Though there may have been less humans on earth years ago, we cannot count how many ants, pigs, dogs, and trees there were at that time compared to now. Thus such an analysis is futile, as measuring the existence of life is beyond the conception of man.
Sometimes one species may be predominant, and at other times it may be another species. This just reflects the overall sum consciousness of the universe. We must also keep in mind that there are countless planets, and countless universes as well. The soul may attain a destination beyond this earthly planet, and souls from other realms may return to the earth planet.
When we take into account all of these factors, the variation in population of a particular species over time becomes easy to understand. A cow centered culture organized in accordance with the principles of Vedic varnashrama dharma could easily support ten times the present global population in idyllic conditions.
It would be like living in svarga heaven. Your email address will not be published. Thank you for subscribing. The psychic does not give up the mental and other sheaths apart from the physical immediately at death. It is said that it takes three years on the whole to get clear away from the zone of communicability with the earth — though there may be cases of slower or quicker passage.
I might have read it elsewhere. See Nature of Spacetime. As to rebirth, it must be confessed that no rule holds good for all cases.
Some people are reborn almost immediately — it most often happens with parents that a part of them gets assimilated into their children if the latter are very much attached to them. Some people, however, take centuries and even thousands of years to be reincarnated.
They wait for the necessary conditions to mature which will provide them with a suitable milieu. If one is yogically conscious he can actually prepare the body of his next birth. Before the body is born he shapes and moulds it, so that it is he who is the true maker of it while the parents of the new child are only the adventitious, purely physical agents. There are beings who reincarnate only after a thousand years, two thousand years.
The closer one is to the beginning of the formation, the closer are the reincarnations; and sometimes even, altogether at the lower level, when man is quite near the animal, it goes like this gesture , that is, it is not unusual for people to reincarnate in the children of their children, like that, something like that, or just in the next generation.
But this is always on a very primitive level of evolution, and the psychic being is not very conscious, it is in the state of formation. On the general question of reincarnation, see the article: What happens after Death and how does Rebirth take place? May be their individual evolution has been quickened due to our ruthless behavior instead of spending a long evolution line being born as many species of plants and animals,these souls are awarded human form as its the only form we allow to live and learn.
After all why should we care if polar bears and tropical frogs disappear from our planet right? Pingback: When does the soul enter the body? A way to look a this situation maybe be having a look at the distinction already clarified by Aurobindo between the soul and the mater.
First and ever the Soul grow up his path throught latent Matter. The Mental appear after …. From that point of view it is perfectly logical that a Soul may be working many pieces of matter in the same time. Some Soul may have to pass many reconstitution of Life before achieve their divine work. Your general remark about the soul needing many reconstitutions i think you meant reincarnations?
In this passage from The Life Divine , Sri Aurobindo elucidates why souls who are not mature could be reborn immediately. But what necessity of the evolutionary process would compel such a series of immediate rebirths?
Yet we may suppose that there is a downward attachment so strong as to compel the being to hasten at once to a resumption of the physical life because his natural formation is not really fit for anything else or at home on any higher plane. Or, again, the lifeexperience might be so brief and incomplete as to compel the soul to an immediate rebirth for its continuance. Other needs, influences or causes there may be in the complexity of Natureprocess, such as a strong will of earthly desire pressing for fulfilment, which would enforce an immediate transmigration of the same persistent form of personality into a new body.
Interesting TED talk on the subject of population growth. Hans Rosling : Religion and Babies. I seriously doubt that more souls are incarnating to save the Earth. Population is exploding for two primary reasons:. Before that, plagues, wars, etc. We are still seeing the after-effects of that historic trend.
The birthrate typically reduces when women in a country begin to enter the workforce. This is called the demographic transition in official jargon. Here is a little story. One of my friends had made a trip to India and was requested to give an account of his travels. Population growth is weakening my beliefs that there is a spiritual realm.
Why would such a vast number of souls decide to inhabit the Earth at once? Are souls not able to see the destruction that we are causing? How stupid. The extreme boom in growth began during the Industrial Revolution, when survival became easier. This shows a purely physical reason why population growth is occurring. We are nothing more than ticks leaching the blood from this poor planet.
Fertility rate falls with intellectual education of society. The human mind is intimately tied to the emotional being, so there will be days when all theories will seem false and nothing in the world will make sense. These phases of disillusionment disappear only when the Self Atman is found and the mind becomes quiescent. Until then, these theories and discussions are just a temporary support. Acceptance of reincarnation is not a prerequisite for the spiritual journey. Remember the words of the Buddha: Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. I forgot to add that there is some evidence of reincarnation which was collected by Dr Ian Stevenson. Perhaps the dwindling spirituality in humans is resulting in fast paced reincarnations. But if that is the case, that would mean that our spirits are selfish and single-minded.
They feel that they need to come back to Earth to fulfill their own unfinished business without giving thought to the damage that our species is doing with this rampant reproduction. I went to the Natural History museum in D. C the other day and there is a section on human history.
There is a digital counter on the wall of the human population. The number is constantly rising. It rose about 2, in the half hour I was there. How does this fact fit with the Buddhist doctrine of reincarnation?
The idea of reincarnation is commonly thought of as "one-out-one-in"— you die and then you get reborn somewhere else. That's not at all how it's perceived in Buddhism: one of the hallmarks of the Buddhist teaching is a refutation that there's any permanent self or soul that could endure from lifetime to lifetime.
This is such a different view to the one above that most Buddhists prefer not to use the word reincarnation at all, opting instead for something like "rebirth" or "rebecoming". The Buddha taught that all things are impermanent , in a state of continuous change and flux — and this includes us.
We're constantly mutating as we grow, develop, age and decay, and what we tend to think of as "myself" is actually an ever-changing heap of body parts, thoughts and feelings, influenced by a vast range of past and present causes and conditions family and cultural history, environment, schooling, biology and so on. Ask yourself: are you the same person you were when you were five years old? The same person as five years ago? Five minutes ago?
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