Q148. Why is human birth so rare?

If you look around, there are zillions of living beings. Living beings are everywhere, in the water, in the Earth, in the air. On the body of humans alone, there are millions of bacteria. If one understands that the soul is present in all living beings and the science of the soul as described in this book. Then one can understand that the souls can move from human body to animal/plant bodies. The ratio of human bodies to

animals/plant bodies is at least 1 to zillions, thus for every human body there are zillions of animals/plants. Thus, for a soul to occupy a human body is very rare, most souls are in animal/plant bodies. Life is an intelligent design, nothing happens by chance. The souls are placed in particular bodies exactly based on what they deserve. Human beings who die in ignorance of spirituality fall down into the animal/plant kingdoms. The souls in animal/plant bodies were once in human bodies. There are 8.4 million species of living beings and out of these 400,000 are human species and most of these human species are uncivilized human species. Out of the 7 billion plus people in the world, only a few hundred million can describe God in complete and know His history, pastimes, and qualities. “Out of thousands of persons, one will strive for spiritual self-realization, and among the strivers, someone may know Me. (Lord Krishna, BhagavadGita 7.3) Once a soul falls down into the animal/plant species. It has to go through the 8 million species lower than humans, from one species to another, before it gets another human birth. It takes billions of years for a soul to go through the 8 million animal/plant species. Once a human being falls down, he (the soul) has to wait for billions of years before he gets another human body. If one simply wants to eat, sleep, mate, and enjoy. Then he/she is better off in the animal kingdom, because the animals also do these things but better than the humans.