Souls are uncountable in number. There’s no limit to the number of souls, although there are no new souls being created. So the number of souls in existence is not changing. It’s a fixed number. But what is that number?
Unlimited.
So we can never run out of souls. Even if, every moment, unlimited souls were becoming God-realized.
पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥
Pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāya pūrṇamevāvaśhiṣhyate.
Ishavasya Upanishad says, “If you have an unlimited amount of something and you take an unlimited amount out of that, you still have an unlimited amount left over. And you can keep doing that an unlimited number of times, and you will still have an unlimited amount left over.”
It’s math.
So we can never run out of souls in this world, in case you were worried. I mean, it’s funny what we worry about, right? We think about,
“Oh, (upon) getting God-realized I would go to the Divine world and attain perfect happiness forever!
But what if all the souls got God-realized? What would happen to this world? Why do we worry about that kind of thing? If we could all go to God, why shouldn’t we? But that’s what our mind does. We’re more attached to this world than to God. So that’s the first question that comes up. Before we even think,
“What would it be like to be with God?”
We think, “What will happen to the world?”
So anyway, the world can never run out of souls, but we can become God-realized.
