Last time I checked there are 7 billion people on earth, and counting. That is a steep growth from 3 billion just sixty years ago, and from less than a billion a century before. Sometimes I wonder, with so many bodies in production, would God be running out of stock one day and say - "no more soul to give, if you need a soul look in eBay, maybe someone is selling"
The human body is a superbly designed vehicle that is self governing and self repairing. Furthermore it is equipped with the mind, the software that helps the human race to be the dominating species in the world. The human beings can easily replicate - an average woman has more than 30 years of fertile age and only 9 months lead time to produce a baby. Theoretically it is easy to get a population from 1 billion bodies to 7 billion, and equally easy to bring that to 70 billion.
So here is a question: would life be the same for you and me, whether there are 7 billion, or 70 billion, or 7 million people in the world?
The answer depends on whether you believe on a higher purpose.
I believe a body is assigned to every soul (I define "body" to include the mind). The soul is on earth with a purpose, and it needs the body to manifest it. The life purpose is never hidden or elusive. It is as clear as the sun, shining brightly. But our mind, that is created to help us survive in this world, is very obstructive. Our thoughts, dogma and emotion that came from the mind create the sand-storm and smoke that block away the clarity.
The modern world is a world focused on the mind. Education system and professional life afterwards reward the sharpest minds. Tools are created to sharpen it even further, or at least to help the mind make more detailed analysis at a faster pace. But as we focus on the mind, we also create more and more smoke and sand-storm that blocks away the clarity of our soul's purpose. We have been doing this for so long that so many of us are lost souls, and so many have been born and left without finding the purpose. Many people try to find the purpose for the soul by thinking even more. Unfortunately, no analysis, thinking or frameworks can help us obtain clarity for the soul, because the mind is not created for that.
Lost souls are harmful for the body, because it may lead the body to do things that it is not meant to do. Naturally it will also be harmful for others and the earth....it is so easy to pick a few examples of people who harm others. So if there are 7 billion lost souls in the world, that's bad and we would be better off to have only 7 million of them. But if there are 7 billion souls with clarity of their purposes, that would be a wonderful thing. So the state of the world's well being is not in the left brain or right brain of every person. It depends on how many people of the 7 billion has the clarity of their life purpose.
When the soul finds that purpose, it would have found greatness. Greatness not in the sense of fame or financial wealth, although it could be a side effect. Greatness in a sense that the soul will find satisfaction and conviction in what it does. Greatness in a sense that there is a feeling that the universe is working to provide its support. And greatness in a sense that the energy it brings inspires others and the environment around it.
As a parent I have asked myself how do I give my child the best passage to clarity? How do we reduce the exposure to man made smoke and sand-storm that prevents her from seeing the clarity? I also asked myself on how do I overcome my bad habits, my thoughts and emotion that have created the smog in front of my own eyes?
Nature is the best teacher. Pollution in a city can be stopped within a day if the city decides to stop doing what it has been doing. In the same way the sand-storm and smoke that cloud our souls can clear up very quickly when there is stillness of mind.
After being in the world of noise for so long, creating stillness is no longer natural and it requires tremendous courage and faith. But it is worth the pursuit by every one of us, every one of the 7 billion people in the world. Afterall, within the stillness, there is greatness.
