and with respect to not even the earth just a small few hundred years and human species so yes the human population may be increasing but the other souls may be going down so we see as I said that other souls and other species may be going down, other species have also become extinct and another way to understand this is that when the soul wants to enjoy material nature to some extent the soul is given the facility for that so in the last few hundred years we have put all our intelligence which is meant for spiritual growth we have used it all to try to improve things at the material level try to combat disease, combat old age combat infant mortality combat various so with this exercise of the intelligence we can improve things so we have improved things to some extent at the same time so there is the free will of the soul by which the soul can act and improve things but there is also the principle of karma there is also the principle of whatever actions we do we get the reactions and this is Kalyuga this is the age of spiritual darkness so what happens is that the people have created more and more comforts trying to make this world a better place but the karma and the karmic reactions are going to come whatever we do the actions are going to come so one way the increased karmic reactions the karmic reactions which we have avoided by avoiding diseases, by creating some and more comforts through technology, one way those karmic reactions can come is through the increased population so earlier we didn’t have resources, people didn’t have food to enjoy they had to struggle and scavenge to get food even if we go simply by the narrative of history as we get from modern science, but now because there is so much population there is competition again for that so the increased population even the relative framework of few years could be a way in which reactions are coming the increased population is not necessarily a good thing for places where there is population explosion, it may be a good thing where the life span is increasing and where the facilities are available for people, but it’s not true everywhere, so within the limited framework which we look at, it’s we understand simply the variation from one species to another species, souls in a particular species have gone up and souls in another species have gone down and what could be the reason for that as I said one reason could be that we are just the increased population is the way through which karmic reactions are coming to us, the increased competition that happens because of that another could also be that the souls are not evolving upwards so Krishna says those who live in the mode of passion they stay here so by the natural process of evolution souls from the animal species are coming here to the human form but most of the world today is in the mode of passion there are few people in goodness there are good number in ignorance also but large we are in the mode of passion those who live in the mode of passion they stay, Krishna says the same level of reality so souls from the lower species are evolving to human species majority of the human souls they are not evolving upwards because they are not spiritually inclined nor are they in the mode of goodness, so they are in the mode of passion so they are staying over here so that could also be a reason why the population is increasing but the population increase is simply a variation within space and time that we observe right now but that doesn’t necessarily in any way contradict any aspect of the spiritual philosophy it’s fully explainable within the broad parameters of the spiritual philosophy that is given in the Bhagavad Gita does that answer your question thank you thank you very much Shri Prabhupada ki Gaur Bhakta Vrindaki Shri Prabhupada ki