Avatar Meher Baba has remarked that the spike in world population in the past 120 plus years has been the result of immigration from outer planets to take birth on Earth so as to benefit from the present Avataric advent. The Avatar and the saints and Masters only take birth on Earth, and spiritual progress is only possible on Earth.
Earth is the planet- and the only planet, where heart and mind are balanced to the extent that spiritual progress is really possible. The influx of souls from the more “mental” planets, that is planets which have a greater percentage of intellect versus feeling, is the cosmological response to the denouement of the Kali Yuga.
The present climax of the Kali Yuga, or the “Machine Age”, invites the influx of brainy technocrats from “mental” planets to facilitate the end of Nature in Mahapralaya, or the dissolution of the universe. But in so doing, the massive influx of souls from these mental planets gain in spiritual advancement. The Earth reaches the point of exhaustion and expiration, but billions of souls are introduced to spiritual possibility in the process.
Now, this is admittedly a fantastic take on the problem of overpopulation. But it is Avatar Meher Baba’s message on the matter. The rise in world population from 1.5 billion to 8 billion in little over a 120 years is by any account extraordinary- if not miraculous!
According to Avatar Meher Baba, all these souls have arrived to partake of the enormous blessing that is the present Avataric age. This is an extraordinary time. Avatar Meher Baba’s Manifestation will occur over the coming 100 to 200 years and will result in an unprecedented world spirituality over the next 700 years, when the Avatar will return.
Meher Baba has intimated that what will then happen is what has never happened before (in this cycle of cycles of time). He has hinted that the universe will go to sleep in a very deep spiritual sleep in the event known as Mahapralaya, only to awaken after a vast expanse of time, on a new Earth, and in the start of a new Golden Age.
